PROVINCIAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 305, 19 November 1873, Page 3

PROVINCIAL.

We hear that the members of the Church of England, at Cromwell, are making efforts to build a Church there. The Peninsula Cheese Manufactory has been in existence two years — In the second year 13,007 gals, of nulk yielded 13,3071 b. cheese, which realised in Dimedin £353 3s 7d. tbe time occuf ied in making was 107 days. Wages being high that year, tho cost of manufacture amounted to lfd per lb. In 18/1, the shareholders were paid 3£d. per gal. for the milk ; this did not represent the full value realised, as a very considerable amount had to be paid away toward utensils, build* ing, &c. this present year of 1873 a dividend of 4Jd. per gallon has been paid. The Christchurch Acclimatisation Society have 5000 young treat ready for distribution. Mr. Adam, during his visit to Southland, has apparently been making the most of Mb time. In addition to holding iutemewa with all who wished to speak to him on subjocts connected. with his mission, he visited a number e-f industrial establishments in Invercargill and also paid visits to Riverton and Stewart's Island. He particularly impressed upon tho3e who interviewed him, the desirability of their taking full advantage of the new system of nominated immigration. The tender of Mr William Hackney, for

£62 155., for worka on roads at Upper Kye> burn has been accepted by the Koads Committee. Mr. Young, of Palmerston, so well known for his philanthropic exertions with regard to the propagation of fish, lately paid Naseby a visit, for tbe purpose of distributing young trout in tho various streams. To Mr. Young the Province is mainly indebted for the rapid extension, throughout its riverß and streams, of this very useful fish. The Dunedin Field Naturalist club, lately, discovered a robin at Goat Island. We learn that at Wakatip a*little girl of Mr. Walker's, contractor, had a narrow escape from drowning. It seems the youngster was "attempting to reach something out of the water, and went beyond her depth. A wave caught the child and carried her out, when Mr. Pilgrim, who noticed the accident, immediately rushed in and saved her. She was already quite insensible, and but for her timely rescue would no doubt have perished. Mr. John Campbell, of Queenstown, is the successful tenderer for the Grammar School, the amount being £900. The programme for the Cromwell Jockey Club Races — to be run on Friday and Saturday, 26th and 27th December — has been issued. The amount of stakes to be competed for is £400. In the Dunedin Hospital may now be seen three severe injuries from feeding machiuery, one from a ilax machine, another from a biscuit machine, and the third from a leather roller. In two of these cases, from the extreme youth of the sufferers, they should never have been entrusted wich the manipulation of dangerous machinery. The number of patients at present is 135, of whom 29 are women. Recently, there was a passenger in a Port Chalmers train who deliberately cut off one of the large leather window straps of one of the second class carriages. In accordance with the recommendation of the Inspector of Schools, the Education Board have decided to extend the fcime for the examination of candidates for Provincial Scholarships, until the first Tuesday in April. 1874. Snow fell at Naseby on the night of the 10th instant. The Rev. T. Jones, Church of England minister for the Cromwell district, lately preached in St. Paul's Church, Dunedin, in aid of subscriptions for a Church of England building for the district. The collection amounted to £24. Wool has begun to arrive at the Bluff for shipment. At Oaniaru, Bro. Mackune made thirty converts. The "Timaru Herald" writes :—" Last year, our grain exports were, in round numbers, estimated roughly at 350,000 bushels ; and this year, judging from the amount of land under the plough, wo may, with a good harvest, according to the opinions of those who are considered good authorities, caleixlate on nearly doubling last year's yield, or, at the lowest calculation, having probably about 450,000 bushels for export. Glue is being manufactured at Eakanui. At Eight- Mile, in the Arrow district, there are some miners making £8 per man por week. The population of Macetown and neighborhoo.l consists of about 150 Europeans and 250 Chinese, of all occupations, ages, and sexes. There are four European and three Chinese stores, two hotels, one shoemaker, a timber dealer, a dressmaker, and a National School teacher, who has about twenty children under his charge. The Cardrona lead yields £4 per week per man. The Rev. Dr. Begg preached last Sunday morning at Andersou's Bay Churfh to a good congregation. In the evening he preached at tho JSorth Dunedin Presbyterian Church, which was crowded to the doors, many being uuable to obtain admittance. The watchmakers and jewellers of Dunedin have agreed to establish the Saturday halfhoiiday, and have announced that on and after Saturday, the 15th inst., their places of business will close at two o'clock. The llou. Mr. Yogel, who is now in Christchurch, will proceed overland to Duuedin, about the end of the present week. The Governor will not leave for Otago for three weok3, and he will probably come down in his j'acht. The cricket team selected to phvy against Auckland practised together on Saturday. [ Tho ground was too dead and soft for anything like good play to be shown. It is the intention of the team to practise every evening until the match is played. From Dunedin we learn that two gentlemen walking on the Ocean Beach on Saturday, encountered a rather formidable specimen of the seal tribe. The animal was lying on the sand some distance from the water, and one of the gentlemen gave it several blows on the head with his stick, but without any effect — the tickling only causing it to rise on its flippers and expose a disagreeable looking set of fangs. There being no formidable weapons at hand with whioh to attack the sea monster, it soon made its way back to its native element. The number of inmates at the Otago Benevolent Institution on the 31st October was 79, comprising 19 men, 3 women, 33 boys, and 24 girls. The number of out-door relief patients during the month of October was 299, comprising 18 men, 73 women, and 208 children. This relief was afforded at a weekly cost of £17 14s. The " Wakatip Mail " says that the Haas' rush is producing Borne unpleasantness in that district. " Leg-bail is said to be coming again into-vogue, and debtor and creditor are not in many instances, on ao friendly terms as before. In a late cane heard in Dunedin, Superin^ (e'ident MacxnJnwwas summoned as a witness, but he refused to produce the minute book of tho Executive Council. It was suggested that his Worship should fine his Honor for contempt, bat Ins Honor was not fined. The contempt was obvious enough — the fine was not. Query : If an uninmiential person had committed a like contempt, would he not have been fined decidedly ? Echo answers, •' Decidedly." We observe an obituary intimation in the " Guardian " the subject of which is the recent death of the son of Mr. Fazakerly, who died at Pelichet Bay, on the 10th instant of consumption. Deceased was well and favorably known at both Oamarn and Dunedin, and was remarkable for tho amiability of his temperament. It is well known that a " good thing " is habitually over done. The success of the first colonial fire and life insurance company has caused the establishment of a second similar company, against which there has been raised some opposition, as illogical as it will be, we foretell, impotent. The dissatisfaction of would-be shareholders who could not secure a -footing in .the first company, naturally led to the re-eafcablishinent of the second. When the liquid contents of a vessel overflow, we usually receive the overbrimming fluid in a second receptacle. This is the case with the insurance companies. It is far better to satisfy a majority by floating a new company, than to satisfy only a few by restricting operations to « privileged monopoly. The following candid confession appears in th " Arrow Observer ":—" We do not intend to be posted up in all the mysteries of selling tea, sugar, Crimean shirts, but we feel certain that, all i lie business done in Arrowtown could be easily transacted before seven o'clock at Bight, as after that hour it cannot possibly pay for kerosene." Dunedin will soon have three AngEcan churches. The Masonry work of the new church (St. Thomas's) at the corner of ■Stafford and Hopestreets, is fast 'approaching oempletioiL