Local Intelligence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 392, 19 September 1874, Page 2

Local Intelligence.

The British and other mails via Suez olose at the Lawrence post-office on Tuesday, 29th inst., at 6 a.m. Fbom Melbourne telegrams, we observe that the Golconda, with the inward mail, was likely to arrive on the 19th, so that we may expect the mail at the Bluff on the 25th or 26th. The San Francisco mail should arrive at Port Chalmers on Saturday or Sunday. The programme of the spring race meeting, to be held on the Beaumont racecourse, appears in our advertising columns. The prizes are very fair, and with good weather, theßeaumontites may expect a large influx of visitors on the 2nd October, A FATAL accident happened on Thursday afternoon to Mr. William Carr, a miner, who has been working on Wetherstones for about eleven years. The unfortunate man was working in a claim on Post-Office Mil, when a fall of earth came upon him, killing him on the spot. Mr. Carr was much respected on the goldfields, he having always taken a prominent part in any matter where the interests of the district were at stake. He was a member of the first Mining Conference held in Dunedin, and in this and other public matters always devoted his best energies for the public weal. Deceased leaves a widow and large family to mourn his untimely end. The particulars of the accident appear in our report of the inquest. His funeral will leave Wetherstones at 3 o'clock this afternoon. A HEW store for the sale of clothing and boots is being erected in Tapanui, adjoining Messrs. M'Grigor and Co. 's store. Mr. Mason's new premises are also nearly completed. The Bank ' of New Zealand has purchased Mr. M'Allister's property, and intend opening a branch bank there. Sergeant James Farrell has been gazetted Inspector of Slaughter Yards, and of cattle intended for slaughter, for the Lawrence district. A telegram was received in Lawrence yesterday to the effect that the Mayor of Clyde and Mr. Hazlett had made a satisfactory arrangement with the Government for the erection of a bridge over the Molyneux at Clyde. A MEETING of the Hospital Committee was held in the Commercial Hotel last evening for the purpose of drawing up rules and regulations for the management of the institution. There were 14 out of the 19 members of the Committee present. The President was in the chair. The fact of their not finishing the business until midnight shows that considerable diversity o f opinion existed with regard to several of the rules, Mb. Watson desires us to state that he was not the writer of the letter signed " Music," and-that such a production is altogether coutrary to his experience of brass bands either in this or the Home country. He characterises the letter as a very malicious one. A VALUABLE young entirft colt, the property of Mr. Henderson, of the Beaumont, met its death in a siugular manner, in the "Victoria Stables, on Thursday. The colt had been brought off the gr*ss in the morning, and was tied in a stall with a rope. After standing some time quietly, the horse tried to free himself, and in doing so struck his head violently on the corner of an iron bound mauger, fracturing his skull. Mr. Andrews «vas immediately called in, but he could do nothing for the poor brute, which died in a few houts after the accident. A correspondent at the Upper Shotover sends us the following mining items : — The Shotover Terrace Company are on on good gold, and have about twenty men at work under the management of Mr. Grace, who, I am informed, is going to pat more hands on when more room is made in-the face. —The river has been rather high for the last week, which has brought jivur working to a stand still, I regret to say the Hibernian Company had a large paddock stripped on to the wash, when the flood came down and played havoc with their work. The safety gear of this Company is of the most complete description. For the information of your readers, I will give a short description of it. In times of floods they work their claim | with an undershot wheel and two pumpa. The pumps are in a well hole, which is slabbed in to the nose, with a trap door attached, so that whin th« river rises the door is closed, and any injury prevented. The tail race from the pumps as they work along is covered. Instead of shearlegs, as formerly, they have now got a wire rope across the river to lift their wheel in times of flood. They can lift it 30 feet above the present level of the river. The lifting ropes are on travellers, so that if there should be another Old Man flood they can run the wLeel ashore. It is, without exception, the best flood protecting gear I have seen on the river. — The new Channel Company is at a stand still. Want of funds, lam informed, is the cause,— l hear that the reefs are to be opened and worked this summer. If such should be done, a large increase to the present population may be expected. r Odk ßoxburgh correspondent says : Dr. Carr appeared at the Commercial Assembly Rooms, Roxburgh, on Monday and Tuesdny evenings to large houses, and was very successful in ' obtaining subjpets peculiarly susceptible to the mesmeric influence, thereby affording great entertainment to the audience. On Tuesday the lecture on "Love, Courtship, and Matrimony was delivered by the doctor ; and at the close of the lecture he informed his audience that, in consequence of his not being able to proceed to Alexandra before Thursday, he would hold another seance on Wednesday evening, at which he hoped to have the pleasure of addressing a goodly number, as it was his intention that half of the gross receipts should be devoted to the Roxburgh Athenaeum building fund. After each entertainment the room was cleared, and dancing was kept up until 12 o'clock.— A petition was last week signed by a number of the inhabitants of the Mount Benger district for the formation of a road on the east side of the Molyneux River from the Beaumont to the Horseshoe Bend, for the benefit, it is presumed, of the present punt owners at the Beaumont, j This week a counter-petition is being signed, praying that the present line of road be adhered to, as the one projected would injure not only the inhabitants along the present line, but also those of Tapanui and Switasera ; stating also that the prior petition was signed in all probability through either friendship for the party taking it round or carelessness on the part of those who appended their names to it. The projected road would join the present line some miles beyond the junction of the Switzers and Teviot roads. It would certainly seem to be an act of great injustice on the part of the Government if they granted the first petition.