WARDEN'S COURT, LAWRENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 388, 5 September 1874, Page 3

WARDEN'S COURT, LAWRENCE.

(Before E. H. Carew, Esq., Warden.) Wednesday, 2nd Septembeb. The application of Henry Thorwold Rasmussen for an agricultural lease of section 55, block X., Tuapeka East, was objected to by Ah Chew and others, and refused, on the ground that it was auriferous. David Kiug applied for an extended claim of one acre at Tuapeka Flat. — Granted. Thomas Jefferies obtained protection for ninety days for his claim situate on the west eide of Gabriels Gully. The application of Edmund Hill for a mining lease, situate in Mrs. Lewis's leasehold 'paddock, Waipori Flat, was withdrawn. Sam Chew Lain applied for a residence area near Chinese Camp. Adjourned to view the gronnd.' Mr. King for the applicant. (Jeorge Byron King's application for a residence area at Wetherstones Mat was adjourned for four weeks.

The " Daily Times'" Home correspondent, writing from London on -the 30th June, says : — ' ' The Australian Colonies in'goner.il, and New Zealand in particular, causod no small stir in the regions of Gravesend, Black - wall, &c, on the 25th and 26th inst. On the former day arrived in the river the ships Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, from Melbourne ; the Jessie Readman, Agnes Muir, and City of Dunedin, from Port Chalmers ; the May Queen from the Bluff; tbe Chile, f rom^ Auckland 5 - the Star of India, from Lyttelton ; the Duke of Edinburgh, from Wellington ; and the Fugitive, from Launceston. On the 25th theie arrived the Bebington, from the Blutf, and the Dunh'llan, from tJ Port Chalmers ; while the Christian M'Ausland, for the latter port, hauled out of dock with between 200 and 300 emigrants on board. The Cartvale, moreover, was lying at .Gravesend with a large number of emigrants on board, waiting for a fair wind to commence her voyage to Lyttelton ; while close beside her lay a large ship bound for. Brisbane, and whose decks were perfectly black with emigrants. • The seen at Blackwall on the evening of the 25th was a busy one, the pier being lined with a dense crowd, waiting to see the large fleet of ships hauled into dock. I went about a good deal in the crowd, and was considerably amused by some of the ideas -which I found to prevail regarding the cargoes the vessels had brought. One man informed his companion p that the City of Dunedin was loaded with rice, which was a staple product of New Zealand. Another hazarded the guess that tea would be cheap now that such a quantity had arrived to flood the market. A third expressed surprise that the Lincolnshire's passengers were so fair, as he " thought they was hall hlack in Horsetralia." Altogether there seemed to be plenty of need for the diffusion among the masses of a little more accurate information respecting the Colonies. It must be added, however, that the simultaneous arrival of so many fine vessels, from New Zealand especially, seemed to impress many with an idea of its growing importance and flourishing condition — a result by no means to be wondered at. A sharp encounter with a Ghark, says the "Coromandel News," took place in Kikowhakariri Bay lately. A large shark was seen swimming about the bay some thirty or forty feet from the edge of the water. Mr Kennedy and a plucky woman who volunteered to go with him, put off in a- dingy, taking witli him a spear and other tackle for' the monster's capture. . No" sooner did the shark see the dingy put off, than he made direct for it, snapping one of the paddleß in two. A fierce 1 struggle then insued. The spear, however was handled with dexterity, and a thrust more fatal than, the rest striking the monster in. a vital part, caused. him to- turn belly upwards. , The batile,- so say thoae •who witnessed it from the shore, was an . exciting one, and .we must say that Mr ' Kennedy ' and his female companion -showed no little pluck in venturing to the - ' attack in a mereditigy, for the brute when towed ashore was found to measure a trifle over nine feet in length, with a mouth four feet in circumference 1 Sowing. — A contemporary writes :—: — -Some farmers and writers on agriculture put great stress on the early sowing, to -have seed, but the stress ought to be put 1 more especially on the condition of the land. There is little good in getting a thick braird hMhe land oannot bring it to maturity. Let the land be in good heart, and it will tiller out thick enough' with a small quantity of seed. We do not doubt that the land will throw out. more tillers . in the early part; of the season than it will when the cooler part of the year draws on, but we question the advantage to be gained on poor land by having so many items proceeding from one root ; ' - we'thiftk it would be better to have the plants more distributed over the ground. When the land is rough enough to bear a crop, three pecks may do for early sowing when the seed is good ; five or six pecks ' may be required when the season is late WOA #1§ weather c,old,