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Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1893. PAYMENT OF TEACHERS.

An application was recently made to the North Canterbury Education Board by the Educational Institute on behalf of the teachers in the public schools in this province that the salaries of the' teaching staff might be paid direct to themselves instead of being first handed to the Committees, which is the prac tice at present in this educational dis trict, but not in any other part of New Zealand. For some reason not clear to us, the Board has referred the ques tion to the School Committees, nearly all of which have so far—as might naturally have been expected—ex pressed disapproval of the proposed change. It is a significant fact that the only Committees who hay« not objected to the teachers being paid directly by the Board are those in and around the centres of population, where as a rule, there has been no difficulty or delay in the regular and prompt payment of tbe teachers' stipends. On the other hand, the Committees of the smaller schools in country districts— the members of which are often far from school or post office, and where even the best arrangements practicable result in the teachers not being paid for a week or so later than the proper time-—offer the strongest opposition to the suggested alteration. We are in clined to think that this would not be the case if the exact position of this matter were fully understood by the members of the School Committees and the public generally. It seems to be supposed that the change would raean a surrender of power on the part of the School Committees, and it is not likely that anything of this kind would be readily agreed to. Now the fact is that the Committees have no function in the matter beyond receiving a cer tain sum from the Board, and paying it over to the staff immediately exactly jas directed by that body. The Coin i mittees have no power to increase, diminish, or delay the payment to any i teacher of the amount allocated to him or her by the Board's schedule, and although the payment has often been delayed the teachers could in all cases have prevented a repetition by bring ing the circumstance under the. notice of the Board. In fact several instances 1 have occurred in which that has been done, and the Board has informed the | delinquent Committee that the thing must not happen again. There are a few cases, we believe, on record of Committees objecting to a teacher re ceiving the amount allocated to him, and withholding payment, when the Board on app ication has paid the teacher direct, and deducted the amount kept back from the next pay ment to "incidental fund." Tt is therefore a matter for surprise that any Committee should seek to retain a function in their hands which merely entails trouble on themselves, and gives inconvenience to the teachers. It is evident that many Committees are ignorant of the true position of affairs with regard to the payment of teachers, since we often see in the re ports of their periodical meetings that " the salaries were passed for payment.' As we have shown above the whole business connected with the payment of these moneys is entirely formal, and why the Board of North Canterbury of all the Boards in the colony adopted such a cumbersome and inconvenient mode of paying the salaries of the teaching staff, we are at a loss to understand. We consider that in for warding the letter of the Educational Institute to the various Committees to be reported upon, the Board has either intentionally encouraged the misappre hension prevailing iv some quarters with regard to the power of the Com mittees to t: intercept supply," or else it is intended to transfer to local bodies the allocation of the funds devoted to education in their districts. As this is in the highest degree improbable we may excess the opinion that the action of the Board of Education in calling upon the Committees for an expression oi opinion was neither dignified nor judicious, find is calculated to put itself as well as the Coißinifctees and. teachejrs in a fa'se and inconvenient position. Two things must excite general sur prise when this matter its looked into. One is thai £he Committees did not long ago turn this business oy.ev to the Board, seeing that they have no voice iv tins allocation of the funds. The other is that tha reasonable wishes of the teachers many times expressed hay.c not long since been acceded to.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr I. R. G. C. /Gratia^u a£ I'inwald to night. jlnUvesting reading matter on fourth page. Over (?COO apljcafcioss for patents have now been made in New Zealand- A meeting .of Mr Waby's supporters Is called tor .thjs evening in the Templar Hall ak eight o'clock, A lady fishing on the I'ictoji wfoarf tfre .other day succeeded in landing a schnapper weigh. ir.c2Clb. . ... „, A Chinese gardener named Ming Cheong, aged 60 and cf eccentric disposition, was foiwd banging dead in his hut at Spring Gully, Victoria, ths other day. He had all his worldly possessions, iuoZudipg two pairs of blanketfi, strapped ground bis b'od^. ■ j

