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Dunstan Times, Issue 880, 28 February 1879, Page 2

The Lakes County Cotineil at their ! ineeting on tie - 2>>i li instant a In, toil the I si e, m--tnim-tided l»y Mr Stout on Lis iererent visit, .is the alternative one for a bridge over the ICtwtr.iu. M'Cirmiek’s ton let-tor its e'-ecu 1.1 for 1.12.U.K) was accepted. The | lans are to lie unproved by I lie tiovi-niineiit, who conn-ibut- l.S(K> ! >. I ainl pound for | i iiml above that amount. Tinea mid o es ami appt-aches have to Le niaile. The Cromwell Jockey Club intimate that atth.ir I'eeemlier tneciing of ihe current year they v ill have a three-year.-d I race, to be ealie I the Unirnwell Derby, b.iug a ■ sweepstake of 5 s-vs. each, 2 s-ivs f.al'eit, I with lif-y a-vs. adde ; j-eemid h-rse to receive twvii'y ]er i cut. of the stakes ; the I hit’ll to save Ills stakes for furlh r particulars we draw the attention of stuiiling men to the advertisement in another ei'lnnnt. The cricket ma f ch between l.ord Harris's team atnl a. Vie oriau eleven Wits won by the latter by two wickets. The Cly.le Pnnt, winch is neither fish, flesh nor f nvl, tmr eo.nl red herring, as it is only adapt'-il for light trafßo. it i-i exp-cted wilt be thrown open to the public in a few days. We will not prete.nl to die'ato to; the authorities wh n their duty is, hut iin - mediately it is thrown open for tr flic, it would be well to error, a notice boanl at the turn off rna I in Uu'cln-rs jitlfy, to the effect that waggons, neither full or empty, can cross the ruer by it. At. the last meeting of the Lan 1 Board in Dunedin, Mr William (,'ltteas applied fainiiieral Ic.-’se of section 21, block 1., Blackstone, and also for permission to surrender lease 34n, having w orke I out the coal. —lt was tesiilve —" Tnat notice of the B iard'B intention to •.rant, the U-.a.-e he gazetted; William Cluc-as to l e allowed to surrender the lease lie at present holds oa payment of rent to date.” It is deei lei to build a ho--pital at Arrowtown. The site selecel is about threefpiarters of a mile below the Town on a n itural platform about two acres in extent and about thirty fi et above ! be surrmin ling land : the groun 1 was purehaso 1 from Mr Mr M‘Donnell, who, generously, after the completion of the bargain, han 1c 1 back the money as a donatio.i to the Institution, To the K liter Str, —Cm you inform mu what was pud as honorarium to inein- , hers of the General Assembly last s -ssion ? The Session lasted, wo think, thirteen , | weeks, and each member received 20fi guineas, or at the rate of 1.1(1 per week. ■ with travelling expenses to and from Wei- , lington.— Urey Argus. The Duttedin Prices Current” announce o , on relialde authority that there seems a fair ' prospect, of an arrangement being made he- ; tween the banks, whereby the present keen i competition for deposits will cease and that ■ neL-nliatioiis as to a general and definre : ! basis upon which banking operation* a-eto •! ho comlni-tod uro I-t-i..« carried mi wilhan I cv 1.1 ill ■ ena-j to arrive nt n Mlitdietory

Mr Cache instructs us to say that in con- I sequence of the advance having boon paid, on the Water-race at St. Bathaus, and advertised by him to bo sold by Auction on Tuesday next, the property is withdrawn from Sale. 'l ire Vincent County Chambers we perceive are all but completed, they present a very handsome and imposing apnenr nice, and rellect ere lit alike on the architect and the builder. We have beard m> whisper as yet about the openin'!, but we imagine the opportunity will not be allowed to pass without some demonstration. The*Vii;tori:iii oovermnent0 overmnent have isnied a proclamation against the Argus’s arrio e*. as injuring the credit of the c donv, and they ■efiise to give any offieial infuniiaiou to that piper. The Riverton coirspondent of the Southland I lines says. I'm informed by the Rev. Mr Ash. who is about leaving Riverton, that he will in all probability go to Camara instead of Cromwell, as be first intended. The rev. gentleman's departure will be felt | in Rive ton, and wherever he goes he will carry with him the good wishes of a large circle of friends.” Tlio Chinese labourers on the Tapanoi railway works, who have been in receipt of 7s 0 1 per day, have struck for an addition d sbi ling. “ Who,” asks the Courier, “wi 1 now a-sert that the Mongolians are not becoming civilised ? ” The Bine ■ Herald, Clntba Times, and Mataura Ensign, have been purchase 1 by Mr J M. Perrier, wlm purp. s-s elTectin_ considerable improvements in the management of the papers. It is supposed that Walsh, who was ex - cuted last week at Invercargill for th ■ murder of his wife, is identical with Walsh who was wnted smue time ago for wife des rti in ; if he was the same, he was guilty of gieat cruelty to his wile, eulniin t.ng in stubbing her, and this it is that may ae-e-uur lor the glo m habitual to Walsh. We (the Temuka Leadei) nave live i shown a private letter from a linn ol agiicultina. j implement makers at home to a gentleman I in 'Temuka, one passage of winch we are pe.-

