The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1880.

Dunstan Times, Issue 948, 18 June 1880, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1880.

Beneat.hlhcrule of men entirKlt just ili pen is mightier than tIie SWORD

From a report in another column it will be seen tiiat t.hfere is every probability of a company being formed to work the Conroys Gully reef.

We dssire to drsw" attention to 'Mr Tames Rivers's advertisement on our first page. His store' is now replete with every article necessary for the coming winter season. At the Clyde Police Court yesterday,-a number of out Celestial brethren were brought up and charged before Major Kcddel!,Jß. M.’ with raining for gold without the necessary miners’ rights. The majority took out the necessary parchment, but a few of them got committed for fourteen days in default.

At the adjourned sitting of the Licensing flench held at Clyde yesterday, license were granted to those publicans, whose applications had been adjourned, to enable them to Complete alterations and improvements which had been recommended to be done by the police We hereby acknowledge the receipt of parcels of Government papers from the Government printer.

The Dunedin City Council have agreed simply to pass a resolution asking the Government to urge forward the construction of the Otago Central Railway.

The Canterbury Times’s correspondent in Wellington thus humorously refers to thehon member for the Duustau : —“Cut What are all these compared with the perennial Pyke. To see V. I’., with every appearance of having just robbed a conservatory, walk through the Legislative portals, patrtfftisingly nod to Mr O’Rorkc, and complacently assume his seat, is, us the show-bills have it, “ worth all the money.” The house without V. P. would be Hamlet without the chief character. The sooner, then, oh worthy member for Duustau you come upon the stage, the SffoStef will the gods be appeased.

At the recent meeting of the Dunedin Licensed victuallers Association, the President (Mr Colder) made the following very sensible remarks relative to the beer tax : “ Unfortunately for the arguments of the brewers and publicans there is a very general and Well (Wounded impression that both make a hirst excellent thing out of the 1 business, and that therefore they are very fair subjects for the special taxation proposed, which must still leave under ordinary circumstances a much larger margin of profit than is ever even aspired to in other bralVch'es of trade. The sensible men who drop down to the situation, and neither reduce ibe quality nor quantity' of ; their liter, will find the drinking public uot unappreciative.” 1 M r Vincent Pyke lias been assisting to raise funds in Tinceir t County for benevolent purposes, and that by taking the

vole of Sir J, Porter, K.C. B. in' the everpopular. Pinafore. By one of these geographical mistakes, which occasionally occur in the best-regulated newspapers, the “ Wellington Chronicle ’ describes a very successful Meeting which the hon. gentleman and party had at Waitahuna in Vincent County. Waitahuna is within a few miles ot Lawrence, and in the County of Tnapeka, and Mr Pyke has iVot appeared there.—Tuapeka Times.

Charles Gilligan, salesman, formerly of Dutofedin,- Was- received into the Dunedin gaol on Wednesday night the 9th instant from Naseby, uiidcr sentence six calen lar months’ imprisonment with hard labor, for obtaining a suin' of money and goods under false pretences from Mr Haurahau, of Naseby.

A periodical division of profits accrued from the Great Extended claim, Blue Spur, says the Tuiipfaka Times, took plate in Lawrence on Saturday last, when, We are informed, the amount distributed- amongst the fortunate shareholders was considered eminently satisfactory. This, and some of the adjUoStlt claims at the SpuV; have been fbr a long series of years a literal mine of wealth to the fortunate owners

A Wellington correspondent,- Writing on the 1 Ithinsc., says : —“ Hitherto the session has gone smoothly. The Opposition seem quite disunited. Mr Macau drew takes his course, ami Sir George his. ami they seem to have no communication. Sir George, Mr Ge Lautour, and a few others of the same sort ate, no doubt, ready for mischief, if a chance occurs ; but hitherto they have announced no it adder, have no whip, and give no pairs. As far as ho has been able, Sir George Grey has been resort ing to his old tricks of obstruction and tumbling for the amusement of the gallories, with, however, very little success. I think everybody is sick of his exhibitions, but he still goes ou repeating the old thing which we have had every sessiou for years past.

A singular accident befel a mog-cf cattle belonging to a Mr G. Walker, on'a recent trip down the Maruia. The cattle were one evening grazing some distance from the track'mar the edge of a precipice, fully 70 feet high. Une of the animals approached itoomear the edge and slipped- over. The rest oi the cattle, which were rather wild immediately followed the unlucky leal, and the whole mob went over the clilf. Fortunately the river rail' directly underneath; the water being 20 or .'io feet diep, and into this the animals-plunged one after the other. Singular to relate only the first three or four which fell sustained any injury, and they were eventually got out.

