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Dunstan Times, Issue 781, 6 April 1877, Page 2

Mr F.aclie instructs na to draw attention toaSaloby Auction of Household Furniture, this day at Cromwell. The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of tho Dunstan District Hospital will take place on Monday evening next.

The shooting season for native game commenced on Sunday lust, the Ist inat. A marked and steady increase in the price of all grain is noticeab e right throughout the district. At Queenstown oats are quoted at two shillings and sixpence. By our Dunedin Exchanges wo learn that Captain Wm. Jackson Barry has been lecturing in Dunedin and Port Chalmers, to large and appreciative audiences. The returns of gold for the month of February from the Thames and Coromandel totalled the very respectable amount of 28,720 ounces. The appointment of Mr J. S. Worthington as Registration and Returning Officer for tfie election of members of the House of Representatives is notified in the Gazette. The Hon. Donald Reid, Minister of Lands, wo understan 1, visits Cromwell today. We do not hear if the hon, gentleman will make any stay in Clyde as he passes through for Dunedin, Mr A. A. Sherrin, for writing and publishing in the Waitangi Tribune a defamatory libel on Mr G. M. Reed, of the Guardian, was arrested, and has since been committed for trial. Bail not being forthcoming he was locked up. Notification is made in the customary manner that the nomination and election of a Candi late to fill the vacancy in the Clyde Town Council, created by the resignation if Mr Joseph Has tie, will take place during the coming week. The whole of the Chinese on the Quarantine Island, removed from the ship Gloucester, have been vaccinated. The convalescents and those affected with the disease, small-pox, are still on board the vessel, and by all accounts are progressing favorably. We learn by our exchanges that Mr William Finlay, of the firm of Hall and Finlay, Hokitika, a long time resident of Alexandra, is a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives for the West Coast in the place of Mr Tribe, deceased. On Monday last Mr Warden Simpson left here for Wellington, where, we are given to understand, he is to assist in the framing of one general code of rules for the government of the goldfields. During his absence, which will be for about three weeks, Mr Warden Woo l, of Switzers, will conduct the business of the Warden’s Courts. We understand that the difficulty between the School Committee and the residents of Blacks regarding the site for the new Schoolhouse is settled, the site granted by the Waste Lands Board being accepted by all parties. The Committee, therefore, will ho prepared to accept an eligible tender for the erection of the building on the date advertised, viz., the 9th instant. England is now being supplied with meat preserved by “Mort's Freezing Process” in very large quantities from New York. The meat is hardly distinguishable from that produced in England, and it is anticipated that shortly the quantities lauded will be close upon 50,000 tons per week. The article “Notes of an up-country Trip,” by the travelling reporter of the Dunedin Evening Star," as being the opinion of one of Otago’s oldest journalist, and therefore carries weight with it, we publish without any apology, feeling assured it will be of interest to our general readers. To morrow, Saturday, the customary \ nmial Cricketing Contest between the Runholders, and a team selected from Alexandra, Teviot, Cromwell and Clyde will take place on the, Clyde ground. This game has always been very attractive, and for aught we know, this year will be no exception to the rule. We shall hope to see a good mini her of spectators on the ground to witness the play. We notice that Messrs Grant and Maokellar, contractors for the erecting of offices and dwelling for the Colonial Bank of Now for an addition to the stores of Messrs Hafienstein and Co., Cromwell, are making good headway. From what can be seen of the structures they will be very handsome and an ornament to the townFor twenty-four hours crushing with a single stamper, of specimens from the Moanatari Mine, Thames, the result was five thousand two hunndred and fifty ounces of smelted gold. This result was obtained, we should imagine, from the stone which is reported to have a band, of what looks like solid gold, six inches wide, running through it. The Bruce County Council after three months’ consideration have wisely adopted the whole of the counties’ Act. There remain now but two Counties in Otago, namely— Maniototo and Clntha, which have not yet adopted the Act in its entirety. A large number of Chinese from Bannockburn, Blacks, Alexandra, and other places where they most do congregate, visited the town during the week and made things lively. Upon enquiring wo understand the ostensible object of their appearance was to visit the cemetery and offer up some religious rite over their deceased friends, which, so far as we know, consisted of scattering money broadcast, burning new articles of wearing apparel, and no end of joss candles, and the laying out of large quantities of good food on and about the graves. Floril'ne ! —For the Te»th a no Breath.—A few drops of the I'qnid “Flari. lino” sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant la'her, which thoroughly cleanses the teeth from all parasites or impurities, hardens the gums, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly-whiteness, and a delightful fragrance to tho breath. It removes all unpleasant odour arising from decayed tooth or tobacco smoke. “Tho Fragrant Floriline,” being composed in part of Honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to tho taste, ami the greatest toilet discovery of the age. Price 2s Cd, of nil Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared by HrnryO.Gallup, 493, Oxford-st., London I The man with tlm wooden leg Ins one ad- . vantage over most of us. Ho don't have to < take but one fiat iron up to bed with him,

