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Dunstan Times, Issue 881, 7 March 1879, Page 2

Mr Colclough intimates a Sa'e of Cattle Horses, &0., at Blacks, on Wednesday the 2oth March, without reserve.

The Secretary of the Dunstan District Hospital requests us to state that in consequence of (lie absence of the Vice President. several members of the Committee, and the Surgeon, the usual monthly meeting of the- Committee of Management to have been held on Mon lay evening last the 3rd instant, was put off rill next Monday the 10th instant. As the business to be transacted is of importance a full meeting is requested.

The Ordination and In Inctionof the Rev. J. Lothian to the pastoral charge of the Mannherikia and Dnnstan district (Pieshy tcrian Church) will take place on Tuesday next the 11th instant at Alexandra. In the evening, after the ceremony, a Tea Meeting will he held, when addresses will he given hy the Ilevds. Allan, Cowie, Chisholm, Rome and others.

The Clyde punt is now plying across the river carrying' foot passengers and horsemen, hut the approaches on the West hank not being completed vehicles cannot as yet he crosse 1.

The Rev, Mr Ash, of Riverton, visited Clyde during the week, departing again on Thursday. We understand he will return again for a permanency during the nextweek, he having decided to accept the charge of Sr, Michael’s church; his first sermon will he preached on Sunday the 16th instant.

At the recent meeting of the Education Board in Dunedin, the following resignations were received ; —G. Menzies, Nasehy; and .15. H. Brnphy, Roxburgh. The follow, ing appointment was also wade W. Johnstone, Bendigo We have completed smngomentß for a y vpite ;-j; news from the Ciorawell district, toe first inatphnent of which appears in this issue.

Mr Stevens, who has had charge of the Alexandra Post and Telegraph Office for some time past, has been transferred to Invercargill. He left yesterday morning for his new location. We have not yet heard the name of the gentleman who succeeds him. The construction of the first section of the Otago Central Railway, originally called the S.rath-Taieri Railway, is now open for tender. F>r this contract, the Wingahii section, tenders will be received to the 31st March. The work will consist of the formation of the line, commencing at the main line near Mosgiel, and proceeding as far as Mullocky Gully, a distance of 6| miles.

Our Alexandra friends intimate that sp rts will take place there on Monday, the 17th inst., St. Patrick’s Pay. The programme, which is a liberal one, is published in another column.

In our telegraphic columns last week we misspelt the name of tho Waterloo Cup winner. It should have been Mr Miller's Misterton. The coursing writer of the Field said on December 21st : “ The lug bet of LSOOO to LSO was laid against Mr Miller winning the Cup with a dog of his own.”

It is estimated that the actual loss to the Australian Steam Nav.gation Company through the lato strike represents a money value of over £3l),t)00. This will prove a serious loss to the company, as it usually does not pay a dividend of more than 8 or 10 per cent, when in full swing. The Wakatip Mail says : Harvest operations—nearly a month later than usual—liave now commenced on some of the farms in the i istrict, and owners i.re now deriving the benelits of two or three reaping machines lately introduced. The extent of bind under crop, however, is not up to the average, owing to an ear’y winter, nor are the crops good—with very few excep inns. The Greymouth Star says that a writ for LIOOO damages, for false imprisonment, has been nr is about to be served upon Mr W. H. Kevell. the Resident Magistrate of Greymouth, one of the most incompetent and pig-headed magisterial noodles that ever brought the New Zealand Bench into contempt. He is almost as bigoted as Bathgate, E. VI., Dunedin, aud of course infinitely more ignorant. Mining matters at Waitahuna continue to show increased activity. Active pieparalions are being ma e by two parties tor Hie erection of machinery ; and an additional water supply has been secured for the district. Tlic Whim and neigliboui ing claims show valuable prospects. The Somerset struck a pug, or false bottom, of coiri erable th.ekness, at a nepth of some l* ; 0 feet, which yielded over four grains to the dish. Another claim of five acres has been applied for.

A meeting was held in St, Patrick’s School, St. Bathau's, on the 23rd ult., lor the purpose of electing a Committee to carry out the customary celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at St. Bathau’s. Messrs John Ryan, Patrick and Muses Haar.dian, Thomas and Anthony Gallagher, George Purton, James Gilhooly, Thomas Dillon, M. Gannon, and T. Webb were elected. In consequence of one of the Dunedin dailies having reported a conversation which Mr Varley, the evangelist, had with a reporter, and at which he was not pleased, he is reported to have called on those present at a meeting held last week to withdraw their support from the paper in question. The typhoid fever scare at Boatman’s, near Reefton, has developed into something approaching a panic, one or two lamilies having left the locality for more healthy quarters. The lleeftuu Times considers it advisable, as a precautionary measure, to dishaud the Reefton school children until the scare subsides a little.

