The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY, DEC. 23RD, 1881

Dunstan Times, Issue 1037, 23 December 1881, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY, DEC. 23RD, 1881

i . Beneath the rnte of men entirely just The pen i» mightier thiin the sivorrl.

France is now -bud big seventeen ironc hug an I ten. Tliir.wll give France fifty-three ami England tifiy-seven.

In Wellington a movement is on foot to obtain a ren.i'ssio i of tln’li -.os •eciutly impose I on some Chinaman for playing fantan. ‘ °

The fa low deer recently imported by the Ciorei ury Acclimatisation •'Society are to be libo.-at.od oa the Culverden Pam, A mini district.

Tiir resign ttion of Sir R P. 801 l as a mom 'or rtf the Upper Hou-e has been rtceiv.atol Mr George M‘Lean has been oa.lcd t<r .’he Legislative Co rnell.

Si--.Arthur 11. Gordon-, the Governor «f Now^Z,•aland, htts been reli-ved of all r spo sinirit v for tint fnftii'e in coimection with tlie Guyernm mt t,f Fiji. McLeod An'D Co.’s dredge Duke of Sutliei-ian I, which was remove I from Alexan irato the Tev ot, we understand has set into wotk at Punhartni Roek, anti by ac counts is gelling a f air there of the glittering metal. "

We nnders'and the Resident Magistrate will he engaged at Ophir one day during this week. in investigating several Chiracs of lire idles of the Licensing Acts fsly vrog selling) against a resident of Ida Valley. ;|i

Tiir Clyde Commit. e> again issue the p ogta nine i'll spirts for New- Year's Ray ; "a a re'erenee it wi-I he found to bo more than an to-nintny lib-T.il one, and should prey-- s.nffii-iently attractive to draw a large alien lance of competitors and onlookeis. °

Olt. A lexand'ri- friends issue a very pxprogramme of sports, for Boxing I i.iy ( \i-.n *iiv n -x : ). The liberality of the, people (i, p ovi *o a good day's amusement is highly praiseworthy, an 1 wo hope their lib r.iluy .ri | be rew.vde I by good fields of competitors lor each event.

\Ve are pleased to fitvl that the “ Printers Roister ” has not sivctnnbe 1 to its ditßciil'ins ft is now is-ual in reduced form, hut the proprietor intimates that if lie meets with anything like fair (.import he will lose tone in resinning the paper’s origual dress.

Tomorrow, at Chntto Creek, Mr Faehr, will di-pose of by public ancthm the whole ot the property and effects of Mr M‘Donald it*- ! hat place As Mr M’Donald has purchased a hotel at Tuapeka, and takes possession in a few days, the whole of the property will have to ho sold without reserve (lor particulars see advertisement). A.v English contractor lately etated that some frontage ground in the »city of London had been sold at the rate of a milliou sterling the acre. Some ground has just been soM for the erection of the Paris new postoffice at 3.'!7Sf. the square metre (aliout ten equate feet), the highest price which has as yet been paid for ground in Paris. I

A suhde.v death, under very extraodinary circumstances, is related by the Fcilding Guardian. A married woman named Streeter was engaged in conversation with a friend when a funeral passed. She inquired whoso i* was, and then lor the cause of death. Immediately after being informed that it was heart disease, she dropped dead into the ayms of her companion. She ha ! been suffering from heart-disease, and the shock is supposed to have caused her death.

Mr Join* Robson, dramatist, reciter am] musician, announces himself to app' nr at Clyde on the 28th iuat. From tho highly flattering opinions of the I’nas of every town wheiin he hag appeared. wo can lint expr-ct the greatest treat wf have ever liad up county ; and we stiail I.;,j>« to sec him rewarded with bumper houses. Mr Robson desires us to express bin regret that circumstances over wlrch he has 110 control will prevent his appearance at Alexandra as originally intended.

