The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.

Dunstan Times, Issue 935, 19 March 1880, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1880.

lienea'h the rule of men entirely just th PEN is mightier than f/llSWOI!!! .

The next monthly meeting of the Rabbit Trustees will be held on Saturday next the 20th instant at Clyde. The next two-monthly meetina of the Conn‘y Council will he belli on Wednesday next the 24th instant in the County (iffices, Clyde. A reference to the Notires of Motion on the Dialer Paper, will show that no heavy works are content dated. By the very flattering notices in the papers that have reached us latelv of the Opera Bnuffe Company, who are announced to Clyde an lienees on Sat urday, Monday, Tuesday an I Wednesday next, we must perforce com» to the conclusion that they are 8 ara of some magnitude in their par ticular line of business By many, who have had the pleasure of heiring them, we are personally informed that the entertainment is worthy support, and we hope to see a bumper house on Saturday evenin' to welcome Mdllc. Mm idle an I her talented Company. Mr W. Williams who It will be remembered is applying for 040 acres on the boundary of Mataka ui and Montore Run, as a Coal Lease, is now busily engaged with a party prospectin'.; fo- a seam. La-t year be expends I a deal of labor in prospecting, but then failed in striking a seam of any thickness. Being convinced, however, that there is a seam in the neighbourhood, be lias a.an set into work Should he succeed as we sincerely hope hj« will, his discovery will prove a great boon to the district and a fortune to himse f. the which he will richlv merit for his p iswerance and pluck in under aking a search of the kind single handed. The appointment of Messrs Maitland, Bastings, an l Arthur, as Commissioners to classify surveyed sections on runs 3C9 and 221, being respec ively Cargill and Anderson’s run at the back of Bal 1 Hill Fiat, and Turnbull's Mouters inn, is m>lift din the Gazette. If the Coin nisainners are as diflgen . in their labours as has been the Government in making the appoint ment, in about live years' ; i ne we m iy expect to have the laud thrown open for eocu pation A correspondent at Blacks informs us that the concert, and ball on S Pa rick's evening, in aid of the new chapel fu els, was an enjoyable aflf dr, an I (inane ally a great success, fully L.'iO being ..lie net i.,kings. On the Satur lav, Mon lay, an I Tuesday previously the Opera Bonff Company gave their entertainment, but winch, on account of the local con ;ert, were . >t si well attended as they otherwise wniid have been an I as they dese a d. Tliose who did attend speak very hi oly ~f hj entertainment, all agreeing in saying without any exception that they aie the most talente I Company tint have ever v sued up-country. M ille Manode is sp .ken I as a most ladylike ch inning worn tn. wi ; hj a sweet voice of won lei tnl compass, and dr Fisher as living the pe. sonilicati'm of a funny hum irons fellow. In onr Inst issue we re-printed from our Cromwell contemporary a paragraph to the elfect tbit pen Ung some mcc-saiy diem lions in the Or mwe'l Compmy's nunc at Bendigo, gome 3o or 40 men hl l been temporarily dismissed. We have heard since that there is a probability of a complete stoppage of ihe works for a time—at least. Bv the published returns of ihe late examination of the .Sehonla in the interior ny Mr Pe.rie, School Inspector, we note that Clyde School alone had a scholar to pass successfully the sixth standard. Tim fact speaks well for the teacher, Mr J. E. Stevens. A waggon laden with wool, and drawn byeight horses, on its way down the serpentine road on the Cainnnuir range from the Hawksburn station to Earnseleugh flat, during the week, came to grief by toppling over. Beyond the breaking of a few straps and the rolling of the wool bales down the steep hill side’ there was no much harm done fortunately. Messrs H. Clarke, J. Fulton, and T. Fergus are the three successful candidates for the seats on the Education Board for the current year.

