The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

In S IV. n 10 he COO 4.
eln 1 a it tinl

ti ey b. t,tt.led

til w.tt.L soi.i tljr. eOf

,

I lON ran ti,:ht

olupict. ic C cc ,c.l wit!!

114 iil. ii. to the

11 c :iver plays magq caorirg

or (4,r brnneirm; non,

01te 111•• arl3 •api.i atream.

•,1 y and was iicsily •Irri,t off my
• oily at three or four tilacca h. ie
broad, And in comaimenee
l'..t it cop .ble of being ero•ard at all.
we 101 irra at the plate where the
ti... ioof lulls oh ,wo mentioned. Item
•ii.lo to Any forth, r on foot, the ii.er
',arrow gorp-, roemletely tilling it
.t ream here is
I

toi CoUtbe it Ift ry ilovioni ; we
nihe.l.ll4etl to Make a moliiki ipronounced
r.lLli•innd, in the following meaner:

. ...hie% great ilu2ntitios are
tI.. I. ii I ..verywliere, e..entisl to the
i.f The tits has a Bower, the
g (non 12 to 1.1 feet long ; this Awls,
4.1 • light p.r us substance, not unlike

. thickest part it is &hint an inch in diameter.
tj r rifl a great quantity of these stalks, we
1.• them up into bundles abut one I.out in diameter;
:ato-z, thee ab .ut 2g bundles. These bundles
eronc') with den. We then placed seven or
bunaies t.,gether, ride by side, taking great care
.i. thrill very strongly and in numerous place ; thi•
h Felled a sort of lay, r about 13 feet long._aeren feet

Iv, nit

•
.I.!C At the en and r towards the how, some-
like a sliip'a dingy in shape. We made three of
this.- layer", then placing one in the water jest at the
riveeo aide to that it could not fl tat away. we put a
-.Topa one upon it, taking great cote to iiiterarerse lent
-draight uteri a of tic. luring them first over then under
end through each hi ii'.. ef fl ox stick,. When this
WWI completed we laid the third and last leyer upon the
other., lacing and tying them togather, thia framed
altogeth.r a benyant craft about three feet high :
which, when floating in the water with ourselves and
1,, • ink otily enn foot. We omelet...a the
Tyr buYl'enutting dawn two small trees arel making •
efitipl of •trong parldlia out of Mein. The Tereniakau.
before entering the gorge. midges • sharp soil abrupt
turn to the right, the main channel and deepest pert
there runs endera )1;z10 lorecipitona rock, the,xlr•
iii-t here being full of large and tugged rock':
it ~.scs et the i•itarn, we got on .
eur,,m•'
,rwian
piis• •d
I ho'ille not into the.stream.
viSde a very
g stmt. with the eaception that ei •
. I here we wete kiln for nearly
.....tlifi:nctlittto i
r ng
:we tonna. At 1. _.i.
f.; 00(,.., , umt of herd paddling
t. .
, 1.4 onraelve• in • very sharp
•T•:. water hi•sing and babbling
.11 rOO.I in a I- • •
, f t I,„ .eit, torrent id foam. We kept tin
craft straight, an 4 away site went
...0e; tide at about right miles an hour, !Joint
' • ss,th every wave; the sensation use ...I
• only having, except in the Amp tuter had
to keep her head straight. But if
„An nowe
''',loll4lit the shove part dangerous, how In
_i„
thought we when, after having come ab "
et:. •_":"."1",l'omf
little more than ter. inieutes, we ma e^'
nearer to nne
rfet . cream where the brinks app
,ses, was so contracted,
mealier; the stream, in conmet:eemociey,
mu to mild t.O
f hot it fan with truly c
fri-htecnwart tl.e current, • row
the danger there ran rit
spoweing—re lumen,o reek,.
or neve, toe, Pli"lal;g1, weighing many tons. Between
Some if litem• r",amenele the Weston in the--• places
I the.' run nuriliWeli greater rapidity than anywhere
' running 40.4 op fit look alma I, mot point out
Oneeift ef should ritecr ; and baring at
tie, 1,...1;re1ee that which, at a distance, appeared to
Incus .1.--t, s-e Is. pt her heed as straight as pnsible
elethir emitement wan intense, and we were not •
fere netimic ••• t o the t...111t. All our anheevours,
env, rec. to keep her Load "treight were useleaa, and aa
▪ ieeir,ol the horrid ip, the streani, in spite of hard
-uoing 11. :wind, oat we mar with horror
that we -h eill ho. ilvown right meth one of the largest
r,„,/ at en rob.. fustently shipping our
feel a" in Icing fist down on our stomachs, ,
s to stick to the mohiki at all begirds end i
, pm, et last wit', maddening speed wo'
i on to the rock, our poor fleaeitickg
luier.,ll, remained etatiousre on inatant, and the nest
'wing li. r brad rowel, she floated'
fri aml we found again iii comperatii • '
safety. W.- •ft, raced, it iini it from the Maori. I
that Vita w.lll the part of tee vie, most to be dre..1.0,
one of flo-to Saying " Many tlinhikin there." Aft.,
dm cending the stn am in ti-ii fethion for about five
n 1.. we Cmlon to a Maori village or pall, on the right
tank ; here we reit mitt. it to 'top and rest for the
-aglif. The ',umber about 12 or 15, gave
us ago sl welysme thy Ceot..iroty wire rather
amoebae...l to wee it., but their a•tonithment soon gave
wee to 4. light. We g ;in.. or two of them ustne
toho whit-I, plesis.l elt very much. We here
it 'mil that not. of the notivee, who had been en U.S
V l•"n r.ll thrairms, liml erected several oluice bites

