The Dunstan Times CLYDE, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29.1882 Telegraphic.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1066, 29 September 1882, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29.1882 Telegraphic.

Beneath the rule of men entirely juik The pen ia mightier that the aword.

SPECIAL TEL: GRAMS. (From our own Corrtupondrnl.) DrSEDIN, September 28, 7.55 p.m. Full reports of late meetings of sharebol ers f (Guthrie and Larnacb’s Coy. are publisbod in the daily papers and are attracting attenti n. Mr Larnaob stated during las' meeting that the Coy. had paid the rum of LI 17.000 in discount, interest, and exchanges to 'be Bank of New Z-aland since the formation of the Coy. on Sept. I, 1877. It is reported that Mr Wright has been offered a post in the Ministry. A man nam'd 0 iver Harris, employe-' at Victoria Foundry, yesterday, sustaine t i compound fracture of elbow, wrist, and jaw. caused by a belt breaking. Christina Jansen hag been arrested a* Wel'ington, charged with manslaughter of infant. The Christchurch Insurance Association yesterday resolved to make a reduction of 25 per cent on the old rates" A man named Jeffery R binson has been found drowued in Salt Water Creek, near Tima'U. Robert Goodison was brought up at Court to-day under the Fraudulent Bankruptcy Act, he bav ng tr.->nsf,-i re I land to ' his bi other, with intent to defraud creditors. Case adjourned. Messrs Facile and Dickie are appointed Property Tax Act Assessors for Clyde dia" ' trict. George Mansfield, a miner, on Tuesday dipped into the Kumara sludge channel ' and was washed out to the mouth a dis 1 , tanoe of 300 feet. No bones were broken. At the Land Board, yesterday, James Cummers’ application to su-render Run at . Wakatipu was referred to the Government. —— i Donstast Races —Tne Clyde spring race ' meeting takes place to-day. I SalbatOphib.—Mr. Fache reportshnv- i ing had a most successful sale, on Tuesday f last, at Ophir, of dairy cows and household furniture, on account of Mrs L-ask. i Cromwell Privileges—On Monday last Mr Fache «old the privileges in connec- * tion with the Cromwell Spring Race Meeting, realizing in all the sura of L 23 10. Mr { Janies Laurence, of Quartzville, was the purchaser of the booth and grand atand. I Important Sale—Mr Fache draws | special attention to the important sale by auction of horses, citt’e, an-1 farming imple- g rnents, at Cromwell, on Saturday, October • 7. To farmers in quest of good well-bred , stock, the sale jiresents an opportunity that seldom happens, and it is to be looped there I will' be a attendance of onyers. v

Property Tax Assessment.—The. ,-aesassors -under “learn, will soon be entering" "upon tbeir duties. Mr. J. S. Dickie has received the appointment for the Snu’hern division of Vincent County and Mr. ,G., Pache for the Northern division ' Steamer on Wanaka.— The idea was mooted some few months back of placing a steamer on Lake Wanaka, and wo understand that arrangements were so far completed for the purchase of the necessary machinery. We now learn, however, that for the time being all is knocked on the nead. Neglecting the Babbits.— At a meeting of the Land Board last week, a memo, was received from Babbit Inspector Stewart stating that the lessee of run 354, Nevis, had failed to take steps to clear the rabbits off his run He requested that this might be considered in settling Mr Harrison’s claims for improvements, etc., on the land. —On considera ion of the inspector’s report, rescind the resolution passed on the 16.h of August last regarding the matter, and to make no recommendation as to acceptance of surrender or payment of valuation for improvements. Cromwell Argus. Accident to Mr M^GiN'm— An accident of father a serious character occurred on Tuesday afternoon, at about 2 o’clock, to Mr M. J. Vl’Ginniss, Chairman of Vincent County Council It appears that Mr M‘Ginniss had j mi arrivedfjin Clyde with a cartload of straw, and* after having deposited it at its destinaiionjjwas returning homewards, when, on passing th» corner of Mr Dickie’s’stables, the horses.took fright at a buggy in the middle of the mail, They set off at a great speed with Mr M‘Gmnis in the dray, and in trying to get, out on the shafts he slipped off the dray, falling on his head anil side, and the wheel passing over foot. The horses still kept on at a mad rate, but wereat length very phickily caught by Mrj Charles j Holt,-jof Earnscleugh Station.