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Dunstan Times, Issue 932, 27 February 1880, Page 2

Mr Petrie, School Inspector, together with Mr Pryde, Secretary 'a the Education Board, aroexpeo'ed to arrive iu Clyde on Wednesday or Thursday next. Opportunity .should t>e taken of the visit to bring under the notice of these gentlemen any little grievance we are labouring under or : any little want required. Hoeing that the school roll is now 13S, witli an average attendance of some 123, it is evident that Mr | and Mrs Stevens require assistance —the , appointment of a pupil teacher should at ; any rate claim attention. We regret to notice an error which ap- | peared in our obi'nary c •httnn last week i In noticing the death of Mrs Keddell, we j stated her age to lie 37 This we have | since ascertained to lie incorrect, the dej ceased lady having only Completed tier 35th ! year on the Sun lay preceding her death, j the loth inst. A meeting of the Alexandra Public I Library Coinmi'tee was held on Tuesday | evenin ', when it was r»s lived to take steps | for enclosing the bn dcs and making several , improvements in the reading room. The ; offer of the (oddest Strc ira L idge I 0 G T., j to give a concert during tile Easter holidays in aid of funds for these improvements, was cordially receive I with thanks, and the Committee resolvd to co operate with the Good Templar Committee in making t’’e concert popular an 1 successful. If anyone is at all sceptical on the qnes. tion wh 'ther th )Ha Valiev is adapted for wheat growing cm h.ve their Hunts set at rest by inspecting a sample of wheat in the ear forwarded to us by Mr Neville of Ida Valley, an 1 which is now layingatnnr Office. It is without question a mag ifieent samole, sup r'a ivdy clean, no'the si „ ~f vast or sunt, lenn kably fn’', while the g-ain is 1) antifnlly plump. We are not quite certain Imt we think it b White. Tuscan, mi l should eninptVe its yield would tin at 'he . very lowest 70 bushels to the acre. In the B kicks li -i-.rict we saw s -me splenic! fields durig the week. The small one of Mr Lees ad 8p tiis Creek looking fully up to 90 bush ■'*, wluV Mr H >r ington’s shows well for 70 Mishels per acre. on- ... ..p i?...,;«i r . 11 . f l)r tbo Dnns'an Electoral dis ric', under th ■ “ Reg stration of Electors’ \et. 1370 ha* been ouiiferrel npm Mr A. D He-wr, Mining Registrar, ml ‘link to M )u C -art. We may exp wt then that sin -My t'l ■ w >.• k of ■ forming the new roll will be proceeded with Mr Reiins, the G iverum nit Hsnaccor of Mines, who passe 1 thr mgh the district, in the early pa d, of rho wo k piil a visit of insoection to CT. Marie's c *al )>it, in Collin’s Creek. Dimsr.an O.nmu • na ’e, ail we b -li'-ve expre-sel himself highly si'islied with i be same, an 1 wi hj re-gar : tthe qnali'y sai lit wis v;ry <•» >I. Tn simi day hi nroeelel tw Black man’s gully, from th -nee to A'exan Ira. The total am Hint suhscrib id within the li nns of Vincent (lonnty, ineluliag the Boroughs of Alexan Ira an I Cromwell, towards the 1 risk Relief Eu.nl, we hear is | something anouc L 309, mil as fir rs we can understand the two pa ts— Northern j and Southern—contributing about the like ■ sum, LISO According to the published list of subscribers in the Wakatip Mail, the Qiieenstowa portion of the Lake '"ounty subscribed (.140 3s. Such liberality on the pari of the p -epic is m ist praise worth yThe Daily Times gravely inf ir.ns its readers that D.ins au is i i Vinc-nit County! Well wo knew that the Dunedin mind was a dense void upon al matters connected with the geography or topography of all parts of O ago situ itod beyo id the suburbs of the local m -trooolis ; ut we scarce'v expected to tin 1 such a patent ilmission of the fact ,a- is set forth in the columns of our contemooi'iiry. In a leading article, the Morning Herald says, regarding the action of he Government in summarily di-mi-sing 'he men employed on ihe “• unemp'oyed section" of the Otago Central Railway :—“ Many of th« sc men had brought their wives and families at considerable trouble, and had setiled down comfortably to woik when Ihe order for their dismissal came. The time chosen for doing this was exceedingly inopportune .... We cannot help thinking that Government should at least have given a month's notice of their inten tion to stop ihewoik. This would have enabled llie null lo look about them before being tin own on their beam-ends once more. As it is they will be sent off as soon as they can be paid. It must lie borne in min 1 tint the money spent upon this portion of the Or,ago Central Railway ia being honestly earnel by the m-n, and tbe construction of the lino is a work which, according In the Minister’s own showing, should begone on with. We have as great a desire as the Government- can have that the labouring classes here should cultivate an in lepon lent and self-reliant spirit ; but we nevertheless regret that th". I men engaged on the “ unemployed section ” have been treated afler such a very cavalier fashion.” MrOanioron nny now be consulted on the Oh'is-church Great Autumn Handicap. E • L

