The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 5th 1869.

Dunstan Times, Issue 358, 5 March 1869, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, MARCH sth 1869.

Beneath the Rule of Men entirely just the pen is mightier than theswoED.

In consequence of pressure upon our space, we have been compelled to omit our usual leading article, and correspondent’s letters from Cromwell find Black’s. Not for want of space, but in consequence of the report of the proceedings of the meeting of the Cromwell Town Council not having been handed to us till 8 on publishing night, wo holcHt over till - our pest. '

The Tuapeka Times says that the Mail Contract between Clyde end Tub. peka, vid Teviot, is now in the hands of Cobb and Co. (Mr CHaplin) and that it is intended, to run a coach through from Tuapeka to Clyde every Wednesday, returning the next day. We are informed by the Post-master that the English Mail, via Suez, will close at Clyde Office, on Thursday, 11th instant. Letters and Newspapers will be received up to If) p.nuf if We have been requestedjjy Fache to draw attention to the sale of Horses, consisting of riding Hacks and Spring cart Horses, to-morrow, at the Commercial Sale . Yards, Sunderlandstreet, Clyde. According to a return lately published in the Age, the yield of gold in Victoria during the year. 1858 was 1,537,628 ounces. The amount ex ported from, New Zealand during the same period was 636,474 ounces, the yield from Victoria being thus ,141.2 per cent in excess of that from New Zealand The number of miners in Victoria is estimated at 63,180, of whom 48,991 are alluvial, and 14,189 quartz miners. The average earnings of miners of the two classes duri g the year were £B7 and £165 n spectively. No statistics being published as to the number of miners in New Zealand daring 1868, a comparison between the two colonies in this respect cannojr be instituted. According to the Wanganui Times , Mr. Fox has given up all hopes ot Provincialism being saved, and it is stated that he has expressed himsc f in favor of a •‘federation” of Provinces. At a meeting of the opponents of Dr. Jenner, held at Milton, on the 9th i n st., the Honorable Major Richardson said, as reported by the Bruce Herald:Much as I reverence the Church of England,,and fondly as I cherish her beautiful services, I have no hesitation in saying that if the Synod confirms the appointment of Dr. Jenner, for whom, personally, I entertain great respect, I shall consider it my duty to leave the Church, and avail myself of the services of some other denomination which approaches s', to the character of that Protestant and Reformed Church with which I have been connected from my youth The first sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions at Clyde, was held cn

Tuesday last, V. Pyke, Esq,, W. Eraser, Esq. and J. D. Feraud, Esq., J. j P’s occupied the Bench Publican’s Licenses were granted to C. Hensburgh, Manuherikia, and 0 Napier, Butcher’s Gully. A. Moore of Clyde applied for a General License, refused on the objection of the Police, that the house was not completed. The Bench intimated that when the house was finished, fresh application could

be made. Burke v. Ballantyne, to obtain possession of a lot of mining tools illegally detained by defendant. Defendant was ordered to give up possession on Monday next, each party to pay his own costs. We have had sent to us from Black’s No. 1,-samp'es of wheat and barley grown in that neighbourhood. The wheat is a very fine sample, and from appearai ce will 3ic Id over forty bushels to the acre, in fact the yield last year from the same ground averaged forty bushels with nothing like the shew of this year. The barley is we believe the best that has been grown in the district, it is from some seed impcrtel by Messrs Marshall and Copeland for malting purposes. The quantity sewn was one bushel and a half, the yield from which is about ninety bushels. If evidence ere this was wanting of the capabilities of the district for growing cereals, the crops this season supply it, and proves that the only thing that remains to make the Dunstan District self supporting is, a Flour mill, with malting house, attached. The Oamant Times says : —“The new Church of St. Patrick (E.C.) has new been completed, and is both an ornament to the town and a great acquisition to the religious body for whose use it is intended. The design is, while not elaborabate, yet chaste, and artistic, and the building is fitted up in a most complete manner, and indeed may, we think, challenge comparison with any Roman Catholic Church in the Colony in these inspects We notice that it is to be formally opened on St. Patrick’s Day, Wednesday, the 17th March, when, we understand. that an efficient choir will be in attendance, and solemn High Mass will be celebrated. There will be Divine service in the church on the day, at which the Bov. J. G. Williams will deliver a panegyric upon the Patron Saint.

Messrs. Strode and Domett, two of | the commissioners appointed to enquire into the workings of the Land Laws, passed through Clyde on Monday morning last on their way to the* Lakes district. We have not heard if the commission will call for evidence in the Dunstan district, however, we will endeavour to ascertain, and acquaint our readers accordingly. An inquest was held on Wednesday the 3rd hast!', at' tfie Hartley Arms Hotel, Sunderland Street,' Clyde, before Vincent Pyke, Esq , R.M** .Coroner of the District bn the body of Loi Yin, a Chinaman who was brought in from the Nevis on Monday, by his brother for the purpose of taking him to the Hospital. The poor fellow however died about half an hour after crossing the ferry. The evidence disclosed that he had been ill about three weeks, and from medical examination of the corpse, it appeared that the cause of death was fatty degeneration of the liver.—Verdict accordingly. We would remind our readers that the time for registering will expire this month, We would advise those, whose nanus are not on the Electoral Roll, to register at once. We !.e----lieve printed forms are to be obtained from the Registrar of each District. The Provincial Government Gazette notifies that Crown Grants in favor of John Butel, Peter Bute), W. G. Huff, and W. Scoles, fur sections of land in theShotover district are now ready for delivery. The Victorian Mining Record has the following ;—“ It has often been said, and with a great deal of truth, that colonial banks are little better than large pawnbroking establishments, and that they might very pro-r perly hang out the three balls over the door. What they have taken in pawn, however, has not been so much real estate as squattages. Squatting accounts have paid the best, and the greater part of banking business lias been indirectly lending money to the owners of runs. Owing to the less satisfactory tenure of pastoral properties, to the diminished value of wool, and to the heavy losses made 1 y lending money on stations, the pastoral credit is being greatly curtailed ; and as banks must lend their money to make a profit, it is a sign of the times that some of them should begin to look upon real estate as a preferable security. The announcement that the batiks intend to enter upon this new line of business has elicited a general expression of dissatisfaction from the Victorian Press."