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Dunstan Times, Issue 521, 12 April 1872, Page 2

The Agricultural area gazetted some time since, as being open for occupation in Ida Valley on the run of Messrs Bell and Stafford as far ns we can understand is of no practical ngs, as it, is situate in a most inaccessible portion of (he run, there being no water near it and being miles of any read Intending applicants arc exceedingly indignant, and express themselves very strongly on the subject, we hope that.the matter will not be allowed to rest where it is, but that the block that wag thought to have been surveyed, will erelong be thrown open. Cn account ofa break down of the Dunedin Coach at Hill's Creek on Tuesday last through the breaking of an axle, the mails were not delivered until Wednesday Morning instead of 7 the previous evening. This (Friday) evening a meeting of the Building Society Will lie held for the disposal .of tbe tahoMife of twb shares. j

■ We have been informed by -Messrs Cobb and Co’s agent at Clyde, that on and after Monday next the 15th instant, the j Coach ] for Dunedin will start at 5 p.m instead of 0. ' Mr. G. Fache desires us to state that the Sale by Auction of Mr. Patterson’s freehold property, furniture, &c., advertised in former issues to take place on Wednesday next the 17th instant, is unavoidably postponed foranindefimteperiod, {.'dee Advertisement.) We have been requested to draw attention to the next evening Entertainment to ho given by the Band of Hope, which takes place on Friday the 20th instant, at the Town Hall, which is advertised in another column. Programees will be issued before the night of performance. The proceeds will be devoted to some local institution, and we trust to see a large attendance. Mr. Chappie reportshaving sold at Alexandra on Monday lash the Bth instant, vocable freehold iniuii; property, consisting of water-n ;]ita from the Earnsoleugh river, the property of Mr. Joseph Knowles, who is leaving for the oi l ennirry, rea’izing the handsome figure of 5001., the purchaser being Mr. Thomas Oliver. On the fnllowu g day, he also sold a stone cottage, furniture horses, &0., realizing first class prices. Wc have been informed that the first work in connexion with the .Garrick Hangs Water Supp ! y Company will be commenced to-morrow (Saturday). A pedestrian named Edwards was late’y matched at Wanganui to wall: thirty-live yards against ahorse galloping fifty- The horse obtained the best start, and Edwards was beaten by a couple of feet. A man named Thrniw Mayes recently gave himself up to tbs police, at Bendigo, as the murderer of “Yorltey,” at Miller’s Flat, in this province, in ISllfi. W hen brought before the City Police Court, ami reminded of the disclosure he .had made, Hayes said that, some years ago, in Dublin, ho fell from a scaffold, and seriously injured his head; and when he got drunk he said things that had no foundation. A local paper says that, as thero was nothing in the prisoner’s remarks to justify his detenti 'll, he was simply fined for being drunk. Hayes is described as a stalwart man, about fifty years of age, and a laborer. His right eye is ’’njured, and it is said that bo cannot see with it.

Our Cromwell contemporary, after drawing attention to the notice of Mr. T. L. Shepherd, M. H. R.. M.P.C., that ho would address'liis constituents at Cromwell, Clyde, and Alexandra previous to the next Session of Parliament, says: —“Will Mr. Hickey, our Provincial Council Member, make ne sign! He has in no way given his constituents any information as to his deeds and misdeeds when last representing them in Dunedin.”

The Arrow Observer says:—Mr. 11. Manners has publicly announced his intention to come forward as a candidate for one of the vacant seats inthe Provincial Council. He docs “not think much honor atfac :o< to the position,” but will, ho says, advance as far as possible the interests of tbe district. Tlie bonafeies of Mr. Manders candidature is however somewhat shaken when he says he “is quite prepared to retire in favor of. a local man,” but is not willing to the election of a non-resident. We have not heard of any other than local men named as yet. The Premier, in reply to an addres from the Borough Council of Hokitika, in which reference was made to the stamp and cereal duties of last session, is reported to have said : —“ With respect to the Stamp Act and what are termed productive duties, those were passed purely for fiscal purposes. That they are burdens bo admitted, and ho hope 1 that circumstances would soon enable their removal. A small duty bad bom impose 1 upon cereals, but without any intention on the part of the Ministry,

generally, to institute a pro tec live policy The duty was imposed as a ready mean' of making up a deficiency in the revenue, and with no view whatever in (ho divec'ion of protection. It was a’so a small solatium to a struggling industry, but ho doubted whether it would have much effect. At all events, so far as revenue was concerned, hdid not believe that the result of the tax wou'd redize the expectations which had le Ito hs imposition Neither did he believe that the tax had any injurious effect, as it was not sufficiently largo *o affect (he price of bread to the eon minor With; eg. no I to the Stairi Act, there could bo n > d mb' that its provisions were exceedingly t-on' b’enns, more pwtisuhrlv do ncr o-s engage I in mercantile pursuits; Tic was incli ic I to think it was a, faihi e, an : w ml 1 not realise the expectation i which led to ■ the enactment. It was devised for the purpose of augmenting the revenue; but, no doubt, it had become a source of considerable annoyance. He did not believe it would bo continued, though ho had not the authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for saying so.” An Auckland paper of the 21-t in-tanb says:— I ‘‘Thenotorious criminal, Isaac Robinson, again managed to effect his escape from Mount EdenCaol yesterday afternoon. It will be rsiaembored that on a previous occasion ho also managed to got clear, and that after his escape he went to a settler’s house and brutally assaulted, and then robbed him. After being at largo a short time, however, bo was .recaptured and sent back to prison, after standing his trial for the escape, and getting an extra terra of penal servitude. Ido was originally convicted of a highway robbery with violence, and is or rather was, yesterday, undergoing a term of sixteen years’ penal servitude. His latest escape was effected in a very ingenious manner. r>y some means or other not very clearly explained, he managed togc’po-s s ion of a warder’s suit of clothes; avd,’dressed in these, ho seems to ha-o p -v ;, free beyond the precincts of the ga, !. Rut ;it wasn6t lohg before ho was mis cl the police authorities were communicated with ! and men sent in pursuit in a'! dire.Pin .? 1 Up to a late hbiir last night, lioweve , he had not been recaptured.’’ 1 s