South Australia has the largest proportion of females of any of the colonies, 92 to every j 100 males. I Since the establishment of responsible^ Government there hove been 27 Ministries ' in New Zealand, with 15 Premiers. A public meeting at Carcoar has inaugu rated a fund in aid of Mrs Phillips, wife of the v.'ctim in the City Bank tragedy. A contract has been entered into by the Bourke (New South Wales) Boiling-down j Works to supply manure for New Zealand. On the Crown lands north of Auckland there is st 11 remaining some 498,000,000 feet of kauri timber, said to be worth, as it stands, £1,294,000 ! In the Burra district (South Australia) I the rabbit pest is very bad, and the residents are working hard with a view to checking the trouble. Mr W. H. Jude, who intended to leave Adelaide soon, has received a memorial bear ing 1800 signatuies asking him to stay. He ia a great temperance man over there. The first caravan of bullock waggons with goods from Sydney arrived at Armidale on October 27, the goods being delivered at £2 19s 71 per ton less than by rail. I Replying to an interjection in the Sydney I Assembly the other night Sir Henry Parkes I said, " If anybody here or outside Bays that I I ever asked for the Inspectorship of Prisons I will oay he is a liar." i The Mahinapua, with the southern portion of the San Francisco mail, left Onehunga at 830 on Thursday, and would arrive at Wellington this (Saturday) morniog. The South Island portiom would be taken on to Lyttelton by steamer leaving in the after noon, A gamekeeper near Lymington, the other day, while talking about the mysterious death of Lieutenant Hamhrough, insisted that the injuries might have been inflicted by the accidcutil discharge of the deceased's gun. In order to demonstrate this he took the gun and placing it behind his back, pulled the trigger. The gun being loaded, caused his death. In the case of a patient recently admitted to the charity ward of the Bendign Hospital, Victoria, it became necessary to burn hie clothes, and in these were found secreted £38 12s Gd. A further search disclosed £10 more and a deposit receipt for £320. The authorities intend to impound from this money the ordinary rate charged to paying patients. A decrepid old man of 80 years of age, named Thotnaa Nolan, was charged at Broken Hill, on October 15, with having murdered his adopted son, Charles Nolan, at Wilcannia, on May 5. The jury quickly returned with a verdict that the stabbing was done in self-defence, and theold man crept out of the dock, and tottered from the court in tears. Smuggling is not without risks in Af ghanistan. A Cabul trader the other day managed to smuggle some precious stones out of the country hidden in bags of raisins; but he had, unfortunately, to inform his friends on this side of the fact; and, as the secrecy of private correspondence is not sacred in Afghanistan, the letter was opened and road en route, and the enterprising trader was fined 50,000r. At the Christchurch Show Messrs Fried lander Bros., of Ashburton, exhibited the patent " Rapide " horse-clipping machine, which is very much on the same lines as the sheep-shearing machines now in vogue. By this method it is claimed that a horse can be clipped in a quarter of an hour, and the device should be useful in laryc stables. The same firm also showed specimens of the work of a grass seed threshing mill which it is at present patenting. Five different samples of weeds and refuse which the machine has extracted, as well as two samples of ryegrass which it has treated, are exhibited, The sample was perfectly clean, and though the exhibit was entered for exhibition only, the judges considered it ( worthy of a very highly commended ticket. The " Hawke's Bay Herald," while not defending Mr Ivess in any way, cannot help being struck by the way in which he is now being abused by the " Liberal" pirty who tried so hard to foist him on the Napier con stituency some time ago. "At present," says our contemporary, " the ' New Zealand Times' is writing againstf Mr Ivess as if he were one of the vilest of mankind, and this tune is being re-echoed by the Government clacquers in the district. We have only thi3 to say :—lf Mr Ivess is the terrible man he is said to be by his former friends, their only decmt policy is shamefaced quietness, for by all sorts of questionable means they tried to ' make him member for Napier. And if they now retort that they were mistaken then, our reply is that there can be no doubt of it. They were mistaken, just as they were when they went to Gisborne for a candidate, and just as they are now that they have gone to Wellington for somebody to fight Captain Ruasell. The man they support to-day they want to walk upon to-morrow. Their whola policy has been to erect ido's and then smash them. Even within only a few months Sir Robert Stout was a grand man. To-day, according to the same people, that he should want to remain in political life is a menance to ' Liberalism,' "

DISTRICT COURT.

ASHBURTON—FRIDAY.

(Befora Ilia Honor Judge Ward.)

ijst cftambkiis

On the application of Mr Crisp orders were made under The Adoption of Children's Act, 1881, for tho adoption of Alfred Edwin Ait ken by A. Holtby Moore and Id* EliYtboth Aitken by Frederick George Capon.

