The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1878.

Dunstan Times, Issue 854, 30 August 1878, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1878.

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

A young man named Frederick Daniels was thrown by his horse at Queenstown last week. He died a few hours afterwards, We have to acknowledge the receipt from Mr George Didsbnry, Government Printer, of Xo. 4 of Hansard, and a batch of Parliamentary papers and Bills. The Sale of property of the firm of Finlay and Morris, which commenced yesterday, will be continued to day and to morrow. This day at 2 o’clock, the horses and Mining interests will be sold. Parties on the look out for a good horse or valuable raining property will do well to hoar in mind the hour.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Clyde, on Thursday last, before W. Simpson, R.M., Mrs. Noble, charged with assaultiag Mrs Roberts, was remanded for a week, to admit of the attendance of Mrs Roberts, who, according to the certificate of a medical man, was too ill to attend. The parties live on the West Bank of the Molynenx, in Alexandra, and from what we can learn the trouble arose through some groundless and unwarranted gossip-

On Monday "next, September 2, the usual monthly meeting ot the Committee of Management of the, Durstan District Hospital will he held.

The, Clyde Borough Council meet for the transaction of ordinary business on Tuesday, the 3rd of September, at 7.30 p.m. in the Town Clerk’s office.

Sergeant Oomyn, for a long time stationed at Cardrona, has lately been transferred to the charge of the Clutha district. Sergeant Comyn is a good conscientious officer, and richly merits the advance. The directors of the Wakalip Shipping Navigation Co., (says the Wakatip Mail) have accepted the tenderof Messrs. Kincaid, M‘Queen, and Co., for a paddle boat, price LG, 700, to bo placed on the lake complete by the Ist of January next. The vessel is to be 125 feet long with a guarantee speed of 13 knots an hour.

Those of our readers who were acquainted with Thomas Kenny will learn with regret that he died in the Naseby Hospital on Tuesday last, from the effects of a mass of earth falling upon him whilst working in his sluicing claim at Naseby. The deceased was brother-in-law of Mr James M‘Arthur, farmer, of Wai Keri Keri Valley.

We understand that our Alexandra friends purpose having their customary Spring Kaoe Meeting—the date is not definitely fixed upon, but it is understood that it will be in tbe last week in September, a week before the Cromwell meeting, which is a week before the Wanaka meeting. The Clyde Club have not made a move, but from what we can learn they are sure to CGrnc'iirbetween some of the fixtures. There being no nomination for the office ot Mayor of Cromwell, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr S. N. Brown. Wo understand that gentleman has consented to retain office till the end of the Municipal year. Once having resigned we were of opinion all right to the office ceased, and that unless Mr Brown was duly re-elected he has no power to act, and everything done will be void.

The New Zealander, a paper published in Wellington, in a leading article on the proposed testimonial to Sir Julius Vogel, and the evident desire on the part of the Opposition to get him back in New Zealand to take part iu the affairs of the Country, denounces the whole affair and terms hbn “an antiquated political fossil.” It must be borne iu mind that the New Zealander is the Ministerial newspaper, consequently the term can bo estimated at its true value.

The New Zealand Times, referring to the question of Separation, says:—“ The rumor has subjected Ministers and their supporters to anxious inquiries from their supporters to anxious inquiries from their supportees as well as opponents.” The Times then goes on to accuse Ministers of making separate departments in each Island in order to pave the way for the separation of the two islands, and quotes from Sir George Grey’s speech when a candidate for the Supcrintendency of Auckland iu March, 1575 ; also from Mr Macandrew’s address on the 6th November, 1575, in view of the coming election, in which he briefly sketched out a form of Insular Separation with a Federal Government.

On Friday evening last, at abont 8 o’clock, a slight shock of earthquake was felt here, and on Saturday afternoon, at IS minutes to 3 o’clock distinct shocks were experienced. Thefirst and third were comparatively weak, a slight upheaving of the earth only being noticed ; the second one, however, was very severe causing everything suspended to swing about at a great rate, as also to cause bottles and crockery to rock and jingle. Croat consternation for the time was caused. Tiro shook appears to have been felt all over the country, as it is reported at Dunedin and at Queenstown, and all the intermediate places. We had the pleasure, during the week, of making a cursory inspection of the Flour Mill lately erected at Spottis Creek. Mr J. C. Jones, the proprietor, kindly showed ns through the building, and explained the machinery. So far as completed the structure is of the most substantial character, the walls being of prime stone well put together. The machinery which is all new—is on the latest improved principle. The motive power is water, obtained through a patent high-pressure turbine wheel. In the course of a fortnight everything is expected to bo completed and in working order, when wo purpose to give a detailed description of the Vincent Flour Mill.

