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Dunstan Times, Issue 865, 15 November 1878, Page 2

A Good Templars’ Lodge is to be opened at Blacks, Tbe Presbyterian Services will l>e held in the Town Hall, Clyde, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, on Sunday next. A rather smart shock of earthquake was felt here (at twenty minutes past 12 o’clock noon, yesterday (Thursday). The Blacks Annual Races are fixed for Thursday and Friday, - the 26th and 27 ; h of December. The Cromwell meeting with a programme of 200 sovs., we also notice is fixed for the same days. Our Matakanui friend" select their usual date, the Ist day of January. A few days since a young lady named Dunbar, a resident at P dmerston, sustained concussion of the brain through jumping off the train while in motion. We are informed that Mr Henry Marriott, traveller for Messrs Sconllar Bros., Dunedin, on Wednesday evening last, whilst driving from Cromwell to Perriam’s, Lowburn Creek, had his leg broken through the breaking of the axle of his trap (a trotting sulky). He was at once conveyed to Cromwell, where, the fracture was reduced by Dr Stackpole. The police, during the week, made a raid upon the herd of cattle that are kept grazing at large within the Municipal boundary, taking a batch to the Pound. We understand it is but the initiating of a system that is to be carried out. Owners of cattle will do well by taking the bint and keep them cither enclosed or employ a herd hoy to look after them. A late telegram from Victoria, re the Mansfield tragedy, says Sergeant Kennedy’s body has been found. He was shot while endeavoring to escape. The G overturn nt offer a reward of LSIJO for the capture of each bushranger. Goldsbrough and Co.’s Melbourne weekly report not'ces that for barley, for superior English malting, extreme rates can lie obtained, and up to 9s per bushel for piime New Zealand. A Sydney telegram says :—“ Sixteen thousand tons of potatoes have been imported into this colony from Victoria, Tasmania, and New Zealand during the last twenty-six weeks.” Mr Grainger, a farmer at Clarendon, Surrey, England, was tossed by a bull, and would have been killed had not two of bis cows rushed in and faced the bull, as it was about to attack Mr Grainger as he lay upon the ground. The project for the formation of a National Agricultural Society for New Zealand promises to be successfully’ carrie 1 out. Delegates from all the principal Societies in the Middle Island will meet in Oamaru on the 23rd instant. The increase to be made to the pay of the police i* is understood v ill be Is per day for sergeant-majors, and Gd per day for aT other grades downwards, including the armed constabulary. The drawer of Calamia in Drake and Collins's sweep was Mr G. B. Taylor, of Port Chalmers ; of Tom Kirk, Mr Sutton, of Moray Place ; and of Waxy, Mr W. H. Ronayne, of Oamaru. James Lyons, a shoemaker at Tapanni takes the first prize in Touks' Greymouth sweep. In the L4OOO sweep Calamia was drawn by a wool-sorter at Pelichet Bay’, Tom Kirk by a publican at Oamaru, and Waxy by the wife of a Dunedin hotel keeper. In Dodson’s LIOOO sweep Calamia was pnrcbns d for L3'2 10s. by two well-known sports, whose investment stands them in L2OO each. Private prizes of the value of about L7O are offered for various special exhibits in connection with the North Otago Agricnltural and Pastoral Society’s show which shortly takes place. Advice to Mothers!- -Are you broken in your rear, 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 relieve 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 dysentery and diarrhoea whether arising 'from teething or other causes. Mir Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is. 14d per bottW. Manufactured at 423 Ox Loadoa. .

| •; The lady whose beauty all London is jnsfc ifow talking about is a Mrs Langtry, who game I her position as the reigning beauty through having been invite! to lunch by ■ the Prince of VVa'es last Cup day at floodwood.

It is rumoured in Wellington (sava our Uamarn contemporary) that Govern"" . eld, formerly a resident of New’Zealand aMona of its most prominent politic! ins, will be appointed in Lord Normanby’s place. The Tichborne claimant has petitioned the Home Secretary to make his two senfences concurrent—that is to say, that-on finishing the one the other shall be considered to have expired also. He expresses his desire also to be tried on a charge of forgery, so. as to raise the whole question- of his guilt, or innocence.