Wk have received from tho publishers. Messrs Cameron, being and Co., 10, Swan, ston street, Melbourne, a Copy (if Mari us Clarke’s novel, '* Tbe Mya'ety of Mnj *r MVdiueux ” As an entirely colonial production it is highly credit able, the publishes and printers both alike equally with tbe author deserving praise. It is accompanied by a note to the etfoct that half the, prolita made out of the book will be paid into the fund being raised for the widow ami childiennf the late author. The price is only Is. We shall lie most happy to receive ord ra for copies.

Wk received by the last mail further papt ra and opinions of the English Rr- ss and of eminent men connected with the dredging of harbors and l ivers t y lb testman Bros, diedge, to which' we, have alluded to on previous occasions. From the high terms in which it is sp ken of as an excavator, we ate still inclined to tbe opinion that it would answer admirably on the Mplyueux, and we hope at nu distant time to s-e one or more engaged in recovering the hidden treasures of the modern Factolns, as the River Moiyneux has so often and aptly been teimed.

Additional weight will be given to the importance of securing goo 1 seed ly the following paragraph from the Oanteibury Times:-“An Englishman by tinaing one vciy superior head of wheat and aiiecting the largest grain, in a few yea s, is s rid to have harvested 100 bushels of wheat from one acre Roberts o r Dover, for four ye ns selected the very best of potato* s f-.-raced, and hail a wonderfully tine crop of sound potatoes, while those of Ins neighbors rolte 1 bimly. Again ho selected the ve.y pu rest for seed four years and his miserable crop) all rotted.

A new weekly, entitled “Tlie Spirit of the Times,” is announced to mike its appearance in Dunedin at th la*ter end i f January next. The new journal wid he nu>dialled in the inteuara of the waking classes, and Mill uphold all questions af feeting their henelit. We will the spirited projector (Mr George Griffin, edi'or and proprietor of “ The Priutei’s Keg’a'er ’) every success in the new enterprise he purposes embarking in, lie has made ‘‘The Pegisler” a credit both to himself and t-< h;s rea lers, and we fe 1 sore that he will do the sam; by “The Spirit of the Times.”

Messrs, Kincud, McQueen and Co. —who are constructing the iron doun o ladder dredge at Alexandra—uite to >1 denying the correctness of a s ate u ent contained in a notice of the dredge an issue nr two back. Our statement \v sto the eff-ct, that the pumps were too sna 1 to lid the required quantity of »"a'«r to wash the dirt raised, and that centrifu al pumps were to be substituted. The information was given us. and in the usual course we included it in our news cdiiniiis, and did not, insert ic with the view of disparaging the wo k, as annaron ly was inferre I. We exceedingly regret that such an inference should have been drawn.

It is said that proceeding* will probably in sw'ecpa aTYh'e very great pity tint the question of 1,-ga by or otherwise of sweeps ainuigst private partus on the racecourses is not settle 1 wine and for ever. We can never 'think that it was contemplate,i by the framers of the Act. to interfere so much with the liberty of the subject as to say be should not veunre a half-crown on a hois,-rao >, nr for the matter of that on any other event ■F.I& , hn lf ver : is not the "point to he settled. Ihe plain question is, -‘ Is it the ./ " -If let it btdatojiee statoH/antl at the same time publicly no ified that the police ip.every case that comes under their notice a,e instructed to proseeu'e. Du i n r the coining holiday season, when the .aces, regattas, and Caledonian sports will be b-ld throughout the leng hj and headdi of the country, the question should not be an opt-n one. hince writing the above a case lias been tried at Oamarii, and the sweepist mulcted m the sum ot si.

It is said that the only business done ■jy® l -' Arthur Gordon during his visit ii> riji was to release a man na ne I Hunt. President Arthur is c.illol ‘the silent President. Iho “ Despatch ” says that he IS so r( serve 1 thit the silent days of Grant were garrulous compared with these.