'a-,.

ZR.tit Ili

I, mit/ crow...tut mow w:th him, which he carried all
tl, way tenni Chrnochureh). and lied eurrimeneed
r,N eat 1,P.% in a email stream which !Gins the main tier.
11. wed us some very tine sp.-swuma of scaly golf,
hr !r in w-hat I rim gather and infer, Itl ink that it
r4y,jy sit him. There Is gold, more tir lest. mattered
ill diem the Teraniakmi. but Ito not think there will
wee he any rich yield. here. We endeavoured to get
a Maori gu'de here, but were unstumemful ; none wish-
ing. or perhaps too lazy, to go. The Matinee, on no
tiling them that we should go without a guide, laughed
st ...tying that it war impossible for white MAU t./ go
to the southward of the Teraniakan ; they said it wee
‘ery f,er Me/tries even. Next morning, Pot as we
wero on tlae eve of starting, we perceived two other
/ down the stream. It turned out to be
a pule of white men whom we had left above eon-
stro.ting mohikia, they had come over from Canterbury
sI. in aac--rtain if the nportml gold field on the
I -ieni•ltsu (it having been reported by the master e a

110.1,11 ti.

.
pcl.ooncr hod coasted round to the mouth of the
'U roni .k.oh thst he had got a go A pro.pect of goli n'
t tn,•1111 01 the river; it aleo had been reported by
vino Ma..rie., who had come to Christchurch to claim
teweid for the Boding of • gold field) was true. I
e,it ns well state here that these men, of whom there
wro.. nine, I ropeeted the sides arid hanks of the river,
hot .11.1 not And any prospect which they eoneidered
nuid par them. They then marched up the most Go
nnrtlieni..l.) intending to go to the Buller River
Nelson. Their journey from the month of
ih Tersninkau to the mouth of the Buller would be an
one, only having one river of any size to toss—the
MArlrcri or Grey River, the distance about 60 miles, a
• sandy bash ell the way. It took us but very
little time from the Maori pats till we arrived at the
i.etit, a distance of shout seven miles. The 'ornery is I
twae, fob; hMh perpendicular banks literally clad from '
tlis stater to their very tops with verdure of the greenest
hut, ferna, MOW/5, small and delicate. shrubs. The

