The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1877.

Dunstan Times, Issue 801, 24 August 1877, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1877.

Beneath thn rule nf nan kstikkly .irsr tlu I’UN it MM'.IITIEI! than thi' S\V(I|;1I,

At .1 meeting of the Clyde Church of Kngland Building Committee it was decided to open tlio new Church on Octedicr 7, 1877. .It is thought that cm the same day the building will he consecrated. The last number of the New Zealand Herald wo have to acknowledge with thanks. This number is excellently got up and which we consider to be one of the best as yetpublished. The half share in the Caledonian Water I’ace and claims offered at Auction on Monday last at Alexandra failed to find a purchaser, the highest price bid for it being 1,1(1(1, at which figure it was bought in. A small mob of ('attic were sold the same day fetching however but low prices. A quartz reef has been discovered at Wes, Tamar, Tasmania, which, with primitive appliances, is yielding over lOz. to the ton. The .Southern Cross mentions that MrT. Spurgeon, a son of the l>cv. C. If. Spurgeon, is a passenger to Mellxiurne, for the j benefit of bis health. The Ilcv. Mr Spurgeon writes to a friend at Ccu’oug that ills son 4 ‘ can preach a bit.* 1

At a late meeting of tho Dunedin Jockey Club wo notice that Mr .las Hazlett was elected a member of the Committee. Tho steamer Lusitania which arrived in Hobson’s Bay on the Bth instant, has made the quickest passage (40 days (! hours) from England which has over been accomplished. She is a superb boat of nearly 4000 tons burthen, and brought out .‘145 passengers. Wo have a circular from Mr B. Bannister of Ballarat, stating that a Juvenile Industrial Exhibition willlbo'fbcldjin that city in March next. All young people under 21 years of ago are invited to compete in works of usefulness and industry, and it is to bo hoped that much good will bo the result. At Beechworth lately, a youth, aged 13, robbed his father of Ll4O. Ho and two of his mates absconded. When caught they had succeeded in spending LI7. The boy’s father applied to have him’sent to the Industrial School, ho being entirely beyond control, which was acceded to. Mining nows is more encouraging than has been for ■somcJtfme[pnst not f only have the yields of gold from the various mining districts improved, but that several of tho Government prospecting parties have been successful in opening up some new country. There is now a rush setting in to a new discovery, distant about three miles from Stawell, in the neighborhood of the Black Bangc, gold having been struck at a depth of ton feet with very goodjpn spoets. The Court Star of Dunstau A.O.P. Anni vcrsaiy Ball takes place on Wednesday next the 29th instant, in the Town Hall, Clyde. We expect anil hope to see a large attendance, tho Conumttee are sparing no expense to make the affair a success. The refreshment department, we hoar, is receiving special attention. Wo understand that members of the Order wdl appear in their regalia, which will have a very pleasing effect. A list of members and others who have tickets for sale appears in advertisement. The Auckland police are instituting active measures against gambling in hotels. One Boniface was fined L 5 for allowing hoys to throw dice, and another was prosecuted for card-playing for cigars. Tho informing constable had taken observations through a window, but when he tapped at tho inor the lights were put out and the men disappeared. The constable’s evidence was not considered sufficient, and the publican escaped. I Some time since many of tho people of ' Milton become dissatisfied with the price of the 41b loaf, as charged by the local baker, and determined to get their supplies from Dunedin ; they did so, and the Clutha Leader gives the following result:—“Tho bread imported from Dunedin to Milton proved to be anything but a first-class ar- ■ tide ; indeed it was said by the person who ; from the first has been the means of carry- ; ing the scheme through, that he had ascer- : tained that even the pigs would not have 1 anything to do with it. On Thursday morn. ! ing ho left Milton for Dunedin, carrying I along with him a sackful of the bread for I the purpose of obtaining an explanation I from the baker who lias supplied it.” j Mining news from Doctor's Point is still satisfactory and encouraging, two other i claims having struck gold showing very I good prospects. One claim is owned by j Cameron, Sen., and will be able to l>e j worked from the face. The other, the proi pertyof Dewerand party will have to he I worked from a tunnel, at the end of which, | a distance of nearly 180 feet, they have j struck the gold. The prospecting claim in j the face is as good as ever—situate as it is, with but a limited supply of water to hear j upon it, it will be a tedious, though a highly payable claim to work. Were it difi ferently situate, and with a largo body of water commanding it, there is but little doubt it would then turn out more gold than any claim in tho Province ever has as yet done. Paget, Noble and partv, on Frenchman’s Point, are doing very well they are tunnelling on the high reef which runs pretty flat ; the ground is very difficult to work, being little more than a mass of rocks with a little golden wash running through them, and laying on the reef. On Thursday afternoon tho 10th instant, the dwelling-house and effects of Mr James Truesdale, Drybread, wcrototally consumed by tire. The origin of the lire is a mystery, and the flames were so rapid in enveloping the building that only bare time was given to Mrs Truesdale and family to escape with their lives, not an article being saved. In the evening a meeting of the residents in the locality took place for tho purpose of initiating some movement to assist Mr Truesdale, when it was resolved to canvas the district for subscriptions Twenty-live pounds was collected in the room, and the following day Messrs Grecnbank and Dickie took charge <>T the list, and after visiting the ploughing match, which was on at the time, and Blacks township, tho amount swelled up to the respectable sum of between L 75 and I.SO. By Hie time tho whole district is canvassed, LIOO it is expected will he subscribed. Holloway's Piles. —lndigestion. In all eases of indigestion, producing weariness, low spirits, palpitation, and feverishness, these famous Pills should be resorted to as the gentlest and surest corrective of tho stomacli, and tho best antidote to its ai'nients. 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It is not often wo hour of ihiela --at any rate at the present ago—but on tho still, quiet plains of Tokotnairiro, on Wednesday night, two young striplings, so to speak, faced each other with tho full determination that one should die. The night was well suited for tho purpose, “ not a leaf stirred,” and there was just sufficient moonlight to mako tho scene interesting. Eight o'clock was tho time fixed. At a quarter of an hour before that time the two youths arrived at tho chosen spot with their seconds. The place wo will not mention, but suffice it to say it skirted tho Main South Itond, and was secluded from tho passers-by by a thick whin hedge. At 8 o’clock tho present >ed distance of 20 paces was solemnly measured by the seconds. The pop-guns were then loaded and handed to the antagonists. The scone now became slightly confused, for two female voices were heard screeching and hurrying to the place where the young innocent blood was to have boon spilt. The two females were elderly ladies, and proved to be the mothers of the combatants. It is scarcely necessary to say more. A young lady was in the case, and, of course, was tho cause of tho intended tight. Tho mother of one of tho suitors got wind of the intended spilling of blood, and she very naturally told the other young gentleman's maternity, so tho two hurried off and arrived as above, just in time to stop what in all probability would have been tbo death of one—perhaps both—of the most promising of our young farmers on the plain.—Bruce Herald. Vallatile Discovery mu tub Hair.— If your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use the Mexican Hair Bonewcr,’ for it irVl jmnUtve.il/retfirrf In erery com' Grey or While hair to its original color, without caving the disagreeable smell of most “ Beslorers.” 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 - Haiu Henkwer,” prepared by Henky 0. Gali.it, 40.'t, Oxford Street, London, and sold by Chemists ami Perfumers everywhere, at 3s (hi per Bottle