DEATH.

On the 18th of February, at his residence, Terrace Farm, Ashburton, John Digry, aged 68.

The Evening Echo. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1879.

Cricket.— The Ashburton Borough and County Clubs have arranged to send a team to Timaru, to play there against the local club on Saturday next. Messrs. Pearce and Priestly have been appointed a com mittee to select the Ashburton team, and the majority of our best players having offered their services, we anticipate a good match.

Evangelistic Meeting.— The evangel istic meeting in the Town Hall last night was only moderately attended, but excel lent addresses were delivered by the three Congregationalist clergymen who con ducted the meeting—Revs. , Walker, Hal lowes, and Robinson. I.O.G.T.— New Lodge at Tinwald.— To-morrow evening a new lodge of Good Templars will be instituted at Tinwald. Previous to the institution a meeting (else where advertised) will take place in the schoolroom, at which the Rev. Mr. Bur nett will preside. Lecture. —To-morrow night, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Rev. Rutherford Wad dell, recently called to the charge of an important church in Otago, will deliver a lecture at the Town Hall. His subject is “ The victories of Christianity a proof of its divine.origin,” and his well-known ability as well as the fact that admission is free ought, to bring a large audience.

Congregational Church Mission.— At the meeting last evening in connection with the above a local committee was con stituted to receive the names of Congrega tionalists interested in the movement ; to be on the look-out for a suitable site for a Congregational Church ; to receive local subscriptions ;, .to correspond with , the General Committee of “ The New Zealand (South) Congregational Mission ” ; and. to make necessary arrangements at such time as it will be deemed expedient to com mence holding public services. Mr. J. R. Chapman, of Tancred-street, was elected secretary of the Local Committee; and Mr. G. Brown, of 3, George-street, Dunedin, is secretary of the committee of “ The New Zealand (South) Congrega tional Mission. ” Removal. —Mr. H. M. Jones, stationer, advertises his intended removal on the 24th to his new premises in Baring Square.

The Steamer Taupo.— Our telegrams to-day report the steamer Taupo ashore at the mouth of Tauranga Harbour. The Gas Works. —The Mayor stated last night, in a casual speech at the Bor ough Council, that very soon the Gas Co. would be in a position to supply consumers with gas. The Grain Season. —Just now the' town has its usual after-harvest appear ance. Every clay heavy grain waggons roll in with their ponderous loads for de livery at the granaries in town, giving evidence that threshing is being diligently proceeded with. The blow of Saturday somewhat interrupted the work of the machines in some places, but the return of fine weather has set them going again with a will. The fine weather experienced for some time past, with the exception of Saturday’s wind, has enabled thej work of threshing to be vigorously carried on.. The roads are at present in good condi tion, and hence we may expect ‘that very soon the whole crop will be in the market.

A Wheat Seep Wanted. —In an article on wheat, theN.Z. Agriculturist, puDlished in Oamaru, says : —“ Very great loss has been sustained by the farming community though the late heavy gales of wind. The wheat and oat crops have suffered severely, in many instances losing from 30 to 50 per cent, of grain ; nor has this destruction been alone confined to ripe crops, green oats and wheat having also lost a consider able percentage. The question has been raised by thoughtful and experienced men—“ How can this very serious loss be reduced or avoided 1” After proposing the planting of trees for shelter, irrigation and improved methods of cultivation, as mitigations of the evil, the writer goes on to say : —“ There is, however a species of wheat which will resist* the action of heavy winds, even when fully matured, but the difficulty of obtaining it for New Zealand is very great. The Hon. I Holmes, of Awamoa, grew it many years ago at Mount Macedon, Victoria, and has offered £29 for a bushel of the old seed if procurable.” Some of our readers might be able to furnish a sample of this valuable seed, or name some other wheat with similar qualities. ,

The Electric Light in Blenheim.— It is said that the -electric light, one of the most useful and wonderful inventions of the day, is likely to be introduced into Blenheim for the purpose of lighting the town, at no distant date, either by the municipality, or by private enterprise.— “Express.”

The Greenland Whale Fishery.— The “ Scotsman” states that the total yield of the seal and whale fishings to the Tay fleet this season is calculated to be only £65,000, compared with £144,900 last year.

ASHBURTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

A special meeting of the Council was held last night to consider Mr. Hardy- Johnstone’s report upon a proposed water supply for Ashburton. There were pre sent—His Worship the Mayor, Messrs. Saunders, Shearman, Williamson, Fried lander, and Ivess. His Worship introduced the subject, saying that they all knew how important was the question of a water supply, and how much it was needed. The report had already obtained full publicity in the papers, and doubtless had been considered by the members of fire Council, so that he hoped no time would be lost in taking the initiative to bring in a permanent water supply. The report (which we have already published in these columns) was then read by the' Clerk. • Mr. Williamson said the report coin cided with the opinions held by most of the Councillors, and it was evident from the report that what was suggested by Mr. Fooks’ scheme, namely, to under take that portion of the work which would enable them to bring water down through the gully, leaving the. completion of the plan to their successors in office as the town required it was perfectly prac ticable. The scheme could be ex extended in after years to include the higher source suggested by Mr. Hardy- Johnstone. He would move that the Waterworks Committee be empowered to call for tenders for the work.

Mr. Ivess suggested that the meeting was called to consider the report, and Mr. Williamson’s resolution could scarcely be carried yet. Mr. Williamson was quite ready to'stand corrected, but the resolution, he thought, was only furthering matters. Mr. Saunders was not bent on finding fault with Mr. Johnston’s report, which asked them to go up three miles for water at an expense of £1,400 per mile for piping, while the same supply of water, not 30 yards from where they were now sitting, could be obtained at the simple cost of machinery for pumping the water to the necessary elevation—say 100 ft. He had had something to do with this kind of machinery, and he believed it could be erected at a cost within the figure set down by the estimate. Mr. Johnston also favored the Forks’ stream, which he (Mr. Saunders) had previously recommended to the Council.. His great objection to the point E on Mi-. Johnston’s plan as the site of the reservoir was the uncertainty of the supply. Within the past five years, since he had been in Ashburton, the river had failed there, and it would be awkward under any circumstances to have the muddy water of the river washing down the reservoir.

Mr. Williamson withdrew his motion, j Mr. Iveps thought they were all agreed that the nest site for a source was the point E on the plan before them. He moved, “ That in the opinion of this Council it is advisable to adopt paragraph 16 of Mr. Johnston’s report, namely,— ‘ Meanwhile, the present requirements of the township can no doubt be amply sup plied with pure water by tapping the river at the site, and somewhat in the manner proposed by Mr. Fooks, near the mill-race at the point marked E on the plan ;’ and that a commencement be made with the work. ” Mr. Saunders seconded the motion proforma. After some discussion, the motion was put to the meeting with the result of one vote for and four against. The Mayor judged, from the vote given, that the members were not in favor of the report. That report simply recommended the adoption of a scheme which had origi nally been recommended by Mr. Fooks, and its rejection just now was a great pity- There was silence for some time, and Mr. Ivess suggested that it was better to adjourn than sit as a council of mutes. Mr. Williamson thought the meeting should never have been called.

. Mr. Saunders said the report gave them no new light—nothing they did not know before ; and he felt that the greater want of the town was an out-fall drain, a ques tion that should have been settled before, and ought to be, before the water supply question was disposed ofi Mr. Shearman was one of the mutes on this question. It has been proved by the Fire Bregade at its practice some nights ago, that water could be procured at a low depth by the river bed, and he was now in favor of machinery in preference to a reservoir.

Mr. Ivess moved the adjournment of the meeting sine die. The Mayor - thought if machinery was to be erected, it should be erected in the Domain where height of 18ft could be secured. The meeting was then adjourned.

The Hons. Robert Stout and John Bal lance arrived in Christchurch last everting. Canterbury Butter. —The Wairarapa Daily has an article comparing the butter, bacon,,cheese, &c., of the Wairarapa with the produce of Canterbury—much to the disadvantadge of the former. u Most people,” says the editor,•“ must know the flavor of the bulk of the butter, bacon, and cheese turned out in this district, the former a little pallid and streaky, and occasionally a little gritty, with a some what marked deficiency of flavor. The bacon is usually briny to a fault, and it is either very fat—-and that -fat of a soft, blubbery texture —or .it is very thin, and very dry, and very lean. The cheese, too, is never very firm, sometimes not very, sweet, and never very fine in flavor. ” Our contemporaryfears that.there!is a want of care and thrift among the farmers’ wives of the Wairarapa, and some lack of pride in their dairies, that they should let their sisters down South beat them by such long chalks, ”

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

SPECIAL TO ASSOCIATION".] v London, Feb. 14.