That enterprising newspaper proprietor, Mr Joseph Mackay, is about to start another paper at Balclutha, to be called the Clutha Times, and to be published biweekly.

Holloway’s Ointment ani Pills.— Coughs, Influenza.—The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well ■worthy of trial in all diseases of the lungs, in common cold, and influenza. The Pills taken internally ami the Ointment rubbed externally are exceedingly efficacious. When influenza is epidemic this treatment is easiest, safest, and surest. Holloway’s Pills and Ointment purify the blood, remove all obstructions to its free circulation through the lungs, relieve the overgorged air tubes, and render respiration free with out reducing the strength, irritating the nerves, or depressing the spirits. Such are the ready means of saving suffering when afflicted with colds, coughs, bronchitis, and other complaints by which so many are seriously and pevmanent.lv afflicted in most countries.

Valuable Discovery for the Hair.— If ynnr hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use the Mexican Hair Renowcr,” for it will positively restore in every case Orry 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 Eenewer,” prepared by Henry C Gallup, 493 Oxfordstreet, London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere, at 3s Cd per bottle.

lu the poll for the. vacant scat uu ilia Education Board Mr Begg obtained 23 votes, Mr Ramsay 19, Mr Mackenzie 5, and Professor Salmond and Mr M'Neil I'eaph.

It is a curious social fact that Dr Wallis and Mr Fox, both of whom are advocates for woman suffrage, are both childless, and so was John Stuart Mill, and so are others who advocate the same views. A presentation was made at tho Town Hall, Melbourne, on August 23, by the Mayor, to Thos. Pearce, who rescued Miss Carmichael after the wreck of the Loch Ard. The Victoria contributions amount to nearly L6OO. Pearce will leave on Monday for England. A circulating library has been opened in connection with tho Victorian railway bookstalls. Passengers by rail can obtain the loan of books from this library on payment of the full value of the book borrowed, the amount being returned, minus 3d, if the book is given up within three days at any of the bookstalls on the Government railway lines.

The following challenge’appears in the Australasian of August 10“ I, John Thomas, of Eaglehawk, Victoria, hearing that Robert Dagg and John Tyson, of New Zealand, call themselves the champion wrestlers of the Colonies in the Cumberland style, do hereby agree to wrestle either of them for one hundred pounds (L 100) a-sjde, or any higher sum they may agree to. 1 will give twenty-five pounds (L 25) if they come to Victoria, or will take twenty-five (L 25) and go to New Zealand. An answer to this will be attended to in New Zealand by applying to John Tiffen, Kaitangata. The. intellectual abilities of the Japanese race have been evidenced in a striking manner by a quartette of students from that country now studying in Berlin. One of these, Dr Dirokitao has lately invented an ingenious optical instrument termed the leuooscope, which measures the variations in the perception of light and color by the human eye, in accordance with the strictest mathematical laws. Another, who has attained the rank of lieutenant in the Prussian army, has introduced a remarkable simplification into the mechanism of the Mauser rifle, w'hiohhas succeeded the historic needle gun. Two more, who are prosecuting their chemical studies under Professor Hofman, have published for two years past several interesting synthetical researches of the aromatic series.

