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Dunstan Times, Issue 879, 21 February 1879, Page 2

The death of Mrs Win. Fraser, Earns, cleugb Station, took place at Dunedin on Friday last. The funeral, which was largely at ended, took place on Sunday. Every resident in this district will, we feel assured, join ns in our condolences with Mr Fraser iu his bereavement. Mr Holt, the contractor for recovering the wires of' the Clyde bridge, is making good headway. He has succeeded in drawing to shore twelve, being all that were used on ono side, and he is now engaged in getting at the moorings of the other twelve. Considering the great friction they have been subjected to, the wires are in much better order than was to he expected, and will answer every purpose for suspending another bridge of perhaps a less carrying capacity than the original structure. The bazaar at Lawrence, in aid of the Church of England at that place, has closed with the total receipts of nearly Loot). Bv a Wellington telegram we learn that the Gove nment have received advice of a steamer having left Plymouth with 600 emigrants for the Colony. The Blue Mountain Company, Tinkers, obtained at last washing up, and the result of five mouths work, nearly 1100 ounces of gold. One of the valuers for the Tnames County under the I and Tax Act has had one form returned to him endorsed as follow: “ Being a Christian, pure ami simple, and a pilgrim on earth waiting for my Lord from Heaven, and for the City of my Lord in the new Jerusalem, I hold no property, landed or otherwise, on earth. I am simply a lodger in the house I reside in, and must refer you to who is the owner thereof.— Yours respectfully.— The revenue of the Lawrence Athenaum for the past year was L 637 IS 7. Mr Fache request us to draw attention to the SUe bv Auction on Monday next at Alexandra of the property and effects in the Bankruptcy es ate of James Samson, Tailor and Draper. —(See advertisement.) The lately discovere 1 rich auriferous deposit at St. Bathans is creatin ; a good deal of attention, a number of leases of the g-ounil have been applied for. The prospects obtained are of a highly satisfactory character, and should similar prospects to those of the prospectors he obtained generally, a considerable impetus will be given to everything in the district. 'We take the opportumfy of reminding all those whose names are not on the Electoral Foil of the District in which they reside, that applications for registration must he made before the 31st of March. • As the i’acKkroant will dissolve by effluxion of tjfrrfe after the next Session, the Roll to he made this year will be the one in use at the next Gene v al Election, therefore it behoves all who are entitled to have their names placed on the roll to not delay making their application beyond the 31st of next month Forms can be obtained at the Office of this paper.

