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Dunstan Times, Volume 601, Issue 601, 24 October 1873, Page 2

| There may he many in the district who ! have not seen the no'ilica ion of the conI ami hall, to he given at Alexandra on [ Wednesday evening, the sth proximo, for the benefit of Mr. James Bimm<>nlg, who lately had his thigh broken We are as- ! sured the committee who have taken the 1 matter in hand are working hard to make the affair a success in every sense of the word, ami we hope the public will recognise their efforts by a strong muster. | Announcement, is made in another column of an entertainment to-morrow (Saturday) evening, by Miss Fanny Sara and Mr. Fred. Clifton, in the Town Hall. Clyde. From the general praise accorded them by tbe press we look on it that a treat is in store for us The entertainment is of a varied character, vocal and instrumental, and, from the evidence of competent judges, it is both pleasing and intelcctual, free from all coarseness, and may safely he- style 1 a drawing-room entertainment. Miss Sara, as a ballad singer, has but few equals, while Mr. Clifton’s buffo and characteristic songs are looked up nas ( erfect. It is so seldom that an instinctive and pleasant evening’s ent< rtainmeut is affor ed, we would a wise one and all to l>e present. The “ Wakatip Mail,” in notifying that the petition agaii st the t-a’e of the Wakat p ! Buns is being generally signed, says i “ We may just warn the Government that it is not at all unlikely that a standard of rebellion may he raised, and one which will be rallied round. We hate to acknowledge receipt of “General Government Gazette,” Han-ard, end a parcel of Parl ann ntaty papers, also, a volume of of votes and proceedings of the last Session of the Provincial Council, j The Otaio “ Guaidian ”in an article on , the Woolen Factory, says :—“ The ; enormous advantages to a joint st< ck Company of en'ering into pi SJcssn n of a large manufacturing business in full operation, on a definite date, without prcHmin; ry expen es, or waiting for erection of buildings, importation of plant, or all the risks and delays incidental to tbe starting of a new concern, will he at once apparent. Profits will accrue from the very day the expcrnes of the Cr.urpr ny begin, and it may confidently be said that 'soldi m, anywhere has such a property been i cquirod on terms so ad van* ag tons. For some time after the Mosgiel factory was opened one set of machinery was in use. Since then additions have been made to the buildings, and a second set has been erected. There is also room for another set, vhich, with twenty stocking-frames, is on the way out from Ilntain. The plant recently in use manufactures from 90,0001b to 100,00011) of cleaned wool annually ; when the new machinery has been erected, it will treat 120,0001b. of wool. And whin giving those quantities, we shmld expV.in that they only repusent something like one-half the weight, of the same wool in grease. Th’s local demand for wool is not, therefore, to be despised ; but as the undertaking is vet in its infancy, it is not difficult to foresee how very materially it will aid the farmers in the future.” The latest trouble at Maerawheuna is a notice issued by Messrs Borton and M‘Masters, who own a river frontage on the Macrawhenna river, That miners must cease work fur six weeks, while they wash their sheep. The “ Mount Ida Chronicle” says, —“We learn the miners are not likely to submit, and Mr. Farquharson has been despatched to Ennediu for advice ” For the Cromwell Derby we notice that there a ,- e only four entries.—Mr. Bussell's Lady Pembroke, by Elsvick ; Mr. Cotter’s Maid, by Elswick ; Mr. Atkins’s Bisnrark, by Morris Dancer, and Mr. Eaven’s Bosina. We understand a meeetinc of the Cromwell Jockey Club takes place this evening for the purpose of drawing up programme for their annual meeting. By the West Coast papers and telegrams, we learn that the Haast Eiver rush is not likely to turn out payable. We would advise intendin visitors to the Haast to await some more definite and favorable news before undertaking the journey, which at the Lest is an exp nsive ai d arduous ore.

