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Dunstan Times, Issue 330, 21 August 1868, Page 2

It seems very apparent that wc arc to lose the services of our respected Warden and Resident Magistrate, Mr. IT. W. Robinson, who is likely to be removed to Mount Ida or the Teviot Mr. Robinson has been resident at Clyde for nearly the last live years, and Ims earned the respect of all classes of the community with whom he has come in contact. If Mr. Robinson's services were required in the North Island or West Coast, we could not complain at his removal from amongst us, but the shifting of him to either Teviot or Mount Ida, seems a great absurdity, and cannot possibly be of any benefit to the mining community, let alone the injustice done to Mr. Robinson, who must have expended a considerable sum of money in male ing his quarters comfortable. Tie loss of Mr. Robinson's services would be severely felt by the district, and we hope that an effort will be made to retain-him. Crown C rants in favor of the undermentioned persons, resident at Clyde, are now ready for delivery at the Land Office, Du edin :—E. Aldridge, W. 0. Auckland, H. J. Cope, (!has. Goodwin Win. Grindley, W. 11. Hasted t, Jas. Hazlett, Francis Lee, James M'Namara J. A. M'Cluskey, A. Moore, C. Newton, Charles Shaw, John Sherwood, and James Tyrrell.

The Clyde Choral Society give their first concert at the Town Hall, Clyde, on Monday evening next, for the benefit of the Dutistan District Hospital. On the Wednesday following, they give a second concert at Smitham's New Concert Hall, Cromwell, for the benefit of the Cromwell Public Library. The Society under the able leadership of Mr. J. Spensley have arrived at considerable efficiency and we are sure that a great musical treat may confidently be expected. Mr, Albert Eichardt, of Qneenstown, will preside at the Pianoforte. The Auction Bazaar for the sale of gifts held at the School house, Cromwell on Saturday evening last, for the benefit of the School funds was a most succesful affair, The articles contributed were both numerous and,varied. John Chinaman figured amongst the donors, in the shape of a pair of ingeniously contrived table mats, cut out of colored paper; such exquisite and delicate workmanship has seldom been seen, t: resulting from the mere application of a pair of scissors. M r Rarhgate, the Secretary to the (■ choo Committee opened the proceedings by a brief address, and an explanation "f the financial position of the Schools. He was followed by Mr. Cope, who descanted upon the advantages, the assemblage would confer upon the rising generation of Cromwell 1 y being liberal in their bidding, also the facility which each purchaser— should he or she have made a bad bargaincould return their purchases to be resold, and the School funds still further augmented. Mr. Cope then proceeded with the Sale, and in a little more than three hours realized the handsome sum of forty five pounds. Writing on the subject of the carriage of good s between Dunedin and Qneenstown, via Invercargill or via the Dunstan, the Wakatiy Moil says, "Our merchants and others find it cheaper to get up their supplies of goods purchased in Dunedin via. the Bluff and Invercargill. Goods by this route are landed at the Queenstown Jetty at .£ 11 per ton, which if carted direct from Dunedin the carriage amounts to from ill! to £lB. As soon,.as the .Southland line of railway is finished to V, inton, the r.ite will be so low that Dunedin will be unable to compete with it The facts connected with this statement are apparent." The " Wakatip Mail says : « The' full eiccumstances connected with the late search, conducted by Constable M'Gann, for the missing man at the head of the Lake, are not thoroughly known. The man was what is known in mining parlance as a ' : hatter. ' Ho had pitched his tent at die foot of Mt. Alfred, upon the banks of the fßees River, and there he lived his lonely life, and pursued his solitary occupa. tions unknown and uneared for till he was found missing, So comnletly did he isola!e himself from his species that his name is not even known. The man's history will in ail probability remain a mystery, but no doubt some eventual circumstances attach to it. His secluded habits and reserve lead the miners to say he was "a shingle short " and perhaps he may have been so afflicted. Constable M'Gann found that a recent rise of the river had washed the tilings out of the tent, leaving only o :.e side standing and the poles that supported it. A party of miners joined the constable, and for four days they explored Mount Alfred and neighborhood, but in vain ; for no traces of the missiii" man c uld be discovered. The probability is, that on that dark and tern pestuous night the river rose and carried in its seething course a human being who had evidently played some part in the drama of life to that bourne from whence no traveller returns." The same journal supplies the following.—" Messrs Robertson and Co have made application for five acres of ground near the Morvern Ferry They ask this as a reserve for stacking timber, and erecting a receiving warehouse then on. They purpose, if their application is granted, to build at the falls a flat bottomed but power ful steamer, to run tip and down the Kawarau as far as the Ferry. This steamer would run in conjunction with the large steamer on the Lake, and they anticipate bringing up return loading from the teamsters at n very cheap rate. By this means some miles of road would be escaped, and the Shotover entirely avoided. Mesrs. Robertson, we belb-ve, are confident that the traffic will amply reward them."