IN BANCO.

Trustees of Robert Alcorn v. Samuel Boyle—£l^9 7* for goods and cash ad vanced. Mr Purnell lot plaintiffs. De fendant appeared in person, and con ducted his own case. Mr Purnell, in opening the case for plaintiffs, said tho statement, of defence was very confused, but he gathered that it set forth that various items, large and small, had not been credited to defendant, the net result bdlng that he claimed (hare was now a balance of £100 due to him over and above the £199 7s, for which he was being sued. There had been swvoral settlements at various times agreed upon between the parties, ana the grocery account had never been disputed, nor had the sheep account been challenged, until Mr Alcorn got into difficulties and made an assignment. When Mr Alcorn made an assignment Mr Boyle sent in an account for £200, chieflly for wages. This was dropped, and the next account was for £774 3s 41 on the sheep account, making out there was £500 odd net due to him. Hft sent in a third account, in which the wages claim was dropped, and showing £200 due. And now, that day, he made out that there was £117 due to him. His Honor said the grocery account was practically not disputed up to £105, and the balance was admitted in the statement of defence. Kobeit Alcorn, in evidence for plaintiffs, said Boyle had bought goods from him for several years. Produced ledger account. Jn June, 1892, went through the account with Boyle, who agreed as to the balance. By His Honor —Boyle admitted the balance of £205 then due by him was correct. Cross-examined by defendant (Mr Boyle)— Did not put £100 to your credit put £50 to your credit, and £50 to mine. The whole estimated profit was £100. On May 31, 1890, credited you with £100, and took nothing myself. On August 20, credited you with £20, and took nothing myself. On June 8, 1392, credited both with £100. It was later in June when we settled the £205 balance. His Honor—lt was on June 20, accord ing to the statement of defence. Cross-examination continned —On July 17, 1893, put £100 to each of our credits. Told you I expected to be paid your grocery account out of the profits of the sheep. The books show £120 by profits of Bheep placed to credit of jour grocery account. In reply to His Honor, Mr Boyle said the goods were obtained for himself. Cross-examination continued— Had seen cheque produced for £50 before. It was given me by you for sheep you had sold. Knew the sheep were sold and gone Got £130 from Miles and Co. to pay a bill of D. Thomas. Mr Hanmer did not accuse me of obtaining the money on sheep 1 had not got. On June 2. 1893, made up a statement showing £200 profit if the sheep had been sold then. The bill pud Fiiedlander ehould-have been placed to your credit in Maich, 1892 ; it was a renewal, and was crediied as s^on as pointed out, The sheep account is now over £400 in debt. Defendant mainfained that the agree ment with Alcorn was that whenever there was a lof-s on the transactions Alcorn was to bear it, and whenever there was a profit, he (Boyle) was to fehare it. His Honor—l don't believe it. In reply to His Honor, Mr Alcorn said be was to pay Boyle 25s per week, and give him half the piofits, and Boyle was to manage and look after the sheep. No other arrangemenc waa mad<% and no timea specified for^ascertaining the pro fits. It was intended to be when the sheep were sold. His Honor remarked tl.at the evidence so far was quite clear that no money was payable until the sheep were sold and the profits ascertained, Witness, cross-eximlned by Mr Pur nell, said Boylft never claimed any large sums before witness made his assignment. Defendant had gone over the sheep accounts from time to time with him. In October, 1893, defendant gave witness the accounts produced, which were repudi ated at once, as was an account for £774 3s 4d on October 25, and Boyle admitted he had received the wages charged in it. Had sued Boyle f <r a horse and cart, and obtained judgment in the R.M. Court. It had been pleaded as a set off in the account now put in by defendant, The account for J. C. Boyle's board and lodging, and cash paid £200, is not owing. It was handed to witness two d&ys after the assignment. It is the first claim ever made on his account. At the same time S. Boyle handed witness an account alleged to be due to J. C. Boyle for four years' shepherding, £312. Both these accounts are in S. Boyle's writing. His Honor—There can be no doubt they are bogus. Witness went on—Boyle wanted the grocery account credited and the amount charged to the sheep account when the assignment was about to be made, saying he did not want it hanging over him. The sheep account is, with outstanding claims, over £600 in debt. There were a good many sheep short. * Expected to get back the sums credited to the grocery account out of profits on the sheep. S. 11. Graves, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Ashburton, produced the deed of assignment of A Icom's estate to himself and others, and proved the debt wag stjll owing. Mr Boyle here informed tfye Court that if it held no money was due to hjra until the sheep were sold, it would be no use going on with the case, and h3 would not take up the time of the Court further. His Honor then gave judgment for plaintiffs for the amount, claimed and costs.

