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Dunstan Times, Volume 642, Issue 642, 7 August 1874, Page 2

On Sunday evening next a special service will bo held in the Church of England, Clyde, when a collection will be made in aid of the funds of the Dnnatsn District Hospital.

A meeting of the Town Council was held last evening. The report we must hold over till next issue. We however, may say that definite instructions were issued to proceed at once against owners of all unregistered dogs and goats.

According to the Cromwell Argus, a meeting of the local committee of the Uunatan Hospital was held in the Town-hall on Friday evening last. There Were present : Messrs Baird (Chairman) Preshaw, Taylor, Marshall and Cololongh. The minutes of the last meeting Laving been read and confirmed, Mr Marshall proposed, “ That a deputation from this Committee wait upon the Cromwell District Hospital Committee to confer with them upon the necessity of making provision fur raising funds from this district for local patients pending the erection of the Cromwell Hospital ; such deputation to consist of Messrs Baird and Preshaw.” Air Taylor seconded the motion, and it was carried. The meeting then adjourned.

We have to acknowledge receipt of Parliamentary papers, and Nos. 2 and 3 of Hansard. We notice that tenders are invited in the Wakatip Mail for two-storey stores and and dwelling, at Cromwell, for Messrs Hallenstein and Co.

The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of tho Dunstan District Hospital, to have been held on last Monday evening, the 3rd instant, lapsed for want of a quorum.

An advertisement in another column notifies that a call of two shillings and six pence per share in the Pneumatic Gold-mi-ning Company, Registered, is now -payable.

The formation of a fire brigade at Lawrence has been very warmly taken up. At a meeting, called to consider the subject, a number of the citizens enrolled themselvos members.

In our police columns will be found the report of a charge against Messrs Blakely, of Black’s, for cattle stealing. Tho accused denied the charge and was defended by Mr Cowan, of Cromwell. The further bearing of the case was, on the application of the,.police, fadjouti'.ed to Clyde until Thursday, the 13th inst" The roars are in a truly execrable state, and the wonder is, not that the coaches are late, but howjtbey manage to travel at all. On two successive trips was Mr Nettlefold so unfortunate as to break an axle. Beyoud, however, tho delay, in one instance procuring another vehicle, in the ocher repairing damages, which were somewhat considerable, no particular inc nvcnieuce was expei fenced. The Groyranuth cemetery must be an exceedingly damp place of interment, if the following paragraph from the Argus is to be taken literally :—•“ Many valuable lives might have been! spared in this district, and there would have been fewer records of deaths by\e!roicniny in vnr cemetery, if the suggestions which have been made by the local press hail been attended to by the Government.”

Mr John Cole Chappie reports having disposed of by auction the whole of- the property of Mr Thomas Oliver, on the west bank of tho Molyneux, on Wednesday last, realising for the estate known as Como Villa liitU., and obtaining for the waterraces, horses, cattle, farm implements, and o her property satisfactory' prices. The Guardian says:—“ The Goldfields Secretary has intimated his intention to visit Naseby and Hyde at an early date, in order to select suitable blocks of land for agricultural settlement, as recommended by the Council last session. It is to be hoped tho visit will really be at an early date, as it is most important that those wishing to take up land should be able to do so in time to save the season. ” On the 3rd instant, about eleven o'clock in tho morning (say's the Cromwell Argus), a horse, which was standing opposite to Mr Dawkins’s shop, affixed to- a fourwheeled vehicle, was startled in some manner, and made a bolt down the street and across the bridge. Messrs llallenstein’s team was crossing tho bridge jat the time, and a collision took place between the heavy dray and th«“ light express. The latter suffered considerably, being almost entirely destroyed. The horse, however, got clear away from the trap, and galloped (madly’ on down the Clyde road. Wo understand that the pneumatic dredge is again fitted with a steam-engine, the current wheels being removed. In her present form she should be able to cope successfully with any ordinary difficulty that may be encountered, having, to all appearances power enough and to spare. Wo wish the proprietary every success, and hope soon to chronicle some heavy finds. Of the existence of rich deposits on tho bottom of the Molyneux all are agreed, and the results of the pneumatic’s efforts arc waited for with no little anxiety.

A petition, moat numerously signed, has, we believe, been forwarded to the Waste Lands Board, Dunedin, in connexion with the coal lease in Cooper’s Creek, some time since under its consideration. Not having seen the petition, andtho information only having reached ns by a side-wind, to our mind it bears somewhat the appearance of a hole-and-corner piece of business, and we cannot but think it would have borne a more genuine stamp bad it have been a public, instead of a private petition, which in fact it is.

Wo take the following from a Melbourne contemporary “ Some strange stories are tokl of a class of persona who find their way to New Zealand under the free Immigration system. The workhouse girls from Cork were not the least undesirable importations Several eligible colonists were crimped immediately after their discharge from Newgate, Holloway, and other London prisons ; and the Now Zealand villages are now cram-lull of; itinerant nigger serenaders, mock liturgy men, knife-grinders, tramps, and other representatives of the lowest classes of the mother country.”

The balance sheet of the Dunedin Jockey Club, as read at. their annual meeting gives the following figures, being the amounts received and expended during the, past year : —Balance from last year, LIOO 10s 3d ; Spring meeting, L2GG 4s ; nominations for the Master Howe Cup, L3O ; annual meeting, T. 2,548 So 3d ; Tradesmen’s Races, L 225 12s: total, L3,1/O 14s Gd, Expenditure : Spring meeting, L 255 3s ; annual meeting, L 2,383 3s lOd ; Tradesmen’s meeting, L 216 3s ; balance in National Bank, LIU 4s 8d : total, L 3.170 14s Cd. By our police report from Cromwell it strike a casual observer that profitable employment might be found for the renowned Harry Sellars and the “fancy” in that community, as no less than two assault cases appeared on the charge sheet last Court day, In the case. Howard versus Bethunc, it appeors that the parties went into an hotel and store for the purpose of “squaring-up” accounts, when Bethune, not being altogether satisfied, squared up

to Howard, aud gave him a striking proof of his affection ; for which, howevfer, he paid dearly. Onr neighbors are fond of excitement, and now that the election times are over, they apparently delight themselves by attempting proficiency in the art of self-defence. But, of course, the junction of the Kawarau and Clutha explains this, and when two extremes meet, the magistrate invariably has to spread his paternal wings, and decide the “casus belli.”

Mr Robert Pritchard, merchant, Arrowtown, who passed through Clyde, ou his way to Dunedin, during the past week, informs us his object is to lay before the Dunedin public the project of a woollen cloth factory and wool scouring company, proposed to be started in the Wakatip District, with a capital of 50,000/., in ten thousand shares of 5L each. He says he is assured that at least U,,000f. will be subscribed locally among business men, fanners, and those more particularly interested in the advancement of the district, and speaks confidently that a still larger amount will be taken up by the residents generally when the scheme is fairly a-foot. The site proposed is one admirably adapted, being on Hayes Creek, which has a neverfailing flow of clean water, at its confluence with the Kaw arau River. We most heartily wish Mr Pritchard and his scheme every success.