The Dunstan Time. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1880.

Dunstan Times, Issue 942, 7 May 1880, Page 2

The Dunstan Time. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1880.

Beneaththerule of men entirely just Ih pen isMiGHTiER than <7teS\VOTID .

To-morrow (Saturday) Mr Fuehe will hold a sale of fancy goods, drapery, household furniture, two drays, and a buggy, on account of Mr W. Auckland, who is leaving Clyde,

Wo have been shown a piece of native cop- j per which was found at Kawarau Gorge and has been presented to the County Museum by Mr Williamson. Jt is almost pure—giving promise of 90 per cent of metal, at the same time we examined some specimens of the green oxide of copper found in the alluvial drift at Bannockburn. These indications should induce soma of our Cornish miners (of whom there are many in the neighborhood) to prospect for a’ lode which would bo more profitable in the main then any quartz reef. At the sitting of the Waste Lands Board held on Wednesday the 28th instant, the following certificates of applications for, agricultural lease's were approved—J. D. Feraud, section 03 and 61 ; A. D. Oliver, section 7C ; William Brown, section 79; Charles Attfield, section 78 ; William Williams, section 77, and 27. All these are situated in Block I, Loaning Hook district,

Tenders are wanted for about four miles of fencing in Ida Valley. Soo advertisement.

From the Sydney Town and Country Journal wo extract the following from amongst the awards granted at .the late Sydney International Exhibition “J. I). Feraud, Clyde, coustantia—lst; peppermint—lst; lemon syrup—lst; limejuice—2nd ; cherry brandy—2nd ; cherry brandy —4th ; burgundy—3rd ; aniseed liqueur—4th.

AVe notice by proclamation in the Gazette that the post office at “ Crossing,” Nevis, has been closed.

The quarterly district meeting of the A.O.P. United Otago District, was held at Milton on the 30th ult. By the auditor’s report which was read during the meeting, it appears the funds amount to L2ICI, of which LIB7O is lent on mortgage averaging 04 per cent, interest. At the usual monthly meeting of the Education Board held at Dunedin on Wednesday the 2Sth ultimo, an application for an additional teacher for the Clyde school was granted. It was also resolved that galleries be erected, and new furniture pro vided ; likewise new outhouse put up. A the same sitting the following was agrecc to : -Bannockburn, furniture and out houses j Bendigo, new school and residence Blacks, new residence; Roxburgh, fund ture, outhouses, and completion of build inga. —The whole of the above being of ai urgent character it was recommended thej be proceeded with out of the currant year’ vote.

We are requested to state that the A. 0. F. Court “ Pride of Alexandra, will hold their anniversary hall on the "21st instant, in the Town Hall, Alexandra, when the the local band will bo in attendance.

In a recent number of the Duuediu Times their Sydney correspondent mentions the following award by the Sydney Exhibitian Judges:—“ L. D. M‘George, Clyde—plan mioponoiem OVOr f’lutlia, tLirJ decree The Government have received advices from the loan agents r.o the effect that the powers given iu connection with the 1.5,000,000 loan of converting 5 per cent, stock into 4 per cent, unsecured stock in tire proportion of LIOO to Ll2O, are being largely taken advantage of by stockholders, LI, 100,000 already having been converted under the inscription. The loan continues to be remarkably popular in England, especially .as trust funds can be invested in the inscribed stock, which is thoroughly marketable, unlike ordinary Colonial loans, while the Colony gains about half-a-crown per cent, less commission.

The Electoral Roll for the Dunstan District for ISSO-S1 is now open for inspection at the Registrar’s office, Clyde.

A notification appears in another column of lands open for application in the Fraser and Leaning Rock Districts under the deforrcl payment system.

The well-known Dunedin firm of Kincaid, M‘Queen, and (Jo. has undergone a change of proprietory, Mr Kincaid retiring. The business of the firm will in future be carried on by Mr Kincaid under the old stylo. Captain William Jackson Barry delivered a lecture at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin on Wednesday evening the 28th instant, when there was a very good attendance. Mr Horace Bastings was in the Chair. The subject being his “ 'Tour through England ”

Petroncl, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, is bred from Musket, belonging to the Auckland Stud Company.

