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Dunstan Times, Issue 693, 30 July 1875, Page 2

We have to express our regret that the latter which appeared in our last week’s issue was capable of being so construe!, as it was by one of our townsmen. By its insertion we had no intention of giving cause for annoyance, and in fact we had no idea that it was a reference to any one of our readers, leave alone one in our very midst; we looked upon it as a reminiscence of the writer’s past experience, and, as such it found a place in our columns. With no small amount of pride we can look in vain over the columns of the Dunstan Times for anything approaching personal allusions of a private character, and if wo have reflected on the conduct of public men we have done so more with the view of affording opportunities of confutation rather than in a spirit of detraction. As conductors of a newspaper—which is as much a commercial venture as any other business —we have to please our readers and customers, and to do so, we can no more bespatter them with ridicule and contumely than could a butcher bedaub his with blood. We can acquit ourselves of any intent to insult, and we hope that in the same light the insertion of the objectionable letter will be viewed. The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of the Dunstan District Hospital will bo held on Monday evening next, the 2nd of August, at 8 p.m. We are requested to draw attention to tho sale by auction, on the 18th August, of Mr W. Grindley’s freehold property, Clyde ; also household furniture, horses, spring cart, &e.—G. Cache, auctioneer. A very sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Clyde, on Friday morning last, between 4 and 5 a.m. According to our exchanges at or about the same time a shock was felt in nearly every part of tho Province. Wo have to acknowledge the receipt of copies of papers, correspondence and despatches presented to both Houses of the Gmeral Assembly since the opening of tho present Session. At the nomination of candidates for tho office of Councillors, on Tuesday last, there was but little feeling displayed, and there being hut one candidate for each vacancy, those gentlemen nominated were declared duly elected. The following arc the names of the new councillors : Mr A. Joss, west ward ; Mr J. Hastic, east ward; Mr A. Moore, south ward. For the position of Corporation auditors, Messrs Dennistou and Cambridge were cbosen. The Council for the ensuing year will therefore he : B. Naylor, Esq., Mayor, and Messrs Beck, Hueston, Welstord, Joss, Hastie, and Moore, Councillors. Of the Council as a whole, there is no fault to find, each individual member being the owner of no inconsiderable amount of property; and, representing as they do, nearly every interest in the town, we may rest satisfied with the choice made ; and, while congratulating ono and all, we would hope that in carrying out the duties of their offices they will have hut one thing iu view- the interest of tho Town. There is actually a prospect of a school of journalism in Great Britain. Dr Shaw, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, proposes the establishment of such a school in Dublin University, and the idea is considered one which will receive practical attention. Two absent jurymen—Messrs C. It. West and H. Law—wore each fined L 5 by his Honor Judge Johnston, in Dunedin, lately.

The Upper Shotover minors intend holding a meeting to procure a reduction of the rents of Mining Leases ; also, to procure monthly sittings of the Warden's and Resident Magistrate’s Courts at Skipper’s Point; also, an extended jurisdiction of tho latter. Monthly Courts are badly wanted, in fact, it tho place goes ahead in the reefs as it promises, tho Warden will require to bo stationod'pemancntly at Skipper’s Point. It is the only mining centre in the Queenstown division of the W akatip district. A newspaper is contemplated at Queenstown. L 2,000 has already been subscribed. It is to be/calledjthe Queenstown Chronicle. The Arrow Observer]’calls it tho Camp Advocate and Mount Beetham Advvertiser. Tiro discovery lately made by the Phoenix mine tributers, Skippers, is one of the richest ever made in Otago. The run of golden stone is six feet in thickness, and all through, will crush at least from 12 to 20 ounces to the ton. The lo !e has been opened for 45 feet in length, is without a fault, and is increasing in thickness towards tho east. 300 tons of stone are at the machine ready for crushing, The tributers say Mr Ruben's manager is unfairly delaying the fixing of the flaming and piping. They should be crushing at tho present time. Soutjiberg and Company are on very good stone again, and claims are being taken up everywhere. The Phoenix tributers discovered a new reef near tho surface while excavating stuff for filling in the stoups. It is payable. The Upper Shotover district is looking quite lively. A meeting of those interested in tho celebration of tho Dan O’Connell centenary took place on Wednesday last at Starkey’s Hotel, Cromwell, Mr Thomas Fergus was called to the Chair, and right well performed the onerous duties pertaining thereto. Several resolutions were passed, the main being the celebration should be a banquet. The promoters are deserving of a word of praise, as they evidently studied the interests of the community, and not any particular sect, creel, or clime, am], from the liberal measures that were submitted to the meeting may predict that the Cromwell banquet will be a success, creditable alike to the memory of him they wish to honor, and to the Cromwell district. In another column we publish, in ex tense, tho full report from the Dunedin Guardian of the case of Gla«sford v. Reid and others, and while apologizing to our readers for the unusual amount of space being occupied with one subject, we cannot but think we are warranted, the case being one of tho utmost importance to the mining community. Mr T. L. Shepherd, member of the House : of Representatives for the Dunstan District, from his seat in the House said, from his experience of the Goldfields Committee he was convinced it was of no use to tho country. The Christchurch correspondent of the Waitaugi Tribune says it is rumored that Mr Morten intends erecting an hotel at the corner of Colombo and Hereford streets in that city at a cost of L 20.000. | At the Christchurch Criminal Sessions, during the trial of Pavitt, the church steward, for applying to his own use money held in trust by him for the church, it came to light that accused had in the space of ono year incurred a liability of L 65 for boots. On Monday last Mr Geo. Hayes, we are sorry to say, met with a bad accident while roping a young bullock. It appears that he had hauled the animal some distance towards the post, when, in slacking off to shift the rope, the fingers of his right hand got jammed in the bight, and the top of one of them was torn off. He immediately went to Dr Dunkley, and that gentleman, after putting his patient under chloroform, took the piece of the finger off at the joint. —Waitangi Tribune. * A discovery of great interest to Egyptololists and antiquarians generally is reported from Port Said, in the Red Sea. A learned archaeologist in that place has just found a monumental stono to Tothmes 111., under whose reign (1491 B.c) the exodus of tho Israelites is supposed to have taken place. The inscriptions already deciphered contain more than 400 geographical names, all recognisable, and for tho most part belonging to Arabia, Armenia, Nubia, and the coasts of the Mediterranean. Sir Donald M’Lcanhas accepted the office of District Grandmaster of Freemasons for the North Island. It is likely (says the Ofcago Daily Times) that tho installation will take place at Wellington in October next, and that it will bo conducted by tho District Grand Master of Otago (Mr J. H. Harris), assisted by the various officers from the Middle and North Islands, The event will he a most important ono in many respects, and it is expected that the installation will be connected with unusual ceremony. The “ funny man” on the Auckland Echo has lately written the following piece of “penny-a-line” nonsense :—Passing ono of tho suburban schools recently we listened to tho scholars singing “ Oh, how I love my teacher dear.” There was ono boy with a voice like a tornado, who was so enthusiastic that he emphasised every word, and roared, “ Oh, how I love my teacher dear” with a force that left no doubt of affection. Ten minutes after, that hoy had been stood on the floor for putting shoemaker’s wax on his teacher’s chair, got three demerit marks for drawing a picture of her with red chalk on the back of an atlas, being well shaken for putting bent pins in another boy’s ebair, scolded for whistling out loud, sentenced to stay after school for drawing ink moustaches on his face and blackening another boy’s nose, and soundly whipped for slapping 339 chewed paper balls up against the ceiling, and throwing a big one into a girl’s ear. You can’t believe half a boy says when ho ings. The lino of railway from Dunedin to Halclutha, a distance of 55 miles, will bo opened the Ist September, the line to Tuapeka, it is expected, will bo ready by April, IS7U, four or five months within contract time.

