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Dunstan Times, Volume 640, Issue 640, 24 July 1874, Page 2

Tho heaviest snow storm we have had for years past visited ua on Sunday evening last, and continued, with hut few intermissions, until Monday, at midnight, completely enveloping the country in a man do of purest white. Travelling for the time was nearly suspended, or whore indulged in from sheer necessity was surrounded hy many dangers. We arc thankful, however, at not having to record any accidents, though many narrow escapes occurred- The Queenstown coaches were unable to perform their customary journeys on Tuesday, the snow being too deep : however, they made their way through on the following day. The mailman deserves great credit though, for, despite all, he delivered his mails in good time on Tuesday night, having sent them on hy packhorses. The Dunedin coach, via. Nasehy, was also detained, not reaching Clyde till about mid-day on Wednesday. The task of driving a coach during such weather is no mean one, and a passing word of praise to the Jehu’s we do not think out of place or uncalled for.

At the election for Mayor of Dunedin nearly two thousand two hundred votes were rccordo 1.

We Lave to acknowledge the receipt of batch of Parliamentary papers, also, tho first number of Hansard from the Government printing-office, Wellington.

Mr James Gordon Bennett‘of the New York Herald, and proprietor !of the Daily Telegraph has arranged to send Mr Stanley on a new African expedition. A man named James Wheeler charged-, with vagrancy at Wellington said he was discharged from a Lunatic Asylum in Otago, and that the Government had paid his passage to Wellington. The subscriptions already received for the Sailors’ Home, Dunedin amount to 1000/. From our Dunedin exchanges wo notice that Mr Larnach gives 100/., and Mr J. Clarke, 100/. We have to ackuowlendge receipt of a batch of Provincial Council papers, including copy of correspondence relative to alienation and exchange of laud on Messrs Glassfords’ run, also to opening land for settlement on Messrs Cargill and Anderson’s run, &c. We have not hoard whether crushing has yet commenced at the Cromwell Company’s battery. We understand, however, that a great deal of stone is being raised from the Company’s claims, some of it being of exceeding richness, from ten to twenty ounces to tho ton being tho expected yield. The Cromwell Hospital Committee have selected a site for their building, and have decided to invite designs for the tame from Mr Burwell, Architect of Queenstown, the cost not to exceed 900/.

According to our Tuapeka couteraporary, Mr .1. Clarke, of Moa Flat has made the handsome donation of 50/. to the Tuapeka Hospital, and Messrs Neill and Company of the Beaumont Station the sum of 25/. To tho pastoral tenants of the Dunstau district we may say—Co thou and do likewise.

The Wakatip Mail is inform-!;! that personal feeling has reached so high a pitch that an encounter of a stronger nature than that proceeding fr( m the tongue between these two Gold-fields members Mr T. L. Shepherd and J. 0, Brown—would not surprise persons on the spot. On the remains of one of the passengers of the wrecked ship British Admiral, washed ashore on King’s Island, was found a purse containing three papers and six sovereigns. One paper was a steerage passage ticket ; the other two wore drafts, one for 170/., the other for 225/. : the whole in favor of William Dyer Pearce. We are pleased to notice that the steam dredge Salamander has again been started to work, a party of men having taken her on terms. The ground she is on, situate some short distance below the Dunstan Hospital, is known to be rich in the precious metal, and there is consequently cvcy confidence in her paying. It is notified in another column that Sections in the Town of Alexandra will be sold .at Clyde on Tuesday the 2Sth instant after the sain of Section;; in Clvde. In the Gazette it has been notified tbe Sale was to take place at lloxburgh, that appears'to have been a inidake ;wo do not know but that as groat a one is made in having the Sale "at Clyde, The Daily Times correspondent at Wellingfon telegraphs to that journal—“ The Cabinet to day the 17th instant declined to advise the disallowance of the Otago Provincial Ordinance for rebate of sixpence per ounce on the goll duty. Mr J. L. Gillies has given notice of motion for a Committee, to investigate Jadgo Ward’s charges against Judge Chapman, and how the Times got the Telegrcms, and the whole matter.

