The Dunstan Times.

Dunstan Times, Issue 910, 26 September 1879, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

Btiwe.-'/i l e-.’ir'e of n>:’,i the r«.f i '.r ’ o HTi r. n than theawor.o.

r.KH»A' r , SEPTEMBER 26, 1879

With this issue we present our readers with a special supplement, containing a very full report of Mr Vincent Fyke’s address to Lis constituents at Clyde on Monday last.

Mr Fyke leaves for Wellington to-day.

As will be seen from our report of the proceedings of the Vincent County Council, a tender has been accepted for the reconstruction of the Clyde suspension bridge. Messrs Grant and M'Kollar, the well known contractors, Cromwell, who also built the bridge originally, are the successful tenderers, and we do not think the job could have fallen into better hands.

Only two sections of the land on Moutere run, which were open for selection on Monday last, wore applied for.

A most welcome change in Ihe weather in the shape of a good fall of rain has taken place. On Sunday afternoon last the rain commenced, and continued without intermission for nearly 2-1 hours. The weather, which had been remarkably dry for months previously, had scorched up all herbage, but since ihe rain, which has been succeeded by fine warm sunny days, a good start has been given the grass, and there is now every prospect of plenty <*f feed during the summer. Tile rain will prove a blessing to the farmers and orchard owners. This evening a public temperance meeting will be held in the Town Mall, Clyde. Several gentlemen, including the Revs. T. E. Ash and J. Lothian, will address the meeting on the good to be derived from Good. Templarism. Afterwards a Lodge of the 1.0.G.T.’s will be instituted by D. D. Brother Beattie. There will be no charge for admission.

Persons interested in that popular institution—The Land Tax—are requested to notice an advertisement in another column,

pointing out when, where, and to whom the said tax is payable. Professor Scott, the King of Pain, singer, talkist, and everythingist, will give the first of his amusing and gratuitous entertainments at the Town Hall, Clyde on Monday evening next. He is known as the renowned herbalist, and for the list of diseases which his medicines cure we refer our readers to advertisements.

We have to acknowledge from the Government Printer receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers amongst which we notice tue balance sheets of the various Counties and Municipalities in New Zealand.

Respecting the reported mystery in connection with the late fire at Waihoino, the police are making every enquiry. It is thought the affair will not turn out to be so tragic as was anticipated. The whole affair will be thoroughly sifted.

The Ojdiir Variety Company announce a very attractive miscellaneous entertainment in the School Room, Ophir, for this evening. It is the first of a series to be given b> this Company, and we doubt not will prove a great treat, several of the performers being well known. There will be a dance afterwards.

Mr Fache announces that he will sell, on behalf of Messrs Bulleii and Gordon, who are leaving the district, to-morrow (Saturday), at Mrs George’s]Hotel, Clyle, a lot of household furniture '.and effects. Articles on view on day of sale, and will be sold without reserve.

With reference to the general elections just closed, the ‘ Tiraaru Herald’ has the following paragraph—“ After again examining the list of members, we find no difficulty in arriving at their true classification, which is as follows : Ministerialists (including Greyitea, Macandrewites, Sheehanites, Gisbomitcs, Wilsouites, Fisherites, Whitmoritcs, and Thompsonites), 3G ; Oppositionists, 47 ; Independents, 3 ; total, BG. The total strength of the House is 83, and this will be made up when a Member in the place of Sir George Grey for the Thames is elected.”

The enquiry into the late fatal fire in Dunedin was brought to a close on Friday last. The jury in their verdict found that the fire was the wilful act of Wm. Waters. The inquest on the bodies was then concluded with a similar verdict, and William Waters was committed for trial at the next criminal sessions in Dunedin, on both charges of arson and murder.

The common belief that a publican is obliged to serve all comers, provided they are not intoxicated, must now be relegated to the category of popular delusions. The Court of Consideration of Crown Cases has decided chat the right to purchase diiuk is not included among the inalienable rightsof Englishmen. The Judges have laid it down that the obligation to serve applies only to inns, and then only in the case of travellers.

Thomas Carlyle, in his ownquaint fashion, shows the British workmen who is his taskmaster, and the passage is characteristic of the Chelsea philosopher:—“No man opposes thee, O free and independent franchiser ! But does not this stupid pewter pot oppose the? No son of Adam can bid thee tome or go, but that absurd pot of heavy wet can, and does? Thou art the thrall, not of Cedric or Saxon, but of thy own brutal appetites and this accursed dish of liquors. Aml thou prayest of thy ‘ liberi y’ thou entire blockhead !”

