Local Intelligence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 308, 29 November 1873, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

From an advertisement ib will be seen that Messrs Scarle and M'lnnes, livery stable-keepers, have 'dissolved partnership. Mr. M'lnnes will

carry, on the business in "future.

We direct attention to an advertisement in another column which notifies the sale by Mr.

Hayes, on Tuesday next, of Mr. Hogg's, valuable butchery business, leasehold paddock of 90 acres, a.nd other property.

A urge number of people have been travelling throagh Lawrence during the week ; no doubt the cheap fares are a great inducement. During the holidays, even with two coaches between Tuapekci and Dunedin, their carrying capacities will be taxed 'to the utmost. The Duiistan conch left five passengers behind on ■Wednesday morning.

The works on the Tokomniriro and Lawrence line, are progressing much faster than those connected with any other line in the province. The total cost of the formation of the line, excluding rails and sleepers, will he about £73.;j00. Its total cost, including roljing stock and stations, will be something under £6,000. per mile.

THE Town Clerk informs Us that he is not satisfied with the decision recently given by the Resident Magistrate in Dunedin, in respect to licensing vehicles ; and that. he intends to bring a case be "ore the Lawrence bench, to endeavor to get the lioensing fee from carriers bringing loading to Lawrence.

Mb. Willie Waugh, we learn, lost a valuable cojt on Wednesday last. The poor brute, which was quite young and in good condition, was only lately purchased, and his owner, would not have taken £65 for him prior to his death, which was occasioned by his falling intc a hole,

SoifiS time ago, we reported that a covey of 8 pheasants was seen in the Tuapeka district. We are now, in a position to add that a very beautiful hen pheasant was seen on the Bellamy Station on Wednesday last. The birds referred to are doubtless those imported- by the Acclimatisation Society.

" How tho mighty are fallen !'• The Dunedin "Times," in Wednesday's issue, had a puff of Wolfe's Aromatic Schnapps. Who wrote that literally spirited puff? And did he, survive his puffy penwork ? Did he not depart' this life asthmatically, after such a puffing paragratn ? Did he not die "of a schnapps in aromatic pain ? "

The "Tunes" is mixing up two things, which are distinct. Its article on the proposed teachers' training school advocates that the said school should teach juveniles. No such thing was. intended by the Provincial Council, and no nonsense need be carelessly written on the subject. What is wanted, and what the Council agreed to, is a school wherein would-be male and female teachers, would be taught the scholastic profession ; yet the " Times " writes of a. normal school teaching children .l. l True, normal schools do teach even infants, but the proposal referred to, was for a school solely for scholastic adults.

Miss Clara Stbphenson, Mr. Barford, and a dramatic company are announced- to appear at the Commercial Assembly Rooms, Lawrence, on Monday next, in the mythological burlesque of Ixion. King Ixion was a king of Thessaly, who w*s taken up to the abode of the gods and goddesses, where he made fierce bat fickle love to the immortal heroines who linger about Jupiter's palace, and thereby created the usual amount of flirtation and its necessary sequel, jealousy. The burlesque abounds in the average supply of anachronisms, contretemps, dovibltentendrt, breakdowns, and parodies, and if Clara's coquettish- singing of her encore ditty of "Good-bye Charlie" does not penetrate tbe hearts of the young men of Lawrence, then all we can say i 3 they don't deserve to h?ar. it ; for that one song, as sang by Miss' Stephenson, is worth the price of admission to the front seats. The company's stay is limited, and we would advise all who approve of hearty laughter to patronise Monday evening's entertainment.

Growing crops about Tuapeka Flat are looking well, considering the lateness of the season. Sorrel and the thistle are rapidly spreading in that direction. In uncultivated ground, the thistle has formed regular plantations. Can nothing be done to keep back the growth of this noxious wee 4?.

Wa have to acknowledge receipt of parlitw mentary papers on the railway contracts entered into between the Government and Messrs. Brogden, also, the last number of " Hansard.'*

Immediate steps should be taken to put the racecourse in repair, whether or not the suggestion of ** Practical," in our last issue, be adopted, that is to take the running ground outside the coalpit. We have inspected the 'course, and think it hardly necessary to expend L3O on the work just at present. The course can be put in good order for about L 5 by short* ening it some thirty yards near the coalpit, and without making the turns more acute than they have hitherto been.

