The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, 19th OCTOBER, 1866.

Dunstan Times, Issue 234, 19 October 1866, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, 19th OCTOBER, 1866.

Keneath the rule of men entirely just, the pbs is mightier than the sv.'o'ud!'"

In consequence of the pressure upon our space, we are compelled to omit our < 'romwell Correspondent's letter and other important matter. .-* n amusing error lias been committed by the " rt Critic" of the West Coast 1 imes, although we have no doubt it was a very pardonable one. Some local artist had painted a portrait, which was exhibited in a shop window in Hokitika, and the West Coast I imes thought it worth at eulogistic paragraph which accordingly ap- : peared, awarding credit to the arti t for his faithful likeness of Burgess the murderer. ! Unfortunately it proved that the ar'ist , had intended the portrait as a likeness of : the late (J. V. Brooke, and his indignation ■ may be imagined.— . The ' Grey River *rgus' says:—"Tho fficer in ''Large at Okarita in his last re- • port expresses the opinion that, unless tho 1 Country inl ind shou d prove auriferous tho diggings will, in a few months, be next to , | deserted, as the beac es are nearly ex- ; nans ted. The unprecedented flood in the Mannherikia Valley, occasioned by the late rains, has we believe, in some places en- . tirely altered the face of nature. H ills ■ are raised up where hollows existed and ! vice versa. For a detailed account we , must refer our rcsucTS"tt Toother column. The floodel state of - caused by the continuous rains of Wedues--1 day !ast, has had the effect of puting a j. stop to all work on its banks, The delay e occasioned is not the only evil to be borne, e The damage sustained to sluice-boxes, 1 water-wheels, and the other parapharnalia ) of the digger swept away by the torrent . is somewhat extensive, and we fear will s entail in min instances, great inconvenience and loss to replace the same. The proposed change in the police de--3 partment is at length effected. M r Mors; ton has left Clyde for his new sphere, *I Lawrence; and Mr Sergeant Ihotnpson, „ late of Lawrence, takes charge at Clyde, j.' We have been requested, to call attention to the Sale by Miction at the Shamd rock Hotel, Black's, on Monday the 29th °r inst. of the Golden Gate Company's Water 0 acn and Mining Plant, g The return of the members, on the 11th 1 inst., from Wellington, was made the subn ject for a public demonstration by the 0 Dunedin people. With the exception of M i 0 Vogel, all Otago's worthy representative; 1 were received,. u]K>n landing at the Princes 1 Street jetty, with groans and hisses, anc cries oi traitors, and marched off to theii . several residences, to the music of a bant ■d playing the 'Rogue's March.' f*tuffe( d effigies of Messrs Haughton, 'radshaw '•? Cargil, Battereon and Ric ardson, wen )f j ignominously consigned to the waters o ,n the ay, at 10 o'clock the same evening. I We have been requested to sta c, tha j« Mr J. IL I radshaw, M.H.R., will pay i visit to nis constituency. I Mr V\ arden Robertson, on Wednesday at granted a prospecting claim of 270 fee , by 135 feet, on a spar of a ' ter ace' abou j half-a-mile to the south-west of Low' )n ome Station, on the south-side of th m Mann herikia River. The prospectors ar JI the Ida Valley Water-Race Company, wh >d [ P ro l )ose bringing a branch of their race t I work the grou d. •he race is no\ e- brought along the crown of the Ragged 1 } idge, to command the ground in qilestio i —:the water will be ready for mining-oju r rations in about two months. The pro; i• j pect was obtaine I in the sinking of a 1 — , foot shaft on the flat top of a spur ; gol was found from the surface downward: ?p! the best being in a layer of about five feet i U thic >ness next the bottom, which is a soi fcy reef. ' his layer is estimated to yiel °"' about five pennyweights to the oad. Th 0 I top stuff will run about h&lf-a-penn] y. j weight to a pennyweight to the sain a-' (piantity. f" everal other shafts have bee 3 ' Is'.ink on the same and adjoining spurs, i ?" | which payable prosp eta have in moi n . ! cases been obtained. I hero is an exceller es fall to the ground for sluicing purposes ™ I The • Deniliquin Chronicle' states thi I ten thousand bales of wool last year's clij , 3 j are reported to be now stored above Met m- indie, on the Darling, which cannot be gt down for want of water in that river. It ** even feared that the new clip will also hai 80 to be stored on the banks of the river. e In addition to the Liverpool ' Porcupim ;n- the London ' Owl' and ' Bat,' and tl ito ' Hornet,' our list of journals is about to 1 V j | increased by the ' Earwig"—a paper issu< ICO j by a Volunteer Rifle Association.—' Hod ed I iS ews',

TOWN COUNCIL, CLYI>K . The for nig uly wiunig'ot the Cmi cil wes lihlH <n Tuesday la«r, it the temporary C'Uncil.Ghiitabt«Jß, The t p. Pnegeilt; iK& uneillors C .rubridge, Ilai'e t. By nil, mid G ohvin. The \la\o>- occuphd the Chair- The mir.utes f the last meeting, an I of a special imeing held on 9tu inst., were lead and cniiflrtmd A letter was read (mm the Chi' f Po tuiaster, informing the Council that, the d its of arrival and departme of the Tuapeka mail w re unavoi lably unalteiabld The outward Correspoudeuca cf Council was h]s > read. Cr. Hazlett reported, tlie result of his inteiv riv with the ttove'nment, respecting the.£sQo.!»'"-)nr,. The eU'ecr of the interview wis, *'That the £SOO would he p.id, provi 'el the Council would ke«p 'he main road ihrugh the township in repa ; r. fro:n the P«>st. Office, to tUe north end uf Sunder, and Street." Moved by Cr. Ryan—" That the th-.nks uf this Con icil b • and ave hj relty tccorJed to Cr Haz'pf, f>r his successful exertions while in Du>fdin, in proiurin<j lh« sum <f £SOO as the amount nf subsidy to be s granted to this Minicipilify." Secoudjd by Cr Goodwin, ond ea-rie 1. It was pop s d aYid wried, that the report of the Pubic Woika Committee be adopted. A simi'ar proposition wns carried with respect to the Finance Commit tee. Proposed by Cr. Goodwin—-'• Tint in order to raise such portion of tfi«» prop >s->d expenditure of this (\>rporat : on a s is shewn 'o be insufficient by.the e-timnte now made , andadoptel This Council lurcky orders . that an assessment of all buildings, lands tenements, and hereditaments w'thin the Vlunicipalitv of Clyde; shall he forthwi'li I male in pursuance-ofthe provisions of tl>e ' '■ Ot-iffi M lu'cioal 'orporati ms Ordinance, 1865," and tliat the Valuators be instru'e'ed to proceed sit once w : th sti'ih assessment."' I Seconded bv Cr llazl -t.t-, and crried. P The resignation «f Mr David M'Cuiinichio as Valuator was nccep cd A vote r.f thinks to the Chaia concluded the proee^dirr's.