The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1080, 5 January 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1883.

Beneath the rule of men entirelyjjuts t The pen is mightier than the sword.

The weather up to within the past day or so all through the Christinas has been most unseasonable, it having been nearly an everlasting rain to a gieat extent. Accordingly all out door pastimes were greatly marred. The appointment of Mr George Nicolson M.‘Donald, Mayor of Alexandras South, as a Justice of the Peace is notified In the New Zealand Gazette. The iVakaiip Mail notices the death at Queenstown on the 28th ult., in his 56th year, Mr Thos. George Betts, general merchant, who will be remembered by many in this district. The deceased gentlemen had been in a very critical state of health for some time. His death accordingly was not unexpected. A few heavy frosts, just at the time the fruit trees were in blossom, played more than sad havoo with the fruit trees throughout the district, few gardens or orchards escaping. A heaving wind on Tuesday night last completed the work of destruction, what little there was left being thrashed off. The loss is a serious one, but to those who were depending on their fruit crops as a means of living it means little short of ruin. The Clntha County Council are moderate in the demands, they asking for the sum of (only) £32,014 15s 2d under the Hoads and Bridges Construction Act, We wish they may get it,

A volume, of the statistics of New Zealand for 1882, accompanied by two very excellent maps of the North and South Islands is just to hand from the Government Printing Office. The volume contains 290 pages,and to politician or student would prove invaluable as a book of reference. Mr Faohe announces a sale of Household Furniture, at Blacks, on Wednesday next the 10th inst., oh account of Mr E. de B. Campbell, agent of the Bank of New South Wales, who is removing to Cromwell. Mr Mclntosh of Ophir, we believe, has shifted into his new house, Mao. has been very uufortnnate cf late years having been burnt out twice, that a long time may elapse before (another such misfortune befalls him is the very general wish which we endorse. We learn that the Bank of New South Wales is making great changes in the man. agement of their branches. MrE.de B Campbell, of Blacks, relieves Mr Farrar, who leaves Cromwell for Nelson, and Mr McDougal, who it will be remembered, was some time since agent of the Clyde branch, takes Mr Campbell’s position, A. pio-nic of a private character was held on Tuesday afternoon last, and in the evening the party had a dance in the Town Hall. On the following afternoon and evening a number of the children of the town were entertained by the same parties in the Town Hall. A general meeting of Shareholders in the Golden Gate Mining Company will be held in the Company’s office on Saturday, the 13th inst. A notice to carriers for delivery of wool from Galloway Station, appears in our ad* vertising colums. We have received some sheet almanacs for 1883 issued by the Norwich Union Insu ranee Society ; also some leaflets (calendars for the pocket-book). Both are truly works of art, and besides their utility are an ornament. We shall be happy to supply constituents of the Office with copies. Sealed applications for the office of Clerk to the Vincent County Council, will be received at the Council Chambers up ti 1 Wednesday, 25 hj January. See advertisement. A meeting of shareholders in the Ida Valley Deep T-ead Gold Mining Company ii" convened ior Thursday, the 11th inst. An entertainment of more than the usually attractive character is to be given in the Town Hall, Clyde, this evening. Tue gentlemen in'whose hands the afftir is, are sparing neither time or money to render ,it a success. We shall hope as well as on their account as for the institution on whose behalf the proceeds are to be devoted—viz the Dunstan District Hospital, to see a bumbor house. For paiticulars we refer our readers to the programme in another column.Amongst the visitors to the recent Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s Show at Invercargill (says the SoulhLander) was one Mr btepheu Watson, of lliverton, who, although 77 years of ago, was able to say that he had been on that day, for the first time in his life, on a train. He expressed himself as pleased with the, to him, novel mode of locomotion, but qualified the approval with the remark that he had seen the time, when, with a good horse, he would made the j mrney more speedily. Mr Watson is still a hale and hearty man and has been settled for nearly forty years in the Western District. The Tipperary Company llate’y had a crushing of 300 tons of stone from the lowest level yet attained and which gave the handsome yield of 678 ounces. The Lai fee County Press »ays the result exceeded the expectations of everybody and proves the mine to a permanent ami highly payable one. The following tough one is published in a Blenhein paper As an instance of the wonderful wool-producing capabilities of Province we may mention that a stuffed sheep was exhibited at a show, lately, on which the wool is still growing. The animal was shorn just prior to its being killed about forty years ago, and was afterwards killed by its owner, Mr J, Gibson, since which time the wool has been steadily growing until now, when the fleece is quite heavy enough for the shears. Wool growers will do well to ascertain the peculiar breed of this sheep, with a view of developing the species, for if wool can be grown in this way on shelves under cover, flock owners can be independent of both droughts and runs. Mr J, E. Stevens, master of the Clyde School, has again been successful with his pupils who were amongst the competitors for the High School Junior Scholarships, Master George C. Faohe securing second place, and Master Sydney A. Stevens eighth place out of forty-six competitors. Unfortunately there wera but six Junior Scholarships, accordingly Master Stovens is not succesful, but as ho has not yet reached his twelfth year he has another chance before him. Among the competitors for the Senior Scholarships are two of Mr Stevens’ pupils (who gained Junior Scholarships), viz : Masters Frank E. Wilson, and George T. Stevens, who stand on the list seventh and tenth thus gaining the coveted honor. Mr Stevens has now succeeded in three years in sending five boys to the High School, and wo think nono will deny that he is deserving of the greatest credit, and at the same time adroit that his system of teaching must be excellent to attain the result he has. We have received from the Government Insurance Department a lithographed sheet almanac for 1883. It is a tastefully got up thing enough, and the lithographers, Messrs Taylor and Co., Manchester, England, appear to have faithfully carried out the design of the artist “ Phizog”, but the design we must condemn, as being the very worst we have yet seen, as we fail to see any connection between a dinner plate of the old willow pattern and New Zealand. The dinner plate, wo may mention, adorns each corner of what otherwise would bo a chaste and pretty border.