Out Thursday hut, the remains of the late Mr. Matthew Tully, of Wetherstones* were carried to the Lawrence Cemetery, when a very large number of horsemen and pedestrians of ever/ creed and class in the district, attended the funeral processiou. Deceased was very advanced in years, and his departure was comparatively painless. He was highly respected by Tuapeka resident*, amongst whom he has resided for a period of about 12 years.

Iff the "General Government G**>fcte a 0* Thursday, 20th November, notice is given of the acceptance of the following tenders for mail services in Otago and Southland for 1874 :— Be* tween Lawrence and Clyde, W. ~Freeman, L2BO ; Lawrence and Blue, via Wetherstones, R: Tuckey, L 25;2 5; Lawrence and Waipori, B. Tuckey, L 25;2 5; Lawrence and Tuapeka Mouth, K. Tuokey, L 25;2 5; Beaumont, Switzers, and Welshtnans, A. Matheson, L 223 10s *, Tapanui Junction and T&p&nui, A Brandigan. L41 12s ; Swit^ers and Waikska, T. Hunter, 145 ; Blacks, Drybre4, ft nd Tinkers, J. Mellow L 29,2 9, Matanra and Switzers, A, Matheson Llls. Wb erroneously reported the tender of Henry Vye in our last Town Council repoit. We wrote Ll6 10s, whereas the tender was L6o los. But who is too blame ? Our reporter is not deaf ; but, occasionally, Councillors ore a little too dumb. There-is not a naturally bad speaker in. the Council, one or two perhaps excepted ; but in the colonies, there is a laziness in articulation, which is very painful to professional reporters. The rising are no better than the risen genera* tion, and our teaohers. however good they may; be at aritmetic, mathematics, dead languages, and theoretical English, are obviously, as a rule, quite incompetent as practical elocu* tionists. Messrs. Hat & Co.. are making good^j^^restl with their contract for gravelling the load to the Blue Spur. The gravel is taken from Gabriels Gully, and it is of excellent quality. On Monday evening last, a concert in aid of the funds of the Church of England, at Toko* mairiro, was given at St. George's Hall, Milton, and the result was a crowded house, the front seats being filled with fair representatives of beauty and fashion. The performance was entirely vocal with piano accompaniment, which was manipulated with consummate taste by Mist Smith, of Greenfield. The concerted pieces weie well rendered, and evidenced great care in rehearsals. Our old friend, Mr. John Grant and a Mr. Richard&on played a cornet duet, the subject being taken from the opera of "Nonna. M Mrs. |Pattit and Mrs. Kinera were, however^ the stars of the evening, and sang in quite an artistic but natural manner Glover's, duet^ " Gently sighs the Breeze," which was raptor,*, ously encored. We are not ceitain of the fact, bat we think

it probable that the Ixion Dramatic Company

may perform at Waipori to-night. Tha C-ti a-idi-ii Company may be expected in Law* rence about Christmas.

A majority of the public are complaining of the inopportune inaction and at least apparent apathy of the Tuapeka Jockey Club, and men who have cash to expend oa horse racing are anxiously seeking information as to the date of the annual meeting. No, time must be lost ; other districts are publishing their programmes, and lengthy ones too. If the money spent annually on horse racing hy Tuapeka leaves tha district, it v/'rXk not return, and hastily got up events will be almost worse than none at ajl« The Club is, we opine, asleep. BatitisNiune that apathy should give way to imme£ate activity.

