The Dunstan Times. Beneath The Rule of Men entirely just the pen is mightier than the sword FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1871.

Dunstan Times, Issue 465, 17 March 1871, Page 2

The Dunstan Times. Beneath The Rule of Men entirely just the pen is mightier than the sword FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1871.

As Clyde will soon be honored with a second Yice-Regal visit, our citizens should lose no opportunity in making preparations for the reception of his Excellency Sir George Bowen in a manner befitting the importance of the town and district. It may, perhaps, be an expensive affair to pioperly receive Her Majesty's representative, yet wo must not forget that it is a duty we owe to our Sovereign, and as such an opportunity of showing our loyalty so seldom occurs, we should accord his Excellency the' Governor a most, hearty welcome in a Style consistent with Lis exalted pos'tion and

the respect we owe to ourselves, and which it is our ambition to win from others. Upon the occasion of the visit ot our late Governor, Sir George Grey, no expense or trouble was spared by the Municipal Council to make the affair thoroughly successful, and a success the reception proved in every sense of the word ; and'we feel assured| that, upon ithe present occasion, his Worship the Mayor (Mr. James Hazlett) will lose no opportunity of giving effect to the desires of the citizens in this matter. No other municipality or town upon the goldfields possesses such ample means for public entertainment. Our Town Hall has no rival out of Dunedin, and it would be a suicidial act not to test its capabilities to the utmost in honoiiug the Queen’s Representative. The position occupied by Clyde is the most central of all the Northern and Northwestern Goldfields, and it is nearly equi-distant between Queenstown, the Arrow, Wanaka, Mount Ida, and we may include the Tcviot. For executive or commercial,purposes it is the key to the GoldfieldsN.lt is a radiating point frdm 'Jvhlpli three-fourths of the gold-producing districts of Otago may be reached by not more than ten or twelve hours’travelling. Its importance is becoming recognised at official beadquarters. Soon we shall have the District Court sitting in its criminal jurisdiction here. A gaol and Court House (worthy of the name) will, as a matter of course, be built, when it will speedily be found that, having advanced so far, the exigencies of the public service will demand that branches of the Government departments, hitherto confined to Dunedin, shall be established here. The absence of a large mining population in the vicinity’of Clyde may, for the present, militate against its importance ; but we have this redeeming virtue,, that there is plenty of ground to be evened up, and it will not I’q.ng before extensive water supplies, hitherto running to other places, will be conducted here. This, in one instance, has been done already, and, from what we can learn, the example will so OU be followed. We have never lost faith in the future of Clyde, and if our citizens only exert themselves they will elevate the town to a position the importance of which they have scarcely taken into contemplation. The opportunity to distinguish ourselves and set our mark in high places'is now before us, and we must not let that opportunity slip, by neglecting to give his Excellency the Governor a reception becoming bis exalted position and the importance of the duet centre of official and commercial business on the Otago Goldfields.