The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875.

Dunstan Times, Issue 692, 23 July 1875, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just the ten is mightier than the sword.

The following are the names of the successful candidate* for the position of Mayor of the various Municipalities in the Province, for the year 1875-6, so far as we can ascertain :—Dunedin, Mr H. J. Walter ; Lawrence, Mr M. Fraer ; Teviot, Mr J. Heighten'; Alexandra, Mr J. Samson ; Clyde, Mrß. Naylor ;Cromwell, Mr D. A. Jolly; Arrow, Mr R. Pritchard; and Queenstown, Mr Betts.

The Secretary of the Hospital wishes us to acknowledge the Alexandra subeription list received from J. Samson, Esq., which amounts to £2O 8s ; also, £8 from Mr John Dundass, of Blacks. Pull particulars will appear in next Hospital Subscription advertisement.

We understand that in consequence of the reconstruction of the District Court in its criminal jurisdiction, a re-appointment in favor of Mr A. D. Harvey, as clerk of such Court, has been made, and a warrant signed by His Excellency, has been issued in pursuance of the samo.

Mr Facho reports having aolil by auction, at Cromwell, on Tuesday last, tho Police Camp stables, realising tho very satisfactory sura of L3O.

According to the progress that is being made by Mr Grant with tho stone work for the bridge, wo look on it that he will soon ba brought to a stand-still for want of material, as in about a week ho will finish tho abuttments.

For tho Mayoralty of Lawrence our old fiieud Mr M. Fraer, went in by an overwhelming majority, the respective numbers being : Fraer, 81; M. Hay, 47 ; Walker, 45. An amicable arrangement having been come to between Mr A. Blue and the owner of the three sheep dogs, advertised to bo sold on Friday, tho 31st instant, the sale is indefinitely postponed. We are pleased at being able to set at rest all fears respecting (Old Carlo Burdsen), who, it will be remembered, left the Dunstan Hospital, and who, it was thought, had perished somewhere on the Dunatan range, he being last seen in the neighborhood of Tinker’s Gully. It appears the poor old man had made his way np to the Arrow, where ho was haiided over to the police as having no visible means of support, and was sentenced to 3 months’ imprisonment in Lawrence gaol, to which establishment he was duly forwarded during tho past week. Mr James Coleman, the proprietor of a very rich beach claim at Bntchei’s Point, below Alexandra, and who has every winter for the past ten years, for a short or Ion" period, according to tho season, been able to work it, is again; we are happy to hear, busy at work with a strong party of Europeans and Chinese. For the indomitable perseverance exhibited by Mr Coleman in clinging so tenaciously to this claim, he deserves to reap a rich reward, and wo hope he may obtain it this season. The nomination of candidates for the vacant offices of Councillors takes place on Tuesday next, the 27 th instant, and we hope to see the same lively interest displayed in the choice of councillors as was during the past week for that of Mayor. The -work in hand— to carry it throngh successfully -will require no ordinary care and ability, and we must urge on the ratepayers to place into the position only those whose interests will be a guarantee of their working with a will to protect the same. A glue factory is being established at the Hutt.

The severe gale of Monday seems to have raged all over the colony—nothing like it tnis season.

The present week is being held as a week of piayer by the Wealeyans at Wellington. The special object is for the promotion of religion in the colony. The new public hall at Alexandra was blown down during a tremendous gale on Monday. No lives lost—workmen were at dinner.

The poor box in the Catholic Church, Wanganui, was broken open, and the contents stolen, on Saturday night. Supposed it contained a considerable sum—thief undiscovere 1.

One must go abroad for news. The Melbourne Leader states that “according to the latest news” it is proposed to vote L 20.000 as a testimonial to Sir Julius Vogel. This is the first we have heard of any such proposal.—Grey River Argus. Robert Newton, employed at Sparrow’s foundry, Dunedin, was, while the machinery was in motion, placing a piece of board over a hole near the fly-wheel of the engine, when one end of the board catching him in the stomach hurled him 15 feet. , lie was picked up insensible and died the day afterwards.

A curious incident happened when the Governor laid the foundation-stone of the Presbyterian Church, at Wellington, lately. The benediction was scarcely out of the clergyman’s lips when a prominent member of the congregation cried, “ Three cheers Rr the Governor 1” making the religious portion of the ceremony seem to involve cheering. The Charleston Herald says :—“The numerous friends of ‘ Yankee Charlie’ will be pleased to learn that, by the decease of a relative in the United States, he inherits property to the extent of 10,000 dollars, or L2OOO sterling. The glad intelligence was conveyed to him by last mail from ’Frisco. We wisb our Yankee friend luck.” Tbe “ Yankee Charlies” are somewhat numerous on the Coast. This lucky individual, we presume, is a Charleston celebrity.

The police are carrying out vigorously the Bakers’ and Millers’ Act in Dunedin. Several bakers have been charged with selling bread not marked with a large Roman H, as prescribed by the Act. They are also looking up milk dealers, who in addition to the usual intimates of their byres, keep an animal with an iron tail.

