The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY. APRIL 27, 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1091, 27 April 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY. APRIL 27, 1883.

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

Mr J. K. Kemp, of Bald Hill Flat, who for many years has suffered from deafness has gone to Dunedin to test Mr Stephens’ mesmeric powers. Wo cincerely trust ho will return relieved. Professor Ulrich informs the Miners’ Association at the Teviot that the whole of the banka of the Molyneux are auriferous, and would pay to work if water could be brought to bear upon them.—Queen Anne is dead!

Some of our sporting friends who have been out with dog and gun inform us that ducks are very plentiful, but wild. We don’t think how much wilder than those who have returned with empty bags. Mr Fache requests us to draw attention of settlers and land buyers to the sale by auction to-morrow (Saturday), at Cromwell, of 1700 acres first-class land at Hawea Flat. The weather during the past week has set in quite wintery, and as a consequence the Molyneux is rapidly falling to a low level. Mr C. E. Mclntosh, the Rose-Diamond Wizard, has fixed his dates for a tour of the goldfields and will appear in Clyde on Saturday, May 6, and at Alexandra on the 3rd and 4th According to our Naseby contemporary, Mr Mclntosh is very clever in many of, in fact the whole of his sleight of hand tricks are somewhat marvellous and are well worth witnessing. Wo augur for the gentleman a successful tour. Mr Gordon, the Government Inspector of Mines, accompanied by Mr Macginnis, thq Vincent County Chairman. Mr Forrest, of Alexandra, and John Butler, of Bald Hill Flat, traversed the proposed road from the valley of the Molyneux to the Waikaia Bush over the Old Man Range, on Monday last. Mr Gordon, we believe, fully endorses everything that has been said in favor of the road, and admits that if it were made, great benefits would accrue to all the settlers on the Molyneux, but says the amount voted (£2000) would nothing like do the work required. We shall look with a certain amount of anxiety for Mr Gordon’s report to the Government. The Church Extension Committee of the Presbyterian Church have appointed David Borrie, formerly of Waihola, and who has recently returned from a visit to the Old Country, to supply the new charge of Lauder sanctioned by the Synod in January last. It is expected that Mr Boirie will begin work on the second Sabbath of May. We would draw onr readers attention to an advertisement warning unauthorised persons against rabbiting, cither with guns or dogs, on the Earnsclengh Run after this date. We . understand this is chiefly with the view of protecting the interests of those men specially employed in laying poison for rabbits on this run. A singular case was disposed of at the Central Criminal Court, Melbourne, recently. William Quinn, a labouring man, was charged with stealing £l7 at Lancefield. The money bad been lost by a person named M'Convilie, and it was picked up by the prisoner, who proceeded to spend part of it, and got so drunk that, with the exception of £2, he rlid not know what had become of the balance. He explained that ho bad spent only what he thought would have given him as a reward for finding the money. The jury found the prisoner not guilty, and he was discharged. A young women named Melbra Nott was arraigned at Aimidale (N 8.W.) Assizes on the 11th iust. for the murder of Robert Brace Mitchell, a miner, by slabbing him, at Stannifer, in October last. The prisoner was defended by Mr David Buchanan, who made an impassioned speech for hor defence The jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder, with a strong lecommendation to mercy, in which the Judge fully concurred. A most painful scene took place when the verdict was given. The prisoner, who wept during the whole trial, fell off her chair, went into hysterics, and had to be carried out of Court. In about ten minutes she was ag in brought into Court, and held up by policemen while sentence of death was passed. The Judge said he would do all in his power to carry the jury’s recommendation into effect. Melbra Nott is an orphan, about 18 years of age, and very good looking. She was engaged to Mitchell, and it was in consequence of his refusal to carry out his promise after making all arrangements that she stabbed him. The man Brady, who his been sentenced to death for his share in the Phcenix Park assassinations, was thus described by a Dublin paper upon the occasion of the Police Court trial :—“ . . . Beside him stands a man of just the medium height, stout and ‘ blockey,’ wearing a black frieze ulster. He, too, like Mullett, has brown hair, and his entire face is shaved. Ho is a downright jolly looking fellow, with a fat round face, and soft, expressive eyes. He was never once serious during the day. Always smiling, ho occasionally laughed right out, and appeared to take the entire business in the light of a legal farce rather than as a grave inquiry. This was Joe Brady. For aught we (N. Z. Times J know there may be at the - present time in the Scottish town of Montrose a young lady who is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her wedding trousseau from London, which she ordered some five or six months ago. It is, at anyrate, extremely unlikely that she has the slightest idea that a box which contained a quantity of the finery alluded to is at present lying in an ugly, matter-of-fact looking warehouse in New Zealand, some 16,000 miles from its destination. Tho facts simply told are that some one in London mistook tho name of tho place to which tho article was to ho sent for that of tho barque Montrose, which was then lying in one of the docks ; that it was duly shipped aboard that vessel; and that tho mistake was not discovered until in arrival in Wellington. The New Zealand Shipping Company ordered it to be sent Home again by tho steamer British King, but for some unknown reason it was short shipped, and will now probably await tho departure of the Fonstanton, from Port Chalmers. It is to bo hoped that the young lady has found consolation in another and equally handsome garment, and that those who are re- ’ sponsible for the mistake have duly accounted for it in tho light of pounds shillings and pence.

