The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY DECEMBER 22, 1882

Dunstan Times, Issue 1078, 22 December 1882, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY DECEMBER 22, 1882

■ Boneatk the rule of men entirely jus* Thee pen is mightier that tbs sword.

Owing to next Monday being a holiday, the Post and Telegraph Offices will be closed. The next English mail via San Francisco will close on Wednesday next at 2 p.m. A meeting of members of Committee of the Dunstan Racing Club will be held on Saturday night for important business, We notice by the Gazette that the Central Board of Health have appointed Messrs Benjamin Naylor, Alexander J ss, and Leslie Duncan M‘George, members of the Local Board of Health for the district of Clyde, in the County of Vincent. We trust that ere long - now that we have a Board of Health—complaints will he less numerous than hitherto. In consequence of the late showery weather a wonderful impetus has given to growing crops ; many large areas that were looking as if they would turn out complete failures are now looking really splendidThe pasture in every direction is also looking better than for many years past, and si' kinds of stock are improving in condition. Added to this pleasing state of affairs the high prices that are ruling for all kinds of produce both pastoral and agricultural, farmers are quite joyous at their prospects. Horton, the chemist, remanded on a charge of attempting to murder Mias Raynor, at Davenport, was found dead in his cell at the Mount Elen gaol on Saturday morning last. At the inquest a verdict was returned that the deceased died from serious sanguineous apoplexy. Last Saturday morning, a lad named John Wimpeuny, was drowned at the Ocean Reach. He in company with another lad had gone there for the purpose of bathing, but a breaker catching Wimpenny carried him out beyond his depth, and after three attempts to rescue him had been made his companion had to abandon the idea of personally rescuing him. The body has not yet been recovei ed. Two boys attacked a Chinaman in Dunolly (Victoria) a week or two ago, and fractured Lis skull by pelting him with stones. A constable found him lyingin the street where he had fallen, and he died next morning. The boys were promptly arrested. It is a curious coincidence,says a Wellington paper, that Sir Julius Vogel should have landed in New Zealand the very day after our three years’ period of pledged abstinence from borrowing expired. From the Otago Daily Times wo learn that Mr George Dodson, an old and valued resident of Port Chalmers, died on Saturday, after a long and painful illness. The deceased gentleman came to Otago over 20 .years'ago, and in addition to being the proprietor of the principal hotel in the Port, tor many years kept the Empire Hotel m Dunedin, Mr Dodson was for a consider- . able time a member of the Port Chalmers Municipal Council. He was largely interested in the breeding of blood stock, his stud farm at Olendermid being a most valuable one, and was connected with the Dunedin Jockey Club for many years, having for a length of time acted as smarter at the Club's race meetings. The deceased gentlemen will be sincerely regretted by a circle of friends, whom his manly and strightforward character had gained him.

A rather strange affair (says the Tuapeka Timet) is reported from Tuapeka West : Mr John Bui Bn reported to the police that a nan bad been seen last week in the bush behind his accomodation house by himself, his son, and his plaughman, with a large pole or stick in his hand. The man came out of the bush, was seen to stick the pole in the ground, go some distanca from it, throw stones at it, return and take it up, shake it round his head, and then bestride it as if on horseback. Those who witnessed the strange occurrence made a run to try and capture him, but he made his escape into the bush. As the parties were not close to him no description of his person can be given. On Monday last Sergeant-major Moore and Mounted-constable Clark proceeded to the localty, and, accompanied by Mr Bulfin, made a careful search of the bush, but could Bnd no trace of the man. No one is known to have called at any place in the neighborhood asking for food, and the probability is that the individual, whether semi or wholly insane, has removed to some other locality. The second trial of the Pecq murderer* has just ended in Paris, and the sentence of the Provincial Court has been set aside. A technical flaw was the reason of the second trial, the result of which appeared to be more in accordance with the temper of the Parisian public. Marin Fenayrou, the outraged husband who planned and executed the murder upon the man who had dishonored him, is now only sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Provincial Court had sentenced him to death. This leniency is approved on the grounds that Fenayrou was deeply wronged, and that be might b excused for taking so terrible a revenge. The sentence on his wife, who it is decided acted under his compulsion, but who was the guilty cause of the murder, is the same as that inflicted by the other Court, and consists of perpetual seclusion. The third party (Lucien Fenayrou, the brother), who was an accessory before and after the fact, has been acquitted, not without lou 1 protests from the public and the Press. Luoien's friends and fellow-workmen appear to havq been so delighted at his escape that they entertained him at a public banquet, and (as a French print sarcastically remarks) no doubt he will be brought forward as next year’s candidate for the Monthyon prize of virtue. The result of this trial may be soma explanation of the statement made by the Freqch Minister of Justice—that serious crime is greatly on the increase in-Prance. The trial of the two ex-employees of the Church Missionary Society at the West Coast of Africa, William F. John and John Williams, together wit-h their wives, pn the. charge of the wilful murder of a young native girl in the year 1877, at Oni aha, on the Niger has been concluded after a twelve day's hearing. The prisoners were convicted of manslaughter, and were sentenced as follows :—Williams and his wife to 20 years’ penal servitude ; J hn to IS and a halt years’ penal servitude ; and Mrs John I to two years’ imprisonment with hard | labour. The sen'.enca upon John would have been the same as that ha had been in prison awaiting trial for about eighteen mouths. M F. M 0 It A N D A. The sale of privileges in connection with the Dnnstan rates will he held to-morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock, at the Port Phillip Hotel corner, J. C Chappie will sell at Cambrians on Tuesday, 2Gih December a large and well-assorted stock of groceries, drop ry, etc , etc. George Kache will hold a sale of fnrnit re, house, cows, poultry, etc., on Cromwell Hal on Saturday, December 30th. Also on Wednesday, December 27th, at 11 o’clock sharp, at Kawaru Gorge, house, furniture, outbuildings, etc., etc. The Alexandra Caledonian Society, in another column, advertise their programme’ of sports for Boxing ay. A social dance will be held in Siramonds’ new saloon, Alexandra, on Boxing Day. The public are invited A grand musical and dramatic entertainment will be held in the Town Hall, Clyde, on Friday, sth January, in aid of the funds of the Dnnstan District Hospital. The Court appointments for January appear In another column.