LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 446, 4 November 1870, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Several waggon loads of machinery have during the week passed through (Hyde on their way to the reefs, a portion was for the Alta Company’s cbiim, Bendigo, some for Colclougli’s Company’s claim, Bendigo, ami some for the Roval Standard Roe Carrick Rages. Tenders have been accepted for the erection of each of the different batteries, and as the preliminaries in each instance are being pushed ahead the contract time we imagine will lie sufficient to have everything in readiness for the work of disintegration. Both the Alta and t.olclough’- Campanies have a quantity of stone on grass looking very well, and should the yield be up to the expectations of the hj ast sanguine of the shareholders, a season of prosperity and activity is drawing near. 'Hie batteries are of ten stampers each. The Royal Stan lard re f, alluded to before, is situate at the head of mith’s gully, Baim ckburn district, the reef, which is well defined, has been traced at an uni form thickness on the surface nearly the whole leng hj of die claim, and to a depth of nearly one hundred feet, with unmistakeable signs of being highly payable. The contract time for ] jutting up the machinery is some five or six weeks, at the end of which time, new life will be instilled into the district. Messrs Iversen, Grindloy and Co . the prospectors of tlie quartz reef at Conroy,s gully have again commenced operations, their intention is to open out the reef from the- surface, and raise thirty or more tons of stone from which they will take some ten tons, and have crushed, and by the result will be guided thei’ - future actions ; in the event of the yield being payable, they will erect machinery on the spot. The reef from what we have seen of it, fully warrants the trouble and expense that is bei g incurred, and ir. is to be hoped that all will be justified by the result of the trial crushing. ' ur readers are reminded that the Masonic Anniversary Ball will take place at the Masonic all, Clyde, on St. Andrew's Day, the 30th inst. We are led to notify tins in consequence of a minor having been promulgated that the event was to have come off a moirh earlier. This may possibly have originated through a too hasty perusal of the aunouncementThe Ancie t Order of Foresters, Court Star of Dmistan, as will be seen by’advertisement, intend to celebrate their anniversary by a ball, at the Town Hall, Clyde, on Wednesday next, the 9th inst. The monthly meeting of the members of the Dunstau District Hospital will beheld in the Council Chambers, on Monday evening next the 7th instant. In the 'Resident Magistrate’s Court, Clyde, before Vincent Py e, Esq., R. M., on Friday, October the 28th, Kesia Bolton was brought up on remand, charged with disintering a dead body at Drybread The evidence of the medical men and other witnesses went to prove that. the accused represented herself as being in the throes of child-bbth, and upon assistance arriving, the body of an infant was found among Inn- under garments. On the arrival on the scene of the medical in n, who had been -ent f r, upon examination of the woman and infant, he discovered that the accus al could not have given birth to a child for at least thirty days previously, and that the child was nne, upon which he had held a past mortem examination some six or seven weeks before, and that it must, have been disinterred; other witnesses proved the reopening of’he crave, after the above disclosure, and finding the c ffin empty, it having been forcibly broken open The accused wos committed for trial On Tuesday, Novemh-r the Ist, Duffy v, Phinn. Claim, 15/ Service of summons, incomplete, fresh summons to issue. R M'Nultv v Morrissey. Claim 3£ 15s. Defendant put ii a S'-t off for 4/. 195.. Adjourned to Black’s, for further evidence. Mr Charles Sykes, assist'd hy Mr J Dixon, gave an entertainment at the Town-hall, Clyde, on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Mr Sykes is. withoutont doubt, a most accomplish d pianist, and played selections from the most popular operas of the day in a manner at once testifying his perfect knowledge of the instrument and his sympathy vit,lithe feelings and genius of the coni) osers. The tricks of legerdemain were cleverlv executed. Mr Di on mak'samost eccentric “nigger,” and his singing and dancing diversified the e ening’s arantement. We believe it is Mr.’Sykes’s intention to pay us another v sit at no clis tant date, when the 1 ivors of good music skillfully execute 1. wII have an opportunity of gratify) g th«iv tastes

The Rev. Father Maloney delivered a Lecture at the School-house, Alex andra, on Tuesday evening the Ist instant, the subject being, “ Hibernia in the future ” to a crowced house. The lecturer reviewed the history of the Emerald Isle up to the present time, shewing how she had been persecuted, and how nobly she had braved it all, occasionally introducing an anecdote redolent of wit and mirth. Mr. Robert Fi day, who acted as Chairman in very appropriate terms, thanked the Reyerend Gentleman for the treat, and hoped the time was not fur distant, when he wouM again afford them such an evening’s amusement. An adjourned meeting of those interested in the formation of a Criket Club will take place to night at 8 p.m. at Eames’s Dmistan Hotel. By advertisement in another column it will be seen that a meeting of those interested in cricket will be held this evening, at the Dunstan Hotel, to enrol members and transact other business, The butchers of Wanganui have raised the price of meat twenty per cent This is owing to a scarcity of stork, brought about by excessive exportation Two Chinamen have been arrested at Ban Francisco for counterfeiting notes of the C : artered Bank of India, Australia, and China. Amongst the prisoners taken at Sedan was Mr. Robert Mitchell, a near relation to Mr. Francis Dil on Beil Mr. Mitchell has been connected with the Parisian press for a number of years past, and foil wed the French army in the capacity of special cor respondent. M. Paul de Cassagnae the notorious duellis l and well known journalist, was also taken prisoner. The Fenian General O’Neil, taken prisoner by tlie United States during the lute raid on Canada, has been sentenced to two years’ confinement in the State prison. There is a rumour that James Ste. pbens has left Paris for America, with a view to raise an Irish-American brigade for France. There is considerable talk in Paris aboutthe advisability of forming a foreign legion. That Fiance has no aversion to the services ot foreigners is proved by the fact that she is organising a ■Hanoverian Legion.