The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1883

Dunstan Times, Issue 1085, 16 March 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1883

Beneath the rule of men entirely just. The pen is mightier than the sword.

The notice in another column, under the hand of Mr Benjamin Naylor, Chairman of the Local Board of Health, bears on the face of it evidence not only of the Boards existence, but of its vitality. The notice is a most timely one, and it now behoves one and all of us, if there is really anything to complain of respecting tho sanitary state of the town, and that comes immediately under our notice, to give notice accordingly. There are doubtless many things want remedying, but wo doubt much if the state of things is such as to warrant a scare. Let us hope, however, that now tho Board has fairly got into harness that something will be found for it to do. We have had placed before us a volume,

To-morrow the Blacks Agricultural Show will take place. We are given to understand it promises to be a success. There appears to be nothing special stiring in mining throughout Jthe district. There is an occasional wash up by one company or another, but the results are such as do not transpire. The river has again fallen sufficiently low for the dredges near Alexandra to again get to work ; the big steam dredge does not appear to be quite in ship shape order, it only having one ladder worki ig, the breaking of a wheel in connection with the other stopping it, Scott’s current wheel dredge is steadily at it, but we do not learn results. There is some prospecting on the slope of of the Old Man Range for quartz, and good indications come across, bat whether sufficiently good to warrant heavy expenditure we de not learn. On Tuesday last Mr Conning, the well known Life Assurance agent, who is now canvassing the district, had a very narrow escape from serious injury while at Mr McArthur’s farm. The buggy was allowed to stand outside the gate, and Mr Conning was in the act of giving an oaten sheaf to the horse when it suddenly bolted off, knocking him against the wall, and nearly ciushinghim between it and the trapwheels. The buggy was overturned against a post, and a .good deal smashed up. Fortunately, by the help of a coil of wire and a broom handle or two, Mr managed to bring the trap back to iljbe Dunstan. At the moment of the accident, Mr Conning heartily congratulated himself on the fact of his life being assured. One item of news by the mail is that the Czar issued a manifesto on February 6, giving notice of his coronation at Moscow on May 28. It was addressed to all Russian subjects. St. Petersburg has resumed its former appearance. The Palace is open to guests, and the programme of tie Czar’s movements is announced for the next three months. The Bay of Plenty Times of February 24, says “ Wehearthat a Dunedin merchant, a Mr Wilson, has astonished the citizens of Nelson (known now as the Sleepy Hollow) by purchasing the whole of the hop crop of this season. This gentleman wired last week to his agent at Nelson, requesting to know the price of hops now being harvested. The reply was Is 6d per lb. ; the reply was “ Purchase all you can,” which was done, amounting to £IO,OOO. The next day the Nelson hop-growers awoke to the fact that hops had risen in price in London to 5s per lb., aud that Mr Wilson had realised upon his bargains 200 per cent., ora clear gain of £20,000. The Nelsou hop-growers, after this lesson, are now agitating for a co-opera-tive association, by which they will hold weekly markets, and so have their hops sold by auction. Somn languid interest (says the Home Hues) has been created by the publication of an encyclical letter from the Pope to the Irish bishops condemning tbeseorctsocieties. Althoughifheiadviceeonfiaiiicd in this letter •has certainly come ra'her late in the day, it is more than doubtful wb ilher the Pope, ■however much he might have exerted himself, could have done any good. Nothing is more patent, in the present state of affairs in Ireland, than that the priests have wholly lost their influence with the disaffected .and nationalised portion of their flocks. Tliis is abundantly <dlear in the case of ■Cardinal M'Cabe, who, because he has denounce I ■agitation, is looked upon by the lower classes with quite as much distrust, and probably an equal amount of dislike as is the Lord-lieutenant him-.cif. At the Naseby Police Court last week, Annie Jarvis, a young woman, was charged with infanticide and concealment of birth. The more serious charge broke down, as the medical evidence went to show that the child of which the prisoner had been deliveredwvas born dead. When taxed with the offence,'and at several interviews with Dr Whitton.whoesamined her, the prisoner persistently denied that she had given birth to a child ; but after she was locked up she sent for the doctor, and confessed to him tho circumstances under which the child was born, and when and how she buried it. Prisoner, who appeared to feel her position keenly, was committed for trial at Dunedin next month, and is now confined in the Dunedin Gaol. At the battle of Tel el-Kebir, three army chaplains—Catholic, Anglican, and Presbyterian—were with the advancing British troops. Tho Catholic chaplain, Father Bellord, was one of the first wounded, being struck by a bullet in the jleg. The Church of England chaplaiu perceiving tho mishap of his comrade immediately hoisted Father Bellord on his shoulders and carried Hm to the field hospital, where his wound was attended to. The spectacle of a Protestant clergyman hasteniug over tho battle-field with a Catholic priest on his shoulders at traded no little attention among those who witnessed tho iucidentA horrible murder has been committed at Bnllingrock, near Gisborne (Victoria), by a well known resident, Thomas o‘Dounell, who got up at 6 o’clock in the morning, and wont, into a bedroom where his wife was sleeping, and there, with an axe, he nearly severed her head from her body. Ho then woke up his son, aged about 13, and told tho boy that his mother was dead. Her death was instantaneous. O'Donnell, who was highly respected and in good circumstances, is supposed to bo insane, as for several days past he has complained about his head. The murderer has been arrestedAt Kumara a few days ago the police obtained a prohibition order for 12 months against Thomas Keiran, surgeon. Tho sergeant, in evidence, stated that he had known the doctor for tho past five years. Ho was often the worse for drink, and ho (the applicant) had frequently found him helpless in his own house, and in the public street. It was not safe for him to be alone, and in the interest of the doctor himself he applied for this order.