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Dunstan Times, Issue 624, 3 April 1874, Page 2

The fallow ng —c?r.- ; .ie.; .-n Commissioners nr e At,-* : - Far C’ytio and AurA-indra Willi iters o ford ; John I'iTij; >. am hr ug« ; r,aJ IT Conway Jones. For Blac’oS—Wil i-m T Burse , vViVara Or j' F- , ■ !l.~r i< John. erm-.. ‘ For Arrow—Archibald H. ’Douglas; Peter Butril ; and William Pat-ta-un. For Queenstown —Jamo* Don'.las; James W. Roberts n ; an 1 F. BoyeaA Napier journal states that a new difficulty has arisen in that rirnvince with respect to that bungling piece of legislation : “ The Licensing Act of 1873.” Three parties who have made applications for licenses for houses now in course of erection, are prevented from obtaining the same through some interpretation which has been put upon it, which neither Magistrate or lawyers can unravel. The opinion of the attorney General has been taken on the subject, bat he appears to be in as great a gnanivy as other mwaSors of the Bw. -

. .• i’’' 5 . ■ : ex . The next sitting of tile District (.mart at Clyde is fixed fof Monday' th,e 13th inat. The inhabitants of Roxburgh are pe. tltibning to have the township declared a Municipality. Conditional tenders for n bridge across the, Kajrarau, at the Morvcn Ferry, arc invited in tho Provincial Government Gaiette.’ Jl. v - ' rt i VjL ' The Tuapeka Times is informed that thef dnhabitapts of Blacks have -petitioned tho , Government to appoint Mr. W. U. "Burke, a Justice of the Peace. Tho usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the 'Dunatau District Hospitil will be held in the Committed room, Town-hall, Clyde on Monday evening next, the 6th iast. Mr Wesley Turton, Solicitor, Queenstown; baa been appointed by his Honor Mr Justice Chapman, a Perpetual Commissioner for taking the acknowledgments of married women. One'oflthe*public vi ho was present at a recent silting of the Westland Provincial I Council, states that two of the country i members spoke m Committee collectively seventy-four times in the space of one •hour am) a half Two men. Belcher and Drake, who styled themselves “ bookmakers ’’ tiguj-ed in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin on. a charge of assault. Belcher was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment with hard labor; Drake got off, it is said |he “ squired it with the prosecutor. | The North Dunedin Telegraph Station I will be opened iu the course of a few I weeks. The telegraphists will be two | young ladies belonging' to Dunedin, who ! have qualified themselves ,at Wellington I. for the duties of the office which they are lab out to undertake. Daily Times. | Wo understand that Mr. Stephenson, the | proprietor of the Caledonian Claim, Garrick [ Range, has .succeeded ir forming the same i in to a company, under the provisions of the i Mfning Companies’ Act. The capital is | 6,0001., in . three thousand shares of 2/. i. each, j TV; have heard of several shares at I Tinker’s Gully having changed hands lately j gad at very satisfactory prices, A 15th share in the XL. Water-race and claims ’ was sold {or 3001., and a 12th in tho Blue | Duck Water-race anil Claims for 2801. Mr. j James Hill was the seller in each instance, j Thy Bruce He raid regrets to learn lha j the crops in the Tokomairiro district are 1 very poor in the threshing. We are in- : forme-’ that in this district, also, at Blacks, and at Spear Grass Flat the returns after ! threshing, in many instances, exceed* expectations, while as a whole, they are be yond e average. j '1 no latest Telegraphic informal ion’from Australia about- the Palmer is—*“ Great privations continue at Palmer river, owing to the scarcity of provisions. The natives are very troublesome. Two men have been killed, aud three wounded. The gold prospects are satisfactory, hut the country is inaccessible. For assuming, togethsr with the outward semblance of a gorilla, the [playful manners of one, to the’groal terror of women, children and nervous people, a soldier, on furlough from the 12tU Foot, was brought iii’a monkey-dress, complete from head to tail, before Mr Benson, at the SouthwarkH’olice Court, Loudon, and was ! ordered to find security for ajmonth’s good behaviour. The .-Colonist says: “A Presbyterian Church, not two hundred.milca from Nelson, being left without a minister, a douce elder was sent by the session to the Geheial 1 Assembly to advocate the appointment of another minister. He was asked what j amount of stipend his congregation would be prepared to pay ? He answered, ‘Hout faix, mon, we maun seethe mon firs. Na,’ na, we dinna likc.to buy a pig in a poke.’” Messrs. Findlay ,and Co., timber merber merchants and proprietors of .the steam sawing and planing mills, Dunedin, have issued an illustrated catalogue of doom, sashes, mouldings, &., as turned out at their manufactory ; also is there the ground plan and front elevation of_various sized cottages, thus.making the work one of great j use, not only to the trade, but to those j about to build. We shall be happy to give ■ a sight of the catalogue to any who may i call at our office. | The Auckland Evening Star says j “ Death has been busy among us during ; the lasf two or tnree weeks, and carried ! off several young women merging into the j summer of life. Whether or not there is i some invisible agency at work in the matter we cannot say, but the death of young , persons who counted on a long senes of : years and happiness should bid us pause, j sad be extremely careful as to the nature I of our food aud drink aud habits of life ” Speaking of the Chinese, a contemporary j remarks:— “We believe that during tho late scarcity of labor Chinese have been - employed by contractors, and the com : piiisou between ‘ John’ aud the European ; ’i v we are informed, by no means disparaging to the forme'r. 1» fact, John makes a : vary good navvy ; and deducting the dif- ; faience of pay between him and his E uropcan brother, the advantge, if any, is on his side.” A contemporary says:—“ It is generally supposed that, although illegal to sell liquor on Sundays to any but travellers, it is quite lawful to sell it to them. The Licensing Act, however, lays it down most distinctly that no liquor shall be sold at all on Sundays, except to siich persons as actually have slept in the house on the Saturday night, or are about to sleep there on the Sunday night. Hence the most thoroughly bona-fide trayellorship gives no right to the purchase of liquor on Sunday, aud as the law now stands, unless the buyer be actually a lodger in the house, and any one desirous of ■* shouting - ’ on the Sunday must, as-an imperative preliminary, first erder his txd, ‘which is absorb’ ”

In the course of tUe.trial,nf ,Jbhty iM‘Neil at the Supreme Court, Hokitika recently for robbery, apropos of the prosecutor’s excellence of memory as to the whereabouts of his money, whilst he totally failed to remember whore ho himself hud passed the night, the Judge remarked upon the curious fact in physiology that in alljthe cjsts of this description which lie had tried, ho found that when a man got djpnk ( the very Jast tiling that he forgot wpsthoiparticular pocket in which he carried hiscoin on the occasion. —Grey River Argus. , A rather amusing incident occurred the other day, not one hundred miles from the quiet ami rural township of Donald, near St. Arnaud A happy couple, just married, hoto of- bashful temperament, the lady being noted for her absence of mind, arrived at a certain hotel the first day of her bridal tour. In the middle of the night the lady aroused every inmate in the hotel by screaming out that there was a man in the room. She had quite forgotten her marriage that morning, and it was only after the poor unfortunate husband had been kicked out, that she happened to recollect it.Referring to the company recently formed in Melbourne for what the French call the “ exploitation ” of Mow Guinea, the Grey River Argus mentions that some years ago Mr Hartley, one of thn discoverers of the Dunstan Gold-field in Otago, fitted out a small schooner in Melbourne for the purpose of prospecting a part of New Guinea, where Mr Hartley had been wrecked when in an American whaler. “ Hartley (says the journalist) “ told the writer of this paragraph that during the time he and his fellow sailors were on the island repairing their vessel they found alluvial gold in several streams and that the formation of the country warindicative of a gold bearing region. We believe that Hartley’s expedition was never heard of after leaving Melbourne or Sydney.” The Mount Ida Chronicle, in its “Topics of Talk,” says:—“ Cromwell, this last few weeks, has been remarkably conspicuous for disease, and we cannot shut our eyas to the fact that Nase by and At. Bathan’s held far too much sickness during the winter mo nths to be altogether accounted for by ordinary average casualties. Probably when-those in charge of houses throw the-n-fuse from the wash-house and the scullery »t their back gates—often, indeed at the very house doors—quite regardless where it may flow, they do not know they are helping to breed and disseminate fever atoms to their own or other’s destructionNaaohy pays for an Inspector of. Nuisances: so, wo presume, does Cromwell. It is high time that those officers were directed to put a stop to all further foul collections of cesspool drainage at the back yards of town houses.” The above remarks apply equally to Clyde, and we hope our Municipal authorities will lose no time rn seeing that a thorough cleansing of the town is effected. 