In the House of Lords the Lord Presi dent of the Council, in reply to a question, said that the British Government intended to send a physician to Astrakhan to report upon the plague. The total reserve of notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £15,025,000. A serious conflict occurred at Galatz, in Roumanian between the Russian soldiers and the police. Several were killed. The Admiralty have commissioned a frigate to convey the exhibits to Sydney. The plague is extending in Eastern Europe, and has reached Bessarabia. Numerous deaths have occurred. Sir Stafford Northcote stated that Eng land's relations with foreign powers were gratifying. Government would ask for a vote to enable them to vigorously prose cute the Zulu war. The requirements of the Berlin Treaty were being fulfilled, and the pacification of Crete and Greece was progressing. The purchase of Turkish land in Cyprus also had been arranged. New bankruptcy legislation was promised. O’Kelly, the Fenian, lias been released. Feb. 17. Parliament has been’prorogued till 4th of April.

THE ZULU WAR.

Adelaide, Feb. 17

.The Orient steamer Garonne has arrived from London with 415 passengers. She brings Cape news to Jan. 27th : ■ It is announced that Sir Bartle Frere has published despatches from General Lord Chelmsford stating that his third column had sustained loss at Camp Isan dale, which • the Zulus attacked. They completely looted the British tents, waggons, and oxen, and attacked the commissariat station, which was, however, gallantly defended. The latest news states that Major Dartnell, commandant at Isandale, had engaged and defeated the enemy with trifling loss.

AUSTRALIAN

[By Submarine Cable.] *

Melbourne, Feb 17.

Endeavors are being made to secure the appointment of Ricciotti Garibaldi to the Consul-Generalship for Italy in Victoria, rendered vacant by the death of Signor Marinucci.

Lord Harris’ English team arrived to day from Sydney. They play the return match againsj; Victoria on Friday next, and the following days. The Government are borrowing £30,000 a month from the Banks in anticipation" of the loan.

Heavy gales have been raging during the last two days, but the w r eather is now fine.

Copious and welcome rains have fallen in the provinces. " - Cahill swims 10 miles in the Yarra on Saturday.

An Infidel Rebuked. —An infidel boasting in a published letter that he had raised two acres of “ Sunday corn” which he had intended to devote to the purchase of infidel books adds, “ All the work done on it was-done on Sunday, and it will yield some seventy bushels to the acre ;• so I don’t see but that Nature, or Provid ence has smiled upon my Sunday work however the priests or the Bible may say that work done on Sunday never prospers. My corn tells another story.” To this the editor of an agricultural paper replies : “ If the author of this shallow nonsense had read the Bible half as much as the works of its opponents, he would have known that the Great Ruler of the universe does not always, square up his accounts with mankind in the month of October.” The Manuscript Printing Press.— From Sydney wehearthat Messrs. Drysdale and Roberts have obtained a supply of Edison’s electrical pens and duplicating presses, by means of which circulars or letters may be copied at the rate of 400 per hour. The electrical pen is taken into the hand like an ordinary pen, being connected with an electrical battery. A fine pin is its agency, worked up and down the centre of the pen, and as'the hand guides the pen over the paper in the method of using an ordinary - pen, it punctures the paper. When the slip of paper contains the writing desired to be printed from, it is placed in the duplicat ing press, having beneath it the paper to be printed. It is lightly covered with printer’s ink by means of a printer’s roller, and as the roller passes over it it sends the impression through the punctured writ ing. The frame to which the paper writen on is attached is lifted, the printed sheet taken out ; the written sheet is again rolled, and another sheet printed ; and so on sheet by sheet, each impression being taken very rapidly. It .is said that the first written sheet will print ten thousand impressions.

Seed Wheat For Japan.— From a paper published in Japan we learn that the farmers in that enterprising country are importing seed wheat fi’om abroad, and have accually produced wheat of good quality. It is thought that Japan will yet become a profitable wheat-producing country.

‘‘Who made you?” was asked of a small girl. She repled: “God made me that length,” indicating with her two hands the ordinary size of a newborn infant, “ and I growed the rest myself. ” This was before Topsy’s time, and is wittier than even “ ’Spects I growed.”

TO-DAY 'S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Tuesday.

Between Auckland and Thames 20 good shots will compete at the Rifle Associa tion’s meeting at Nelson. A man named John Harris fell down in Queen-street . to-day from an attack of sunstroke.

The police attempted to place Myas on board the Sapphire last evening. The first lieutenant refused to take delivery of the deserter in the absence of the captain. Another struggle will be made by the police to-day.

