The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the “Evening Echo”). THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1579.

The explosion in the Kaitangata mine has not been forgotten by the New Zea land public, and we trust will not be until everything has been done by the Legislature of the colony that can be done, to compel proper precautions to be taken in the working of the New Zealand mines. As soon as the extent of the calamity was known, and there was no doubt about the fact that it was one that could have been pre vented, Government put in force what had been up till then practically an inoperative law; but before that law can be of any real use it will be neces sary to procure a staff of skilled inspec tors, and these, we are afraid, are not to be obtained at a moment’s notice, in this, or any adjacent colony. The full working of the Mines Regulation Bill of 1874 would be in some sense a safe guard against accidents ; but the whole question will have to be opened up and dealt with thoroughly during the session of this year; and we have no doubt whatever that Mr. Sheehan will have to redeem his promise made to Mr. Wason when the Bill of the latter gentleman was shelved, on the understanding that the subject would be thoroughly treated this session by Government. The jury’s finding, at the inquest on the bodies of the victims, is one con taining a lesson and a warning to mine managers generally. Had the Hodges, William and Archie, survived the ex plosion, there can be little doubt but that both of them would have been con victed of manslaughter —the one as the responsible manager who allowed the mine to be worked without sufficient ventilation, and negligent of the danger arising from the existence of explosive gas in it; and the other who entered the disused workings with a naked light —workings in which explosive gas had accumulated. It may not, perhaps, be a graceful thing to say of men who have already paid the same penalty of the culpability the law attaches to them as that paid by the men who were the victims of their culpability, but the find ing of the jury and the ruling of the coroner, point. plainly to the fact that had they escaped with their lives, they would certainly have been held respon sible for the explosion and its conse quences. It is this view of the question that affects all who have charge of the working of mines, and which ought to act as a warning to them to see to the safety of the workings upon which they are engaged. That such a warning is needful the Kaitangata is one evidence, and our telegrams have recently sup plied others in the cases of mines where operations have been interrupted be cause of the presence in them of dangerous gas.

It is to be hoped, however, that now the subject of coal mining and its re gulations has been brought so promi nently and so painfully before the public mind, that asystem of responsible inspection by qualified Government officers will be thoroughly carried out, and that those officers. will be em powered to take such steps, on the discovery of any dangerous error in the working of a iy mine, as shall prevent possible disaster following the careless ness, foolhardiness, or incompetency of any one in whose hands may be placed the management of the industry, and the lives of those engaged in it.

The Rev. H, B. Burnett's Resigna tion. —At their meeting to-c Lay, in Christ church, the Presbytery unanimously accepted the resignation by Mr. Burnett of the Ashburton charge. Marriage of Councillor Fried lander. —lt is our pleasant duty to chronicle the marriage of Councillor Rudolf Frielander to Helena, second daughter of Mr. J. Gall, late of Bromberg, Germany, now of Temuka. Mr. Friedlander is one of the firmjof Friedlander Bros., merchants, Ash burton, sons of Mr. Jonas Friedlander, of Kolmar, Posen, Germany. The marriage was celebrated in the house of Mr. Harry Friedlander, and the ceremony was per formed by Rabbi Zachariah, of the Jewish Synagogue, Christchurch. After the ceremony the wedding party, numbering very many friends of the parties, ad journed to Kolmar cottage the Bros. Friedlander’s house, where festivities in honor of the event were held—Rabbi Zachariah presiding at the dinner. The health of the newly married pair was heartily drunk, and the evening was spent happily with mirth, music, and dancing.

The Union Insurance Company’s Al manac.—Mr. C. Percy Cox, Ashburton agent of the Union Fire and Marine 111- 1 surance Company has sent us a copy of a j neat little book almanac published by that ; company for gratuitous circulation. . It isU most beautifully got up, j well:/printed, ; with a chastely illuminated cover, and contains quite a history of the Australian colonies, besides a large amount of very useful lists and general information. The present Governor, Ministry, Judges, and Bishops of each Colony are given, besides lists of all the past governors with their honors and date of office. The members of the English Cabinet also occupy a page in the almanac, and, in addition to-other things of minor importance, a complete list of the British possessions is sup plied. Cricketers will rejoice to learn that a record of the cricket of 187 S is given also—that is to say, of the matches played in England by the Australian Eleven, and in Australia by the Englishmen, and sport ing men will find a list of the winners of Cup races. On page sof the almanac (which we would advise every business man to secure a copy of) will be found the history of the Union Company, from its start in Christchurch in 1877 with a capital of £2,000,000, and all details of the advan tages it offers. District Court. —The next sitting of the District Court will be held on Satur day in the Town Hall. There are one or two cases of importance. Life Assurance. — Mr. Monitzßowron, canvassing agent of the Australian Mutual Provident Society; gives his lecture to night in Town Hall : Subject— “ Life As surance. ”

