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Dunstan Times, Issue 622, 20 March 1874, Page 2

I In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Clyde, ■ since the last Court day, there, was only i one case of drunkenness. The privileges in connexion with the Dunedin Races were sold by auction, and realised the sum of 1,192k 55., being 4451. Bs. Cd. more than last year. The Daily Times devotes a paragraph to 1 a prodigious growth;of oats. From on* seed there were thirty-seven stalks and two thousand one hundred oats. We have rcceived.the last monthly num- j her of the Illustrated New Zealand Herald. It is fully equal to previous issues, aud contains a number of illustrations of general interest. Two of the Clyde Hotels have changed hands during the past week, Mr. James Patterson having let the Old Bendigo Family Hotel to a Mr. Blue, late of Dunedin, and Mr. T. Hawthorne takes from the late tenant, Mrs. E. Smitham, the Bendigo Hotel. We are given to understand that the contractor for the portion of road from Cooper’s Gully to Clyde, has taken off all the men he had employed on the work. We hope the stoppage of work is only temporary, and that ihe whole contract will be completed before the rainy season sets in. We regret to announce’that the Rev. Mr. Withy, who has for some time past been in delicate health, was taken alarmingly ill during the performance of Divine Service, at the Kawarau Gorge. The reverend gentlem was removed to Jag er’s hotel, and medical immediately sent for. Mr. Withy’s state stillcauses great anxiety to his friends. At a meeting of the Clyde Public Library Committee, on Monday evening, attention was directed to the fact that several persons were habitually enjoying the advantages of the Institution without contributing their moiety towards its support. In the end, the Secretary and Librarian were requested to take the necessary- steps to induce members to pay up the amount of their subscriptions. Mr. Burwell, architect, visited Clyde on ' Saturday evening last, and paid a visit of inspection to the new Court-honse. We are given to understand he expressed himself as well satisfied with the workmanship and material used. During his visit he was ' instructed to prepare plana for the new ! Athenaeum bunding to he constructed by . the side of the Town-hall. E'even days only remain, that is to the 31st instant, during which time persona desirous of having their names inserted on r the Electoral 801 l for the district in which , they reside can do so. We cannot too , strongly, urge upon every one qualifying himself for having a voice in the election * of representatives. Forms and full infermation as to filling them upi are to be had 5 of the Clerk of tbs Court, ar'at the office 3 of this paper.