nutted to mention in the interest of our agricultural Irieiids. Thu writers s ate that, in view ni the cxtivmu ili-liko cxlubi «.l by hli.giisli farmers towards wire him dug, elf i IS ' are eontimially nenig m.mu to ilevi.su an etli• ciuiit stiiiig-biuder. fheie a.u already seveiamo e or less perfect forms of siring-innue.s on trial, ami a patent has lieun oh.nine i, or ip.die i for a s ring-binder att..eha'Je to j a y ordinary leaner. -Sn ll a Innier, it it ' Woiked satisfaelnri.y, Would a greater boon than tv „ the excellent Ann rie.iii machines. 1 ! The Morning lleiahl aa\s ;—nr J ones i M' Kenow, Assistant Sui veyor tieneral, j ’i,i ■ . I has he. n niaUing a tmu ol Ula„o in uonnuu- i ti u with the opening of blocks for s.-ttie- : muiit. These nlouks are principally situate in the leviot, I'unstan, Mount In-i, ami; also in the Wi.ikou.iiti ami Mlverpoak distneis In all they aggiegale luiiy 150 DUO acres About lia.f of iliis laml wi.l be opened upon what is known as the p.ulioal deterred payment system, which is a s,s- , teal of settlement provided for in i he Land Act ol 1877 and which Ins not yet been brought into operation. The areas on tnis 1 system will vary fiom 1000 acres up lo 'he* niaximiim of 50"0 acres allowed l.y tne Act. Tins system of settlement, it is expected, j will nuet the wains of ih't inlerme.ialu class who do not wish lo enter upon the small farm system, and yet have not siitiieieiil capital to lake up very large pas.o.al aixas. The other part ol the aieas now In ing surveyed w ill in the more level and cultivated parts he opened up on Hie systems of a„nenltuial deferred payments, the a.rieultui al lease system, and ai.so im immediate payments. The survey of iln.se blocks is being pushed on with, so ilut areas may lie-available for inteii-iingsettlers in time for next seas n s operations. A correspondent writing to the llan jlikei lleeOrd, says;—, Taking up a Chris: mas serial the other day my eye li.lited upon :he following nniipieappeal on Mialf of die clergy of New Zealand: —A.(>.” asks if anyone will join a society for the purpose ol m iking clothing, especially socks and stockin.S, for the use of the eieigy and then {unities in Now Zealand, who arc fieipiendy iii very straightened then nuances An. fa •’tiler information on the subject may be obtained from “ A, IL,” 2.i, balls town mad, Tunbridge Wells' Is r.ot this a libel upon the | topic of New Z-abne , who nr. doing their utmost to support religionordinance sin every part o the land! lo in my places iho people manifest a common liable liberality.” The Gooeli case is being universally illcnsSed. The general impress! m is that tie grand jury wore right in finding no tine hill . a.ainst her la lysliip. If she really mean • anything Iran Inlent, it was attempted in Se childish, open, and ridiculous a inaniicr. th vt it was hj irdly worth serious considei ation.“ Whai shuiild lie doiu with the pom woman ”? was asked the o:her night of a gre it leeal authority. “ I think,” he answered with a judicial air,’' that she ought to be cnnlined. And yet the judges of the present day are sal I to hj ive no wit. 1 , By a telegram to the Morning Herald under date 20th instant, we learn that Charles Librco, alias *• Yankee Charlie,” was apprehended yesterday, oil iho confession of his wife, that he was the murderer (as was always suspected) of Costello, up the Duller, some years ago. it appeals ’ he had been healing his wife, and in revenge she went straight to the police, and gave a full account of the murder, hmtal in its details. She had hul, uI to rc-bury the , body tinou tim 3to elu lo the police. The r p» ice are reticent, and no p i ‘ticulars can - be got at. Mrs Libre- s statement to the , police goes to prove that Libree struck Cost tello on the head with an auger, and then > rided his pockets of several bank notes, and i cut ho bo !y in a canvas bag, and removal i it to a hole Hindi by all lip io>tel tie. / Next muni g lie smfted it into a tu.vtr , jjjjbut Louring teaieu was to .c many, h-