The English Cricketers. —By the Albion six of the English team left Mel bourne for New Zealand, yesterday, in cluding Lord Harris, Mr. Hornby, and Mr. Webbe. The arrangements of the Canterbury Association are as yet un known. Wreck of a Steamer at Hokianga.— The steamer Geelong was totally wrecked last night at Hokianga, and two natives were drowned.

Awkward Position,— On Saturday last a Tokomairiro farmer while riding along the road to his residence met with an ugly accident. His horse fell into a ditch. The farmer, whose name was Alison, had his feet in the stirrup-irons and one leg underneath the animal. The horse was unable to extiicate itself from the position into which it had fallen, and every plunge it made was agony to the rider. No one was within hail to give assistance, and Alison was driven to the extreme of cut ting his horse’s throat with a pocket knife. He remained in the same disagreeable position, however, for four hours after the horse was dead before some passer-by re leased him of the weight of the horse’s body. Strange to say, Alison was not injured after all. The Electric Pen. —The “ Otago Daily Times ” says : —“ One of Edison’s electric pens is in use at the Dunedin rail way station, and is found to work admir ably. . With this instrument a circular is written almost as rapidly as with the ordinary pen, t and from the first copy, which is used as a stencil-plate, 3000 circulars may be printed in about two hours. There is no delay involved in the process as the operator can begin to print as soon as the circular has been written. When a clear copy is obtained, any one with a little practice can use it.

University Examinations. —The Pro fessorial Board of the Otago University have urged on the New Zealand Uni versity Senate, the necessity for altering the regulations for the pass examinations for B. A. degree. At present the exami nation papers are prepared from the text books in use by the students, but the Pro fessorialßoard desire tliatthesebe prepared not jfrom the text-books alone, but from the whole range of the subject under study. As the students are supposed to pass in the subject, and not in the text book only from which they have studied it, it is contended that to confine the ex amination to the limits of the text-book is to uselessly cram the student without proving he has mastered the subject which he has been studying. The matter was referred to a Select Committee to re port. Gold on the West Coast. —We observed lately that the yield of gold on the West Coast was falling off very materially, not on one spot alone, but over the whole district. It is to be hoped however, that such will not long continue to be the case. From what we hear it would seem that there is a good field for energetic miners north of Westport. Some prospecting has lately been done to the northward of Westport, on the Pakihis, which lie between Mokihinui and the Lyell, in the very heart of the mountain range, which, viewed fron the seaward, appears to shut out all chance of pioneer ing further inland. A track from Zala Town, near the Lyell, to the Halcyon claim, up to the Mokihinui River, has been known for some time past, the distance from point to point being an easy day’s journey for an average bushman. At no great distance from this track, which follows main spurs, pakihis, have been spotted through the thickly growing timber, and one of these has lately been the scene of prospecting operations, and the results are said to be very good indeed —so much that a rush is spoken of, and Westport quidnuncs are on the alert to gain reliable intelligence. The news has also attracted some notice at the Lyell, where some of the old pioneer gold seekers assert that there is lots of likely country, which only needs a few blazed tracks to open up good payable ground, which would carry hundreds of miners. When at Zala Town a few months ago, we (West Coast Times) were told by an old miner there, not generally given to “ blowing,” that at any time if hard up, he could, by going afield with a fortnight’s tucker, fossick enough gold between the Lyell and Mokihinui to give him a start again. “ Otago Daily Times.” Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. ORR & Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all times the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beinp' bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to oiler goods of su<-h sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same pi ices as the best judges.—Advt

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[l3y Submarine Gaels.] /

[The following cablegrams arrived too late for publication in last night’s Herald, and appeared only as an Extra.]

LATEST CAPE NEWS.

The Afghan Situation—The Turks and the Greek Outrage at Thessaly. — The French Chamoer.—Burning of a British Man-of-War. —The Plague at Astrachan.—The Eastern Question. — The Thames Sculling.

