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Dunstan Times, Issue 796, 20 July 1877, Page 2

The opening of the New Tolvn Hal!, Alexandra is to be celebrated by a Ball and Supper, on Wednesday evening next, the -2oth instant. From the great number of tickets issued, and the very general preparations by the ladies especially to make their pretty selves prettier than usual we shall expect to see a crush. The Committee, We hear, are leaving nothing undone to make the affair as successful as possible. Some splendid returns are being obtained from Cameron and Bailey’s claim at Doctor's ; Point, for the past teu days or more the average being LlO per day per man. No other claim has as yet struck gold, but all are being energetically worked, and the greatest excitement exists, Paget, Noble and party at Frenchman’s Point are also doing remarkably well. A small taste of the good things to be bad from the auriferous terraces of Wai Keri Keri Talley was included in the amount of gold sent to Dunedin from Clyde by the escort, but still greater may be expected when the whole of the available water is brought to bear. A new claim was opened during the week with a prospect that will pay handsomely to work with the tub a xd cradle. We hear from good authority that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint W. L. Simpson, Esq., R..M. and Warden, a Commissioner under Section 18 of the Counties Act, to enquire into the bona fide# of the petition by the northern end of the County for a severance from the southern end. According to the Act Mr Simpson will have power to examine witnesses upon oath, to oall for the production of books and papers touching the inquiry, and to exercise all the powers exercised by Justices in summary jurisdiction. Vincent Pyke, Esq., Chairman of the County Council, on Monday last met a large number of the miners of Bannockburn on the matter of the proposed sludge channel in Pipe-clay Gully. After a long conversation it was decided that the miners should prepare a code of rules for the working of the Channel when completed, and submit the same to the County Council at its next meeting, on Wednesday the 25th iustaut. Mr James Marshall, Manager of the Garrick Range Water-race Company was present, and was asked if the Company would give any water to assist i n the construction of the Channel. He was understood to say he would lay the matter before his Directors, and forward their reply to the County Council. At the last meeting of the Arrow Miners’ Association, Mr Copo having spoke at length upon the benefits attached to Mining -Associations, further said :—“ All the credit of their Institution must be given to the Arrow, where alone, he believed, Lad the original Association succeeded in maintaining vitality and energy, and advocated a central body to which all branches might look, and he thought that alone would ensure success.,, This evening a meeting will be held at Blacks (sec advertisement) to take into consideration the question of Railway extension into the interior. Blacks is particularly effected and should raise its voice, and we are exceedingly gratified to seo that an expression of opinion is to be given by the residents. We will not attempt to indicate what particular line they should advocate, feeling convinced that whichever they select cannot fail but benefit thorn and us alike. Valuable Discovery foe the Hair.— If your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use the Mexican Hair Renewer,” for it will positively restore in every case Orey 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 “The Mexican Hair Renewer,” prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493, Oxford Street, London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere, at 3s Cd per Bottle

A mooting of shareholders of the Dunstart District Flour Mill Company is convened for Tuesday, tho 31st insta-rft, to bo held at Clyde, with the view of determining whether ffie Company shall ho wound up. The Secretary of tho Company us to Iraw special attention to tb.e meeting, and to call on all to attend either personally or by proxy. On account of tho non-arrival of the usual mail coach last evening the latest advices and nows from tho scaboarrd . are. omitted from this issue. The reason assigned by the coach agents is tho badness of the roads within the Tuapeka County. Any excuse is better than none, but we "think tho one given is a very bad one. Tho roads, admittedly, in parts are bad, Int not so bad as to prevent tho mails arriving in due time, and in justice to all every effort should he made to deliver them. It is but seldom wo have to complain of tho na.anner in which the mail contractors carry our their duties, therefore we make these remarks not disparagingly of their efforts t>"Eit as a duty. Our Oamaru contemporary says, a member of the long robe, resident in this city, Who has been greatly afflicted with ebb blains, informs us that Ba-rry’s Tricoph, j rous is a certain cure. One night, whefe retiring, the bright thought: hashed across bis mind that instead of, as usual, applying the tricopherons to his hair - , he Would give the chilblains on his feet a dose. He did so, and 10, presto, in the rooming, on examining his feet, found thaf& “ Barry’s celebrated ” had worked a- certain cure. Those who are similarly afflicted with these annual winter visitants wovald do well to give the Tricopherons a trial The success that is attending the promoters of tho Union Insurance Company at Christchurch, and that Has attended the National and other insm-ance companies that have been formed of late years, has apparently whetted the desire of the Wellingtonians to participate in the benefits of Insurance Companies as they are trying the establishing of a company for the Empbe City. In giving his decision irt the case Webb v. National Insurance Corajpany his Honor Jndge Williams held—** Tmat an Insurance Company was not bound by its knowledge of a previous insurance hawing been effecl« ed unless the existence of the other policy was indicated to the Company in the manner prescribed by the policy.