At the last sitting of the Waste Lands Board, Dunedin, Lis Honor the Superintendent recommended the reservation, under section 35 of the Otago Waste Islands Act, IS7 2, of the lands comprised in the Tuapeka, Dnnback, Kaiwera, Heriot, Otaria, Waipahi, Kuriwao, Pujerau, Waikaka Waikoikoi, Waikaia, Spoilt* and Dart. Hundreds, as recommended hy the Brovin cial Council, to be proclaimed pending the selection of blocks for sale on deferred pay men ts.—A pproved. The ball for the benefr. of the Clyde Brass Band, to he given in lire Town Hall, Clyde, on Wednesday, thesth of August, from the general interest taken in it, promises to be a great success. The Band have ever, without hesi ation, come forward when asked, and givm their services whether in aid of charities or to help to while away an hour. A goodly company, which we hope to see, vill be the host guarantee that their service Lave been appreciated.

Acoording to a tclcgran from Wellington to the Guardian, the Premier said that the ivason the Otago Colt Buty Repayment Ordinance was disavowed was because it contained no provision for preventing tho gold produce! in other I’rovinccs from being exported through Otago. Mr Collins desires us to notify to tho residents of Clyde, that fnm and after this date tho price of coals from his Pit delivered in Clyde will be fa- cash 27s fid per ton of U bags, and hoiked 30s—tor any less quantity to half a fan at the rate of 30s per ton, and per bag ip to half a ton, at the rate of 2s fid per lag. Adel. The Resident Magistrate it 'Wanganui has decided that a billiard-tailc in connection with an hotel may bo bpt open the whole night. Wo must wan the hotclkcepcjs of Otago against actirg up to the above decision, as, though it may be perfectly legal in Wanganui, it is mt so here. Tho Otago Licensing Ordimnce, ISfiu, which is still in force, distiictly lays it down that a ibilliard room in connexion with a public-house can only b< kept open during such hours and ou such lays as for which the house is licensed, thmgh under tho Town and Country Police Ordinance, ISG2, a billiard room not connected with a public-house, may be kept ojen for all time, Sundays t (as a matter cf course) excepted.

Besides a small debt case, there was no business transacted in the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Clyde, yesterday. In the Warden’s Court there were only a few mining applications.

The Cromwell Town Council from their published JBalance-shcet shew themselves in a good position financially, having nearly .'!SO/, in hand, while they expended during the year 4CO/. in Public Works. In the action “ Dan son v. Mack ay (proprietor of the Bruce Herald)” for malicious libel the jury gave a verdict for tho plaintiff, 50/. damages. The libel was the publication of a notice of birth by plaintiff’s unmarried daughter -

A young woman, with a strong Hibernian accent, and who said she had just come straight from “ Oirland,” on Monday was charged before Mr J. Bathgate, A.M., with being drunk, was fined ‘2os., or three days imprisonment ; she said, Shure I got a situation to go to now and haven’t a farthing to pay.

The Provincial Government Gazott notifies that Mr Duncan M’Kellar has been appointed to be Acting Provincial Secretary and Acting Secretary for Land and Woiks during the absence of Mr Donald Reid, who is now at Wellington. Mr MTvcllar wo understand left Cromwell on Friday morning last for Dunedin to enter

upon ids duties. The following items from New Caledonia were bionght by the schooner Dauntless recently arrived at Auckland' :—“ All Communists will be removed to the Isle of Pines and another island to be selected. Bateman lias been sent to France to fulfil bis terra of imprisonment. The*convict executioner bas been murdered bj one of the convicts, the murderer was afterwards guillotined. Duels are prevalent on the Island ; three took place on the 20th of June, one between L’Devareuue and Guillerau. of the Gendarmes, when the latter was killed. Permissioh was at first given by the Governor, who attended the funeral and addressed the soldiers upon upholding their O honor even at the cost of life.”

