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Dunstan Times, Issue 835, 19 April 1878, Page 2

By some mischance onr usual Thursday afternoon’s telegram did not come to hand, far which we have to apologise to our readers.

This day being Good Friday service will held in St Michael’s Church, Clyde, at 11 o’clock, a.ra. We would also remind the parishioners that Sunday next being Easter Sunday the offertory morning and evening will be for the Rev. J. Dewe.

Mr Fache requests ns to draw attention to the sale by auction of cattle, horses, and miscellaneous property, at Butcher's Gully on Wednesday next, the 24th inst ; also to the sale of household furniture at the Dunstan District Hospital, on Tuesday next, the 23rd inst. (See advertisement.) Mr Fache informs us that he sold the Butcher’s Gully Hotel and Store, on Monday last, for L5Ol, Mr Allan Cameron, of Alexandra, being the purchaser ; and that the household furniture, stores, and the few horses and cattle offered fetched satisfactory prices.

The County Council, by advertisement, invite application by competent persons with LIOOO sureties, for the combined offices of Valuator, Rato Collector, Inspector of licenses and Ranger of Commonages. Of applicants with the requisites, “Competency and Security,” we imagine the number will ho limited, the duty, therefore, will not he be a very onerous one on the Committee of the Council, on whom will devolve the selection.

The continued dry weather is materially affecting mining operations throughout the district, in fact we may say that bnt a minimum of the miners at the present time are employed. In the districts of Tinker’s Oully and Dryhread, where sluicing is the only mode of working adopted, perfect stagnation prevails, the only work done being repairing, in anticipation of a downpour of rain. In these districts, however, there are not many complaints, as the past year was most favorable, and work was carried on more continuously than (during many previous ones.

The return match of the season between the Dunstan and Queenstown Cricket Clubs will take place on Tuesday next, 23rd inat., at Queenstown. It is thought that tin} game will be a much closer one this time than what it was at the close of last match, the weather proving favorable. At a special meeting of the Vincent County Council to be held on Friday next the 2Gth instant the following business is to bo dealt with :—lst. The making of a rate of Is. in the'L on the ‘rateable values of all property in the County (this is merely a formal matter necessitated by the Eating Act, the Council having already agreed to strike a rate of Is. in the L.) 2nd. To consider the rc-division of the County into 9 ridings as recommended by the Executive Committee. 3rd. To further consider and decide upon the erection of County offices. 4. To appoint a Eangcr of depasturing district? ; also, to act as Inspector of Hawkers’ Licenses, Valuer and Collector of rales (particulars of which will be seen in another column.) stb. To receive and decide upon tenders advertised for.

We understand that the Committee appointed to carry out the Fancy Bazaar and Gift Auction in aid of the funds of the Dunstan District Hospital, on Saturday, the 4th of May', in the Town Hall, Clyde, are energetically canvassing the district for gifts. They report, so far, as being successful in obtaining the promises of sheep, lambs, goats, pigs, poultry, and colonial produce of all descriptions, but of those fine articles, the produce of ladies’ industry, has been but partial. We sincere'y hope our lady friends will not make themselves conspicuous on the occasion by their absence, at the same time we hope the sterner sex will not hold themselves aloof. As a charitable institution the Dunstan District Hospital is deserving of support, if for no other reason than that it was the first established on the northern goldfields, and that in its day it has afforded relief to hundreds who without it must have suesu tubed.

The Tuapeka Times says:—'* Our readers will be pleased to learn that Mr Ploraoe Bastings has beeh appointed one of the Commissioners to classify the waste lands of the Provincial District of Olaga. A better selection could not possibly have been made. Mr Bastings’s experience of the requirements of the province has been very extensive, and his personal acquaintance with a largo portion of the Crown lands therein situated, makes him peculiarly well fitted to say what lands should he set apart for sheep, and what for human beings. We might have had a Commissioner whose faith in sheep was stronger than his faith in men and therefore on that score alone wo are tidily satisfied with the appointment. It was almost essential that the Commissione's should be selected from members of the Waste Land Board, for had their idea* clashed with the liberal ideas of the majority of the Board, it would have been a bad filing for the future prospects of the cause of settlement in the country. Mr Bastings is a man of the people, and we are confident he will perform the duties appertaining to his new appointment, for the benefit of the people. In so doing, he wid advance the prosperity os the State in the most substantial manner it is poss : ble to do so.