again removed the body back to the bole in wh'oli lie bad placed it previously. Thu cTcuinstaiitial evidence against Librae bus . always been stiong. The Tnapeka Times says “We are vciy sorry to have to report the pa-senco of scarlet fever again in Lawrence. A cli ibl of Mr Lawrence (of the coal pit) was admitted into the Hospital a tow days a.o, showing the symptoms, which have since developed hey mil a’l donht. It appears this lime ranch later in the season, and may not prnha 1 ly spread to the same ex tent that it did before It is, however, requisite that every precaution be adopted, and one of the first is to prevent children from affected houses going to school and mingling with other cbil-ln n.” Mr brank Allan,” the'-ipps I,and Mer cm y states, “ received a very welcome and most unexpected surprise on Friday i*y nnst from Philadelphia. ft will hi recollected ihit during the cricket match in that city last ye ir a number of watches were rt from the pavilion occupied by the E even, an I that the property could not he reeovere I previ .us to their deparlu e. Th) - police, however, promised to use every exerlion ton-store the stolen articles, and they were apparently successful a very short lime afer the theft. Toe packet which air. Allan received cmitai ied two watches, his own and one he was bringing out fir his brother, bat not a single scrap of writing tn exolani how where, o- when the watches were found Hie only information of the source whence the packet w is sat w is on the a (dress w liL-h inli n ited that it cam; fr an the police at I’m la lelphia " ’I he Morning Herald says : -Mr Thomas Logan, who has taken a gnat deal of iniciest io the Kaitaiigata tragedy, his ill ole a suggest) el which, though not intend* I for immediate pub i. a ion, we gladly un ntion. It is that in uddili. ntn lliu wi nets in the large e-aisunations and at ihe rate meetings giving a ) Clientage of lliu winnings, a special race .should he run on the Fo. bury at the next meeting for the same object. An owner to whom ivc men- ” tinned the suggestion list evening, considers it to lie an excellent one. As Mr

Logan is prepared to enter two b rsis, and tlie o her geiitb min one horse for sueb a race, and to hj ml over the winn ngs, it vvi.l be seen that a Kai ang ita relief event would not be a vv.dk over. Ii spe iking of Mr Lo an in coi motion vviili ilm K.iaogata catastrophe, we nientioii a very phasing lael that reaches ns thnmgh one of our con. temporaries, viz., th.t Mr Ln.an was amongst those who lain ini In the scene of the ills ister’, an I, to his credit be it said, he stripped and joine I the brave b nd vv o entereil tbs mioe of er the exp nsi"ii in search of those who vv. ic in the mine at the time of the lamentable occurrence. A young man in Maine wares to a-k ns if we Want to engage it “ puzzle edi’or.” X'o, thank you. We have a pnzz e editor an 1 that is sufficient. He is jmzz'e Ito tin lon why in Ihun ier people den t pay for their pi .er». , d’he I v'csf, on dll from Melbourne is to iho clTeet that shmihl Mr Cr.dntm 15,-rry coins b ick foil .1 in his mission to thei'o onial Cilice. mil proceed in raise ins party up to the p nut of separation f.wn the Mol tier i Country, a l ire ’ party in New South Wali-S and .S nth Australia will be prep-tri-.il to join vvitb the Co iserv tiv.is of Victoria in * , .ni* j u -xing ” the l.irn-r C 01... y, and form ng a j strong triple fe ler.iiion no dim the old I relaiio is to the Home Count'y. This threeloaded (’erbi-ins will sea elv need a 1 stronger h,in 1 lo hold him in leash than does th • vigorous wh dp which is at present j slra ning at the enllar in tin- pr. m er Colony I ol the Austral shin grouo. Unfnrtniuely for the el ssical allusion. Sir Hercules G -binson is leaving Australia before having an opportunity of repeating the World-famed lab mi- of his great names ik- and ancestor, and auolher-hand must be fount to tame the monster. At th ■ me -ting o : ere IGos of Mess s A Balfour and Co., Merchants, London and vlain-iiester, vvhos-esmte shews i liibilby ol L4dd.od ), with assets I G0,1572, he • 'li'air--0) ni said ; -Sin -e the Collie fra i I of 'S7o, io ciimnieicial failure had ocellirc-1 so disiSMous lo r.liere lit an I p teke's of M in-i-lo »fer men as this. I will nit inter at my length upon these accounts, as any inloimainm will 1- ■ given to yon by th- ar. eon iron s; Imt there is one ii> ni, i■ i tho i pirate estate of llengb, which I rai-r.ot oi-k over—it. is the sou of LH3 0 7d- 4 I or t,he expenses of the orphanage and ebai ies. —(La i_h i r.) This mmiilii-cnt. elmity of an insolvent estate appears lo be ghastly in the light of these revelations.— Hear, hen). It reinin Is me of a remirk ■ I our bishop that there are b-iip m-n , ■niongst ns who build oliurches out of tlitir logodly gains to feel their way to heaven, (Lau.liter ,n I applause). I speak strongly becau e I feel int-nsely that we in Man- - liesier have been frightfully deceived for years as to tho position of the credit of Mr t leugh.