The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

Dunstan Times, Issue 657, 20 November 1874, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.

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An old man named Andrew Duggan was admitted into the'hospital during the past week, suffering from a dislocatedl'shoulder, caused by a horse roller he was engaged driving passing over him. The various mining companies working on the banks and terraces below Alexandra we hear are precluded from further operations by the rise in the river, the consequence of the late warm weather melting the snow on the mountains. The past season has been most favorable to this class of mining, and we are pleased to learn the results have been satisfactory. We are requested to draw attention to the Sale by Auction of freehold property, jewellery, photographic apparatus, &c., the property of Mr William Martin, Alexandra, on Monday the 30th instant. John C. Chappie, Auctioneer. At the usual weekly meeting of the Waste Lands Board the following business of local interest was transacted.—Mr J. C. Chappie, Alexandra, wrote with reference to auction sales, and offered to conduct the Crown land sales in the Clyde district. The Board decided to continue the present arrangements.—Thoapplication of MrThomas Wilson for section 1, block IV., Leaning Rock, was granted.

Timou, in the Southern Mercury, asks the following question:—“ Can you tell me whether a swollen toe, with a shining face on it, and a very rosy Mush, is a sign of measles! If so, I have ’em strong.” We recently published a very interesting account of the use now made at home of carrier pigeons ; we now give a paragraph which shows the use these birds are to the people of this country “It may not he generally known that the enterprising Auckland Evening Star has long used carrier pigeons in preference to the telegraph for short distances. These 1 winged messengers ’ accompany reporters to cricket matches, race, agricultural, or public meetings at any small distance from the City, and return to their quarters at an average speed of nearly a mile a minute. Birds are also placed on hoard outward bound Home ships, and are despatched with the “ latest intelligence from the good ship ,” as tho passengers take their last look at New Zealand.”—Dunedin Evening Star. A nugget, weighing 35 ounces, was recently discovered within a few miles of Hokitika, at a place near Greek’s Gully. The names of the fortunate finders were Pennington and party. The Wakatip Mail of the 13th inst. says: “ Still they go ! This morning the Jane Williams steamer took away more residents from this district, including Mr J. Bridge and his family. Mr Bridge is proceeding to Birch wood Station, near Riverton, which he has purchased in company with Mr Walsh, Upper Shotcver, who also leaves the district. Mr Henderson, the other partner, remains here. A few others also left. No wonder tradesmen complain of dull times.” On Saturday afternoon last our local cricketers met for practice, when there was a very fair attendance. From the fact of a new man turning out, and proving to he a first-class bowler, the number of wickets that fell without the shadow of a score, shows the necessity of constant practice. Wo hope to see the same player on the ground frequently, and feel convinced that his bowling will prove a great benefit to the Club.

We are informed that the new Episcopalian Church at Cromwell will he opened by the Right Reverend Bishop Nevill, on Sunday morning, the 29th inst.; and that in the evening the Bishop will preach at Clyde. Mr Richard Oliver has resigned his seat in the Provincial Council for Mount Ida.

For the Dunedin Jockey Club Spring Race Meeting to be held on St. Andrews day, there is a respectable field of horses for all the different Handicap events, excrpting the Hurdle Race, for which Mr Gourley’s Kildare, alone was entered. In consequence of this the Stewards have decided to insert a Hack Selling Race of 15 novs., the winner to be sold for 20 sovs. Amongst the harsoa entered, we notice Mr Nosworthy’a Somnambula, Tadmor, and Traitor.

The Daily Times notices the death by drowning of Mr J. Morton, engineer of the steamer Wallabi, which occurred on Friday night last, whilst the vessel was lying at Katangata, the deceased falling into the water whilst stepping from the same to the wharf.

Fromourexchangcs welcarnthal through the prevalence of Measles, the schools at Tokomairiro, Balclutha and Lawrence have been temporarily closed. The Reliance Quartz Mining Co., Bendigo, whoso claim is situate on the western bMindary of Logan and Co.’s claim, and which has of late been turning out some unprecedentedly large cakes of gold, have, we nadsrstand, struck the reef within a few feet of the surface. We do not hear, howsver, tha prospects obtains-!

