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Dunstan Times, Issue 1090, 20 April 1883, Page 2

The burgess's roll for the Borough of Alexandra Is to be settled on Wednesday. All those who are entitled to have their names enrolled should tee that their names are not omitted. A Chinaman, residing at Shingle Creek, Teviot road, died on Monday evening last, from the effects of a gun shot wound, but under what circumstances,- or by whom the gun was fired, is as yet enshror.ded in mystery. Another Chinaman, who first gave information to the police at Roxburgh, says that he and deceased were in the hut together, and deceased was lying on his bel at the time he received the shot. The bodies of the unfortunate men who wore drowned at Alexandra, by the upset* ting of a boat—William Jamieson and Peter Murray—have been recovered, that of the former at Benger Flat, near Ettrick, on Sunday last; the latter on Monday morning last at Coal Creek Flat, Teviot. An inquest was held on Wednesday before N. Wood, Esq., Coroner, at Roxburgh, when a verdict , of accidental drowning was returned. On Thursday the remains of Peter Murray were conveyed to Alexandra and buried in the cemetery, a large concourse following. The members of the local lodges of Forester’s and Good Templar's in fall regalia being among the number.

Since the accident by which,the two men were drowned when attempting to overrun the cable, which had got silted up, the big iron steam dredge baa been lying idle, Scott and Co.'s current wheel dredge keeps at work, and to all accounts is on very good ground, To-nlgbt the Clyde Dramatic Amateur Company repeat their performance of “ Mignionette ” and the “RumUns from Rome,” in the Athenoeum Hall, Cromwell, in aid of the funds of the that insitution During the interval between the pieces, we understand, several ladies and gentlemen will sing. The British Trade Journal says that • Sheffield firm were recently puzzled to make out to what use the Americans could put a certain class of razor which they exported in considerable quantities. Razors are usually bought for shaving, but this article could no more shave a man’s board than could a brick. After inquiring they ascertained that the article was used for “ razor fights” among the New York negroes When a debate waxes warm they whip out the razor, swing back the blade against the baft, and go to work to slice a man’s face into chips. Such is the story-...1n South America razors are used for cutting sugarcanes. The juice destroys the weapon after a day’s work, and the cutter throws,it a way beginning with a fresh razor next morning. Hence the enormous consumption. The value of public-houses in London may be judged Jhy the following circumstances, Opposite the Mansion-house there stands a dingy little travern, the demolition of which is desired in order to effect local improvements. But the prprietor is unwilling to part with it,for it brings him in, in the shape of rental an income of £3OOO a year, > Mr Fache requests us to draw special attention to the sale by auction on Saturday, the 28th inst., at Cromwell, of lands on the Hawea Fiat. This land is some of the finest in the Upper Clutha Valley, and should command attention by those seeking good agricultural lands. The climate of the Hawea Lake district is everything that could be wished for, while an available market is within easy reach. The Court Pride of Alexandra, A.OF., intimates in another column that their anniversary will be celebrated by a ball on May 24th, the Queen's Birthday. According to the Dunedin market reports, stock of all kinds are realizing fair remunerative prices, bullocksaveraging from #5 10s to £lO lOs.j and cows, £3 to £7; prime beef, 22a fid; medium. 17s fit to 20» ; sheep, fat crosa-breds, 9a to 16s ; merinos, 7s to 10a ; muttonis quoted at 2JI; store sbeep range up to 12s, with short supply ; store ca'lie .are in demand, but none coming forward-. The grain markets are in full supply, wheat for milling ranging from 3s 6.1 to 4d, according to quality and sorts ; inferior and fowls' feed, 2a to 3s. Oats appear to drag, good milling being quoted at about 2i; and good feed from is 9i to la lOd, inferior, and discoloured being Is fid to Is Bd, - ' ’ i’l y-.J. Messrs W. Fraser an! D. Mackellar, the Board of Reviewers under the Property Assessment Act, sat at Clyde, in the Court House, ou Friday afternoon. ' There were some two dpzen objections , but*(inly some three qr four appeared, in of their | objection?. Some slight reductions were made, but nothing of any moment. The sitting altogether ' lasted soma hour and ahalf. Inter alia—lt is very generally supi posed that these Boards of Reviewers are ( very expensive bodies. • For the'iuformatioa . of those who" are of that opinion we may ( state the item of travelling expenses is the only one made by the gentlemen. , It is notified in the general Government Oazetti that a post offieh has been opened at Makarora, (Lake Wanaka), and that Mr White has been appointed postmaster. 