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Dunstan Times, Issue 788, 25 May 1877, Page 2

The Corporation of Alexandra have been gazetted 'trustees of the district Cemetery. An ordinary meeting of the Vincent County Council will take place on Monday next, the 28th instant, at Clyde. Reports from the M'Kenzie County state that the whole of the district is one mass of snow, which is lying fifteen feet deep in some places. It is understood the Government intend to discontinue the gold escort after the month of August. The banks will therefore have to look after the safe keeping of their treasure themselves. Mr Livingstone, County Auditor, paid Clyde a visit during the week. During his stay he audited the Vincent County accounts. On Thursday evening he proceeded by coach to the Lakes via Cromwell. W. M. Hodgkins, Esq., Revising Officer, at the Court-house, Clyde, and revised the Electoral Roll for the Dnnstan Electoral District. 00 fresh names were added, and 72 struck off the roll for the past year. From some places we hear that all mining operations are at a stand-still on account of the snow and -severe frosts. So far there has been no stoppage either in tire valley of the Molyneux or the Mannherikia, where the greatest activity prevails, the supply of water being abundant. Valuable Discovery for tke Hair.— If your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use the Mexican Hair Renewel - ,” for it will positively restore, in every case Grey or White hair to its original color, without leaving the disagreeable smell of most “Restorers.” It makes the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth of the hair on bald spots, where the glands are not decayed. Ask your Chemist for “Tiif. Mexican Hair Renewer,” prepared by Henry C, Gallop, 493, Oxford Street, London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere, at 3.i Cd per Bottle

The Guardian says Wo arc glad to be able to report that Mr John Sperry baa so far recovered from the effects of hia late accident aa to bo able to walk about town with the asaiatance of crutchea. Wo undoratand that it ia Mr Sporry’a intention to bring an action for heavy damagea againat tho City Corporation. Mr Fache roporta having Bold on Tucaday laat a quantity of valuable furniture, plate, bedding, &c., at the Dunstan Hotel, Clyde, the property of Mr William Eamea, the whole realiaing first rate pricea. Tho billiard table, together with all tho other fixings of a complete billiard room, waa sold, however, remarkably low, it only realising LBO. Wo have this week to introduce an old and well known friend in a new guise, Mr H, Nettlefold, for tho past fourteen years connected with Cobb and Co., has thrown down the ribbons, and now aa landlord of the Dunstan Hotel, Clyde, greets hia friends. From the very general esteem Mr Nettlefold waa held in aa a servant, we have but little fear he will merit the same as a master. Some few Chinamen are taking advantage of the lowness of the river, by fossicking along the beaches.,, From the alow and goeasy style they go about their work, we do not expect their earnings will have any material effect on the next escort, John appears to have fallen into the easy-going ways of his European brother digger, who now-adays have not a tittle of the push and energy they haijformerly. The Mrs Jury who arrived recently by the Tanjore at Melbourne, ia not the Mina Jury who figured so conspicuously in the Tichborae case, but a very respectable and intelligent old body, a sister of the real Arthur Orton, She has simply declared that, whoever the claimant may be, he certainly is not her brother ; and she has gone on to Sydney with the expectation of being able to identify her brother in the Parramatta Asylum. Our Alexandra friends notify that the first of their winter evenings entertainments will take place on Saturday evening week, the 9th of June, and that successive entertainments will follow on each alternate Saturday throughout the winter. These entertamments not only give the opportuity of wiling away an occasional hour that otherwise might hang [ heavily on the hand, but tend to foster a more kindly feeling one toward another aa they bring people more together, consequently they are deserving of every support both from those who have the faculty of giving either instruction or amusement and for those who desire either to be made wise or merry. AEgles in the Australasian says “ A mercantile firm in Elizabeth-street has a clerk in its employment named Burn. The firm has extensive contracts with the Government. A few days ago a large number of vouchers for goods supplied for the use of the state, and amounting to more than LIOOO, came into the hands of one of the principals. Having looked over them, he called a young man who had lately come into the establishment, and said, “Take these to Burn.” A day or two afterwards it was discovered that the vouchers were missing. Inquiring of the young fellow about the documents, he said, “ What did you do with those papers I gave you to take to Burn!’ ‘ I did it, Sir, with a kerosene lamp.’ And he did.” A vevy painful case occurred at Makikihi last week. As the circumstances are described by the Timaru Herald, a child of John Martin, aged eleven months, was left in its cot asleep, and the family had not been absent long before they heard loud screams proceeding from it. Upon looking under the clothes they found a ferret lying on the child’s face, aud that it had bitten the right side of the head in a fearful manner from the forehead to the chin, and was sucking the blood. Dr Maclntyre, of Timaru, was scut for, ami he reported that the eye was so much injured that it was doubtful whether the sight could be preserved, and that the other injuries were of a very severe nature, rendering it probable that the little sufferer would be marked for life. In one place mortification has now set i". aggravating the case considerably. The ferret was one of two which had been in the habit of playing with Mr Martin’s children. We have it on tho best authority that Ballantyne, Noble and Paget, the party of miners working into the terrace at the back of the eld Frenchman's Point workings, Alexandra, are making a good thing of it. Tho system of operations is by tunnelling, this being tho readiest method of getting out the wash-dirt, 1 which averages between six and seven feet thick From what we can learn, tho indications arc such as to lend to the belief that tho golden deposit is not confined to one claim, but that the whole terrace, which is of considerable extent, contains the same. To prove whether this is tho case would be no very expensive job, and for a few parties of good energetic minors there is a good opening. That this terrace is not the only one in the neighborhood of Alexandra that contains payable gold there is but little doubt, and which would be proved if but the miners would threw off their lethargy that has seized upon them, and buckle to with tho will they were once noted for. Throat Affections and Hoarseness. - All suffering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will he agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use of “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.’ These famous “ lozenges ” are now sold by moat respectable chemists in this country at Is ijd 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 Stamp around each box. —Manufactured by John I. Brown & Sons, Boston, United States, Depot, 49'j ord-street, London,

A little girl named Elizabeth Hill, aged five years, was accidentally burned to death at Clinton on Saturday. It is rumored that groat distress prevails amongst tho Chinese in Northern Australia. Hundreds are wandering about starving and robbing. Nearly all are armed. Wo understand that arrangements are completed for;tho opening of tho now St. Michael’s Church, Clyde, on Sunday, July Ist, when His Lordship Bishop Neville will officiate. Tho Daily Times has tho following “ The Police would wish any of the jewellers in the city who may havo missed any diamond rings or gold lockets from their establishments to communicate with them.” According to London telegrams the wool market is brisk, with prices ruling upward. Greasy wool fall has fully recovered, and scoured and washed wools are about a penny per lb. higher in price than at tho opening sales. A Gazette just publishedjcontains an Order in Council, making certain’rules under the Bankruptcy Act. One of these is as follows :—“ No business shall he transacted at any meeting of creditors unless there shall be present, either personally or by proxy, at least three creditors, or all the creditors if the number does not exceed three.” Thursday last the 'Anniversary ’of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s hirth-day passed off in’Clyde quietly enough, no”event of a general or public character to mark the day taking place. A private Shooting Club, numbering some twenty gentlemen, met aud fired off some matches during the afternoon, during which time the stores and other places of business were closed. The inquest on the girl Margaret M‘lntyre, who died in tire house, and whilst a servant of Mrs G. F. Reid of Dunedin, commenced on Friday last, and was adjourned till the Tuesday following, when it waa further adjourned till (to day) Friday. The case is surrounded with a number of most peculiar circumstances, and we regret that our space willjnot admit of our pulishiug tho evidence so far as it ia taken. The title of the New Zealand Licenced Victuallers’ [Gazette has been changed to that of the New Zealand Sun. In other respects the journal is the same as before. It contains several vicious articles on the Theatre Royal. We believe the proprietors, however, have received notice of an action for libel, so that the probabilities are that the Sun has put its foot further into it. Mr Holt, though doing all he can, is as yet unable to get coal. He was engaged two whole days during this'.week (Monday and Tuesday) through the senseless act of some dastard dropping a piece of iron down one of the pumps in the lower shaft. No punishment would be too severe for such a miscreant, and our only regret is that he was not caught in the act and there and then had administered to him what ho richly deserved. The Timaru Herald, in a leader this week, stales the Governors of Australian Colonies have received instructions from the Secretary of State as to their conduct in the case of Great Britain being involved in war. They are directed to resist any attack as far as possible, but if resistance is impossible, then they are to comply with the requisitions made by tire enemy, the Empire undertaking to repay the sums thus levied. A woman named Mary Collins fell dead at Waimate the other day. The deceased, who was aged 37 years, was employed as a cook at Richmond’s Hotel. She was gathering some sticks in tho yard, when she was seen to suddenly fall, and to keep rolling about. On Mr Richmond approaching and addressing her, she was able to reply. However, shortly after being removed to her room she was found to be dead, The Police, who took possession of the body, found a bottle labelled “ Poison” in her room. A contemporary says The Government has made known i«s intention to reduce the number of paid magistrates at every opportunity, and supply tho vacuum with the unpaid. The Justices of the Peace will bo required to