We snw and heard a colonial Irish peasant wiMly chasing a pig of tender years, on Wednesday last, on tbe Taapeka" Flat roftfL This pursuit had nearly all the exciting ingredients of a horse ch^tse. Now. Paddy was lond* voiced in his irrepressible hopes of success; bat presently, he would sit on a mound of clay, and almost " cry his eyes «ut." Ouce he completelylost sight of the pjg.l He found the trail how ever. Tiggie had fallen down a hole, Pat went down and caught the youngster, but, on reaching the top, ha slipped, and the juvenile slipped too -through his fingers. Another hot chase ensued ; beads of sweat stood on his brow ; he dropped his bat , he stumbled and fell, rose again, and dropped his waistcoat. Now, the young fellow was several yards ahead, Pat cried, "MurtherT* The neighbors looked on in wonder; our reporter cried "Police!'* Sundry la Is joined; in the pig chase , one horse* man joined in ; they thought a Chinaman had robbed Pat. At last the horseman caught tho pig. ''Didn't yoa say 'twas a Chinaman,' 1 said the horseman. " Faith, I said no such thing," said Pat. ' ' I thought 'twas a Chinese you wasqafter," said the neighbors, with one voice. 'Faith, it's- only a poor slip of a boneen," said Pat, "but it's a twin; and by raison 07 that same. I did not like to lose it." '* Will you shout," asked the crowd. "Divil a shout 1 " said Pat. " Who naked jre to go pig, hunting?" And the crowd, leftia a cursing mood. They, were evidently disgusted with their un-pig-tnresque exertions.

"Keep bees! keep bees'* This was the parting exclamation of a French bishop to a French priest. The former marvelled that th& latter could afford to treat his bishop to the most seasonable lv xnries. " I cultivate honey," said the priest ; " I sell it, and with the receipt* I can hospitably entertain my bishop." Be* culture Is commencing for the season in Tuapeka. On Thursday, we saw a, resident conveying a swarm w,ifch. bjs naked hand* from a. tree trunk to a gin case, which served as a hive. He got only two stings. Last year* his hivesfurnished him with loOlbs. of honey. In Victoria, very young children bottle honey found in hollow trees and sell the bottles, holding not more than a pint, to waggoners at tbe rate of sixpence per bottle. We would advise oar friends to get hives quadruple the sue of the ordinary gin case, and thereby obviate the necessity; for the bees leaving the parent hree in search of a fresh home, and would of. course also obviate, the trouble of reinstating the little colonists in a new hive. Milk and honey constitute splendid children's food. On such food a delicate child should'find health', and a healthy child should grow healthier. The cow, the bee hive, and thecratJVe should constitute tbe gotten trinity of every poor settle's hoqsehold,

Mb. Hat, the collector for the Tuapeka Hospital, informs us that Mr- Neil Colquhoun, one of the, shareholders, in a company at Waipori, has given his latest dividend to th« Hospital.

Skotiohjs on the Forbary road- were lately sold privately for prices ranging from £36 to £76 155, j io acres of freehold land at Pine ffiH were lately knocked downibr £90 ; 9 acres in North East Valley were sold at £420 ; 50 mo? tions at Portbbello realised £14 each; 27 sections; in Brighton were sold at $4 each; and 50 acres o£ land in the Otakia district were 8014 at 19*. a&