The Oamaru I.veiling Mail says “Captain Barry, who is well known throughout the Colonies, is on one of his lecturing* tours, and will appear in Oamaru on Mon- * day evening next (llth inst.) at the Volunteer Hall. He has been drawing large audiences between here and Christchurch, the raciness with which he tells his colonial experiences appearing to he greatly appreciitel.”

An Adelaide paper is informed that a passenger for one of the Colonies who arrived recently by the ( himborazo brought the whole of his available capital, amounting to L200l), by a draft drawn by the City of Glasgow Bank, news of the failure of which was received by telegraph some days before her arrival. The draft was dishonoured on presentation. A telegram from Mace town says “ The Tipperary is looking very well ; nearly 300 tons of stone are ready for crushing. Only the blacksmith’s shop was damaged by the flood. The roads are all gone. The County Council commence repairs next week. No mines have suffered seriously considering the circumstances.”

One Tuesday moraine! an exciting scene took place in Birkenhead. A woman was seen going through the streets covered with flour and treacle. It seems she had l>cen too intimate with her sister's husband, and a letter from her addressed to him making an appointment fell into the wife’s hands. Instead of the husband meeting the sister* in-law, the wife made arr mgements wih about forty or fifty of her friends, and money was freely spent in flour and treacle, which, having been thrown upon the sister, rendered her a pitiful object as she made her way to the Woodsi le Ferry, followed by a number of women jeering her as she went

along. In the Colony there are 2,611.920 acres enclosed by fences of various descriptions exclusive of wire fencing, and 8,75"),639 acres by wire fencing only : raakim.|a total of land enclose I of 11,5(57,56 > acres. 1571 there were oily 0,770,299 acres fenced in. The e were at the time of taking the census 37-1 steam threshing machines, and 511 worked by horse or by water power y 3129 reaping machines, 34 steam ploughs, a id 32 steam harrows. , An English writer thinks one cause of the greater frequency of blindness in horai 8 than in other dmn< sticated .animals is the inconvenient position of the hay-racks from which many of them have to feed. I’laced, ai these frequently are, high up on tho stable wall, the horse must seek his fodder ; with raised head and outstretched neck, and , its removal is accompanied by a shower of du<t and small sharp-pointed particles of chaff anil seed, which naturally fall into h : 8 eyes. Further causes of this very comim n affliction may be found in tin pungent, ammonia gases so freely diffused in ill-ventila-

ted sta’ls, in the trying ero-s lights common in stabling. ami in the indiscriminate employment nf “ Minders,” which divert the line of vision from the natural direction. Or. Andrews is a splendid specimen of a doctor and a man. and welt deserved the following testimonial from the unfortunate , passengers of the Hi tv of Auckland : —“We are very thankful far the kindliness shown to us hv our noble and brave Or Andrews, who never gave us up in our trouVes, but to his post like a soldier, who was the

last loa/ing the ship, and always waited behinl to pick up the unfortunate stragglers, who slept side by side with us on sand hanks all night, who waded across rivers to his waist in water carrying women across the streams, and walked all along by our side ehee ing us, and telling us we should fo-get all in a few days when we should see what, a fine country we were in ; also hy h’s noble lady, who braved all storms, and wl , for her kindness to all, shall never be forgotten.” Throat Affections and IToaroekfss. - AH 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 hy

most respectable chemists in this country at Is lid per Ix.x. 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. Oxford-street, London Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.—lndisputable remedies for bad legs, obi wounds, sores and ulcers, if used according to directions given with them ; there is no wound, bad leg, ulcerous sore, or bail breast, how-

ever obstinate, or long standing, hut will yield to their healing and curative properties. Numbers of persons who have licen patients in several of the large hospitals, and under the care of eminent surgeons, without deriving the slightest benefit, have been thoroughly cured hy Holloway’s Ointment and Pills. For glandular swellings, I tumours, scurvy, an I diseases of the skin, there is no medicine that cm be used with so go id an off ict, in fact, for removing the worst form* of ' disease, dependent upon , the epadUaeu of the bleed, medlciue# 1 are imsslstihle.