Champion Athletic Meeting.

Melbourne, November J.O. The first Championship Athletic Meet; ing canmt be regarded as one of brilliant performances. This was largely due to the boisterous wind which prevailed al though the general foroi displayed was scarcely t^ual to the form shown at the Sydney nieeting some three years ago. The New Zealanders, although p good foim, seemed to lack the style and dash of the former team.. Matson worked well, but Moir appeared to be flurried. One difficulty which the team had to contend with was the circular course, all events over 220 yds being run on continuous curves. But for the wind Macpherson would have equalled if not beaten his own Australian record for 220 yards. Batger entered for the hurdles, but did not come from Sydney. T^e fact of the fixture hashing" w'th the !faces militated against the attendance. A Conference • of' dele ■ gates frem the several colonies will be held to-night.'

Cheap Money.

THE UNPUBLISHED PAPER OF MR BALLANCE.

The following is published as having J been found among Mr Ballanco's papers after his dea'h The paper purports to have be»n drawn up by a " prominent official of long standing and high charac ter in the public service." In the light of the "new departure," foreshadowed by the Premier, it will be found interesting. Tha writer mentions " freehold " propsrty only. He says: "It is reasonable to •uppoae that the proprietors of uninvested surplus capital in the United Kingdom— uninvested capital, of which upwarJs of £30,000,000 are stated- to be possessed by friendly societies alone, would be satisfied with an annual rate of 3J to 4 per cent on mortgage, on condition that the security should be beyond question, and if a mortgage office could lend money on mortgage to freeholders in the culony at an annual rats <f 5| per cent free of all charges, and satisfy the capitalists that the security is ample, an amount would be offering, I am sanguins enough to believe, far exceeding the demands of freeholders here. The principal question is, how to assure the capitalists or lenders with respect to the security. Now, as in the Government Insurance Depart ment, money is lent On mortgage with practically the Government guarantee, and for no consideration by way of interest or commission, the same Govern ment might guarantee the mortgages on which, for the consideration of an annual charge of £ per cent, withheld from the rate of interest to be paid by the mort gagors, it should lend the capital of the public. The mortgage office would, therefore, accept no proposals for mortgages which the Government could not saf Ay guarantee, and supposing then the lending rate to have been fixed at 3J per cent, the applicant at the mortgage office for money, on approved mortgage proposal, would, on execution of the mort gage, receive the amount. The deed would then be sent in for registration and to be deposited, and an order or certificate re specting the mortgage would be despatched toLondon,forthetransferorhypothecation of the seenrity to the person purchasing it, who would consent to receive 3| or 4 per cent for the money. No money would come from London until long after the mortgages for which the money is re quired have been effected. The Treasury remits large amounts to London at par that is free of exchange by means of bank draft payable 91 days after sight. The mortgage office therefore would give its own bills on London to the Treasury for the amounts which would be obtained from the Treasury to propide the money lent on mortgage, and which money would be collected in London from the person who would purchase the mortgages, that is to whom the mortgages would be trans ferred or hypothecated, and if the demand of the public here for money should eventually exceed the amount which the Treasury might have to remit, the mort gage office could sell similar bills to the public at par. How to illustrate the pro cess, and to show the direct profit to the Government of thus supplying the people with capital at a low rate of interest, let us take the example of one approved mortgage of £1000 at ih per cent. The mortgagor would apply to the mortgage office, execute the mortgage on a form supplied for the purpose, and receive the amount free of all chargss for legal expenses, valuation, etc. The mort gage could then be registered and deposited, and mi order for its hypo'he ca'ion or transfer would be remitted to London, where the agent of the mortgage office would collect the amount from the purchaser or transferee to pay the bill whish would have been given to the Treasury for the money. This Bill would be payable three months after s:ghr, and five weeks more would be required by i In course of posr, so that the mortgage office would receive 4 k per cant on £1030 fur about four months ; that is to say, approximately £15 before the hypothe cation. The annual incoma of the mort gage office for the period of the mortgage would be one-half per cent, or £5, while the annual income of the transferee would be £4 per cent, or £40. Now, 1 regard it as far from extravagant to suppose that the department might lend ten millions sterling under the foregoing proposal, and if the preceding example be a fair one, the receipts of the mortgage office for the money in course of exchange would be considerably more than £120,000, an amount sufficient to pay for all the charges, while the annual income of the department derived from half per cent on the mortgages would amount to £50,000.