Excellent peaches, nectarines, and apricots, from the Teviot district, are now being sold in Dunedin. A Dunedin paper says it is evident that to the Teviot and the Dunstan must we look as being the natural sources of supply of these delicious fuutsj and it is to be regretted that the means of communication are as yet so imperfect. The celebration of the third anniversary of the Ark of Safety Lolge 1.0. G.T., took place at Naseby on Tuesday week. The pi ogramme consisted of a tea meeting and concert, and everything passed off successfully. Brother Rev J. Hobbs occupied the chair.

The Southland Times understands that it is estimated that the land belonging to air J. T. Thomson, the Surveyor General of the Colony, in Invercargill and the immediate suburbs, will reach the handsome total lor land tax purposes of LISO,tIUU. The estimate, including improvements in the shape of buildings, will reach nearly L2t!0,000.

The Education Board has declared the election of the Bannockburn School Committee invalid by the act of the Chairman, Mr M‘Gregor, rejecting one of voting papers. Mr Charles Kay wrote to 'he board pointing out the action pursued, and entering his protest against the election, in the case of additions to the Cromwell School, ficsh tenders wore authorised to he called, as the two received wore 150 per cert, in excess of the architect's estimate.

It is expected that the Beaumont punt ordered by the County Council will he plying on theClutha River within a fortnight.

We hear that the Hon. Robert Campbell has sold several of his rams, which gained prizes at the recent agricultural shows in Christchurch, lima-u, Oamaruaud Dunedin, to Sir Thomas Tancrcd, Bart., and Mis-us Michael Studholme, E. Elworthy, and John Douglas, at LIOO each. Mr Douglas has also secured, during his visit to Otekaike, a lot of select ewes, with the view of breeding stud rams. Wo are informed by a practical man who saw the Otekaike ewes after being selected fur the rams this year, that a nicer and more level fluck is not to be seen iu the Colony. Bishop Nevill intimates that it will bo necessary 'or him to remain in Eng and till April, when the grants by the S.l’.G. are made,

At a special meeting of the Tuapeka County Council held on Monday night last, a rather lively discussion, according to the Tuapeka Times, took place on the qiu stion of purchasing from Mr Kitching nil his right and interest in the Beaumont Bridge. Mr Bastings strongly supported giving tho sura of C400I), and said if he were an aridtrator in the case lie would give a much larger award than he now proposed. Ho made the proposition purely on his own account, not knowing if Mr Kitching would accept it, his desire being to have the question amicably and fairly settled. The motion was put and lost. Another motion, that the sum be L 3500, was put anl lost on the casting vote of the chairman, who considered it too much. The meeting then broke up.

A writer to the Dunedin Evening Star (W. P. dames) says the cause of the death of Mr A, 6. Barber, of Hamilton’s, was not attributable to a kick received at football, but to an affection from which he I3fd been suffering since he was 13 years of age.

In Drake and Collins’s Consultation on the Dunedin Cup the first prize was drawn by \l‘Donald and Co., Waimate ; second, Port Chalmers; third, Mr Bray, Dunedin.

The Wetberstones Cement Gold-mining Company cleared up on Tuesday Tho return for 16 days’ crushing was ever 230 ounces of gold. We (Tuapeka Times bad the pleasure of seeing the 200-ounce cake after it came out of the retort, besides upwards of 50 ounces of loose gold. Some of the pieces wiighed fiveorsix pennyweights. This, we are informed, is poarser gold than has ever been obtained at the Blue Spur.

The boring apparatus for testing deep ground for the County Council hj is arrived. It comprises every description of too! for penetrating earth and rook of every na . ture. Their first wmk will be the sinking for foundations for the proposed bridge at Alexandra.

There are 30 entries for the Dunedin Champagne Stakes of 1880, as against 19 the previous year.

A number of male immigrants by the ship Boyne, have refused to work in the harvest field, at wages varying from 12s to 15s a day, and the immigration officer has consequently turned them out of the barracks.

The Rev. J. C. Bins: of St Matthew’s Church, Dunedin, has adopted quite an innovation in the form of receiving ihe Sacrament, hy celebrating it after the Evening Service. The Kev. gentleman stated as his reason, that as a number of the parishioners, who were communicants, were precluded from atten ling at the Morning Service, ho thought he ourht to study their convenience, and thus obtain a greater number at Communion.