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Dunstan Times, Issue 1062, 1 September 1882, Page 2

Sales bv A potion .-The auction sale advertisements of Mr Cache’s should bo worth the consideration of those looking out for good business properties. Dredging at ALEXANDRA.-MoQtteen’s big iron di edge is now in full swing working full tune, the buckets seldom ceasing their delving into the golden deposits in the Molyneux bed. Scott’s dredgo is also in full work and report says both are on payable gold. It wiU have been noticed that the special claim granted to this latter company has been cancelled. He knew he had it.-- An amusing story at the exp mse of the Hon, “Johnny Martin is go ng the rounds. Ho the other day met Sir George Grey on the street, and, as is his custom, had his coat adorned with something floral. The Knight of Kawan, said, “ Ah f Martin, 1 see you have disgoama.” The hon. “Johnny’’was taken all aback, coughed very much, and at last spluttered “Yes, 1 have had it rather severe for a couple of days.” Fact. Mining at Blacks. -Work is still being pushed ahead with the utmost vigour on the Deep Lead, Blacks No. a From Campbell and Co.’s claim good payable wash is still being risen to the surface and there and then put through the mi 1, but with what results does not transpire, though it is generally looked upon as OK. AJ share in Pitches and Loves, I learn on the very best authority, changed hands last week for £23; a very good price considering that little beyond marking out the claim has been done, —Communcia ted. The Black s Concert. —The concert at Ophir on Friday last in aid of the Dunstan District Hospital did not come off so well as was expected, the chief reason being the unaccountable absence of most of those ladies and gentlemen who had consented to give their services on the occasion. To those gentlemen, however, who did answer to the call the greatest tminks are due, as to their efforts alone was a complete failure avoided. The Secretary of the Com mi tee, Mr. Alexander, expressed his regret At so few performers being present, and hoped the good dance which would follow would in part make up for the had concert. The remit financially, we understand, will be somewhat about £lO. SaLE at Alexandra.— Mr. Fache requests ns to draw special attention to the sale by auction on Monday next, the 4th inst,, at Alexandra, of the boats and material of the Alexandra Ferry. The sale presents a favourable opportunity for County Councils to possess themselves of a perfect ferry plant ; as also does it to anyone who may contemplate the placing of a dredge on the river. No mere suitable boats could possibly be built for that kind of work, and moreover, connected with them there is no end of material which would he required on a dredge. The boats are also splendidly adapted for cargo boats for any of the lakes they being very strong. j A Swindling Teacher.— An exfcraordij nary case of fraud is reported by the Age { I —One of the assistants in the State school at Albert Park has been charged with putting into the hands of some of the children the copy-books of more advanced scholars, the work in which, when the examiners i came round, was passed off as aving been done by the younger children. This consequently gave better results to the school than it deserved, and a fraudulent claim was made on the Government for the increase, The offending teacher has been suspended, and a hoard of inquiry will he 1 appointed in a few days to consider the matter Gaiciiing a Tartar.—A lively occurrence, in which an auctioneer, hailing from Balclutha, and a farmer not unknown at Lovell’s Flat, took place on the Mosgiel railway platform yesterday evening a little after five o’clock. The farmer ent red a. first-class railway carriage and deliberately struck the auctioneer. 'I ho knight of the hammer invited the agricultural gentleman to st-‘p on to the platform, which invitation was prompt’y accepted. The auctioneer then recei md a succession of smart blows on his fists, delivered with admirable precision by the other pe itloman’s nose. The affair only lasted about a minute, hut it was a had sixty seconds for the tiller of the soil. When we call an auction sale we’ll employ the Balolutha auctioneer ; he’s a first-classhandat “knockingdown.”— TacA Aih-ocale. Poorer, Wages Etc - In reply to questions : The Government considered that the p dice were fairly well paid, and no addition to the present rates of wages was contemplated. The claims of ling service men were at present unler consideration.—The Government would he prepared to take steps to supply public libraries with copies of the treatise on the grape vine by Dr, Frederick Mohr.—The subsidy for libraries would he proposed on the Supplementary Estimates, and if passed would be distributed among libraries without delay, care being taken that small libraries would have a fair share of the sum. Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—As Spring approaches a most favourable opportunity offers for rectifying irregularities, romoving impurities, and erasing blemishes which have arisen from the presence ot matters forbad by winter from being transpired, through the pores. This searching Ointment, well rubbed upon th»skin,ninetrates to the deeply-seated organs, upon which it exerts a most wholesome and beneficial influence. Well nigh all the indigestions vivo way to this simple treatment,aided by purifying and aperitive doses of Holloway’s Pills, round each box of which plain “ instructions ” are folded. Billions disorders, loss of appetite, fulness after eating, lassitude, gout and rheumatism may he effeoively checked on their painful progress.and he seeds of long suffering eiadioated by these remedies. Scandal. — At a river-side town on the Olutha’s banks, a jovial Don Juan left his unmentionable's in a married gentlemen’s bedroom by mistake with c.ose on £SO ia,

i,, ,kets. The lady of the house denied wl knowledge as to how the garment came Into her bed room, and the husband retains it in trust for “Don dnan.” Tt it needless to say the money has not been claimed. Wealth of the Colonies.—Some idea of the wealth of the Australasian colonies may he gathered from the fact that at a banquet given to Sit Henry Parkes while nt Home lately, there were present from the colonies three millionaires, thirty-six who were worth over 1.200,000 each, and seventy-six worth over L 50.000 each. Altoi nether tlhe colonists present represented in the aggregate L 14,000*000 sterling. Scotchmen — Speaking at a dinner in Adelaide, given him by the Caledonian Society of South Australia, Mr Archibald Forbes referred to Scotchmen being found ■everywhere and the'r readiness to assist each other. He remembered, he said, when he was conducting a small and very unfortunate paper in London, called the London iScotsman , he had occasion to enter into an investigation with regard to the number of paupers in London—that was the habitual paupers who were supported out of the poor Tates. There were 49.000 Scotchmen in London, and application to every workhouse in the city disclosed the fact that the number ot Scotch paupers in London at that period was only thirty-nine. He attributed this fact partly to the natural repugnance of Scotchmen to receive charity, and yet further to the action of the Anglo•Scottish societies, who devoted themselves to keeping out ot 'the list (if paupers in the metropolis tbeiir unfortunate compatriots who might find themselves stranded in the ■city. There was a society called the Scottish Corporation, which issued pensions to ■stranded Scotchmen and otherwise aided 'them ; and instead of allowing those hopelessly stranded to drift into the workhouses ■it paid their expenses and dumped them •down on their own parishes, there to he •dealt with. If there were to he paupers, the society preferred that they should be 'sent home. 'Coronation of the Czar.— lt is now •positively announced 'hat the coronation of the Czar will take place at the end of August. The Czar has been influenced in ‘-fixing the date dt'comnattion for August by •certain movements of the Grand Duke Con•stantino’s party which were beginning to ■develop themselves, and the phrase "the •deposition of an unciowned sovereign,” which might frequently be heard, p’aced ’him somewhat in the alternative of 'losing -either his life or crown. He prefers to •expose the first and try to save both. Wo may soon expect (says the St. PetersTurgh (Jerald) grave events in Russia, for •on the sound of the first revolutionary can>non that is fired, Germany, without any preliminary form whatever, will occupy the Baltic Provinces and then annex them. ‘This has been repeatedly told to the ’Em•peror’by a number of well informed persons. A New Plan For Poisoning Rabbits.— -A very sensible plan of poisoning rabbits is ‘described hv a Wimmera correspondent in 'the Australasian. Instead of arsenicinc Tran, grain, or chaff, he contrived to dress With arsenic a bundjo of the common milk •or sow t’hidfiles. The opera'ion was Very 'simply performed. After dipping the ’bundle in water, arsenic was sprinkled 'through the whole lot, and they were ■spread abroad just before sun-down. In 'the morning dead rabbits Were lying instead •ot the thistles. Our correspondent suggests that green feed would prove, more attractive ’in the dry northern di tricts than bran or. •other dry feed, and that supplies should 1v i ■drovided by. sowing a sufficient area. It is 'obvious that green feed could not he grown without water in the drv time of the year, ; and that the patch would have to he en : •closed with a rabbit-proof fence. As a •change—that being one element of success in poisoning rabbi's—green feed might be 1 Tesorted to from time to time, but what i •ever course is adopted, it should he carried •out by the whole country side ; isolated •efforts tend merely to drive rabbits from place to place, to return at intervals in , -.greater force than before.