ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Dunstan Times, Issue 611, 2 January 1874, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

A BRIDGE AT BLACKS. i „ .a a -Unix r a (to THE EDITOR nj TUB DUNSTAN TIMES). SirYogr p per being open to the', rpj cipiei.oy of public grievances with tlie view to their redress, I am ton-Gained to asl; y-tur advocacy upon a subject which ia to ino and many others, of the greatest im portance, This place has existe. as a wel established gold-held for the last ten years, and has maintained a large, steady population throughout that period, hut its success has be u very much retarded by the natural difficulties of the approaches to the township—there are imleul seasons when • owing to the flooded state of theMaiiiihorikia lliver—-the township becomes for days altogether inaccessible, and it appears to mu that at this time of genera, pros; erity when “ grants in aid ” are oi almost daily occurrence that Black’s itse! might na urally lock for some shaie in tin sui.pilrt Government a cords with so lavish a hand t-r works of public utility and wen], and I would suggest, as a means of r mi dying the evil cun plained of that a suspension wi e bridge be erected across the Mimuherikia lliver close to the present dangerous b. at, used by daring spirits sometimes as a means of crossing, hut which is (as has been found) altogether useless for that purpose. This bridge, to be used fo font and hoise passengers, ■mild be erected I have no doubt at a cost of about 250 A and the benefits derivable then from to ’he district at large would he incalculable. There are few living in the neighborhood who have not sadly experineed the want, of such a means of crossing for instance, a la ge number of the children attending the School here live upon the other side of the river, consequently they are ofren weeks together without being able to attmd their classes, an l if s..me sort of bridge is not erectol shortly, the Governnunt will be called upon to support a School upon the opposite side of the river. If you will give the mutter that ventilation anil assistance its importance merits, there is but little doubt that the Government will see fit to accede to the wishes of a large community, when their interests can he benefited by so small an outlay. Whi e upon the subject of improvements I may month n that a leh graph Station was to have been erected here more than six months ago, and the line between N -s-jby and "Clyde joined, but as yet, no sleps have been taken in the matter. Are the promises of the present “ pro gressivo Government ” like those of their predecessors, made only for the purp- se of obtaining support during the Session ? Your’a, &c., ALPHA. B’aik’a, Dec 30, 1873. JOURNALISM. O—— I The New Ymk Tribune, in a rather push--1 ing strain, says : —“ Newspapers are get ting to hemueh more than mere transcripts of the news and gossip of the day. They a-e pioneers in learned exploration ; they arc foremost in geographical and historical discovery ; they are teaches of social science. They are no longer Bath fled with disseminating the knowledge laboriously ei.lleftcd by savat s, by travellers, by experiment! vs in natural philosophy ; they must pursue their own investigations, and send tLeir agurls into nil the half-explored fields of science and adventure. The reporter ( f to day is the adventurer who pe-rn-1 rates the desert ami the jungle, the scholar who realties lot nliis if Ike formtten past, "he ci utter whol ears the new i f victory to Courts and Congrc-scs, across a wih'tn ess and thrnrph hostile a-mies, the det c’ive who pro s into public abuses ami oiscovers hidden wn nis, the pioneer who throw® new countries o) tn to the world, lire pliilantrppist who unbars the door of the torture chamber, the chemist who detects adulteration in the spice-box, the inspector who seize i false weights and measures, the auditor who exposes * theft in the public treasury. Journalism buses its If now with everything that affects the public welfare. It trenchis upon the provin e nee sacred to the scholar, and supplier the defec sof an inellic oit Government. Year by year its ambition becomes bvger, its purposes more beneficent, and its means more abundant ; and we can hardly doubt that it is destined in a very -h irt time to b e the forennst of all the secular pn fe sions— the most powerful in ts operations, the most brilliant in its rewards, and the most useful to mankind.” A schoolboy, In ing ropieotod to write a co pnsiti. n upon the subject of “pins, ’ ’■reduced the following Pins are very useful. They have saved the lives of a -sat avr/ an. vmn nl oVdlm-in fact, whole families.” “How so? asked the puzzled teacher ;and the hoy replied, “ Why, by n-it swallowing them.” This matches the story of the other boy wire de. fined salt as “ the stuff that makes potatoes tas’e had when you don’t put on any ” Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.Kheuma.ism, Neuralgia —lt is sometimes difficult to determine which of these diseases is afflicting the sufferer, but such uncertainty will be immaterial if Hollow y’s nmerlies he used. They alleviate a d euteall n.usiu’ar and nervous pain. In hen ditars iheimatism, after bathing the affected par’s with warm salt water. Hoiiowr.y’s Ointment should be well rubied up n the spot, that it may penetrate and exert its soothing and regulating properties on the deeper ves-els, and nerves which bring tlrclitly excited, cause both pain and fveiling. liolbwnj's treatment has the merit if ten e.ring the disease without de. b litating the 'constitution, which was the i t evitable "mu ted the Heeding, mercury, tic (riel htn i ire tree U.iD-uly atkpied | u these compiatiKs, ..

"A correspondent of Land and Water aiys incident t will relate concerning ,sharks. In 1859 I visited the spot nearJKawaihoe, on Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands, where the lava ■cured ium the sea, after running six‘y wiles down the mountain from the mouth if the volcanioVrater. Wo-went down in i whaleboat, and as we approached the i pot in the night the effect of the great nasses of red-hot lava flowing into the s--a, issing, seething, and bubbling like a nillion of steam-engines blow’ng off steam vas startling and moat fearful But somehing, more fearful still met our gaze. It vas a sight of— well I do not exaggerate n saying tens of thousands—of immense ihaiks as thick as they could swim, close in alongside the rocks, and seemingly comfortable and happy, and intent only on -heir own situation. Some of the wretches were nearly twenty feet long, and there they went continually rolling over and nixing in with each other ; indeed, a horrible and disgusting mass Suddenly one d the ladies put out her hand anl found •die water was very warm, and so we perilled off without stopping to investigate he shark question any further, ft m y have been the warmth of the water that attracted them, perhaps its sulphurous fumes. They were not there in search <>f ‘ond,at all events, did not seem to he oiti-ig, only playing about and enj -vine themselves. T hope never to see such a dreadful sight again. It seemed a fearf rl dream. To an old sailor th- sight of - snide shark is unpleasant, so just think of this horrid mass of sharks ! On our i assage down we notice 1 the sea full of small lead fish floating on the surface, "bieh we attributed to some suh-marine effect of the vn'canic action which hid broken out only a few days previously.