TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES

Dunstan Times, Issue 540, 23 August 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES

[Per Geevili.e’s Telegraph Company.] Dcnedin, Aug. 22, 5, p.m. , The James Nichol Fleming has arrived a f ter a passage of ei hty-one days. The Alhambra’s dates are up to the 15th instant, y , ty. j-tt/- i | g ( The Victorian Parliament has refused to ratify "the VogeL cuna Duffy contrac f by thirty-five votes to fifteen, The Sydney Government offer a subsidy of £50,000 for a service, via Fiji and Honolulu, the boats to be 1,500 tons burthen, and twenty-five days passage. -. Small pox has hern stamped .out,. m ■» Wellington tele -rams say that Ministers expect to nave a majority of four. The following gentlemen were yesterday nominated for Caversham, Messrs. J. Crowe Richmond, Cutten and Tolmie. The Grahamstown Industrial Exhibition has been opened with great eclat, 't A fire occurred on board the harqu ■, City of Fewcastle at Wellington this morning, it is believed to he the act of an incendiary, a seaman, named John Rennie has been arrested. John Guilford, a fireman on board the Wellington, was killed by falling down the hatchway. Arnott, proprietor of the Wairarapa Mercury, under commitment for embezzlement, has died suddenly, a supposed suicide. The nomination of candidates to fill the vacancy in the Municipal Council, created by the resignation of Mr. A. Brough, took place at the Town Hall on Monday last the 19th instant, when Mr. James Hazlett and Mr. Samuel Welsford were duly nominated The poll will take place on Saturday the 24th instant at the School-house. From the report of the meeting of the Waste Lands Board, we learn that Mr. J. C-. G [Glassford requested that two parties who bad taken up land on his run should he rejected. The matter was referred to the Warden. * A charge of rather a serious nature has been laid against Mr. Stewart M'Cnmbe, of Black’s, by Air. W. A Low, of Galloway Station. As the matter will he dealt with to-day (Friday) n the Police Court, we refrain from passing any comment. His Honor, Mr. Wilson I I rey, Judge of the District Court at Clyde, on Saturday last held a sitting of his Court in Bankruptcy. to-aiorrow he will again sit in the same jurisdiction. The only case on the list is that of Robert'‘Morrison Stuart, of Alexandra. Wp are requested to state that the Rev. W. H. Beck will hold Divine Service in the School-house, Alexandra, on Sunday next. The morning Service will commence at half past eleven, the evening at seven, j The Bov. Mr. Coffey of Queenstown is shortly expected to leave that district, he having been appointed to the pastorate of Tokoma riro, in the place of the Rev. R. j L. Stanford who proceeds to Dunedin Our local machinest has been employed : foy- some time past in the construction of a plough for race cutring purposes. H ivring | it completed he gave it a trial during the past week, but we are sorry to say if did not answer the expectations formed. The ground tried was of a loose gravelly description hence we believe its failure, we are inclined to think however that in clay or loom it might he made to answer. Mr. Sie leberg’s steam dredge is at length in full work, and by report tho spirited owner is reapng the fruits of his Labor. As in all new works, there was some difficulty in getting the men to understand their duty and fall into theinvork, but that difficulty is being overcome and tho whole thing is hegining to work with great regularity and precision, and completely se’satre. tthe question as to the efficayof steam to work our river beds. Acccording to “ trial four men will be able to raise and wash about 15 loads per hour. A meeting of the members of Dunstan brass baud, was held at Mr. Cox’s hotel, i n Monday, evening tho 12th. inst,. T. J. Jay, was elected Secretary, and Treasurer, was instructed to send an order to Dunedin, for instruments. Rules were made for the present and agree I to, some of which were as follows. Band to be limited to twelve members. Two praoticenights in the week viz., We lusvl iy-<, and Situ-day , at 8 p.m. Subscription 2s 6d., each member per week, for which La id master will instruct and find music A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the procee lings. On dil. It is rumored that the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company, Bendigo, is to be registered underthe Limited Liability Act. Mr. Chappie reports that the usual quarterly land sales have not been so well at tended and that the amount of Land sold has not been equal to fom irjocoasionq at Roxburgh every section offer d was sold, whilst at Alexandra, and Clyde, few met with purchasers, George Henrv