Application to register the “Otago Autimir*y Mining Company, Limited, is advertised in the Oiago “ Guardian’’—the place of operations is the Garrick llange. The Mount Ida races, which took place on Friday and Saturday the 10th and 11th instant, were nut so successful as could have been desired, the local journal Saying the attendance was nut so great as the weather lnd us to expect,, and must have been rather disappointing to the lessee of the grand-stand and h-oih. 'the Maiden Plate of 10 sovs. was won by Sullivan’s Selina ; the Mount Ida Plate of 20 sovs., by Morgan’s Pickpocket ; Selling Race of 15 sovs., by Foster’s Coquet ; Hack Pace, by Foster’s Hamilton ; Trial Slakes of 3 sovs., by Foster’s Charlie ; Handicap of 3 sovs., by Foster,s Coquet; Consolation Handicap of 50 shillings, by Packman’s Nightcap; Handicap Trotting shillings by Cain’s Theodore. ’Jhe “ Brisbane Courier, ” in publishing some news legarding the Northern Territory, says : “ The greatest drawback to the piogiess of the district, at least by means of a European population, is the climate, which our inf irmant assures us, is *s- mething dreadful,’ and quite a bar to any extern ive or jennanent occupation by whites. The climate, ia fad, is sated to be so unsuited to whites that the development of the Territory’s great n sources w ill have to be even'ually carried ou by me-ns of Asiatic labor, which is easi’y obtainable as the Malays even at present very largely visit Port Darwin and he vicinity in their P"oas, and are extensive’y rmph yed in the pearl and beche-de-uier trades.” At a late ra -eting of the Queenstown Municipal Council attention was drawn to the position Mr, Warden Bectlmm occu ied in the district, an l the great coutid. nee Government placed in that gentleman The opinion was expressed that, as he had been so long in the district, ami his abilities were so well recognised, he should be recommended for promotion. What does it mean ? A Northern contemporary saya: “It is not generally known that on the Ist-id Janua y next qui'e anew scries of postage stamps will be issued fur-use in Ibis Colory. The plates \v. re received in Wellington by the Government Sain ut a monih ago, a id tin y are acknowledged by those who have seen the impressions to bo the most artistic designs of any stamps now being used in the Australian Colonies.” It appears that the appointment of the medical men on board emi. rant ships sailing fiora London rests with the AgeiuG- nural, and not with Shaw, Saville, and Co. This fact is said to be quite sulficb nt to account for he class of men generally selected. Deferring to the review at Spithead given in honor to the t-hah of Persha, the “North Ge nian Gazette ’ says: -, 1 The culminating pint of 'he pop: nine devised for ihe pleasure of lleSlrh bis tun m.ihul; he hnsseenwhat could not have bun win ersed in aoyother part of ihe earth—the mightiest and finest fleet in the world. 11 rent Briiain h..d collecled a jortiuu of hei fleet in one place, and pcsmtul them in 1 heir beet array before her guest. With just piide might the Lnjlish ) ei p'e ) oint to these (iai ts, and say :‘ V. ith the ships in re col leered alone ci uld we beat the combined fleets of all the voild, at d yet this is only part of our naval power, width is scattered over a 1 the seas of the globe.” Some attention has t ecu aroused in the medical world by the ticaimmt of cancer which is now being jatm.ed in London The doctor who introduced this method is a Bulgarian named Glob. He eon.ends that cancer is nor a local hut a geneial disease, and that it arises from the (reserve of a poison in the constitution, and that the kniie will never cure the disease, but only pi stpone its fatal effect. His remedy consists iu setting tip another disiasc—fever—under the influence of which the b.ond poison which causes the cancer is thrown off. We are told he has made sum marvellous cures. An Auckland paper says:—“ The true basis of commercial greatness is a populate n of intelligent artizans and mechanics. If we La’ie superior woikmen- men who understand th. ir business, not metely upon a ‘rule and thumb' principle, founded i n the natural powets if imitatim, which tea dies a man to do a thing in the way hj Las sun otbeis do it; but mm poi-see big on intelligent scientific knowledge of those natural laws that lie at the foun a i n ol ad n echanirs : then we shall make rapid at i ei aheal iu the are, science ■, and manufactures. It is to our aitizun we must look for the growth of tin sc in us rics which form the basis of permanent prosperity, and it. is therefoieto U e inreiest of everyone having a stake in the Colony to support, by nil the means in his power, evuy' measure having as its object the improvement of our mechanics in this iesped. ” After the burning of tha city of Chicago in ISG7. the propiittorsof the “Graphic,’ in conjunction with their artists and contributors, raised a large sum o money for the benefit of the sufferers by the late dreadful calamity 'lhe whole of the amount was not required, so the proprietors devoted the balance to a eommi.siou for a memorial}ictni callc, orically representative of the Great Fire an i the Great Charity which it called forth. The picture is now completed, and is to he sent to the new City Hall of Chicago. It is fifteen feet long and nine feet in height, and has been p tinted by Edward Armitagc, B.A The S’rickcn ci y, represented by the partially nude figure of a beautiful girl, is being supported by Columbia, while Britannia joins her sister in the wo'k of charity. The British Iron and the American Eagle complete the group while in the hack ground is seen the burning city on the one hand, aid the pine forest, characteiistic of the Western States, on the other. The man who conics on a stage exact ly at his one is prompt ; but the man w~j docs not come on at all is prompter.