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Dunstan Times, Issue 916, 7 November 1879, Page 2

Final acceptances for the Cromwell Derby must he pai.l to the Secretary on or before 8 p.m. to-morrow (Saturday) evening. The price of the tender for additions to the Alexandra School is L 494, and for the Clyde School LGS. Messrs Dow and Scott are the successful tenderers in both cases. On Monday nest eleven of the Clyde schoolboys pay a visit to Cromwell to try conclusions at cricket with eleven of the Cromwell boys The great attraction of the match is a splendid silver goblet, the gift of Mr Thomas Webb, of Clyde, and this will become the property of the boy who makes the tallest score on the winning side. In the evening, at the .. thonaeutu, there is to be a thoroughly juvenile entertainment, consisting of magic lantern, transformation scene, children’s ball, and other games. The whole will conclude with a dance for adults. During the evening the goblet will bo presented to the hoy who wins it. We are glad to notice that the Clyde boys have been diligently practising for the match, and hope they will render a good account of themselves. By notice in another column, it will he seen that the Revd. Father Kehoe will officiate at Clyde on Sunday the 9th instant at 9 am, and at Alexandra at H 30. We have to acknowledge from the Government Printer the receipt of Nos. of Hansard, a parcel of new Bills before Parliament, and a hatch of Parliamentary papers. The latter includes a most voluminous report of the Royal Commission to inquire into the operations of the University of New Zealand—this valuable document extends with appendix and the index over i>oo pages of closely printed foolscap, and weighs 4,)lbs. As every li hrary and newspaper, and many other Institutions and Offices get it, in paper and printing alone this precious report will have cost a pretty round sum.

By the Sheep Inspector’s return for the year IS7B we see that the number ot sheep de natural on the runs merging on this immediate locality are as follows : Galloway, 68,000 ; Moutere, 14,847 ; Hawksburn, 15,000 ; Earnscleugh, 18,000 ; Matakanui. 37.593 ; Ida Valley. 30,500 ; Ivawaran, 32,500 ; Morven Hills and Ardgour, 130,111. The Provincial districts give the following return : Napier, 1,495,768 ; Wellington, 118,569 ; Marlborough, 707,100 ; Canterbury, 3,350,000 ; Otago and Southland, 3,482,663. Mr Faohe desires us to draw attention to the sale by auction on Saturday the 15th inst, at his rooms, of freehold properties in Clyde. Each lot is well worthy the attention of capitalists, and would not be placed in the market hut for the fact of the owner, Mr Patterson, leaving Otago. By the published audited abstract of receipts ami expenditure for the half year of the i uapeka Coun'y, we see that it has an overdraft of £3 249 2s Id. In view of the coming good times, several properties in Clyde, it will he seen by our advertising columns, are in the market, either for sale or to he let. The Hartley Arms Hotel is a desirable property, and Mr Parks notifies that as he purposes devoting his time to agricultural pursuits in future, he bos placed his hotel in the market. Next Tuesday the Ophir Variety Company give a mixed dramatic anil musical cnte-tainm-nt in the Town Hall, Alexandra, and ou the following evening they give a similar entertainment in the Town Hall, Clyde At both entertainments they will be assisted by local amateur talent, and as the proceeds go to the funds of the Dunstan District Hospital, we shall hope to see big houses on both occasions. Dancing afterwards. The first prize in Cameron’s sweep on the Melbourne Cup goes to Greymouth. Another huge swindle baa come to light; this time it is the Patent Shaft and Axletree Co., of Birmingham, that has been defrauded of 1.75,000 by the principal accountant and cashier. The Company, however, is in a remarkably sound condition. Mr Thomas Dick repudiates utterly the idea that he is to have a new portfolio created expressly for himself (says the 11 Postscripts ” writer in the Star), and expresses his conviction that he can do Otago better service as a private member of the House. We believe our respecte I representative is sincere, and it is devoutly to bo wished that there were a few more like him. He is rather unkind, however, in presenting so marked a contrast to the conduct ot some of his colleagues in the 1 TO|»GB©ntatioa of the Provincial district.

