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Dunstan Times, Issue 1083, 26 January 1883, Page 2

The Right Re reread Bishop Neville of Duoedin, will administer the rite of coortr mation in Clyde Church on Sunday evening next. Miss Sarah E. Biwlen, the newly appointed School mistress at Al-xanlra, arrived 1 at her destination at,the latter *-n of last Week, an I ■ entered upon her duties on .Monday,last At a meeting of the Clyde School Committee, hetrt on Friday evening las*, Messrs Clark and Fergus were nominated for the vacant seats on the Ocago Education Board, Tenders are invited hy the PnMie Works Department for the formation contract of the Deep Stream section of the Ocago Central Railway, to close nt noon on Ist proximo.

At the last meeting of the Alexandra Borough Council Mr George Ratcliffe was 1 appointed Returning Officer for the Alex- e andra Licensing District. | The annual meeting foi the election of I members of the Alexandra Committee was I held in the Schoolhouse on Monday, 22nd '• January, when the following gentlemen 1 were elected for the current year :—Messrs Kivers, Finlay, AVille ix, .M‘Donald, Allan, Thayers, and Simmonds. 1 A settler named Douglas has discovered ' tliam mis near Auckland. Courtney, a returned diamond-miner, hag hail an inter- 1 view with Douglas and examined a number of the specimens, and says some of them are diamonds of fair quality, though small, but ! the greater number of the white atones ho pronounced to he white carbon in process of formation into di onon is. On r fen-nee to our telegraph news it will he seen that the election for the Peninsula Electorate in the House <f Rep ese-datives "■suited in an overwhelming m jority for vl r Larnaeh, 667 votes being recorded in his avor, while for Mr Donnelly there we e •182, and for Bishop Moran only 133. Mr 'Veils, who was a candidate, retired in favor of Mr Donnelly. We understand that the machinery for the Lake Wanaka steamer Theodore is iiiii c'ed to arrive in Dnoedin next monta, having been shipped in November last from London in the Invercargill. There is now a hope of goon ei j tying a pleasure trip to the head of the beautiful Wanaka, as the proprietor has overcome the many causes of dr lay over which he ha-i no control. Mr Facile has received instructions from Mr Handisitle, Lm’er Station, who is l aving the district, to sell by auction, on Friday, February 2nd. 18 3, without tlve slightest reserve, the who'e of his superior hons- hoM furniture, hor e->, &••. The attention -of tho public is particularly directed to this sa'e, as everything will be sold without the slightest reserve. From the qnrrterly meeting of sub. eorib-ei a to the -Cromwell District Hospbal, held last week, we take the Wowing from the Surgeon’s report : quarter I have several times been indebted to the ki id assistance of Dr War ale, of G y'le, but more especially in the cases of gangri ne and epithelium, where operations were necessary—one to remove the foot and ant e, and one to exe.se a portion o' a lip. In other cases I have to acknowledge Dr War.iale’s kindness.” What, is dcsciibed as the most sensational innings ever s*en was rce ntly played in the oecond Eleven match between Melbourne and East Melbourne Clubs. The batsman was li. P. Dickson. One splendid ■ hit into the tennis-court split the cover of the ball clean open.; with another tremen- t dons swipe Dicks-m smasbe 1 his bat ; this feat was followed up by driving a ball hard ■ into the opposite wicket ami breaking a : stump ; whilst a fomth hit brought mid-off to grass with a severely injured leg. Anew charity box has been planned. It is in the form of an ornamental inn box, on w hiob-crouches a hull-dog on the watch. At the end is the fiju.e of a man holding out his hands, if a sixpence or a shilling be placed in the hands, the bull-dog immediately jumps up and in a twinkling swallows the coin, which, with the greatest cinine magnanimity, he snff rs to he afterwards abstracted for the benefit of the hospital. I The dog is particular in his tast-s. He wi 1 not take coppers on any terms, and a florin or half a-crown he merely bites savagely, knowing that to attempt to swallow it would choke him. He lives on shillings an ! sixpences, an 1 s-.e ns to thrive on dudiet. M J Qnoen and Co.’s large doable ladder seam dredge, at Alexandia, has lately un lei gone some considerable alterations, a huge pontoon having been place 1 on either side with the vie-v of steadying her when in full swing, and entire’y new washing appar--atns of a more simple character, replacing the somewhat cumbersome and comolicat -d revo viug pans she hal in use. A diffiju'ly is yet experience), sufficient, water foe washing the dirt is n it supplied fr -m the buckets th it raise the dirt, that, however, is to be ■veroome by the addition of an extra pump dr ven off the engine, and Mr McNaughton. the cap'ain, a gentleman, who by the bye is a most experience 1 dredger, having had many years experience in various parts of the world, says that when the ex’ra pump is fixed she will he one of the most perfect contract! Ms of the kind that could posst dy hj and that from whit he his see i of th ■ jrotin I on which she is moorel, the umbr taking cannot but prove a highly remnnera tire one to the plucky sharehfillers mo t of whom resident Alexandra- Messrs M'Q icen n I Co., the contractors, with the vi -w of turning out a good job, have spa c f neither time, labor, or expense in their work, and they have to be congratnla'ed on the snee ss achieve Iby them. The w is'iinj apparatus c -Heists of a double perforated ir m cylinder, t e inner one having perforations of three quarters of. an inch in diameter, while the outer o ki has pe'.f ira’ionsofbirelv a quarter of an inch. These oylin lees being connected with the en iue ire caused to revolve at no meouaiderable ra'e, aid as the dirt is de posited on a hopp r f om the buckets so it. finds its way into the inner cylin ler where it is separated from the heavier stone escaping through the ends and falling direct overbnrl, the finer and lighter sand and gravil fin ling its wiy int> the outer cyltn-h r where again it is separate), the stone* and gravel e-eaping ns in the former instance throu.h the end and then overboard, while tho sind which confab s the gold is digeha ged'through the perforations o'to a run of sluio“ boxes,provided with the latest invented and best appliances for saving tl.e precious metal. To our mind, however, the perforations in the cylin lers are not large enough, but if there is any defet in that respect the remedy is ea y. as it wid be no d rfieult, task to make tho holes larger. AVo shill endeavour to ascertain the full particulars of told, obtained and will publish it in I due course.

The English cricketers heat the Australians by an innings ami 27 runs The scores were—Englishmen, 294; Australians, 114 and 153 Bates did the execution in bowling amongst the Englishmen, taking seven out of the ton wickets in each innings. They start another match to-day at Sydney. On Sunday morning next the most Reverend Bishop Moran, Bishop of Dunedin, will so ! emnly open the New Catholic Church at Alexandra South. The ceremony will be a most impressive and interesting one, the more so as his Lordship will preach a sermon on the occasion. We have had an opportunity of inspecting the new edifice and safely pronounce it to be as being a most substantial, at th: same time pretty structure, and a worthy edifice erected by the faithful for the Worship of God. The Cromwell choir are to he present to give a charm to tli; proceedings. A woman lias been killed in Melbourne through being knocked down in the street by a bicyclist, and the Melbourne Bi yole Club has resolved to send a deputation to the City Council to urge the adopt,ion of by-laws for the I letter regulation of bicycle traffic, and to suggest the intro I notion of the “pa'tern bye-laws” now in forej in 22 c -unties in England, which compel the observance of the rules which he leadin' Ijicyc'e clubs lav down for the prevention of annoyance an 1 dancer to pedes:liana.