take a much more active parr in the administration of justice than they have hitherto done. This is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, and will probably be the first step towards a re-modelling of the whole of our legal system. The change is quite in accordance with the practice in England and tho Australasian colonies, where Justices of tho Peace dispose of a mass of business which, in New .Zealand, is left to the higher Courts. The waste of time aud labor involved in our system is enormous, and has no corresponding ad vantage. The Justices should be required to take not only the criminal business, but also the civil business within certain limits —such as those which are defined in the Victorian Justices of the Peace statute, which gives jurisdiction up to L2O in all cases of ordinary debts, oxclucing actions of tort, with the exception of assault. The jurisdiction of the justice should be rigidly defined. As in any case they are likely to need assistance in matters of law, tho Government might adopt the Irish plan, and enable the Justices, when any legal difficulty presents itself, to state a case for the opinion of the Law Officers. This assistance in Ireland is furnished by the Law Adviser to the Government. Floriltnk 1 For the Teeth and Breath. —A few drops of the liquid “Flori inc ” sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant lather, which thoroughly cleanses tho teeth from all parasites or impurities, hardens the gums, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to tho teeth a peculiar pearly-whitcncss, and a delightful fragrance to tho breath. It removes all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth or tobacco smoke. “Tho Fragrant Floriline,” being composed in part of Honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to tho taste, and tire greatest toilet discovery of the age. Price 2s Gd, of all Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared by HryknC. Callup, 493, Oxford-st., Loudon

Mr John Nicol Drummond, of Western Australia, a magistrate and a highly respected colonist, has been sentenced to throe years’ penal servitude for shooting one of his tenants. The ball passed through the man’s neck, narrowly escaping killing him. A late Gazette notifies the extension of jurisdiction of the R.M. Court, Otago Goldfields district, to LIOO, and the appointment of Messrs Carew, Simpson, Stratford, Robinson, and Wood as Resident Magistrates for the said district. The stewards of the Wellington Jockey Club, after discussing all tho facts connected with tho disqualification of Fishhook, and Dorritt, tho jockey, have resolved to endorse the action of the Oamaru Jockey Club. Fishhook and Derritt are therefore disqualified from taking part in the Wellington races. At the meeting held at Naseby to consider the question of a railway to Naseby no definite opinion was expressed as to which line, whether via Oaraarn, Palmerston, or Outrara was tho beat. Mr De Latour, M.H R., urged that the Counties interested should construct lines out of tjieir own resources, and apply to the Government for a land reservation along the lines. This ho considered the only way to localise the land fund. The only business of importance to our readers transacted by tho Waste Lands Board, at their usual meeting was as follows: Tho Town Clerk of Lawrence applied for a grant to the Corporation of a small piece of land west of section 6, block LIV., Lawrence township, for municipal purposes. The Chief Commissioner stated that the area of land applied for was about three acres, and it was required for “general municipal purposes.” The application was declined.—John W. Quair '■ and Francis Phillip applied for permission to prospect for coal on land 'at Deep Creek, Kawarau. It was decided that the Board should offer no objection. A French soldier was sitting on the summit of a hill overlooking a garrison town ; his horse was picketed near by ; the man was smoking leisurely, and from time to time glancing from the esplanade to a big official envelope he had in his hand. A comrade passed and said, “What are you doing there ?”—“ lam bearing the President MacMahon’s pardon for our friend Flichman who is to be shot this m rning,” replied the smoker.—“ Well then, hurry along with it,” said his comrade.—“ Ob, no ! See, there is hardly a soul on the esplanade, and the firing platoon has not yet been formed. You surely would not have me rob my appearance of all dramatic effect ?” Messrs S. De Beer and Co., of Princesstreet South, have introduced a new description of lamp here, by which the risk of accidents incidental to the use of oil for illuminating purposes is greatly diminished. The new lamp is known as Wakefield’s Patent Chimneyless Burner. The special feature of the lamp is that the aperture I through which the flame of the wick comes, 1 instead of being in one piece, is moveable. I The aperture is kept open by two spring, which are pressed down by two small weights. To put out the lamp one has only to lift the weights. Should the lamp fall, the weights become’ released, and the burner, closing tightly round the wick, is converted into an extinguisher. Governor Caldwell’s able-bodied and highly profitable labor gang on Bell Dill narrowly escaped a wholesale burial without any burial on the 17th instant. They were just returning from their dinner on the line of march a few minutes before 1 o’clock, when, without any perceptible warning, the mass of rock at which they had been at work suddenly gave way from the surface, and over a hundred tons of bluestouo rolled down. Some of the pieces wore half as big as a private boarding-house and weighing many tons ; and so great was the crushing weight