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Dunstan Times, Issue 1101, 1 June 1883, Page 2

For rest of Nows see Fourth Page. The adjourned annual statutory meeting of the Vincent County Council, to have been held ou Wednesday last, the 30th inat., was again adjourned sine die pending tho complete audit of the last year’s transactions. The Secretary of the Dunstan Hospital informs us the usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management will be held ou Monday evening next, when amongst other business tenders for the ensuing six months will be dealt with. O’Donovan Rossa, one ot the leaders of tiro American Fenians in Now York, is urging his adherents to avenge the death of Joseph Brady, who was executed for the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke. , Use Hop Bitters once and yon will use no other medicine. T«*t it. Be lure and read.

A late 0 azetle, notifies the appointment of Mr W. W. Masters, J. P., as a Visiting . Justice of the Clyde gaol,. What would have been a disastrous fire, but for the splendid water supply Cromwell is blessed with, occurred on Monday morning Inst in a wooden building in the main street. As it was, water being at hand, and in abundance, with any amount of ' pressure, the dread enemy was squelched before it had time scarcely to make its ap. pearance known. When will the people of Clyde wake up and utilize the water they have running in the road channels. Echo asks, when ? , ■ iv. John Willis, for stealing a tent valued at £l, the property of Mr W. Fraser, of Earns-d-“ugh Station, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment at the R.M. Court Clyde, on Wednesday last. ’ We are requeste 1 to draw the attention of hotelkeepers and hea is of families to the sale by auction on Saturday, the 2nd inst. (to-morrow), of glassware, crockery, and furniture, at G. Faohe’s Rooms, Clyde. Mr Fache advertises in another column a sale of fat aud store cattle at Blacks No. 1, on Tuesday, the 12th init. The sale should command the attention of .butchers and breeders, as the cattle are a good lot. As according to the political outlook there is a possibility, if not a probability, of a dissolution during the coming session, we venture to suggest the desirability of everyone who interes s himself in the good government of the country, to see, while yet there is time, that the electoral roll ig perfected. To our certain knowledge there are many serviceable men whose names are not enrolled, while at the same time then* are numbers of other names that want expunging. We hope that some one will see to it. Rob Roy is again in the field on the Grand National. We are informed that one of his canoes on the Brtliday Handicap found its way to Clyde. Out of (he 2o0(> members he proposes to enrol one or more we should say ought to come this way. Tile 11 aka lip Mail says:—-The business premises aud plant in the estate of Mr Goodger, at Cromwell, have just been purchased by Mr M. O’Meara, of this town, who intends without delay, to resume the cordial and brewery business carried on by his predecessor. At the Liverpool sessions recently Henry Mee, a middle aged man, formerly a cotton dea’er.in Liverpool, was sentenced, to i2 months’ imprisonment, with hard labour, for dealing in stolen cotton and being concerned in extensive cotton frauds - in Liverpool .ten years ago. The prisoner was committed for trial, but liberated on bail, and he absconded. Since then he has,, led * curious and nomadic life, having hvdu dig. covered in December .last in the .wilds of Anglesey He had a cutter moored in a remote inlet on the coast,.and lived mainly by occupying himself with fishing. During part of the period, however, ho kept - pubbo house in Birmingham, and there, it is said, he ran some risk of co lision with t ie authorities in regard to an illicit distiilery. , Sweeney a ins Palmer,' - the Brunswick Bank robber, when arreste 1 in Sydney had on him a hank draft ou San Francisco for £195 and £4O in cash. It is now definitely known t iat it was,he who paid £2l'o into the Bank of Victoria at ‘ Melbdu me, the money tendered containing so ne ; 5f the stolen notes. Wnen questioned by the manager he stated that hi had received them from a man at Aibnry, and the manager considered the explanation satisfactory, an I made ho repo tto the police. A woman who afterwrr Is attempted to cash one of the stolen notes at T.aradale was arrested, and the police elicited from her the fact that she got some not s from Sweeney. On this information they proceeded to Sydney and arrested him. About £55) out of the £7OO B tolen has been recovered. John Chisholm, who was original'y a tailor, write* as follows to th Sydney Morning Herald He says that he became a miner in the early digging days of Australia, and in December, 1852, was at Golden square, Bendigo, in company with a man named Bosmore. As they passed a shanty Box more recognised one of the inmates, went in, and said to the man “ 1 think 1 know you—your name is Tichborne.” The man replied "Yes; and. I think 1 know you-your name is Boxmore.” There was another man in the hut, whom Chisholm believed to be Orton, from his likeness old Orton, whom he had known in Englam They remained in the shanty all night, and when they left in the morning Boxmore said to Chisholm: “ That fellow Tichborne was one of the greatest swells among the girl* in the West End when 1 knew him before.” Chisholm describes Tichborne as a slim man, with a swarthy complexion and a very gentlemanly demeanor. He told Boxmore that he had spent all his money, and did not like to write to his friends for more. Thomas Blake, thirty-eigbt, was charged recently at the Thames Police Court, London, with assaulting his wife. The pro»ecutrix said that she wag married to the prisoner two years ago, but had never lived with him, as on the day of the wedding he stole a purse from her pockect as they came out of the church and then threatened to cut her throat. Tr.e other day he came to her place and commenced to abuse her because she gave her daughter by her first husband some dinner. He threw a glass of beer over the girl, and catching hold of a knife, made a tush at the witness,' struck her on the eye wi'h his fist, knocked her down, and then kicked her in the other eye, giving her a fearful bruisa The prisouer denied the assault, and said it was quite true they had never lived together, as directly they came outside the church she tore the marriage certificate to pieces and broke the wedding ring into bits. The Magistrate remarked that it was a very extraordinary tale of married .life, but the prisoner had evidently been guilty of great violence, and must go to prison for three months with hard labor.