By reference to the advertisement in j another co'uran- -the programme of the ' Concert to be given at Alexandra on Thursday evening next 'he 25th instant,, will bo seen to he a most excellent ’one. Amongst the pei formers will he found the names of many old and famila" favorites, as also, some entirely new to fame. There is nothing like a well-filled room to give confidence, and it is to be hoped there will be one on Thursday evening next. We had presented to us during the week a box of peaches, grown by Mr Kichard Dawson, Conroy’s gully, and we must pronounce them tbe very best, borh for size, lusciousness and flavor, that we have tasted this season We feel fully persuaded that in any market in the world they would have commanded attention. The pears, apples, grapes, a id nearly every variety of plums that are grown by Mr Dawson, samples of which we from time to time have tasted, arc also very fine. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a hatch of parliamentary papers from the Government printer, Magnus Mount, one of the men working at the Civile Bridge works, met with a nasty accident on Wednesday morning last, getting on ; of his fingers badly lacerated in the crab winch He was at once taken to the Hospital, n 1 Dr Leahy dressed the injury. Wo have receive! from the publishers the firs’’ nn ober of the Melbourne Tomahawk, a sa'iricil np -r The one cartoon, represent,in.- the fallen man (Berry) reclining on the ground, attired as a gladiator. sun oun led by a whole posse of ravens, open mouthed, rejoicing at his downfall, and Victoria, with an ;nUh ml despair in her countenance, d■•pinring his downfall, is a work of art, while the letter press is a grand satire. The rav-ms are described as Catholocism, L :, nd Jobber, Squatter, Freetrader. Banker, Closed roads. Floral votes, and Press shin lore.—The copy we have placed on the table of the Clyde Public Library Since the p.assin ■ of the Land Act, 1577, there have been 38 GU3 acres of laud in the Provincial District of Otago taken up on the Deferred Paym-nt System, the price paid for the same being L137,4G3, being a little over L 3 I Is per acre We hj ive to acknowledge from the publisher th ■ March nn nl l -r of the New Zealand Pieeina on. By m mb-rs of the Craft, the Fr cm is m will oe fount highly interesting and we’l ieseiving of their support. T e Lon ;Wo . 1 c’.ai-.ns were visited last week by a party M gentlemen from Duns-’ die, and Invereargill, At Printz’s claim, Mr Murphy, - f the City Hotel, Dunedin, one of the o'dest miners in New Zealand, look out a prospect, which, upon being washe I, shove l at least one ounce of gold to the dish, besides sundry specimens. Mr Murphv states that he has soon nothing equal to this in his previous experience. MrMurohy Inscribes the prospects on the goldlicl-l as equal to anything opene I up in the Thames. Mme heavy crops are reported from Canterbury. The Press of the 13th instant says;—ln the northern district the heaviest crop of oafs reaped this season was that cm thirteen acres of Mr If. V.i'e’s farm, Kaiapin Islau I, which thr -she 1 out 107 i bushels per aero M- Wylli.-, S-fton, has threshed out 100 bush-Is of o its oer acre. Mr W. M. Ross. Kiipii [si i id, of a large crop of w he i t, Ins ree -iv -1 the handsome return of eighty-five bu-h Is par acre. In Now Z ml ind hare ire G.j Municipalities, an 1 f mu a return laid before Parliament during the last s -ssi m wo find that th- total income .«f 55 o'' them is LG26.275, and an expenditure of L 527.937, and that up rn the 3lst M well, IS7O, they had a total in lebte. Iness of LI, 173,801 There arc ab-o 43 Counties, with an income of L 495,240, an expen Uturo of 1.399.138, and an indebtedness of ,03,916. The 325 Road Bo rds hj i vo an income of L 547,557. Mr Stain-e "s (solicitor) residence, High street. Dunelin. was totally destroyed by lire o i.Si in-day iiorning. The house was insure 1 iu the S mt 1 ' British office for LGSO. It, is now almost certain that it was purpos“ly set lire *o, and that it was the act of a notorious criminal named Donnelly, alias ledwiy, alias Lees, who was arrested at W.-uk md'i m Monday, and on whom some of Mr Sta liner’s property was found. A' he iast .-i ting of theTuapeka County 1 omieil held on the 12th instant, Mr Fra•s - give untie-; -o move at the next meot-i-i'— ‘Till, .be Oil linn,in’s ruling and con inet in in chair an-so arbitrary, and that li so i vs so much partiality to mem •ers of this loon -il. that the Council, at tii next oe.iti.ig. will review his conduct-” ’’lie Chairman: Yon had better take care they hi not review your own conduct, before t".i- tim ■ A ridiculous p iiMgrapb has been going the rounds of the p.pers (says the writer ot P i<i. scripts in the Star) relative to the two young princes mi hoard the Bacchante Having me.i >r.s titton-d on their noses. Die origin of-his rathe- tough yarn probably is .li u tns y-niiig sesoiis of royalty' have miff re i the c mventional treatment comm 11 in all an iahipmeii’s berths from time i nm ciieria!—na ueiv. have had the “ nroa i arrow’ ” marked on ; heir noses with a slurp pmik.life. As the cut is never even skin deep, no in irk whatever is discernible after a few days. An inquiry was held at Christchurch on the 11th instant, before Sub inspector O’Donnell, into the ease of Constable Carraher ot assaulting a drunken woman. The depositions taken will he forwarded to Wellington, and tho constable has been suspended from duty. Illustrated games ot chess and draughts arc common m many papers, and are found highly instructive to lovers of tbe games. Admirers of the game of whist can now learn difficult problems from illustrated games now brought out in the A us train-