' ’‘Wo hear with regret that the projected 'Cricket match between Lake and Vincent {Counties, through some misunderstanding to where the match was to take place, is indefinitely postponed. So tar as we can learn the facts are th-se Tue Secretary of the Dunstan District Club, in the challenge omitted to name where the same was to bo played, the Lakes Club concluding that it was to be played on their ground, -tl|orig| play |t (Syimw-dl rahat’-convenient place, decline to budge, and as the Vincent men, some of whom, if the game had to be played at Queenstown, would have to travel seventy -mile*,-decline tiytravel the whole distance, the game is consequently off. It is a very great pity that,the misunderstanding should have arisen, and we hope before the season is-over the-teams! ihay meet to test their several strengths, Mr Fache notifies in another'column that on Tuesday, March 4th, he will sell at St. Bathans a valuable water-race, with right to seven heads of water. The property is one of the most valuable in the Greek district, and should command a large attendance of competitors. The County authorities we notice, have just complete 1 a very necessiry piece of woik on the main road at the foot of the t- rrnces between Clyde and Blacks. By when one nr two other pieces of this road that in winter time are terrors to all travellers, notably the two gullies on the Clyde side of Watson's farm, and the hill falling into Young Hill Creek, are attended to, there will be then no better road in the County, ils nearly all the up-country traffic is on this road, a greater necessity exists for it being placed in repair than fuimerly, when there was but little traffic. The estates purchased by the New Zealand Agricultural Company referred to in the English telegrams as having been floated, comprise the Croydon and Wamea Plains estates of G. M. Bell, Esq, ; the Wantwood and Caroline estates of Joseph Clarke, Esq. ; and the Longridge, Domi and Eyre Creek estates, belonging to Messrs Larnach and Driver. The object of the Company is to cut the estates up and sell them on deferred payments to suitable settlers, who will be possessed of sufficient means to work them successfully. The Rev. John Dewe, who for the past four years has had under his care the spiritual welfare of the residents of Clyde and Cromwell, takes his departure from the combined district to-day for the parish of Gladstone, Invercargill, to which cure he has been appointed. Mr Dewe during his sojourn amongst us has. compatible with his office, been most energetic in the interests of all classes and of the various public institutions, and his presence will be greatly missed. Having his fixed residence at Clyde, he was perhaps better known here than at Cromwell . but we feel assured that in one, equally with the other, the I feeling will be that a public friend has been lost. O.ie of the mmy in mumants the rev. gentleman will leave behind him is the pretty little church at C yde, into the building of which he threw his entire energy, and to him may fairly be given the credit of its erection. The district the rev. gentleman had under his charge has involve 1 a far greater amount of bodily exercise than he was able to endure, the which, telling upon his health, induced him to seek a change, and to this is to be ascribed his departure. That the chmga may bo beneficial 'a truly to be hope 1. Tenders are invite I fur the first section of 9J miles of the Central Otago (StrathTaieri) Railway. It is affirmed that the chief Rewi, of past cannibalistic propensities has been appointed a Visiting Justice of the New Plymouth gaol. The Daily Tot says: “The applications for Crown land are now by no means so numerous as they were some six or eight weeks since. Although the Bcnger block, in the Clyde district, County Vincent, has been onen for more than a month, no applications have'been received, except a few for agricultural land There has not been a single appl-'cation under the deferred payment, system for the land contained in this block. On Saturd iy last a fire occurred "n the farm of Mr J. Glass, Ida Valley, and that but lor the fact of a number of men being a out at the time on the neighbouring farms harvesting, must have been most disastrous. However, about four acres oi a growing crop of oats were destroyed before the flames were stayed. From what we can learn, Mr Glass some short time previously hail to hum a large stack of straw to got it out of his way, and though exercising every precaution in damping the ashes, hid left a portion still afire, the which, being disturbed by the hich wind of Saturday, was carried among the growing crop and ignited it. Mr Glass was uninsured. Australian telegrams state that the re. ward for the capture of the Kelly gang has been increased to LSODO, being LlOOfl per man by each of the Colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. Private letters from Home received at Auckland state that Miss Eva Cormichael, one of the survivors of the Loch Ard, went mad soon after reaching Home. In Auckland there is excessive com pot L tion between insurance companies, the New Zealand offering to insure from one shilling aud sixpence upwards. . The last penalty of the law was wried out- on Wednesday last at Invercargill up'n Walsh for the murder of his wife. Walsh, when informed by the Sheriff that hj« had received instructions that the law was to take its course, appeared thoroughly unconcerned. Commenting on the “ elective Governor " proposition, the Southland Tim-’S says : „ “To make th» office of Governor elective wnuld indeed be a long step in the dn eci tioa of anarchy, and would at one blow

ssvsr half tbs wßnsdtsgtt-4a»s- binds ■res"dio - the Mo*her Country, It would be the signal for misrule ami the worst of oligarchical practices with Sir George at the head | of affairs. Happily there is a power that mast make itself felt deterrently—our commercial relations with the Old Country are too close, too delicate, and too much interwoven with the very existence of the Colony t» bear rough usage ; we are too dependent upon Great Britain to shake off any part of the relationship. The bonds, silken and golden, mnst be preserved intact for many years, spite of the rhapsodies of men of the Grev school of politics, and amongst those bonds we eertamly include the prerogative of the Crown to appoint Governors. There is no mistaking the tendencies of Sir George Giey’s policy—or rather no policy. It is summed up in the one word ‘ levelling,’ and so long an he (Sir George) rides triumphant on the turgid billows of social discord, raised by him to vex the Home Government, he will little reck the consequences of his most mischievous agitatiou.” A disagreeable woman in Dorset has presented her husband with Hve children at one fell swoop—a hoy an 1 four girls. Her husband was in treaty for a free passage, to New Zealand f>r himself ani family when the incident occurred. Mr B. L. F.rrjeon is the writer of the Ch'istmas story for Tinsley’s Magazine. An English paper says “The mystery of Roaring Meg ” is one of the most forcih'e of the Vule stories. The scene is in New Zealand during the days of the gold fever—a land and time Roirich in adventurous men and stirring incidents that no romance seems too improbab'e if the plot is laid therein. The heroes of the tale are spirited diggers ; ihe heroine, a reckless woman, whose heart is better than her-life.' The mystery is her pi order, ami it is eventually cleared up by the confession of the besotted murderer. Wild with the delirium of drink, he wakes in the bar of a tavern and reads through the glass panel of the door the accusing word “ murder ” in the inverted name of his favorite liquor, “ Red Riim. 1 ’ That a back view of that name does not quite present the appearance as cribed to it is a slight flaw in the story soiree worth our notice. The outline illustrations are like the work of a skilful amateur, but are nevertheless vigorous and effective.