The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce has received for consideration the following queries from the joint committee of the two Houses appointed to consider the bankruptcy laws:—l. On whose application a debtor should be made bankrupt. 2. By whom the bankrupt estate should be administered. 3. The oiunfmstances which should disentitle a bankrupt to his discharge. 4. Whether any, and if so, what alterations should be made in the law re lating to bills of’ sale. 5.‘ Whether the right of distress of warrants should not be modified. C. By whom bankrupt shall be prosecuted, and whether any fund oaglit to 'be created out of which the costs should be paid. 7-. What claims should be treated as preferential. - 8. Whether the present mode of arrangement by deed should be continued, or whether every debtor should not obtain his discharge after open licaring iu Court. Gold is reported as having been discovered in South' Africa. The Natal Mercury’says, “Rumorsare afloat regarding the discovery of gold in Zululand. It is quite true that a flue little nugget, weighing one ounce, has been brought in from the northern side of the Tugela, but it is quite premature as yet to say that a goldfield has been discovered. As for the

Transvaal, our own correspondent, at Pretoria. writes under date February 2lst : ‘There are rumours of all kinds of discoveries of gold being made, but these must be taken at a large discount. The fact appears to bo established, however, that the obi diggings at SpitrkOp, &e., are ‘ looking up ’ again, for in one week 450z, of gold were taking otlt of the Claim of Messrs White and King, and 51 oz the following week. It is said that a larger quantity has sicue been taken out of the same spot. There is undoubtedly payable gold in Lydenburg district, but there is nothing as yet which will warrant people at a distance ‘ rushing into the toilsome and uncertain life of g'o'lddigging. ’ ” The following notice of a birth recently appeared in the Oamaru Mail—“On the 2nd June, at ‘her residence, tile wife of Frank Dunlop of twin daughters. —Gossips please remain at home and make no remarks.

There was an extraordinary scene in the Supreme Court at Napier on the 14th in slant when John Boyd, alias Hutton, was brought up on a charge of obstructing the railway, lie pleaded guilty, and when asked if he had anything to say for himself he lauircb >.I Cut intto the most horrible profanity and filthy language, swearing at the judge, the gaoler, and police. His Honour remarked that the man must be mad, when with a string of oaths he declare 1 that it was his Honour who was mad. lie was sentePcod to fifteen years penal servitude. His Honour remarking that he was either a dangerous lunatic or a criminal of the worst class, and adding that he would represent the case to the Minister of Justice.

iEgles lias the following :—“ A laily, who had, jteV'bapsv eoluc recollection of the fascinating Lolo Moutez, has lately horsewhipped a district surveyor, aud was called to legal account for her energy. Some correspondence was put in showing that the chastised gentleman sometimes addressed the lady in his letters' as “Deal Pussy.” If district surveyors are thus faithless to the fascination of trigonometry, what can they expect? A theodolite never horsewhipped any body'. Mr District Surveyor, in his method of address, had probably some premonition that cats have claws.

A movement is on foot in England to start a Home postage" of one halfpenny, an ocean penny postage, a sixpenny telegraph service, and a universal money-order system. A,committee' is in course of formation to press the important questions on the new Parliament.

Some mothers have a curious way of expressing affection for their offspring. At the City Police Court, Melbourne, an infant about twelve months old was brought up as a deserted child, having been found on a doorstep. With the child, which was comfortably clad, was the following note : “ Please, whoever may pick up this poor little lumh tako great care of it. 1 am a poor mother, and have no means of keeping it whatever. Please call it Lilian Hill. 1 am sure God will reward you.” Smokers may Hie interested to learn (a German correspondent writes) that tnc German Federal.Couucil has resolved to permit the ua of cherry leaves in the fabrication of tobacco.

At Ramsgate, England, OsWa'd Pnclteridge, a retired publican, of Minster, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour for causing the death of a valuable dog. The prisoner painted the dog all over with the Liberal and Conservative colours, and the animal was poisoned through licking the paint off.

A most horrible tragedy occurred in St. Louis on March Itnh. Conrad Ilieman, who lives at tho comer of Broadway and Wright street with his wife and six children, had been drinking’ hbavily for some time past, and bail ah |at\ack of delirium tremens. While his wife was preparing breakfast, lleiuian called] her from an adjoining rooiii, she. entered it in response to his call, ho assaulted her with a large knife, driving thegb'.ade through tho lungs of tho infant in her arms. Ho then struck another blow, burying the knife in his wife’s heart, killing her at once. A brother of lliemau attempted to’ seize the maniac murderer, and" received a 1 severe stab in the back, disabling him. Heimau theu’hroke away and ran toward the river, tie was arrested in Carondelet, fully eight miles from the scene of tho murder, and when taken to tho police station he was raving in an incoherent manner, and asked tho ollieers to shield him from' tho demons who, he said, were pursuing him. His infant child is not yet dead, hut it will die. lleiman also attempted to kill a young son of his brother, whom ho stabbed, but tho boy escaped by outrunning the maniac.