Local Intelligence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 361, 3 June 1874, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

A FEW days ngo we received a letter from *'A Married Woman," urging in very strong language the necessity for another medical mnn in Lawrence, and accusing the married m«n of the town and district., in no measured tevm<<, of cowardice for not taking some steps to accomplish thiitr object. We declined to give a place to the letter in our columns. ?.nd the lady sends us another communication, from which it appears she feels aggrieved, and classes U3 amongst tho timid ones she so strongly condemned in her first letter. If our correspondent does not wish to appropriate to herself the epithets she applies to th*» male portion of the cominunit.y, she had better allow her real name to be uppunded to her letter. Thk Hospital subscription boxes which Mr. M. Hay suggested should he made to he placed in the offices of the railway contractors have been made and forwarded to their respective destinations. We trust they will fulfil the purpose for which they are intended. British workmen, whatever may lie their situation, are veiy chnritnble Considering the risks they run iv their daily avocation on the railway work, in putting a email donation aside for the benefit of the Hospital, they are merely providing for themselves and hvothor workmen, who are liaMe at any time to require the comforts and advantages of the institution. THK organ hitherto used in All Saints Church, Dunedin, has been purchased by the Ohuich of England Committee for Trinity Climch. Lawrence. It is expected to arrive shortly, and ■will no donbt prove a valuable acquisition to the members of the choir and the congregation | generally. The Lawrence Private Quadrille Club will commence their fifth season in the Athenaeum Hall on Monday evening next. Prom the pient success which hns hitherto attended this Club, we expect to see a lanje number of the youths of Lawrence availing themselves of the opportunity of joining the Club. Thfre are 3,557 Chinese in the Province : 88 residing in Dunedin, 4Sn at the Dunstan. 251 at. Mount Ida, 1,212 at the Lakes, 606 a,t Waikaia, 176 at Tokomairiro, nnd 490 at Tuapeka, THE City of Adelaide arrived ia Dunedin with the San Francisco mails on Sunday morning. The mails were delivered in Lawrence on Monday evening. Captain Hctton, Provincial Geologist, has presented a box to the Tuipeka Museum, containing 23 specimens of rocks and 18 specimens of minerals. The bodies of two of the unfortunate men — Andrew Skene and Frank Oissell— who were drowned hy the upsetting of a boat on the 25th May have been recovered, a>id on inquest held on them. A verdict of accidental death was returned. • * Messrs. Wilson and Co., of the Otago Foundry, have just completed a rock-boring apparatus for Messrs. Strachan and Hunter, contractors on the Lawrence and Tokomairiro Railway. The machinery comprising it consists of a six-horse boi'er. which drives an engine and air-pumps. The air is discharged into a receiver, fiom which it is carried up to the rock drill, which averages 300 strokes a minute During the same time. 6,000 cubic inches of air, the density of which is equal to four atmospheres, or to 24,000tn. of atmospheric air, are discharged. It is expected that the quantity of air liberated fiom the apparatus when at; work in tnnnels will have a most salutary c ffect osi the temperature, and will act both aa a ventilator and cooling medium. A trial of the powers of the apparatus took place on Monday at the foundry, with most satisfactory results.—" Guardian." Messrs. Driver, Stewait, and Co. sold by auction on Monday, at Balclutha, the site of the Crown Stables fronting the,, main street, and comprising half an acre of ground, for the sum of £448. The^ection was sub-divided. Mfsshs. Maitland Bros, have disposed of their valuable freehold property on the banks of the Clutha for £52.010, to Mr. Adam Beg'g. of Andersons F.<*y. This property, which comprises about 17,000 acres, is,.one of the fiuest on the river. At Friday's sitting of the Council, the following opinion from the Provincial Solicitor vraa laid on the table by the Government :- '* I am of opinion that the licensee of an allotment under the system of deferred payments must, under Rub-spntion 5 of- section 54 o f the Otago \Wste Lands Act, 1872, reside personally on his allotment. The whole scope and intention of the Act, i-i my opinion, clearly shows this ; but even weie any doubt t<> bi raised legarding the meaning of the words 'personally occupy,' the .iftafc provision of sub-suction 5. byproviding that on thf death of the lic«n«ee or his assigns during the currency of the license, it phiill not be obligatory on the e^ecnlors or administrators of such licensee or his nssigns to comply with the conditions of occupation, clearly implies that so long as the licensee lives personal occupation must be complied with." We have received part No. 371 of the "Family Herald," which contains the opening chapters of a new tale entitled " A Strange Friendship : a story of New Zealand*," written by a lady resident in Otago. Its appearance in the columns of a well-known periodical is no small tribute to colonial talent, - ; 7 '

THE fine weather of last week came to a sudden termination on Sunday evenirfg about 11 o'clock, wb&i"~fmow commenced to fall in fitful showers, w^lth.^ bitter cold wind from the south west. Abulaylignfc on Monday morning x the*B!ue{lfouril)anYsand the Waipoii Ranges were co«er«l witH>a white mantfo. The fall of sleet ana snow continued in heavy showers all ATon^ky,, putting a stop to .all out-door jsrorfcjs in ihe neighborhood of Lawrenoe. \ ' WE-^ate requested to call attention to the advertisements tint appear in another part of this paper, on the subject of the registration of policies of life assurance in terms of the Life Assurance Companies Act, 1873. The Act required that all companies carrying on the business of life assurance in New Zealnnd shall deposit cash or Government securities with the Public Trustee to the extent of -£5,000. which is to be increased as the business of tho company goes on until in reaches the sum of £20,000. These sums the Act requires the Public Trustee to hold in trust for policy I holders, being such in respect of policies issued in the colony by the company making such deposits, whether tho policy h:\s been granted before or affcyr the passing of thu Act, providing that such policies, if gi anted before the commencement of the Act, be registered within 12 months from such commencement (November 1, 1873) ; or if granted after the passing of the Act. within 6 months of the making thereofIt will follow from the above that holders of policies granted on or after the Ist of Novembe» last must register before the six months have expired, or they will forfeit the benefit cbnfe.-i-pd by the Act. The Australian Mutual Provident Society have given the holders of its policies the opportunity to register them, so that it now 3-ests with those policy holders to avail themselves of the privilege. Li<wi9 Tobias Stead wjis released from gaol on Saturday afternoon at half-past three o'clock, and e.-corted to Messis. A. and T. Inglis's, where an outfit was purchased for him, and the chiifge for his board and lodging fora fortnight at the Spanish Restauiant was incurred by the Committee. The amount paid for his release was £4-4 14s. 6d. Fully us much remains in the hands of the Committee, which was to have been given to him ab him at the Dunedin Athenteum on Monday evening. The report of tbe adjourned monthly meeting of the Tuapeka Hospital Committee held last evening, will ajspeni* in oar next issue. •A meeting of the Gabriels Cliaunel Committee was held iv Mr. Squii es' omce on Mond.iy afternoon, Mr. W. D. Morrison occupied the chair. There was a very good attendance. Mr. Morrison and Mr. Hales reported the interview of the deputation with the Superinten. teixlent. As no progress appeared to have been made in the accomplishment of the object in viow, ifc wns resolved that a communication be forwarded to his Honor the Superintendent, asking whether the matter had been brought before the Exeputive ; and, if so, what action was likely to be taken. Messri. Hnl^s, Morrison, Fetguson, ami Squires were appointed a sub-Committee ti> diait a piovisional agieeinent for aignafiue by the Btue Spur c'.ahnowuo'S. A vote of thanks to the deputation and the Chairman closed the pioceedings.