The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875.

Dunstan Times, Issue 711, 3 December 1875, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875.

lienea’h the rule of men entirely jdst the PEN is mightier than the SWORD.

Shearing will commence on Galloway Station on the 28th inst. Fresh tenders are invited for the building of an Episcopalian Church, at Clyde. Tenders are to close on the 10th inst. Mr T. L. Shepherd intimates that he will shortly address the electors throughout the Dunsfan District. Mr Shepherd does not say he intends contesting his old seat. At the forthcoming'general election Mr Tas. Macandrcw, Superintendent, has s!unified his intention to stand for Port Chalmers. The Dunedin Star says the date has not been definitely fixed for the new writs, but it probably will be about the 10th inst. A new evening and weekly paper is to be started at Oamaru, and will be brought out by a Company Limited Liability of £ISOO, in £3 shares. Residents on the south side of the Manuherikia, on Galloway Station, will do well to keep their pigs from running abroad, or they will be destroyed. See adverti?ement. In another column it is notified that T. Fergus, Esq., District Engineer, will deliver a lecture in the Library Hall, Alexandra, in aid of the Library funds. The usual monthly meeting of the Comm'ttee of Management of the Hospital will be held in the Committee.Room, Town Hall, Clyde, on Monday evening next, the 6th instant, at 8 p.m. An inquest was held at Maloney’s Junction Hotel, Arthur’s Point, before Coroner Stratford, on the remains of a child two and a half old, named Matthew Moyers. The verdict was accidentally drowned. From the evidence it appeared that deceased was in the habit of crossing Moke Creek on a small foot bridge t« meet his father when returning from work, and that on the day of his death, when cro-sing as usual, he either fell or was washed off the bridge, and was drowned in the angry turbid torrent below. A rather amusing rise(says the Melbourne Herald) was taken out of the Chief Judge of Insolvency on Friday morning. An insolvent, a free selector, named Bruce, applied for his certificate. When the case was called on, the insolvent stood on the floor of the Court near the witness-box. His height was something extraordinary, and not less than C feet 8 inches. The judge looked at the man and evidently thought he was in the witness-box, for on his getting into the box h’s honor looked at him with amazement, and cried out to him to retrain from getting any higher, and requested him to stand on the floor. The judge appeared anxious to be rid of the giant’s presence, and at once granted the desired certificate. The Pleasant Creek News says : Twenty years ago, this very day (October 15, 1875), David Guffy and Sloane opened the first reef ever worked at Stawell. The ground is now owned by the Sloanes and Scot: hman’s Company. Of those who were then on the ground the only residents left are Messrs T. Parrie, M. Doyle, James Byrne, J. Stea’, J. Garratt, J. Croume, and Alex. Fraser, all of whom are still identified with mining pursuits. The following depths have been reached by what are called by the Peasant Creek News the Progressive Mines, at Pleasant Creek Magdala, 1700 feet; Newington, 1629 feet ; Prince Patrick, 1282J feet; West Scotchman's, 1005 fee f ; South Cross, 766 feet ; 14, 15, and 16, South Cross Reef, 438 fee’- ; Darling, 521 feet; Golden Point and Wexford, 421 feet; Ulster, 319 i feet.