The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

Dunstan Times, Issue 848, 19 July 1878, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1878.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just the pkk is mightier than the sword.

The appointment of Mr W. E. Shury as assistant clerk in the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lawrence is gazetted. The Borough Council of Lawrence are about to levy a special water rate of fid in the £.

Mr A. C. Strode has resigned his seat at the Waste‘Land Board. The Morning Herald vacancy has not yet been tilled up. o ■’ *'■ * The present winter is considered the coldest experienced here for many years, but there is every prospect of a good agricultural season.

Messrs Hayes and Bahama's Mammoth Cnvus has arrived at the Bluff, en route for Dunedin. Tne Company is said to be the largest that has yet visited Now Zealand. A meeting of the Committee of the Clyde Athenaeum will be held in the Library Hall this (Friday) afternoon at half past four, for the transaction ot important business, when members are requested to attend.

A miner named Patrick Pickards was killed on Friday last at the Teviot by a fall of earth while working in his claim. The man who was working with him, we believe, narrowly escaped the fate of his mate. The conference ot County Councils to have been heard in Wellington on the 21st instant, is put off, to suit the convenience of several delegates and M.H. R.’s, till August 6th, A party writing to the Evening Star, says that Mr Tom Sayers has equal claims with Mr E. Devine for a testimonial, and suggests that the claims of both gentlemen should be considered.

Mr Daniel Campbell, one of tho promoters of the Daily Times and Witness newspapers, and for some time manager of those journals, has entered into pamership with the proprietors of the Dunedin Age. The Dunedin Star of Monday last says : A telegram received in town advises that a crushing of thirty tons of stone at the Victor Emanuel reef at Maoetown was finished on Saturday night, and yielded 260z Sdwts, or somewhat less than loz per ton. The New Zealander, a journal published in Wellington, and by all accounts under the complete guidance of tho Ministry, says “The New Licensing Bill has not been drafted. All the comment, therefore, there lias been on it is worse than useless. The following somewhat jumbled up paragraph met our eye tho other day : —A constable has had to pay 43a 6d for striking a drunken man, whom ho was assisting another constable to arrest, in tho face with a pair of handcuffs.—We should like to know which ot the three was arrested, and who was struck with the handcuffs.

A Dunedin telegram, dated July 16, says —The sitting of the Commission appointed to enquire into the case of Mr H. J. Finn, barrister, and Mr Warden Stratford, of Queenstown, has been postponed. Further action is to be taken after the settlement of the case now pending in the Supreme Court.

The recent fog in Melbourne is described as having been as thick as any generally experienced in London. Three yards from a gaslamp the light was invisible ; it took half an hour to go from the top of Brunswick to the top of Collins streets, and a dis tance that generally takes the coach a quarter of an hour to traverse took three and ahalf hours that day. The weather has since been very cold. At Napier the other day a telegram from New South Wales was put in evidence during a trial at the Supreme Court. His Honor the presiding Judge made a few remarks on the superior and convenient description of telegraph forms'issued by the Sydney Government He also said the writing on it was like copper-plate, and very unlike tho scrawls wo usually got in New Zca'and.

Something definite is at last heard from Longwood, and it is of a highly gratifying tenor, giving promise of permanent rich workings. After writing generally upon the field and the large amount of work doing, notwithstanding the had weather, the correspondent of the Riverton paper says : —* I was allowed down Hayes’ shaft, which is some forty feet deep. I saw a dish of quartz washed from some that had flaked off the reef while 1 was at the mine, and the result is that it was the richest I have ever seen washed from any one dish of quartz in the Middle Island. Not only was there the usual fine gold in quartz-test-ing, but coarse gold almost the size of beans, and several pieces were discernible in the dish as largo as peas.”—-Evening Star. •

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A Sydney telegram', dated July 11, says the native rising in Now Caledonia is confirmed. The two tribes, numbering 1000 men, had never acknowledged the French authority. Troops and armed colonists surrounded them. A complete extermination is expected. The cause of the rising is attributed to harsh treatment and the conduct of the whites.

