The Dunstan Times.

Dunstan Times, Issue 902, 1 August 1879, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just the pen is mightier than the sword. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1879.

BIRTHS. | M'Kenzie.—At Eamsclench, na the 24th July, the wife of Mr Hugh' M'Kenzie, of a Daughter. Gavan.— At Blacks, the wife of Mr Martin Gavan, Shamrock Hotel, of a Son.

r It ia understood that the sittings of the District Court on the Goldfields will he 15 delayed for about a fortnight, Judge Harvey having intimated the same in the District Court, Dunedin, a few days since. We are informed that the contractors for the Alexandra Bridge, Messrs Druramy and Co., have at last got into full swing, and p have every prospect of laying the fonnda- £ tion stones of che eastern pier before the river rises. Two pumps are in position, but one is capable of contending against the inflow of water. These are straight up and down lift pumps, but as a further precaution in the event of accident of break down, a third pump, on the Californian principle, '> will in the course of a day or two be placed i. in position. In one part of the paddock bottom has been reached, showing a strong dip in towards the shore. This, however, i- being a soft sandstone, will have to bo sunk 3 through to the schist rock before any of the foundation stones are laid. e We learn that Mr Wilmott, the gentleman appointed to the management of the Mount Ida Pastoral Company’s station at Rugged Ridge, has (the Mount Ida Chronicle says) declined to accept the appointment, preferring well deserved promotion as manager of the Mount Pisa Station, with ■ which ho has been long connected. The attention of settlers ia particularly drawn to the notice appearing in another column, stating that the land surveyed at ; the Poolburn for settlement will be open n for application at the Warden’s Office, d Clyde, on the ISth instant. There are 1277 acres open for Agricultural Leasing, and 3831 acres under the Deferred Payment system.

It ia rumoured that,the Committee ap- , Ll pointed to investigate the alleged tamper- i to ing with the Thames railway map have ] is made some startling discoveries by examin- wl ing witnesses on oath. It is said to be proved ati that the map wasaltered after being laid on LI the table of the House, and that the altera- lit tion was made by order of the Minister of mi Public Works, in compliance with the re- M peated solicitations of the Premier. The cr memoranda which passed between them was or produced before the Committee. 'The'report will be brought up on Tuesday. jj, We would again remind onr readers that ai this (Friday) evening the Rev. Mr Ash will Si deliver a Lecture in the Town Hall, Alex- j, andra. The proceeds are to be given to U 1 Dunstan District’Hospital, and we hope to j E see a large attendance. f f Attention is directed to the advertise- rt m<mt calling a meeting to discuss the affairs c< of the Dunstan Jockey Club, and to arrange ] 0 for a Sprint; Meeting. As the meeting is of , r general interest, we shall hope to see a good v> attendance, not alone of the purely local men, but of those in the outlying district. j.] W« learn that a meeting of ladies of the p Presbyterian Thurch at Alexandra was to b have been held there last evening (Thurs- n day) for the purpose of making the requi- v site arrangements preliminary to holding a a bazaar in aid of the completion and im- 1: provement of the Church buildings and r grounds. It is proposed to hold the bazaar s about the end of Fctober. v It does not seem to be generally known v that imprisonment for debt is abolished, r An application came before Mr Simpson, i R.M., Dunedin, recently for a judgment \ summons, but the applicant could not say that he was prepared to prove that the de- t fendant had since the date of judgment suf- i ficient means to pay the debt. His Worship c said it was no use for persons 1 to come to i him for judgment summonses unless they could prove this, for an order for imprison- . • ment could not be made unless there was | ‘ evidence given of fraud. , Goldsbrongh’s Monthly Wool Circular < for July has the following “ The May ■ • and June series of sales in London closed i on the 20th June at firmer prices, the quotations showing an advance of 5 per cent, on the opening rates. i We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of Xo. 1 of Hansard of the present • Session ; also, a batch of BiTs and other Parliamentary papers that have been laid on the table or the House. We (Dunedin Herald) have seen a cheque for 30s drawn by the General Government, which was presented at the Rank of New Zealand last week, and returned marked " | “N.S.F.” I Our obituary to-day records the death of I Mr George Smith, of Waipori. Deceased a was well known throughout the goldfields, e where he had for many years followed the o calling of a hawker. Ho had many good | qualities, amongst which not the least was ! - his musical talent, which was often brought I l, into requisition during his peregrinations, | at concerts, dances, &o. He had returned j . to Lawrence from an up-country tour, very j ill, and was received into the local hospital. ! He never rallied, and died there on Friday | p last, the 25th inst. As an evidence of the ' rt respect in which be was held by bis towns--0 men, we may mention that his funeral was ; ~ attended by upwards of twenty gentlemen ■ from Waipori, three of whom came all the j y j " ay on font. Considering the fact that the i - ! track is eighteen inches deep in snow, and | 1 the road all but impassable, this shows I ' the great esteem in which Mr Smith was i held. —Tuapcka Times. [ —We have received from the, publishers a I number of “ Sam Slick,” an illustrated j satirical paper published in Melbourne. 3 Regarding the reported rush to Adams’s Flat, the Bruce Herald says: —“A prosn pecting shaft is being sunk by Clymer’s party, near the southern end of the Flat. After little more than 3 feet sinking they ~ came upon the blue cement, which got very hard at a depth of 9 feet, and has softened • very little since, down to 32 feet, which is the present depth of the shaft Although j the sinking is entirely below the bed of thn creek, not more than about five buckets of water accumulate during the night, thus showing that ibe creek takes away all the surface water. How far this cement will reach is of course a problem at present, but gold has been traced in minute quantities all the way, and the cement is certainly of ! a promising colour and kind, as compared with similar gold bearing samples in the neighbouring diggings. The report as to the real quality of the cement must somehow have been gaining in dimensions as it or travelled on, and consequently a considerlr* able number of miners from Tuapeka and Waitahuna visited Adams’s Flat and pegged a ’ out every font of Crown land right down to 1,0 Mr Miller’s.” i( j appeared the following notices of deaths : u —“ On the 30th March, at Ballyackamore, u near Belfast, Ireland, Arthur M’Cartan, j e ’ and on 1-lth April, at the same place, Mare(| gaiet M‘Cartan.” Many of our readers will remember the deceased when acting as n g Wardsman and Matron of the Duustan District Hospital. Driving is being actively proceeded with of in Prmtz’s claim, Longwood. The drive is now in over 500 feet, and it is expected the l e line of reef will very shortly be struck. j ie Water is again becoming plentiful, and considerably retards the work. Although n _ there is less noise made about it than was jt. formerly the ease, there is perhaps more real work going on at the present time ia this part of the Longwood range than has ever been the case, prospecting being car- , ried on actively in five different claims. ,y ier ’The Times’ Wellington correspondent at says :—The Chinese Immigrants Bill is circn ciliated. It prohibits any ship bringing ;e, more than one Chinese passenger to the 77 Colony for every fen tons of register, under nd a penalty of LU) for every passenger in nt excess. Every master of a vessel is rendered liable to pay the Customs a sum of