As there is a possibility of a misunderstanding as to the mode of applying for hawker's/pedler's and slaughtering license o , and the fees for same, we cite for the information of applicants the followingseotfons of the Bye Laws relating thereto. Sections 4, 5 and C of the bye laws regulating hawking snys :--4. Every person desirous of obtaining a Pedler’s or Hawker’s License shall deliver to the County Clerk a notice in writing applying for the same ; which notice if the application be for a Pedler's Licence shall be in the form in the Second Schedule hereto, and if the application he for a Hawker’s License such notice shall be in the form in the Fourth Schedule hereto. 5. With the notice, of application there shall he delivered to the County Clerk a certificate of the good character of the applicant signed by at least three householders resident in the County, or in some Borough within the County, or in both. G. Every person applying for a Pedler’s or Hawker’s License in the Vincent County between the months of March and October in any year shall before the same is granted pay to the County Treasurer the fees following, that is to say—for a Pedler’s License, LI ; for a Hawker’s License, L 5. In case of applications made after the thirtieth day of September one half only of tho above fees shall be charged. Sections 4 and G of the Slaughtering Bye Law say :-4. The owner nr occupier of any premises may apply to the Vincent County Council fur a License to use the same as a Slaughter-house, and such application shall he in writing in the form set forth in the First Schedule hen to and shall be made to the Clerk of the County Council. G. Licenses may be granted hereunder for tho slaughtering of great cattle only, or for the slaughtering of small cattle only, or for both ; and the annual tecs payable in respect thereof shall he as fallows ; For great cattle, L2 ; for small cattle, L2 ; for gieat and small cattle, L 4. But if any such license shall be issued after the 30th day of June in any year only one-half of the said fees shall be paylble. It must he understood, however, that this application muse he accompanied by a certificate by the Inspector of slaughter-houses for the district in which such license is applied for, to the effect that the premises are suitable for which they are asked to he licensed. - Cure ■ the old laws it was the person that was approved of or objected to, as the case might he, hnt under the new law it is the premises.

Snec and Goolfellow went down to the wharf on Saturday week, to observe the flood and its effects. Observing the preternatural area of floating corks, said G. : “Where the deuce did all the corks come from?” “Ah,” said Sneer, “didn’t you hear of the Good Templar vucimpment up the Yorra —/Egk-s,

The Now Zealand Country Journal says ; —Marking sheep is best done with Venetian ■ P.ed, a cheap paint, only a few pence a pound, and one pound will mark a thousand. -Tatke a pinch of the dry powder and draw the enclosing thumb and fingers through the wool at the spot you wish to mark, loosening the powder as you do so, and it will combine with the oil in the wool and makes a bright red. mark that the rains will never washout, and which, without injuring the wool, will endure from one shearing to another,’while it can bo readily cleansed out by the manufacturer. Many of our readers will read with regret the telegram announcing the death of Bis, hop Selwyn, who for so many years was connected with New Zealand, and of late years was Bishop of Lichfield. The Port Chalmers election of a member for the House of Representatives, on the 12th inst., resulted in the return of Mr James Green by a majority of 90 votes over, bis opponent, Mr Dench. A man named German Charlie has been arrested on suspicion of being connected in the recent garrotting case at Christchurch. Nearly all the officers in the Eailway Department will be shortly notified that their services will be no longer tequired. Already six of these officials have received their notice of dismissal. Several others will be similarly dealt with shortly. The Christchurch Press of Tuesday says ;

—“ The nomination of candidates for tho representation of Timarau was to take place at noon yesterday. As Mr liiehard Turnbull was the only candidate announced, he was duly nominated and elected.” The Rev. Dr. Bleasdale has selected and picked three or four cwt. of ripe grapes, tu> be sent from Sydney to the Paris Exhibition.

