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Dunstan Times, Issue 365, 23 April 1869, Page 2

The Escort on Monday last took own the following quantities of old: Clyde 2520z. Odwt. Cromwell 5040z. Odwt. Alexandra 2890z. 2dwt. Blacks 3020z. Odwt. Dunstan Creek 3140z. Odwt. Mount Ida 8690z. Odwt. Total ... 2,5300z. 2dwt. A t a meeting of the Educational hard held on Thursday, the 15th istant, Mr. Hislop'presented an aplication for a Schoolmistress at jueenstown, and pointed out that icre were now seventy seven chilren on the books, the number entiling the school to a mistress being ;venty five. The request was acce?d to, 75/. per annum being granted r the purpose. A discovery of a most important laracter to parties engaged in quartz ining has been made at the Pleasant reek diggings, V ictoria, where a paylie horizontal or flat reef has been laud feet below a reef forlerly worked at a depth of five hunBpd and sixty feet. This discovery ■expected to give a fresh impetus to Birtz mining. |h.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh w signified by telegram his intention ■patronising the Princess Theatre at ■st one evening during his stay in ■nedin. In order to afford lilting Homodation to the Duke and the He the proprietor is preparing the Htre box of the Theatre for their H;ption. Hn the Resident Magistrate :s Court Hiedin, a man of the name of WilH 1 Johnson Kelly was informed Hlnst by Constable Bevan, as a B le a,1( I vagabond. Detective produced eleven convictions H ns t the prisoner. Mr. Strode 9 the prisoner was a rogue and vagH>d in the true sense of the word, ■was the worst man he had ever in the course of a long experi- ■', and that Was saying a great deal. ■ was of the class that Justice ■imond had once aptly said should fined for life—as a pest to any of him as a pest for a short at least. The sentence of the B't was, that he be confined in her gaol for a period of four ■-hs, and there to be kept to hard lr - If at the end of his sentence to leave the ’province, steps be taken to send him out of TirA.es. B>m the I evict we have received to the effect that sale there on Monday last by Fache was a very satisone. The total amount realnearly 500/. 99 Friday last the Foundation Hof the new Town Hall, Clyde, with Masonic honors. On the whole of the shops and a genera! holiday Vincent Pyke, Esq., Grand Master, assisted by of themenbers of the Lodge, !■ the members of the Lodge of performed the ceremony. |B afternoon an impromptu pic-nic » ' up, at which every one was Croquet, foot-hall, and many ||B games were improvised, and we infer all were From circumstances, over have no control, wo have to a full report of the til! our next issue. |||Humernusly attended meeting at the Criterion Hotel, on Wednesday evening, of taking into considc■Hthe desirability of opening a |^H court of the A.O.F.—Knifed |HB District. After considerable it was resolved to establish Spiß’ styled the “Court Pride of and, from the general ex])ressed, there is no doubt g;." desirable object will meet success. happened to Mr. W. ’s Queenstown Coach, on 9|ly la-t, while descending the Rom the Arrow Flat to The kingbolt snapped, ■■fore carriage coming in con■■i the horses heels they darted pace. The conch capSEMrnwinu the driver heavily to Three children named girls and a boy—wlio from school were seand the wounded persons ved to their homes. The forward.-d to Queenstown in There appears no fault to attach to the driver.

The Sale by Auction of property in the estate of Charles Nieper, of Butcher’s Gully, a bankrupt, as advertised, will not take place, as other arrange ments have been made. In comparing the statements made in the letter of Mr. H. Wander's, Town Clerk of Queenstown with the published annual statement of the Corporation of Queenstown, \ve find that the calculations of our Arrowtown conespondeiiD were correct. A little wholesome criticism of the doings of local bodies is generally productive of much good, as a rule, it keeps things healthy. A meeting was held in the Council Chambers, Clyde, on Wednesday evening last, the 21st inst., for the purpose of receiving report of subcommittee in the matter of the Fire Brigade. Mr. Patterson in the chair. Two schemes were offered to the meeting 1. That the water be brought into the town by means of pipes. 2. The purchase of a fire engine and necessary apparatus. It was resolved, that two hand engines be purchased, at a cost of £ll, for the temporary use of the Brigade, and that a large engine should be sent for from England. We have received a letter from T. Stanbrook, late wardsman of the Dunstan Hospital, calling attention to the fact that the report of the SubCommittee appointed at the late meeting of the Hospital Committee, to “inquire into the excessive consumption of provisions, wines, spirits, die,” though agreed to by the said committee, had not been published for the information of subscribers. Mr. Stanbrook says that himself and the matron (one being stof man and the other housekeeper) have been forced to re sign their situations, and points out (in a rather personal manner) the person on whose shoulders the complaint of extravagance ought to rest. We have only to inform our readers, that our reason for not fully reporting the proceedings of the meeting referred to, was that it would occupy too much of our space, and that the minute book can be inspected by all and any interested in the institution.