THE ELECTRICTY.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Wellington, Novemoer 11. As November 30 is Sfc Andrews Day and th? mayoralty elections take place on the 29th it ia possible the Parliamentary elections will be taken on the 28th.

COMMERCIAL.

The Kew Zealand Land Association, Limited, has received the following cable message, dated London, November 9. Wheab.—Market is very weak. Quota tions are unchanged since last; telegram,

CABLE NEWS.

The export of spirits from Great Britain to Australia decreased by 120^000 gallons last month. The Argentine Government has sold Spain 10,000 Maser ritles for the use of the troops in Morocco. McLean, of Marakaka, Marlborough, obtained the award for New Zealand wool at the exhibition. The London Coal Briquette syndi cate is thinking of exploiting the Tarragon district in Gippsland, Yic : fcoria. During October the imports into fie United Kingdom increased by ,£130,000, and the exports decreased by £554,500. Mr Gladstone, replying to a ques tion, said that Government, was satis- I fied that the navy was adequate for all purposes. 1 f.( Truth " states that the New Zea land system of retiring Pprman'ent Artillerymen and policemen and reduc ing pay outrivals the parsimony of I Whitehall. A fort at Araapala, on the west coast of Honduras, shelled an Ameri can mail steamer, \j?hose captain ya fused to surrender to Bovilla, the leader of a conspiracy against tbs Government. The vessel escaped \m injured.

INTERPRO VINCIAL.

Eeefton, JS'ovember 10. A fatal accident occurred at Big River mine yesterday. George Poole, an old miner, well known in the district, and boss of a shift, was walking 1 along the cross cut, bdt after inspecting some work aj; the end of it, a large {lake of ptone fell icom the roof, jcMing him instantly. The cross cut had not been worked in lately, and was not timbered. Mr Patijck Brennan, an old resident of, Reeftbn, i*nd legal manager of several mining companies, died at Greyniouth this mproing, aged 66,

The Indian Doctors.