According to a Wellington contemporary n shocking suicide was discovered late on Saturday night (November 2nd), when the lifeless form of Captain Goldsmith, Mining Inspector, was discovered in a chair, with wounds in his mouth and arm, from which he had bled to death, he had tired the nf • amoll «ai>al» n <. I~ 1 - LI. r V " V '’‘V'W'W A4SVU Ail« mouth, A note, addressed to the doctor, was found asking for medicine, as ho feared an attack of paralysis. The Morning Herald says The Hon. Colonel Whitmore does not seem to view with alarm the prospect of a visit of a Russian cruiser to our shores. At the Volunteer dinner on Saturday night, when speaking of the bravery of our Volunteers, he asked whether they meant to tell him thit if a Russian guuloat were to drop its anchor in the Bay that night, ho could not, by sending round a bugler, have every one of the Russians on board of her safely locked up in gaol by the morning. This brief but truly warlike speech of the hon. gentleman was received with loud applause. 'J he Vagrant in the Mataura Ensign says: “ I do not know if the matter has found i s way into print before, but 1 take the ri<k in giving it publicity. The first pub lie conveyance that ever was diiven from Dunedin to ‘he Clutha in now used as a hearse in Auckland.” In the same journal by the same author appears the following : —“ On Monday last, a gentleman from the north, formerly an hotel-keeper in the a uthl was a passenger by the first tram to Bdclutha. He walke 1 across the Railway b'idge, got across one viaduct, and had ad■vanefed a few yards across the second, u hen he heard the ballast engine coming along at Only about a couple of hundred yards distance. He yelled “My God !" his hair, what little he has, stood on end, his hat blew off, like a flash of lightning ; the ma - ter was presented to him in two lights. His race was run ! death stood him in the face ; the mud was below, an I soft, the engine behind, and hard—what should it he, a muddy death or a- -well gory. He chose the latter. Portmanteau in hand, containing a box of paper collars and a shirt-front, he rushe l frantically across the viaduct. When he reached the other side , the engine was not ten yards from him. He managed to get to John Dunne’s, where he asked for a “ hub-bub randy.” He swallowed the fluid at a pulp, the glass rattling on his teeth, and then got on ill- 1 box of the ■coach where he went asleep. An hour afterwards he woke up and said, “ What a d-—d ass I was ! It was only an Otago engine. Ith night it was the Canterbury express !"

Things have come to a pretty pass at the Westport State school, says the Bailer News, as indicated by the circumstance which transpired the other day. The boys of the first cliff, or at least a portion of them, hid formed a “ mutual protection society," with intent to mob the master should he, in their opinion, unjustly or excessively punish one ot their number. Nairn ally, it must be inferred from the combination of the scholars todefendeach o'her that the master has been in the habit of illtreating them. On the other hand, it is sai l that the spirit of insubordination is of long standing, that the school was, when the present master entered it, in a terrible state of disordei, and that he has accom plished a good deal in reducing it to even its present state of discipline. If we are not misinformed “the conspirators” committed their first depredation yesterday. The schoolmaster was administering a little caning when the caned hand closed and obtained possesssion of the weapon. Other hands helped, and sad be it, hut it remains to he reported that the schoolmaster was pummelled on the floor. The use of the cane appeals to have had a contrary effect upon the discipline of the school, which was maintained in good order by its late master } We were shown at Alex in Ira during the wi k the carcass of an animal in a ssmipetrilied state that was discovered a few days previously on one of the newly formed shingle banks in the Manuherikia river sine i the subsidence of the late floods. The class of animal it he’ongs to we are unable to say, some, however, who profess some knowledge of the subject say, from the evidence of short stiff hairs, of a brown color, on the back, and the ahence of fore arms it belongs to the seal tribe. The curious in those things can inspect it at Mr W. Robertson’s Reelong Hotel, Alexandra.

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