"We learn from Mr Young, the Switzers mail-man (says the Bruce Herald), that the stables of Mr John Cameron were burned to the ground on Saturday last in the afternoon. Nothing was saved but the horses. A quantity of seed wheat and grass seed were lestroyed. The clothing of a number of the station hands who slept over the stables was also burned. The origin of the fire cannot be accounted for, as none of the men who slept in the building were in the habit of smoking. It is not known if the place was insured. - -•■ The Dunedin Morning Herald says : We understrnd that a lawyer’s office, not a hundred miles from the Bank of New Zealand, has, within the last day or two, been the scene of a fracas between a Dunedin solicitor anil a candidate for legal honours, who will no doubt hereafter obtain a high degree of excellence in his profession, if readiness to resort to personal violence will help him thereto. These blackguard rows,for they are nothing else, are now becoming of almost everyday occurrence in this City, and it is imperatively necessary that an example should he made when the first opportunity offers, in order to put an end to them.

The accident to Mrs Eichardt, ot Queenstown, as reported in the provincial press to have occurred at Invercargill, we are informed, took (dace at her home at Queenstown. The Mail, in noticing tho accident, says We much regret to state that Mrs Eichardt, the well-known and much respected wife of the proprietor of Eichardt’s Hotel, was severely gored by an infuriated cow on Wednesday afternoon and her shoulder dislocated. Drs Scott and Douglas were in attendance just after the accident. We are glad to state that Mrs Eichardt, although very much 'hurt and bruised, has not sustained any very serious injury, and that she is progressing as favorably as can be exnected.

The Longwood correspondent of the Western Star, writing of Hayes’s claim, says:—“l was allowed down this shaft, which is some 40 feet deep—that is, to the top of the tunnel as the shaft breaks into it. They have driven about six feet to the eastward from the shaft, which disclosed the reef. At the time of my visit the reef had only just been broken into to a distance of some eighteen inches or two feet of firstclass ferruginous looking quartz cased in black hands, showing the action of fire. Tho reef is running as near as possible N.N.W. byS.S.E., in kind, easy country, with a slight underlie to tho eastward. I saw a dish of quartz washed from some that had flaked off the reef while I was at the mine, and the result is that it was the richest I have ever seen washed from any one dish ot quartz in the Middle Island. Not only was there the usual flue gold found in quartz testing, but coarse gold almost the size of beans, and several pieces were discernible in the dish as largo as peas. Nothing is now wanting hut a tramway and machinery to place this company second to none in the Middle Island, as the richest alluvial goldshed is still two or three hundred feet ahead of the present workings.”

The latest invention in 'connection with the telephone is what is termed a Microphone, or sound magnifier. Professor Hughes, the inventor, when describing the instrument, said that by its means sounds so faint that they have never before been heard by human ears, may bn made of any degree of loudness. A feather’s edge brushed over the sounding-board of this instrument has been made to crash upon the ears of the listeners. The touch of the tip of a camel’s-hair brush was the occasion of “ a crackling noise, of which the intensity was almost painful to the car.” The faintest whisper of the human voice can be reproduced in the loudest tones. With it he has made the footsteps of a housefly distinctly audible ; and all these sounds, after being intensified, are transmitted to any needful distance by the ordinary telephone A trial of one of the machines made bv Mr Jones, of Dunedin, is spoken of as being very successful. The Evening Star in concluding an article on it, says :—Tt is feared that the microphone is too sensitive for ordinary use, as it catches up every sound,, and is capable of changing the quietness of a room into a miniature Babel. To make audible “the beating of a pulse, the ticking of a watch, or the tramp of a fly” aro extraordinary things ; but we are assured that the microphone is capable of doing all these.

