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Dunstan Times, Issue 816, 7 December 1877, Page 2

At the time of going to press last night the river was rising alarmingly, and had then reached to within a few feet as high as the flood on the 18th ultimo.

The Cricket Match between the Queenstown tnd Clyde teams, to be played on the Clyde ground, will most likely take place about the middle of January next. At the Licensing Court held at Clyde on Tuesday last the only application dealt with was that of Mr J. D. Feraud for a Brewer’s License, which was granted. The lambing has been very fair this year in this district, on some runs the per ccntage being above the average. On Moulere Station, the property of Messrs. Turnbull, the per centage is 86. It is decided to hold a gift auction, at an early date, in aid of the Dunstan District Hospital. It is to be hoped that the affair will be well supported alike by donors and buyers. The Secretary, we understand, is authorised to receive all articles.

By the number of waggon spacing through the town coast-ward, it looks ns if shearing was in full swing in most of the sheds in the district. The weather, up to within the last day or two, has been most favorable for the operation, but the change to rain must put an entire stop to it. The constituting of Alexandra ns a Licensing District is notified in the General Government Gazette of the 22nd ultimo ; also, the appointment of Messrs W. Beres ford, and W. G. Rees as members of the said Court, and the appointment of Messrs J. U. Cambridge, and Robert Stewart as members of the Clyde Court,

Mr Fache desires us to draw attention to the Sale by Auction to morrow, Saturday, on the Dunstan Race Course of the effects—lot of fowls, &c., —in the estate of Robert Westwood, deceased ; also, the right, title, and interest, (it any) in and to the garden and paddock adjoining the race-course.

Valuable Discovery for the Hair.— If your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use the Mexican Hair Renewer," or it wVI 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 “The Mexican Hair Renewer,” prepared by' Henry C Gallup, 493 Oxfordstreet, London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere, at 3s 6d per bottle.

Wo have to acknowledge receipt of batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government printer, including statistics for year 1876, public accounts for the year 1876-7, report on railway management, and late numbers of Hansard.

Our Dunedin exchanges say that Proudfoot’s case has been settled by the payment of the sum of LISOO, and all expenses, to the parents of the abused girl, and that the girl Has left for England, “ Y, At tho reporters’ table, during the last meeting of tho Vincent County Council, only one representative of tho fourth estate was present, viz. Dunstan Times ; yet, strange to say, an almost verbatim—though somewhat differently arranged copy of his report appears in tho Cromwell Argus. As the source from which the information was obtained is not ackno vledged, we can only say it was filched. We have no objection —in fact, we feel rather good—when our reports are made use of and recognized, but we decidedly object to such mean, contemptible conduct as our contemporary has on this occasion been guilty of. A number of gentlemen met at Holt’s Sydney Hotel, Clyde, on Saturday evening last, for the purpose of deciding whether the customary annual Sports should be held at Clyde during tho coming holidays. After discussion it was (resolved—That the Annual Caledonian Sports be held at Clyde on Wednesday, December 26, 1877, and Tuesday, January 1. 1878. B. Naylor, Esq., was appo’nted Treasurer, and Geo. Fache, Secretary. Subscription Lists were opened and Ll2 odd was subscribed in the room.

The Bruce Herald ia referring to the Strath Taieri Railway saysSo far only one survey party is in the field, hut two more will ho out shortly. The surveyors are now running trial lines between the Taieri Plain and the Taieri river at Mullocky Gully. The ground is more favorable than expected, and the tunnel between the two valleys (the only tunnel that is thought will be needed on the whole length of the line) will be only about 15 chains. All present indications are of an exceedingly satisfactory character. The Public Works Department, we are glad to say, is using all possible expedition.

The Tuapeka reporter of the Morning Herald says : —“ Passing along Gabriel’s Gully I observed about twenty-five Chinamen at work, in parties of three and four. They were engaged in dancing operations.” What this means we fail to understand, excepting they were pumping water out of their claims by foot—that is, driving California pumps with a wheel a la treadmill, a system very common with Chinese. The first time we saw the operation was from a distance, and our first impression being that they were dancing a la Jack Ketch, and having no desire to see a man— even a Chinaman—swing from the end of a string, rushed frantically to the rescue but to find them, as we say, working the pump by foot. If we are mistaken, and the dancing operation is a new method of extracting gold, we shall be happy to be enlightened.

The first number of the new morning paper published in Dunedin under the title of “ Morning Herald,” has reached us. In size it is rather smaller than its morning contemporary the “Daily Times;” that, however, will not be noticed if but its contents are up to the mark. Its policy can be better understood from the following extract from its opening article than from anything we may say. It says :At the same time we must not be considered as pledged supporters of the Government, because we believe neither it or the House truly represents public opinion. The Morning Herald will therefore be a thoroughly independent journal—bound to support no party, nor to advocate any set of political ideas. It is intended to be a paper for the people—that is, it will nniformily support every measure that tends to promote the prosperity and happiness of the majority of the population.” We wish our new friend every success such a policy, if adhered to, is bound to ensure.