. London, March 11. The Turkish troops attacked the Greek band who recently destroyed a village in Thessaly. Only a few Greeks escaped. Ross defeated Ennnet in the Thames sculling match. The British corvette, Thetis, has been burned at Plymouth. Paris, March 10. The French Chamber of Deputies will probably reject the motion for the impeachment of the Due de Broglie Minis try, because Marshal MacMahon demands that he must be included in the impeach ment if the motion is carried. Constantinople. The British ironclad squadron returns to Besika Bay in a few days. Turkish troops have re-occupied Adrianople. London, March 11. In the House of Commons, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, replying to a ques tion, said the Indian Government was on the eve of active communications with Yakoob Khan, even if they had not already commenced. The Polytechnic is only partially des troyed by fire. Numerous British manufacturers are applying for space in the Melbourne Ex hibition. The Belgian, Dutch, and French Go vernments are also proposing to be re presented there. Alexandria, March 11. A new Ministry has been • formed under the Presidency of Tewfik, the hereditary Prince. The portfolios of Finance and Works are unchanged. St. Petersburg, March 11. A Russian official statement published states that the plague has disappeared from Astrakhan. London, March 10. The general situation in Natal is un changed. Colonel Pearson has repulsed an attack by a lai’ge number of Zulus on his position at Ekowe. The enemy was defeated with enormous loss. The hostile attitude of native tribes in the Transvaal causes great anxiety. March 12. The Brindisi mail was delivered on March 10.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council dismissed the appeal Bathurst versus Macpherson, with costs.

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, March 12. Work on the Exhibition Building by electric light has been commenced. Melbourne, March 12. ~ Hicken and Foley, with a body of roughs, embarked in the' Aldinga for some island where a prize fight takes place but the authorities refused to clear the steamer.

The associated Banks have written a letter to the Treasurer stating the assettion of Mr Paterson, that the Banks endeavoured to deprecate the credit of the Colony, is untrue. Arrived—Claud Hamilton.

Sailed—Albion. Lord and Lady Harris, Mr and Mrs Honly, Messrs Schultz, Webbe, Absolom, and Hone are amongst the passengers.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

Roumelian Turks in Rebellion. London, 12th March.

The Turks in Roumelia, being dissatis fied with the new constitution, have risen in rebellion.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Arrival of the San Francisco Mail at Auckland. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. Auckland, Thursday. The City of Hew York, with the San Francisco mails arrived at 11 a.m. to-day. She brings 64 cabin and 50 steerage pas sengers. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. The black plague is raging in Russia, and sanitary cordons have been formed, against that country by all neighboring nations. The London College of Physi cians are discussing precautionary meas sures. . ... ... ....... ... Lord Beaconsfielcl is confined to his re sidence through illness. Dr. Newman has declined a Cardinalate. At Liverpool, a strike has practically collapsed which at one time partially paralysed the shipping (trade of the port, 60,000 sailors, laborers, and firemen being involved in it.

Sir A. H. Layard has returned from Constantinople in ill-health. Destitution in Glasgow is decreasing. The Mount Zion Convent, Waterford, has been burned by an incendiary. The Rev. Hugh McNeill, Bishop of Ripon, is dead. London newspapers congratulate France on the change in her Administration. Lord Chelmsford has been reinforced by one company of the 88th from St. Helena, and 300 of the 2nd battalion of the 4th regiment. The British Government declined to exclude American cattle, as requested by the farming interest. All cattle from the United States to be slaughtered within ten days after landing in abbatoirs pre pared for them at Birkenhead andfLiver pool. Stanley is announced for another African expedition. , Chatterton, lessee of the Drury Theatre, is insolvent. Liabilities, £40,000. Reinforcements for the Cape from Eng land number 7000 men, including Major- General Crelock. At Candabar five fanatics dashed into the British camp and shot three soldiers. • The Roumanians have seized the posi tion near Silistria.

Russia objected to the great powers supporting Roumania, and Todleben has ordered up four regiments, so that a colli sion is feared. English financiers are proposing a rival financial statement to the French one, by which the Porte would receive £12,000,000 instead of £5,000,000. The Theatre Royal, London, has been burnt down. England has purcehsed Turkey’s rights of Cyprus for £1,000,000. Baron Lesseps is a candidate for the Governorship of A Igeria. The Czar has proclaimed a definite treaty with Turkey. Russian troops are ordered to evacuate. The Socialists are threatening the Pope on account of his encyclical letter. A genei’al commercial collapse is im minent in Sweden. In Afganistan the troops are in good health and spirits, but are beginning to be weary of the monotony and hardship of the campagin, and would gladly see it over and roturn home.

