NASEBY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 686, 11 June 1875, Page 3

NASEBY.

—o—(from cur own correspondent.) Juno 7th. The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Athenaeum, was held on Tuesday evening last. There was not a largo attendance. The Secretary read the balance sheet, being a bulk statement of monies received, and letail of monies paid. In consideration of the disgraceful state of the finances I refrainfrom giving you thedetailed statement, suffice it to say that the receipts were about half the debts incurred, thus leaving the Institution owing a considerable sum. With some difficulty anew Commit tee was chosen. —On Friday night last the new Committee held their first meeting, there being 7 out of the 8 present. They found that the Institution was in a much more flourishing state than was sot forth by the re! ding Committee, there being a great many debts on the books, which, if recovered, will set the Institution on its legs again. The CommiUee in.'eml holding periodical enlertainmuits under their auspices, which will a • verlise the pla.e, and no doubt they prove a success.

The first contract for the construction of Ihe dam in connection with the head race is just finished—that is, the bank has been built, and sodded on the outside.

The Government intend, I believe, to open up more land in th ; s district. The portion of the district now selected being the Sowburu, some 24 miles from here, where there is some of the best land for farming in the Province. It seems likely also, that the Serpentine people will have a slice granted to them directly. Tenders are this week to be called for the construction of the bridge over tbe Main Tail Race crossing tbe road leading into the town. The foundations of the bridge are to be of stone, and the top timber. Rabbits are so abundant in this part of the Province that persons are employed to kill them at so much apiece. One man has agreed with Messrs Rowley and Hamilton’s manager to kill 1000 of these animals at 3d each, and is making'it pay, killing between 40 and 50 on an average per day, with the aid of dogs only. An accident occurred to a man resident at the Kyebuvn, on Tuesday last, by which he sustained a fracture of the leg. Tbe man had only been five weeks out of the Hospital, where he had been treated for a broken leg—broken in two p'acos. It apdears that he, in company with others, had resolved to have a “spree,” and while in this state, he and his companions fell down altogether, whereby his leg was broken, between tbe two old breaks. He remained in a drunken stupor for several days, and when partly recovered his leg was found to be broken. On Sunday he was brought into the Hospital, and Dr Whitton has set the bone. The leg, I understand, will always be weak.

Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.—A Cure for Abscesses, Piles, Fistula, and Sores of every description.—The very satisfactory results arising from the use of this invaluable Ointment, when the patients have been suffering from any of the above disorders have induced the Medical Profession to introduce it into tho hospital and their private practice, and in many instances where the sufferer was considered incurable Holloway’s Ointment in conjunction with his Pills has healed the most desperate oases These Medicines arc also unequalled for tl.o euro of scrofula, scurvey and all diseases of the skin, and the cures they effect are not temporary or imperfect, for their purifying powers bring about a marvellous and most beneficial change in tho whole system, and enable it, with renovated power, to resist future attacks of the same diseases. —Advt.

Golhsm Tins’ Work. —The process of fine-art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little work published by Mr. J. W. Benson, of No. 25, Old Bond-street, and of tho City Steam factory, 58 and CO Ludgate-hill, London. It is enriched and mbellishcd with designs, by Italian, french, and English art'stes, of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or for wedding, birth-day, or other presents, with their prices. Mr Benson, who holds the appointment to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, has also published a very interesting pamphlet on the Rise and Progress of Watchmaking. These pamphlets are sent, post free, for two stamps each, and they cannot lie too strongly recommended to those contomplaing a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may require, and have forwarded in perfect safety, ’gjgj