Local and General.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1034, 2 December 1881, Page 3

Local and General.

drills in Victoria have cost LT.iHiO, and have gone through 22, i 00 feet of rock.

A well reef discovered at Beaufort, Old Fiery Greek, Victoria, is estimated to yield HO ounces io the ton.

The Government save nearly [„4odo a year by using hemat.i e paint for the railway carriages, as that paint requires no varnish.

The Argentine Republic is anxious t<> ■arrange wite the English Government for 'lrish i m lll irntiioiL. They are willing to ■expurl L4OMI3U. News has been received of the death of Mr J G. (i. (ilassford, of Matakanui Station, who it will he remembered was living in the Uhl Country.

The appointment of Dr Jno. G. Hyde, MB, Li.ll C.P., of Ophir, as public vac•ciuator for the Blacksto e district is ■notified in the Government Gazette of the VJ th of November.

We learn that Charles Napier, the carrier well known thioughteut the district, is m.w an inmate of the Ttiapeka Hospital, sufferinu from a dislocated shoulder and some contusions.

Tint Hon Mr Hall was waited upon hy a deputation of gentlemen in Untied in and in •reply to ques ions respecting the Otago ■Central Hallway, said the Government had kept the wotk going, ami it would he kept going.

Mr Haog-ttt has given an elaborate legal opii.i n upon the subject of the registration of eheteis. He cun.Moera that the intention of the Act is tnac no name shall lie added to any electoral roil after the issue of writs for an (election, .the ooject lieing to keep the roll intact while an election is pending.

When Captain Gudgeon and Major Stapu read the proclamation at Manaia to litokowaiau, the wily old scamp tried to improve the occasion by asking iho Major for the loan of a few shillings. The Major, having received no instructions to comply with such a request, declined.

Half a crown for cats and one and sixpence for kittens, are the. prices the rabbitridden run holders of Wellington are paying. Some of the up-country people are afraid that the remo -y will prove worse than the disease, fir they say that wild cits (of which there will soon lie abundance) are worse than rabbits any day.

-A T' gM’iOX is directed to the notice in •another c umim of the intention of the dial mil, Trusteis of the Vincent Rabbit district to enforce payment «f all outs.ending rates, 'i his step, wo are informed, is alisolnte'y necessary, in consequence of the 'Government taking ovei the supervision of the distt iet.

By au advertisement elsewhere it will hj« seen that. Mr.l. Htronach has resigned his post lien as member of the Vincent County Council for Matakaont Riding. Just before going to press, we learn that a very nuiaeionsly sinned requisition had been presented to Mr Btronae.il, asking him to again offer himse-f to be nominated for the seat.

I ‘me AI. returns show how vast are the •flocks of sheep owned in New Z aland. The New Zealand and Austra'ian Land Company own 300,000; Robert Campbell, -380.000 ;G H Moore. 09 000 ; Dalgetly and Co.. 208,000; Sir F. D Bell, 82,1100; Hon. Win. Robinson, 08,000 ; Mr Kuching 80,000; Allan McLean, 500,000.

A candidate having made enquiries from iht miiway beao-quaiteis at. Wellington w hither un ml ers of (he late Parliament are entitled to use their free passes on the railways for prosecuting their candidatures ill 'be c amig election, has received the important reply that the passes expired with the dissolution of Parliament-

We have authority for stating that at an early date the Government intend introducing a compined “postage and revenue” stamp, somewnat similar to that used by the Imperial authorities, and which will do duly alike for (sistal and revenue purposes. The value of the combined revalue nud postal stamp will range from Id to Is.

The Napier papet stales that “ The prisoner I feudal, who is now awaiting his trial for letter stalling, has I con granted permission to amuse the lunatics in the local asylum by tootling on bis favorite instrument, the comet. Last .Sunday lie •commenced, and the first air he rendered Was ‘ V\ lite me a Letter from Home.’ ”

The New Zaland '‘Times” calls .attention to a peculiar! y about the t orruiit Practice Prevention A-et, ISSI. It contains no provision as to tlic pneise date of its coming into ojeiatim, and in anticipation of special proclamation in ,-uclt respect, candidates may >-onsi<ler tlvenrsi Ivor justified in taking time l>y the forelock, an I securing as many votes as possible.

.Some one in Tauranga had a little lull giv'H lon- tke other day, and subsequently an application for paunent, was made. T he answer of the del tor shows an intimate krdowbilge of Parliamentary procedure. Ii was as follows: •• Your bill n.us' follow the usual couise. It has passed the first and SM-ond reading, and has I ecu passed into conmiiltee ; I.ut as the H'uise is now ptor. gueil, you will have to wait until next session, as the b s one of the slaughtered Innocents.”

Many newspaper proprietors will doubtless wish they had many subscribers like one mentioned by the “ Lyttelton Times,” who, having ordered a file of the papers, had caused a hilarious mid cnti.ely novel sensation in the business manager’s department. An order from him mi st, pcrcnrp toriljr “ insists on the account being sent in for immediate payment.” The reason fiven will at once arrest the attention ol subscribers—he“ only half enjoys his paper if it is cot prepaid.”

: The “Australasian" says The list of accidents in connection with the Melbourne Cup day is not numerous. Mr Glassford, ot, Mewburn-park, Rose dale. Gippslnnd, had driven four ladies in his four-in hand drag to the coutso. They stopped at the entrance to the drive up to the carnage 'paddock, when the horses Became frightened at the people crossing the wooden bridge, and bolted. The pole of the vehicle broke, and the horses dashed into a cab standing in their way, severely injuring the driver, named William Marsh. Fortunately, the ladies had alighted from Mr Glassford’s carriage, but they were thrown down by the horses. Although much frightened, they escaped comparatively unhurt One of the ladies, however, had her face severely cut. Tub Americans are indignant at the way in which their pedestrians were treated at Birmingham recently, and ask if this is a specimen of English fab 1 play ? An English paper save “We beg to say that it is not. Birmingham is no part of England. In all its doings it is un-English. The honest manliness of John Bull is totally laekin ,iu its character. As a people they preach peace and sell guns They prate about honesty, and make articles of pinch heck ! They talk about enlightenment and sell idols to niggers ! They commiserate with the Irish, and return members of a Government of Coercion. It seems to us that Birmingham is a place that would do well to take itself off, It is a vagabond, and ought to be locked up.

King Theebaw of Bumah had a narrow escape from death a short time ago. One of his royal consorts sent him some dainty confectionery, with a message that she had prepared the taffy with her own fair hands. Theebaw gave the sweet stuff to a mother-in-law, the mother of the very queen from whom he had received the present. Two hours afrer eating freely of the candy the soul of the august lady took flight, and her daughter did not survive her long, for Theebaw, ungrateful as well as bloodthirsty, no sooner learned that the aforesaid mother in law was a corpse, than he ordered Her Majesty’s head to be transferred from her shoulders to the waste-basket without a moment’s delay.