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Dunstan Times, Issue 610, 26 December 1873, Page 2

Mr. Bastings, when at A'ex.w'ra lately, spoke most favorably of the punt and the low rate of chanres ; hut sai l, however gool a punt might be, a bridge was better; and, on his rc'nrn to Dune Hu be would call for tenders for the building of a bridge at Alexandra, on the usual terms. A bridge across the Molyreux is wanted, and we hops tho people of Alexandra will not, like their neighbors at Clyde, a'low the ctin to be taken from their lips withont making an eTort to prevent it.

The Provincial G iveni neat Gazette notifies tliat a Mock of land on the Lower Hawea. containing one thonsai.d five hundred acres, is set apart for neenpa'inn on deferred payments, and w 11 he open for application on the 17th of February, 1874. Also that the block of two thousand five hnndr d and eighty-two acres at.Roxhnrs.li, Teviot District, will he open for app’ication on the 20th of February. Applica‘l ius must be accompanied by adepnsit of 1«. 3d. per acre, which will be credited to the first year’s rrnt. At the usual weekly silting of the Waste Lands Board, Dnneliu, the following local matters were disposed ofMessrs. Robertson and Hallenstieu applied for a lease of or to purchase a piece of land between their mil! sitemnd th-Kawarau nr. LakcWakatip, for the purpose of erecting a factory : rnferred to 'he District Officer. The appliesti■ iofo. T Marie, fur a coal-mining lca«e of Sec ion 117, Block 11,, Leaning Rock District, was refused. The np lieatinn of .lames Flm‘ to exchange his base of ,cectinnt 31 and 34 to 40 ine'nsivo, B’ock TIL, Sholover, under Claus t (>2, was approved.

The Standard Insurance Company arc now prepared, to take risks. A fish-curing establishment has been started at Palmerston. The duez mail took one hundred and ight thousand ounces of gold, besides 75,0001. in specie. The Victorian Royal Society have held a discussion in favor of burning the dead, instead of interment as at present. The Tuapeka Times, in speaking of Oastlomaine, Victoria,says : Castlemi-me is an inland gold-field, and not a rich one. The contractors of the Naseby Sludge Channel are employing Chinese labor in its construction. About seventy arc now engaged 0:1 the works, aad they appear to be giving satisfaction.

The Arrow .Miners’ Association has voted Mr. V. Pike its thanks for the m inner in which he has represented the district in the Assembly. According to the latest English nows, Marshal Eezaire has hern iouul guilty by Court Martial of the charges brought against him and condemned to military degrada’i'Ui and death Mr. Chappie disposed of, by auction, the privileges of the Matakamii Racecourse, realising 277. 10s, Mr. Dkk'e being the purenaser. The A'cxandra privileges were knocked doom to Mr. D. M ‘Donald for 97 10s.

We understand ihat Mr. Henry, though unsuccessful in his tendering for the mails betwe u Clyde an 1 Queenstown, will continue 1 1 ran his woll-app anted c radios or the roa 1: and we wish him a fair share of public support. in tie lb-si lent Magistrate’s Court, Clyde on Tuesday the 23 d instant, before James Ilazlett, Esq., J. P, Margaret Arm Wilson, alias Stoy, on remind from Cromwell charge 1 with bigamy, was remanded till the 30th instant.

The inquest on the ho ly uf Agnes Smith, of Coal Creek Flat, Teviot, who died in childbiith, is adjourned for three weeks for the attendance of a witness (Mr. Luke) from Tuapeka. We have received a eery of Mills, Dick, and Co’s Almanack for ISTL The volume is a decided improvement on past years. It contains a large, varied, and well-selected amount of infovmotion, and should meet with good support. The Agent-General telegrams that five vessels, with one thousand and forty emigrants, sailed for New Zealand during the month of Novo nber. He also announced that eight vessels, with eighteen hundred adults, would Sail during December, on i January, one vessel would sail from Belfast and one from Queenstonn.

| The Cromwell Pacts take place to day and to morrow, for most of the events there are good fields ef hj irses ; Alexandra Races on the Thursday following, being New Year's day, aud Alatakanui on lire two days following, the 2nd an 1 3rd January, 1874.

In the 'leneral Government Gazette it is notified that the Corporation of Queenstown having irsued all the necessary n>tires Under the Mittrcipal Corporation’s Water Works Act, 1572, thr contraction of waterworks is now an authorised one, and may be carried out under the provisions of the Act.

liy le'o.-o ice to our advertising columns, it will hj seen the time for sending in lenders for road contracts, T.wiot to Alexandra, is cxbnde I to the 31st instant, an i fur her, the tenders are to be sent to the Provincial Engineer’s Office, Dunedin, instead of to the District Engineer as previously advertised.

