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Dunstan Times, Issue 364, 16 April 1869, Page 2

Wc would again remind our readers that the laying of the foundation stone of the new Town Hall, Clyde, will take place this day at 11 o’ clock, and would invite the attendance of'one and all. The ceremony will bo performed with Masonic Honors, by Vincent Pyke Escp, Provincial Grand Master, assisted by the Members of the Punstan Lodge, who will appear in'.full regalia, also by the Members of the Lodge of Foresters. Special accommodation in the shape of a platform has been provided for ladies and children.

We have received Telegraphic intelligence to the effect, that His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh will arrive in Dunedin on Saturday the 24th instant. A s his stay is to be but short, we assume the races will take place on the Monday and Tuesday following. At a meeting of the Waste Lands Board, held on Wednesday, the 7th inst., the report of the Secretary for Land andWorksonMr. C. Colclough’s application for pastoral country, Cardrona, was read, and it was resolved to refuse the application Mr. A. C. Thompson’s application for pastoral country, Wakatip district, was refused. Mr. Warden Beetham’s report of application of J. Cochrane for bush license over a certain area, and for protection for a tramway near Juvenile Creek, Lake Wakatip, was read, and it was resolved to grant the application in accordance with the Warden’s recommendation. Mr. Spence’s valuation of Arrowtown was directed to lie referred to Mr. Hughes. Messrs. J. W. Robertson and Co.’s request for leave to build a jetty at Frankton, and one at Kingston, was consideredand it was resolved that the Chief Commissioner should communicate with the Corporation of Queenstown and the Warden of the district on the subject.

The following clause of the “Town and Country Police Ordinance, 1862’ is published for general information, in the Provincial Government Gazette: — “ any person shall establish, commence, or be a partner or otherwise beneficially interested in any lottery or any scheme by which prizes whether of money or any other matter or thing shall be gained drawn or thrown for or competed for by lot dice or any or any other mode of chance or shall sell or dispose of any tickets or other means by which permission or authority is gained or given to any person to throw for compete or have an v interest in any such lottery or scheme or shall under any pretence or by means of any device sell or dispose or endeavour to sell er dispose of any land goods wares or merchandise by means of any game either of skill or chance every such person being duly convicted thereof shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding 50 1, and for any second offence besides such penalty shad be liable to imprisonment not exceeding six months; But this provision shall not apply to the distribution of any property amongst the owners thereof or to any raffle of any work purely of art of which a notice

having tho name and address of the person intending to hold the same subscribed thereto shall have been given to the Superintendent if the Superintendent shall not within one week after such notice prohibit such raffle by notice sent by post or in any other manner according to the address subset ibed by such person. In tho Provincial Government Gazstte it is notified that under the “ Otago Municipal Corporation Empowering Act, 1860 ” his Excellency has been pleasep to appoint Horace Bastings the Mayor of Lawrence, a Justice of Peace during the terra of his mayoralty

From the Office of the Accountant in Bankruptcy, we have received tho following notice relative to the powers conferred on Trustees under the Bankruptcy Act, and which we publish for general information. —By virtue of the powers conferred upon tho Accountant in Bankruptcy by ** The Bankruptcy Act Amendmon Act, 1869, ” Provisional Trustees and Trustees in bankrupts’ estates are hereby required to furnish, addressed to him at his office, Custom House, Dunedin, the following information and accounts, viz —Every Provisional Trustee shall, upon taking possession of the estate, forthwith furnish a certified copy of the inventory and valuation of the bankrupt’s estate and effects. And every trustee shall dose Ids account and furnish a copy thereof at the expiration of the following periods :—First account at the expiration of six months from the date of adjudication ; second account at 1 the expiration of nine months from the same date ; third account at the expiration of twelve months from tho same date ; fourth account at the expiration of fifteen months from the same date ; and each succeeding account thereafter at the expiration of three months from the date at which the preceding account was closed. The above returns'are to be furnished in all cases adjudicated upon after the date of this notice, ‘•'

The English Mail, vid Suez, we are given to understand will close at Clyde on Sunday, May 9th. Under the Petty Sessions Act, it is enacted that an annual Meeting of Justices of the Peace in each district shall bo held. The Gazette notifies that the annual meeting at Cromwell is to be held on the first Wednesday in January, and at Lawrence on the third Tuesday in May. From the decisive action taken by Mr. Aldrich, contractor for the Shotover bridge, we anticipate being enabled very soon to congratulate our readers on the completion of. the Great Northern Road. For some time past sawyers have been engaged cutting piles and other timber for its construction During the past week the pile-driving apparatus passed through Clyde. The question whether Otago is to have a Bishop with Ritualistic principles, or no Bishop at all, according to our Dunedin contemporaries has been settled in the First Synod of Dunedin hi favor of no Bishop by a majority of four. The voting was, for Bishop Jenner, Laymen, 10, Clergy 4 ; against, Laymen, 15, Clergy, 3 The window of Mr. Barlow, Watch maker and Jeweller of 'lyde, last evening presented a very handsome appearance. In addition to the jewels of thcDunstan Lodge of Masons, which were on view, there were a. quantity of most magnificent jewels tha property of Vincent 1 yke, Esq.