The Dunstan Times CLYDE, FRIDAY. JULY 21 1832.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1057, 21 July 1882, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE, FRIDAY. JULY 21 1832.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just The pen is mightier thar the sword.

War News —On the fourth page will he found te eglaphic war news, the first part of which we received on Saturday and issued as an extra. The continuing nows as gathered from our contemporaries will he found amongst our telegrams under the heading “ The crisis in seen that the information on the momentous sul.j'Ot, dates from the ISthinat. to the 19th.

The Eight Hopes Bill.—This bill has been thrown outjbyjthe LegislativelCouncil by 17 to 9.

The Ccmberlan’d'Stref.t Fire —Captain Kitchener : ;is reported to have had a relapse and is now seriously ill.

A Coukf/tion. — Mr Vi> centPyke, whilst speakingon the I and Bill, said that he and nob Mr Donald lleid originated the deferredpayment system.

Appointment.— Mr Thomas Luther Shepherd. has been appointed ll'ceiver of Hold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Charleston, Nelson province.

Countv council Meeting—The Vincent County Council will meet, on Wed liesflay next, the 26 hj inst, in the County Offices, Clyde, for the transaction of ordinary business.

Arrears of Rates. The County Clerk’s notification regarding the payment of rates should be attended to by those in arrears if they do not wish the trouble and expense of attending the R.M. Court.

A Dreadful Sentence.—An old man, aged 7.1 years, who was convicted of rape on a child 10 years old, at Auckland, was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment and 30 lashes within a month- A dreadful sentence purely ? Justice ! —James Nicol Fleming, one of the absconding directors of the City of Glasgow Bank, who was apprehended at Manchester in January last, has been arrainged on a charge of attempting to defraud the shareholders of the Bank. He pleaded guilty, and was senteuced to eight month’s imprisonment. A Large Overdraft. - From the columns of the Daily Times we learn that Messrs Davidson and Conyers have called a meeting of their creditors and assigned their estate to trustees. The liabilities are £17,000 or £IB,OOO overdraft by the National Bank of New Zealand and about £4OOO of other debts.

Guthrie and Larnach’s Company .—A proposition to wind up voluntarily, under the provisions of the Joint Stock Companies Act, Guthrie and Larnach’s Now Zealand Timber and Woodware Factories Company, was made at an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders on Tuesday last the 18th inst. The meeting was private and the result of the motion did not transpire.

The Land Question.— We have received from Mr J. Aitken Connell copies of cm esoondenoe on the Government L:m<! Bill that has appeared under that gentlemen's signature in the Daily Times. Our limited apace will uot admit of us reprinting them. Irrespective, however, of the views enunciated, the correspondence is well worthy of consideration, given as they are hy a gentleman who has made the Land Question a special study.

ated, the correspondence is well worthy of consideration, given as they are hy a gentleman who has made the Land Question a special study. A Strange Excuse. -Many and strange are the excuses advanced hy drunkards at the City Police Court in extenuation of their having taken more liquor than was good for them. A sailor belonging to the Wild Peer, named Robert Clark, was charged with drunkenness, and in explaining that he was a new arrival ho stated that he was very f< I v to hj ‘ve got “ boosed,” but bnd Pen induced to take too much beer on account of his •* great simplicity.” As it was his first offence Mis Worship merely rec r ’ed a conviction without penalty. COVSCRPTION AND THE CHANNEL TuNNEL.—Sir Garnet Wolsoley, G.G 8., presided a; 'he annual public debate of the University College Debating Society, Gower

Street, and it having been proposed that 1 Conscription ought to be introduced into England,” and decided in the negative, the gallant general said a distinguished Gorman general had remarked to him, “No one but ourselves can realise the burden which universal service imposes on us,” and he believed that to be true. There could be no doubt that in great countries like France, Germany, and Russia, where large standing armies had to bo maintained simply because those nations must be on an equality with each other, universal service became necesraty ; but in England, where we are divided from the rest of the world by a silve 1 ' streak of sea, so long as our fleet floated upon it, so long as that great wet ditch was neither bridged over nor tunclled under by speculators, so long as we could hold our own with a small army, and without attempting to emulate those enormous armies which sucked the lifeblood of every nation on the Continent of Europe, so long would their be no necessity for this country to adopt conscription.”