Thk “ Marllmr’ongh Times ” refers to Mr Ball-time as “That dead failure as a Colonial Treaeurer. who never knew to a few millions how the colony stood. ” Up to the present time, it has cost the Government of New South Wales a sum of €5t),(l00 to try and stamp out the smallpox disease. A very nice little hill that.

It is said that among the name> of the detectives list re sweep- on the Wellington racecourse were those of Lady G n.lon,’ the Hon. Mrs Buckley, Mrs Braithwaite, an. other local leaders of fashion.'

Sin Geoboe Grev has sent th- fol!owi-g telegram to Mr She man When two friends en,-age in a contest it is difficult, to conmatulate the victor, as it. atinears as'ur up in the conquered one; but I heartily cm. gratulat.e you ipip getting a .set;. Von absence from I’aniament would have been a loss to the House and country,”

_ Some interest has hienexci el in racing circles by J, KobertS'm, a trainer at HamiU ton, backing a horse bred by himself to beat any li.rse Messrs Chirinsine ca i liml in all Victoria I'he challenge ha 3 been accepteii ami the race will ho run in D ember at the Hamilton ran-s. Probably Messrs Chirusi te will sonil Spinning dale. The secretary of the OMlnnn (England) Cotton Spinners’ Association has written io the United Stat<s Consul at Mancbes'er, declaring that 1,01)0 tons of wind are p id for as cotton every season, in consequence of fraudulent packing. The svcietary snggtidte that the na nes of the planter an I the packer he placed inside each bale of cotton.

Mr David Bucuava-v, a N.d.W. member of Parliament thus o esc ribas a teeto-taller:-A lean, emaciated, yellow-faced' ; CreatU'e, who has no fear of (dud, Tvtir. all 1 Sorts of fear ot min ; a miserable ' being, whom he could not 1 mk upon without feeling an almost irrepressible hankering to take him by the heels and pitch him head foremost into a puncheon of rum. Sailors have a rooted superstition against parsons and passengers, and when the Tararua left Dunedin, having on hoard the Australian representatives at the Wealeyau Conference, the seamen were indulging in a little chaff at the fact of so many clergymen being on board, when one of the crew remarked that if the steamer got safe to Melbourne ho would never bolievo in the superstition again.

ThiT debates of tTiiT Sydney" Hons* of Parliament »ie reported »t night to the printer’ll dtrk oy the tele|l»one. The latMr Layonck. M P. for l.incolnshire, sueoeune I to £Io,O ill (>e. annum, mi l within afm anight die i. I. an* eats i hat he had removed fnto a mansion which hail ticca newly painte I, ami died from tie poisonous t Hlitvium. His son, wlio Miccceils to the whole of the property, is only four, teen years of age, ami in is calcula eh that By the time ho is oat of his minority, the acoumulaiod fund will amount to aq'iaftor •of a 'million.

A XTVtX anp'ication was made, to Captain B iylcy, of the Hawera Rffl-’S, recently, a woman desiring to join the corps. She -fai- 1 she livid a little way nut (if town, and ■lb sired >o be given a rifle, in order that she anight protect hciseff in a ease of •need. To isecnif it she was willing to take the oath 'and j in the "Corps, Thu captatn, in his •blandest tones (says the Hawera Star), assured the holy'that he Would give the miatter careful considerai m.

Tun advantages of inn national system of >e i mvi thin:(says the 44 Bm e Hpiam ") were stiik ng idnsirated to those who ha :to o 'with the 'conduct of the went elec'iions A very large imnibor of the voteis at Milton found it ‘iieceesa y, on account, of their not being aide to peal or write, to 'seek the md of the Returning Officer in preparing their voting pajiem. Weave not rx.igg. r.-.irng if we say that f-dlv live ]ier •cent, were in this uiiecm'ortiiMii predicament. 'Had a national system •■£ education such as every moth' r’s son -erij ys, extsteu in th-ir boy hoo I, such would not have Ifeeii 'the case.