er twists and wind, very muc-1:1-eorte-Par—ts of It-
thole parts where it runs under high overhanging banks
being very deep. In several of theme places we were
swept along at • great rats, and greatly in danger of
being swept off our birk by the overhamieg tress, ke.
A. it was, we were several times cut itM bruised with
tie to; at those places we all laid ourselves flat down.
We lauded on the north bank of the river near its
mouth ; we here determined to stay for several days,
wedina one of our party to the Grey river for doer.
We knew that the Marmite had flour there, a schooner
I,4ving landtd some for • gentletnen who had found
va.toral country some 20 or 90 miles up the stream,
ustending to turn it into a sheep station. This gentle-
man had kindly left orders with thellsories to sell door
at tirepence a pound to any parties of white men who
might be going north toll e Nelsen diggings. We sent
F— then to the Grey river to buy us 20th.. of
flour. At the Teraniskau's mouth there is a native pith:
•.• re there are some very large and One wharves.. With

tile exception of one Old atenuated Maori, tbe place
no. tntirely deserted. This man was too old to
travel with the tribe, so he wan left alone in a small
w Lure, with a great heap of dry wood and • sack of
potatoes by his aid.; be could just imunage to crawl to
• strum of enter about 100 feet distant. We gave him
soon. tea, tobseco, sod sugar, which highly delighted
Mtn ; and, no doubt he fared sumptuously for that and
th.• two or three following days. NOT old fellow!
indeed, teemed a inieertble existence, left alone and
entirely duetted by his fellow men. Having no tent,
we prefer-fed sleeping in the open air to going into any
of the wharrtn. The Maories Dot being very particular,
and uncommonly fond of the company of certain bleak
rldnyeoated gentry of the genus parasite; and, as we
Lad nothing to fear, at lust we supposed no at the time,
from our countrymen, we had our lour, tea, suur. ha.,
lying about in rather a too narelens manner. However.
be tbat an it may, in the morning we found that vre had
20ths. of flour and all our tea stolen. This theft, the I
I.'ll who came down in the mobilds after us, had no
doubt committed ; moons else could, there being no one
capable of doing no within pipe miles (the Grey river).
have left nut data, not only for the make of brevity,
bat bemuse that some days I have found events
and travel tally no exactly with others that it would
be superfluous enumerating them.
February 21;th.—Afttr atopping several days at the
Teraniakau, no eromed thin morning in OW mohiki to
the south side, and agnin commenced our march. We
only coinage,' to get as far as Amhara nest, about 13. r
14 miles. here we found small patch of forest cleared
and made into a potato ground, there being two or
three wharies ; the nob, inhabitant* were an old non,
very emaciated and thin, and who appeared as if he
were not long for this world, • girl about 16 years old.
and daughter to Terapalie, the head chief of the middle
island, and a little boy about nine years old. They gave
no a large basketful of beautiful potatoes ; we giving
them in exchange some tobacco, with which the girl
teemed highly delighted, and instantly let to work
smoking. The country between the Teraniakau and
Arahura rises gradually AR it runs bask island to the
mountains, which appear to be from 12 to 15 nide,
dodent. It is densely wooded the Int hundred yards
or no from the beach, the timber is comparatively mail
Lot very thick, it then commences to he of terser
growth; and about 250 or 300 yards inland, large (0,4
i
trees from two to three, end even four feet n diameter,
are to be found. The walking is alternately goad and
bad, according to the tide. If it is low, there I. • firla
hard send to walk open; if high, loose atingle, making
Walking very fatiguing. In Amhara river there is
plenty of erten stone (lade stone), which Is singular,
for although you pass many rivers ping south, roa d°
not gad any more until you get be Yoakum s Sty.
11.. re I found part of an old Shakespeare, • eursims
ilting to find In • New Zealand pall arnourst the wilds
I the west coast, and productive of many • various
'•4, 4 thought and refleetlon.

