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Dunstan Times, Issue 205, 31 March 1866, Page 2

Yesterday being Good Friday, the Banks and Government offices, together with most of the business places, were closed. The three townships wore quite a Sabbath going aspect.

The Secretary for the Pun'stan Hospital begs to acknowledge the receipt of 10/ 10s from Master Jehu Grmdlcy, being amount of stakes of a race got up at the Nevis, on behalf of the Hospital, aud which was won by the giver.

A meeting of the Clyde School Committee was held on Wednesday evening last, at the School-house, Sunderlandstreet. Mr. Donald M'Pherson in the chair. The Treasurer reported that he had received from the Government the sum of £IOO, on account of the £l5O voted for school buildings. Pe also reported that the proceeds of the lecture delivered by Mr. Hislop amounted to £7 10s. The report was deemed satisfactory. A proposition was carried that the Treasurer write to the Government for payment of the £SO balance due to the Committee. It was decidede that a publie meeting be called on Friday the Gth of April, for the purpose of receiving the resignation of the present committee, and electing a new one in its stead. Some unimportant details connected with the management of the school having men discussed, a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Mr. J. E. Staite, of the Clyde Portrait Rooms, has been very successful at Irs branch establishment at Cromwell. The majority of the inhabitants have liberally patronised the carte de visite department. Among the miners there has been quite a rage for jmotographs of their sluicing claims. These are being taken by a newly patented lens, the operation of which is instantaneous, giving and exact representation of what was actually going on at the time of the picture being taken, thus rendering them highly interesting to persons at a distance.

Mr. S. M. Clarke, master of the Clyde School, has received a circular letter from the trustees of an annuity fund on behalf of the widow of the late Mr. Thos. P. Currie, who, for many years, was Secretary to the Otago Emigration office established in Edinburgh. Mr. Curric's decease leaves his widow and children in very straitened circumstances, and in consideration of the valuable services rendered to this Province during Mr. Currie's lifetime, by inducing emigi'ants to select Otago as a held of labor, we feel assured that those who have made up their minds to make the Province their homes, will liberally respond to this appeal on behalf of the widowaud four fatherless children, i

During "Wednesday night a sudden influx of water, occasioned probably by a fall of earth, took place in the coal-pit of Messrs. Holt and Dakin, at Clyde. The pumps have failed to make any impression upon the water, consequently the works are at a stand-stilL We believe that the proprietors intend rigging up a " whip," so as to assist the pumping process by j bailing with horse power.

The Bishop of New Zealand took his departxre from Clyde for the Lakes on Monday afternoon, reaching Cromwell the same evening, where he preached a sermon at the Schoolhouse before a large Tjnd attantive audience.

The telegraphic correspondent of the " Lyttelton Times" at Hokitika, states. under date March 19th:—"Mrs. Kinder, with her brother and father, arrived today in the Susannah Booth from Sydney. An immense crowd collected on the wharf to see her."

The following is from the "Australasian":—"The trustees of the British Museum have become owners of the egg of the Moa or dinornis, brought over from New Zealand in the Kavetiscarig. The price given was one huncUed and twenty pounds." .

] The '• Argus " states that petroleum lin a crude form has been found in quantity on the Coorongin South Australia. Extract from a letter published in the " London Times," written by a gentleman whose son was a passenger to Melbourne by the London :—" I was on board the vessel when she sailed from Gravesend on the 28th of December. It was a lovelyday. The passengers and their friends lunched on board shortly before she weighed anchor. It was a happy party-, and there was little appearance of the gloom and depression which usually attends the departure of a vessel on so long voyage. All felt confidence in the noble ship and her experienced captain, officers and crew, and when those of us who were not to sail in her left the vessel it was with feelings of pride and confidence that our dear ones, from whom we had just parted, were in such apparent safety. I believe I was the last person to leave the vessel before .die was towed off. Another gentleman, who, like myself, had a young son on board, lingered with me on the landing steps at Gravesend, watching the progress of the ship down the river, "she steamed off most majestically, but remi.ined in sight about an hour, gradually disappearing in the glorious golden mist of a most lovely winter sunset. The last we saw of her was her tapering spars and signal flag waving in the clear gray light of the approaching evening. Then "wo turned away rejoicing in the happy augury of a pleasant and successful voyage, and vainly trusting that all would bo well with her and her precious burden."