The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, 20th JULY, 1866

Dunstan Times, Issue 221, 20 July 1866, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, 20th JULY, 1866

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la consequence of the pressure upon our space we are compelled to om't our usual leader, also our Correspondents' letters from Wellington, Cromwell, Nevis, and St fiathan's. The Batchelor's Ball, held on Wednesday evening last, at the Victoria Hotel, Clyde, was a great success, about eighty couple were present. Dancing was kept up until a late, or rather early hour. The Ball was deoidedly the best ever held on the goldfields. Mr Allen Fitch met the citizens of Clyde at a public meeting, held last evening, at the Union Hotel, Mr Downing occupied the chair. At the conclusion of the business of the evening, a vote that " Mr Fiteh was a fit and proper person to fill the position of Mayor" was carried unanimously. A testimonial, consisting of a handsome chased silver tankard, has been subscribed for by the inhabitants of Gravesend, to be presented to Captain Cavasa, of the Italian barque Marionople, on board which ship the survivors of the ill-fated steam-vessel London were brought safely into port. The tankard bears the following inscription :—" Presented to Captain Cavasa by a few English friends, not as a reward but as an attestation of their esteem and gratitude for his humane and hind conduct towards the survivors of the ship London." The rinderpest has appeared in Cadzon the famous breed of wild cattle belonging to the Duke of HanriltonThe duke, with'aJye/wtb preserve his val. uabie herd of Ayrshirm has put tht m down in his coal-pits, where shey are enjoying complete immunity from the plague, though it is raging above, v