At a late meeting of the Anglican Synod it wm decided to drop the title of “ Lordship” as applied to Bishops, and substitute that of Eight Reverend. There has been a singular will case at Columbus (Ga.), where the will of a Mr F. JSpringer having left his property to his widow for life ordered it after her death to be divided by lot amongst his children. This wish was accord ihgly carried out the other day, and property worth a quarter million dollars was drawn for by seven sons and daughters. The prize lot drawn last was a share in the St. Lauis Opera House ; hut all the lota were made m nearly equal as possible. The lawyers in the neighbourhood deprecate the transaction as unprofessional. A new Penal Code went into effect in New York on December Ist, which makes it a misdemeanour to perform any labour on Sunday that is not a necessity or charity. The proprietors of the Alcazar, and other establishments where Sunday concerts are given, were accordingly arrested on the first Sunflay'of'the ntbnth, but they have since successfully appealed to the Courts to restrain the police from interference with their entertainments on the technicality that “ sacred ” concerts are not prohibited by name in the new code. Barbers, cabdrivers, express men, et irl omne genua, have also succeeded in getting their professional labour classed among the works of necessity, so that the new code bids fair to become a dead letter. A gigantic attempt at land swindling has ~j' been thwarted in New York by an inquisi t tive Scotchman. The. promoter of the scheme was James Madison Hogg, of Chicago, who represented that he was the owner of 600,0110 acres of mineral and timber land in S iuth~Western Virginia, for which 45,000-iol. was asked. A syndicate was formed to buy it, with Capt. B. Cunningham, of Glasgow, at the head, and several English capitalists and noblemen. It was found out on examination that the property belonged to other persons than Hogg, and that the signature of the county official had been forged, but before this Captain Cunningham bad paid Hogg 600101. for the syndicate, as the first instalment of the purchase money Hogg and his attorney, Sydham, were arrested for fraud and perjury. A strange n‘ ory is in circulation in certain sporting circles (says the London World ) concerning the elopement of a young lady of- very high rank and hob’e birth with a, young peer, whoso marriage was one of affection, hut whose wife has, unfortunately,, fallen into a delicate state of health. The elopement is said to have taken place from the hunting-field. The ymiig ladv, who only one or two and twenty, is a very fai- rider, and the gentleman a master of hounds. The famous wooden nutmegs of the Yankee have been outdone at last (say a the Melbourne Herald) and the ingenuity of Connecticut inust’pale before the genuine displayed by the by the people of Zansibar. Those clever mot tala supply the London market with a large proportion of the cloves used in commerce, and.several recent shipments have been found ,to, contain a a heavy percentage n f artificial cloves neatly manufactured by machinery. They were made of pine, stained a dark colour, and had been perfumed with the essence of the spice sufficiently to .make them pass must >r. It is rumored (says the Tuapeka Times) that Mr Perry (of Gabriels Gully Tailings Co.) who is at pry-sent staying in Lawrence, has in contemplation a scheme to purchase the whole of the Blue Spur claims, with a view to working them on a large scale. A Mr Dewar from Auckland, who is a'sd here on a visit, is acting in conjunction with Mr Perry. So far, we are in a position to state that the affair is. only in an embryonic state, and that no definite arrangement has been made. At Goulburn (N.S.W.), the other dav, a young man appeared in the Police Court charged with “being a lunatic.'’ His brother, who laid the information, was put into the box to give evidence, and being inten ogated as to ,tho reasons why he considered his brother a lunatic, calmly replied : “He won’t work.” Senior sergeant Fenton tried in vain to elicit any further explanation—the witness admitting il that the defendant ate and slept well, but could not he induced to go to work. The presiding Magistrate said it the witness’s version was correct there were a great many lunatics in the Colony. Mr Coppin, M.L. A., who originated the present movement to improve the back slums of Melbourne, has (says the Age) taken another practical step towards this much needed reform, by the purchase of an acre of land running through from Lonsdale street to Little Bourke street, directly opposite that notorious building known as the “ Dead House.’’ Mr Coppin is having plans prepared by Mr Pitt, architect of the Coffee Palace, for the erection .of forty working men’s dwellings, after the model of the Peabody Improved Industrial Dwellings for the Working classes in London. Each dwelling will consist of, four well ventilated rooms, with oven, sink, water, and every domestic convenience for the tenants; The rent will be about 10s ,a week. A de tached model lodging-house. will also be erected, in which 300 beds will be made up at 6d for each lodger, with the use of the kitchen, fire,and cooking .utensils, lavato.y, reading and smoking rooms, etc. A large meeting hall will also be connected with the establishment. The coat of land and buildings is retimated at £25,000. Tenders will bo invited immediately upon the completion of the working plans, and the foundationstone will be laid by the Mayor of Melbourne, by which time a limited liability company will have been formed to carry out ths undertaking.