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Dunstan Times, Issue 836, 26 April 1878, Page 2

The Alexandra Court of Foresters advertise their Anniversary Ball for May 24th, the Queen’s birthday. Mr Fache desires us to direct attention to the Sale by Auction of Household Furniture at his Booms, on Saturday afternoon next—the furniture is the property of Dr Button, late Hospital Surgeon, consequently will be sold without reserve.

Some of our friends, who, during the week visited Queenstown to attend the Easter Volunteer Demonstration and Cricket Match, informs us that the roads are wonderfully improved— most of the parts that were a terror to all, whether riding or driving, how being in excellent condition.

According to the local paper the late autumn market was a failure, there being very little brought in for sale though there were plenty of buyers in attendance from Cromwell and Invercargill. Great progress is being made in the developing of the quartz reefs at the Serpentine. A battery, being erected by the Serpentine Quartz Mining Co., by Messrs Kincaid and M‘Queen, is expected to be completed in two or three weeks, and in time fora crustiing before the winter season

sets in. If the number of visitors to the Bazaar, to he held on Saturday week, the 4th of May,

in the Town Hall, Clyde, in aid of the

funds of the Dunstan District Hospital, is in proportion to the number and variety of gifts it should he a success. ' Amongst the gifts already received are sheep, pigs, calves, a horse,"poultry of every description, and an assortment of other tilings both useful and ornamental. The sheep and poultry will be killed and dressed .in the very best style, and will be sold in such quantities as will suit all classes. We hope to see a large gathering. Several ladies and gentlemen have kindly consented to enliven the pro ceediugs with vocal and instrumental music. A miner named Michael Collins, of Coromandel, has received a letter from London solicitors announcing that he is heir to a fortune of L.‘!00,000.

1 he Wellington Evening Post of Saturday last says : —“ Mr Laruach’s resignation of his seat as a member for Dunedin, now in the hands of Mr Stout, will soon be handed in to the Speaker.”

The Wellington correspondent of the Hawke’s Bay Herald, says :—The new morning paper, the New Zealander, will be a Government organ. It will have Government support and get direct political news. A Minister will direct its policy and see that its leaders have the right tone. A writ for L2OOO damages was yesterday served on tho ostensible proprietors of the Daily Times at the instance of Mr C. £. Haughton for alleged libel. The matters complained of wore, we are informed, contained in a leading article published in the Times of March 15, and in a letter signed “ Morality” which appeared in last Tuesday’s issue of the same journal. V> ardensthorpo, that commanding residence in Lawrence, erected by Mr ATncent Pike at a cost (so it was said) of Ll'2oo, ami purchased some three or four years ago by Mr J. C. Brown, has changed hands, Mr W. Evans, one of the Blue Spur claimholders, having purchased it for tho sum of LBOO ?

The following proof advertisement; supposed to be intended for the London Times was found after a recent Cabinet meeting, at Wellington :— 1 ‘ Willie.—You are earnestly requested not to return to the bosom of your Family. The aforesaid Family have discovered that they can do do perfectly well without you.” 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” arc now sold by most respectable chemists in this country at Is lid per bos. 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 worrls 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 Krupp has placed in operation at his works, in Germany, a steam hammer, capa' le of forming a piece of steal weighing 50 tons, at a cost of 560,000do!s. Ho proposed to establish a machine of double this capacity.

A plaiu proof that tho raising of firstclass horse-stock will yet pay in Otago is furnished in our commercial report to-day, wherein Mr Henry Driver reports the sale, on behalf of Mr J. F. Hatching, of Moa Flat Station, of fifty head draught colts and fillies by Sir Colin and Ivanhoe, at an average of LSO. Mr Pitching has gone to great expense in the importation of mares from Victoria and Queensland, giving from LIOO to L 250 each for them, and well deserves this great success—the price being the highest ever yet obtained here.—Dunedin Herald. Mr llobert Mills, of Slinfald, Horsham, has re-patented the ancient contrivance of an overshot wheel working a bueket-pump to produce perpetual motion. He states that a 27-foot wheel supplied with 250 gallons of water per minute will yield as much power as a 27-horse power engine, and that a five horse power engine is sufficient to raise the quantity of water mentioned. He proposes to use a tank capable of holding 500 gallons above the wheel, and a tank of equal size beneath.—Mining