At a meeting of the Commission on Higher Education, D. L. Murdoch was examined re the Auckland Grammar School, and J. Whittaker as to law studies. Dr. Purchase was selected President of the Auckland Institute. Mr. Reader Wood is expected from England in a fortnight. Mr. G. M. Reed, Immigration Officer, left Melbourne by the Kent on Jan. 31. Wellington, Tuesday. The Taupo is ashore at the entrance of Tauranga Harbour, near Stoney Point. A steamer has gone to assist her off. Two successive nights the electric wire from the Government" Buildings to the Fire Brigade station, have given the signal of fire. The fire bells have been rung, and the brigades turned out, but in each case it was a false alarm. The bells in the buildings are in a glass case, "which have to be broken to give the signal, and in the cases referred to the glass was found in tact. The affair is a mystery. When the Governor was leaving yester day a boy fell off the wharf and narrowly escaped drowning, Private letters received here state that Miss Eva Carmichael, the survivor of the Loch Ard, went mad soon after reaching home. Geahamstown, Tuesday. Fearful bush fires have been raging here for the last three days, and a large amount of property has narrowly escaped. Several houses have been burned, and others are still in danger. Tauranga, 11 "36 a. m. The Taupo is on a rock at Stoney-Point, at the entrance to the harbour. The mails and passengers are landed safe." The engine-room is full of water, but the other compartments are dry. It is hoped to be able'to remove her to a safe position next tide. 12-40. The Taupo went ashore about 7 o’clock, when entering the harbor. There was _ great excitement here when she was reported ashore. The s.s. Katikati was sent to her assistance. She lies about a stone’s throw off the beach at Mount Maungatapu, with a big hole in her bottom. Dunedin, Tuesday. Sergeant Anderson, who goes to take charge of the Wellington police, was pre sented with an address last evening, and his-daughter received a purse of 43 sovs. A scarcity of water is beginning to be felt. Inhabitants on the higher levels of the city have been without water _ for domestic purposes since Sunday morning. An unusual number of habitual drunk ards have recently been brought before the Bench. The establishment of an Inebriate Asylum is recommended, as imprisonment appears useless.

Wellington* Yahoos. —According to the“ Chronirle,” Miss L. A. Jones (of Col lege fame) essayed tlie“ role” of lecturer to the panorama of the Arctic World on Wednesday last. As soon as she appeared Upon the stage it became evident that she was rather nervous. Rude interjections from some yahoos in the audience quite overcame her, and after getting through a few scenes she hesitated several times, and finally retired. . Her place was immediately taken by the regular lecturer, and things went on to the end without further liitch. It is hard to understand how any. person with a spark of feeling could have been guilty of such barbarous conduct as was perpetrated by these hoodlums last night. The young lady was making her first at tempt at a very difficult part for one so inexperienced. She was painfully and obviously sensible of her difficulties. It is an almost unheard of thing to see a lady in such circumstances *treated with such rudeness:- - Wellington audiences- are-as a rule extremely well and we trust that we shall never again witness a repetition of last night’s larrikinism. , Land Lottery.— Recently , a very peculiar case came before the R.M. at Wellington, regarding a piece of .land which was put up for disposal by lottery. The land, was so b.ad that the surveyors had to prop up the pegs with stones, as these could not be driven into the earth for boulders, upon, which there was no soil. The public knew this, and would not buy tickets. Tickets could only be sold at Carterton, where the. people knew nothing of the land. The township of Feather ston was a drug in the market as regards sections. The Magistrate reserved judg ment, but has now decided that all dis posal of land by - lottery is illegal under the English Act of George 11., and con tracts connected therewith void.

Perseverance. —Some" lucky miners at Dunolly have u struck- it heavy. ” For twelve years the Queens Birthday Com pany have kept on exploring for the rich reef which the instinct of the true miner told them was somewhere there or there abouts. Their fortunes ran so low that at one time the manager could not get credit for a few loads of firewood. Last year ; £78,000 was paid in dividends. Little Johnny Moody (preaching in' a chair): “ Once • upon a time, before there was any little Johnny Moody, away up in heaven, God said, ‘ Let there be a. little Johnny Moody,’ and there was a little Johnny Moody.

PUBLIC EDUCATION IN KNOWARE.