1 Both the bodies of the unfortunate young i men who were drowned a few weeks since ‘ in the neighbourhood of Alexandra, have 1 beeti recovered. [ George Clark, late County Clerk, was released on bail On Tuesday last, his bonds* men being Mr George Fache, and Mr W. ( Williams. To-morrow the accused will appear at the R. M. Court, Clyde, on remand. The Popotunoa Chronicle, published at Clinton, the Wakaia Herald, published at Wakaia (Switzers), and the Otago Central : Leader, published at Roxburgh, have within i the past few weeks ceased publication. On the 11th February, says a Home paper, a disturbance occurred between the a police and the Skeleton Army at Green, London. Between 3000 and 4000 members of that army mustered with the intention of marching to the city road, where are situated the headquarters of the Salvation Army. Consequent, however, upon the disgraceful scenes that have been witnessed for the past few Sabbaths, instructions had been issued to the police to prevent a repetition of these disturbances and the march of the Skeleton Army was opposed with great determination by a body of fifty or sixty constables. A sharp tussle ensued, and several constables were struck with stones and belts. One or two arrests were made, but the police acted with great forbearance. They, however, firmly resisted the progress of the “ Skeletons,” and nlti* mately succeeded in dispersing them. In the course of the trial of Danial Carley i the second of the Phoenix Park prisoners, at ' Dublin, April 16, the informer Carey, who • was under examination, testified to the fact i that 20 distinct plots had been formed for the assassination of Mr Forster, late Chief ; Secretary for I reland. 1 .In a prosecution against a Melbourne grocer recently for selling intoxicating liquor 1 without a license, it was stated that a bottle i of what purported to be ginger wine, which i was purchased from the defendant, contained 1 11 per cent, of real alcohol, which was equal i to 22 per cent, of proof spirits. A part of I tho entire bulk was pure brandy. The ; bottle was equal in. intoxi eating power to a bottle of colonial wine.

Along the principal streets of Melbourne huge telegraph poles, to carry 80 wires, are being erected, and these pass some of the loftiest buildings. Might we (Melbourne paper) not receive a warning from the fact that at the disastrous burning of the New* hall House, Milwaukee, immense loss of life was caused through the mass of telegraph wires which stretched on every side of the building, rendering it impossible to raise ladders beyond the second story T The most jealous precautions were taken, says the Spectator, on Lord Spencer's return to Ireland to protect him from assassination Be was surrounded by dragoons, detectives filled the carriages behind him,and a tunnel under which he had to pass was occupied by armed police. Englishmen do not yet faononr Earl Spencer enough. A great noble, with a large income, full of literary and artistic tastes, a favourite in society, and a man who enjoys it, he goes to Ireland to live in momentary expectation of death from a bullet or an amputation knife, solely in order to perform a public duty. Ho performs it so ably that a great organisation at war with Government snd society is being broken up, while ho constantly rejects the “ severe" counsels which men indignant at the spectacle offered by Ireland press on his attention. It is difficult to conceive a more self-sacrificing life than the one he is now leading, for Which -he Will obtain in this world neither reward nor honour. The Irish dislike every Viceroy, and as no Viceroy can perfectly succeed in Ireland, Englishmen scarcely perceive how well they are sometimes served by men whose danger is unlimited, while their powers are almost restricted to advice. The Bishop of Melbourne is sarcastic at i the er|)ense of those high-toned Christians '■who object on moral grounds to bazaars. His experience has been that these magnanimous people, for all their lofty talking, don't act on cheir own principles. They don’t give for lofty reasons, but themselves wait to be coaxed out of their money. Members of the Legislature sometimes are inclined to turn their free railway passes to account. We have heard in Victoria of a commercial traveller who was able to run his rivals off the roads by means of this valuable auxiliary. Another story comes from Sydney. The Bible Society required a district secretary, and amongst the applicants was a membe' of the Legislative Assembly. He had many qualifications, of course; but that upon which he placed most reliance was the possession of a free railway pass. “I can do more work for you thau any other,” he urged, “ for I can always travel free.” He had no scruples, but unfortunately the directors of the society were a little more paiticular. M. Roussel, a French physician of eminence, says “If Gambetta had been a wounded labourer simply, brought into the hospital, placed under the charge of a simple surgeon, he would probably have recovered. Now, however, the patient is dead, perhaps aim ly on account of the reasons that ren dered the treatment difficult- that he was Gambetta, and that he was treated by a dot n medical authorities from Paris.” - J A writer in the Figaro states that the fl ral crowns piled round Gambetta’s coffin in the Palais Bourbon were worth over j £20,000. There were more than four to- usaud of them, and the smallest must have coat 50f. Paris and its en irons produced them ad, natural as well as artificial. “ Infidelity,” says Archbishop Vaughan, Vis the mother of revolution, with dynamite in. one hand, and petroleum in the. other. If the altar, is menaced so also is the throne. Religion and social order, authority in state as well as church, is subject to t ie assault of this modem foe.” The relative merits of hot and cold water as a preventive of wrinkles are much discussed. “An Old Woman,” writing to the Bendigo Advertizer, thus declares her testimony “lam 61 years old, and though I have lost some of my teeth, and my hair.is just beginning to show silver threads, I havens wfiiiktts, hbr crdw’s feet either. 