The plague has made its appearance in Brazil.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. Several pastors of Catholic Churches in TJ.S. towns give notice of excom munication of all members of Rights of Labor Societies. Spotted typhus is prevailing in Berlin. The ship Clara sailed from New York for Sydney with articles of American and Canadian production for the International Exhibition. The ship Mobie follows next month with a similar cargo. Jay Gould has sold his controlling in terest in PacficMail Stock to a Syndicate, and shares have risen in value. The Americans and Russians at Getha, Alaska, are threatened by Indians. H.M.S. Osprey sailed for the scene of trouble. The Canadian Board of Trade has passed a resolution in favor of protection against Siberian wheat taking the market from the English and American article in London. The Irishmen in. the United States are organised to bring their countrymen to America in large numbers. An International Exhibition is proposed in New York in 1889.

Auckland, Thursday.

The sum of £4OO is already in hand for the Kaitangata Relief Fund. It is hoped to be made up to £I,OOO. Goldsworthy, of the Hauraki Prospect ing Association, has started with a party for several weeks’ prospecting on the Otu mea block.

Judge Johnstone is still engaged inves tigating the claim to the Thames fore shore. It is said the claim of Hoehpoa Brown has been put forward in the interest of a well-known large landed proprietor at the Thames. The Bay of Islands electoral roll enquiry is creating a great stir amongst the natives. Dr, Francis Flaherty, surgeon of the Thames Hospital, has died of consump tion. The Dunedin Whaler Splendid was off the Chatham Islands last month with 400 barrels sperm oil, taken since leaving the port. “ The Star ” has an article upon Mr. Macandrew’s proposal for direct steam service between New Zealand and London. It strongly condemns the proposal. The funeral of Mr. Hopcroft, late editor of the Thames “Evening Star,” was a very large one. Three hundred Masons attended. Wrecks of the Geelong and Blanche. On Monday evening the p.s. Geelong, Keane, master, became a total wreck on the inner bank of the south-west entrance to Whangapi Heads, a little north of Hokianga. The crew were saved, but two native passengers were drowned. There is an insurance of £I,OOO upon the.vessel, but as yet the office is unknown. The owner is G. W. Benny, of Auckland.; _ The Pearl, from the Islands, brings news of the total wreck of the schooner Blanche on Penrhyn Island. The crew and passengers were saved. The vessel was insured in the New Zealand Company for £1,300.

Dunedin, Thursday.

Frazer, Tuapeka, Ramsay,- Dunedin, and Green, Port Chalmers, were, elected members Otago Education Board to-day. Two thousand five hundred immigrants have arrived at this port since Sept, last, and orders have been given for the des patch from Great Britain of 600 more. / The' scarcity of water in Dunedin is beginning to excite alarm, and consumers have been warned by the City Council to avoid waste.

An able-bodied man received a week’s imprisonment this morning for stealing a bottle of whiskey.

THE NELSON RIFLE MEETING.

Rifle Camp, Brightwater. Thursday.

The prizes will be distributed in town this afternoon by Mrs. Suter, wife of the Bishop of Nelson. The camp is now being struck. The telegraph office here has been taken advantage of very largely. On Saturday last there were 11,199 words of Press messages despatched, and 1,679 of ordinary telegrams, which included a large number of “ urgent” for the Press.

WANGANUI RACES.

Wanganui, Thursday.

Splendid weather and a very large attendance. The course is in excellent order.

Hurdle Race, 60 sovs., weight for age—Victor 1, Grey Mourns 2, Awahou 3. This was a very slow race. Wanganui Derby of lOOsovs., If miles —Forest Queen, 1; Gladys, 2 ; Gladiola, 3 ; Plevna and Santanella also ran. It was a splendid race. Forest Queen ran third for about a mile, then went ahead and started oft" with a determined challenge to Gladys. Time : 2min. 57see.

The Governor.—The Dunedin City Council has decided to approach the Govern ment on the subject of providing a resi dence for the Governor in or near Dunedin.

SEPARATION.

(From the Australasian.)

