BLACK'S.

Dunstan Times, Issue 617, 13 February 1874, Page 3

BLACK'S.

(COMMUNICATED.) The lata nut weather was brought to an an . on .M nday in i.ning last by one of the mu t viol. lit stoi ms, ; ceompiiuied by thunder ,iu i lightning 1 over lemem -er (o have witnessed iu tin district. .No human lives were lost, 1 am thankful to say ; : ut no ineoiisideiahle amount of pi- petty was destroyed, including a valuable draught mare. The dwelling-house occupied by Mr Green (oh rgyman) was struck by lighming, which shivered one of :he coiner josts. The electric fluid then ran along the guttering, and entered a quantity of straw star, ed at '.in' other end or the building, actlii git on lire. Fortunately the fl, mcß were extiii-uished before much damage bad been done. A farmer named Carrigal had a valuable mare killed at the tame time.

A good deal of crciti raont is exhibited in regard t ■ the election of Surgeon to the Jiunstan Hospital. The feeling seems to he pretty equally divided between Dr. Thomson an i Dr. 'Hilling. I fata- that our Sehoolm ist-t-r, Mr Dixon, has pb.ctd his resignation in the hau-ls of the Committee. This, 1 think, is a pi’y, as he imui lo have the coulidince of the' whom of the parents; and now-a-days it it hard to gee a sintrude man to fill the vacancy. So far as mining matter* are concerned, eveiy thing seem* to l e in slain quo, auo the general cry now is tin great scarcity of wa.er. Bush fires seem to be the order of the day, two large ones having taken p ace on Mr Glassluid's run, which, wiil eatail a very to. S.del id le less lo the pi t - put-tor. 1 regret to say that some unprincipled persona have oeeli breaking down die fence of iho Cemetery, lor the supposed purp -re *: pu-.tiug in horses, it is api y that ihu dei-.edators cannot 1-e discovered and punished us th.y deserve.