Journal. The disclosures that have been made on one or two occasions lately (says the Ball Mall Gazette) at inquests on the bodies of children whose lives have been insured go to justify the prevalent suspicion of a close connection between infant mortality and life insurance. At an inquest held recently as to the death of two children at Low Spennymoor, Durham, which was adjourned for evidence as to the result of an analytical examination, a startling statement was made by Dr OTlanlon, medical officer to the local board. “In the last few years, he said, •* ever since there had been such an enormous canvassing going on amongst insurance companies, there had been a wonderful increase in the mortality of children.” As a rule, he found that the children were always insured. The temptation to get rid of a child rather than maintain it is, to many parents, very great at all times ; and when, in addition to being relieved of the burden of its maintenance,

they can actually gain hard cash by its death, the temptation may become irresistible.

A recent telegram stated that the Indian

Government were about to take steps to suppress seditious writings in the vernacular Press of India. The Calcutta correspon - dent of the Scotsman writes on the subject as follows The vernacular Press ex-

hibits keen interest in England’s present political position. The following are a few quotations culled from an infinite number of papers. 1 purposely abstain from montion-

i ingtho papers by name:—‘What Russia I will do next will be to humiliate England, j As with individuals, so with nations : in the j time of danger reason always fails th»m. ; English politicians are no exception. England will lose her prestige in Asia if she now i refuses to light for Turkey. England has no eilieient army. Like her, Carthago pos--1 sessed immense wealth, but that could not j save the great commercial city of ancient j days from complete downfall.’ Another paper writes:—‘The fall of Turkey will seriously endanger the balance of power in the world. What may befall Asia, 50 years after the event would bo really fearful to contemplate. The very thought would send a thrill of terror through the heart.’ Another circulates the saying attributed to Bismarck—‘ England is a sick old woman.’ Another states that ‘ British soldiers grow fat in peace. Englishmen are now only well versed in the art of earning money, and will not bo able to resist the progress of Russian arms in India.’ Another states that there will be no groat difficulty in driving out the usurper— ‘ that is, the English’—if all men jointly make a bold effort. The natives should gird up their loins and devise measures for improving the prosperity of the country. Of course a great deal of the writing is merely harmless braggadocio, but part of it indicates real convictions, and it is well that the English public should see specimens and so he able to draw their own conclusions regarding native opinion and sentiment, even though it should bo but factititious and partial.” Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— Tumours, Glandular Swellings, and Bad Breasts,—lf any departure from health requires earlier attention than another to prevent disastrous conscqueuces it is the class of disease now under review. To save hazard and future pain, the budding tumour must have prompt treatment, or discomfort and nights of disquietude will "be the sufferer’s portion. Whenever the ailment first appears, after fomenting the spot with warm water, Holloway’s Ointment must he energetically rubbed on the part till a considerable quantity is absorbed. The Pills, too, must he commenced with, early. If these remedies he diligently persevered with the simplest .tumour or tire contracted and stiff joint is arrested. In cases of had breasts, with or without milk fever, relief is almost instantaneous.

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 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 guns, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dyssentery and diarrhoea whether arising from teething nr other causes. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is old by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is. lld per bottle. Manufactured at 493 Ox-ford-street, London.

A man of singular force of mind died in Dublin recently. A few hours previous to his demise he called for pen, ink, and paper, and wrote the following communication, and sent it by hand to the office of the Freeman’s Journal We regret to announce the death, at an advanced age, of our respected fellow-citizen, -f. M'Namara Cantwell, Esq., solicitor. The deceased gentleman long occupied a prominent position in politics, and was justly, esteemed by all classes for bispolitioal as well as professional uprightness and probity.”

Three valuable stacks of wheal, containing 700 bushels, were accidentally destroyed by fire on Monday, the 15th instant, o* the farm of Mr Robert Clarke, Hillehd.- The fire originated in sparks from an eggiqe in connection with a threshing machine at work on the spot. The stacks were uninsured.

