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Dunstan Times, Issue 543, 13 September 1872, Page 2

From a paper laid on the C'ydo Town Council table, we leavu that the assets and liabilities of the Coi pora;ion are as follows; —A;sd’s, Cash in Jiand,. 225/. 'Bs. sd. ; unpaid rates, 74/. KJs. lUs. Total, 348/. 9s. Liabilities, 8/. 5. Od

From advice? by the late mails the price of all Metal and hardware goods is still in. creasing with every prospect of a continued advance. Mcrsrs. Oliver, and Hlph, issue a circular to the clt-ct that Car iro r is n .w 24/, per ton, and sheets and plates 30/, per t n.

There will soon bo no lack of inventions before the public for extracting the g-Id from the bed'of our gulden rivers. Th • latest is the invention of a Mr. Baird ■•{ Dimeniu and styled the tubular River bed e tpl rcr, the following is a description of it as givtii by the Daily Times. On Sunday morning last, about 2 o’clock, the residents of Clyde were awoke from their s’uml ers by the omi on? cry of (ire! mingled with the screams of the wotne.. living in the locality. In an incredibly short sparo;of time some thirty mm were i n the s e re of the confagr ttion, a detached wood and iron building, situate nearly in the centre of Snndvrland-street, between Dr. Thomson’s icsi.lcnce and Mr. doss’s svddbry. A plentiful supply of water running immediraely in front and on one side of the building, with the ai 1 of buckets, was soon brought to bear on the flames, and quckily subdued them ; but, however, not before the place was completely gutted and every article of furniture reduce I to a heap of ashes. It being an exceedingly calm night,"from the first it was sem that the adjoining buildings were in no dang r, so those who were out on the first alarm quietly' struggled with the devouring e’ommt, and quickly gained a mastery of it, thus leaving, until the.following morning, fully two-thirds of the town quite unconscious of the occurrence. We reiterate the bight was calm, withiscarce a breath if r.ir. Had it been fotherwise, we' dread to surmise what might have been the consequence, as, before the alarm was given, the lire had obtained a strong hid I. As he matter is to he investigated to-day (Friday) belo'e E. H. Ca'ew, Esq., Con n- r, and a jury of twelve, al-o as there is a man in custody on suspici n of sctling tie place ■ n we shall here..regain from.further i comment.

