The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1882.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1039, 17 March 1882, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1882.

—— Rcne.*Uh the rule of men entirely just The jren is mightier thar the sword.

It is with deep regret that we learn through a. private letter of the death of Mr Donald MacPherson, well known anil greatly respected throughout the district. He went to Scotland about a war ago for the benifit of his health, and by the last mail we are informed that while there be was run over by a train and died from the injuries received. A dance will be hell in the Town Hall, Clyde, immediately after the 1.0 C.T. concert. In additition to refreshments tree, a good programms has been provided. As the surplus is for the benefit of the Hospital funds we expect to see a good attendance.

Tun cricket match between the Englishmen and the Australian Eleven lias bad to bo drawn in consequence of heavy rain. This is much to bo regretted, as the Englishmen protr isedto exceed all their previous records during their Colonial trip in the way of scoring, only two wickets having fallen for the very large number of 234 runs. M-R Stkake, dentist, at present in Cromwell will visit Clyde on Friday and remain here for a few days. Wr. would remind our local readers thvj a liberal programme of amusements for St Patrick’s Day has been provided by the Good Templars of this district. A pic-nie will bo held at Mr. Williams paddock, and in the evening a concert will be given in aid of the Dnustan district Hospital.

A raker, says the *V. 0. Times, whose loaves had been growing “small hy degrees and beautifully less, ” when going his round tc serve his customers, slopp'd at the door of one and 'knocked, when the lady within exclaimed, “ Whns there?” and was answered. “Tie baker.” “What do yon want?" “Th leave your bread. ” “Well, yon needn’t make such a fuss about it—put it through the keyhole,” was her reply. Tire Tnapeka County Councill have K - solved that dogs used solely for the destruction of rabbits shall he exempt from the dog lax on the inspector certifying that they are bona jiilr entitled to the same.

The will of a recently-diseased Dumb lei ■ shire laird has been causing consiilerahlc excitement in the south of Scotland, and it will probably come before the Court of Session. The testator seems to have been a most eccentric person, for a few months before his death he threw a parcel to his forester! which contained stock to the amount of £17,000, on which that fortunate is now living in luxury. He, in the same easy way. as if it was of no consequence, gave his coachman a cheque for £.7,000 his shepherd scrip for £13,000 and achcque for£3ooo to the aforesaid shepherd's brother. Shortly after ho died, and on his will being opened it was found that the good luek of the shepherd wis far from being exhausted, as, except legacies of £6,000 each to the coachman and the brother, he was left the whole property, about 1,80,000 so he finds himself possessor of the estates on which he commenced his career as the “ wee herd laddie,” and in right thereof he has been appoin'ed a Commissioner of S”uply for the County. He is described as 11 an estimable lad.”

Mr William Hookey, is we understand, reinstated Bailiff to the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Cromwell, in place ot Mr W. Hall, resigned.

Business in the life assurance lino has received a spurt lately through the presence in the district of Mr Scott, of the Government department, ami Mr Smith, ot the Australian Mutual. The former gentlemen confined his attentions strictly to the Manuherikia Valley, while the latter took the lives of the residents in the Valley of the Molyneux.

We are in receipt ot a post quarto pamphlet of 04 pages besides any number of diagrams, the same being “ lleport on the Mortality Experience of the Australian Mutual Provident Society for the first 30 years of its existence, from 1849 to 1878. Space will not admit ot us going into details howevei. We may state that during the existence ot of the Society 41,710 lives have been assured, of whom 1(588 have died, and 9446 discontinued, leaving 30,576 still on the books. The average death rate has been only 4 0 per cent, and the average duration of assurance was 5‘04 years.

The Tapanni Courier, in noticing several late bankruptcies in that neighbourhood, says;— This disease is highly contagious, but we trust it will not spread any further. The Acting-Minister of Public works has declined to promise any further assistance to the Tuapeka County Council in the reerection of the Beaumont Bridge. New gas works have iieou erected in Dunedin in order to supply the suburbs. They arc capable of supplying 30,000,000 cubic feet per annum.

An exchange mentions that Invercargill will, in all probability shortly boast of a Coffee Palace, —an institution of which it stands greatly in need. The Cromwell Argue states that a rush has set in within the past lew days on the Garrick Range, the result of a quartz discovery made some little time ago by Riutonl and party. In the course of prospecting the range the outcrop of a reef was come upon, a short distance above the Heart and Oak claim. On sinking a well-defined reef was come across which yielded a remarkably good prospect. The reef is fully a foot and a half thick, the stuff being of a brown “ flakey” nature and carrying good gold throughout. Buchan ank party last week pegged off north of the prospector’s claim and are applying for a lease. Some years since good gold was got in the alluvial of Smith’s Creek, towards which Kintonl’s reef dips, and there is a strong probability’ that it came from there. The prospectors are busy getting stuff to grass and in a few days more the result of crushing will be known. If satisfactory, a fresh leasn of life and activity may soon begin on the Ca-iriek.