The Daily Times say® :—“ Mr James Green, Secretary for Works, and the Provincial Engineer, have completed their tour of inspection through the Province. They returned to Dunedin yesterday. Mr Green fully endorses the statements that have been published concerning the frightful condition of various sroads in the interior. With a coach containing only three passengers, five horses had to be driven at a walking pace nearly the whole distance from Pig-root to the Kyeburn, and were frequently compelled to leave the main road, Gentlemen who have been for a considerable time in the Province concur in asserting that the roads wore never, at this period of the year, worse than at present.” On Friday, July the 16, at 3.30 p.m., a fire broke out in the dwelling house of Mr M. Hyams, Castle street. Mr Hyams had gone out about a quartor-of-an-hour before, leaving a servant-girl in possession. The house was completely burned down, had it not been forjtho brick gables in both ends, the adjoining houses on each side must have been destroyed. The Brigade turned out in an incredibly short space of time, and the police force were also present in largo numbers. Mr Hyams loses all his furniture and, clothing and a large amount of jewellery. Ho was not insured. The house belongs to Mr Smeatou.

Burglaiies are becoming matters of almost daily occurrence both in Dunedin and Invercargill. At Invercargill, on July 10, throe sudden deaths occurred Mr George Webster, M.H.R. for Wallace, left Invercargill for bis station, on Monday, and returned home at night, rather unwell. He died last night, from inflammation of the brain. Ivlr Jacob Ott, a highly-respected farmer and hotelkeeper at tho Waikivi Junction, died suddenly, from lung disease. Ho was in town two days ago. And lastly, Mr Richard Roeke, merchant, of Riverton, died in a bedroom in a hotel in town, where he had gone to lie down after his journey. An inquest took place this afternoon, tho verdict being “ Death from natural causes.”

The Wellington City Council are going to petition Parliament for a repeal of that portion of the Municipal Corporations Act which exempts Government property from rating. More than one-half of one ward is Government property, and pays no rates, although the streets and footpaths have to be maintained along considerably more than a mile of unproductive frontage. The occupants of the Ministerial residences are also very particular on the subject of drains, &c„ so that altogether this Ward is a great drag on the remainder of the city. It is that at home Government property always pays local taxes, and that there is every reason why a similar arrangement should exist here. This matter is of course one of interest to every municipality in the Colony, although none are probably affected to such an extent as Wellington--Grey River Argus.

Understanding that some of our farmers and squatters are intending to import weasels for the purpose of destroying rabbits, the North Otago Times says if they do this, they will certainly be jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire. Destructive as rabbits may he, they are not nearly so objectionable as weasels, and, if once introduced, there will be no getting rid of them. We are informed that on one estate in the midland counties of England, so destructive are the weasels that no less than fifteen men are employed snaring and killing them. There will not be the slightest chance of acclimatising pheasants or any birds that build their nests on the ground, in districts where the weasel is introduced. A. glance into any Encyclopedia will show that they ar e the natural enemies of birds which the Colony is spending large sums to introduce. They devour young "birds of all kinds, suck eggs, and are regular slaughterers in the poultry-yards ; and walls are no obstacle in their way, for they can climb them and trees with agility. A spiritualistic cure is claimed to have been performed at Dnnedin by a correspondent of the Star, who says that his wife being then in a very hopeless ease of decline, the consequence of lung-disease of several years’ standing, and all other available means having failed to restore her to health, resolved likewise to try spirit cure, and attended the circle of Mr Jackson, Great King street. She attended twice and .with, the best results. On the first occasion the controlling spirit—a doctor, without—after giving a description of her illness and its cause, proscribed treatment. He requested very particularly that his prescription should he observed in all its details, and that at the expiration of two months she was to return to the circle. His wife carried out these instructions, and at the end of the term named again attended but this time much improved in health. A change in the treatment was next eflfected, and under it she has now almost quite recovered. Another correspondent *• tops” this letter by stating that his heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and brain were irreparably diseased when he was induced to try the spirit cure, as dispensed at various bars in the city, with the most beneficial results.

What a University graduate may come to. —The recent census returns show that a graduate of London is a laborer ; two Edinburgh men are bushmen ; one Dublin man, a drover ; another Dublin man, a laborer ; and one Aberdeen, a sawyer. Six diggers are University men, and one butcher holds a degree from 'a foreign university. One livery stable-keeper is a graduate of Melbourne, and two of Glasgow are station servants. One Oxford man, with an unspecified degree, is a member of the General Assembly. One B.A. of Dublin is a Government officer, and one B.A. of Dublin is a warder in a gaol, while another graduate of Dublin holds a similar position. Two J,P. s hold unspecified Cambridge deg r ees, and 97 clergymen, 20 lawyers, 55 doctors, and 54 schoolmasters are graduates of some one of the universities. Three bank officers and 14 commercial clerks have degrees. Two Cambridge M .A.’s are runholders ; two B.A.’s are farmers—altogether, 411 university graduates are returned, hut few of them seem to have turne 1 their education to any practical use. North Otago Times.

Another lucky fellah ! A young man lately a gunner in the Williamstown Volunteer Artillery, has, it is stated, within the last few weeks become, by the death of his grand-father, master of a fortune of L 31,000.

According to the Creswick Advertiser, a teacher who lately left Victoria and settled in New Zealand, writes : —We had sixtyeight applicants from Victoria for the Timaru school. AMr Reynolds, from Tasmania, was successful in getting the appointment. As regards education, Victoria has nothing to boast of as compared with New Zealand. Here the range is wider, and the examination for teachers higher than \ ictoria. The schools are better, and to each school there is a teacher’s residence. The Timaru school is somewhat exceptional, but the teacher’s residence attached to it is to have twelve rooms, and to cost LI 300. This is a splendid country, and I do not regret coming here.—Charleston Herald.

A Boston Court has decided that if a woman lends money to her husband she cannot get it back. The decision will not bo new to many whives.