The Evening Echo. MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1879.

Regarding the sinking of wells coupled together, as is our Fire Brigade well in East Street, it may not be out of place to give some facts as to the use the coupling system has been put to in the old coun try, and the success obtained by it. In 1877, the whole question of water supply by tube wells was discussed by the London Society of Engineers, and a paper was read upon the subject by Mr. Robert Sutcliffe, treating, however, specially on the value of tube wells for large supplies. In his opening remarks, Mr. Sutcliffe said that in laying down plant for obtaining large supplies of water, a number of wells were coupled together by horizontal mains, so that one pumping engine drew from many tubes. In this way, for the last eight or nine years, the leading breweries at Burton-on-Trent have obtained their supplies. Allsop and Sons pumped, from thirty 3-inch pipes, coupled together as above stated, 600,000 gallons of water per day, and Bass and. Co.: -SOOiOOd- -gallon's" from twenty-five pipes. In one town two breweries were thus obtaining sufficient water for a town of 40,000 inhabitants. Those wells were, in some cases, within a stone’s throw of the Trent, yet the quality, temperature, and level of the pumped water differed from that of the river—just as the water of the Ashburton River differs on those ; points from the water raised by the domestic pumps' of the Ashburton people. The town of Carmarthen, in Wales, is supplied by ten 2-inch tubes. The Lower Grouiids, Bir mingham, with their ornamental waters, fountains, and gardens, obtained their entire supply. from a single 5-inch well sunk to a depth of 300 feet, thus saving a water rate of £3OO a year. Two tube wells in West Thurrock yield a daily supply of 220,000 gallons from the chalk. In sandy soils, the speaker said, strainers were used to protect the tubes from sand, and at Chislehurst a tube well had been sunk by pumping up six barrow-loads of sand and replacing it with gravel. The advantage of the gravel filter was its imperishability : if made sufficiently large, the velocity of the' water would not bring the grains of sand within the area acted upon by the pump. The summary of the paper from which -we - quote • dbeS 'not detail the method of planting the gravel, to be used as : a filter. ; But it states that the tube wells spoken of could be sunk to any depth and through any stratum that an artesian boring could reach, and Mr. Sutcliffe .saw the possi bility of coupled tube wells in the chalk solving the problem of a water supply for London. The first tube well, was. a bamboo, pointed and driven into ..the. earth by a “ nigger, ’! who* himself acted as the pump, and sucked the water through the pores of the cane. ;

Tent of Rechabites. —A requisition for a .charter to open a tent of the Inde pendent Order of Rechabites has been despatched'from Ashburton to the" Christ church head-quarters of the Order, and the application has.. been - favorably re ceived. The Rechabites area temperance society, similar in working arid advan tages to the orders of Foresters and Odd fellows, but making the pledge of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors an imperative condition of membership. The Rechabites claim to have the lowest sick and death rate of any benefit society in existence except the Sons of . Temperance, which is an association founded on the same principles, and a branch of which is already established in Ashburton. We hear that there is every prospect of the Rechabite tent becoming a substantial in’ stitutiori.

Slrl? day everiiiig, about bight o’clock, a cottage on the 'East Town Belt had a narrow escape from being burned. The cottage is occupied by Mr Dodd, carpenter, and he being working late, his wife carried his supper to him. On her return home at the hour above mentioned, she discovered that smoke was issuing from the kitchen of her cottage. She at once alarmed the neighbors, whose prompt assistance ex tinguished the .flames before any damage to speak of was done. Only a few articles of furniture were destroyed. Man Drowned in the Rakaia. —Our correspondent at Rakaia telegraphs to day that passengers by the last train from Christchurch saw a man entering the Rakaia river from the south side, and adds they will doubtless be astonished to learn that, he never, reached the opposite side, but was dro.wned.in. the river. His horse was found grazing by the river side on Sunday, and the same night a search was made for the body, but up to noon to-day no trace of'it had been found. The man was supposed to belong to Dun sandel.