Ar a late meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club, it having been proved that John Cole* man, boakraakor, (doubtless known to many residents in this and the neighboring towns) had been guilty of iiregular practices on the Dunedin Race-course, it was resolved that he bo warned off the Dunedin course, and that no horse in any way connected with him be ever permitted to run on the Dunedin or any other course whereon the Dunedin Jockey Club hold their meetings. A mistaken impression seems to have got abroad ns to the principle upon which it is proposed to issue free railway passes to members of County Councils. Some persons, but nut members of the Councils, concluded that free passes were to be issue 1 to County Councillors without any limitation. The Press states that such is not the case. The chairman of each Council has a general pass : the others are only availabl > when members are journeying to or from meetings of Council.—Evening Star f In the Sydney papers of a receA't j, the death by chloroform, at Syibief, If William Robertson, auctioneer, from New Zealand, is recorded. Robertson had been at the theatre on the previous night,, and oncoming out, stumbled and b>-oke his ankle. He was taken to the infirmary, and there put under the influence of chloroform previous to reducing the fracture. The hi oken limb had scare ly been set when heavy breathing, and his face becoming rapidly livid, tol lof the man’s dancer. He died almost instantly, never having recovered consciousness. The doctor at the inquest stated that he had died of sanguine ms apoplexy. It was stated that deceased had been, before going to Sydney, fourteen years in New Zetland, and had previously lived in Melbourne. There he had arrived from India. His age was given as “ixty-five years, and it was stated that he has left a widow and family in some part of New Zealand. A Southland exchange adds that Mr Robertson was for many years an auctioneer at Invercargill, and subsequently a resident at Greymou'h and Westport. Advice to Mothers !• -Are you broken n your rest by a sick child suffering with he pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a hemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the pier sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “as bright as a button.” It soothes the child, it softens the guns, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for ilyssentery and diarrhoea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is IJd per bottle. Manufactured at 4D3 Ox-ford-street, London. A mechanic in a certain township not far from Wanganui (writes an exchange) recent, ly executed a piece of work which required skilful manipulation. When he was finishing it, the editor of the local paper happened to arrive on the scene, and offered to insert a paragraph in his paper about it. “ Thanks,” »aid the mechanic, “ I shall be much obliged, and take out my advertisement, us I want to curtail expenses for soma time.” In the next issue the mechanic looked in vain for the promised “ puff,” and meeting the editor, aske I why it did not appear. To this query he received the answer that because he bad withdrawn his advertisement the proprietor would not insert it. “ Continue my advertisement, then,” said the mechanic, and this proved sufficient inducement for the puff to appear, but as soon as it did appear, the mechanic wrote to the editor, instructing him te discontinue his advertisement, and, annoyed at thus being tricked, in the next issue appeared a paragraph stating that the piece of work executed by Mr So-and-so, and characterised in that paper as a “natty job," should have read as a “ nasty job-" This is how that paper expresses its gratitude to its constituents. In our last week’s issue we published a rumor that was current in Qneenstow" Mr W. Warren, the proprietor of tie Wakatip Mail, had been appointed Resident Magistrate. The Wakatip Mail of the 20th ult thus refers to the matter “ A considerable sensation was created in town on Saturday amongst a few citizens owing to a stupid canard which some wag or mischievom person had set afloat that the Mayor (Mr Warren) had been, or was to be appointed resident magistrate and warden for this distriet. In fact, the matter was taken up in such a serious manner as to prompt a telegram to the Minister of Justice, protesting against such an appointment. We h»ar that fie Municipal Council at Arrowtown also had a special meeting on the subject. The movement, however, was kept so quiet amongst the few that a great many residents here knew nothing about it. The I Mayor informs us that he knew nothin: of the affair until Saturday evening, and that no one could he more surprised than himself at the very kind intention of Government. He further desires us to state that he has had no correspondence of any kind with the Government—nor is he aware any one else has—with the view of getting thrust upon him the duties of such an important office which neither his position nor competency would permit him to accept In onr opinion there are too many discarded officials with the necessary training and experience for the Government ever to dream of making such an appointment We must give the Government credit l-y saying that the most they might do would be to appoint the Mayor an R.M. under the Corporations Act of 1860, and this would bo merely a temporary appoin’rnent, to tide over the dissatisfaction which is pressed by rcsi-'onts of the whole district at the injustice done in depriving them of ll permanent R.M. and Warden.'