It is announced in another column that the Bishop of the Diocese will officiate at j Morning Service, with Confirmation, in j the Clyde Church, on Sunday next, the 22nd instant, commencing at eleven o’clock. j Messrs. Yeend and Pope’s new line of coaches between Tuapeka and Clyde has co nraenced running, the first coach having arrived at Clyde on Wednesday evening last, and returned to Lawrence to-day. This line of coaches will he of great benefit to the travelling public, and w« wish the proprietors every success in their new enterprise. Just as going to press we received a communication from Messrs. Chaplin and Co., the proprietors of the well-known Cobb and Co.’s line af coaches, desiring us to convey to the public, per advertisement, their thanks f r past favors, and to give them the following intelligence : —That the fare from Dunediu to Dunstan in future will be 21. 10s. In this issue we take this mode of making known Messrs. Chaplin’s liberality. Next week an advertisement will appear conveying the welcome news. Dr. Niven, who for some years past has been practising'at Black’s, has removed to the Teviot, where, we learn, be has gone into practice, and has accepted the position of medical officer to the Odd Fellows Lodge, Eoxburgh. We join our contemporary. the Tuapeka Times, in wishing Dr. Nevin success in his new sphereof action. According to Sergeant John Cassels, Inspector of Nuisances for the Town of Cromwell, that town is the dirtiest in New Zealand. One yard in it is alone quite suffisufficient to cause sickness in the town. The large parcel of gold—over one hundred ounces—brought into Clyde during the week from the terraces at the rear of Clyde, by Messrs. Lindsay, Anderson, and party, and which has been obtained by them since the Christmas holidays, must convince the most sceptical that gold docs exist there, and that in payable quantities. The point may now be considered settled, and we have no doubt but that Clyde will, when llartie, M’Nally, and Co.’s race, which is being constructed from Chatto Cieek on to the ground, re-assert herself, and claim other than the lowest place on list of gold-producing districts. The Mount Ida Chronicle says:--Mr. Dillon's contract, to finish work given up by Messrs. Bierce and Fraser, has been completed and passed. Sixty to seventy men are now employed by him on the lower contract—both Europeans and Cbinomen. I One mile of the nine is already cut. Dillon j has now completely cut sixteen and a half : miles of the race. Mr. Johnstone has completed, we believe, two, which gives eighteen and a half finished. We have no j information as to the progress made on j those contracts in the hands of Mr.Ahbott. It will be seen that this large work is thus I being gradually completed. | It is our painful duty to record the death 1 of Mr. Roderick Stronach (brother of D. j Stronach, Esq., manager of the Ida Valley i Station). The full particulars have not | reached us ; but irem what we are able to | gather it appears that on Friday, the Gtb | instant, the deceased and Lis brother William were at Teviot, and proceeded to return home to Switzer’s ; that on reaching . the saddle of the range, the brothers parted, ; each taking separate tracks. William arrived homo safely, but the deceased did not. The following morning a search parI ties were formed, and a strict search was | made ; but without effect, until the following Wednesday, when deceased was found on Mount Whitccombe, his horse lying i close to him, both dead. The remains were I conveyed to Switzer's, where they were ! interred. The last mail from America brought the interesting information that the ship Splendid had left New Bedford in the month of November for Port Chalmers, where she will take up her head-quarters as a whaler. The Splendid is a ship rigged vessel of three hundred and sixty tons burden, and is owned by some miners at Blue Spur aud some persons at Port Chaimers, On the arrival of the Splendid in port, she will no doubt set to work at once, with a view' of securing for her owners the bonus of 500f. which is offered by the Government for the first cargo of whale oil. It is to be hoped the Splendid will prove to be the pioneer of a large fleet of Port Chalmers, whalers. This is almost certain to be the case, as, from all accounts, whaling in these seas will prove to be a very prohtahle industry, even without the aid of Government bonuses. Then are tricks in all trades, and as it is more than suspected that in the preparation of flour in these colonies there is not always honest dealing. In South Australia a disclosure has just been made which promises to have a disastrous effect upon the export trade of the colony. A large business iu flour has sprung up between Adelaide and the Mauritius, and a letter from a Mauritius firm has heun mado pubj lie to the effect that flour lately received | from Adelaide has been found unfit for human food, apparently causing nausea diarrhsea. and giddiness, and analysis has proved that the flout has been mixed with a deleterious substance of some kind. The letter adds that the Mauritius authorities , have ordered about three hundred bags to he destroyed or exported. Nothing, indeed, is more likely than that the flour in question will eventually find its way to an | Australian tree port, where it will go into . consumption. It is not an uncommon 00, , cnrrence in Melbourne to get bread made of wevilly flour from the best bakers, until , a complaint is made, w'hcn the genuine ar- | tide is immediately forthcoming, thus ( proving that there are even dishonest ( bakers —Leader. ) The following Vein arks with regard to a r system of endeavoring to get work dune i for nothing, although made by the Wanqa- . nui Chronicle, are equally applicable to I most New Zealand towns, Greymonth not s ! excepted “ Our patience has been tried j beyond endurance) and mu pockets have

suffered severely by the'propensity of certain people for getting advertisements on the cheap. The religious bodies are the principal, but not the only, offenders in this respect. A bazaar is to bo held, the congregation is to be amused by a festivity in the shape of u tea meeting or otherwise or Mr Smith, the missionary, is about to tell his experiences at Timbuctoo, and forthwith we are called upon to publish the fact without fee or reward. Sometimes we areasked to do so id the form of an advertisement ; sometimes of a local paragraph ; but in either case the terms offered are the same -a gratuitous announcement. This statement, however, must be qualified a little. We are now and then offered a third, or, when the applicants are of a liberal disposition, half the usual charge. —The plea is “The congregation Is poor.” No dppbt, but we are poorer ; and we domost solemnly assure these gentlemen that for every line of matter which aopears in the Chroniele, we have to pay compositors to set it, pressmen to print it, the stationer for paper to impress it upon, and in addition, we have to pay manifold other expenses in the shape of rent, insurance, lighting, wear and tear of type, and so forth ;and the whole of them too in downright hard cash. We may bo yoor, but our compositors do one jot—they will have their wages or else they will not work. Our stationer, althoug believing in charity in the abstract, never supplies paper on those terms ; in short, we connot carry on our business without money- We really hope our friends will take these remarks in goodi part and act upon them. A newspaper is a commercial speculation, and if it is to exist at all, must at least pay its working expenses.”