Tho July number of the Illustrated Now Zealand Herald, also, tho second number of tho Saturday Advertiser mid Time Table we have to acknowledge tho receipt of. Tho Herald is a decided improvement on any previous number, and contains besides 12 views, six pages of carefully written and and selected letter press. The Advertiser has on its front page a portrait of, and a short biographical sketch of Joseph Arch, the Secretary of tho English Laborers’ Union ; tho first chapter of “ At tho sign of the Silver Flagon ” by B. L. Fargcon, other readable matter, a very fair sprinkling of advertisements, and tho Postal, Coach and Railway Table of Now Zealand. In the Time Table wo however miss any mention of Lake Wakatip, whether by the way of Invercargill or Dunedin. Tho following items we take from tho report of prooeoedings of the last meeting of tho Waste Lands Board Mr Thomas Betts was recommended by tho Distiict Land Officer at Queenstown as a member of tho Board of Enquiry at that place, vice Mr Hallenstcin, resigned. Approved.— Mr Geo. Facho requested that ho might be appointed salesman for Crown lands situated within the Dunstan district. The Board agreed that there was no necessity for a change at present. —Mr Wm. Williams applied for a renewal of bis license for the water race at Wai Keri Keri Creek, Dunstan Flat. To bo renewed. The Bruce Herald says Mr A. M’Larcn has just disposed of his retail butchering business to Mr William Orindley, of Clyde, who takes possession of it next month. For many years past Mr M'Laren has been the largest cattle dealer in the Province, and probably in the Colony, and now that he has disposed of his retail business he will be the better able to prosecute tho wholesale trade, in which ho has hitherto been so successful, tr still better advantage. The southern districts have for years past found Mr M'Laren their largest and most spirited purchaser. Those hotel-keepers who give credit for liquors supplied must not look to our worthy Resident Magistrate for any consideration. Said that gentleman, lately, “The policy of the law is to discourage the sale of intoxicating liquors on credit, because a man who sells liquors on credit helps to ruin the individual by affording him extra facility to get drink.” An hotelkeeper, residing at the Taieri, summoned a farmer, well-known in the same neighborhood, for LIS 3s 6 1 on account of liquors, porter, beer, and wine supplied ; but judge tho astonishment that settled on tho features of the dispenser of refreshing fluids when the Magistrate, notwithstanding the j n 'n-appearanee of the defendant, reduced the claim to L 3 15s fid.—Dunediu Guardian. The Nelson Times says ; People have to go from home to hear news it is s dd. A singular example of this has recently appeared in a statement made in a Wanganui nauer to the effect that Mr Lowj ther Broad was about to be constituted a District Judge, to have judicature in that part of the colony. We are authorised to say that so far as the principal person is ' concerned he has no knowledge whatever of his alleged exaltation. By Goldsborough’s July Monthly Wool Circular, wo loam that from October 1. 1874 to date, 296,522 bales of wool were exported from Melbourne, and that the prices at the last sale ranged from 7Jd per lb for inferior greasy to 2s 3J per lb. for superior scoured. With reference to this season’s clip, it says : A ttentinn is already being directed towards the new clip, and we are a Ivised of shearing operations having commenced at some of the large stations on tho Darling. This is unusually early ; but the great object is to get the wool to market whilst the rivers are high, and thus ensure rapid transit without risk of delay. There Sis also an ini; ortant advantage to be gaiaa I in laving the wool free of the dust and seeds which become prevalent as the summer advances. Each year there is an increasing tendency towards earlier shearing, and by the first week in August a large proportion of the Riveriua sheds will bo in full operation. In future years, when more steamers are available, the delivery of-the clip in London will be much expedited, and probably a considerable proportion will bo got forward in time for the November sales.