- ThKRI v one business which appear* to be better patronised than other* ia Tuapeka, We refer to the drapery trade. We seldom see the leading Lawrence drapery shops without customers. If the trade is brisk now, is it not reasonable to suppose that it will be considerably more brisk when there will be only a few boon separation between Lawrence and Dune- ' din'; for it » obvious that travellers who visit friends always like to show a fair exterior. AiiAßGßeumof money has been collected for the Havelock sports. The programme will appear in a future issue of the Tuapeka Tims. Messes. Matheson & Co. have finished their contract for the road between Cogbill's and Hurrays Flat. The only piece of bad road now intervening between Lawrence and Dunedin is a small portion at the flume, going towards Manuka Creek, which portion is being rapidly proceeded with by the Messrs. M'Kae. > : ■ The schoolmaster's residence on Clarks Flat >s nearly finished. The contractors, Messrs. Hay and Son, of Wetherstones, have made rapid progress with the work. The bridge across the Murrays Flat is in course of construction. The usual monthly mooting of the Lawrence Grammar School Committee took place last night, when the following members were present : — Messra, Herbert (President), Jamison, Harrop, Jeffery, Squires, Thompson, the Her. Mr. Menzies, and $he Secretary. Mr. Stenhouse, the rector, was also present. The following business was transacted :— The Se> retary was instructed to write to the Town Council and ask when the Market Eeserve can be placed at the disposal of the School Committee for a school site, and also to ask the Council if it is their intention to give a medal j for school competition at the forthcoming examination. The Secretary was also instructed to advertise in four issues of the Tuapeka Times an announcement of the Committee's desire to receive donations of gifts for sohaol prizes for the examination at Christmas next. The President stated that he, in his capacity Of Mayor, would do all in his power to facilitate negotiations between the Town Council and the School Committee on the subject of a school site. The account of R. Tuckey, £1 14e., was passed for payment. Mr. Dunnet was ordered to be engaged as drawing master " for three months (as a first engagement) at the rate of £2 per month, the time to be onohour on two day's of the school week. It was resolved that the parents should not be charged any fees for this extra branch of The Visiting Committee reported that had repaired a gate in connection with 'the school grounds. Messrs. ' Squires and Jamison were appointed examiners at the Christmas examination. The Secretary reported a balance in hand of £30. It was resolved that the Committee allocate £10 for fche purchase of prizes for excellence at the -annual examination, and Messrs. Jamison, •Squires, and the Bey. J. Menzies were appointed a Committee to select prizes. Messrs. •Jeffery and Thompson were appointed auditors. Four or five week's holiday, at the teachers' option, was arranged for the Christmas vacation, and the Committee recorded a recommendation to their successors that the new scholastic year should be inaugurated by ■a pic-nic. A eepobt reached the Police Camp on Wednesday evening that a dead body had been found in the Molyneux, 10 miles below the Beaumont, partly imbedded, on a sand bank in the centre of the river. A trooper was sent out on Thursday, and he reports that the body appears to have been in the water about six months ; it is of a man apparently over 30 years of age, about sft. 6in. in height, ■dark complexion, whiskers shaved off at the side, in what is termed Yankee fashion. The -deceased had no clothing on when found, except a pair of water-tight boo.ta, which had been half -soled and the heels iron plated. No other marks were discovered likely to lead to identification. Probably, the body will be femoved to Tuapeka Mouth for the purpose of holding an inquest. . The Tuapeka school children should imme■mediately commence the practice of loyal vocal music, in anticipation of the right royal wel■come which Tuapeka must give to the repro ' sentative of our most gracious Queen, when he 'Tißits Lawrence- " Q-od save the " .and " God bless the Prince of Wales," should ring through the air on the occasion referred to, and, uttered by two. or three hundred little innocents, a moat pleasing effect would be produced. In amusements, as well as labor, tbe Asiatic seems to be invading the province of the Enropeans. It is a noteworthy fact that the and their families almost invariably occupy the front seats at dramatic entertainments in Lawrence. Wa hear that Chinese labor is superseding European l^bor on the railway con.tra.ctß at Manuka Creek. The Government has not given effect to ■our repeated request for an Immigrant Agent possessed of oratorial ability. Fortunately, we can now reason by analogy on this Bubject. It will be confessed that the Ifcev. Dr. Begg, *n his late address, spoke principally on very homely subjects. He spoke, however, in a manner which has evidently won the hearts of both hearers and readers. In short, he has created (and by the most legitimate oratory) what is very properly called an ■■" impression." - Does not this fact elisw that »}f we had a man of education, gifted with free speech, engaged as our immigration agent ■at home, he would make in England an impression equal to that made by Dr, Begg in New Zealand ? Thebe were only two cases heard at the Beeident Magistrates Court, on Friday, " ""namely, Police v. Sun "Kum. Hop, Chinese storekeeper at Chinese Camp, Tuapeka, and - Same v. Sam l^ ck > butcher, at Chinese Camp, Tnapeka. Defendants were charged with allowing their respective horses to wander illegally within the Lawrence Municipality. 'They were each fined 10s., and 6s, 6d. costs of ■Court A» unoccupied space will be reserved by the Government, along the railway line. This ■pace is between the public road and the railroad. A resident thinks it is a pity that this .literally waste land should be unproductive. He suggests that the space thus reserved by the Government should be planted with forest trees, which, after, a comparatively brief lapse =of time, would supply timber from which future railway sleepers could be furnished. We commend this apparently excellent suggestion to the immediate attention of the Minister for P«blic Works. - ." |t never rains, but it pours*" Seme time - iago, Tuapeka law suits were almost as plentiful as European blackberries in autumn ; but , legal contests here have been few and ' farbetween, Under the circumstances, it is o -pleasing to be able to add that not one Tuapeka lawyer has even dreamt of suicide. On reflection, hawever, this- is not to be wondered • .tat,- as lawyers, as a rule, are not remarkably , -addicted to self-sacrifice. T The deacon&'Courtof the first Church have. ' "w,e learn, made a and graceful ' -presentation to the Rev,. Dr. Begg, as a slight ■ token of their appreciation of the service ren- \ deredto them in "the opening of their building <nx. -Sabbath last, and otherwise. The presentationcensisting of a -set of views of the ■ interior of the new First Church, as lately - taken by Messrs. Burton Brothers ; a gold -■: %Ibert watch-guard, with handsome green- ; atone gold mounted pendant ;alao a massive a igoki necklet, with diamond-shaped greenstone brooch, gold-mounted, to be presented -to Mrs. Begg : th whole of the jeweller)' being of colonial manufacture, and selected from the stock of Mr. Ceorge Young, watchmaker jttid jeweller. Princes street. The presenta- ' lion wm made by. a deputy of the Session and Deacon*' > Court, , consisting of Messrs ifofc&ewß, Lawaon, Hill, And Sinclair.