By tlio Southland Weekly Times we notice that the thorougbred race horses At* las, SirTatton, and Lyndon will be sold by auction on Monday next, at.lnvercargill The Pneumatic Dredge has been continuously at work on the “ Old Clyde Claim ” for the past week, with what results we are not as yet in a position to say. On reference to the prospectus of the Cornishman’s Beach Gold Mining Company, Limited, in another column, it will be seen that it is intended to utilize the Sub-Marine Boat in extracting the precious metal from this well-known beach. We hope there is sulficient confidence in the resources of the district to ensure of the unallotted shares being taken up. Mr Marshall, Cromwell; and Mr Facbe, Clyde, are the local agents. The following marriage notice wa take from the Australasian “On the 13th instant, at St. James’ Church, Sydney, New South Wales, by the Rev. Canon Allwood, George James, second son of the late Charles Edward Cottcrell, Esq., R.N , of Craytield, Nelson, New .Zealand, to Isabella Sara, third daughter of the late Marquis Carandini, of Modena, Italy, and grandniece of the late Cardinal Consalvi. Mr Disraeli is going to cross the “ melancholy ocean,” and visit Ireland, as the guest of the Duke of Ahercorn, He will have further opportunities of studying his host’s peculiarities, with a view to another reproduction of them in a future novel. This, however, is the Premier’s ostensible business. It is said that he is greatly in favor of the proposal for establishing a royal residence in Ireland, and that he is about to make inquiries with a view to taking action on the subject. A funny story is told of a genl’eman of geological tendencies, and who is firmly imbued with thn belief of his own Infallibility. It is said that when he was in the Carriok district he visited, amongst others, the “Try Again," and looking at a piece of quartz he had picked up from the heap, said : “ This is the wrong sort of stono to get gold in ;it is barren quartz.” lie was not a little surprised when told that the same kind of stone went 17dwt. per ton ; but judge his astonishment when, turning over the same piece of quartz, he found a piece of gold sticking to it. A correspondent of the Nelson Colonist gives a derivation of the name Wakatip nr Wakatinu. He says :—“ It was common enough with the Maoris to imagine destructive monsters living in deep pools, and by rnckv headlands and >ther places, probably where navigation was dangerous to canoes. The Otago lake, now commonly known by the degraded name of Wakatip in Attic Maori would be called Whangnatipna, ‘ the monster’s cre-k or lake,’ a name it well deserves.” [We believe the correct meaning of the name Wakatipu ; g “ crooked water,” which all will admit is an excecdincly anpronriate designation. Windermere, in England, has precisely the same signification. Ep. O.G.j

Mr T. W. Rei l, in a lecture delivered at Croydon, in England, spokr of the dodges resorted to by unscrupulous persons to secure prizes at cattle shows. Amongst other improvements made in their animals by exhibitors, be mentioned a prize bull at tho Ayrshire Agricultural Association's Show, which was afterwards found to have false horns, and an Ayrshire oow was bought which proved to have a gutta-percha tsi’. On one occasion he saw three men pouring can after can of water down a cow’s throat the morning of the show to give the beast's ribs a better spring. At Penniwick nn exhibitor had painted the noses of his blackfaced sheep so successfully that he would have got second prize it someon", in examining them, had not been made as black as the ace of spades.

Under the heading of New Zealand, in the Australasian, appears the following : 11 At Oamarn there has hoen a heavy ga’e. The ship ‘Emulous has been stranded for the fourth time. All vessels in the hay have been ordered out to sea. At Dunedin several buildings have been unroofed by the wind. The front part of Phillip's Hotel has been blown nut." As wo are not aware of any buildings being unroofed in Dunedin we can only imagine that Dnnedin should be Dunatan, and Phillip’s Hotel the Port Phillip Hotel. The fraternity of “Crugs” celebrated “Founder’s day ” at Scott’s Hotel on Monday evening, 26th October. The happy few, “ loyal of course,” remembered in their programme “Her Majesty the Queen," “ The Prince of Wales,” “His Excellency our esteemed Governor,” “ The religious, royal, and ancient Christ’s Hospital, and its illustrons and royal founder, King Edward the Sixth." Absent friends and distressed “ Bines ” wore not forgotten. During the evening, a presentation was made to the treasurer Mr Ed. Whitby, J.P., of his portrait, beautifully executed in mezzo, and handsomely framed. Mr F. R. Kendall, the president, undertook the presentation, and in terms of high praise commented upon the usefulness of Mr Whitby, of the sympathy shown by him in all matters affecting the interest of the Victorian Society of Blues. Mr Whitby replied, expressing a hope that the society would be more useful than it had ever been, and that the blessing of doing good would extend the fame of Christ’s Hospital boys throughout the world.—Australasian.

What would onr mining friends say to a “ rush "to Wales—not New South Wales, hut the veritable Taffyland? We learn from English papers that a company in now in course of formation for working an anrif. crons reef discovered in Merionethshire, the precise locality not being specified. Some of the quartz from this reef is stated to have yielded on assay, at the rate of from 6oz to 400oz of gold to the ton. Tho stripping is 24ft, and gold is declared to he plainly visible in the stone.. The locality in which the reef exists is said to have been prononneed by Sir Roderick Murchison to be auriferous, and this opinion has since been confirmed by a gentleman of practical experience in the auriferous aul argentiferous regions of North America.

k The residents of Mount Benger district are advertising for a medical man, guaranteeing a salary of L 38!) per annum. “An account haS just arrived," says the Journal Official, “of a frightful, tragedy on on the high sea?. On the Bth Juno the Italian vessel Napoleon Camarero sailed from Macao with a crew of forty men and having on board 683 coolies for Callao, and 8,000 pickets firfest'orks. After a lapse of two days, the interpreter discovered a plot amongst the emigrants to seize tho ship. The captain immediately ordered one-half of them to be confined to the hold, but the next day those who remained on deck armed themselves with knives, belaying pins, pieces of wood, in short anything they could lay their hands on, and attacked the crew, who defended themselves with muskets and revolvers. Tho coolies then massed themselves on the forecastle and set fire to the vessel, hoping the crew w.aild set to work at the pumps to extinguish tho flames. During that time they had freed their comrades and murdered a few sailors they could get hold of. The captain seeing what they were doing, ordered the boats to be lowered, and left the ship with the remainder of his crew. Some who remained on board with the doctor, the magazine man and the interpreter, were unable to prevent the flames from reaching the fireworks, and the ship blow np, scattering the fragments of the mutineers in every direction nnder the very eyes of the escaped crow."