*’ This decision should bo borne in mind by insurers, At the nomination of candidates for tho office of Mayor of Roxburgh, Mr P. Ormond stood alone to the fore, consequently he was elected. The nomination! of Councillors took place on the same <3.ay ; owing, however, to some supposed irregularity in the nomination papers, the proceeding were adjourned till a future date. The irregularity, from what we can learn, was that the proposer or seconder of some of the candidates had not paid their rates. The objection on this score to the nomination we hold was not good, the only reference to tho payment of rates being in section XkS of the Municipal Ordinance, where it is laid down that no citizen who has not paid iris rates shall he entitled to vote at any election, and as clause XXIV says, the nomination of Mayor, Councillors, or auditors shall respectively be signed by citizens who are described in section VII as being every male person of the ago of 21 years, whose name is inserted in (the assessment shall be a citizen, we opine we are correct. Our- Roxburgh friends appear to have a code of regulations peculiar to themselves for the conducting of their Municipal affairs ; in no one particular that we are aware of do they conform to the ordinance, the which they may find some day to their cost if they do not alter their mode of procedure. A meeting in connection with the Presbyterian Church, was held in the Library Room, Clyde, for the purypose of electing a Committee to carry out: the services and and other matters in connection with the above church. The Rev. A. G. Boyd in the chair. Resolved that the following gentlemen be the Committee : Rev-. jA. G. Boyd (Chairman ex officio), and Messrs Joss (Treasurer), Stock (Secretary), M‘i’herson, Murray, M'Connochie, Peters, and Harding. Mr M'Pherson handed in his resignation as Treasurer and Secretary, and also a cheque of L2 8s 9d, being the bolanco in hand. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr M'Pherson for his past services. Mr W. L. Simpson, District Land Officer, accompanied by Air M ‘JKay, District Surveyor, has boon, during the week, making a visit of inspection of tb e country between Cromwell and the Drakes Hawea ami Wanaka, with the view of selecting blocks of land for settlement - The demand for land in this locality has "been for manyyeara past persistent, and we are pleased that at length the Waste Lands Board are moving to satisfy the demand. For tho want of land for settlement the ire has been no perceptible advancement in the district, whereas, had there beex-s plenty available a very different state of things would exist. The error has been more of omission than commission, and wo sin ccrely hope nothing may intervene to prevers. t tho present move being carried through to the end. We have every faith in the genuineness of the cry fyn land, and implicitly belieeve that it there are 10,000 acres selected every section will he immediately' taken up. The European Mail reports the death of Mrs Bravo, who was -well-known in connection with tho eelcbr.-i.toil “ Bravo case. Advice to Mothers 3 -Are you broken in your rest by a sick oTiild suffering with tho pain of cutting teetli ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs, Wisstows Sooth i no Syrup. It will relieve'the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep, by relics wing the child from pain, and the little derub awakes “as bright as a button.” It soothes the child, it softens the gums, alla-ys all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dyssentcry and diarrhea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup l3 Sold by Medicine dealwra everywhere at U IJd per bottle. Manufactured at -193 I)*’ ford-street, Loudon.

Wo (Wakatip Mail) regret to learn .that our local postmaster (Mr Falck) is, at his own request, about to be removed to Lawrence—the cause stated being ill health Wo hope the'change will-'bo beneficial to him, but think it la very doubtful, whether lie can hotter the Wakatip. At Alexandra on Saturday evening last, and at Clyde on the Monday evening following, Captain W, Jackson Barry delivered Icetures on his Colonial experience, extending over the period .of nearly half a century. Ou each occasion a good audience greeted him, whom he succeeded in entertaining for nearly two hours. The lecture was a partial resume of his marvellous exploits and hair breadth escapes during his peregrinations through this vale of tears, many of t”he incidents being graphically described. The Captain’s description of lifo in the penal settlement in Van Dieman’s Land and New South Wales abounds with thrilling scenes and anecdotes, while his life ou the goldfields of California, Victoria, and New Zealand is immense. The Captain at the close of his lectures Said ho had merely given his hearers an outline, and that necessarily but a Very brief one, as time would not admit of him going further into detail, ! of a work that ho had in the hands of his publishers, and which he might now Say would be ready for sale bjr the beginning of next'year.' He said he had already over 3000 subscribers, and by when he had completed his tour of the northern provinces and the west coast of this island, and also of the North Island, he had hot little doubt the list Would bo at least doubled. Aa a self-taught mau, Which fact he takes no pains to Conceal, the Captain is a wonder, his perseverance through life to lift himself beyond the ordinary level has been extraordinary, and as he has reached each degree of the social scale with some credit 'to himself, we hope that. in this his las*; venture he will have no cause to think