The crops in the Waipori district are looking very promising, although fully a month behind in the season. Whiie on a recent trip to Waipori, we observed that the grass on the commonage is beginning to grow very luxuriantly, and we have no doubt that cattle running in the district will no longer be known as " scrubbers," as they will now have opportunity afforded them of "getting up" in condition. This, we assume, is due to the action of the Board of Wardens, as that body are determined that sheep shall not, under any consideration, be permitted to graze on the commonage. We

are of, opinion that the Board are justified in taking these steps, as we have been informed that the commonage, for a considerable time, has been over-stocked with cattle, to say nothing 1 -of the innumerable number of sheep that trespass on the eafctle counfaty.

A veby funny circumstance occurred this week ul Lawrence. Two Irish gentlemen, who had been for a long period absent from this town, entered Lawrence, on legal errands bent ; but had great difficulty in recognising old faces of old friends. A well-known lawyer was coming up the Btreet. " Ah !" exclaimed stranger No. 1, "That is Nott G — !" "By Jove, it is !" " It's Nott G^ '■ — !" replied the other. " I say it is !" rejoined the other. They thus continued for many minutes. The reading of the report of this little incident will show that the ear is often incapable of detecting a blunder -which the eye can detect at a glance.

It is a literal fact that we heard a gentleman this week openly doubting, in broad daylight, and when he was strictly sober, the identity of his own wife, whom he had seen only an hour before ! Now, this little incident shows that the Tichborne Claimant may be " the real Simon Pure." The gentleman who, at a few yards distant, in broad sunshine, doubted his own wife's identity haa been for years accustomed to accurate personal inquiries. We should not be too hasty in attaching the unenviable title of impostor to the hero of Wagga Wagga.

A notewobthy sight met the onlooker's eye on Friday. A constable was seen guarding a lad who happened to be a convict. The guardian of the law was duly armed with a "young gun," The contrast between the youthful-looking prison laborer and the robust constable -was remarkable. If every convict in the colony were guarded by one constable, our position financially would be little better than that of England's taxpayers, each one of whom is said to have " a pauper (able-bodied) on his back." The Lawrence Private Quadrille Club will conclude their fourth season -by a «danoe in the Athenaeum Hall on Monday night. The booths for the Havelock sports will be sold by auction on the sth December, by Mr. M. Hay. • Monday next will be a bank holiday. Isiphisonment for debt inteferes with the liberty of the subject. But if the subject should be a rascal, what then ? We have quarantine for bodily disease ; why should we not have a sanatorium for fraudulent debtors ? A man who contracts fraudulent debts in Tuapeka is probably not known in his criminal capacity at Cromwell. Cromwell and Tuapeka are here used as mere illustrations. Any other name would bring out our meaning equally well. The leading merchants of each town should communicate to each other the description of fraudulent debtors ; but we assume that tMs means of detection would involve an expense that would no 1 -, compensate those most interested. These remarks are suggested by the departure from Lawrence this week of a fraudulent debor, who left several unpaid remembrances behind him.