That is rather a significant remark made by the New Zealand Ministerial papers on the subject of separation. It lias a special significance to us from the close paral lelism discernable between the lines of policy of the Berry Government and that of Sir George Grey. It will be remem bered that the New Zealand Premier has lately been led by his overweening ambi tion to broach a new fad—that of making the Governor of the colony elective by popular choice. In his farewell reply to the Dunedin address the Marquis of Nor manby, we are told by the telegram,' de precated this cry, as virtually meaning separation from the mother country. To which the Ministerial papers which are in one case owned and in the other cases are subsidised and consequently inspired by the Ministry, reply, “ We see no reason to anticipate the least mischief from sepa ration, !but rather a benefit.” We are doubtless justified in regarding this as a feeler put forth by Sir George Grey. We are also perfectly justified in looking upon it as a point to which we - in this colony will very probably be brought in the course of, say six or eight months, when the baffled embassyfreturns from England. The policy of Sir George Grey and the policy of Mr. Berry, have but one logical issue if allowed to proceed to their ulti mate results. Their ultimate results are revolutions and. separation from the empire. Since these men cannot emanci pate themselves and their parties from the final checks of the Imperial law while re maining in the empire, they will, by the necessity of the case some day be driven to suggest separation.. Sir George Grey is evidently sounding his way towards this object, and we have had abundance of hints that, when the time comes, Mr.. Berry will be prepared to take the same course. It will then be for the people of the colonies concerned/ and perhaps for those of neighboring colonies/to say what they think of two Red Republics, ruled by men almost insane from vanity ; and des potic pride, and associated with rings com posed of the most questionable elements in the community.

SWEETS BY THE SHIPLOAD.

(From the Mark Lane Express.)

The ship Helvetia reached Liverpool on Sunday the 15th inst. with one hundred tons of American honey, being the second shipment of honey, made l ' v by : Tliufber Brothers this season ; the first one, eighty tons, reached Liverpool ■'on the sth of November last. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Thurber made a stir in the bee world by selling at one time two ' thousand pounds of honey, the product of his apiary near Cherry Yailey, New York. So much honey had never before been raised by any single producer in the United States, and the sale led, hundreds of staid farmers to embark in what looked like a most profitable field of industry. The result was not" flattering. Poor seasons and limited bee pasturage forbade profitable bee culture, .and old fashioned hives, such as eight-tenths of our hives now are in England, were then , the only kind known. The modern means of robbing bees without killing .them had not been thought of. Having invented a hive that enabled the culturists to obtain successive crops of honey from the same colonies of bees and educate them to'store the same in neat little glass-sided boxes, Mr. Thurber began to look around for a region that would supply the food of the bees. He searched for this in the equable climate of the peninsular state of Florida. Sheep raising was the only industry of the native found by Mr. Thurber when he first reached that section in -which he afterwards located. The country inland was thought good enough for sheep pastur ing, but no one dreamed that the soil could be made to produce grain in paying quantites. Timber was confined to the bottom of running streams, the valleys and hill sides being covered with a growth of stunted brushwood, from which sprang a. luxuriant growth of white sage, sumac, and other flavouring shrubs which bloom there nine months of the year. Mr.' Thurber established his apiary about 100 miles from Jacksarville, with 75 hives. The brothers are now interested in more than 12,000 colonies of bees,' they employ more than 300 persons, and their ware house is one of the largest in the city of New York, and all these rich-profits have been reaped from many thousands of acres that must otherwise have been a barren waste. They soon had many imitators, ard there are now thousands of persons engaged in keeping bees.

THE MODEL SUBSCRIBER.

•‘Good morning, sir] Mr. Editor, how are ’ your folks to-day ? I owe for your'next year’s paper; I thought I’d come and pay, .•. And Jones is agoin’ to take it, and this is.his money here; I shut down lendin’ it to him, and then coaxed him to try it a,year. And here is a few items that happened last week in our town ; I thought they’d look good for the paper, and so I just jotted ’em down.' ' And here’s a bushel of russets my wife picked : expressly for you ; ; 11 U A small bunch of flowers from Jennie, she thought she must do something, too. You’re doin’ the. politics bully, as all our family agree; Just keep your old goose quill a flappin’, and give them agood one for me. , . ~ t s And now, you are chuck full of business, and I wont be takin’ your time, * ,J 7 I’ve things of my own I must ’tend to—good day, sir, I believe T will climb. ” The editor sat in his sanctum, and brought down his fist with a thump.” “God bless that old farmer !” he jnuttered,. “ he’s a regular jolly trump.” And it’s thus with our noble professionj 'and thus it will ever be still; There are some who appreciate its labour and some who perhaps never will. But in the great time that is coming, when Gabriel’s trumpet shall sound, And they who have laboured and rested shall come from the quivering ground ; <;. . And they who have striven and suffered to teach and ennoble the race; Shall march to the front of the column, each one in his Godgiven place : ■ ■ ‘ As they march through the gates of the City, with proud victorious tread, The editor and his assistant will not be far from the head.

Thursday, March 13, 1579.]

•THE ASHBURTON HERALD.



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