The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, 6th Sept 1867.

Dunstan Times, Issue 280, 6 September 1867, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, 6th Sept 1867.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just, the pen is mightier than the sword! ’

We have been compiled, through pressure of matter, to hold over till next issue our usual leader; also Correspondents' letters, including one from Mr Walter Greenlaw, of Cromwell. The Honorary Secretary to the Dunstan District Hospital, begs to acknowledge a donation of Five pounds sterling, from Mr and Mrs M'Carteu, Wardsman and Matron to the Institution.

The house lately belonging to Mr Warden Stratford, at Cromwell, and now in the occupation of Mr Darling, Clerk to the Bench was totally {destroyed by lire yesterday afternoon, the cause ot the disaster is unkuown. A man named Mason broke his leg on Wednesday last, at the Luggett Creek, by coming in contact with tho post of a stock yard while riding a race. Mr. Loughnan, of the Mount Pisa Station, kindly sent the sufferer in his buggy to the Dunstan Hospital. A Billiard match for £ls aside, was played on Wednesday evening fast, at the Queen's Arms Hotel, Queenstown, between Mr A. Eichardt and Mr D. Powell 300 up, Mr Powell giving his adversary 75 points. The game was well contested throughout. Mr Eichardt made one good break of 27 points, and eventually became the winner. A return match is to be played. An inqurst was held by the Coroner for Dunedin, Dr Hocken on the body of a young man named W. M,Grath, who died very suddenly at the Commercial Sale Yards, Rattray Street Deceased was in the act of leading two horses, when he fell down dead ; death was attributed to disease of the heart; a verdict in accordance was given by the jury. The Total Abstinence Society lately formed at Alexandra has prospered even beyond the anticipations of its promoters. it now numbers C2 members, and an addition is made every meeting night, the members will eventually be considerably increased. It is intended as soon as the necessary measures can be taken, to form a Society of " Rechabites " at Alexandra, At the Society's weikly meeting held on Saturday last, at the School house, Mr R. M. Stewart delivered a very interesting address on the advantage* of 'temperance' the addiess lasted about half an hour, and was listened to attentively. Messrs Iverson and Cameron also made brief, but appropriate addresses. The District Coroner, Mr 11. W. Robinson held an inquest on Tuesday last, at the Cromwell Hotel, Cromwell on the body of a man named Patrick Crome, a shepherd in the employ of Messrs Loughnan of the Mount Pisa Station; deceased had been suffering from delirium tremens, and on the 23rd of last month obtained medical advice from Dr Corse, and subsequently went to the home station, lie J remained there but a few hours, and was j not seen afterwards, till his body was found in the Eleven Mile Creek, by Mr j Loughnan and Police Constable Campion ion Monday last. The body was immersed all but the head. Tho medical evidence j satisfactorily proved that deceased did not meet his death from drowning, but from asphyxia probably produced by spasmodic contraciions, caused by exposure to cold, deceased having removed his clothing all but his shirt —Sergeant Cassclls conducted the case on behalf of the Police. A verdict in accordance to the medical evidence was returned. ; A man named John Bright was brought in to the Dunstan Hospital, from Black's No. 3, on Saturday last, suffering from a broken thigh and other serious injuries, he having accidentally fallen down tho Rough and Ready Company's shaft at an early hour the same morning. He has been successfully tended by Dr. Shaw, the House Surgeon, and is in a fair way of recovery. A man named John M'Clure was charged a few days since at Waikouati, with having assaulted a Chinaman, named Ah Chin. It appears that a row was caused by some boys throwing mud at a party of Chinamen, while camped alongside the road for dinner. The Tartar blood got aroused, and the Chinese gave chase to the boys. A lad named Sizcmore was caught, and John was about to administer punishment, when M'Clure interfered to prevent it, during the scuffle a Chinaman threw a stone at M'Clure, which, instead of striking him, struck Ah Chin On tho face, and knocked him down when with true Celestial craft, he pretended to be insensible, upon his presumod recovery Ah Chin alleged that he had been struck witli a stick by M'Clure. This was disproved by witnesses who were positive that M'Clure never had a stick in his hand, while the evidence of Ah Chin's witnesses went also to confirm that fact. The case was dismissed. At a meeting of some thirty or forty persons, calling themselves the unemployed, but who looked the very reverse of being careworn or suffering from privation, held one day last week at the Octagon, Dunedin. Mr J. G. S. Grant who of course occupied the Chair, said in his speech "that with a continuation of present circumstances, he anticipated nothing but the financial ruin of the population of the Province, but as far as lie was concerned, he was off to the Fiji Is'ands." No resolution was passed that if there was any want of employment, how the necessities of the case might be met.

The criminal information against Capt- ' Machin, of the screw steamship Kaikarau for drunkenness on the 2Gth inst., , and endangering tho safety of the ship, when making the land, on the voyage 1 from Panama to Wellington has been dismissed, the information being informal. ' An inquiry is now going on under the Wi'eeks Act, before Messrs Crawford and ' Strode. j West Coast papers inform us that the ' news from the Buller diggings is very un- | satisfactory. It has not been determined • whether the diggings in the vicinity will pay. The excitement about the Auckland ' diggings is dying out, reliable accounts say, there is nothing encouraging to induce persons to leave for that new Eldorado.