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Dunstan Times, Issue 950, 2 July 1880, Page 2

We are reluctantly compelled to leave out on account of its length an interesting speech by Mr Pyke in the Assembly on the “ Property Tax and the Abolition of Subsidies.”

The Vincent County Council notifies that poisoned wheat is being laid on the Clyde and Cromwell commonages for the destruction ot the rabbits. As it is known that cattle, pigs and poultry are like'y to die if they take any of it, parties living near where it is laid will do well to pen up their stock at least for a time.

In another column will be found a long account of the capture of the Kellys. All the farmers are now taking advantage of the fine open weather, and ploughing up their lands in readiness for spring sowing. So far the winter has been remarkably miU, benificial alike to wool growers, grain growers, and every other class. With a spring equally as favourable, next year’s harvest should he a plentiful one. The winter sown wheat is all above ground and looks well.

The Matakanui Race Company’s (Greenbank and party) race at Drybrcad, I hear, has broken away, carrying a whole range side with it. To repair damages will be an arduous and expensive job, and will materially reduce past years’ dividends. None other of rhe races in this locality or at Tinkers are at work, the main sources of supply in the ranges being dried no A meeting of the Dunstau District Hospital Committee will ho held iu the Committee Room, Town Hall, Clyde, on Monday first, the Oth inat. Mr James Corrigal, farmer, of Blacks, whilst returning from the Welshmans Gully coal pit with a three horse dray load of coal, by some mischance stumbled and fell immediately in front of the wheel, which passed over his arm, breaking it in two places and dreadfully lacerating the breast. Being in the vicinity of Millward’s White Horse Hotel, ho made his way there, u hence he was quickly convoyed to Blacks in Mr M'Morran’s buggy and placed under the care of Dr Slcoman, who we are pleased to learn made a very successful setting of tile broken bones. Mr Corrigal is now progressing as favourably as p issi do. The not results of the late Carnival in aid of the funds of the Dunedin Benevolent Institution, we understand to have been over I -2000 The liberality of the people of this part of the country is somewhat prodigious, and leads ns to look upon the great hubbub about the commercial depression and the unemployed as all moonshine. By advertisement in another column it will be seen that the time lor sending in the forms under the Property Tax Act is extended from tile 30;h of June to the Ist of August Wo cannot too strongly advise, however, all who are in a position to complete their forms at once to do so, and send them away without delay. We have to acknowledge receipt from the Government Printer of N T os. 3 and oof Hansard, a hatch of Bills including “ Impounding,'’ “Fencing,” “Census,” and “ Gaining and Lotteries” ; also a number of Parliamentary Papers, the most noteworthy being articles of agreement for the banking business of the Colony, relating to the negotiation of the last five million loan, and the report of the Civil Service Commissioneis.

A general meeting of shareholders of the Golden Gate Gold Mining Company is convened for Saturday the 10th lust., at the Company’s • Id .e Coimew’s gnllcy. In the matter of the Judge Meymott case in New South Wales, Mr G. C. Davis, bar-rister-at-law, has been entrusted with the commission, to investigate the conduct of the Judge, which was so seriously called in question by Mr Dillon in Parliament lately. Mr Davis is authorised to call before him all such persons as he may think necessary for the investigation, and to make a thorough inquiry into the administration of justice iu the courts presided over by Judge Meymott.

The Wellington correspondent of the Southland limes telegraphs The parties engaged by Government to teach the unemployed the improved method of utilising rabbitskins, at work for some time past in Wellington, proceed under Government auspices to Invercargill for a similar purpose. A number of bales of skin have been prepared for despatch to tbo Home market with the view of tcsliug the value of the improved method.”

There is a member of Parliament (says “vEglos ”) who occasionally deals in sheep. (It may be as well to premise that in this case it is not Professor Pearson.) This gentleman became aware that a lady in Melbourne who owns pastoral property bad a flock of sheep to aid). Upon enquiry ho found that the sheep were at Sandhurst, and it was agreed that the fair vendor and he should proceed to that place with a view

to dealing. It was wet weather, and his consideration in holding his umbrella over tho lady quite won her confidence. A bargain was concluded, and Mr took delivery of the sheep. To repeated applications for payment he, however, gave no heed. At last a very peremptory demand brought a reply that Mr was disappointed in the sheep, and meant to return them, which he did. “ But,” save flu; deluded lady, “how do you think he sent them back to me ? Shorn isn’t the name for it, hut shaved. And when I sold them to him I took no writings, because he was such a gentlemanly man.” The Victorian Minister of Mines has appended the following memorandum to the mineral statistics of Victoria for the year 1179 “ For the first time for many years the estimated yield of gol for the year from Victorian mines bears a favourable comparison with, and is slightly in excess of the yield for the proceeding year. The gradual development of the newly-discovered auriferous lodes at Ballarat, and the improved yields from lode mines at Maidon and other places, together with the assistance rendered to prospecting by the Government diamond drills, will, it is hoped, have a beneficial effect upon mining enterprise, and lead to a further increase in tho returns of gold for the current vear.”

The following are specimens of some of the Representatives of the Victorian House of Assembly, and the way they have of carrying on the business of the House.—

“ Mr Vale is a persistent opponent of paymi'll* of members, and his connection with the Registration Society gives great offence to the Opposition. Last night Mr Vale, alluding to Jones, called him a penniless braggart [and a trained beggar of billets, without which he would have to go into the Benevolent Asylum, or else runaway to America, and leave his wife-and family to the charity of the country. Jones retorted on Vale being hired to defend rouges. Then Mason’s insult to ladies was referred to, and he retorted that he did not visit the hlackslinus of the city at early morning. This was the style of deflate, and was found no progress could be made with the Payment of Members Bill.

A trial was recently commenced iu Paris which gives some idea of the money spent on dress by ladies in the upper ranks of fashionable society in that capital. The Count Potocka has laid before the tribunal two hills onc from a modiste to the tune of 110,511 francs for clothes supplied to the Countess Potocka from July, ISTStoJan,, 18, SO, one of the items being 32,000 francs for one sealskin jacket, and another hill from a ladies’ outfitter for 7‘J.000 francs for under inen supplied from June, 1579, to Jan , ISBO.

The illustrious and unhappy Ex-empress Eugenie made a bequest of her imperial crown to the church of Notre Dame, in Paris, before setting out on her journey-to Zululaud. The gift is a costly and beautiful one, and apart from its value in an artistic point of view, is further enhanced

by containing penis of groat variety and beauty. In keeping with the example set by other equally il ustrioiis and unfortunate French ladies, is that followed by the Exempress, who it is said will, on her retain from the scene of her son's death, enter a convent.

Tidings conic from across the Atlantic ot

a mountain of pure salt among the rest of the newly discovered minerals in Arizona. It is on the hanks of the Colorado rive’-, and is described as composed of loose cubes of salt of various sizes, and so pure to the eye that unless you put a fragment to your lips you might mistake the cubes for The population may be supplied for centuries from that mountain, the writer states, and exclaims, “ Why do not Yankees form a company, and come and level it ?”

1 ho quantity of paper collars annually made in the I nited States is estimated at I.>0.000, OIK), and if we reckon this as about one-half the total number manufactured wo shall have the enormous aggregate of 300, 000 000 papei collars for the worlds yearly consumption. Supposing the average length of the collars to he loin, and they were joined end to end, they would wrap round the world 35 times, with 4,320,000 collars to spare. It is stated that the quantity of coarse light cotton fabric used in the manufacture in America, during the past year, was about 8,000,000 yards, and the weight of the paper pulp was upwards of 2000 tons.