Mr. Patterson’s application for a r. duetion of the ri nt for his -brick yard at Clyde, ] from s'. to 21. per annum was refused, it 1 being remai ke 1, that if this a -plication was 1 g' au’ed there would be nobn lof applications ' of a similar sort. *T Iu the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dun- 1 edin, a man named PeinoQ, was fined 15/. 1 and costs, for an assault upon one Gallagher, * corai. itted in the 'billiard-room of the 1 Empire Hotel. v . 1 In the debate on the Deceased Wif-’s 1 Pis'er Bill, Mr. Taiaroa,. one of the Maori mend ers, suggested reform in a new ' ' irec'ion : —“ln his opinion it was absurd 1 to wait till the death of a wife to marry her ’ sister—the Maori cus‘om was infinitely * pr. ferable; h-- failed to see why honorable ' members should not have half a elozen wives.” Mr. Jam n s Holt has got his new iron < water-wheel iu position. The pumps and connexions are not perfet'e I ; but, by the time the wa‘er is carried to the proper 1 elevation, every thing will be in readiness for a start. Mr. Holt, during the past. 1 season, has he-n put to very considerable * exp nse and trouble, and we hope that ke may, for a long spiel!, enjoy a good streak ' of fortune. 1 We >eg to acknowledge i ereipt of a num 1 her of pap.rs fimi 'the Government pi-in-ter, consis'ing of satistical tab'es in antici ■ pation of the annual volume of statistics of New Zealand for the'year IS7I, relating to 1 fiance, ) ost office, telegraph, trade, and 1 in’e:changemeteo 010-gy and population, also 1 three numbers of the Hansard A jury was summoned to appear at the Rcsid.nt Magistrates Court Clyde b foi e E. H. Carew Esq., C Toner on Tuesday morn’ng lost to investigate into the causes of the late fire, l ut owing 1o the sudden illness of Mr. Win. Grindley, the principle witi e-s the.prnci edings ■“• ere postponed til Friday next the !3th mst., at 11 a.m. at which time it will he necessary for these gentlemen summoned to atte-nd as jurymen and witn s.es to put iu an appear ance, A barge or puntTs Title 1 with a water wheel, to be driveifiby the river current pumia, ami hydraulic press s, kc., The water-wheel 'or v.oikin the pumps and pie-sis is in fr ntofthe barge; in the ci nTe there ; s an o; en space th tough which tubular sections, of iron 4 x IS feet are Breed into the soft bed of the liver by hydraulic 1 nssure, a'lowing ifce v a'er to be pumped out. when the groin dca i bo wo ked, the tube going down with the shaft, and fiesh sections being joined by screw hobs, as wanted. The sections can be unbolt el and drawn up, to be use 1 again. A pressure I frame fits over the tube. The inventor of this-ewgol.l-scan-herchum*f r it ngreitly I iucicatedfie'd for oj eratiens Thebottomsof river- can be searched for deposit-'that can-n-1 bo touched l.y the usual spoon-dr. elge, i ami -hafts can I e sunk in ground, under water, to any dcp'.h. I For List ■ f Horses entered for the two handicaps at tho 'ensuing Itaeu Meeting, and - hu weigh s they are respectively to carry vve refer our readers to the Advertise- j inent in another coliin n. j Mr. Fache, repor's having sold by Auction on Wcdne-day last the tight to occupy the Grand Stand and Ho) so Paddock on 1 lie Dun.-tan C. man during the ensuing Dace I Me. ting realizing in all the sum of I 13., (Is. j On Friday evenr g last, at Eame-’s Dunstau Hotel, Mr. Nut all, the proprietor of | the system to woik the bed of the Molyncux - by means of subma'ine bo ts was interviewed b a number of gentlemen, including I many who arc into: rated in diedging for 'gold. Drawings of the boat were laid . n j the table and the- whole ays■ cm was minute y isplnimd. The .plan proposed j has been mo-t favoian'y reported on by the most i mm nt civil and practical ,en T eers ot Victoria, whe e a -beat was built an 1 tes el. We hope at no distan date, to so ■ mo of the boats doing duty on one or oth. r of our golden beds. he boat i* so connived that she can ho suhinerucd iu any part of (he river with ihiee men, and when on tho bottom, af er removin'/ a pm tion ot 'he bottom, the men can woik and sluice he dirt as if , hoy were on the dry link. Every contrivance that science could suggest to r- n i\- the thing a success has hewn provided. Light and air are supplied, also the m ana of slutting the boat from one po-t.on of the liver to another, or to rise to the surface. Mr. Nnttall prop:'sad that a company should be formed to build a boa‘, cq’ a inteiest to be held by the p ojeefors as by th • company, and that, i the invention is succes-ful to construct an un imited number He said, when in Dunedin, Le had been mo-t favorably met, an I an offer had been made him to test the 'invention but he woul I rather have some lip oouutry shareholdeis than the whole affair should be. in the hands of the jeo le of Dunedin. No arran.cment was come to, those present expies-ing themsclv s desirous, before mov ing in the matter, to see what the Dunedin capitalists intended doing. A vote of thanks to Mr. Nnttall for his kin'b-ess in explaining the invention was recorded, and the meeting dissolved. We p rceive by the Arrow Observer that the Licensing Bench there have boldly taken up the cudg'-h against intemperance by refusing a publican’s license to an applicant for a second hotel between the Nevis and Mor\cru Ferries, upon the grounds that a second house was not required. We quite indorse the views of the Arrow Magistrates. Onr high-wnys and bye-“ay3 are so beset with drinking shops that they are not only a tax upon travellers, bus ’'have beconr* a positive nuisance. Three public-houses in nine miles should be amply sufficient for . the most thirsty traveller, without adding ■ a fourth t" this sparsely -populated neigh- ) | horhond. We hope tpc example will be i follow ed, ami the progress of an evil stayed, i that promises otherwise to sap the very i vitals of our g'.ld fields. • -T he piice of the {..ur-pound loaf in Mel- | bourse has risen to Bd.