The last crushing from the Cromwell Company’s mine, Bendigo, gave a return of 7130z 13dwtfrom 655 tons of stone. The total return tor this year is 70530z from 5735 tons of stone. The Riverton correspondent of the Southland Weekly Times writes “ The rabbit post will soon be a thing of the past, and the rabbiters will have to make for fresh fields and pastures new On gome of the surrounding stations the rabbiters have already been discharged, and their dogs bought by the squatters and destroyed. An English paper says :—“ A boy engaged in a cricket match at Manningham. was struck on the forehead by a ball, and was instantly killed.” The charge of am; r. in connection with the recent fire at Mataura came on for hearing on the 31st ultimo, when three men charged with the offence, were, on the application of the police, formally remanded to the Bth instant. remarkable case of suspended animation has occurred at Hereford. A girl named Sarah Ann Dablin, aged 11, residing in Blue School street, who had been ailing for some time, died, ami was laid out for burial on the night of August sth. She was seen to move before the funeral took place, but has partaken of nothing but a little water for three weeks, and her stomach rejects all food. She was unconscious when the last mail left. At Auckland there was great excitement over the Melbourne Cup, where LSOOO was staked in sweeps. It is possible to say too much, even when making a speech on the most solemn occasion* ; and a clergyman iu the States has supplied a somewhat amusing example of the fact. With the view of comforting the mourners around a grave, he spoke of the joys of Heaven :—“ln *hat blissful abode sorrow and sighing flee away ; there are no pains there ; no diseases there ; no deaths there ; no funerals there ; no undertakers there.” This shutting the door of Heaven in the face of what is not only a useful but necessary class is said to have visibly affected the undertaker present.

We have pleasure in chronicling the fact (says the Western Star) that the Longwood reefs continue to give evidence that rich returns therefrom may be expected when fully opened up. Messrs M ‘Arthur and Longuet, sen., of Invercargill, were by permission of the proprietor allowed to inspect Printz's clrim on Tuesday last. A prospect taken from the reef in that claim by these gentlemen was shown us. A handful of quartz, picked from the reef with a penk life, contained a large percentage of gold. A very tine specimen of alluvial gold was exhibited during the week by a party who have been prospecting for some weeks past in the Longwood, near Merrivale. A gentleman of considerable reefing experience, who this week visited several claims on the Longwood, expresses great confidence in the prospects of the field. The Australasian has the following: “The New Zealand people are not forgetful of the old folks at home. They are always letting them have good securities and paying them good interest. No one can say that they are oblivious of their filial obligations. There is no end to their cousiderateness in this way. They are always discovering something more to send home. They have sent as securities their lauds, their railways, their harbours, their towns, ami now they are going to let them have a mortgage on a church—say £50,000 on a cathedral to be built. Could they not get a good round sum advanced on Sir George Grey ami then send him home for safe keeping— Not, of Couise, ininstalments ? Has iteveroocurred to our light-hearted borrowing friends across the water to raise a million on a glacier or float a loan on Milford -Sound ?” Although no definite information has yet been olfi-dally received relative to the proceedings of the Grown Agents in London in reference to the floating of the new live million loan, it is believed in well-informed circles (says the Post) that the agents have decided not to place the loan on the money market until next (English) spring - It is thought that the loan would not stand a good chance of been taken up on sufficiently favourable terms at the present time, just at the beginning of the English winter, and that its chance will he greatly improved about next February or March. It is supposed therefore that the Crown Agents have made the needful arrangements for obtaining advances to any extent that may be required to meet the liabilities alreadyincurred by the Colony and falling due during the next six months, and that there will be no necessity to force the loan on the market at an unfavourable time. An opinion also is expressed in financial circles that as it is understood the new Estimates, which will be brought down by the present Government, will he so framed as to place the New Zealand finances on a much soun der footing, and their prospective condition in a far more favourable light than was unavoidably shown in the preliminary statement, based on the administration and figures of vhe late Ministry, which the present Colonial Treasuier was compelled to place before the House two or three weeks this will exercise an important inBWlce for good at Home.