The New Zealand Times says :—“ Mr A. J. M'mdella, one of the members for Sheffield, is a colonist at heart The other day he presided at a meeting of the Sheffield Trades Council on behalf of the agricultural laboreis, and speaking of emigration, he said they could not blame, they ought rather to honor, the men who loft their miserable hovels, who 1 left want and plication, who shook the dust off their feet and sought a home in Now Zealand or Australia, where 7s or Ss a day awaited them; where there were no harsh laud laws, no privileged classes—where every man could hope to and did become his own master on his own farm.

The Wellington correspondent of the Daily Times says—“ The Government is, 1 believe, greally chagrined at M r J. L. Gillies’s motion for the Ward-Chapman Committee being carried. Mr Vogel thought he had hut to speak and the House would obey. He was astonished that the demand for a Committee should ho persisted in when the Government opposed. While the debate was going on, one Minister actually went round to certain members and told them that if the motion was carried the Governu ent would resign. The reply was an expression of doubt as to whether red hot pokers would prove an effective means of prising them off their Seats.

dhe following attempt at forgery is time described by the Haw ke’s Bay Herald “ A Maori called upon one of the settlers with an order upon him for 35/., purporting to have been drawn hy a well-known Maori chief in the district. The document may he translated as follows June 13, 1574. Friend, (ena kue. This is my letter, asking you to givo the money to Hori, for which be has been asking you lately. Now, this is my consent —that you should give 35/. as a gift to him. JDo not give him 40/., hut at the 35/. stop there. But you must pay it to him at once when you receive this letter. Enough. Pita tk Huha.— Mr Chambers, upon whom the order was drawn, thought he had better not pay Mr Hori the 35/. at once, and told him that he would seo Pita to Huha, the ostensible drawer of the order, before parting with any coin on his behalf. iPita te Huha, when questioned on the subject, denied all knowledge of the order, and Mr Hori was brought up yesterday charged with forgery, and remanded until the 24th instant.

The business of the "Resident Magiatrate’s Court at Cromwell on Friday last was of a very heavy character, there being no less than nineteen persons summoned for the non-registratiou of their dogs, and among them being the Mayor,and Coroner for the district. It appears that last year the tax was collected by the Kate Collector of the Corporation, and that not until the latter end of the year ; and there can be little doubt but that many of the ratepayers were mislead bv this, and believed that a‘personal visit would bo paid them, and the tax demanded ; but such was not done ; and the Sergeant of Police, without consulting the local authority, introduced the batch to Mr Simpson, who (with one exception) made them pay the costs of Court. We are informed that it was very amusing to see the different bleed of dogs brought up ‘.to the) Court House, varying from the greyhound to the Skye-terrior—-their owners probably thinking that it was necessary, to import sufficient grandeur to the scene, to bo accompanied by their pets. Une distressed lady, in particular, declared that she would drown her little " Tiney” rather than submit to what she pleased to term an extortion. Robert Bagg, of the Clntha Hotel, was fined us. and costs, for a breach of the Licensing Act. —ln the case of Talbnys and others versus Alves, being an action to recover calls due to the John Bull Mining Company, and which was reported in extensoin last issue, the Mcgis-

trate gave judgment for tho amount claimed and coats, with one guinea professional fee.

“ ’Tis a poor heart that never rejoices.” If this aphorism is true, and age and experience hath but confirmed it, an opportunity now presents itself for those poor hearts—-and where ilro they not to lie found ?—for rational and unlimited enjoyment at the ball announced in our advertising columns to take place at the Town Hall, Clyde, on the evening of the sth of August. Never was an object more worthy of support than the proposed one, namely, the sustenance of the funds of “The Clyde Brass Band.” When it is remembered the many delightful evenings for which wo are indebted to the Band, who through their instrumentality so signally discomfited that fiend “Ennui,” who would have seized us as his prey on many a long and cheerless evening during this and the past winters, we ought to embrace this opportunity of testifying that our thanks were not mere idle words, but that all we said was meant, and the only way to do this is by rolling up into a goodly assemblage, and with a full determination that, on that night at least," care shall be cast to tho dogs, nor one thought bestowed on the morrow. —Communicated