Chamberlain, whoso name is well known on the W< st Coast from his connection with Burgess’s gang, is now under remand at Hokitika, on an extraordinary charge of burglary. James Rowley, whose name is also familiar on the Coast and in Dunedin, where he was for a time a detective, was tho principal witness for the prosecution. He seated that lie bad been living with Chamberlain for some time, cooking and minding his shop, and he described how Chamberlain used to go through a hole in the floor of his p-emises, creep under several houses, ascend through a lode in Coulishaw and Plaisted’s floor, and return with articles which he had appropriated, replacing the loose boards in each case Chamberlain, he siid, then took the goods to a shop he hail in Tancred street, and disguised them by repainring them Detective Brown described the track which he discovered between the premises, in tho construction of which great ingenuity is displayed. From posters that are in circulation ; throughout the district, we learn that Mr. Chappie will sell by quetiou, oh Monday, the Orhproximojjhe Boa'man’sArms v Hotel, Alexandra, together with . the , household i -furniture, stock, kc., I i ■ i

We hear from Wellington that the Fitaah* j cial Statement, was moat favorably received, ■ I and the Government is safe. The Pleasant Creek Chronicle says:—‘’A: marriage was celebra’ed last week, in' which the bridegroom is four years short of hie majority, while the tender bride has just .turned fourteen ” “ .a , . Mr. Stratforih the , newly appointed Warden fnrthis district; arrived in town yesterday afternoon, the 13th inst, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Queenstown? He commenced his official (duties this morning.—Arrow Observes. . The Mount Ida Chronicle says:—ln connection with the present bad.weather we have full authority in stating that a miner, resident in Speck Gully, on his return hou e was unable to find his ordinary domicil-:, the whole affair being buried in snow. A favorite dog was, as we are' informed, left chained up to guard the hut, an* l was also buried up in his kennel. His fate we have not yet ascertained. From Cape of Good Hope papers lately received m Me bourne, matteis at the diamond fields are lepresented as becoming evory day more disorderly. Bobberies we-e frequent anddarinc) and calls on the Govern ment for protection were mgently advanced. Business was said to be overdone, the briskest trade which was carried on be ng in guns, which realised from &. 11. apiec< • From 50 to 90 were being sold daily, but a a parcel of 2000 was expected to anivi hourly, it was believed the price would soo fall. A member of one of the Oamaru mercantile firms informs the local paper th t h-. a day or two ago exchanged a bag of wheaffo) a bag of coal. Cash and coal seem both alike scarce in that quarter. The Tammany; gang in New' York, it would appear, hav» not yet given up th e struggle. Their object at the present moment is to shield the preseat judges bi whose instrumentality they were enabled so long to plunder the public. Tlie AW York Times says “It has been no secret that a large sum of money has been raised for the express purpose of bribing members o: the Legislature to vote against the impeachment or comiction of the corrupt judges. At first, the friends of these judges believed that they could successfully work upon the cupidity of the Judiciary Committee. But their confidence in then power to dishonor Mr. Prince and Lis fellow committeemen became shaken, and then they determined to fall back upon the Legislature itself. A fund amounting to very little less than 300,000 dollars has bee : raised—we are slating a sober fact—and placed in the hands of professional brokers, A. D. Barber and ano her, for the purpose of securing votes against the' impeachment of judges. There is also a rumor afloat of another fund, raised by Tweed and .Swency for the same object. Barber and his comrade receive 10,000 dollars by way of commission to start with.” Commenting on this statement, the Pall Mall Gazette reminds its readers that •* if any ’one sh- uld think the figures"give:i by Hhe New York Times too definite, and should hence feel tempted to reject the whole story as apocryphal, he should remem' cr that it was the New York Times which brought to light the Tammany frauds. Those who were able to get at Mr. Conolly’s hooks may well have succeeded in ascertaining the amount subscribed for expenditure at Albany.” In a recent issue, the New Zealand Herald spoke of the “miserable, cringing, servile, and dependent feeling which pauperises the land.” A few’days ago it referred to tho Hutt railway as something like a monstrous swindle,” or in terms'equa’ly elegant. According