The Dunstan Times CLYDE, FRIDAY OCTOBER 20. 1882 Telegraphic.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1069, 20 October 1882, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE, FRIDAY OCTOBER 20. 1882 Telegraphic.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jus. The pen is mightier that the sword.

mtri ,I’ORA MS. (Prom our own Correspondent.) Duxepin, October 19, 7.50 p.m. The City of Bombay has arrived from Glasgow. 1 lie Anglical Synod has closed its sitting. The Dunedin School Cnmmitee yesterday decided to award prizes at public schools at Christmas The Kaiapoi Woolen factory is in a very flourishing state. They emoloy 500 hands. At the annual meeting, yesterday, a dividend ot 10 per cent was declared. There avill be a new trial in the case of Adam” for conspiracy at Wellington. At the Land Board, yesterday, John Balderston’s certificate of gold mining lease was declared foifeited. Lachlan M‘Lean’s application to purchase deferred-payment lease at lower Hawea was granted. Wm. Fraser’s application to have western bound try of run altered was granted at Auckland yesterday. Four men left wharf to proceed to the ship Ashmore. After going 300 yards the boat capsized and the two seamen—Robins and Veigher—were drowned. The Lallah Rookh, which was supposed to bo in distress near Manukau. has arrived at Waitara. Mr Hempson, commission agent, Christchurch, has absconded, leaving several promissory notes, supposed to be forged, for large amounts. At the District Court, Timaru, yesterday, Judge Ward, in suspending the discharge of Maloney, tinsmith, characterised his transactions as a family swindle. The Frisco mail will arrive in town tonight. It is stated on good authority that large formation contracts of Otago Central Railway will be put in hand at once. A man named Corrins, formerly a chemist in Oamarn. is suspected of bavin" committed suicide at the Bluff. Mr Farnic has been appointed first assistant of the Normal school. This is a better position than be formerly held. The Benevolent Carnival will probably open on November 22. Hans Neilson strangled himself at Palmerston North this mnrinng. John Mcnzios has been appointed teacher of the Drybread school. Tip to the present time the total export of gold from New Zealand is close on ten million ounces.

Entertainment at Alexandra. A (irst-class programme will be gone through on Friday the 27th inst., at Alexandra, by the Dramatic Club. Details appear in another column. The proceeds of the enter tainment will be handed over to the Webb Relief Fund, Abolition of Sweeps,— The detective police (says the Melbourne Argut) have been engaged during the last few week collecting evidence for the purpose of making another attempt to put down the * 1 sweep ” system, which has grown to such an enormous extent in connection with the Melbourne Cnp meeting during the last few years. They have succeeded in about 12 cases in collecting evidence upon which it is proposed to institute proceedings at an early date. The matter is now under the consideration of the Crown Law Department, but owing to the interference of the Police Commission with the detective department it is improbable that anything further will bo done until after the Cup | meeting. r |

The Queen’s Life. —Her Majesty often receives as many as 40 telegrams a day, all of which she sees and takes note of, states the Home News. Apparently she is determined that the Sovereign’s duties shall not be of a nominal character, or her sign manual attached to documents in a matter-of-form way without consideration of their contents. The Queen, who ordinarily leads a very busy life, is busier than ever, and when she returns from her long drives usually sits up reading despatches and writing till one in the morning, resuming again at 8 a m. her routine of day’s duties. The Rabbit Nuisance.— lt has been generally believed that County Councils can be enforced to take steps to abate the rabbit nuisance existing upon lands over which such bodies have been authorised to exercise power by the Governor. Such, however, does not appear to be the case, for at the meeting of the Tuapeka County Council on Friday an opinion was read on the subject from Messrs Haggitt Brothers and Brent stating that the Council was not liable for the destruction of rabbits on such lands, but only such as was vested in the county. It appears that Inspector Hickson gave the Council notice to destroy the rabbits on Mount Benger commonage and other reserves, but that body, after reading the legal opinion submitted to them, resolved to inform Inspector Hickson that the Couneil did not hold themselves liable for the suppression of the rabbit nuisance. astronomy in Schools, -The following novel manner for inducing schoolboys to study astronomy is mentioned by the Ballarat Courier : —“A new company has just been initiated by the leading State school teachers in the Ballarat district. It is called The Ballarat Boys’ Astronomical Telescope Company (Limited),’in 600 shares of 3d each, and has for its object the purchase of an astronomical telescope suitable for elementary work in taking observations of the stais and general practical astronomy small enough to be handled by boys, and large enough to enable them to see and examine a number of the heavenly bodies, such as the phases of planet Mars, the belts and satellites of Jupiter, and the rings and moons of Saturn, etc., to cultivate a taste for astronomical research, and make boys familiar with the positions of the various constellations, thus bringing them into con* tact with the elementary books on the most interesting and sublime science.” Do Dead Persons turn in their Coffins’—A correspondent of a Bath newspaper seated the following singular circumstance a few years ago :—“Having occasion last week to inspect a grave in one of the parishes in this city, in which two or three members of my family had been buried some years since, and which lay in very damp ground, 1 observed that the upper par t of the coffin was rotted away, and had left the head and bones of the skull exposed to view. On inquiring of thefgrave digger how it came to pass that I did not observe the usual sockets of the eyes in the skull, h ° ttcvt what 1 saw was the hind part of the head (called the ‘occiput,’ 1 l, e . lieve, by anatomists), and that the face was turned, as usual, to the earth. Not exactly understanding the phrase ‘ as usual,’ 1 inquired if the body had been buried with the face upwards, as in the ordinary way • to which he replied, Sto my astonishment,’ in tue affirmative, and addingthat in the course of decomposition the face of every iudividual turns to the earth; and that in the experience of three-and-twenty years in his situation he had never known more than one instance to the contrary.” A writer in Notes and Queries, commenting on this strange story, says that ‘ notwithstanding his three and-twenty’jexperience, the worthy grave digger must have been mistaken, uuless there is.something peculiar in the bodies of Ba-h people. But if the face turns down w any instance, as asserted, it would be right to ascertain the cause, and why this change is not general.”