Gored by a Cow. The “ Bay of Plenty Times” says that on a recent day the Rev. Mr. Grace, bailing up a cow that had newly calved, was-rwshed by the animal and severely gored in the leg. A portion of the horn is believed to remain in the wound, but the rev. gentleman is improving. The Tinwald Recreation Ground. — In “ The Gazette ” of the 16th,. an. Order in-Council places the Tinwald recreation ground under thep Public Domains Act. Another Order-fn-Council delegates the powers under the said Act to the Domain Board, comprising Messrs. W. C. Walker, E. G. Wright, J. Beswick, John Carter, and Jno. Grigg.

Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton are 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 beine r bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofler goods of such 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 prices as the best judges.—Advt

NOTES FROM SEAFIELD.

[from our own correspondent.]

The harvest here is now in full swing, and if there is any truth in the two lines of the old hymn, now become a proverb, that

“ Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do t would take him all his time ; for, from five in the morning till dark, you can hear the sound of the reaper, and every person has his hands fall of work. Some are working to good-purpose,' too; for I know.' one farm where 40 aches a-day are being cut bj two of the M'Cormack reapers. Taking them all round, the farmers in the . Seafield district are a good deal better, 'pleased with their crops than they expected to be. Now that cutting, time has come, they are beginning to see that Nature has been kinder to them than they expected. The wheat is better headed, and will give a larger yield than was looked for. The corn is “nearly all head to the ground.” Only, it strikes me the farmers on the plains don’t cut green enough to my liking, but let tlie corn get too ripe. They may think by al lowing it to fully ripen standing that it will “ weight” better, but I have not yet seen cause to change my belief • that what is lost in the weight by cutting green is gained in the price. I am not evenpre pared to allow that the grain will weigh heavier in the yellow sheaf than in the green one. At Home we used to hold to the green sheaf as giving more flour and less bran when the crop came to fulfil its ultimate mission, and I believe it still, and act up to the belief. lam no miller, so cannot say for certain whether those dusty men prefer wheat that will yield a large per-centage of bran to that which will give flour instead; but in point of fact I have always found the miller ready to give a better price for green-cut wheat than, for that cut fully ripe. The late crops, it has been reported from 1 other districts, .are the best this time, and we are in exactly the same category. • Especially is -this the case where the land has been well ploughed. Speaking of-late crops, I- may mention that the rain of the early part-of the week has worked wonders, and has told with great effect. Messrs. Hooper and Dod son’s barley and that of W. B. Denshire, Esq., are uncommonly good crops, and -have benefited largely by the recent -showers. - r ~ , I was over at the Wakanui station the • other day. Mr. Leadley has some wheat there looking like 30 bushels to the acre, and his neighbor’s is quite as good, while the fields of Messrs. Sandry and Black ley would do a farmers’ heart good to see. The; latter gentlemen’s crops are yet quite green and of course may be expected to fill, well and give a good yield. ’ I don’t know what “ The Press” corres pondent -meant when he said we had only six inches of soil in Seafield, unless he thought he could make us believe we were so badly off that it was time for some of us to sell him a very cheap farm. He evi dently hadn’t seen the district, or he would have known that we can boast of from 15 to 18 inches of soil, and good stuff into the bargain. In my next, when cutting is done, I shall have more time to give you some idea of what -the yield is like on the farms round about this fine district—the low opinion notwithstanding held' of it by “ The Press” correspondent.

TREES OR NO TREES? No. 11.

[CONTRIBUTED.]

