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Dunstan Times, Issue 977, 7 January 1881, Page 2

By our telegraphic intelligence it will bo seen that M'Leod, who was committed for trial from Clyde for wounding a cow, the property of James M'Artlmr, of Wia Keri Keri Valley, has been discharged. At the time agitation was made for a block of land to ha thrown open for selection on Earnscleugh run there wvs no end of pooh-poohing and any amount of cob) water thrown, and even when the land was thrown open and applied for, there were some who actually questioned the saniiy of the applicants asserting that the land was not worth fencing. Experience, however, has proved that the applicants knew* best, as the crops on the ground look as well, if not better, than any in the Whole Dunstau District, the oats specially being good. The good state ot the roa.ls through this and the adjoining CoUnty of Maniototo is a general theme ot conversation, and on all sides it is admitted that, hut for the County system, we should never have had such. Good roads mean an easy way of getting about, and allows the growers of produce to land it at their market at a much cheaper rate than it they had bad roads to travel. Thus they can sell cheaper, and everyone is accordingly hem-fitted. We have to acknowledge from the Go-.A vernment Printer receipt of a volume of statistics for 1879 covering with index, report and tallies, 270 pages of closely printed matter. It is a wonderful compiiation of facts and figures. The South Can'erbury Times hears teati-mo-y to the value of Mr S esmger’a medicines in cases of emergency. Our contemporary says i— " Slesinger’s colic drink was put to a good practical test on Tuesday. A fine draught horse was broulit to Mr Hen lerson, veterinary and shoeing smiih, in an an almost h-lpless and aoparelltly .lying state—so ha lin fact that it lay on the clay in front of the smithy. A A bottle of Slesinger’s remedy was at onca mixe 1 with a quart of beer and administered Such was the efficacy of the antidote that within half an hour afterwards the horse was being shod as if nothing had happened. An incident like this shows the desirability of farmers and vners of valuable horseflesh k.eping a supply of these horse n medics always on hand. The expenditure of a few shillings in this way will often save va'na'de animals representing scores of pounds.” The Mauritius correspondent of the South Australian Register, ivriting from Port Louis on November 4. states :—"Sir George Bowen, with family, leaves for England this month, and he will be replaced by the Hon. F. Napier Broome, C. M.G., as Lieutenant-Governor. Lady Bowen was last week the victim* of an accident. She was taking a ride in a carriage not far from her residence, the Redilit, when the horses grew mad and ran away. Tho coachman was hurled down from his seat, and the carriage capsized. Dr Luke managed to stop tho horses and rescue Lady Bowen from impending death. Fortunately Her Lady, ship was only slightly bruised, and is now completely recovered from the consequences of the accident.” The following curious statement appears in a Belfast evening paper :-A few days ago the .inhabitants of Belfast and Ulster generally were startled by the report that a noble Earl who owns a considerable cstate in the county designated as the Yorkshire of Irelan I, an 1 ree -ive 1 a missive of a threatening nature, and that he hid irnmediately afterwards crossed the Channel, but an astounding expl matron of the incident referred to is now* going the rounds. It is state 1 that a Frtnch waiting mai 1 in the service of the noble Lord’s better half growing furious atthe bare idea of having to pass the winter at an Irish country house, eitlr r spont an»ou dy or else by substitute wrote the letter referred to, thus trenching upon tho pretoga ive of the- irrepressible " R try." Tie nobleman immediately on receipt of the missive, ordered his Carriage, drove to a neighbouring hut out of the wav railway station, and then flew off by the earliest train en route to London. He j mrneyed to the station'with a revolver, primed, capped, loaded, by his side. Two other intimate friends,- having loaded rifles, accompanied him inside rha carriage, the wooden blinds of which w ere' ** closely drawn, while a gallant colonel armed to the teeth shared the bos seat with the Jehu.