BLACK’S.

Dunstan Times, Issue 613, 16 January 1874, Page 2

BLACK’S.

( FROM A A meeting far the election of a School Committee for the present year was held on Monday evening last in the School-house As usual on r.uch occasions there was but a poor attendance, only si me twelve or fourteen putting in an appearance. Mr. R. Ryan was voted to the Chair. The report of the retiring Committee’having been read and received. Messrs. Cheeseman, Niven Dnndas. Pitches and Fitzgerald were apl pointed the new Con mittee. It appears strange to me, as it musf'to Ir all thinking men, that more interest is not taken in the matter of the electing of School Committees ; of those eligible, when anything is to be done, but few put in an appearance, but they are not slow in coming to the scratch if there is any fault to find—the subject of education is a very important ono, and I think parents would do well if they took a little more interest in it generally.

The subject, of the election of a Surgeon to the Dunstan District Hospital is enge using the attention of moat people one meet* with, and from what I can 3c arn, the general feeling is in favor of Dr. Stirling. Subscribers complain of having to travel to Clyde to record their vo tea, and express themselves in no vory flattering terms of the Committee of management for not establishing branch polling booths, or to say the least, allow voting by proxy—the pres>nt system is manifestly unfair to the outside subscribers and virtually disfranchises them. In this neighborhood there are between thirty and forty voters, but 1 am sadly afraid the number will bo considerably reduced if some action is not taken, whereby they have a power of exercising their privilege* without having to travel from here to Clvde.

Tiie lia vest i« now close to hand, ■with the crops looking delightful I Lave rto meat opportunity of knowing the state of the labor market, but from the fact of 31. "«r week and tucker being offered for rlurooean labor, 1 can only guess it is scarce. I hear that * >mn of the farmers are going i • for ‘he Mongolian element, hat the rate of wage* off.-re 1 ‘hem I oannot say. IVe bad a severe frost on Sunday night !a-t, w ! dch ha<-c sup!, tcly cut down the pntat o crop, and damaged the other root c -

’•ops. Al'a-n I'd the ijtti rive and anxiously a v-'i' tlie result of the meeting of the Shareholders of the Tiger r>a'e, Flour Mill an 1 Brewery Company to bo held on the 18th instant, it is not stated in the advertisement the obj ct of the Meeting—l sin ml 1 like to see as would many others a mill in the Di-triot, if in a central position it wo ill doubtless pay well, and give a great iinoe'us to farming for mill's arnu d, but as I have said before, the brewery must bo droppe 1. In mining irtatters there is nothing fresh

to chronicle. At No. 3 the Homeward Bound commence their new shaft in a few days—this Company has a largo and very rich piece of ground to work, their last wadiing turned out over 20i. per week per man. Mr. P. Ilovell lam afraid will not •uo'-eed in getting up a Company for some time to ci mo—men are very scarce, and what few there are knocking about do not possess either the energy or means fc.t projecting.