The publication of this article ha 3 been delayed by the necessity of hunting up some of the “ancient” history of Ash burton. When we say “ ancient” we are speaking comparatively, and rather taking into account the difficulty of finding records of the doings of twenty years ago in new settlements than the actual num ber of years that have passed. William Turton came to Ashburton with his wife and a child three months old, who is now a woman of more than twenty. He built a house, which is still standing, on the east side of the railway, and close to the river bank. He had a lease from the Provincial Government of 300 acres of land as a ferry reserve, and a license to sell liquors, conditional on providing ac commodation for travellers . and piloting them across the ford, which was then the only way of overcoming that “ falss, fleeting” obstacle to easy travelling, the Ashburton river. Many are the early settlers and pilgrims who owe a deep debt of gratitude to the river-pilot. of the old times ; for without his care and watchful ness by night and day, and his courage, combined with provident discretion, many a -journey would have been delayed by timidity caused by ignorance of the shift ing ford, and many a life would have been sacrificed through the impatient rashness of wayfarers not thoroughly aware of the danger, but anxious to “ get on,” and . devoid of the local observation and know ledge necessary to a right decision as to when and where the danger might be met with the greatest chance of safety. We need hardly add that many a traveller, whose meagre “swag” was his only pro perty, has had to thank the river-pilot for “free dover,” the term of old times for hospitality unpaid except with thanks, and perhaps kindly remembrance. In connection, however,. with our immediate subject, we are pleased to place on record the fact that William Turton helped his eldest son, then three or four years of age, to plant the first trees in the Ash burton district with his tiny wooden spade. This must be 15 or 16 years ago, and anyone who looks at the present growth of those trees planted by the child can derive a lesson from the comparison of it with the growth of the man, for such he now is, still laboring for wages, with a younger brother, in a not very distant part of the provincial district. Had the father only been able to obtain such a tenure of the 300 acres as would have secured to him and his the profit of the timber he could have grown upon parts of it between then and now, what a fortune would have been in constantly increasing store for the whole family ! What a much pleasanter lookirig place our thriving town would have been ; for such tenure as we speak of would have enabled the purchasers of town lots, when the township was sur veyed, proclaimed, and sold, to compen sate the planter for his foresight and care, and either to preserve the trees for shade and ornament, or to cut them down,. .' when-at maturity, and use them for fire wood and fencing ; for the township was surveyed and laid out as far back as 1864, by the late Robert Park, Government surveyor, and brother-in-law of Mr Geo. Hart, of Winchmore Sheep-station, on the north bank of the north branch. We are indebted to Mr Turton for a sight of an old map with that date upon it, which is a copy of Park’s original map, endorsed by the late “ Cyrus Davie, chief sur veyor, December 7, 1870.” It differs from the present map of the town in bearing the name of the earliest buyers of town lots, and in having Turton’s house marked as the “Ashburton Arms,” for the coat-of-arms of the Baring family was actually painted on the sign-board. How did this name come to be given to the locality? Few could answer cor rectly. The Hon. Francis Baring, who afterwards succeeded to the Baron of Ashburton, was a zealous and great hearted member of the first New Zealand Association, founded in 1837 by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, from which sprang the New Zealand Land Company of 1839, further developed into the New Zealand Company of 1840. “ Lieutenant Grey, H.M. 83rd Regiment,” is one of the names recorded in the original minutes of the Association (which are in the possession of the writer of this article), as hav ing joined that body at its second meet ing in May, 1837. This was the very man, then 25 years of age, who soon afterwards distinguished himself as an explorer in ‘Western Australia, who became Governor of South Australia from 1841 to 1845, and who, after further serving the British Empire through two long and critical periods of eight and six and a-half years respectively —lßth November, 1845, to 31st Decem ber, 1853; and 3rd October, 1861, to sth February,. 1868—as, ■ Governor of New' Zealand, and through an equally critical. intervening seven years—lßs4 to 1861— as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, is now a leading landed magnate and popular veteran Premier under representative in stitutions, in the Colony with whose eailiest systematic colonisation his young life was associated. Mr. Francis Baring became the first Deputy-Governor of the New Zealand Company ; and on the death of Mr. Joseph Somes, the great shipowner and first Governor of the Company, suc ceeded to that honorable, responsible, and arduous position, and contributed largely, both as M.P. for Thetford and in the House of Lords, through a long and useful life, to all objects tending to the welfare and progress of New Zealand and its colo nists, including the long struggle in Par liament for the representative constitution at last granted to them in 1852. On the formation of the Canterbury Association in 1848, Mr. Baring’s elder brother, Lord Ashburton, became a member of its Com mittee of Management. So, just as Colonel Wakefield, the leader of the Company’s preliminary expedition in 1839, named