The Invercargill correspondent of the Bruce Herald says : —There are some people who appear to have a run of ill-luck, and of this class seems to ho a man of the name of Buddy, who was well-nigh killed some time ago, on the Bluff road, by a mate named Calderwood. For the assault, the latter was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, which ho is now undergoing. Buddy has for a time been carting and driving an express waggon on the Bluff road, and last evening, just on the scene of the former outrage, ho was act on by several meu, and received very serious damage. The man is an inoffensive man, and no reason can bo assigned for the attack. An amusing case was recently heard before a bench of magistrates at Collingwood (Victoria). Enoch Evans summoned Ellen Bickenson for illegally detaining a dress. In the course of the proceedings it was stated that after a courtship of about three weeks Miss Bickenson, who is thirty, and has LI, 000 of her own in the bank, proposed to Evans, who is barely of age, and was accepted. The arrangements for the wedding were proceeded with. In the interval Evans made his fiancee several presents, amongst them being the material for the wedding dress, which was the subject of these proceedings. A fortnight before the marriage was to havo taken place Miss Bickenson broke off the match, and returned to Evans all his presents except the dress, which she retained on the ground that she had paid for its make-up. The magistrate ordered the return of the dress, Evans to pay 2Gs, which it was proved Miss Dickenson had expended in having it made. Some instructive disclosures (says the Pall Mall Gazette) were made in a case heard in the Malton County Court recently. A horse-trainer and jockey named Eugg claimed L 32 19s from Mr Barker, an owner of racehorses, for riding horses for him at races. The plaintiff alleged that, in accordance with Mr Barker’s instructions, who did not wish the horses to win, he on one occasion gave a horse a bucket of water, and got blood daubed on its nostrils to make people believe the animal had broken a blood-vessel. On another occasion he pulled the nails out of the horse’s shoes, and in a third case prevented the horse from winning, but in each instance ho said he was to be paid the same price as if the horses had won. The defendant denied having tampered with the horses, and said that Ritgg, being a “gentleman rider,” could claim nothing, and that ho never meant to pay him anything. The Judge said he would never give a verdict to a plaintiff who in open Court confessed he was a swindler, as Eugg had done. He did not believe the plea of the defence, because Barker knew the plaintiff was riding for money, and thus the two were concerned in another imposition on the public. He should not allow one farthing for riding, as it was all a swindle; hut he gave the plaintiff L 5 for the expense of preparing and going about with the horses.

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Big nuggets are now like angel’s visits in Victoria. A man named Betts lately found one at Buninyoug weighing 2563$ ounces. Sir George Bowen has been} appointed to the Governorship of Mauritius, and is expected to leave Molborne in a couple of mouths’ time.

It appears that John Bright, who sneered at Lord Ueaconstield for being of Jewish descent, had a great grandfather who married Martha Jacobs, a Jewess ; so that Mr Bright bit off his own nose to spite his face. Obedience is our universal duty and destiny: wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly wa can not be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, is as mere zero to Should, and for the most part as the smallest of fractions eve* to Shall. The more married men, the fewer crimes there will be. Marriage renders a man more virtuous and more wise. An unmarried man is but half of a perfect being, and it requires the other half to make thiugs right; and it can not be expected that in this imperfect state he can keep the sti night path of rectitude any more than a boat with one oar can keep a straight course. A too well trained dog got his owner into trouble the other day at Oamaru. He had been taught to fetch and carry, and in the exercise of this accomplishment ran away with a basket from a shop door. The boy who owned him was sentenced in consequence to a month’s imprisonment, but on its being represented to the Hon. the Attorney-General that he was the sole support of his family, of good character, and rather the victim of a trick than an intentional thief, he was set at liberty. Great reserve is maintained at police head-quarters in Scotland Yard regarding the alleged Socialist plot. Evidently it has been ascertained that both in London and in Paris an important event was expected to occur in Berlin on the day Nobeling fired at the Emperor. Private letters from Berlin speak of the public feeling as profoundly disturbed. In private, men say the country is ripe for a republic, France, now under the Republican rule for seven years, is prosperous, rich, and happy. Germany, under an Empire, is poor. We , (Arrowtown Observer) have been shown some stone taken out on Saturday last from the ffipperary mine, Macetown, from tho upper level, which is really magnificent. Heavy gold is freely distributed through and through the quartz ; which, when crushed, should yield a startling return, even for Macetown. The company will shortly commence to send stone to the public battery, and ere long, we hope to see everything at the reefs in full swing. Tho snow, except on the mountain tops, has partially disappeared and there is nothing to prevent resumption of work in all the mines. Some eentlemen from Dunedin who visited the reefs last week were astonished at the progress made, and were especially loud in their praises of the battery, they having no idea of the existence of such extensive and well-fitted reducing facilities as are offered by this fine mill ; of whi oh we . hope good use will be made this season.

De Witt Talmage, in preaching recently on female extravagance, said There are clerks in stores and hanks on limited salaries, who in vain attempt to keep the wardrobes of their family as showy as other folk’s wardrobes, are dying of muffs, and diamonds, and camel’s hair shawls, and high hats, and they have nothing left except what they give to cigars and wine suppers, and they die before their time, and they will expect us ministers to preach about them as though they were the victims of early piety, ami after a high-class funeral, with silver handles at the sides of their coffm, of extraordinary brightness, it will bo found out that the nl'&jrtaker is cheated out of his legitimate expenses ! Do not send mo to preach the funeral sermon of a roan who dies like that. I will blurt out the whole truth, and tell how ho was strangled to death by his wife’s libbons ! The country is dressed to death.