The Creswick Relief Fund Committee has waited on the Victorian Minister of Minos to request him to place £IO,OOO on the Estimates to add to their fund, so as to form a national permanent mining accident fund. The Minister promised to recommend the matter to the attention of his colleagues He stated he was personally favourable to the application. The attention of New South Wales and Victorian squatters is being directed to New Zealand as the Colony most favorably situated for agriculture, and it is reported that large numbers of them intend to settle in this colony. Mr Keogh, of Sydney, is now taking possession of the Moa Flat Station, which is said to have been well managed by Mr J. P. Kitching on behalf of Mr Joseph Clarke, of Victoria. A breach of promise action between two parties whose names are widely known in Tasmania has says the Hobart Mercury, recently aroused some passing excitement. The plaintiff was Miss Emma Catherine Fletcher, a youthful lady residing at Campbell Town, and the defendant was Mr Thomas Emerson Headlam, son of a landed proprietor in the Campbell Town District. The trial came on at the Supreme Court, Launceston, on the third April, and lasted two days. The case for the plaintiff was that the defendant having seduced her and promised to marry her, had subsequently refused to do so. , A child was born, but died within a few hours of the commencement of the trial. The plaintiff claimed £5900 damages. In defence by counsel it was contended that there was no promise on the part of the defendant, except such as was made under duress, that the plaintiff was unchaste, and was not always ready and willing to marry the defendant. The defence was not maintained, as the defen* daut did not call any evidence in support of his contention as against the plaintiff’s evidence, which accordingly went to the jury absolutely uneontradicted. The jury unanimously found for the plaintiff, awarding £4OOO damages, ’Twas in the wilds of the Gipps Land Forest that the Episcopalian, and Wesleyan ministers performed their separate services at the little dealing a couple of Sundays ago. Leaving on horseback, and having no fear of Gregorian anathema before their eyes,and regardless of Rogers, they actually rode together along the woodland track. And a thing more dreadful than an exchange of pulpits happened. After a time (writes “ jEgles” in the Australasian) they found that their horses were walking along the trunks of the fallen trees, and other* wise showing acrobatic dispositions. This led to the conclusion tnat they had got off the bridle path, which was fully confirmed at nightfall by,their arriving at a point which they remembered having passed several hours before. There was nothing for itbntto camp for a time. The wind j was chill, and the parsons ill-provided ; against inclement weather. At last a i happy thought suggested itself. The j Anglican took bis surplice from his saddlei bag, and hia Wesleyan brother found the I sticks, by means of which they improvised I a tent, under which both crept for shelter. After a few hours the risen moon enabled | them to make a fresh start, and this time I they kept the track. It is probably the fir-4 time a clerical vestment has served as a tent for a Methodist, but, as in the exchange of pulpits, no one seems to have been a penny the wo-se.