or. Got tho praiqinont hoacUanffis outside Wellington Harbour “Baring Head,” Captain Thomas, the Chief Surveyor of the Association, named the great features of this part of the Colony after his chief employers, and thus the colonising title of Ashburton has been fortunately preserved for the river, county, and town, while the family name of Baring honors the princi pal public square in the centre of the new borough. Mr. W. Sefton Moorhouse, as Superintendentof the province, proclaimed Ashburton a township. His brother Tom was then manager of the sheep station belonging to the Rev. Mr. Allen and Sir Thomas Tancred, of which the homestead is now the residence of our good citizen, Mr. D. Williamson. Did His Honor think of planting any trees for the comfort and enjoyment of the future townspeople ? No ! Money-grubbing was the order of the day ; and the name of the station manager was planted, as a memorial of that selfish propensity, on twenty-acre lots spotted all round about the township created by his official brother. Investiga tions, to know where their manager had got the money, were instituted by Mr. W. Wilson'(the noted nurseryman and com mission agent) and Mr. H. J. Tancred, as agents respectively for the clergyman and the baronet, both then in England. These disclosed the fact that the much-worshipped superintendent had only used his brother’s name, in order to make a private profit out of his official proceeding ! About the same time, the trees, nowsuch an ornament to the station, were planted by the man ager ;. but the whole credit of this is probably due to Mr. William Wilson, who, in the interest of his principal, probably selected young trees of the best descrip tion, and directed the process of their plantation. We believe, however, that to Mr. Joseph Hunt and his partner, Mr. Chalmers, belongs the credit of fiust and second place in following Turton’s example, by planting the trees on the out skirts of the township, which now adorn ; the south-eastern suburb called Trevor -1 ton. Then followed Mr. Jameson (not of the modern mercantile firm) ; some years afterwards Mr. Harrison; and then Mr : Mayo, who kept a private school where i Dr. Trevor lives now, and who was con , stantly impressing on his fellow-settlers the advantage and duty of planting trees. Mr. Jones was also an early tree-planter ■ in the suburb adjoining the Wakanui Road.

(To be Continued.)

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[special to association.] London, Jan. 16. It is announced that the existing division of postage between the Home and Colonial Governments continues until the expira tion of the present P. and O. contract. Jan. 17. The Directors of the Bank of England have reduced the rate of discount 4 per cent. IVPComas and Company have failed for £BO,OOO. Their failure is attributed to the depreciation in wool. The German war vessels Ariadne and Merititus have been directed to exact satisfaction from Samoa. The rapid advance of the British troops on Cabul has produced complete disorga nisation amongst the Ameer’s troops, and anarchy prevails in the city. There is a political crisis in France, and a change of Ministry is probable. The French press condemn the Minis terial Statement as too moderate. The position of the Ministry is considerably weakened.

Jan. 18.

Sir M. Hicks-Beach, in a speech at Sh’oude, admitted that English goods have been undersold by European and American competition. Government would, in con sequence, endeavour to provide a fresh outlet in Africa.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Dunedin, Monday. Mrs Walderon, who was shot by her husband at Black’s last week, is progress ing favorably. It is hoped that her arm will be saved, although a portion of the flesh between the wrist and the elbow has been shot aAvay. The Rev. Mr Staveley, late contributor o the “Daily Times,” and formerly of All Saints, having emerged from his legal troubles with the “ Times” liquidators, is now engaged in establishing Sunday schools and holding Church services on the Taieri Plains.

Upton Davis, a Baptist clergyman, writing to the press, explains that he attended the recent meeting, in favor of the re-introduction of Bible reading in public schools, as an outsider; that he holds the New Testament distinctly for bids the State from undertaking religious instruction, and that his respect for Bible-teaching makes him a secularist as regards State schools.

Wellington, Monday. A small house, occupied by one Dcds worth, in Courtenay Place, was partially gutted by fire early this morning. A proposal is on foot to entertain the Marquis of Normanby at a banquet prior to his departure from Wellington. The Loan and Investment Company are about to declare a dividend of per cent.

Wanganui, Monday. Professor Scott successfully crossed the Wanganui River on a wire rope. He was forty-five minutes in making the passage. At one end he jumped into the river, and swam ashore. The special correspondent of the “Herald,” writing from the Waimate Plains, says;—“Nothing has transpired

on tho plains to justify in. tho slights it degree the alarm which appears to be felt by many in places far removed from the scene of the survey operations. Both during the holidays, when the camps were inhabited bub by one or two, and' since the return of parties with a full complement of men, the Natives have constantly visited the various camps, and been at all times civil in their bearing.” Invercargill, Monday.

Great preparations are going on for tho Railway demonstration on Wednesday and every effort is being made by hotel keepers to provide sleeping accommoda tion for the expected visitors by the opening train and from the country districts of Southland. AN IMPUDENT INTRUDER.