At the Supreme Court at Nelson, Samuel Austin Green, aged seventeen, a post-office clerk at Reefton, was charged with stealing letters containing money from the post* office. He pleaded guilty. Sentence was deferred until Saturday—John Murray, charged with the manslaughter of John Moran at the Upper Bailer, was acquitted. Search for the missing child at Adam’s Flat was continued by the Rev. Mr Ronaldson and others on Wednesday, Several mining holes in the vicinity, in which it was just possible the child might have fallen, were carefully examined, but no trace of the lost one could be found. Mrs Williams, the mother of the child, who feels the affliction very deeply, left for her home yesterday.

The lad Mursker, who was killed at Timaru last week, was employed marking sacks in the National Mortgage and Agency Company s store. At the time of the accident he was standing with his hack to the truck on the siding in front of the store, and did not notice another truck, on which there were sixteen bales of wool, coming on, until it struck him in the stomach. The effect was that “ on being released from between the two trucks where lie was jammed up, the boy fell senseless to the ground.” In reference to little Dolly’s case, the Tablet is afraid a good deal of misconcej - tion will arise on the part of those who like their opinion at second-hand, or who are led away by the sensational aspect of the circumstances disclosed, and the spice < f religious intolerance invidious’y attempted to be introduced. It hopes the attempt that has been made to arouse sectarian animosity over the matter will fail. ‘‘The plain straightforward course for Mr Clark to have pursued, if ho desired the personal guardianship of the children, for it is clear he could not assume or ask for that of one of them separately, was to have applied to the Court in its probate jurisdiction to give directions of guardianship, which would include, we presume, instructions as to their religious education. The attempt at proselytlsm, if any, was evidently in this instance on the part of the Protestant halfbrother, and not the Roman Catholic priest.”

A youth named Peter M ‘Vickers met with a severe accident at Simpson's farm Mount Stuart, on Tuesday last, while engaged in the field loading grain. It appears that a fork fell off the dray he was loading, and stuck m the ground with the prongs upwards. By some means or other, probably while reaching for the fork, the youth slipped from the top of the loaded dray, head foremost, and one of tho pronrs of the fork entered his thigh, on the inside of the left leg, going clean through, and coming out a little above the knee. Dr Rogers was quickly sent for, and attended to the sufferer. The youth has been very unfortunate of late, as it is only two months since he met with a severe accident at Smith’s station, which rendered it necessary for him to he sent to the Dunedin Hospital, from which ho had only returned a few days when the second accident occurred.

The Tapanui Courier says “It may not he generally known that scatters and settlors have potent allies in their warfare against the incalculable rabbit, and this aid will doubtless bo not leas welcome for being entirely gratuitous. We allude to the Maori hen. A correspondent informs us that he has on more than one occasion seen Maori hens destroy young rabbits, and in one instance he saw one of these birds, after a long struggle, destroy a nearly full-grown rabbit. He also says be has had this cxperienes confirmed by others who have witnessed similar instances of this proclivity of these curious birds. What with dogs, guns, snares, and the volunteer corps of Maori hens, poor bunny must be having a lively’ time of it.” The following gentlemen were e'erted members of the Education Boards of Otago and Southland Otago : Jas. Crcen, 81; C. A. De Lautour, SI ; H. Bastings, 76 ; Professor Sliand, 68 ; D. Reid, 33 ; ,Taa. Fulton, 60 ; IT. Clark, 4S ; M. Fraer, 40 ; W. Elder, 37. Southland : T. M. M‘Donald,' 27 ; Hon. ,1. A. It. Menzies, 26 ; Alfred Baldey, 24 ; Sir J. C. E. Richardson, 22 ; J. 0. M'Ardel, 22 ; James Macintosh, sen., 21 ; J. ?. Shanks, 19; C. C. Sju-oule, 15 j George Lnmsden, 12,

The Canterbury railways have already conveyed this season over 40,000 tons ui grain.

They tell me that the culminating scene of “ William Tell as played by Mr Creswiek in Sydney, was somewhat endangered by a gallery boy. As the trembling youth, with the apple on his head, is awaiting the arrow of his parent, who has just struck a heroic attitude, the breathless anxiety of the audience was disturbed by a sympathetic urchiu from aloft crying out to the youthful Tel!, “ Keep your eye on your father, and he will pull you through !”—ASgles.

