The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1874.

Dunstan Times, Issue 618, 20 February 1874, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1874.

Beneath the Buie of Men bstiuelt just the pejt is mioiitirr than thoswouD.

Mile. Jenny Clans, the eminent violinist, appeared in Dunedin on Wednesday evening, the ISth inst. There are three candidates in the field for the office of ‘Mayor of Arrowtown.— namely Messrs. Pritchard, Paterson, and Gohlston. On Friday and Saturday evenings last the Carandini Companv gave their entertainment at the Town-hall, Clyde, to moderately good houses.

It is notified by, advertisement that nominations for the Switzer’s and Waikaia Handicaps, Switzer’s Race meeting, will be received up to the 20th instant, instead of the 12th instant as previously advertised. Ey our Dunedin contemporaries we learn that Sul ivan, the bloody participator in the Maungatapu murders, has been shipped to California. If our American cousins do not ship him back again with “ a flea in his ear” we think they should do so. With respect to the shooting season, which in former years commenced on the Ist of March, nothing is yet known, and we would therefore advise sportsmen to await the issue of the proclamation before using their guns.

By proclamation, the “ Thistle Ordifiance, 1562,” is now in operation within the Invercargill Hundreds District. It may he as well to have the Ordinance brought into operation in this district, as we notice a most luxuriant crop in full bloom in many parts of the commonage.

Dr. A. T. Thomson, the newly elected Resident Surgeon to the Dunstan District Hospital, was duly installed in office during the past week. It Is rumored that Dr. Stirling has been .offered very handsome sums to locate himself by both the residents of Cromwell and the Teviot ; but it has not transpired whether he will accept either.

A telegram reached Clyde ‘on Saturday last to the effect that the Provincial Executive had resigned. As there was no mention of such a thing in the metropolitan papers, we can only conclude the sender cf the message was indulging in what to him wgs a joke— pointless’one, to our minds. We reeived the following telegram yesterday Morning : jdifliculty appears settled, business going on as usual.”

To day the District Land Office, Clyde, will be open for receiving applications for the block 0f2052 acres of land at Roxburgh, which is for sale on the deferred payment system. We have no doubt but that a greater area will bo applied for than was on Tuesday last for the land at Hawea. The prospectus has been circulated of a new weekly paper in Melbourne, to be called the Social Reformer, price 4d. The Herald says “It appears to emanate from the Spiritualistic school, and promises to be very hot on society at large, but whether the object is likelv to go any further we know not.”

The West Coast Argus says—“ The leek up at Ahaura, was crowded to such a degree on one night recently with “drunks” and otherconfinees, that at 12 o’clock the officer in charge was reluctantly comp lied to refuse further applications for admission The [numerous candidates remaining aoroad at that hour were informed that they would have to seek lodgings elsewhere.” The inhabitants of the Otago Gold-fields, or rather those resident within a radius of fifty miles of us, must of a surety hj i racing mad, or ave have been mishiformel. The rumor is that races are to be held on St. Patrick’s Day, the 17th of March, at Black’s, Spear-grass Flat, the Nevis, and Cardrona.

The Cromwell Argus savs :—“ We have heard a rumor that it is the intention of Dr. Stirling to fettle at Cromwell, as a medical ; practitioner. We cannot say whether or not there is any foundation for the report ; but, from the expressions of pleasure with which the report is received on all sides, we should certainly think the Cromwell district would be a aood field for the exercise of Ur. Stirling’s abilities. The new line of road now in course of odnstrucrion from the Alexandra Bunt to

Butcher’s Gully, when completed, will make travelling rather more comfortable and less dangerous than it has been hitherto. After once moulding the terrace from the river, the roadway will ho nearly level. Messrs. Paget ai d Ballantyne, who have the contract, are making good work. Sir. T. L Shepherd, M.11.1L, for the Dnnstan District, lately addressed a numerously attended meeting at Queenstown, whereat he referred disparagingly of several Gold-fields Members’ conduct during the late Session. He was accorded an unanimous vote of confidence by the meeting. We hnpo to have the pleasure of hearing Mr. Shepherd’s views before the next Session of Parliament.