to Mr. Duffy, the “squatters of Victoria made a quarter of a million sterling last year.” A rather singular case of window breaking occurred in Wellington lately. A mob of sheep were being driven up the Beach, an when opposite Mr. Cohen's shop, at the corner of Harbor street, a wether, tired of tho control of the shepherd and his dog, made a sudden bolt, and, as the readiest means of escape ' which presented itself, jumped through Mr. Cohen’s plate glass window. It alighted safely behind the counter in the midst of a shower of glass, having cleared the goods displayed in the wind wn Here it remained in charge until arrested by the shepherd and dragged forth by the hind leg. Speaking of the existin' busmen depres sion in Tasmania, the Aye says : —The prosperity of the island is declining, but the expenditure is not, and cast-abouts arc made in all directions for schemes whereby a way of “scape from present difficulties may he found. The latest cry raised is tho cry for “Bepeal.” Ihe fact is that the Construction of Tasmania is in danger. It is too elaborate and too expensive for the present circumstances of the place. The island has never recovered from the withdrawal of Imperial patronage and exp nditure. Some gentlemen have the courage, whatever their wisdom nny tie, to look the matter fairly in the face, and are now forming an associafor the repeal of tho Constitution, and for obtaining a less costly Government. At the same time, the apathy ami sleepy-hol-lowism of Tasmanians are proverbial. They have gold mines, and they will not develop them ; iron ores, and they will not smelt them The public men of Tasmania are destitute of enterprise, and willingly let the youths of Tasmania, come to Melbourne, and help Victoria, ins’ead of providing means for making Tasmania a honje and a field of employment for Tasmanians. The climate and soil of Tasmania are sufficient to make the place prosperous, if the Tasmanians had the pluck to make use of them. Let the Tasmanians form a league for the purpose of considering what productions could he exported at the moat profit, .and where they could be exporte I to, and at once favorable fields for speculation could bofound. Until the residents of the island hhlp thcraselv- s, they will simply gb hack, still intake, Tasmania wjiLbo.-.ilfe os(Iy I laggard in the Australian colonies.

- Itis arranged;tfcjLhlftMe"drum ba-j held in the he wSchool' JloUse on Wednesday the 23th, September ih’aid of the Builuing funds. o, ' ' , An exchange g vys We observe by the Jedburgh Gazette of the 20fch April that Mr, Thomas Birch, of Uuuedin, was lecturing during that mbnjdi in Jedburgh, on New Zealand, and the advantages it offers to intending emigrants. ! Mr. M Lennan, the engineer of the companydomed rue ine purpose of dredging theMolynmx by tile pneumatic principle, we are given to understand before he left tire district, purchased the Hartley dredge, and that he intends with the utmost dep itch, haying his new dredge in working o,deri ■ Jf\ ■ : One of the whispers of the session is mentioned in the LyUleton Times thus :—A movement is on foot in the General Assembly, having for its object the removal of the seat of Government from Wellington to Christchurch. It is said that there is a strong probability of the measure being car' vied. :>V - ■ • M. Dangles, a learned exponent of Hindoo literature, says thut-the Egyptians obtained Horn Hindustan tiro basis or their religion, eacn Claiming re - elation irom GoU. 1 nave eoriecterl evidence to convince the must incredulous that the Pentateuch is made up from Egyptiou books, and the ordinal atiii exists in India.”. Mr John Bathgate in the House ofßtpresentatives, on the Public Wo. k.t Porky, said:—He condemned the whole administration of thi Gtner -1 Government, especially tie Immigration promised Otago, and the Urglcotof Scotch Immigration. He conlienmcd letting cantracts without publie tenner. He said the Mataura railway contract, given to Mr.Brogden, was 3U,(Jt)Oi. orlOjUUOf. above engineers estimab s. Correspondents inform us that the last fall of snow on the ranges was the severest experienced for some-years past, an 1 that unless the weather suddenly changes into summer, (no uncommon thi ig in this part of the Province for it to be whiter one week and summer the next', a most prosperous season may be expected for the miners. The whole of the Dunstan range, commonding the Drybn ad and St. Ba-ban’s diggings, have a very heavy coat of snow, as also have the Old Man and Cairn Muir ranges, which command the Teviot, Coal Creek, Butcher’s and Gonroy’sGullies on one the fall, and the Nevis and Bannockburn on the other. The programme- of the Dunstan Jockey Club Spring Race