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Dunstan Times, Issue 625, 10 April 1874, Page 2

A communication from Alexandra cSlhh to hand too iatc for publication in our preso itjissue. A Good Templars' Lodge Las been started at Arrowtown. The immigrants'-'ot'fhe'Surat on' Saturday last k liad|,ilicirihiggage t hrii.dcd over to them. Wo understand (that tbe total'“approximate population of the Province, as disclosed by the late!censu3,(iViS4,ollo, being an increase "of*ls, (KM) souls in’ three)' years: The population of the" Colony Victoria on December 31, 1573 amounted to 790, 4SS. Three more deaths have occurred at Cromwell daring the past week—Mary Partridge, a young woman aged 22 of typhoid feverl; and two children of Mr I). Soally, of the Nevis, aged four and two respectively); these nowunake four of Mr. Scally’s family that have been carried off within the past fortnight, the eldest son, on the 2Sth ult, aged 7 years 3 months ; the next, a girl on the 2nd instant, aged 5 years,(the two others followed on the 7th. Their disease we believe was diptheria. One of the most seriousfcnach accidents that we have had to record for some time past, occurred to Cobb’s Tuapekacaach on Saturday last. From what we can glean, it appears that when going down the steep hill leading to the Beaumont on the west side of the river, the horses being at a walking pace at the time, the brake broke throwing the driver on [to the foot-board, and allowing the coach to run right onto the horses. The horses set off at full gallop, and reached the foot of the hill, when by some mischance, it is thought, the king-bolt came out, at any rate the coach capsised. The-scene at the wreck of the conch must have been truly dreadful, as of its livingffrenght of fourteen persons including the driver, seme half a dozen were lying dangerously wounded; and wel tering in their blood. The passengers were Mr and Mrs Anderson, and family of four ; Miss Aimhridge, and several Chinese, besides the diiver, and amongst the injured are Mrs Anderson, terribly crush-, ed about the chest and riba ; a little boy, four years old, broken leg and arm ; Miss Aimbridge,, injured about the chest ; and several of the Chinamen with serious scalp wounds. The driver was insensible for some time. Dr. Halley was quickly in attendance, and administered to the sufferers. The little boy has had his leg amputated since, and we hear ’that another of the children, a little girl* is seriously hurt in the back. Mr Anderson we are pleased to say escaped unhurt. M r Anderson has been a resident in this district for many years, and is well known, and many will regret, as we do, the.' great misfortune that has bc-fel him.