An odd incident is repor'ed from the 'Transvaal. A private of the 7th. who had poisoned himself with native grog, a til‘liiiimua sort of Inandv.wis brought mas ■dead, amt an ii qneac was held upon him. He was found to have died by over-drink-ling had aleolmlic I quor, and was in the •cmusrt of the m. rniny taken away' tor 'liinial, VVlii e being born-’ to tne grave 4hc sit .king up in the coffin awoke him, Jin t lie shouted lus'i y to be let out. causin'* •a general scare among the men carrying "him. Tim man was release ), and i< still alive, ami his narrow escape will doubt less make him more emti.-us as to the quality of hj a liq-on in thefu lira T* aimoHivtiig Mr Paiiiell’s arrest at ’Guildhall, B'nVm. Mr Gladstone said

I have been informed that the first step -has been taken tow mis the vin lication of low Mid order, the debts of property and the first delimits of cividsa'ion by the arrest irf a mnn who, entiieiy front motives 'which I rlo not eballeng or examine, has made hints. If prominent in an attempt to destroy the authority of the law. w e ate not at issue with the people of Ireland. I firmly believe that a majority of the tenants ■earnestly de-ire a trial of the l and Act. The (tower with which we are strnceding is that which emleavors to say how far the people shall o' ey the law. We have no fear of the people of Ireland, hut we do fear lest many more shall become demoralised or itnimi luted.’

Tn« London correspondent of the Sbef■field Telegraph says:—Few operatic artists "have had so roman ic a career as Madame Maria Base. The following anecdote is only •one of a number of almost equal interest. During tlte sicec at Paris no citizen worked 'harder for the defence than this intrepid !■ • enehwontan. She organised an ambulance, and supported it by giving cono ids ami dramatic (soformat.ces. All the patriotic young men were madly in love wi hj her. and she teceived innumerable offers of marriage from admirers in all ranks of Sod. ty A young tnaiquis threatened her wit hj a. terrible punisl nient if she did not .-accept his suit. He invited her to meet h’ni. and swore he would permanently ilia-h-ore her if she did not rmo She met hint in tlte I’mis de. Boulogn", and as he sp. ke four commissiaries of police rushed I roin their nlaces.of concealment and secured him. fn his pocket was found a bottle of vitriol. Bui this failure did not thtvart his purpose He still vowed revenge,' ami having escaped from prison when'the Comiuiunq was declared,, might have carried out his intent if he had not been shot-Vine night near Mar a low's house •So "ended an nteies’ii g drama which must have' been ‘deei e ily unpleasant to the heroine

Uvkpkcting paragraphs which have ap-Tw-aivil in eonii*c ion with the cleik of the 'Court at Palmerston, the local Time* is ,-j;iven to understand (hat *hey have l>een W itten umbr a mi«appiehension.of facts In the fiist place. M> Walt entered the ■Court House hv the front door, the key of which 'he 1 ailiff had iu his pogse-sioo, and >iio‘. by the window as slated. .Secondly, MrShepjcrd had been in possession of the bailiffs cottage since Mr Flanagan ) e fr, and was c,.n!y wai'ilia flee arrival of sVr Robinson to t: ke i» rmaiieiit possession, his object being to 0.-oapy the collage more as a public ‘convenience than any savins: to hmi-elf as hi had cxpi tided equal to sis months rent in papeiing and renovating the interior. Mr Shepperd 1 1 ad been induced to remove a P “flion of his fiunitu'e iiro the cottage under ihe impiession that he would be ■allowed to u«e it, seeing that arrangemetits were pending for partitioning off a part i f the (Ji nrt for a witness room, and tenders had already been invited for the woik. The fact of Mr shepperd being absent on t.le day referreil to is accounted for ns not being one of his days as i üblicly notified ■ontsi'ie the Court.-honse, being Mondays, 'Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays—he being engaged in electoral business on Saturday hist. Whatever may be the out. com <d the eciiou ol the action of Mr Watt in ms; eie ing him, we 1 etieve Mr Shepperd yas under the impressioo that Mr Watt’s jurisdiction over the Palmerston Court had cca co from the day he last sat there and received a valedictory address.