At a meeting of the Oamaru County Council held on the 11th instant a resolution was carried to the effect that LIO,OOO of the funds of the Council should he deposited at interest. It was moved as an amendment that, in view of the number of unemployed the money should he spent in roadmaking; hut the amendment was lost. In a letter to the West Coast Times, Mr Button complains of Judge Weston recalling a jury after they had once been charged and addressing them a second time. Mr Button says he considers it “an unjustifiable attempt on the part of the Judge to lead the jury to the conclusion which ho himself had most unmistakeably formed. I object to a Judge using language which means, ‘ gentlemen, if you do your duty, you will find the prisoner guilty.’ ” Guthrie and Larnach’a large saw-mill at Woodend, near Invercargill, was burned down on the 11th instant. The fire was discovered at about five in the morning, and in a short time the whole place was in ashes. The plant was the most complete of any in Southland. The mill included a forty-horse-power engine, three of the newest patent iron saws, benches, sawing, planing, moulding, and tennoning machines, all of which were destroyed ; a'so, a locomotive in the locomotive shed. In the main building 2),000ft of dressed timber were burnt. The place was but only partially insured. GO men will be put out of employ by the occurrence. At tbe conclusion of the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society, Mr Fulton said be wished to say a few words in reference to the sparrow post. The fa.mers had always been under the impression that the introduction of the sparrow to the Colony was due to tbe action of the Society, bui such was not the case. The sparrow was introduced into this Colony by a Victorian gentleman, a passenger by the Omco, by which vessel he (Mr Fulton) was also a passenger. Twelve of these sparrows were liberated. The Society had always got credit for their introduction, and he wished to put the public right. An Auckland telegram states that Mr Thomas Birch, formerly Mayor of Dunedin died on board the s s. Pengui i during a recant passage fiom Gisborne. lie left Dunedin to recover his health. An inquest has since been held, -when a verdict of “ death from natural causes” wasre’urued. Twen-ty-six shillings were found on the body, and while the inquest was going on the purser discovered LOJ in hank notes in his underclothing. The largest crop of this, an 1 perhaps any other season, is recorded in the Lyttelton Times. According to that paper some of the oats now being threshed on Mr Wylie’s farm, situate between the Ashley and Setton, are turning out the extraordinary yield of IOG bushels to the acre. Ihe Newcastle correspondent of the ‘ Sydney Daily Telegraph’ reports a curious attempt at suicide as having ocean el there on 25th February. Ciptain Alexandra Shaw, formerly a well-known shipowner iu Newcastle, was arrested yesterday on a charge of drunkuess, and during the night attempted suicide with a brass buckle off his waistcoat. lie scratched a deep hole in the hollow of his left elbow, dividing the flesh, veins, &c. Oxley, the gaoler, going into the cell this morning, found him in a pool of blood, and almost speechless. The floor was covered with bloo 1, and about two quarts wore iu the prison bucket. The day before a Turkish girl is married she is taken to the bath of her lady friends, and lumps of sugar are broken over her head as a forecast of the sweets of matriraany. A year or so afterwards her husband breaks the whole sugar-bowl over her head.