that two trucks beneath were literally ground into iron filings and sawdust. The afternoon was spent in clearing away some of the debris, but days will elapse before the whole of the detach ■ ed rock will find its way to the harbor wall on which the prisoners are diligently engaged. —Guardian. The ninth anniversary of the Court Pride of Alexandra, Ancient Order of Foresters, was celebrated on the night of the 24th instant., by a ball and supper in the Library Hall. The attendance, though not so large as on previous occasions, yet, with all the croaking of bad times, was quite equal to the most sanguine expectations Unfortunately, we were numbered amongst the absentees, business engagements precluding us from attending ; we understand, however, that the arrangements for ensuring tho comfort all was perfect, the which was demonstrated by the hearty enjoyment of all. There are some who look upon dancing as next to a crime, say it is indecorous, &c. Tojthose we say “Honisoitqui mal ypense.” We are proud to say we have no such notion, and we only regret that it was our misfortune not being able to bo present to enjoy a good polka or galop, or, the more stalely quadrille. Advice to Mothers!— Are you broken n your rest by a sick child suffering with ho pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a hemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothino Syrdp. It will relievo the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving tho child from pain, and tho little cherub awakes “ as bright as a button.” It soothes tho child, t softens tho guns, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates tho bowels, and is the best known remedy for dyssontcry and diarrhrea 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 493 Ox-ford-street, London. When is a girl not a girl?— When she turns into a confectioner's shop,

Wo are given to understand that replies favorable to a Convention of County Chairmen to consider the working of the Counties Act, has been received from tho whole of tha Counties in Otago, excepting Wallace and Clutha. Anything like a strike at the Blue Spur has been a thing hitherto unknown. Wages have been on two or three occasions reduced in tho claims, but tho workmen, though probably murmuring a good deal, never allowed their protest to take a practical form, as from advertisement it appears tho miners of the Great Extended Company have done. The men working for that company, on being informed that their wages would bo reduced to 9s a-day, struck, and they appeal to their fellow miners for sympathy and support in the action they have taken, promising tho same in return should their brother miners require their help at a future time, They call a meeting of miners, in Hinde’s Assembly Rooms, for Saturday evening, to consider their position. The Daily Times says:- Serious dissensions in tho Cabinet (our Wellington correspondent telegraphs),- arc announced. Since Mr Whitiker came down, Cabinet meetings of great length have been held daily, and it is said that Ministers are utterly unable to agree as to the principles on which tho policy of next session should be founded. On Saturday Mr Whitaker was going back post haste to Auckland, and orders were given to take the Hinemoa off the slip, whether her repairs were finished or not, as ho wanted to leave on Monday morning. Then his departure was postponed. People in Wellington would not bo surprised to hear of Ministerial changes before Parliament meets. The suggestions contained in Blacks “ Subscriber’s” letter, published in another column, we think are worthy of more than a passing comment. Besides the mere fact of providing an evening’s legitimate amusement and thereby augmenting the fnnds of the Dunstan District Hospital, it is proposed that it should be done in a legitimate manner, by this we refer to the first suggestion, that a committee of local gentlemen should be appointed to carry the affair through. The second suggestion, that the assistance of some of the musicians and singers from Alexandra, Clyde, and other places should be asked to give their services. With both of these suggestions we concur, and we feel assured the assistance of a local committee and of outside talent is only to be asked to be immediately granted, and that the affair will prove a success in so far as providing a really enjoyable evening, as also in relieving the pressure the exchequer of Institution is at the present time experiencing. “ Subscriber” writes doubtless in good faith, we therefore hope the Committee of Management of the Hospital will not hesitate in acting upon his suggestions. As there would be a difficulty in finding a room sufficiently large in any one place to accommodate all who might be expected to attend, we will suggest that instead of there being only one concert there should be two, one at Blacks, tho other at Tinker’s Gully, to take place on the following day. Holloway’s Pills and Ointment.— Rheumatism. Neuralgia. —lt is sometimes difficult to determine which of thesediseasea is afflicting tho sufferer, but such uncer tainty is immaterial if Holloway’s lemedics be used? They alleviate and cure all muscular and nervous pains. In hereditary rheumatism, after bathing the affected parts with warm salt water, Holloway’s Ointment should be well rubbed upon the spot, that it may penetrate and exert its soothing and regulating properties on the deeper vessels and nerves which being duly excited, cause both qrain and swelling. Holloway’s treatment has the merit of removing the disease without debilitating the constitution, which was the inevitable result of tire bleeding, mercury, and eolchicum practice formerly adopted in these complaints.