About two years ago several white, robed and turbaned Hindus took quarters in Ashbur.on, and, practi.-ing as eye doctors for a few weeks did the usual roaring trade that most clever quacks do. They came and they went, and we luard of them no more, and only the disap pointed ones whom they unsuccessfully. treated had cause to remember them. They have turned up, however, in Lon don, and the following from a Home ex change of September last gives some notion of how they have been gdtting on : —The four nun describing themselves as Indi-m oculists, Kream Bocesh, Khan Deen, Shabah Bedeen, and Hero Shan, were further charged before the Rich mond magistrates this week, with false pretences and unlawful and malicious wounding. Mr Broughall Woods pro secuted on behalf of the London and Counties Medic»l Protection Society, and the prisoners were defended by Mr Jarvis and Mr Ba 1. Alfred Parsons, of 71, Faro-road, Hammersmith, sud^ his daughter Evelyn, aged 13, visited Kream Bocesh at 50, Grove-road, in June. Kream Bocesh paid he could cure the girl, who had only got a disease in her eye, and she would get her sight back. He put some stuff into it in the presence of Her© Shan and two other Indians. A. guinea was paid on that occasion, and Kream Bocesh told him that he would have to make a payment of 7s 6d a week, which he did during some 20 or 30 subse quent visits when stuff was put into h*)r eye. Afterwards Hero Shan per formed an opertion at Bichmond. He pub a hook in at each end of the eyeball. A minute or two later he pulled the hooks to turn the eye upwards. He had then "got the skin right," and he took a pair of scissors and cut it off-that was, the surface sKin covering the eyeball, called the conjunctiva. Then Hero Shan spread the skin, which was about the size of a threepenny bit, on a piece of paper and showed it. to a wifcnesa. The piece of skin cat off appeared to be an unnatural growth over the front of the eye. During the progress of the operation, for which a guinea was paid, witness's daughter swooned. The sight of the eye was not improved after the operation. At differ ent times he saw as many as eight Indians together. His daughter's eyes had had a defect for some twelve years. Evelyn Parsons, the daughter of the lasb witness, upon whom the operation had been per foimed, said she could now just see light from darkness with the right eye, the left being a glass one. She could now see neither better nor worse. After being under treatment for about three months she could just dLtinguish colors if they were very bright. Since the operation, however, she had not been able to see colours at all, but. Khan Deen said that it had been a very successful operation. The stuff put into her eye was ointment or paste. The pain was intense. Mrs Jane Kussell, whose husband is totally blind, stated that she received from the accused some snuff, some brown cones, and some pills. Ihe cones were to be rubbed on a wet slate, and the product put into the eye. The pills were to be taken night and morning. Kream Bocesh and Shabah Bedeen said they could cure her husb&nd, the ktter adding " by God's help." Her husband was totally blind before he went to the Indian "doctors." MORE SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. Mr Woods then said he should call evi dence to show conspiracy. With regard to the testimonial which purported to be given by a Mrs Ralph, that testimony was wordod in the first person. He would offer evidence to show that she had never written a word of it. He would offer her husband's testimony to show ha was forced by the prisoners to sign a testimonial on'y five minutes after the eye had bsen cut. Prisoners threatened that if he did not sign they would not go on with the treat ment. One witness would say that she was locked up in a room by some of the i pmoners, because she would not sign a testimonial. Further evidence was given and priso ners were ag-un remanded. As an indi cation of the bitterness of the inhabitants of Richmond against the prisoners, it may be mentioned that a large number of per sons want <-o the Kew Gardens station on the JS Torth London )ine, in order to give vent to their feelings of indignation ! against them. On the arrival of the train at Kew, conveying the prisoners from Holloway. gaol to the police court, the crowd arranged themselves in line along the platform and hooted them. A similar demonstration was repeated on their arrival at Richmond, and during their progress on foot from the station, to the police court.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not hold ourseives responsime for tho opinions expressed by our correspondents.)

THE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—lt ia a Ions; time since an election for a member of the County Council took placa in the Mount Somers riding. If these elections are to become more fre quent better arrangements must be made to secure the return of the man whom the ratepayers wish to be elected. In the first pkce, no one seems to know the boundary of the voting district. It is not shown on the Road Board's map, and as to going to the County Council's offices a day's purney—there was not time, as but few of as knew when the election was to take place until we saw our papers on the morning of the poll day. Why this hurry ? If the Act leaves only three clear days between nomination and polling, we must abide by it; but why cannot time be given to men like those living up in the hill country and deeply interested in a matter of this kind to hear of it. Some of them drove past the polling booth only an hour before it opened on their way to the Christchurch show. Again, why are we limited to one polling place in a district which extends from within twelve miles of Ashburton over to Westland, and trom the Hinds to the north Ashburton riyer. The state of the pall is yet more unsatisfactory. Numbers of ratepayers left their work and rode twelve miles or more to find that their nawes were not on the roll. One old man who has lived on the same farm in the Forks for fifteen years was sorely disap pointed to find that his name w»s off the list. Either he, and probably many more, have escaped their share ot taxation or there te some blundering at head quarters. ; If |t rests with the ratepayers to Bee that their names are placed on the county roll they would be fools to pay rates for the sake of a vote at a piobably very dis tant election. Anyhow, the whole ques tiou ought to be inquired into by the Councillors. To show more clearly tint better ar rangements should be mftde, the fact ot only thirty.eight ratepayers having voted out of 300 is quite sufficient. I also wisli to point out that to my knowledge twelve ratepayers to the Road Board called to register their vote, but were sorely dis appointed at not finding their names on the roll.—l am, etc, Ratepayer.

SPORTING.

C.J.C. SPRING MEETING.

OA KS DAY.

RiccAßToy, Nowmber 11. The weather is again fh c and the at tendance very good. Following are results: — Spring Nursery Handicap, of 2 soys each, with 1/0 soys added. Four fur long-—JJeroli 1, Nixie 2, Pom Pom 3. King Wai was scratche \ Won by h*lf a length. Time ~49f sec- Bividends-£6 8a and £7 9d, Oaks Stakes, of 10 soys each with 200 soya added. One mile and a half. -Ich Dun 1, Busybody 2, Persuadon 3. Time —2.39. Dividends -£1 5s fed and £1 43 6d. Canterbury Cup, of 10 soys each with 500 soys added. Weight for age. Two miles and a quarter.—Skirmisher 1, Prime Warden 2, Pegasus 3. Melbourne, November 11. ]fc is rumored that a wealthy Sydney man is determined to have Lojalty, Mr D. O'Brien h<»s bought a place in Sydney and intends to leave New Zea land.