It may bo taken as a sign of tho Times that a Wairarapa station, containing about 9000 acres, which was in the market for several months, but withdrawn because no purchaser could be found at the reserve price of £2 10s per acre, has lately been the subject of negotiations at a far higher figure, tho owner eventually refusing to part with the property at £4 10s per acre. The cheering aspect of the wool market (says the New Zealand Times) is doing not a little towards reducing tho financial pressure in the Colonies ; still tho great difference between tho two prices must lead many to conclude that the effect has been over-estimated in this instance.

Under the heading “ Open Air Preaching at Lyttelton,” the Press says : —“ The spiritual interests of tho sailors were on Sunday afternoon attended to by the Beverend Montague Pym, an ex-lieutenant in Il.M.’s Toth liegiment, who held a religions openair service opposite the screw pile jetty. ”

The Tuapeka Times has the following . “ Messrs Bills, brothers, who possess more than a local reputation as practical ornithologists, they having been employed by the Colonial Acclimitisation Societies in bringing to this country from Great Britain and elsewhere various kinds of birds, have lately been in this district, with an exceedingly fine collection of Australian birds, including cockatoos, rosellas, green leeks, top knot pigeons, coriilas, red romps, blue wings and blue bonnets. A ready market

was found for the stock wherever offered and on Thursday the proprietors offered the whole remaining unsold, at Mr Arhuckle’s auction rooms. A considerable ■ amount of business was done, but in many cases the reserve was not reached, and the Messrs Bills preferred to take their chance of selling along the road.” On Thursday, (yesterday) they visited Clyde with their feathery tribe.

lit Tasmania the mining industry appears to be in a flourishing condition. The correspondent of a contemporary writes : “ The Tasmanian mines ought by tins time to be pretty well known. Mount Bischoff is turning out its vast quantities of tin without cessation. No call, I believe, has been made upon shares since operations began, and shares, which a very years ago were unsaleable at 7s 6d, • are now worth L 29 to L3O ; and no wonder, for tbeg pay LO per share per annum, and there is a perfect mountain of tin to bo used. The goldfields are prospering. At Lisle there are about 1000 men, and at Beaeonsficld about the same. The crushing.? are turning out splendidly, and prospecting parties are scouring.tho gold bearing country.”

Wo (Morning Herald) understand that Captain William Jackson Barry feels unutterably disgusted at tbe manner in which the Government has treated him He considers that it is the clear duty of the Government to “ reimhusl ” him for the outlay incidental to his trip to the old country to bring out his noble book, containing on account of the ups and downs of Captain William Jackson Barry. Tho Charleston Herald, a paper published on the West Coast, in a local paragraph, thus wise brings to book one of its long winded supporters. —“ Mr Solicitor Cowan has not visited Charleston for some time back and we would like to know how comes this, fur does ho not advertise to visit Charleston “every Court day. Certainly if this notice does not often seriously dissappoint the public, it is a lavish waste of money thrown away on advertising namely, ten shillings per month. When each mail arrives we fearfully tear open our Iteefton correspondence expecting to receive a cheque or else a withdrawal of patronage from our legal friend—but no, out of sight out of mind must be the wout of our hero. Love will often turn to hate and J. 1!. C’s coolness has worked this change within us; urged by the “ auri I sacra fames,” and maddened by the coolness exhibited by this monster we shall soon invoke the majic power “ you are hereby etc.” zEglcs in the Australasian has the following “ A member of the present Ministry was travelling with bis wife (by an ordinary train, as is now the custom) on one of the Government lines. Leaving the ladyin the carriage lie went to the refreshment room, in ids absence a guard entered the carriage and said, “ Will you show your pass, ma’am!” The lady raid she had no pass. “ It’s always been the custom,” murmured the guard, “ for members' wives to have a pass. Perhaps 1 had better see tbe Minister.” “But,” said the lady, “although 1 have no pass, here is my ticket 1" The blank countenance of that guard at the sight of a ticket paid for by a member of Parliament was a sight to see.”

In relating some of his experiences at flic lecture in Dunedin last week, Casting Barry is reported to have said ; —“I was one of nine to wear a grass girdle and live on shell-fish for several days, one of which was a lady.”