The Easter offering at St. Paul’s Church, Thornton, lately, amounted to L 97 7s Cd, the largest sum-ever collected on any Sunday at any church in Wellington. The proceeds will go to the incumbent the Rev. Mr Harvey. It is understood that one of the first measures to be introduced next session will be a Brewers and Publicans Bill, the intention of the measure being to prevent brewers becoming proprietors of hotels. Four-fifths of the hotels in Wellington are now owned by brewers. A report has reached Wellington that two brothers, named Spencer, representatives of Messrs Burton Brotheis, Dunedin, while on a photographic tour up Waiho River, at the foot of Mount Cook, discovered some payable gold on the Waiho Flat. They returned to the stores at Five-

mile Beach, where they purchased mining

tools, and returned over very precipitous country. Nothing definite is known as to

the prospects obtained, but it is believed they have sufficient inducement for the present to abandon photographing for golddigging, as they left with a miner fully equipped for a trial of the ground. The Spencers have been trying very pluokily the adventure of reaching the top of Mount Cook in most unfavourable weather, and had several narrow escapes. Sarah Steel, wife of George Steel, carrier, on the South Town Belt, Christchurch, was arrested last night, charged with having caused the death of her son William, nine years of age. It seems that Mrs Steel was heard screaming in the garden, and on neighbors going up found her with her son in her arms insensible, and bleeding copiously from a wound above his left ear. At hand were the kitchen poker and the boy’s felt bat, both stained with blood, and

the latter with a hole cut through at a place corresponding with the wound in the boy’s head. In explanation Mrs Steel said to the neighbors that she supposed the boy had been throwing the poker up in the tree and it fell on his head, inflicting the wound. The boy died a few hour's afterwards. The medical statement shows that the skull and brain have been penetrated ; also that the wound required a blow of considerable force to cut through the boy’s bat and inflict such a wound as that described. Mrs Simms, a neighbor, says she heard Mrs Steel call to

the boy in an angry tone, and then go towards him, shortly before the affair occurred. In England they are adopting a now horseshoe made of cowhide, and known as the Yates shoe. It is composed of three thicknesses of cowhide compressed into a steel mould, and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed for it that it lasts longer, and weighs only onefourth as much as the common iron shoe ; that it will never cause the hoof to split, nor have the least hjurious influence on the foot. It requires no calks; even on asphalt the horse never slips. The shoe is so elastic that the horse’s step is lighter and surer. It adheres so closely to the foot that neither dust nor water can penetrate between the shoe and the hoof. The idea is not a new one. At the time of the Roman and Carthaginian wars it was a frequent practice among cavalry officers to hind the feet of their horses with raw cowhide to protect them from injury during an engagement.

Ex-Colonel Va'eutine Baker, who is now in England, denies that the Russians have demanded that all foreign officers should leave the Ottoman service, and that he had resigned. Finding that the Turkish Government had agreed to retire from the lines in front of Constantinople without defending them, he'applied for a short leave of absence to England, which was granted. Michael Ross, farm servant, residing near Newton-Mearns, on awakening found the cat lying across the face of his infant daughter, aged three months. On removing the animal he was horrified to find that the child was dead.

According to a letter frnm Yokohama in the AHgemeino Zeitung, the late revolution in Japan has not only entailed a heavy ex-penditure-amounting to 44,680,940 dollars —on the Public Treasury, but has severely shaken the confidence of the people in the Government. The Mikado appears now to perceive that ho has gone too far in the way of reform, and has made ton many concessions to foreign Powers. All the treaties are, therefore, to be submitted to revision ; and there is reason to believe that this will be done .with a view to benefiting the native industries, which have greatly suffered of late. Foreign trade will, it is said, be given more freedom, and all the harbours will bo opened so as to afford the greatest possible facilities for the exportation of the productions of the country ; and many fear at the same time that the import duties will be increased. The representative of the United States is endeavoring to conclude a reciprocity treaty with Japan similar to that which is in force with the Sandwich Islands. The trade with San Francisco is already very considerable, and nearly all the tea produced in Japan—the last steamer took 16,475 chests—goes there. In return, the Japanese tea dealers receive mostly cash, with small quantities of meal, wine, mineral oil, and other goods. Such a treaty would throw all the foreign trade of Japan into the hands of the Americans, and at the same time greatly raise the trade in the interior. Industrial exhibitions have with this object already been opened in the principal towns, and the coinage has been altered so as to make it of the same sizes and values as the United States coins. The value of the now coins which have been struck according to this system during the past three years is no less than 77,496,226d01., and Mexican and American dollars have almost disap-: pcarod from circulation.