LANCASTER PARK AMATEUR TROTTING CLUB.

Chbistchtjbch, November 10, At the inaugural meeting of the Lancaster Park Amateur Trotting Club yesterday the attendance was large, and £4155 passed through the totalisator. The following are the results:— Handicap Maiden Tkot (in saddle), of 30 soys ; one mile—Spec, 7sec, 1; Icicle, 9sec, 2; Elsie, ssec, 3. Won easily by forty-five yards. Time—2.sl, Dividend— £10 18s. Stakes Handicap Trot (in harness), of 55 eovs; two miles—Three Cheers, 20sec, 1; Madge, 34sec, 2; Medji die, 26sec, 2. Won by forty yards. Time -5.46*. Dividend—£6 Is. i Handicap Pony Tbot (;n saddle), of 25 8ovs; two miles—lcicle, 20sec, 1; Wood lands, 26sec, 3 ; Nipper, 263 ec, 3. Won by one hundred yarda. lime—6.l. Dividend— £1 14s 6d. Champion Handicap Teot (in saddle),, of 150 soys; two miles—Blue Mountain, 37sec, 1; Shamrock, 6sec, 2 ; Ellen, 12sec, 3. Won in the easiest manner possible by a hundred and twenty yards. Time— s.ss. Dividend— £1 5s Handicap Saddle Teot, of 50 soys; one mile—Fiona, llsec, 1; Miss Poole, 21sec, 2. Seven others started. Won by three lengths. Time—2.sl. Dividend—£3 9s 6d. November Handicap (harness), of 110 soys ; two miles—Black Belle, 33sec. 1 { Felix, 20aec, 2; Dorothy, 30sec, 3. Four others started. Won by one hundred yards.' Time—s.42. Dividend—£l 163. Trial Handicap (harness), of 50 soys one mile —Ragamuffin, I7sec, 1; Felix, 3?ec, 2. Nine others started. Won by a head. Time—3 8. Dividend—£3l 8s 6d.

The Trouble in South Africa.

Capetown, November 9. Telegrams from Johannesburg dated Thursday last state that Bulawayo has been burned and the enemy's magazine destroyed. Two thousand Matabele were killed in the final conflict, the (British loss being only five. Chiefs along the line of march are sending presents to the troops, and many are I joining the Company's forces. Later details show that seven thou sand Matabele attacked Dr Jameson's laager on the Impendizi river, and fought for an hour. Lobenguek ordered Bulawayo to be burned, and eight thousand Martini-Henri cart ridges, with three thousand pounds of powder were destroyed. Dr Jameson guarantees the king's safety if he will surrender, .several chiefs are disgusted with the cowardice of their followers who refused to face the Maxim guns, and many more committed suicide- Fifty British under MacLoutsie re inforced Major Adams. London, November 10. Mr Labouchere and other Radicals raised a debate in the Commons on the Matabele war, but it fizzled out, and the closure was applied. Mr Bux ton, Under-Secretary for the colonies, denied that the war was one of ex termination, but the hateful military system of Lobenguela had merely been broken down. The Government waa not prepared with a scheme for the settlement of the country. In the course of the debate M Gladstone cited New Zealand as an instance of the successful transference of settlement from the aborigines to the colonies.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(per pkkss association.)

Samoa. Wbtlington, November 11. Sir Robert Stout says he knows of no such syndicate as that mentioned in yesterday's telegrams for the purchase of the properties of a German firm in Samoa. Years ago, and again at a later date, he suggested it would be a wise step on the part of the British Government to acquire full passession of Samoa by buying out the German interests there, and probably it is because of this recommendation that his name has been mixed up with the rumor now current in Auckland.

A 10ft seam of coal has been struck at the Oremorne borings, on the shore of Port Jackson, New South Wales, at a depth of 1900 ft. It is supposed to be a continuation of the Bulli seam, and it is expected that large deposits will be found near the harbor.

TH» ASHBOBTOK fIttAHbUH; SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1893.



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