Meeting, to be hel-1 on the 20’h and 21st of September, which appears in another column, and to which we draw the special attention of our sporting readers, wi’l bo found to contain many improvements in detail to any former programme that has appeared before the Dim stan public. The most notioaldp improve ment is the smallness of the nomi lation and entra-ce fca. By this the complaint that owners were running their horses for their own money is put an <nd to. The, nevt is the short distances, which admit of young and grass-fed, horses contesting for the prizes, and lirit, is the variety of races, and the large prizes On the whole, we think the Committee have achieved a success, ami we hope to see a good field of horses and a large, assemblage of visitors to reward them for their pluck. A Dnnediu contemporary on our local manufactures says “We have been favored by Messrs. Cargill and Lanseigne wish s; ccimens of very excellent wines, at Clyde by M. J D. Feraud, and which seem likely to become a favorite beverage with everyone who enjoys a pure light wine. M. Feraud, who has had great experience as a vigneron in France, has not confined him. self, to the use of the grape in the preparation of his wines, but, according to the practice in Europe, has availed himself of other fruits, which oombin :d give them a peculiarly rich aroma. The wine which he cal’s tbe Ducal grape, combines the flavor of fi ur different kinds of fruit. M Feraud, in bis letter to bis agents, says in the South of France, wine of thisc’assis used princioal’y for convalescents and invalids. The secoul sample M. Feraud terms Constantin wine. It hj is the color of a-fine bright port, and is verv round full flavored. The Ihird vari -ty ,s a light Madeira ; made in the same manner, and from similar f-nits to the wines of Madeira ; while tbe fourth is an orange wine, ma le from imported fruit. M Feraud c usidershis w ires superior to those ofa simp lar class imported, and ai pea s to comparative chemical analysis in support of his opinion. He says: “ They are free from chemical agents, but they are tonic and stimulative.” There is a possibility that some connoisseurs might desire older wines; but newness, if it is a drawback, is one that time will cure. They are, howevf, so pleasant to tire palate that we have beard but the one opinion expressed by those who Lave tasted them, that they are very delicious, and free from that acid flavor which many persons, unaccustomed to Rhenish win '3 do not like. We believe they can be purchased at comparatively reasonable prices, for. being Colonial manufacture, they are not liable do duty. The agents, however, are the only persons who can give information on that point. The wines havoalrcady obtained a good reputation in the neighborhood of Clyde, am) we have no doubt they will sell extensively here.” Tho London Spectator of the 11th May contains the following advertisement:— ■ “Nose Machine.—This is a contrivance which, appplied to tho nose for an hour I daily, so directs.the soft cartilage of which ! the member consists, that an ill-formed nose is quickly shaped to perfection. Any one can . use them, and without pain.” , 1 The Dean of Carlisle has been denouncing tobacco smoking .as pestiferous. Well, we perfer a clouded atmosphere to a close one. • Mrs Partington, is collecting and will W.grateful 1; foi; ai)y specimens of the han4}sj&H>£' itera, ' " ’

An important judgment (says the New Zealand Htrald\ has justbgeu giy.en by the Court of Appealing a matteri.pf bankruptcy. The facts are simple.-,. A .creditor sues a debtor and obtains judgment. The .sej)tqr therefore files hjis peUtuin f in,, bankruptcy. The creditor proves qgaipst thq, bankrupt estate. Ihe debtor gets the usual protection, passes, his Hast, examination,;, and now proceeds upon the judgment previously obtained, and puts the debtor in prison. The question arises whether. tbo dfb|or is not still-under protection. The debtor, m the hopes of. release asks his d’scliarge from debts. He is however, that this will not cure the (wpsequeaces of, the. judgment and execution obtained in, another Court. The remedy is not to ask for a discharge in bankruptcy or a review of the judgment in the Court below,-but special application-to the Supreme Court upon affilavits setting out the whole of the facts. Ultimately the debtor is released, and he seeks to bring an action for false imprisonment against the execution creditor. He is, however, in-fo-med that an action for false imprisonment will not lie, as there was nothing to debar the creditor froip using the fruit of his judgment.This decision of the Court of Appeal points to some amendments in clauses 202 and 203 of the Bankruptcy Act.