The Wanganui Herald states that the following extraordinary return is made from Manutahi on the farm of Mr James Hamilton :—Five ewes had live lambs each or a small flock of 25 between them. This is unprecedented as far as we know.

We clip the following from the Westport Times. Ws need scarcely say that the speaker referred to is au America*! At the Liberal Association on Monday night, Mr J L. Munson enunciated a doctrine apparently believed in by many of New Zealand’s M.11.185, although, perhaps, their feelings are not so openly expressed as in the present ease. Mr Munson remarked that people talked of going in for ‘ me: sures, not men, ’ but he wanted a representative who would sit on a rail, like a ‘ eoou, and always fall, in the nick, of time, on ihe winning side, as by always voting with those who held the purse-strings a member would obtain the greatest benefits for his constituents. Mr Munson didn't care whether Grey, Fox, Atkinson, or anybody else ruled the Colony so long as the district iu which he held a stake received a fair share of the expenditure of borrowed money, an-! to that end the member for the district should alwa>s bo with the Ministry.”

The Kcilor correspondent of the Bacchus Marsh Express is responsible for the following:—“A local footballer, after his exertions in a Saturday’s match, repaired like a good Christian on the following day to church, where, in an unlucky moment, he yielded to the seductions of Morpheus, and fell fast asleep. Further on in this service those sitting near the sleeper were startled hy his making a wild grasp at an imaginary foemaii, at the same lime calling in no gentle tones, ‘Keep it in bounds,’ followed up by a quick ‘mark.’ He failed to catch his opponent, hut went remarkably near a youm* lady in the next seat. A judicious shake from a fellow-worshipper had by this time stopped our footballer’s little game, and brought him to a sense of the situation. Afterwards he, of course, had to undergo considerable chaffing regarding his freak, hut ‘Young Australia’ is not easily disconcerted, and his reply was that instead of being obliged to the member of the congregation who had awakened him, he would rather than a good deal have been left for another few minutes, ‘ for,’ said he, ‘ I never had such a splended opportunity to kick a goal, and, after allowing me to play

the game so long, they might at least have let me had the try for gaol. William Waters was brought before Mr Watt, R.M., at the Gaol yesterday upon the remanded police information, and formally father remanded till Monday next, his Worship stating that he would meantime read over the Coroner’s deposition and determine whether a magisterial invcstigati m should he held. Consequent upon the finding of the Coroner’s jury, two fresh informations have been lai against Waters by the police—one charging him with setting lire to Ross’ Buildings, and the other with the murder of Robert Wilson. The hearing of these informations will probably depend upon what Mr Watt decides with regard to the magisterial investigation. “ Warning Notes,” as regards Chinese immigration, reach us from Auckland by a telegram dated the 16th. inst. :—“lt is stated that the Chinamen of Auckland, in conjunction with other Chinese firms in New Zealand, and hacked by a powciful combination of their countrymen in Hong Kong, are about to try the experiment of importing into this Province, as well as into other parts of the Colony, a completelyorganised party of Chinamen, representing various trades and callings, in order to compete with local workmen, and that they are to be followed by other similar shipments should be first experiment succeed.” As a partly counter-balancing piece of news, the following conies from Wellington under the same dale:—“ The Society recently formed to prevent Chinese being engaged as cooks or waiters in hotels, intend protesting against the Chinese being engaged on board steamers.” We trust that the General Assembly will adopt measures for the complete check of a threatened Chinese inundation of the Colony.

As soon as the case of Waters is concluded Mr Denniston intimates that ho is going to annihilate the ‘ Otago Daily Times’ for presuming to criticise his conduct at the Coroner’s inquest. Wo fancy the learned counsel will have his work cut out, if ho thinks to induce the public into approval of his offensively dictatorial manner to the Coroner and the jury, and his attempts to snub and put down the Inspector of Police, who was simply doing his duty in a plain and straightforward maimer. The privileges of the Bar are most valuable in the interests of liberty, but should be jealously guarded by members of the profession, and never allowed to degenerate into license. On every possible occasion Mr Denniston seems to make a rush at Mr Mallard like a bull at a red rag. The scenes in the Coroner’s Court last week were but repetitions of the many unseemly exhibitions which have taken place in the Police Court. Fortunately, since Mr Simpson has been in Dunedin, advocates as well as suitors have hail to behave themselves in the President Magistrate’s Court: —“ Evening Star.”