A corresp indent in the Evening Star records iho following curious incident : In a pond in a garden at Ileadingly, near Cramhorough, in Lincolnshire, carp have been kept for many yoats. The house cat having produced a litter of kittens in Oct. they were tossed into the pond by a sor- il vant, and no more was thought of the mat- 1 ter until one day in Deo. five curious little animals were soon swimming oa the water, ( mid Micro turned out to ho the kittens of which the old cat was bereft. On being J pursued tln-y dived, ami Iho carp rnao up ( and snapped angrily ; and it was discovered i that the old fishes and a young fish had nursed tho kittens in a hole of a tree that I overhung the pond, and had brought them ■ up to bo amphibious. Wnat is more , curious, soma of the young earn had learned from their little feline companions fo mew. An unlucky water rat that had Ventured from its own ditch to the pond was one day decried by the inhabitants of the latter and chase was given. The caip prevented his diving, while the litt’e ca's swam gallantly after him, and he escaped the fi di and the cats only hv the accident of a terrier running down and frightening them hack, and settling the poor rat tertier fashion. Advices reach ns (Western Star) of several parties working in the Longwo id ran;e near Merrivale and Otautau, who are known to he on gold. The exact locality is not known, and the men decline to divulge the loch of their workings. One of the par. ties applied some six or eight months ago to Mie Oiinnt,y Council to cat a track into the hush to facilitate prospecting Wild ea’tle and sheep abound in tho looa'ity, and as a consequence the miners’ butcher bills are very small. Some of the mining claims at Ballarat, (Vic oria) which have been engaging the attention of speculators lately are of vcy small area. They are colloquially described as the (.’ow Claims. When an unwary stranger asks, “ Why Cow C aims ?” he is informed, “ Because a cow grazing on one boundary ran sweep the other with her tail ” /Egles. A hawker well-known to Invercargill and the surrounding districts has had some little difficulty lately in collecting sundry small sums of money owing him He however, made an example of a “'young man . | without incumbrance” a few days ago. t j The hawker is in the habit of travelling I round the country every seven or eight I weeks, and often “trusts” persons, es- ■ | pccially station hands. On one occasion he . ! honked a suit of clothes to a young fellow . I who pro nised to pay in a month. At the I I expiration of that time the hawker asked , for his money. The man who was wearing , the clothes when asked for payment, res plied that he had no money, and intended “fi'ing.” This was too much for the hawker, and as the saying is, he “ went I to-him.” He hitched up his horse, took off his coat an 1 hat, stepped up to the Debtor, and ordered him to take off his complied with. The hawker then gripped his man, and tore the clothes completely off him, and left him ruminating amongst ' the tussocks with a full receipt. There are I several more to be treated iu the same j way. —Weekly Times. The captain of the Slrath'ovcn, writing ! from Aden, slates that the frozen beef and mutbOu was tried several times on the voyage. proving of excellent flavour and quality. I The following paragraph, which wo clip from the New Zealander, is a fitting comment on the special train proclivities of the Governor’s late responsible, advisers : ‘‘■Sir Hercules and Lady Robinson took very unostentatious parts in the people’s holiday recently. They went down to the Hntt in one of the ordinary trains—it was a crowded one —and when they returned, * the ‘ special ’ that had been provided for them was converted into an ordinary train hv His Excellency’s command. It was just , si an ing, hut perceiving that a large number of people were awaiting conveyance he ' had a lot of carriages attached to it fur their accommodation and the journey to town was, we are sure, none the has enjoyable to him because he thus considerately con- ' suited public convenience. These are just ■ the kind of relations that ought to exist be--5 tween the Governor and the governed.” The Daily Times rep wts that on Sa’urday afternoon last, on the farm of a Mr Barnett, Waikouiiti district, a Chinaman . employed in the harvest ti Id had both legs cut off by a reaping machine