Ninf.tf.rn persons, including the Mayor, Mr Fish, M.H.lt, and tvv> of the City Fathers, were charged last Saturday at the Dunedin P.dice Court with gambling on the Forbnry Racecourse at th.i late meeting. They were all convicted and fined 40s. and costs

There is a happy miner in the Thames district who is blessed with something like a wife, for his more than better half not only presi les over the household, but also occasionally' takesa shift in the mine, hauling or trucking out, and when crushing oni o

round she feeds the battery (no baby to-feed) whilst lie looks after the tables, <Vc. The husband is mine and battery owner, and this last month the ha|i|iy pair netted between £3oand £4O with oneadiiitionathand, working the mine and battery themselves. Tint way in which thistier spread over

the country was amply illustrated in this district during the past wcik. For some hours the flying down of the thistles might have made strangers hdieve that they were witnessing a snow stoi in.

Tin' Ota i/o Da Hi/ /Vines of a recent issue says The first ascent of Mount-Cook to its summit is a feat the successful accompishraent of which will he recorded in the annals of the Alpine Club to the honour of the Rev. Mr Green and his Swiss guiiles. Wu do not know there is any tiling particularly heroic in the risking of necks or limbs in the performance of such feats, but it is one of those evidences of vital force, energy, pluck and determination that are such distinguishing characteristics of the AngloSaxon race. They do these things because “it is their nature” to do them. Had some of the many avalanches which threatened the party overwhelmed them and terminated their existence we should then have said, What a pitiful waste of human life ! As all has ended happily, however, and the party have returned in safety after undergoing fatigues which few men are willing to risk for such an object, we can now only admire the indomitable spirit of the climbers, and hope that their occount of the glaciers of New Zealand may attract other visitors. There are now so few possible enterprises that someone or other has nob attempted that we must not he surprised if Hr. Green’s adventures draw a number id climbers to our alpine ranges, which are declared by these very c impotent judges to ho unsurpassed in the world for grandeur No one can, however, rob Mr Green of the glory of pioneer. He has done what no one in the whole world has done before, and how few can say that ! Hu deserves whatever kudos ho can s et out of it, and will he alien among his alpine compeers till somebody else rivals or outdistances his feat. Well, it will all help to get New Zealand talked about and better known, and liy-anfl-bye it will be the fashion for wealthy young athletes to “do” New Zealand glaciers, lakes, hot spring and all. We are sufficiently civilised to be able to render such such visits not unpleasant to those accustomed to the comforts of European civilization, and sufficiently in a state of nature to afford a few new sensations to worn-out sight-seers sighing for now worlds to conquer. Altogether we are very much obliged to Mr Green for visiting our monarch of mountains, and congratulate him on getting away with a whole skm.

Tub Blacks and Clyde Junior Cricket Clubs (combined) intend playing a match with tho Alexandra J.C.U. at Clyde to-day, and as both teams are in full practice a very close game is expected. On the Ist prox. the Government intend issuing fresh postage and revenue stamps, the denomination and colours of which will bo as follows : —One penny, crimson ; two , JBenny, mauve; threepenny, yellow.; four,; green ; sixpenny, brown ; one shil- j ling, Indian red ; eigbteenpeuny, red. i The well-known troupe of artists, Lyon’s Tourists, will perform at the Town Hall, Clyde, on Wednesday next. They will appear infthe comic pantomime, Isle-of fulipatan, in which they have already achieved 1 ■so great a success. A special coach has been engaged for tbe ’ conveyance of the ■party from Roxburgh. Tho Tale of Love.—First, innocent love is a strange thing. There is that in female beautywhich it is pleasure merely to gaze upon ; hut beware Of looking on it too long.