M ;lcs, in tho Australasian, says : “fus before the .Me hcnrne Cup day thirty-seven biaoch lank became cuddo 1\ mnvell, ainl needed a \isit to town in nth i to consult a metropolitan doctor ; and that a fen- hundred c mtmorci d taavellcrs were compelled to cone in for fresh supplies. Would they (beaks) have recognised as readily a day of huiniluti .n and prayer.

Tn-i Stum i Act with nforrhei to the transfer of sharer in J-bit Stock an I Mining Corapa do being liable to be read in a variety of ways to suit either the pod ot or di position of the reader, the Gnvcrnineut have demie I it d sirable to put a plain interpretation on the Clauses, and thoroughly expos t tho penalties for any infringement. We refer our tea decs to the advertisement relating to the same.

The recent heavy gales of win I have played sad havoc with the fruit crops, end dispeled the hj ’pcs ma -y in 'ttlged in that fni't of a 1 kinds would bo sold at a rea onanlc rate during the inming fruit season. In ev. ry garden there is a severe b ss, in some mine than in others. Mr Feraud, of Monte Christo, estimates his loss by the ton. At the Teviot, we believe, the loss is

nearly an i n* ire one. Tlie Kennedy family, the famous Scottish vocalists, arrived in Dunedin at tha beginning of this w,ck. The agent of tha troupe, Mr. VVi li am Kennedy lately made a tour of the Province, (pissing through Clyde) with the ohje’.t of nuking preliminary arrangements for the Company who are about to make the circuit of the Province. It is believed they will appear in Clyde during the race week in Februarynext.

The Dailv Times says—“ Mrsus. Hallenstein m 1 C>. have commenced the bust ess of their new clothing factory in temporary premises. Mr. ,f P. Anderson being the managns partner. The staff for the present cnns ; st,s of three cutters, a forewoman, a leadin; operator for the sewing department, a forewoman for the trousers’ department, another for the pressing dapartmen*-, and other supervisors also. E-ght heads of divisions have been b-onght from Melh unis-. The business when compitted will give employment to 300 or 400 hands, almost all of whom will be girls. The wages to be earned wo understand are goo 1. even in Melbourne thirty shill nps per week can be made by a fast girl li&ty thing is done by piece v.vik.

A block of five thousand sores of hind.' near Macrae’s, wi{lbe sold, pu the deferred paymsnt system, on, the 80th of' April, 1874, the purchase money to he paid at the rate of 2s (id. per acre per annum, in advance for ten years, when the laud will become freehold. ’ ,

As will be seen by, advertisements, Mr. Fred Clifton’s company will visit each each centre of population in the district during this festive season. To-night and to morrow night they will appear at Cromwell, and in all likelihood, during the beginning of next week at Bannockburn Wednesday next they appear at Clyde ; Thursday, at Alexandra; and on Friday and Saturdau, at Tinker's Gully. After which they proceed to Queenstown. The entertainment given by this company is in every sense an enjoyable one, and is well worthy a visit. Mr. Clifton is inimitable in Lis impersonations if character, while Mis Fa- uy Sara is a charming balladnt. Wc hops to h-ar of them being well patronise ’. The manager of the Shotovcr Tcrraci Gold-mining Company, in bis late report says; -“Most of the preliminary worknecessary for the commencement of blocking are in a f invar 1 state, and oidy await sheet-iron cages and trucks from the foundry to compl te. Dri-ing is being carried on with the avrate&t possible spent at both ends, to connect with Pleasant Creek, for the purpi se of bringing the whole available water through. When this is done, washing will commence, which will probably be four weeks hsueo. All the new ground passed over is profitable for blocking. The shaft is compl ted, and the mine thoroughly ventilated. As far as the prospects’of th mine are concerned, in answer to tin se win are so free in stating unfounded opinions, 1 am quite satisfied that I shall be successful in making this a profitable work ” The “ rumbling Tom,” an ingenious arrangement, self-acting, by which the waggons used m conveying [duff from the tiinnca ar e emptied, and which has been successfully tried in Dunedin lately, is the cage above referred to. AVe glean the following description of tiie tumbling tom from the Daily Times “Itis an iron care, rather larger than one i ft ! e waggons, balanced in a peculiar way on a shaft, and placed so as to project over an embankment at the end of a line of rails. The loaded truck rushing down the lilt ', inters the cage, or tumbling tom, which thereupon tilts over, lilting.the track over with it also, and the stuff is thrown out, As the iron work of the tumbling tom catches only on the tim of the waggon, the stuff is instantly shot out. The tumbling tom, on the waggon being emptied, rights itself, and causes the -waggon to rush out of it on the line.” The waggons and tumbling tom are being made by Messrs. Kincaid, M‘Queen, and Co., of Dunedin,