. It is stated as an actual fact that a young Uigliland woman recently carried a very young pig to Dnnedin in the mail coach, and that it was wrapped up in a Paisley shawl, and received much sympathy from the other passengers, especially from a very religious old lady, who concluded that" the carefully-con-cealed piggie was the bearer's first-born " wean."

A lady, recently excused herself from joining the Lawrence Templars on the ground that she was "very anxious to have the pleasure of a glass of with wine Sir James Eergusson."

The Gabriels Gully Quartz Mining Co. broke through from the tunnel into the winze on Thursday afternoon. They expect to be able to. commence opening out the upper level on Monday, and to commence crushing on Monday week.

The Bruce Quartz Mining Co., at Table Hill, met with an accident to their pumping gear last Monday, which has thrown them back in the work of sinking, They will commence to drive for the reef next week, and expect to Btart crushing within a month. Water is now coming in very heavy from the old Alexandra workings, which are nat yet drained ; but tbe turbine wheel, working the pump with a twelve inch stryke, keeps it under without any difficulty,

Webe it practicable, the following statement of fact should be engraved on stone in centres of population in the leading cities of the United Kingdom^ This statement, taken from the Dunedin " Guardian," is a " twice-told n opinion, but it cannot be repeated too often, because inferior, ne'er-do-well immigrants are infinitely worse than none at all, The statement to which we refer we commend to. all who. exchange correspondence with the old country": — "The only person who will find it difficult to ' get placed ' is a man who is too genteel to work, or who, not having been taught some useful trade, cannot turn his ' education,' such as it is, to account. It is from this class generally that the ranks of the loafing army and prison battalions are recruited. We want men who have been accustomed to work ; who are willing to work ; and who are not afraid to work when employed. We cannot have too many of these arriving in the province ; but we should not regret if we never again set eyes upon a newly-come Micawber." Slowxy, but surely, employers of labor in New Zealand are extending their patronage to Chinese laborers. We clip the following advertisement from the " Dunstan Times " of November 14th :—": — " Wanted, smart intelligent Chinamen, to shepherd and muster, on the Wanaka Station." We perceive ' that some New Zealand Government telegraph forms are being priated, by authority, in the office of the " Tuapeka Times." * . We are informed that Mr. Squires has been appointed agent for the Standard Insurance Company for the Tuapeka district. The following applications for agricultural leases were dealt with as under at the Warden's Court on the 26th inst. : — Win. Jno. Dyer, section 2 of 26, block 11., Table Hill, to be granted after new survey, to exclude both branches of main road and sufficient land on either side to prevent mining operations being interfered with ; John Hughes, section 03 and part of 70, block I*, Waitahuna West, adjourned for survey ; John M'CuJlunj, section 84, block IL, Table Hill, adjourned for three, weeks; George Kerr. section 8, block VI., Waitahuna East, application granted ; Hugh Eoss, section 60, block IV., Tuapeka East, granted. The Court then adjourned.

In the published list of successful tenderers for mail, contracts for the mail conveyance between Lawrence and Clyde, we notice that the successful tenderer is "W. Freeman," of whom nothing is known.. We suspect that in this master, the Postmaster has. been hoaxed, and should the hoax be proved,' we suggestthat ample punishment .should be inflicted on the joker, whoever he may be. ,

1 Mb.- A*tm>'s extensive 'premises at Haveloek are nearly completed. A 17-stall stable is now in course of. erection. Mr. F. Moyje is the contractor,