LlO for every Chinese passenger he brings c< to the Colony, and if he fails to do this, he p is liable to a penalty of L2O for every one J" who lands from his vessel. Any Chinaman attempting to land without payment of the P 110 ;s rendered liable to a further aura of ii like amount by way of penalty, and two hj months may be allowed" for payment. fi Magistrates are to give certificates of exemption to every Chinese in the Colony or. the Ist January, ISBO. I It has always been strenuously denied that Captaiu Barry was sent home as an I authorised agent of the Government ; but I Sir Julius Vogel, writing' under date May 3 1, observes inter alia —" I propose also to 1 utilise Mr Reed’s and Mr Barry’s services ' in obtaining the right description of persons to go out by this opportunity. I have every ‘ reason to believe that a very useful body of 1 colonists will be introduced into New Zea- ‘ land by this means.” The Agent-General 1 must be a very sanguine man if he really ' believes what he says. I A rather interesting case wa° argued in the Supreme Court, Dunedin, recently. During the tramway agitation in one of the boroughs on the Flat, a speaker at a public meeting referred to the action of the Mayor, who favoured the introduction of the trams, as springing from bribery. An action for libel was the result. The plaintiff’s declaration is now demurred to on grounds stated, the principal point at issue being whether or not the meeting in question, which was attended by persons other tha" ratepayers and inhabitants of the borough interested in"the introduction of the tramways, was privileged. The farmers in Victoria are now agitating to secure the representations i f the farming interest in Parliament with that view in end they are forming themselves into unions. The Tablet quotes the following : “ Prance is a thorouLdily Catholic country, hut, to judge by its rulers, one might imagine something very different. The recon- ’ struetion of the Ministry, since the accession of President Grevy to the Presidential [ chair, lias placed the entire Government of • France in the hands of Protestants and Freemasons. Thun, the Premier, M. Wilddington, is an English Protestant, M. do . Royer (the Minister of Justice), M. Tirard ; (the Secretary of Commerce), and M. Leon . Say (the Minister of Finance), are all Pro- | testants and Freemasons. Admiral Jaureguihery, the Naval Secretary, is a Protes- „ tant, whilst M. Jules Ferry, the Minister of Education, and General Gresley, the War r Secretary, are both Freemasons, although p they profess to be Catholics. In the same way, all the leading members of the Ref publican majority of the Chamber belong I to the ‘ craft.’ No wonder, therefore, that the policy which now obtains in France ’ a should be one of the most implacable hos- | tility towaids the Catholic Church.” s I Senor Serpa Pinto, whose journey across t I Africa occupied 20 months, out ot 400 fol- ; I lowers brought only eight with him'to Dur--1 ! ban. The'disposition of the natives on the y I route was generally (friendly, and the conn1. j try traversed appeared to be rich in resources. y | A new stream was discovered, name the e ' Coando, which is reported to he navigable i- for 000 miles. It is that winch the late ,s ; Dr Livingstone wrongly named the Chobea. n | Seventv-two cataracts were found on the e | Upper (Zambesi ; and in a locality called e i Krngala. Senhor Pinto drank of the waters d| of four different rivers—one falling into the a Indian Ocean, two into the Atlantic, and ■s i one being lost in the Kalaari Desert. Gloomy forhodings exist in China as to a I ths probability of another famine. The d j grain crops already sown are perishing" for want of rain, and it is impossible to sow ’s following crops. ?• A large tea warehouse near Foochow s caught fire. The proprietor, in a panic, t. locked the doors, and the tea-sorters were y consequently burnt to death—in all about y 130, principally women and children.