For the benefit of those who are afflicted with deafness we reprint the following from the Dunedin Age, and may just as well add that Professor Stanioh is expected to shortly arrive m Oamaru “ Deaf and dumb people have generally been regarded beyond the reach of medical and surgical treatment. A singular instance of the partial restoration ot the faculties of hearing has just, however, come under our notice. Mr James Dow, farmer of Lower Harbour, has a son teu years of age, who has been deaf and dumb from infancy. Hearing of ProfessorStauich, he consulted him iu Dunedin a few weeks ago, and the boy has since been under that gentleman’s treatment. The result is that the boy’s sense of hearing has partly returned, and the sudden restoration of a faculty which he never knew before makes every sound absolutely painful to him. When placed under ireatment, a bell rung at the back of his head failed to attract the slightest attention. Now the slightest lap alongside of his ear not only startles him, but causes him to place his hand to his ear, as if" the noise were disagreeable. Mr Stanich now declares that the boy’s sense ot hearing is now partly restored, and that in the course of a few months the boy will be able to commcnee conversation. People, be urges, are dumb, simply because they aic deaf, anti the restoration of the sense of tearing, is accompanied with the power of utterance. The boy, in the present instance, before he can acquire the power of expressing his thoughts, must be taught articulation in the same manner as a lisping infant, audit is anticipated that about six months must elapse before he will be able to make himself intelligible, and to understand what is said to him. Altogether the case is one of a most singular and interesting character.

In our last week’s issue we noted the oecurresnce of a serious accident to Mr M‘Ponough,-ef the firm M‘Donouuh, White and leslie, Spear Crass Flat, and that though the injuries he had received were of s terrible character, there was every probability of Irs ultimate recovery. Since then we have made frequent enquires and are informed that there art sftill strong hopes of him recovering should not erysipelas set in, but that it must be a long time before he is ■again able to attend to business. We are requested to draw special attention of intending purchasers to the advertisement -notifying that in consequence of tho acci lent to Mr M’Donough, the sale of the firm’s is indefinitely postponed.

By the Tuapeka Times we learn that Messrs M'Connochie and Tohill were the ■successful tenderers for two of the sections ■of road, Roxburgh to Alexandra, at L 317 3s 9d and L 330 10s, respectively ; and Mr J. C. Chappie for anctt&er at.L3S9 15s. On the Bth instant seven stacks of wheat, ■containing 15,000 bushels, and valued at L3OO, were destroyed by tire on the farm of Mr Alexander Matheson, on the west side of Lake Wakatip. The lire occurred about midnight, and the manager of the farm, Mr Morrison, states that when he went to bed, about 10 o’clock, everything was safe. There were four labourers on the farm, who also went to bed at 10 o’clock. They were all caused up by the glare of the fire, hut nothing could be done to save the stacks. The grain was uninsured.

Holloway’s Pills give instant relief. Indigestion gives rise to a largo share of *fcho maladies of mankind ; it occasions more miseries than the doctor knows names for. Indigestion springs from many causes, over which H illoway’s Pills exorcise the most perfect control. They act at once on the stomach, liver, bowels and kidneys, and correct their torpid, defective or disordered functions. They restore the waning appe tite, strengthen the feeble stomach, and spare the dyspeptic sick headache, and many nameless torments They recall every organ to a true sense of its duties. ILdloway’s Pills have with facility cured cases of had digestion which had existed for a long time an I baffled much medical skill. They a-e reliable remedies for all varieties of indigestion.

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 l,)d 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, 493, Oxford-street, London

The semi-official Agcnce Russo, in an article on the Eastern question, speaks out with a clearness that ought to dispel many alarms. It declares that the road to India by way of the Suez Canal and Egypt remains now, as heretofore, the exclusive domain of England, and in regard to it there is not even the shadow of a Russian menace. It is admitted that the question of the possession of Constantinople is one reserved for Europe ; Russia maintaining now, as heretofore, that the Ottoman capital ought, under no circumstances, to belong to any of the Great Powers. It is admitted that England has a right to see that the peace arrangements do not injure her route to Uadla or her influence in the East,