“ I allow that Job was patient,” remarked a farmer “ but ho never seen a determine!* Shanghai hen sitting on a nest full of l>ilw eggs.”

Dyeing a man may be a practical joke, but when it ends in death the dyers may very justly be tried for manslaughter. This is what has just happened in a dyeing establishment at Maromme, in the Seine-In-ferieure. An old workman named Amedeo Brouet, aged Cl, had long ho n the butt of his comrades, chiefly on account of his drunken habits. The other day, while the worse for drink, two of the dyers caught hold of him and ducked him twice in a tank containing a mixture of indigo and sulphate of iron. Of course he came out blue, and great was the laughter of the people as he was turned out into the street, but their laughter changed to weeping when they saw him fall down dead. The practical jokers have been arrested, and will be tried not for dyeing, but killing him.—Home Paper. A London correspondent to the Melbourne Argus tells a story of a Hospital Sunday sermon, which shows that the 1 'ergy are aware of the “ ticklish ” nature commercial credit. The Rector of Baysi ■ water parish read out before his discourse, a letter which he said he had received from one of his parishioners. It was a case of conscience. “I am apparently well off.” said the writer, “ but I am, in fact, on the verge of bankruptcy. I should like to put my usual contribution—a L 5 note- into your plate to-morrow, but 1 feel it would be really giving away the money of my •creditors. What am I to do ?” The clergyman said that he had advised him to give nothing. “ And I give the same advice, ray dear friends, to you, if any of you, unhappily, are in the like position. Those, on the other hand, who are in good circumstances will, I am sure give in proportion to their means. ” It proved the ■largest collection that this wise rector ever made. Holloway’s Pills.— The Right Road to Happiness.—ln selecting the most appropriate medicine for a particular ailment there may be some difficulty, unlesi one can be found at once to purify, regulate and ■strenghten. Holloway’s Pills posse's and ■exert these properties iu an extraordinary degree. They enable the stomach ta digest any ordinary food, they increase the secretory powers ol the liver, cleanse the blood, ■expel all morbid matters, and throw into the circulation ithe purest elements for sustaining and repairing the frame, and preserving it from unnecessary “ wear and tear.” These inestimable Pills are especially useful in broken bodily health, when the body is out of order without any assignable ■cause. With this knowledge, none should trifle with life or health. Throat Affections and Hoarseness. - All suffering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of “ Brown s Bronchial Troches.’ These famous “lozenges” are now sold by most respectable chemists in this country at Is lid per box. People troubled with a '• hacking cough," a “slight cold,” or bronchial affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, if allowed to progress, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic affections See that the words “Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” are on the Government ■S:amp around each box. —Manufactured by John I. Brown & Sons, Boston, United States. Depot. 493 or.l-street, London.