The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1868.

Dunstan Times, Issue 343, 20 November 1868, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1868.

Beneath the Rule of Men entirely ji kt the pen is MiouritK than thesvroni).

The Provincial Government and the Squatters have at last secured an “ organ” to give vent to their pent up feelings and indignation at the clamor of the country Districts for a fair share of the plums in tin Provincial pudding. They have quite thrown over tlvir old love, the Daily Times, consigned the joint stock company to perdition, and started for themselves, and on Monday last their new pet in the shape of the New Zealand Sun made its dehut 01 the political horizon The venture is without douhta hold one, hut, wc very much question its success. Dunedin after all is hut a poor insignificant place, not one half the size of Ballarat, ami without poss casing a tithe of its energy, business knowledge and enterprise, while its leading geniuses would scarcely be considered in any third rate Victorian Goldfields’ Town above the common order of mcdiocracy. With a limited population, and composed of such inferior material, a journal devoted to special class interests cannot legitimately hold its way, and, notwithstanding till the support which the squatting fraternity and their friends may give it, this idol of their affections must eventually lick the dust. As far as country readers arc concerned, the pages of the New Zealand Sun will be seldom looked into, unless by a few Station-holders and their satcliies. With the mining and agricultural the abortion will bo execrated like the cause it espouses, both of those interests sraait under the mismanagement, incapacity and wastefulness of Provincial misrule, people up country are heartily

sick of the dominant power, whose aim and end is the seeming unto themselves rosy billets with high salaries, and the aggrandisement of Dunedin at the expense of the goldfields. A public journal cannot be viewed in any other light than that of an ordinary mercantile speculation, and, to preserve its existence, it must be self-supporting. The squatters, together with the Provincial party, may be as felf-sacrificing as they please, but they nevertheless will soon get tired of a thing that does not pay. The want of administrative ability . and neglect of detail may pass muster in public affairs; but this party find that business transactions require more action and less theory than they calculate upon. An idea is one thing and the carrying of it out another. Blunders committed by a governing body fall upon the shareholders of the governed ; but, in ordinary every-day life, errors of judgment have to be borne by those who make them. If the squatters and Provincialists require tlm services of a journal devoted to their cause, there is quite sufficient evidence that it is a bad one, audit must go the way of all incurable diseases, notwithstanding the curative qualities of any panacea which Doctors Vogel, Macandrew, Dillon Bell, and others of that clique may prescribe for it, Although there is a cry-out for 1 uul for settlement on the goldfields, the most rabid and violent agitators do not desire the downfall of tho pastoral interests, whatever may bo tboir opinions a’, out provincialism , neither do they desire to appropriate to themselves what lawfully belongs to others. No one blames the squatt ‘Vs for keeping all they can, or for taking all they can get: it is human nature to do so The mining com- | munity are quite as jealous of their ' rights and privileges as any of the pastoral tenants of the Crown. _ It is the system which permits an unfair : division of tho pub'ic estate that is complained of, and a remedy can only be obtained from tho Government, , who, when they find a sub-division of ■ the land necessary to meet the exigencies of an increasing population, are lin duty bound—after making due | compensation—to take from the one | and give to the other. | There is plenty of room and to j spare for all, and if the class who have the aVcio Zealand Sun as their advocate are content to rely upon the justice of their cause, and make cou.cessiou whore concession is required, they will need no clumsy perversion of facts, or illogical!}- written articles, such as we find in the columns of their pet luminary, to assist them. Money expended by tho squatters in improving the breeds of their sheep, or in the purchase of implements for preparing and enhancing the market value of their wool, would be much better laid out than in bolstering up a newspaper whoso existence isextreracly problematical did it depend upon its own merits for support.