On Fri ay Evening next a Ball is to taka place in tin* Pulilic Library Hail Alexandra j and on the f "Honing evening a Bazaar will | bo held,, the proceeds arising from each to be devoted to the funds of theDunst-n District Hospital. The name of the Committee , 1 of gentlemen appointed to carry out the ar- ' rangemeuts, a re'a sufficient guarantee that every thing will be do* e to ensure the comfort of all who may attend; and we hope that on each occasion to'meet a goodly company. The dearh of Mr. John Ca‘to, the well- ■ known squatter on the hodden, is reported j in the Australasian. On proving of the 1 will the personal! ies were sworn under C",000/., and the realty will amount to 40,0001. From a New South Wales pap’r published at Gulgi np, we extract the following on d it. It is stated, says the Bathurst Times in reliable ciicles. that a man named Barrett has set up a claim to the land on which the stons of Mr. Webb, and the Bank of New South Wales are erected. The property was \ uichased j eats ago flora the Official Assignee ofanL solvent esta'e. Mu Barrett hasproc ede 1 to Sydney to lay his claim before his solicitors, for the purpose of commencing proceedings in equity. Wo can <nly assume that Mr. Barrett is our old friend. Mr. W. J. Barry, and can only wish him -access. The Ti ntonic tailor of a Per.sylvania villa; e havinjmarih d a second wife i-.decently 8"on after the funeral of the first, the young men of the p'ace signified their di-aproval by a tin-horn seinnde duri-'g the progress of the wedding feast. The vulgar fraction of a mmi expostulated in the following stylo: ‘T say, bsys, you ought to le a-hamed of you. self to be making all dis noise vender v.-.s a funeral here so soon. A Victorian payer relates that “some li tic time since a heathen Chinee was journeying vast a homestead near Cameron’s Hill, and observing a remarkably fine gamier among a flock of geese, he trailed a baited fishing-lino within a few inches of his intended victim’s n -sc, who of course gobbled it up. John at oi ce put on steam, amid the abirme 1 cries of the saviour of ancient Rome in his immediate rear The din created b: ought out the old lady of the house, who. 1 e : ng lather short-sighted, interpreted John’s fight as bi ing caused by Tear. ‘Stand still, Jol n ’ she 1 awled; ‘stand still, a.-rah, and he’ll not harm ym.’ John however, disappeared over the neighboring ri*c, with ' his appaient [nrsut-r in full cry. it is need- , bss to add that was the last se.n of either. During a class meeting held several years j since by the i etLodht* le term ■ f a South- | ern village of America, Broth.r Jones went among he colored portion of the congregation. Finding there an ohl man noto- ] rions for his endeavour to serve Ood on the j Sabbath and, Sa an the rest of the wrek, I he said, “Will Bio*her Dick, I’m glad to* sec vou here Havn’t stolen any turkeys since 1 saw you last, Brother Dick;” “No, no, Biu-Mei J lies, no turkeys.” “Nor any 1 chiikc: s, Brother Dick? ’ “ho, no.Bir.dder j J-nes, no chickens.” “Thank the lord, Brother I fled! That’s doing well, my brother said Brother Join s, laving Brother Dick] who immediately relieved Ins overburdened conscience hy saying to a near n-.-i hj our, w i'h an imm- nso sight of lelief, ‘,Bf he'd a sabl ducks he’d a had me '* zEgle.q in the Australasian, toys: “ Gradually the old landmarks are being S'ciptiwav. The lurid splcmhur of the shilling diink has, up to this lime, maiut hied its.lf in the Be chwor'h district. And now this time-honored relic of the ti. e old lavish days must go with the rest: R - gardless of the tiadiims of his craft, a I'cal iovern-k eper announces a series of lu lls—‘Tickets, to admit ho y and g ntlcinan, Ss. fid.’—and thus continues: ‘The proprie or, Velio-ing that in- oeent amusement is ns nec- ssary to the mind as food is to the ho ly, wi 1 exert himself to the utmost to make this scries ere utable to him-elf and satisfactory to his patrons ; and as the grave, the gay, and the comic clem nt is known to exist iu the locality in an eminent degree, ho feels assured tba . the acme of enjoyment will be experienced by all who honor him with their presence.’ Should i milling further he repuired, th - climax will be reached when he announces that ‘All beverages will be fid,’” “ A very remarkable c .incidence,” says the Ballarat Courier, “in which some perceive the hand of a retributive providence, happened last week to a miner cm a e l in one of the quartz ni .es near Buninymig. This man, while suffcr'ng in der S' me real or imaginary wrongs from one of his mates, gave expression to his feelings in a torrent of abuse,” and concluding by wishing the drive would fall and smother the object of his fury. The words were scarcely uttered when a lump of earth, which, as des ribed by his mates, was largo enough to crush a horse, fell from between the cap-pieces on to the shoulder of the author of the impre cation, ciushing him to the ground, neck , and h> c!s together. He was quickly extricated fr m his position, when it was found that no bones w ere broken. The man had ro -cived a flesh wound near the small of the back, which had s Tu-atcd his clothes and 1 fi led his boo’s with blood. Although hr is 1 able to move about, he is still very weak.”