The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1879.

Dunstan Times, Issue 917, 14 November 1879, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1879.

Benea'h the rule of men entirely just ih pen is mightier than /hi SWORD.

We have to apologise for the omission from this issue through piessure of space, of a second portion to our Blocks’ letter, and a number of local items We invite the special attention of our readers to the report and balance-sheet of the Bank of New Z-aloud for the past hdfyear. The Balance-sheet shows, that after dividing L 73.500 in’ a divioend of 15 per cent., LIBO,GOO is added to the reserve fund and 1 6,000 of a balance is c Tried forward to the new profit and loss account. Tho report is clear, dealing fully not alone with the prospects of the Bank but of the Colony, and shows that both are in a thriving Conditiiin, despite the trying times of <'eprossion the Colonies have been laboring under for some time past. The party of surveyors for tho completion of the North Otago railway arrived in C-yde on Wednesday last, and proceeded on the following day (yesterday) to fix their camp at Adams’s Gully, about four miles on the way to Cromwell. We understand their i structions are to continue tho survey of the line at present so far as Ciomwell only, but we should imagine when tiny once more are on the ground they will not again leave the work till it is finished to Wanaka. The par yis headed by Mr Hay, whom it will be reimm -ered surveyed that portion of the line from Chatto Creek to Clyde'.

Nearly 1,4000, consisting of lain! revenue ami sulisiily on rates, has heen pair I to the credit of the Tuapeka County account. 4he Gazette notifhs the following appointment* : —Mr F. Jeffery as assistant clerk at Roxburgh ; Master U. H. I’jke as cadet in the R M. Court, Clyde ; Sergeant Patrick O’Neill, Inspector of weights and Measures, for the district of Duuslan. The Cricket Match between the Cromwell and Queenstown clubs was won by the latter in one innings. The following were the scores - Queenstown, 99 ; Cromwell, 52 and 45. Mr Jas. MTverrow, Assistant SurveyorGeneral, has been appointed SurveyorGeneral, vice Mr J. T. Thomson resigned. We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt from the Government printer of Nos. 9 and 10 of Hansard, and a parcel of Parliamentary papers We have been favored with a second letter from “ MoC’er-in-Law ”in reply to “ Mother’s” letter published in last issue. As the subject matter of the correspondence is of no public interest, being merely you are another ” kind of controversy on the merits or demerits of the Biack’s 1 School and the Mastei, wo must decline to publish it. We are at all times willing to give our space to the free discussion of any subject when carried on in a fair spirit, but in the interest of our general readers there is a line to bo drawn, and we must here draw it. In answer to a question, it was stated at a recent sitting of the House of lleprescntatives that only a portion of the laud tax had been collected, and that before the remainder could be collected fr“sh legislation would be required.

We (Daily Times) learn that Mr Henry Driver has resigned his position as Dunedin manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercaoti.e Agency Company, his numerous and important private . business matters requoin his undivided attention Mr D. Ktruuach has been appointed manager of too Company pro ttm.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government printer of the Four-te-ith Annual Report of the Colonial Mils' i n and Laboratory, together with a list o; Innations and deposits Tho rich alluvial claim some short time sin > opened up at Hy le by a man named HVvarsonis s ill turning out Well. One d iy last week 120 a. being the result of one days washing. The Lyttelton Times says —“ Our Wei - 11 igton correspondent te’egraphs that it is proposed to amend the Lotteries Vet so as to legalise the totalisation South Australia his already mile this m> le of gambling legal, and it New Zeal an I follows suit, we shoul 1 imagine that consternation and coufuaim will spielily inviie the noble army of * metallioians.’ ” A still further application of straw is refrom San Francisco, which will largely affect the coverage trade. Straw pulp is male by pressure in a machine into the form of barrels au 1 kegs, which, with their woo len hoops, only weigh about 16 pounds. The cost of a barrel or a pail is exactly the price of woo len ones, and one man only is required to attend to three machines, which can turn out 750 barrels per day of 10 hours.