BLACKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1047, 12 May 1882, Page 3

BLACKS.

(P>'mn our own Correspondent)

The improvements that are being made from time to time in our little town speak well for the faith of the inhabitants in tiie permanency of the place. Substantial stone buildings are becoming the rule and not the exception. There has boon tiie addition this season of a small but neat arid substantial stone building for the Colonial Bank ; and Mr Burren has removed into his now stone store It also may bo characterised as small and neat, but as the present erection comprises only half of the design, when finished tiiat of being small will not then apply A now stone stable for the use of the police, and a now Icek-up for the benefit of whom it may concern has been contracted for But the new Couithouse, long promised, seems to bo a case of hope deferred maketh the heart sick

Another change in the personnel of ou r peace protector has just been accomplished .Mr Kennedy, who lately took the place of Mr McLeod on his removal to Cromwell, has resigned the force, and his place is filled at piesent by Constable Nestor, but whether permanently or not is not yet known.

The only cases which appeared to interest the spectators at the court to-day was an assault case from Drpbreod in which CSO damages was claimed ; and a disputed sale of a horse, which was given for a week on trial, with the proviso that if not then returned, it would ho considered sold. The horse was kept for three weeks and then returned, hut the seller would not take delivery. The decision in the last caso was that tho seller was entitled to the price of tho horse ; and in the first a verdict of damages and costs, amounting altogether to nearly £.*lo was given. Gavan of tho Shamrock was fined £1 and costa for playing, or allowing others to play billiards at a time they ought to have been in bed, hut the interest was chiefly confined to tho man who had to pay the piper. Several others cases was before tho court and a considerable amount of routine business was transacted.

Water is now plentiful, and the mining claims at Tinkers at Dryhrcad are in full swing if King frost docs not too soon implant his iron foot. The periodical washing up will create au interest among our bankers. Prospects in the Deep Lead, I'to. 3., Blacks, continue to inprove, and shareholders are jubileut.