Mr. C. Holloway.a prominent member of the Agricultural Laborers’ League, ami chairman of the Oxford distiict, arrived by the steamer Mongol, nowin quarantine. Mr. Holloway comes out in charge of the 'immigrants, and also been instrumental in forwarding those who will come out in the Scimitar, which is [announced in our telegram published to-day as haring sailed. There is every reason to believe that Mr, Holloway proposes making himself acquainted with the special advantages which New Zealand offers to agricultural laboiers as a field fur immigration.”—Daily Times.

"Instructions have been given to the various Gold Receivers to leccire parcels of gold for transmission to the Melbourne Mint ; each parcel to be not less than ten ounces, an 1 to have the weight of the contents wrtten thereon by the “transmitters. The parcels must be lodged with the l!c----ceivers the day preceding the departure of the next escort. All information may be received from the Receivers.—iS'gned) Horace Bastings” 'I he above is a copy of an advertisement issued as an extra by the Southern Mercury, and received by us on Monday night last. The Government by this step show a de-ire to mete out to the mining community the full measure of justice. We hope after this to hear no more grumbling as to the juice, given for gold by the Barks. The value of an article is just what it will fetch, and if there are any amongonr mining population who can afford to transmit, their ;_old to Melbourne, the others who by circumstances have to sell in the local market mint perforce be content with the price obtainable.

The District Lul l Court on Tuesday, the day appointed for the receiving.of a; • plications for land near H.iwea on the dcferred payment system, was besieged, and Mr. A.D. Harvey, who was acting on the occasion, was nigh driven crazy by answering “None 1 ' to the oft-reneate 1 question r ‘ ‘ How many acres applied for ?” The whole thing, the asking would he settlers to travel a dfetance of sixty mires to lodge applications for land, is so much like a joke that wo do not much wonder at Tuesday’s result, and are not by any means displeased From every district is to be heard the indignant howl of complaint at asking people to travel so far for what should be obtained by writing. If the Waste Lands Board have no power to receive applications for land other than personally and at certain places, wo would advise that no land bo thrown open until the law can be amended. The people have been without land so long that they can surely wait a little longer. An English Opera Company is shortly to appear ia Doacdin.

This evening (Friday) the Kennedy Troupo aro announced to give their highly amusing entertainment at tho Town-halh From all accounts there should be a large attendance, as wherever they hnye hitherto appeared they have given great satisfaction to crowded houses.

Henry Clapcott, Esq., the'travellingsubCommiasioner under the Government Life Assurance scheme, who,'it will be rcinembered some short time since paid the district a visit in oonnetion' with the insurance of lives, has for the past few days been again amongst us on a similar errand. To day ho leaves for Cromwell, Arrow, and Queenstown. He will return to Clyde, and then visit Black’s, aud so on to Naseby. Mr Clapcott has exhibited a vast amount of energy and no small degree of skill in connection with the officehe holds, and we are exceedingly pleased to notice that the Government have recognised his abilities, and appointed him to a permanent office in the department. The office we understand ho falls into is that of permanent sub-Commissioner for the provinces of Wellington, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, Nelson and Marlborough. The Wakatip Mail says :—“ We understand that Mr. Falck, our local postmaster, has been most successful in his efforts to get lives insured under the Government scheme. Since Mr. Clapcott, the travelling agent, left the district, some three months ago, Mr. Falck has added over thirty policies to the large number now existing in fins district, besides do ng much towards Mr. C'apcott’s success during his visit. The thirty proposals represent a sum of 10,500(.”