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The Now York Herald reports a shocking accident which occurred at the Pawtucket Opera House. A variety company from Brooklyn were performing, the peculiar ex«j hibitions introduced by Mr Frank Frayno and his wife, Miss Clara Butler, the feature of which is the introduction of firearms and the display of skill in marksmanship. The persons who took part in this portion of the entertainment were two female artists known to the stage by the names of Miss Jennie Franklin and Mdlle. Voltante, the former being in the habit of firing the rifles, and the latter acting in the capacity of assistant. An apple being placed on the head of Mdlle. Voltante, her coadjutor proceeded to take aim by means of a mirror, her back towards Mdlle. Voltante, the rifle being extended backwards over her shoulder, After taking deliberate aim she fired, and to the horror of the audience, the unfortunate assistant uttered a loud shriek and fell to the ground, the bullet having pierced the forehead and caused instant death. Great excitement ensued. The police arrested Miss Franklin, who seemed “ dazed” with horror, in order to await the result of the coronei’s inquest. The through line of railway from the Bluff to Kingston, Lake Wakatip, was opened on Wednesday last, about 200 persons from Queenstown, and; 1200 from Invercargill, were present at the ceremony. As by the report of the proceedings in the Mail, Queenstown was represented byW. Warren, Esq., Mayor of Queenstown, who occupied the chair at the banquet, and Mr P. B. Boult, ami Cromwell by S. N. Brown, Esq., Mayor, and Mr C. Colclongh, Town .Clerk. Mr Brown is reported to have said, in responding to the toast of “Success to the Wakatip District,” with which his name and others was coupled—“ As an old Tnvercargillite—but now representing Cromwell —he wonld say that, though the people of Cromwell were ambitious enough to hope in years to come for a railway of their own yet they recognised the importance of this line of railway. The presence of himself and Town Clerk, (Mr Colclough) was a guarantee that this lino of railway was appreciated by them. Strong bonds of union evidently existed between the Wakatip and Invercargill districts, and that feeling was shared in by their neighbors such as Cromwell.” The Wakatip Mail says : -The charge of sacrilege against A. Ryan was heard in the R.M. Court on Wednesday, and the information was dismissed much to the surprise, wo are informed, of those who represented the Crown as well as to many present in Court who beard the evidence. With regard to the justice of the action of the Magistrate of course wo have nothing to do, but only mention the fact, f.awyers are pretty “ cute” in their ovu way, but sometimes they get “a sell,” and an instance of it was afforded just before the termination of the case. Mr Turton, Grown prosecutor, closed the case, and Mr Stratford read over the usual charge to the accused preparatory to his committal for trial. The caution being road over is a pretty good sign of the intention of tho Bench—at least Counsel for the prisoner evidently took it as such. The prisoner commenced to make a statement when Mr Finn, who was “at attention,’ finding'that the statement would tell against accus'd on bis trial, “advanced to the attack,” informing the Bench that he was retained to defend him in tho higher Court, and ordered “a halt.” The Magistrate “halted,” hut the accused “marched” out of the dock, keeping step to a well known march, while counsel saw his retaining fee “skirmishing” in tho distance. Our “ P. D." who is rather a cute boy, wants to know who got the biggest sell—the law or the lawyer ? We have received from tho publisher, Mr R. T. Wheeler, Dunedin, a pamphlet containing 152 pages, entitled “ A Sketch of Otago,” with a record of all the important events in its history. The author, after giving a general description of the Province, treats upon tho land, climate, and products, its industries, resources, and prospects. Mr James M‘lndoe, the author, has evidently well studied his subject, and so far as we can judge, succeeded in laying before the people of the Province a most useful wort, and one that should moet with a largo sale for circulation at homo. Messrs Coulls and Culling, the printers, have creditably done their portion of tho work. A public meeting of persons interested in the land on Moutere Station being thrown open for settlement will bo hold in the Town Hall, Alexandra, on Saturday evening, tho 20th instant. Those persona, also, who purpose taking np, or even applying for any of the land, are requested to—if they cannot attend—send in to the Secretary, Mr W. F. Forrest, thoir names and the amount of land desired .by them. Tho invitation is one that is open to all, gentle and- simple alike, as the question of settling people on the land is one that affects everybody, wc therefore hope to sec as numerous an attendance as can possibly he gathered together. We do not profess to he any greater prophets than onr neighbours, yet we prophecy that unless a firm, decided, shoulder to shoulder stand is taken over this question, Moutere Run will he closed to settlement till the end of its lease in September, ISBI. Nothing that could have been done has been left undone to keep the surveyor off, consequently every possible means that suggests itself must be taken to get him on. The question resolves itself into this—is tho land to he settled and the district accordingly bnnefitted by an increase of population, or is the land to he kept shut up, and those who are desirous of occupying it driven away, to tho detriment of the district. It is the duty of all to give their aid, we therefore repeat tho hope that wo may seo a crowded meeting.

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“ Augur,” writing in the Australasian ou the handicaps for tho Melbourne Cup, says: “The New Zealanders are moderately well treated, Lo Loup, in fact, being let off lightly, and if this maiden brother of Lurlino should happen to be as good as his distinguished sister, I don’t think there will bo any necessity to look further for tho winner. To me nothing looks hotter than First King, Chester, Savanaka, Le Loup, Elsie, Warlock, Darriwoll, and Emily. Tho last-named of this lot was hacked heavily before the weights made their appearance, she having been supported to win some thousands at 100 to 3.”