The nomination for a Councillor for Smith Ward takes place at Clyde, at noon to morrow, at the Town Hall. Mr. Robert Finlay, Mayor of Alexandra has been gazetted a Justice of 1 the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand. A meeting of Justices of the Peace was held at the Court House, Clyde, on Monday last, for the purpose of appointing days for the holding of Petty Sessions, lor the Dunstan district. It was arranged that a court should he hold weekly at Clyde, and fortnightly at Blacks and Alexandra A trotting match on the Race Course came oil on Tuesday last, between Mr. Stewart’s Stumpy, and Mr. Haadi,side’s Zoe, distance, about three miles. A good sprinkling of Sportsmen were present, and from what we heard, a largo amount of money changed hands. The betting was in favor of Zoe, but the result proved that, sonic of the knowing ones were reckoning without their host, Stumpy coming in the winner with a few hundred yards to spare. It will be seen by our advertising columns that, it is intended to reorganize the Clyde Church Choir ; a meeting for that purpose is called, this even! g nt the Church.

It will be seen by our advertising columns, that Races will be held at Alexandra on the 31st December and Ist January next. The Ota jo Argus in an article headed “ A Town Council whipped ” after quoting the remarks (copied from this journal) made by Mr. Warden Pyke on the subject of a late complaint of the Alexandra Town Council, says :—“ We believe that the resolution of the Council .vas sent down to the Government; and that consequent upon the reply, the Town Clerk has also, we are told—and we may presume he acted upon instructions—complained to the Government that Mr. Pyke’s remarks were “unnecessarily severe and uncalled for, especially when officially administered.” That “ especially ”is not very logically used. A Town Council condemns a Magistrate, without a shadow' of reason for doing so. Why should the Magistrate not reply? The Alexandra Councillors may, to use a slang phrase, now feel compelled to “ sing small but on the 2nd November there was no reason why Mr. Vincent Pyke should answer with “ bated breath and whispering humbleness” to the Council’s unjust attack upon the Warden of the Dunstan district. We have received the first copy of the JSevj Zealand Sun, a new morning paper, published in Dunedin. The want of a second Daily Journal hag doubtless long been felt in Dunedin, but whether tills now enterprise will supersede the Daily Times is extreme ly questionable.. T lie latter is well established, and notwithstanding what has been said to the contrary, judiciously and ably edited. The party ((.'presented by the New Zealand Sun, the Provincialists and Squatters are not over popular on the Goldfields, nor has its Editor, "Mr. Vogel, done anything for the Gold mining community that would cause him to be generally beloved. As a commercial speculation, wo wisb our contemporary success, but we hold contrary opinions respecting his political policy. We were shown yesterday at the shop of Mr. Robert Barlow, Clyde, the dinner service of silver plate for presentation to our late Warden and I Resident .Magistrate, Mr. II W. Ro ; hinson. The service is a very hand- I some one, and is valued at seventy I guineas ; it consists of a Cruet, Soupladle, Fish-slice, half a dozen Table spoons, half a dozen Dinner forks, and two Salt spoons. The presentation : we believe will be made with a suita i hie accompanying address, illuminated | ou vellum by that unique artist, Mr. i George, oi Clyde. We feel ourselves ! bound to remark that, the committee j in making this presentation have been | very dilatory, but we trust now that i the service of plate is ready, they will make amends for past shortcomings. In our columns devoted to advertisements'll is notified that the Rev. Father Kickie will celebrate Mass at Black’s No. 1 on Sunday next, the 22nd inst. The reverend gentleman has for the past few weeks been sojourning among our northern goldfields. Ho speaks in high terms of the natural beauties of the country, raying that, the scenery is unrivalled, even in those countries that are so ninth lauded by all travellers, and predicts the day is not far distant, when the Lakes’ district will become a centre of attraction to the lovers of the picturesque; he also speaks in high terms of the inhabitants, who, he says, treated him with the utmost kindness, courtesy and liberality. With New Zealand, as a whole, the Reverend Father appears well pleased. Ho anticipates realizing over 2001 V. towards the object for which he has paid the Colonies a visit. The Art Union Distributors are before the public of the Dunstan. Judging from the result of our inspection of the prizes, they arc all highly useful articles, and well worth 1 the several amounts set against them. Mr. Chadwick distributes Saddlery; Mr. Thoi ■mahlen, Jewellery and house bold forniture, and Mr Barlow, Jewellery, exclusively.