We clip the following from the Evening Mail: —That courtesy which is ever shown to the press in England, is not attimes extended to the journals in New Zealand. In two or three instances lately recorded, the press have refused to take the slightest notice of proceedings at social gatherings because tickets were not sent to the reporters, which act in itself implied that the committee did not wish the proceedings to be made public. The Wanganui Times, commenting on a want of courtesy shown to the "Wellington papers on the occasion of a complimentary ball to the Governor, makes the following sensible observations, which we recommend to the attention of our readers:—"On Thursday last the ir. habitants of Wellington gave a complimentary b:ill and supper to his excellency the Governor and Lady Bo wen, but the Wellington press refuse to take any notice of it, because free tickets were not sent to the reporters. The press havetrcateda complinv ntary dinner given to Mr. Fox in the same way, and for nearly the same reason The social coudit on of journalists) is more strictly defined in .India, Ceylon, the Mauritious, and other places eastward where society is absolutely exclusive, than in the colonics. In those places the en*rei to the Government House is guarded by a code of precedents which exclude all the lover branches of the civil service, and tradesmen however wealthy. Editors rank after the hiuher civil service officials, but reporters are not admitted. ,-\ subscription ball such as that given at Wellington is quite a different thing. An editor should accept a free ticket lie does not attend as a reporter, but if the managing committee wish the press to icport proceedings, they send a ticket to the reporter, but i.ot to the editor of each paper. Where that is not done it is understood that the ball or dinner as the case may be is intended to be private, or at least that no desire exists that publicity should be given to anything that passes within doors. It appears to us that in the present case the managing committee made a mistake in nntspeeia'ly inviting the reporters, and that our Wellington contemporaries have done perfectly right in declining to publish what many who figured at a ball would iike to see in print The pr< ss throughout the co o:iy should act on iix">d principles in such cases/' On dit, that a change in the Gold fields Wardens, and their loea'ions is about to take place, through the up. pointment of Mr. Lowther Broad to be a.Warden"in Auckland. It is said that Mr. Robinson, from Clyde, will take Mr. Broad's present district Mount Ida; and that an offer for the Clyde and Black's district has been made, but that nothing has been settled as to it.— Daily Times. Later news from the Cape of Good Hope states that the diggers there have got some good prospects on the new g< 1 Melds. Judge Cope, in Victoria recently laid down the English law with regard to fencing as follows:—"In a case then heard it was decided that it was not the I usine-s of anyone, sowing a crop, to fence his land in order to pro. tect that crop, but, that people having cattle were obliged to see that their cattle did not trespass upon their neighbors' ground. Garden owners therefore, who find goats trespassing on their land, can bring an action for damages, although they had no fence at all.'' This decision ought to remedy the" monstrous injustice, that it is impossible to cultivate an acre of land until a hundred pounds has been spent upon it in fencing. We received a circular by the last mail, from Mr. Jo-eph Mackay, the Proprietor of the Dunedin Emhingi Mail, notifying that from the first o September, that his journal would appear in the form of a daily m irning paper, equal in size to theDaib/ Times. The existence of a second daily news paper must long have been felt as a great want by the Dunedin public, one journal being utterly inadequate to express public opinion among a large population like that of Dunedin. The working classes, by- the existence of asecond journal, will doubtless find their interests better represented, as hitherto taking the tone of the Daily Time* as a guide, there exists no other public opinion than that ofthemonied classes and squatters, the bone atul sinue of the Province being utterly ignored. We wish Mr. Mackay,.; new venture every success

A correspondent writing from Crom well says:—The Memorial for a Commonage is being numerously signed; and will be forwarded to the Superintendent at Welington during the course of next week. All the members for the Goldtields now at Wellington, will be written to and requested to support the Memorial to the utmost of their influence. It is the universal desire of all the residents of the district to aeknowlege the generosity of the Messrs. Loughnan towards the cattle owners, in allowing the animals to run on the station during the past two or threee years, and it is their hope, that the Government, as a matter of justice to thisgoldfield, wid compinsite them handsomely for a commonage at an early date. On (lit, it is rumoured that Mr. Warden Robinson will be be removed from Clyde to Teviot, and that Mr. Vincent Pyke will take charge of the Clyde district. The late frosty nights have considerably interfered with mining operations Most of the water-races are bringing in short supplies, and there is not sufficient to carry on sluicing operations effectively. This want of water on the Frenchman's Beach and other similar places is a great loss to the clainiholders, as it is only in the wi ter season that they can carry on operatio s with profit. It will lie soon by our advertising columns, that the Hew Father Williams will perform Divhvj Ssrvice on Sunday next at Clyde and Alexandra, at the usual hoars fur worship, also atNaseby on the following Sunday. At Cromwell, on Sunday last, immediately after Divine Service had been perfoSStaed by the Rev Father Wil iains, a meeting of the congregation presided over ly Mr. B. Lough nan J.P. was held relative to the erection of a Catholic Church. A sum of £BO was at once collected. It was agreed that tenders should be at once called for the erection of a place of worship, and subscription lists furwarded to the outlying portions of the | District. Mr. E. Loughnan, J.P I was elected Treasurer, -Mr. P. Keily j Secretary. Novel Scheme Of Immigration.— j Mr. C. O'Nei 1, the member for the goldtields has proposed a novel scheme jof immigration. We fear the system I recommended is too comprehensive to have a retrospective operation. The lion, gentleman is the reverse of n malthusian on the subject. " I would," . said the lion, member, with great par- ! liamentary aplomb, " set apart forty ; acres of land for every child bum irIto the country." The ladies gallery I listened to the proposal with >hri!ling | interest.— Wellington hulependsnl. We were yesterday shown two i handsomely illuminated addi-scs I executed by Mr. George, of Clyde I for presentation to Mr. Warden | Lowthcr Broad. One address is | from the miners, farmers and storeI keepers of the Arrow district: I lie other, is from the committee of tie j Arrowtown Public Library. The addresses are perfect gems of Art, and will doubtless be highly prized by ! Mr. Broad.