The streets were clean as a new pin, and mortal still, though you could here little folks laughin’ and cacklin’ in the cool gardens and pleasant housen by thn side of the way. “ Where air your public school ?” sez I. “Here,” sez he, stoppin’ before a long low house, like a shed some, that seemed to be fixed up with rows o’ hogshead, among which several men was steppin’ round and talkin’ out loud one at a time ; “ there’s the school.” “ But I don’t see no children.”

“ No ; you can’t see through mill stone no more’n the next man. We head up. the boys at six 'years old in big barrels, and feed an’ eddocate ’em through the bung-hole till- the age of twenty. They’re extension barrels, so’s’t the boys can

grow. I was took aback. 1 was kinder riled. “ What 1 ” sez I, “ all your boys in bar rels l None o’ them things folks lay sech stress on in teachers’ conventions —no home influences, no manly sports, no everlastin’ friendships, no. Sunday schools,' no ” Here I sort ‘o’ give in ; breath seemed to peter out. But he took up the talk:—

“ No, Sir ! Cats and pigs and chickens live out all their days in peace -here ; no body’s a tyrant over mother and girls from dawn to dark; no broken bones or cracked skulls. Our boys don’t never get drowned, blowed up with powder, tangled up in burr saws, split with hatchets, spilled off’n horses, run over in the streets, nor jammed to bits under fire engines. We don’t have boys swearin’ and spittin’ on every street corner; straining their backs a-boat racin’ and their tempers bettin’; no colleges to upset their manners and .morals, and let ’em herd together like swine, - and then turnin’ of ’em loose on a world lyin’ in wickedness, as our old parson used to call it. Nobody.- here is killed at base ball nor mangled nuther. Marbles, peanuts, and fire crackers never pester us. We have peace.” How delightful! ” sez I, kinder invol untary.

“ More’n all that, we don’t never have no divorces. Them boys come out at 20 yeai-s old so orful meek and pleasant and grateful, their wives don’t have no trouble with ’em at all. ” —“ Harper’s Magazine.”

Tae Jesuits and the Discoveries of Stanley and Livingstone.— -The Pope has given to the Society of Jesus the work of evangelising a portion of the u dark con tinent” traversed by Stanley and Living stone, and next month ten members of the order null embark for Graham’s Town,, whence they will depart for the- centre- of Africa. Before leaving the regions of civilisation they will enlist into their service about 500 followers, who however, will not, as in the case of Mr Stanley, be an armed_ force. The Bishop of Salford, in giving permission for the collection of funds in. his diocese, Writes ; “ God seems to seek compensation among tlie inferior races for the dishonour He sustains by the perversion of cultivated and ; refined intellect amongst the more favoured races. As it was in the 16th and 17th centuries, so it may be in the 19th and 20th. The Church, though the zeal of her missionaries, will spread, and will acquire more than she has lost and is losing. ” About £BOOO is needed for the. enterprise.

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New Advertisements. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. HM. JONES begs to inform his , friends arid the public generally, that after the 24th inst. he will be found at his NEW PREMISES, BARING SQUARE, ■ (Next Post Office). Stationery, Books, Toys, Fancy Goods, Music, &c. ... 397 ENGLISH PAPERS,. Per ’Frisco Mail. MR. H. M; JONES having taken over the agencies for, the English papers and periodicals,, subscribers will in future receive them from him. ' WEEKS & DIXON. ' The following’ are now on Sale: —- Weekly Welcome, Family Reader, Rey nolds’, Lloyd’s, Punch, arid Penny Illus trated. 398 THE CHOIR UNION., PRACTICE POSTPONED. THE MEMBERS of the Choir Union are particularly requested to ATTEND the weekly practice on FRIDAY NEXT) at 7‘30 sharp,, in the Wesleyan Church, Cameron-street.' " ' Postponed in / conse quence of the Lecture, at which- members are invited to be present. Subscriptions for the current quarter now due. 394 W. H. COLLINS, Hon. Sec. ASHBURTON ROAD BOARD. TENDERS will be received till 10 a.m. on MONDAY, March 3rd, for the following works r—•• ' --- **- - 144. —Formation Trevor Road, 50 chains. 145. —Shingling Ne w' Park Road , 50 chains. . ■ 146. Formation Cutting by Cor •_ , • . bett.’s.v, .. ; . . Tenders to be addressed to the Chair man, and endorsed with the number of the work tendered for. All tenders tp be accompanied with a-deposit of £5 if under £IOO, and 24 per cent if over that' sum. . By order of the Board. JAMES WILKIE, 396 : .. . . Overseer,