1 faive v always used cold Water,-ami nibbed hard with' a coarse towel. I know several ladies' who use hot water, and they are all wrinkles,! and they are ten to fifteen years younger than me. The lady who scalded her face with nearly boiling water twice a day must have made her face like leather by this time.” Hot and cold water may both have their advantages, but neither, we are afraid, will drive away the wrinkles caused by worry. Francis James Hodgson, who was formerly teller at the Nelson branch of the National Bank, was charged at the Police Court, Nelson, on Monday, with the larceny of 500 so vs. belonging to the bank. Mr Black, the manager, stated that the money was missed in 1881, but no proof was obtained until October last, when the accused admitted having received from him a bag containing 1000 sovs. in error for 500. Accused also said that he had planted £3OO in Christchurch, and speculated with the remainder in hope of repaying the whole. He was committed for trial, bail being allowed, himself in £SOO, and two sureties of £250 each. A correspondent of the London Spectator , who states that he is an Irishman, • and in Holy Orders, thus writes on the Irish question “ How strange, how very strange, is the long continued misapprehension by almost every Englishman of the real point at issue. You talk of agrarian outrages, of the great land question, of denominational education, and what not. These are all, no doubt, elements (important, too. in their way) in th« question, but they do not touch the real vital point. That point is, that the masses of the population are, to a man, disloyal at bottom. From indifference and antipathy, this feeling towards England exists in every possible phase, till it culminates in bitter hatred. That being so, yon see at once why efforts at pacification fail. It is enough that they are English-that they come from England. Thsy are tainted, they sre doomed to aerteia failure.”

The woid “ oyolophobist” is. intended to express “ a man who bates and dreads tradesmen’s circulars.” According to the Sydney Mail, Mr G. Alexander has the formation of another 'Australian team of cricketers in hand. The following have consented to go Palmer, Blaokham, Boyle, M’Oonnell, Bonner, Giffen j but Spofforfch, Murdoch, A. Bannerman, and Massie will not .take part in the movement, Ifcys added that there is a general opinion that these cricketing tours! to England are becoming too frequent, and the'pilgrimage of the knights' of the willow to the Old Country is now regai ded in no other light than a gate-money expedition Moreover, without the assistance of the New South' Wales players, the team will not permitted- to assume the title of an “ Australian” team. It is a Victorian affair, and the Eleven is no other than a Victorian team. ~ In the Supreme Court, Melbourne, recently, Mary Cecilia Wentworth sued Messrs Lyons arid Co., clothing manufacturers for £IOOO damages for malicious prosecution. Thd plaintiff had been in the defendants’ etrtploy, and at their instance had been arrested and locked up for a night on the charge 6f detaining some silk coats which had been entrusted to her. On the case being called on at the Police Court the declined to prosecute, and the defence entered: to the present action was that, having been informed that the plaintiff had left her lodgings in the middle of the night, they had reasonable cause to believe that she had acted criminally. . The jury took a different view of the matter, and gave the plaintiff a verdict for £SO. The Arrowtown correspondent of the Wakatipu Mail says :—“ The subscription nuisance has recently received an expose of an extraordinary character in this town. Two gentlemen undertook to collect subscriptions on {behalf of a family suddenly bereaved of its bread-winner, with the ostensible (purpose of relieving the necessities of the family in question. It appears that £4O I3s had been raised, and out of this sum the. gentleman who collected the money paid themselves accounts owing to them and to others, as it is said, at the request of the widow, to the amount of £39 14s 9d, handing to the relict for her relief and that of her eight children the magnificent sum of 18s 3i. It is stated that a number of subscribers will ask to have their money returned, as they coa- j eider it was taken from them under false pretences." I To persons who impose on charitable institutions a case disposed of at W-liington on Friday should form a caution. The i Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Timet says :—A Norwegian named Peter Jomison was charged with being a rogue and and that, on December 20th !a=t, he imposed upon the Benevolent Institution by.' falsely representing that he was in a destitute condition. When asked bow he intended to plead, the prisoner said he might just as well admit the offence. The, evidence went to show that the prisoner and bis family had for some time b<mn in receipt of £1 per week from the Benevolent Committee, whom he led to believe he .was in very distressed cirourn- j stances, wjjß;-eaa it eventually transpired that he had a very snug little sum to his credit in . the Post Office Savings Bank. He was sentenced to a month’s hard labour,' . jc- ' ■