The lustrous black purple contrasting with 'the pearly White ef tho eyeand the carnatcd kkin—the clear placid blue into which you ■see down, down to the very soul—tho deep

'hazel, dazzling as a sun-lit stream, seen through the opening to its willow banks—all may'be gazed upon with impunity ninetynine times, but at the hundredth yon are a gone man. On a sudden the eye strikes ■deeper and brighter than everq or you fancy that a look is stolen at you beneath a droop-ing-eye-lid, and that there is a alight flush ■on the cheek, and at once you are in love. Then you spend the mornings in contriving apologies for calling, and the ofternoons for playingthem off. Whenlyou lay your hands ■on the knocker, your knees tremble, and your breast feels compressed ; and, when admitted, you sit and look, and sxy nothing, ■and go away determined to tell your whole storymext time. This .goes on for months, varied by the occasional daring of hissing a flowc which she -presents ; perhaps in the ■intoxication of love, wafting a kiss towards her.; or, in affectation of the Quixotic style, kneeling'with mock heroic emphasis, to lass ker hand in pretended jest. And the next time you meet both are as reserved and as stately as ever. Till at last, on some un■noticeable day, when you are left alone with the lady, you quite unawares find her ’hand in yours, and you know not how, but ■you tell the tale of love.

As a tram-car passed the Octagon, T)une■din, on Monday, the conduct of two per-

■sons dressed as females attracted a great

■deal of attention. Ole of them behaved in ■such an extraordinary way as to give currency to the 'belief that “she” was no ’woman, hut belonging to the sterner sex The pair left the ear before a police detective’s attention could be drawn to them. The following instance of ingenious trans- , Ration is considered by a Christchurch paper I worthyof record: —A.late arrival from Home, now in that city, recently received from a •customer in the way rif business a-cheque drawn on a certain hank. Cu presentation, however, the recipient of the cheque had it returned with the addition of the -mystic betters N. S F. Interviewing the drawer of the valuable document, he requested an explanation, Examining the cheque with the air of a man who is suffering from a heavy •grievance, he exclaimed : “Ah! N.S. P. ;I thought so. Hush I don’t say a word ! I have expected this a long time. Tint sufficient funds, 1 knew they had a 'heavy knock lately. But it will lie all right-soon, as I know they are expecting bullion from Victoria'hy the next steamer. You'd hotter wait a day or two.” The new arrival, who had previously looked at the matter in another light, did wait.

1 he Melbourne Ar/e of February 25 coir tamed the following extraordinary an

nouncement in its birth notices: ■“ Martin. —On the 9th January, at Lee Street, North Carlton, the wife of Aristarchus (Harry) Martin, of a daughter. Mother delighted, father surprised. The Home correspondent of a cmitempo-

rarysays: On the 18th of January, ISSI, occurred the dreadful snowstorm which

seemed to bring back the winters of old time;

hut, strange to say, the same anniversary this year the weather was, as it has been ■through the winter, ns mild as spring, and the barometer rose to the unparalleled height of 30 95, or within an ace of 31 inches. Since 1825 this phenomenon has not occurred, ind of course the attention of meteorologists has been much drawn to the fact.”

The American "Senate have finally passed the Exclusion Bill against the Chinese

The shareholders of the National Fire and Marine Insurance Comuany held a meeting on Friday last in Watson’s Rooms, Dunedin, at which it wes decided to increase the nominal capital of the Company to the ■extent of £2,000,000.

Caroline, Marchioness of Qncensbury, has addressed a long letter to Irishmen, strongly condemning the present agitation ■She is especially severe on the lady Land Leaguers, and sarcastically observes: “lam that the line i» so clearly drawn hewfc'i the ‘ ladies ’ and the women of Ireland. Women’s mission in society is a pure, •a holy, a regenerating one, and as an Irishwoman 1 rejoice that the women of Ireland ■leave the platform, the scenes of strife and ■outrage, to the undisputed possession of the ladies.’ ”

Tire 'Christchurch Exhibition will he ipened on April the 10th. The following irogrammehas been arranged :-His Exeell■«cy the Governor will he received at 10.30 an. at the gates by the Mayor and City 'Conoil ofChsistchurch, the members of the con-nittee of judging and awards, together withtbe promoters, by whom he will he led up tetbe dais, the bands playing God Save the Qeen. The most Rev. the Primate havingread an inauguration prayer, the Art.iller Band will play the Exhibition Socially composed for the occasion by their endcr, Mr Hamilton. The pro' meters wi then present an address to His Excellency getting forth the objects of the Exhibitioigifter replying to which he will

declare the Exhibition open. The cautata '(Mendelssohn's Lohgeaang) will then ho sung by the‘Christchurch Musical Society, under the leadership of Mr H. Wells, and accompanied by tire Austrian Band, under Herr Braun. Hk Excellency will then visit the various courts of the Exhibition. At the entrance to each court he will bo received by the exhibitors, who will bn presented to him by the promoters. At 12 HO the public will ho admitted at the fixed rate, which will be maintained throughout, viz, one shilling.