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Dunstan Times, Issue 698, 3 September 1875, Page 2

The attention of contractors is drawn to the advertisement calling for tenders for the formation and’gravelling ( ,f about one mile of the road between Cooper’s Gully, and Champagne Bill's, on thc Dunstan and Cromwell Road. We are sorry to say that through the breaking in of the river into Mr Holt’s coal pit, the supply of coals from that source is for the time stopped. Most unfortunately —we might say miraculously—no lives were lost, as, at the time of the inroad of the water, .lohn Irving, miner, and a lad were in the workings, Mr Holt being on the surface. In the District Land Court, Clyde, on Thursday the 2nd instant, the application of Messrs Strode and Fraser for an Agricultural Lease of G4O acres on run 335n, Cairuhill, was granted. The members of the Clyde Cricket Club are hereby informed that practice will take place to morrow afternoon at half-past three o’clock. , We are informed that the Government have phced to the credit of the DunstanDistrict Hospital the sum of Ll5O on account of the indebtedness of the Cromwell District for the maintenance in the DunStan Hospital of theirpationts during the year 1874, and the first quarter of 1875. The Roman Catholic Bishop, of Dunedin, in a letter to the Daily Times, contradicts the rumor that the Roman Catholic Bishops have published a pastoral against the abolition of provinces. He says—they have not published a pastoral either for or j against abolition. Sir Julius Vogel, writing to a friend in Dunedin, says he expects to arrive in New Zealand in November next. Mr Francis Harvey, a brother of Judge. Harvey, is a passenger by the steamer Otago, having come from Fiji on a visit to his relatives in this Colony. An inquest was held on Wednesday last, the Ist instant, before W. L. Simpson, Esq., Coroner, at Hawthorne's Bendigo Hotel, Clyde, touching the death of an infant child of one Mrs Matheson. From the evidence of witnesses it appeared that the child was born on Sunday, the 29th ult., and apparently in good health, at the residence of Mrs Parcells, who had acted as midwife, and that it died on. the Tuesday following while lying -in its mother’s arms. Dr Allen, who made a post mortem examintion, deposed that the child was not born in good health, the lungs adhering to its ribs, and that death was the result of effusion of serous matter into the cavities of the chest, causing suffocation. The Verdict returned was in accordance with the medical testimony. ... An entertainment tor the benefit of the Alexandra Library took place in the library Hall on the evening of the 25th ultimo, at which there was ?, very-good attend- " anco, and we are happy to state that as far as we can judge that those . present were well satisfied with the amusement provided,The recitations given by the youngsters reflect great credit on their teachers, indeed, it was quite a treat to hear them. The nigger band appeared, anil for about half an'hour kept the audience in a roar of laughter. Thev were succeeded hy Messrs Wheclan and Rico in “ No. 2 Round the Corner,” who acquitted themselves very well indeed, and we trust that when they and their black friends next appear they will have as large a house, aud be able, if possible, to please bettor. The Cromwell correspondent of the Daily Times says :—At the Abolition meeting held at Cromwell, the apathy was great, that only 17 persons remained to vote, 8 voting for abolition, 9 for delay. On Friday morning last a fire broke out in Donovan’s Shamrock Hotel, Lawrence. By the exertions of the fire brigade, however, the flames were subdued before much damage was done. According to telegraphic intelligence in onr contemporaries, Mr Stout, the new member for Cavcrsham, made an eloquent and brilliant speech ort the abolition question. Ho was cheered on all aides when he concluded. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government printer of batches of Parliamentary papers. Hansard, &c. Mr C. Lemon, general Manager of New Zealand Telegraph has had conferred on him j fie honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy, i by tin; Trustees of Hamilton College, one of the most eminent of the Universities of , America.

| The Wairarapa .Standard gives the follow I in e ™ry good joke “ Sir Julius Vogel is composing a now Handbook of New Zealand, writes our esteemed correspondent * Phillip Henry,’ which will bo entitled * The Groat Loan Land.’ ” The Wellington correspondent of tho Lyttelton Times says; -“Mr E. Wake, field, member for Christchurch East, has been in a disgusting state for tlio last week or so, and to-day tho Sergeant-at-Arms, by - ' tho Speaker’s direction, had to remove him from the. House. ( The House Committee meet to-morrow morning to arrange for his exclusion from Bellamy’s and tho library, itbeing literally impossible io breathe the same atmosphere with him ” In the House of Representatives, Mr T. L. Shepherd asked, without notice, whether tho votes proposed by tho Provincial Council, and for which the funds have been propose!, will be carried as proposed by tho Provincial Councils. No sums of money will be subtracted from these votes by Provincial Councils! Some gentlemen make money when they travel, and combine pleasure in So doing. There is a story current' that I think is worth repeating. A person residing at Cromwell, hired a buggy and pair of horses from Marsh’s stable, and journeyed on to Dunedin, and on his return he put up at host Williams’, at which place were one or two speculators. In course of conversation this Cromwellian spoke in eulogistic terms of the nags. He was immediately told that “ his horses wer’nt worth a but, being of the Caledonian clime, ho did not feel disposed to cave in, and immediately offered to lay a wager that he would drive, on the following morning, from Williams’ door to the Tcviot, a distance of over forty miles, over a bad piece of road, under six hours, and with the same pair of horses. The wager was made, and several other bets were offered and accepted ; but one person, who belongs to Dunedin, and who made himself conspicuous when at Cromwell a few days since, by the way in which he did “the heavy,” would insist upon having a tenner, when to bis surprise he found that the offer was most cheerfully accepted. The two Cromwellians started on their journey, and completed the distance in the six hours less six minutes and a-half. This, it must be admitted, was pretty good work, as the buggy had to pass over some very b: d ground, which I think will be conceded by anyone knowing the road. Duuedinitcs must not run away with the idea that the country folk are demented, as they invariably discover that after a visit to our peroeful parts they all can't show us very much, and that in the matter of horseflesh we know the points as well as our neighbors, and can guide the ribbons as well, if not ' fetter than somewff them. The Dunedin “ Funeral Reform Associa- ; tion,” established for the purpose of dis- ■ couraging the ancient and absurd panoply of funerals and the present expensive and ostentatious style of mournings, have been quietly doing their work. They have hail a hearse built, and have entered into an arrangement with a firm in Dunedin by which funerals are to he conducted on the new system, at rates which have been agreed upon. The hearse is such as can be use 1 by rich and poor alike for the burial of their '■ relatives and friends. The Daily Times j says So much having been done by the ; Funeral Reform Association to lessen the expense attending on burials. It remains now with those who lose relatives or friends to adopt a simple and less costly style of mourning ; and no doubt, now that funerals can he conducted on the new system, reforms in mourning customs will he the sooner adopted.