K. P. Connolly, the new member for I’icion, intends going in for le hieing the hotiomrinm. He is reported to have sail that “the amount now paid is excessive, and that he was in favi r of cu tii.g it down by one-haif. In the House of lieprcscntatives, memherg were originally paid a guinea per day.amonnting to 1,90 and LIOO per sissdon. The idea wag that the ineiul ers should he allowed their expens-s and their expenses only, while serving thur -country, and he muse gay that in those days they had a very superior House to the present. The deterioration of the House ■commenced with the increase of the honorarium. It was said that with the LI p»r day there was a temp 1 atom to members to spin nut the cession ; and so, to he dehveied from temp alien, a fixed sum of LIOO was agryed upon, w hich,he thohghf was a very fair, amount. At. the time-of abolition there was an ox cep finally long session, and the amount doubled, .being taised to 200 guineas ner annum ; in fact they hail gradually been converting the House into what might be termed a ‘billet ’ There were men in the House who could not Lave earned 1.200 in a whole year, and now pet it, for four months, having the remaining eight to pick tip what they could dn. He would let the House be open to the rich man and the poor man alike. I.et it Le open to every man of integrity and ability, lint do not let it become so reduced as to l>e looked upon as a soit of refuge. On the grounds he had stated ho would vote for reducing the amount of the honoxarium to the old standard,"

! HotU'WtY’S OINTMKNT AND PILUJ Cheat and Stoouoh (’oniplaints. The source an i centre of a'rooat every ailment is impurity of the blood ; disM-c this poison, and disease depar'a. Holloway’s ( Pi is exorcise the inestimable power of i thoroughly cleansing each compon ut part i of Uie hloo.l, mid rendering this fluid fit to perform its imoortants funclions. They eope moat successfully with chest diseases, stomaoli oomp'aints, liver disorders, ami many other mataoics, which weie once the besetting dangoifl of mankind at certain seasons in towu and cmndiy. The directions for use enable everyone to regulate the operations of these Pills with the greatest nicety. Advices from California throw some light upon the conflictin'' tele, rams we have received ti moiling the crop prospects in America The Sin Fra cisco 44 Bulletin, ’ writing at a time when » fair estimate o odd be formeil, says of the prospects in California;— 44 The wheat yield -of the State though it ca.mot reach the figure of last veav. will be a very creditable one, and if the losses by reason of lands over fl iwed ■last winter be commlei-ml, it wfb rank as a remarkable one The word might as well go abroad that, considering the surplus now on hand and figuring upon tin prese it crop prospects, the noede l wheat-fleet will have •o lie a Inry» one Bast year the State [mo•lneed 4,1100.0 0. ions of wheat, and it is sai l that 503,01)0 of that is still on band. Allowin'! an an In margin for the l-«-es incurred on oveifliwed lands, hutrememberj'lif that the average rainfall wns over 28 i'-clies, P seems ns i> 1,100,1 Odor l.OO'ddllHi :t iis mi-ht he calculated upon. This under the circumstances, will be siiinetliing to he proud of, and uptoihe p;eaent time nothing has occurred to disprove uch a conclusion. In this case the surplus of new wheat would lie about 610,(1'0 tons. Of comae, in all calculations at this season there are nia. y uncertain factors. How will the wheat yield on the late sown abode lands? Is the i nst going to be sn ious in any section? As it is threshed docs it prove plump, ami . f good in most districts? These are questions which it is yet too early to decide. But, a- staled, the prospects were in favour of the large su-plus named, and it would si em, as our latest telegram stated, that ihe 44 rings ’ have been very active in getting up a corner upon wheat.