The prisoners who have been employed on Bell Hill have been transferred to the Maitland street works, where they are now in the employ of the Harbour Board, and assisting in carrying on the much required harbour improvements. As an instance of the alterations that have been effected through the improvement of the city, we may mention that an old lady who arrived per train from Balclutha on Saturday last, after an abserce of twenty years in the interior, was heard exclaiming, “ Whauris Bell Hill now, and Dr Burns’s Chuich ? She appeared to be utterly lost in bewilderment as she looked around for the [old landmarks of the city, with the view of navigating her course in quest of her friends. The Palmerston Times records a sad accident on Wednesday last, whereby two young men—J. E. Preston, aged 28, of Goodwood, and Thomas Turner, agep 23, of Palmerston, lost their lives. It appears that Preston and Turner left Longlands station, the property of Preston’s father, for the purpose of ascertaining what repairs were needed to some fencing on Honbourne Creek. As they did not return for two days a search was instituted, and on Friday evening their horses were found in a paddock some distance from the creek, on the banks of which their clothes lay, carefully watched by their dogs. The bodies of the deceased were next recovered from a hole in the creek, about eight feet deep. Turner was buried at Palmerston on Sunday, and Preston at Goodwood on the following day, the funerals being followed by a large number of sorrowing relatives and acquaintances.

Floriline ! For the Teeth and Breath.—A few drops of the liquid “ FloriHno ” sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produces a pleasant lather, which thoroughly cleanses the teeth from all parasites or impurities, hardens the gnms, prevents tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth a pcculia-pearly-whiteness, and a delightful fragrance to the breath. It removes all unpleasant odour arising from decayed teeth or tobacco smoke. “ The Fragrant Florilino,” being composed in part of Honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to the taste, and the greatest toilet discovery of the ago. Price 2s 6d, of all Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493, Oxford-st., London

The Otago Agricultural apd Pastoral Association’s Exhibition, held last wefek at Forbury, was not, according to reports, the . success it could have been desired 6r was thought it would have been,' tbe, exhibits being of an uninteresting character; and the management was very deficient. Erratum.— ln our report of the meeting of the Vincent County Council, published in unr last issue, Mr Pyke’s motion re thepurchase ofi„the Kawar%p Brjdge, rcad-J “That the Government take immediate steps to purchase,” whereas, it should have read, “ That the Government be requested tp initiate proceedings for the purchase by arbitration of the Kawarau Bridge.” In another portion wo credit Mr Pyke (the Chairman) with having indignantly denied that monies had been paid against the express vote of the Council.” Mr Pyke said he refused to deny, and that if there were people.base enough to think that any monies of the Council were improperly expended they were at liberty to do so, as he would not take the trouble of disabusing them.” And by some mistake we omitted the very last business of the meeting, viz., “An unanimous vote of thanks to Vincent Pyke, Esq., for his past services as Chairman.” Mr Manders, in a fit of virtuous indignation, denounced the Press of the colony as having during the present session Contained “ contemptible and cowardly insinuations against members ” There is an old proverb that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. It will bo remembered that during the earlier part of ths session Mr Manders was himself called to account for certain scandalous letters which he admitted having written to an obscene print in a bucolic district in Otago. Has this gay Lothario entirety forgotten the reports which appeared in the Dunedin newspapers during the first week of the session, when a tender and confiding housekeeper sought the protection of the Eesident Magistrate’s Court in order to (rescue her Lares and Pena f es from the maws' of Manders, the faithless, who had married anothei, and left her to mourn?— Auckland Evening Star. The following joke is told by the Wellington correspondent of the New Zealand Herald “It appears that some days since, whether by accident or design, the alarm button which communicates with the two fire brigade stations was depressed, and as a natural consequence the electric bells were rung, and both brigades turned out to assist to extinguish what they thought was fire in Parliament Buildings. In order to prevent repetition of this mishap, the button has been boxed in and a glass front fixed to it, on the which is pointed, ‘To ring the bell, break the glass.’ One of the Maori members, noticing the fixing, asked a newspaper man well versed in Maori to translate | the instructions on the glass. ‘ Break the | glass is written on the box,’ saik the Press 1 man, and then walked away. Shortly after 1 that the Maori procured a stick and aimed a I determined blow at the box, and he was reI peating the dose when the Attorney- | General informed him that it was only in I case of fire that Government properry was Ito be destrow r ed; The Maori went awa>, exclaiming that the Pakehas were all alike : they write one thing and mean another. Through the bursting of one of the kerosene lamps in the billiard-room of Scally and Starkey’s Cromwell Hotel, Cromwell, on Saturday evening last, the whole pile of buildings had a narrow escape of being burnt down. The Cromwell Argus, in speaking of the fire says;— While both tables in Messrs Starkey and Scally’s billiard saloon were engaged by players and about a dozen onlookers were present, without warning of any kind one of the large swing lamps burst, the ignited oil falling in a sheet of fire on to the table, from which a pillar of flame fiercely shot up towards the roof—fortunately a high one. Happily, a number of those present did not lose their presence of mind—although some did rush out of the

building pell-mell—and immediately commenced to tear up the cocoa-fibre matting on the fioor which was piled on the quicklyspreading flames. The cushions of the

seats around the room were torn from their places and used towards smothering the blaze, which meantime had caught the veneer of the table and was dropping on to the floor. Meanwhile water was brought by one or two willing hands, and being judiciously applied, the fire was extinguished before very serious harm was done—the damage, we learn, being estimated at about LIOO, which is covered by insurance in the Norwich Union.

