The Dunstan Times. Beneath the rule of men ENTIRELY JUST the PEN is MIGHTIER than the SWORD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877.

Dunstan Times, Issue 807, 5 October 1877, Page 2

The Dunstan Times. Beneath the rule of men ENTIRELY JUST the PEN is MIGHTIER than the SWORD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1877.

We have been requested to draw attention to the sale of Building Material at Clyde to morrow, Saturday at 2 o’clock, being the old --Church building, on the ground. The usual monthly meeting of the Dunstan District Hospital Committee will he held on Monday evening next, in the Library building at 8 o’clock sharp. We call attention to advertisement in another column—the calling for tenders for supplying the Dunstan District Hospital with butter, &c., for the ensuing six months. Lands for selection and settlement at either end of the district (Lauder Creek, and along the banks ot the Clutha above Cromwell) are now being surveyed. The land is spoken of as being of first class character. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers, and a number of Bills, amongst them the Education Bill as passed by the House of Representatives, Land Bill, Educational Reserves Bill, Fencing Bill, and a number of others ; also, Nos. of Hansard. In the report ot the proceeding of the County Council, published in our last, by the omission of the words “as an amendment,” it reads as if the Chairman’s salary for 1878 was fixed at L,‘!oo per annum, instead of L 250, the amount recommended by the Committee. The Maniototo County Council has appointed a Mr John Morrison to the combined offices of Valuator, Collector, and Road Inspector, at a salary of L 250 per annum. The plan we must think will work well, and is worth adopting by-other County Councils. The Clyde Quadrille Assembly wound up the season‘by giving a dance on Wednesday evening last. On this occasion double the usual number of dances were gone through, and ns a liberal supply of refreshments were provided everyone heartily enjoyed themselves. There was about 60 persons present. The list published in another column of monies promised by the gentlemen whose names appear should, without further ado, be sufficient evidence of the positive want of a bridge to connect the north and south banks of the river Manuherikia by a bridge. That the people are in earnest there is no doubt, and it is incumbent on the Count ty Council to be earnest likewise, and start at once their machinery to see what can be done. Dr Wallis, in the House of Representatives, speaking on the Education Bill, is reported do have said : —“ The only people who objected to the Bdl as it originally stood were a few newspaper men and infiddls on the Goldfields." Mr George Stanbrook had a very narrow escape from a serious accident on Saturday afternoon. Ho was firing at a hawk with a breach-loading gun, and the breach burst, splintering the stock of the piece in a thousand places. The locks and other ironwork were driven by the explosion in all directions ; fortunately, however, the only hurt Mr Stanbrook received Was a slight scratch on the hand. The weapon was almost a new one, and the only cause given for the mishap is that it was loaded with a wire cartridge that fitted somewhat tight. —Bruce Herald. The following anecdote related by the Scotch correspondent of the Pictorial World, may afford instructive reading to those persons who seek to stop an editor s pen by stopping their paper “The other day a prominent citizen of a provincial town in this country, disagreeing with the treatment of a local question bv one of the newspapers, stopped his paper. But iho editor, who also happened to bo the proprietor, was fully equal to the occasion. In his next issue he published his irate friend’s letter, subjoined a scathing paragraph, and put his paper in mourning !” 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 most 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 tho words “Brown's Bronchial Troches ” are on the Government Stamp around each box. —Manufactured by John I. Brown k Sons, Boston, United States, Depot, 498, Oxford-street, London

A butcher of Warrn&mbool went into hia stable tho other morning, and found hia horse ripped up and disembowelled. A London telegram of tho 20th September aaya —“ Stanley has returned from Africa after having successfully past over tho continent from East to West, and claims to have made most important discoveries.” At the sitting of the Waste Lauds Board hold on Wednesday the 20th ultimo,a lotter was received from the District LanA Officer at Clyde, with reference to tho survey and reservation of a site for a .' cemetery at Bannockburn.—Reserve recommended to be made under section 160 of the Waste Lands Act, 1872, for the purpose mentioned— survey to bo made and tho plan submitted. An unlucky young fellow was out pighunting in the Kakahu district, when he met with an awkward and singular accident. He carried a spear formed out of a shear blade tied to a pole, and when his dogs put up a pig, in his flurry ho presented tho wrong end of the instrument. The animal charged him, driving the blade into his thigh, and inflicting a dangerous wound; and he now lies in a precarious condition in the Timaru Hospital. In our last week’s issue we published a telegram from Wellington to the effect that the House on Mr Pyke’s motion had unanimously adopted the clauses in tho Otago Central Railway’s Bill, empowering Counties to construct railways, and authorising the Governor to endow Counties with land for railway purposes. Since then we have received the Hansard containing Mr Pyke’s speech on his motion. Wo regret our limited apace will not admit of us publishing it, it being of great length, wo ■ would,however recommend all in the district to read this what may be fairly styled master piece of oratory. A certain man hit his too against a rock and fell head-long to the ground. He was vexed, and under the influence of anger and self-sufficiency he kicked mother earth right saucily. With imperturbable gravity he looked to see the earth dissolve and come to naught. But the earth remains and only his poor feet was'finjured in the encounter. This is the way of men. An article in a newspaper touches him in a weak spot, and straightway he sends to stop his paper. With great self-complacency he looks to see the crash when the object of his spleen shall cease to be. Poor fool ? he has only hit his toe against a world that does not perceptibly feel the shock, and injures no one but himself. Advice to Mothers!— Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and got a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor 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 tho child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is tho best known remedy for dyssentery and diarrhoea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is Ud per bottle. Manufactured at 493 Ox-ford-street, London. Holloway’s Pills. —Worthy of especial note. —These purifying Pills excel every other medicine for regulating tho digestion, acting healthily' on the liver and bowels, invigooating the nervous system, and strengthening the body. They cause neither pain nor other inconvenience. At all seasons the system is liable to sudden checks. In such cases'these Pills restore the balance of the circulation, and ward off danjgefous attacks of diarhsea, dysentery, or cholera They are the best correctives of the stomach, when disordered by repletion or by the presence of indigestible food They speedii ly rectify the flatulent weight, and general uneasiness which are experienced in the bowels prior to the accession of more serious symptoms, which debilitate, if they do not endanger.