———a W. ML Hodgkins, Esq., lias been gazetted Revising Officer for the Electoral District pf the Dunstau. ■We are in receipt of the last number of the Now Zealand Illustrated Herald, which equals any previous one.) The New Zealand''Sub Marine Gold Mining Company, Limited has heeu wound upon the petition of Mr Charles Slight Harvey, a shareholder, \ ' The prospectors of the Orepuki goldfields will petition the Provincial Council for a reward for their discovery. This field was discovered iu 185l>. By authority we notify that thcDlstiiot Court sittings Will be adjourned, from Monday thej 13th iust. to Wednesday, the 15th lust. Suit ol s will do well to bear this in mind. Four stacks’of wheat were destroyed by fire, last week, at Hayes Lake, near Arrowtown. As all the stacks were burning at the bottom at one and the same time, there are suspicions of foul play. We are requested by the Treasurer of the Dunstan DistrictlHospital to acknowledge the receipt of 25/. 7s 6d, collected by Mr Michael .[Summon of Tinker’s Gully from the residents of his district, on behalf ot the funds nfjthe Institution. The Tuapeka'sTiinca is!'responsible for the following Mr .J. Y. Hen;y‘ has purchased Eiehardt’s lino running from Queenstown to Clyde. In the future there will only he the one line on that road.” Mr W. Dalrymple of Port Chalmers, in a letter to the Bruce Herald says—That to the Hon. Major Richardson and Mr Bradshaw is due the credit of getting the Government to forward parcels of gold to M elhourae for coinage. The investigation into the financial position of Fiji shews—That; the expenditure of the Government'during the twofyeaia ending/December, 1873 was 124,000/.. while the revenue wa- only 42,01:0/. Further, there-Ms nothing. < tojsliow'for’ thog:cxpenditnre but public offices, which cost 1,200/., and pi few rides. Several miners have written to the Sydney papers from Oookatowa, NorthjQueens land, complaining that the rcports!;priulcd concerning the largeVmonnts of gold that had been got at the Palmer are altogether exaggerated, and must have been written by interested parties andjuut^uiiuers. A boy nwnfed Lindsay, upon taking up a piece of quartz, seams of which exist in various parts of the is’and of Bute, lately noticed the presence of a substance which he had some idea might he gold. The specimen was submitted to Dr Peter White, President of the Archeological and Physical Society of Bute, who immemediatsly pronounced it,to be an auriferous quartz, with the precious metal present in the condition known by experienced goldminers as “ heavy gold.” According to a northern contemporary the authorities’in ' Auckland contemplate shipping Sullivan, the murderer and in.former, to England. If so, they had better keep their retentions secret, for no shipmaster would care to carry such a passenger, and no crew would care to have him among them on hoard. It is state.l that his behaviour in MountEdiu Gaol has already occasioned his being placed in solitary confinement and on .low diet for breaches of the discipline of the prison. /Eg’es, in the Australasian, says : “There is a gentleman, believed to lie of Swiss origin, seeding the support of a metropolitan constituency. 1 would not name him for worlds, and no one will be able to guess to whom 1 allude. The candidate waited on one of the Flinders-lano soft,-goods firms the other day, and solicited a vote. ‘ How can 1 vote for you ?’ asked the importer; ‘You hold protectionist principles and I don’t.’ ‘ Share, it’s unthruc ; don't you believe a [word of it. I’m an out-au-out free-trader, and always have been.’ On this assurance, a vote was promised him. Subsequently, he .waited on Mr. T. Y. Anderson, of Bonrke-street, and was met with a reminder of the foregoing. ‘ You call yourself a free-trader, and ask support from the father of protection in Victoria !’ proceeding to recount the various blessings flowing therefrom, The candidate was taken aback at first ; but fell back on his memorable expression conveying that this exactly embodied his own sentiments.” The following extraordinary scene -in a church is thus related in a late American paper:—“ There was an unusually large attendance at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn last evening. The scenes during that part of the sermon in which the Rev. Henry W Beecher alluded to the recent huteherings in Cuba, forcibly reminds one of old times, before tiie war, when Beecher’s voice was often raised against oppressive slavery in that section. When he spoke of the long struggles of the little bands of Cuban patriots that had so persistently resisted all tlie force that Spain could bring against them —said that such heroism deserved at least a recognition, the enthusiasm of the audience could no longer be restrained, and they broke forth in long continued bursts of applause,; the ladies waving handkerchiefs and appearing as earnest as the men. Again, whes Beecher hoped that this Government would proceed in the matter with all moderation and that nothing should be done rashly, but that after an appeal to Spain for justice, if that nation should fail to punish the authors of these cruelties ; and if it should appear that she lacked the force to do it, then said Beecher solemnly, let the justice of the nation fall. The enthusiasm of the audience here broke out afresh, and with like disregard and recklessness as to time ami place. Their enthusiasm showed how much they were in sympathy with the speaker.” Pen-makers are a bad lot. They make make people steel pens, and then say they dowiite.

On Wednesday night last between ten and eleven, a p ilr of borses with a buggy behind them, came cantering into Clyde, took down the right of fway at. Eames’a Dunstan Hotel, and pulled up at the stable door. Mr Eanies on going out to assist the occupants, ns he thought to alight, to his dismay found it empty ; the horses being released from their harness and put into,the stable, mysSengerswere sent along the line of road they had come to ascertain the fate of the occupants ; during the night they returned, having found the driver comfortably in bed asleep at Mr insiey’s farm on the Dunedin Road, eight miles from Clyde. It appears the man, who was alone,, got out of the buggy for refreshments, and whilst there, the horses staitcd off and made the rest of the journey alone. On being questioned, the man said the horses wore all right, they would go home. The i-veiling Star says —“A company bus been formed dating the week for the purpose of xvorkingttbe ground at Switzers lately -owned by Messrs. Bastings ami Simpson, ami sojwell knowujas the 50 acre freehold block. It was intended to have offered the shares to the public; lu' the requisite number of shareholders offered at once privately, {and the company will he registered in a few days. Thei capital is 5,0001. in lOOjshares of 501. each. The provisional direatovsjarojnow in treaty for the necessary machinery! for working the grouudisupceasfully, ;■ mul\they expect to have the claim in working order within a few from surveyors who have examinedjtho,-claim speak'verv favorably of the prospects. All,that has been heretoforejiT-quired has been powerful pumping gear to keep down the water, which has proved too strong for the machinery at present used. The workings are from one hundred to onej hundred and thirty feet in-depth, and,a-continuous lead or gutter has been traced, varying’ f"om six to thirty feet in width, and which, so far as worked, has proved very rich. The advantage’of ’this claim will he,that washings up will take place weekly, so the results will he regularly known, and dividends declared at least monthly.”