1» venturing upon this hope, wo do not desire to it to be inferred that Clyde is| dirtier than any other town, or that it is overflowing with fever-breeding holes of stagnant liquid matter, or encumbered with heaps of pestilence-gathering i übbish. On the contrary : we believe it to he free from nv-uy of the nuisances referred to, and hold that Clyde, as a town, is a very clean one. Our aim is that the authorities should he brought to a sense of their "p eition; and, if they have no existing nuisances to remove, they may set in motion such preventive measures as will keep them away. Prevention, it is admitted, is better than cure, and we would impress it .upon the minds of our Corporation that their duty lies in laving dome some system as will prevent the evil from assailing us. Mr. Christopher Holloway, the Delegate of the Rational Agricultural Laborers’ Association in England, on Saturday evening last, passed through Clyde, ou his tour through the Province. Mr. Holloway, with whom we had the pleasure of a lew hours’ conversation, informed us that he had seen the better part of Otago and Southland, and was highly impressed in its favor as a field for immigrants. Some of the country in Southland especially attracted him. Ju speaking of the object of his journey, be said it was to see if New Zealand possessed those advantages it was said to, and whether (its a field for immigrants) it could compare with Canada or other colonies. From what he had already seen, he was convinced it did. He Lad but little doubt that, on his return home, he would be able to send out a class of immigrants that would benefit the country. He referred to the Agent. General, Dr. Featherstone, and said he was sorry to observe such an unfavorable opinion of him in Otago. When in England he had various opportunities of judging of his fitness for the office, and was of opinion that the detractors of Dr. Fcathei stone might- fail in accomplishing as much as he had done. He felt it a duty to gi\e this opinion wherever he went, as, if the assertions were alloxvcd to pass unchallenged, they would of a certainty be taken for granted. He next referred to the arrangements made for the comfort of the immigrants on board ship. These, he said, were not so perfect as could bo desired, arising principally from the wautof system whereby the immigrants could get their proper quantities of provisions ; and again, in speaking ot the sickness among the children, he said that was not to be wondered at, as there was no special provision made for them, they having doled nut to them the same class of food as was given to adults. With respect to this, he hoped to bo the means of effecting a change, as he. should draw the attention of the authorities, both in the Colony and on his return home, to the subject. Mr. Holloway is a shrewd intelligent man, and we have no doubt the clr -s he is the representative of in the old country will benefit by his journey. Of one thing wc foci certain: thut New ZnlanJ will

fbcgeKt, as by his moans the right stamp of imjiiiarants will ho introduced into the ’country. i This is a rich thing the Member for the I Dunstau has done. .Mr Shepherd was rejected by Clyde for the post of a Provincial Councillor, and has f oundno haven of rest since then. His proposal, through Mr Pri ti.-hard, to the Mayor of Arrow town that Mr Clarke, ore of the Provincial Council sitting members:, should be made to 'resign, and allow him (Mr Shepherd) to ho elected, was a piece of modesty worthy of this bashful representative of the Dunstsu electoral district. Mr Shepherd bios, somedinto political existence as a mining representative ; he appears now anxious to owe any future reappearance in the that knows him no longer to a cabal amongst storekftspers So that orrr remarks may not be misapprehended we will give the telegram as it has been published in the columns of the A rrow Observer “ Some person in Dunedin, knowing that one of our merchants was at present on a vis't to that city, has apparently seized the opportunity of makin .nsefof his name, •with a view of hoaxing onr worthy Mayor —at least that is the construction which the matter bears to ns ;as although some persons may find fault with our representative, we arc not aware that an y one was deputed ‘ arrange ’ with Mr T. L, Shepherd, nr indeed any one else. The following is the telegram:—‘Dunedin, March 25, 1874. —Mr Goldstrn, Arrow.—lf you can get Clarke to resign, have arranged Shepherd to stand rood for district. —ll. Pritchard.*. 1 1 has been suggested by some that Mr Shepherd has, with his customary vanity, cheated himself into the belief that the district would jurnn at the proffer of His servicer, and xyitii that idea has got hold or our totf-nsman in some weak m ount. We beg Mr Shepherd to disabuse hisn ir.d from ar y rich idea once and for all. \\ hen a vacancy occurs, ihcro rs no doubt that a.local man will be found thoroughly competent.for the post,,, Our contemporary thinks that it may bo a joke. That is not a likely phaseofthematter. It is too characteristic of the modest views of the hon gentleman, it, is ton laughable to be viewed in the light of an insult. Wo wonder what tactics have been adopted to approach our own Mayor, who was also in Dunedin. Discreet silence has been olserved if any were resorted to. The whole affair is only worth noticing as ,a clear illustration to the bulk of the constituency how they are looked upon by interests they support as mere tools or motive powers, capable of being played ', Ducks and drakes” wth It is a lesson that should not I>e forgotten, and we believe the whole body of electors will resent any attempt to bo dealt with as a pocket borough. [Just before going to press, the following telegram from Mr. Shepherd was placed in our hands: - Was asked by Pritchard and Malaghan to stand if Clarke resigned.”]—Wakatip Mail. aawnj‘« -v