POOLE.
INDUSTRIAL CO-01911LATIIIR flocterr--The quar-
terly meeting of this society was held on Monday
i,vening, in the Temperanos-hall, when the profits
I the quarter were divided, and amounted to la
r share, after Rye portant. interest Wad been paid.
AN Reza Toon TALI. —A Land and Water
correspondent states that 30 years ago, at Poole, a
horse work, the stable-pump with his month, and
then drank (mon the pump-imouth. hit. F. Rockland,
the editor of that journal, says the poly pendant to
Lb. story that he knew was that of • donkey who
used to make his tongue as small au possible, thrust
IL through the usual hole in the door, and pushing
up the latch, open the door, and make his escape.
Kim:111410N TO PoRTIINOUTIL —On Wednesday, •
. rip was modemo Portsmouth, in the Albion steamer.
l'iiwards of 2.50 persons left this port, • number
swelled by about another bandied at Knornemoutl,.
l'hi. weather was all that Gould be cleared, and as
the voyage was along a portion of the coast of the
I-le ol Wight, it gave great *aura The return of
the boat was earlier than on the previous week,
giving those who.liad come far inland ample time to
get to their homes.

CHARGE Or BUROLANY.-00 Wednesday evening
the counting.house of Mr. Emmott's brewery was
forcibly entered, and about IS.. in cash abstracted
from • bog where the sales of berm were deposited.
Shortly afterwards attention was attracted to moans
proceeding from the garden of Mr. Frampton adjoin-
ing. and on investigation a man named Pulley, in
the service of Mr. Emmotk was found on the ground
there, with his ankle Ladly dislocated. He was at
once taken into custody, and charged with the rob-
bery, under the suspicion that being disturbed in
the counting•hoose he escaped through • window and
scaled Mr. Frampton's wall, which is IS feet in
height. He has been fully committed for triaL

married two wives, and with beating the second wife.
Th• proceedings that followed were truly British.
Candy owned that he bad married the oottspiainant,
after telling her he had got • wife living, at her urgent
entreaty. There does not seem to have been any
,quesilon as ba the beating, which the complainant
Pretested was severe, saying that she sins bruised from
heu'l to foot. It seeing also to have been cePtinual,
and that the amiable butcher elministereti it whenever,
like /Ira. Clamp with her gin, " he felt so disposed."
The denerentenf, however, in inexplicable. except on
Police-office princlpleS pure and ample. The amend
Mrs Candy informal the magistrate that she did not
want to punish the butcher for marrying her while the
Int Mrs. Candy was alive; all she wanted *AS A divans
end AR allowance. Whereupon, when Mr. Cooke in.
farmed bee that FLO di.l net need the former, and could
not pa the letter, she wittiliew the charge with his per-
mission, end the bigamist butcher and the ememmos
dating second Mrs Candy walket off together from
the police court. But what • ridiculous caricature of
luOkle we base bore. Bigamy is either • legal mime,
or an nnamieble eccentricity and a matter of persona
trranitement. If Coe former, why was Mr. Candy
permitted to walk off scot•free as soon as his pseudo-
sponse withdrew the charge? If the latter, why does
Dot law recognise Mennonite marriages? in truth, our
Practice in respect to bigamy is very like our practice Is
respect to suicide, though not perhape quite so absurdly
inconsistent with our legal theory. Suicide is by law,
• form of the crime of murder. Nevertheless, the usual
Penalty of an attempt at this form of murder is an ad.
mositon from • "worthy magistrate" not to do It s'ttio.
INCRIRISSA, on the other bend, do not alwayeget off scot-
Ire., like this Soitallields butcher ; but the infliction of
the legal penalty is frequently made dependent upon
the feelinm and wishes of the wives, whether the tree
or the spurious one. And if, as sometimes happens,
both the wives appear in oonrt and plead for mercy for
the faithless one, hard indeed is the heart of the mein'-
, Irate who wounds their eonjugal susceptibilities by coin.
netting for trial at the next maims ; as if penalties were
designed solely for chastising the guilty, and not also
to deter others front crimes.—Pall.mali Oaselle.