The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, JUNE 29 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1105, 29 June 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, JUNE 29 1883.

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

For rest of News see Fourth Page. Longing eyes are being cast in the direction of the Eastern Slope of the Old Man Range to the back of Bald Hill Flat, where it is known that quartz reefs abound ; but the most of those who would invest either their money or labour there are holding on till the 'VVaikia Bush Road difficulty is settled. The ground is known to bo in mining parlance treacherous, and will require a good deal of timber to work, or even prospect it with safety, and the most practical men say that it would be but sheer folly to have anything to do with it till there is some piobability of getting timber at something like a reasonable figure on the ground. There are some, however, who in spite of the difficulties to be met have faith, and this week you will have another (which I think will be fourth) application for a mining leaseon oneof thelinesof reef. If timber was readily got thoi e is but little doubt the Old Man Range would be a lively locality, and many is the battery of stamps that would be engaged pounding the auriferous bands of quartz that permeate it ; but. I fear much, it will for years yet maintain its wonted quiet if the Waikaia bush 'is not tapped. The question is really one of colonial interest, it is therefore to be hoped that our member will keep on hammering at the door of the Legislature, despite the half-blooded report of Mr Gordon, until he gains their favorable ear.—Extract from an occasional correspondent’s letter. The Alexandra Dramatic Club gavoasuccessful peif irmanoein the Town Hall, Alexandra, on Tlmrday, the 2!st The object being to pay off tho liabilities in connection with the trip of the Otago Central Cricketers to Dunedin. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Clyde School Committee will be hell in the Library room this evening, at 7 30 p.m. Members are particularly requested to attend. A rumour has been freely circulated in England in explanation of the Lady Flo. rence Dixie mystery. It is said the assault was a joke, perpetrated by two very close relatives, and that they intended to inform her of the matter next morning, but found to their honor that her ladyship had lost no time in getting (the occurrence reported in t he London papers.

Our esteemed friend, Captain Wi'liam Jackson Barry, is once again jin Dunedin. Ho brings with him the skeleton of a whale not the one on which he sailed the ocean blue some thirty years ago, but a lineal descendant of that now historic animal, which hearing that Captain Barry was on a visit to Nelson, resolved to interview the mighty traveller and got stranded on the beach while endeavouring to accomplish its purpose. The whale in question was the chief of all its race, measuring 75fb in length, and having an anatomy consisting of 780 bones, together with a trifle of eight hundred weight of whalebone hanging to its sucker. Captain Barry has most lovingly preserved the deceased animal, jointed its bones together, true to nature, and in a manner that only an old whaler knows how, and as soon as he can obtain a suitable building in Dunedin, he will exhibit the whale, at the same time giving an exhaustive description of the entire family. Captain Barry also brings with him a small table, which he will place in the whale’s mouth, and two immense pumkins to exhibit to the bumkins who patronise his show. It is on the cards that the captain will shortly re-enter the married state ; overtures having been made to him by a distinguished Maori chief to take his sister (a one eyed damsel) for better, for worse. As a marriage portion, the captain will receive 300 acres of agricultural and 1000 acresjof pastoral land, and one or two property leases. A Chicago paper says : —Mrs Langtry travels on her shape, and people who have seen her say she’s'ns pretty as a red waggon. For many years she stood up in a stall at flowers shows and fairs, and sold button, hole boquets at a nickel each. For this kind of work she received about the same wages as the Queen of England. But speaking of professional beauties, we don’t think ought to be encouraged. No man who has been down town all day doing trade would like to go home, tired and hungry, and find that the '"ife of his bosom had set up as a professional beauty. Beauty is something a man wants all to himself; and after he has gone to the expense of getting married and setting up housekeeping, he doesn’t feel exactly like sub-letting his newlyacquired possession. Beauty may do very well to fill a house with joy and peace, and illumine every careworn crevice in a husband s heart, but when you come to spread the beauty aU over England and part of the United States, yon find it spreads mighty thin. Beauty is for one home not for a nation. In fact, we consider that beauty is an article that should he kept strictly and entirely for family use, and not let nut to other fellows on any terms whatever. That is why we don’t risk much on professional beauties.” Mr T. M. MaoDermott (says the Argus), in his letter of explanation as to what he did and did; not say with resrard to the justices’ and justice ” at Brunswick in a i ecent case, stated that he had been informed by a solicitor that perusal of the cause-hook ” would at once show the Brunswick justices to be a very illiterate class of men. On a recent court day, a gentleman with an inquiring turn of mind took an opportunity, we are told, of examining the record for the day. Five cases had been determined, and in four of them the magistrate who signed the book displayed illiteiaoy. In No. 1, “guinea” costs were allowed; in No. 2, “ gnnece ” costs, or seven days in “ goal” ; in No. 4, “ginea” costs, default “distres.” No. 5 case was dismissed without “predgrus.” Sir Hercules Robinson on being requested by Lord Kimberly to express his views on the Parlhaka Native difficulty and on Mr Bradlangh’s letter thereon, concluded with the following observations Mr Bradlaugh remarks that ‘he is informed a deputation of Maori members waited on the Governor, when a solemn assurance was given that the prisoners should be tried in January of February last.’ This information is not correct, A statement in precisely the same words was made in the New Zealand House of Representatives by Sir George Grey. As soon as I saw a report of his observations on this subject, 1 laid before Ministers a memorandum giving a most unqualified contradiction to Sir George Grey’s statement; and the Premier made a Ministerial explanation in the House, when Sir George Grey admitted in effect that he must have been misinformed. It was scarcely ingenuous of Mr Bradlaugh’s informant to have communicated to him the accusation, and to have concealed from him, as he has apparently done, the refutation of it. I remember that 1 addressed to the Secretary of State a despatch with reference to Sir George Grey’s public misrepresentation of the fact in this particular.” A curious contrast is furnished by the Sydney Echo, in its description of the recent boxing encounter and the editorial comments thereon. In the former the “ terrible left hand ” of Miller, and the indomitable courage, of Foley are referred to in terms of enthusiastic emphasis. The moralist seated in the chair of the censor discourses with maudlin fluency on “wolfcubs and tigers,” of “ drinking blood,” and “ blood thirst,” of the blood-soaked tearing sponges,” and concludes finally in this supreme effort—“ And the result is, loss, unqualified loss, all finer feeling outraged, all chivalry bespattered with mud and filth] tigerish instincts liberally fed, coarsest brutality encouraged, and timid sensitiveness sickened, degradation everywhere, and the fathers of the deeper plot rattling their sovereigns and chncklim- in their evil souls. They have lost no gold if they have gained no gold, and they are content ns polecats gorged with some living prey.” The new Archbishop of Canterbury has a commanding and even striking presence. His is a countenance which, in a more wordly walk of life, is called a good stage face, only with him, instead of tragedy and passion, the expression is one of extreme mildness and benevolence. It is a singu larly winning face, and reminds one strongly of Ralph Waldo Emerson,