The New Zealand Times has a long article to-day on the subject of endowment of Dunedin High School. After referring to clause 4 of the Public Deserves Act, and to the large reserves made under that for Otago and Southland, the writer says that in addition to the two and a halt acres upon which the High School stands, the Act provides also that out of the reserves allotted to primary education by the arbitrators as before mentioned, so much land shall be set apart as will give, “at present ” an income of L 1250 a year to the school. The foico of the “ present ”is very remarkable. In the same Gazette of Tune 12th we find that, in order to give the required rental “at present,” it takes 90,815 acres of pastoral land, 10 town lots at Oamaru. and 179 acres of rural land in that neighborhood. This littlS property is absolutely vested in the school. In this game of grab Southland naturally took a hand in Southland, Southland had an Act last year securing to her Board as much of the allocated reserves as will give an income at present of LSOO a year, as disposed of. This year we have another Bill for Waitaki High School, which purposes to give as much land to Waitaki Board as will produce “ at present ” an income of LSOO a year. That will probably absorb the remainder of the reserves, and unless further provision be made, the future of Otago in matters of secondary education must he con-

fideil to three schools—viz., one at Dunedin, one at Invercargill, anti one at Oamarn. Throat A rrKcrioxs 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. Pee that the words ‘‘Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” am on the Government Stamp around each box. —Manufactured by John I. Brown & Sons, Boston, United States. Depot, 493, Oxford-street, London

Ttie Southland News says :—" A good Joke is current about town, in which a distinguished legal luminary plays an important part. The gentleman, who has just assumed an important judicial office in the district, adjourned to a leading hotel for luncheon on the first day of the recent Court sittings. The luncheon room was moderately full, and just opposite to the subject of our story sat three gentlemen, who were conversing. 1 Have you seen the new Judge ?’ said one. ‘I am told that he is quite a little fellow.’ ‘ They say he’s a very bad speaker,’ said a second. * Shocking, I understand,’ said the third. The sensations of the party, when they found out by someone addressing the gentleman opposite them as ‘Judge,’and they had been dissecting him before his face can he imagined ; and we understand that it was one of the few occasions on which the most portly of the speakers has ever raised a blush.’’

An attack was made upon the policestation at Blocldey, a small village in Worcestershire, on Saturday night, and the police-sergeant in charge, named Drury, was nearly beaten to death. It seems that Drury had excited tho ill-will of some of the villagers who were suspected of iufring ing the Public House Act, and when the beer-houses closed on Saturday night at 10 o'clock a number ot men who had been drinking, and had been turned out, assembled and went to the police-station, where Drury ami his wife live, and partially demolished it with heavy stones whydi they took from a wall near. They then entered the house, and, seizing Drury, carried him into the street, beat him on his head, kicked him, and jumped upon him while he was on the ground. But for the intervention of some of tho inhabitants it is believed the officer would have been killed. Five men have been apprehended on the charge of being concerned in the attack. The origin of the proposal to invite Sir J. Vogel’s return to the Colony is thus mentioned by the Lyttelton Times Some one was indulging in Bellamy s the other day in rather keen criticism of Sir Julius Vogel and his acts and history, when a warm and impetuous friend said it was too much, and he would li vo to see the day wheu Sir J. Vogel would be brought out to New Zealand again and once more placed at the head of affairs. At this moment in stalked with his stately tread tho Hon W. 11. Reynolds, who took up tho conversation by saying, “ And I’ll give LSOO towards a handsome fund tor tho purpose.” “So will I,” ejaculated Mr .1. E. Brown (Ashley). * I’ll give L109,’ quoted plucky Mr Shrimski. The story grew, and passed from mouth to mouth until at last it was proposed to raise a fund of from Lls,iiOH to L2O,O'JO to piesent to Sir Julius, and bring him out to Now Zealand. It is said that the sums are in no case to bo under LSOO, but as ranch more as the donor may be disposed to subscribe. It is expected that in connection wi;h the opening of the Otago and Canterbury line, this subject will bo mooted by Sir J. Vogel’s friends, when some of the fruits of his railway policy arc being reaped in the shape of speedy passage by rail from the one great Southern city to tho other.”

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