The Mongol is in quarantine. There have he n sixteen deaths on the voyage. The diseases were scarlet fever, bronchitis, diarrhoea, measles, and scrofula. Sickness appeared immediately on leaving England, on! Moke cut about four weeks after, there having keen sixty-seven cases and four deaths from measles, twenty-one eases and five d-iatus from scarlet fevor, eight cases and five deaths from bronchitis, one death from sunstroke, one from diarrhoea, and one from ulcer. All the cases of racash s have now ceased. The diseases are principally among children. The young men and women are all free. The clothes of all infected Lave been destroyed. Her mails have been landed and fumigated. Her passage was accomplished in fortynine and a halfdays from land to land. iEgles, in the Australasian, has the following :—Among the early anivals in Victoria were two sons of a decent Scotchman who kept a very small Hosiery shop in a narrow wynd in Glasgow. Commencing as shepherds and Lullock drivers, the brothers, favored by circumstances, acquired large squatting properties, and one of them expendeb 20.0U0f., it is said, in the erection of a line mansion on his estate. The other brother , was one day dining with a friend in town, and the- conversation turning on this subject, the host, to gratify the guest’s vanity, expressed surprise at the good taste displayed in furnishing the new house. The guest seemed put out; hut, after a pause, said with marked emphasis, * Father didn’t keep a palace exactly, hut we were aye accustomed to good furniture.” The Maerewhenua correspondent of the Mount Ida Chronicle says: “Mining matters at Maerewhenua are very quiet at present. Water is scarce, and consequently not much gold is being got. The miners here arc highly mindful of your very able articles on the river pollution question. The Association is resolved to contest the matter of right of pollution. Mr. Stout, has been, as you know, retained for the defence. Our pastoral friends were anxious to secure his services on their side, hut failed, I think I may say that one of the ablest advocates, probably in New -Zealand is, in this instance, on the right side. The different Associations ought to remember that this is only a trial ease, in which success to Horton and M‘Master means the striking of a death-blow to mining enterprise on the Gold-fields—a blow that would render all sluicing properties valueless; and the Gold-fields towships cities of bankruptcy.” Andrew Hume, who was despatched by the Sydney Government in 1872 to search for tiaces of Leichardt, and to recover relics of the expedition, has arrived by the steamer Boomerang. Ho reports that he found I Japan, Leichardt’s second in command, with the Blacks at the head waters of Steward’s Creek. 'Clapan was getting verv decrepid, and anxious to return to civi’ised life, but was prevented by the Blacks. Glapan wrote an account of the failure of the Leichardt expedition. It a qrais that Leichardt’s part} - , after a struggle with the leader, left him, when pushing on to the north-west coast. Clapan at the time was searching for water, and when he returned ho found Leichardt insensible ami the camp broken up. The horses and most of the equipments were carried off by the men. Leichardt died five days after meeting with Clapan, who can point out where Leichardt’s remains are. The Black’s say that Leichardt’s men made for the settled districts in South Australia, but were killed on the way by th • natives. Hume has in his possession Lcichardt’s quadrant, a watch, and about seventy-five pages of his records.

We take the followingfaom the Australasian : -‘"An individual named John Graham, who calls hinuelf the editor of Graham’s Review, New • Zealand, managed to draw about eighty people together at Trados-hall, Lygon-street, by the announcement that he was going to expose Spiritism. After stating that ho was not actuated by any mercenary motive, he put a moneytaker at the door, and then -went round himself among hisaudienoe, saying, ‘Como, put your hands in your pockets, and let’s see what you’re going to give.’ After this practical commencement, he began a loudvoiced abuse of Mr. Tyerman and Spiritualists in general, The speaker road his ‘.cnnkcUais ’ at ]«)gth with great

unction, and asked if they were not something like credentials. ‘He stood there upon his native heath, and they were most unimpeachable credentials. ’ Ho commenced his experiments upon a little fourlegged table, upfa whose top the bauds of a number of little boys were placed, and after observing that the phenomena about to be explained were the result of natural laws, and not of the intervention of spirits, ho gave the table a preliminary tilt with his own. powerful hands, and then left it to the little hoys to manage at the word of command given by himself. He declined the services of three volunteer adults from among the'aadienee, stating that ‘ ho was the'leotmer, and he had already taught a lesson in Otago.’ It was incleeo a most cout e’mptibleexhihition. ”