The New Zealand Presbyterian takes up the cudgels for Professor Ulrich. Deferring to a letter signed “A Mining Shareholder,” which appeared in these columns, our contemporary says: —“This specific ease, in its absurdity, would not require or deserve any notice were it not that it is symtomatic of a wretched mechancial utilitarianism, which, if unchecked, will strangle learning and make the University an abortion. Professors are not meant as midwives for labouring shareholders, or to discover cheap ways of fattening bullocks or growing wool. They do not come hero to supply brains to greedy hands, or cunning insight to Limited Liability Companies. A University exists for strictly scientific purposes, and within the domain of science Professors live and move and have their being. Not will it be well in the long run if tills is forgotten ; and if men, bent on finding and communicating truth,each in his province, are ever and anon saluted by a cry to show what they can do to add to the circulating medium and the dividends of shareholders—Professor Ulrich is there, not to bo brains to the mining shareholders, but to educate men who will, in his department, become cyestotbo blind, and feet to the lame, provided the blind and lame will pay them property.”

It is to be regretted (says the Australasian) that the delegates from the Lincolnshire farmers who lately visited New Zealand were not able to see their way to make definite arrangements for the settlement of the very desirable party of intending immigrants whom they represent. The difficulty seems to have been about the price of the land. They state that they wanted farms of larger area than the Government is disposed to survey, but ultimately the question seems to bo one of price. It is quite possible that the fanners who look to the colonies as a field for their enterprise and capital are under some degree of misapprehension regarding the question of the price at which first-class agricultural land can be purchased. Naturally, it is only on rare occasions that this is to be got at the upset and minimum price. The most desirable land is first selected, and henceforward it begins to acquire augmented value from every advance in settlement and in opening up and civilising the country. Those who camo after the early set* lers do not meet with their opportunities of getting prime laud at the lowest prices. On the other hand,

they find much rough and costly work done ready for them, which gives, value to the land that is taken up. It is not an unfavourable, but rather an encouraging sign, that the good land is rapidly acquiring higher va'ue. So far as the difficulty iu tho case of the Lincolnshire farmers is merely one effecting tho size of blocks available, wo fool assured that the Government of Now Zealand would make any reasonable arrangement to secole such desirable settlers to the Colony. But if the question is one of price, tho Lincolnshire farmers ami others similarly situated must remember that nowhere in the world is a good thing to be got without paying for it, and that no greater" encouragement can be offered to an intending settler than tho fact that the price of land has risen and is still rising.

The attempt on the life of the Czar continues to lie the subject of many speculations and rumours. The facts ascertained m addition to those already communicated are very few. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Standard who visited the scene of the explosion in the Winter Palace, states that the guaul-room, which measures 60ft. by 20ft., tbe floor had been destroyed, though it was composed of solid concrete 2ft. in thickness. Three square pillars in the middle supported the floor of the dining hall ; these and all tho ceiling tell, which gave rise to the report that the floor had been destroyed. The fact that the diningroom escaped, after all, has led some writers to conjecture that the motive was not to kill but to intimidate—a lino distinction, which does not comport altogether with the slaughter of the guards. General Todleben calculates that 1411b. of dynamite were used, and that 101b. more would have destroyed the diningroom. The Czirewitch and the Grand Duke Vladmir were the fli-st to reach the guard - room after the explosion, arriving just as the officers, fearing danger to the Emperor, were about to lead the remaining soldiers to the Imperial apartments. The Grand Duke Vladmir hastened to the barracks to give the alarm, and brought back the Prestrajinsky Guards to the Palace The funeral of the sentinels killed was attended by Grand Duke Constantine, his son, and most of the high officials, as well as a large number of troops representing every regiment of tho guards in St. Petersburg. Thu Constantinople correspondent of the Journal de Geneve gives some curious details respecting the expenditure of die Sultan. Tills bankrupt, who can pay neither his creditors nor his civil employees, and whose soldiers are literally starving, manages to waste L 2,400,000 per annum ou himself and the eunuchs, sultanas, and courtiers that reside in his palace, lie has 3l»0 cooks, 200 attendants to carry food from the kitchen to the table, 10 table-masters to arrange the service, and 10 Stewards to draw up tho daily menus. There are 10 i employees to unfold the carpet on which he prays, 10 coffee-roasters to make his coffee, ! 10 servants to clean his pipes, 2.) valets to | look after his clothes, eight persons to light | his chandeliers, others to clean his i aviaries, 100 boatmen to row his boat if he I makes an excursion rn the B isphorus, live I armourers, two hairdressers, ami 2nd i grooms. Altogether 4:»0o persons live at I his expense.