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 get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It will relievo 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 the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dyssentery and diarrhoea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is old by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is IJd per bottle. Manufactured at 493 Ox-sord-street, London. Holloway’s Pills. —Nothing preserves the health so well as an occasional alterative in change of weather, or when the nerves aro unstrung. Those Pills act admirably on the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify the blood, that they aro the most efficient remedy in wardoff derangements of the stomach, fever, diarrhoea dysentery, and other maladies, and giving tone and energy to debilitated constitutions. All who have the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family’s health cannot do bettor than trust to Holloway’s Pills, which cool, regulate, and strengthen. These purifying Pills are suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions ; when all other moans fail they will prove the female's best friend.

In am article on sweets or lollies, published in a contemporary, and taken from •the Groonook Advertiser, appears the following, which all parents will do well to read In our young days “ gundy,” “ barley sugar,” and such like, were the staple sweetnors of the juvenile generation, but we presume the popular taste has so much advanced in these later times, that oven the “sweetie shops ’l-to-baat tractive'must appeal tp the imagination. Wo have no,fa*ult to find With this, but the revelations that are made from time to time incline us to harbour a suspicion that some of the highlycolored and highly-flavored confections that find their way into the maws of the young are far from wholesome, and even the purest confections should not be eaten frequently or in large quantities, so as to cloy the appetite aud destroy the desire, for-plain and nourishing food The most dangerous materials used in the manufacture of sweets are the mineral substances employed to give colour. Green, which wo are glad to say, is conspicuous by its absence, is produced by a mixture of chrome and Prussian blue, verdigris or other preparation of copper. For yellows, chromate of lead has been used. Bed can be procured by vermillion (a chemical combination of sulphur and mercury), or.by oxide of iron, less objectionable. The whites, although apparently harmless, are perhaps the most dangerous of all, for if they escape the admixture of chalk, barytes, and preparations of lead and zinc, the cheap kinds are almost sure to contain a considerable quantity of plaster of Paris, which cannot but be injurious to the stomach, owing to its insolubility. It came out during the investigation of a poisoning case which occurred at Bradford about twenty years ago, that the trade name of plaster of Paris was “daff,” and we believe it is still much used in the manufacture of sweetmeats.

Ou Wednesday evening last our esteemed townsman Mr Benjamin Naylor, and his brother, had a very narrow escape from drowning in the Fraser River. It appears they had crossed eariy in the afternoon in a buggy, the water only being some two to three feet deep ; on returning in the evening, however, they noticed that the stream had considerably increased, but not anticipating danger they entered, and gaining about midway the horse got out of his depth and had to swim. On being taken down the stream by the current the wheels of the buggy got locked, and as Mr Naylor describes it, it gradually overturned, capsizing them into the water. Fortunately, an island brought the two occupants up. the horse and buggy, however, being nowhere to be seen. Mr Naylor having maintained a hold of the leins, after some amount of pulling, brought the horse’s head to the surface of the water, and against the land on which he and his brother were. To unfasten the collar straps was but the work of a moment when the horse got safely to the bank. The trouble, however, wasjby no means at an end, as tojget off the island on which they were without assistance was next thing to an impossibility, and to obtain as- : ' sistance, the nearest bouse, Mr Fraser’s station, being some haif--mile distant was almost out of the question. Their cooeys, however, were fortunately heard by two men who came to their assistance. One of these, thinking that the danger was not so great as it appeared, attempted to reach tho island on which the Messrs Naylor were, and had got but a short distance when he was carried away, and it was by the merest possible chance he succeeded in gaining the opposite bank, but not until he had been washed down some hundred yards. The other now proceeded to the station, returning with a number of men and ropes, the Messrs Naylor were then quickly released from their by no means enviable position by being dragged to tbe bank, from where they, as quickly as possible, made forborne, not much the worse for their involuntary immersion. The buggy fortunately was also obtained, and saving the loss of the cushions, mats, and rugs, is uninjured. Mr Naylor characterizes his escape as a moat providential one ; but had he been accompanied by a female, or a child, we fear we should have had a different tale to tell. This is not the first narrow escape by many that has occurred in the Fraser River' i Some few months since it was just touch-** and-go with Mr Warden Simpson and Mr Harvey, on a return trip from Roxburgh, and wo think the expenditure of a few hundred pounds in a bridge, by the County authorities, would be wise. We shall hope, at the next meeting of that body, the subject will receive their consideration.