that fortune has forgotten him. The Oimaru mail thus boxes the ears (metaphorically) of our contemporary, the Otago Daily Times “ We are quite aware that we are fighting [the question of the best route for the Noseby railway] under disadvantageous circumstances with our huge contemporary. The Times is supposed to be an influential journal, and to preach gospel. Well, if the amount of waste paper our contemporary provides for fishmongers and others be any test of journalistic ascendency, it occupies that proud position, and is quite Welcome to it. We might continue contradicting the falsehoods ■of our ‘contemporary till ‘doomsday, hut it Would never have the honour to acknowledge itself beaten, although it might feel it, as it does now.” About 149 Chinamen shipped last week for the Flowery Land, taking with them 1480 ounces of gold, besides an amount in sovereigns of equal if not greater value. From the Share Report and Investors Guide in the Mercantile Gazette we learn that the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company’s last dividend was at the rate of 18 per cent. It is not generally known that dancing is prohibited in Good Templar lodges. It appears, however, that section 3, article XVI., Grand Lodge Bye-laws, which has been approved by each of the three sessions of Grand Lodge of New Zealand, reads as follows ': “ Any lodge which shall, directly or indirectly, use or allow to be used for a social party whore dancing Is a part of the entertainment, their ledge name, or the name Good Templar, in advertising such a party, or which shall use for dancing, or Allow dancing in its lodge-room upon the night of meeting shall forfeit its charter ; and on proof of any such facts coming to the knowledge of the G.W.C.T., it shall be his fluty to demand their charter.” The Oamaru Evening Mail says It is seldom that such a witness as Hugh M‘Laron, who was one of the witnesses called in a case of 'fowl stealing brought against Catherine Ramsay to-day, appears in the bos at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Mr M'Laren, on being cross'examined by Mr O’Moagher, entered upon a glowing account of the particularly great good qualities and virtues of the fowls in ■question. No price would be sufficient to buy them. From L 5 Mr O’Moaghcr rose, by gigantic strides, Up to LIO,OOO, to all of Which sums the witness replied, 1 No, 1 Would not sell them for that.’ Mr then asked if a million of money would not tempt his disposal of his much-prised Brahmapootras. ‘ No ; it would not,’ re-; plied the witness, with a burst of enthusiasm. This was too much for the gravity of the Court, a loud laugh 'greeting K ‘Lareu’s assertion that no sum of money would buy the fowls from him. The witness’ estimate of the value df his Brahmapootras proved too high for Mr O’Meagber.” The Paris correspondent of the S. M. Herald writesA curious wager has just been lost. One of the bettors had asked the other at what moment the nineteenth century had commenced? “Oh!” replied the latter, “why, of course,it began on the Ist January, 1800.” “ Not at all,” cried the querist. The two 'therefore laid a wager on their respective opinions, and the second parly has lost. In fact, the century in question only begins on tho Ist January, 1801. To constitute a complete century a hundred years must have elapsed. Tho first century of the Christian era not having finished until the'end of the Slat December of the hundredth year, at midnight, tho ■ ecmul century only commenced ou the Ist . anuary, 101, to end at midnight on tho •'lst December, 200 ; and so on. Consequently the nineteenth century will terminate ou the 31st December, 1900. Floriling ! For this Teeth and ■reatu,—a few drops of the liquid “ Plori--10 sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush prooca a pleasant la?her, which thoroughly eansea the teeth from all parasites or impurities, hardens the glims, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth a peeuliao y -: vlute, ><*3, ;Ll 'd a delightful fragrance ~ le l r eat b' It removes all unpleasant am i. r ari3 , ln F f rom decayed teeth or tobacco "' e ' , ! e Fragrant Plorilinc,” being la J° aed 1,1 P ar *' °f Honey and sweet herbs, tnilaf'u- 0113 *° t b° Laste, and tho greatest -nnl •/ ery of the age. Price 2s Cd. of IlKvi.vrw, Ferfnmers. Prepared by U Gallup, 493, Oxford-st., London

'L'uwu lauiU ia Lawrence are fetching big prices, A, lot of sections lately sold there by'thd Givuriimbut bringing aa high as L 75 per quarter acre, A Turkish Press correspondent declares that the outrages committed fcy the Baahi Bazouks are much exaggerated. *f Ido not pretend for a moment,” ho says, that,they don’t chop up th'd Christians, but the pieces are not nearly so small aa is currently reported.” fi , Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.--Dangerous Chest Complaints Tire enumeration of these diseases is scarcely necessary, aa, unfortunately, moat Englisnmen know them to their cost. Coughs, common colds, influenza, bronchitis, asthma, pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and even consumption in its early stages, are successfully treated by rubbing Holloway’s Ointment upon tko chest and upon the back between the shoulders. It penetrates internally, cheeks the cold shiverings, relieves the over-gorged lungs, gradually removes Oppression from the chest, and restores the obstructed respiration hitherto both distressingly disagreeable and highly dangerous. In treating this class of diseases, Holloway's Pills should always bo taken while using his Ointment; they pnr rity the blood, promote perspiration, and allay dangerous irritations. 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 moat respectable chemists in this country at Is 14d 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 J. Brown & Sons, Boston, United. States. Depot, 493, Oxford-street, London