Auckland, Monday,

Thomas Williamson Brown has been arrested on a charge of attempted rape on Mrs. Ewinson, of the Scottish Hotel. Mrs. Ewinson had retired to rest, her hus band being in the bar. At 11 ‘3O she was aroused by some one in her bed. She called out —“ Is that you, Charlie ? ” and the man replied in the affirmative. She passed her hand over his face, and detected the fraud, and at once screamed for assistance. The man arrested is closely shaved, and has only a moustache, while Mr. Ewinsoir has a beard of some length. Mrs. Ewin son’s screams brought the servants and landlord, and the intruder decamped, but one of the girls saw him rush to his room from Mrs. Ewinson’s and indentified him, though when a search was made he appeared to be fast asleep in bis room. It transpired that before liis entrance into Mrs. Ewinson’s room he had effected an entrance into one occupied by a servant girl and had been driven out. Christchurch, Monday.

Mr. McPherson’s Leonidas and Javelin, both noted horses, were shipped north on Saturday. The first is for Tauranga and the second goes back to Napier. It is intended to cover the whole of the Railway platform with a verandah. A large portion of the east of the building is wholly unprotected from the sun and rain.

Two of the American engines intended to work the traffic between Dunedin and Invercargill, left for the South at an early hour yesterday morning. A party of the Dunedin bowlers paid a visit on Saturday to the Railway work shops and expressed great surprise at their extensive character, number “employed, and the immense amount of work in progress. They were shown over the premises by the Commissioner of Rail ways. • Special to the Echo. THE BASSINGTHWAITE AFFAIR SUICIDE OF THE BANKRUPT’S GROOM. Christchurch, Monday. Yesterday afternoon a determined sui cide took place at Rangiora. A man in the employ of James Bassingthwaite, named George Butler, was found dead in a stable on Bassingthwaite’s property. De ceased had been in Bassingth\Vaite’s em ploy as groom and general hand for about eighteen months, and was fifty years of age. According to Mrs Bassingthwaite’s statement he was owner of a large amount of the £BOO found on her person- in con nection with the recent discovery of money supposed to belong to Bassingthwaite’s insolvent estate. At a sale of effects be longing to the estate on Tuesday last, tho deceased bought several things for which he paid cash. It was also found that one of the cottages built recently by Bassing thwaite was the property of the deceased, who was working for Bassingthwaite at the rate of £1 per week. When examined by Detective Benjamin he stated that £l9 was due to him for services. How he be came possessed of so much cash and pro perty is a mystery. It is presumed that the cause of suicide was a dread of exami nation and a fear of not being able to give a satisfactory account of his position. Yesterday morning he breakfasted with Mrs Bassingthwaite and a female servant as usual. Saying that he would shave him self and take a walk to the river, he went out, and during the afternoon Mrs Bass ingthwaite found the door of the stable locked inside, and sent for the nearest neighbor, Mr George Cone, to come across. Deceased was found in a crouching posi tion, leaning against a doorpost, stiff, as if dead for some hours. He had evidently hung himself, and the rope had given way after death. An inquest will probably be held to-morrow.

ADDITIONAL PER ALBION, AT THE BLUFF.

Adelaide.

A terrible boating accident occurred at Lake Alexandria, South Australia, on January 7. Mr Yeltlai, his sister, and another lady were all drowned through their boat capsizing. The balance of the South Australian 4 per cent, loan—£ss9,ooo—Avas sold at £BB ss.

The Rev. Chas. Clarke has sailed for the Cape. “The Queenslander” exploring party reached Powell’s Creek on the Bth inst. So far as the survey has extended, there is a good route for a raihvay. Tasmania.

The English team defeated 18 of South ern Tasmania by six wickets. Against 18 of Northern Tasmania they scored 212. The Northerners made 49 in their first innings, and had seven wickets down for 38 runs in their second Avhen the steamer left.

Bkisbane,

Mr. Goldie, naturalist, in an 18 months’ residence in Neiv Guinea, collected a large number of birds, beasts, and insects, unknoivn to science. His party met a tribe in the interior Avho wear artificial tails so cunningly worked as to mislead a casual observer.

The A.S.N. Company have not taken on the men engaged in the last strike.

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