The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, JULY 6 1888.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1105, 6 July 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, JULY 6 1888.

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

Winter b.vj n,nv fairly set in, nights and mornings liein ■ ••xceedmgly col I, the •lay, however, when the sun shines it is very pleasant. Should the present hard weather continue, our In cal & haters will be able to indulge in that heal.by pastime. An accident which hele ; one of onr office employees ou tun lay morning last, through the explosion of a canister of powder in his hand, renders us shorthanded, and for auy shortcomings in this issue we must crave the indulgence of our subscribers. The death of Mr W. 11, Gotten, for many , y ,ars head of the Otago land department j is announced. Mr Gotten tvas one of Otago’s earliest settlors, and eame from homo in the I ''John Wicklilfo.”

“ ' » " Play’s ” ho me thrusts and perse,,. aliti<-8 are in nur opinion rather too scathing for our columns under a nom de plume. On hia consenting to his name in (full being appended to his letter, we shall have no ol j.'otion to insert it. Leslie Athol Korman, fPrinter, erstwhi'o a resident inf Clyde, fbut now of Naseby, tii'inea among the list of insolvents with i’2ol 10s Gd debts, and £33 assets. The County elections are now over, and with the exception of Duustan and Hawea Ridings—which have returned Mr W. Fraser and Mr M'Carlhy respectively, the Council is as it was before the resignations. For the two contested scats, Matakanni and Lind is, there was a good deal of f. eling manifested. For Matakanui 00 votes, a greater number Ihan o i any previous occa* sion being recorded, and resulted in the re' election of the old tm mher Mr fitronach For Lindis Mr Colclonyb was returned. As the question of chairman is now virtually Kill) judice we shall cache w tl e subject further than saving that we Imps the new I Council wilt he aide to settle it without a repetitionfof the unseemly scenes that have bean enacted, and without the aid of those costly adjuncts—writs of mandamus— that were brought to hear on the question. That he first meeting, however, will be carried ou in peace anil harmony we scarcely expect, as the bitterness of fueling that has been evolved in'onr correspondence columns wi'l !>e i-eve to draw Lath personal explanations and recriminations, but it is to be desired that nothing other than a wordy war will be indulged in. The Grand Jury having dec'a’cd that there was no true bi'l against George Clark, made the following presentment—Mr George Turnbull (fo-eman) said : The Grand Jury beg to draw attention to the exceedio : iy unsatisfactory manner in which the case against George Clark, the clerk for the Vincent County Council, was brought before them—there being hardly any evidence in support of the two charges in the indictment, and none whatever that the amounts it rceived by the clerk had not been paid to the bank. One of the witnesses, who has been twice brought from thirty miles beyond Christchurch, was wholly unable to give any evidence whatever. His Honour : Yes, Mr Foreman, the fact of your having ma e a presentment will direct the atteuof the autiioiities to the circumstances, and if anybody is to blame I have no doubt but that they will hear of it again, Mr Haggit: ! may say, your Honour, that it was the solicitor to the Vincent C unity Council who worked up-the evidence in this case, (hero was ample evidence of a general deficiency. ami if there had been any further evidence luithconiiiig no doubt he would have brought the evidence forward. His Honour : Yes ; I cannot say anything as to that. Mr Facbe reports having hal a most aatisf.,o o.y c earing sale on Saturday last, on account of Mr J mss Oliver, whose lease of .Mr Illicit Ciossan’s imiel and farm at Bald 11 ill Flat has just expire 1. Mr C*os* salt has again entered upon the occupation, ad wuii ish for him a prosperous and happy career. e have to record the death at the early age of d}, of Mr Andrew Murphy, of the hin of .Murphy Bros., farmers, Spottis Hundred, which lock place on Monday last. It ceased for some years past had heeo salt uiug from that dread disease cuu-sjinpti-.n, consequently his death was by no means niiexpccla.l. The family, of which deceased was a member, w’t-re amongst the pioneers of the Blacks district, and for many years confined their whole attention to gold mining ; but when the Spottis Hundred, or what was then known us (Bassfont’s Swamp, was thrown op u for settlement, they scouted several hundred acres which has been wouderfally improved aim maue a really tine piopcrty of, besi ie at the same time attending to an interest they hold in one of the rich claims on Tinkers. Deceased, as also his brothers, are widely known and highly respected, as was evidenced by the large cavalcade—fully 1 JO horsemen and 30 vehicles—that followed the remains from his residence to the Blacks cemetery, where ho was intei red ou Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. Father Suet-nan officiating. We have to acknowledge recipt of No’s 1 and 2of Hansard, and several bundles of Parliamentary papers, amongst which arc a number ofpnbs now before the House, and the statistics of the Colony for the past year. For close confinement, want of air, sedentary habits and brain and nerve tire, 1 trust in Hop Bitters. Read. Workmen employed in doing some work under Macquane-street brilge, Hobar‘, found a case of wine in splendid condition embedded in the mud, with remains of furniture, etc. It is probable that the care of wine ami other ihmgs have been buried n the mud under the bridge ever since one of the floods that proved so destructive to houses and other property about 30 years ago. Can the Pall Mall Gazelle mean the sneering allusion for Sir Charles Cavan Duffy:—“We all know how au Irish patriot of a certain type writes about his island as if it had done more for European civilisation than Greece and Rome togetli r, and how hia imagination transforms the actors in the pettiest rising into Titanic heroes.” Society has been most aptly [likened to a vat of good wine, which is all scum and froth at the top, dregs and sediment at tbe bottom, and good, pure, clear liquor in ths middle. Vice does admirable work in skimming away the supernatant scum, and in drawing off the dregs and settlings. Unceasing fermentation seems to he a condition necessary to the health of society. Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.” —Ask for I Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.” 74- Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, , bunions. Moses Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents.

Amongst tho adherents gained by the Salvation Army in Auckland is a young Maori, scarcely out of his teens, and who up to 12 years of age, spoke no language lut Maori. This was Mr Graham Tawhai, Hie son of the Bay of Islands chief. Mr Tawhai spike with modesty and feeling,and his remarks on the advantages of early piety and on moral bravery in the midst of ridicule and opposition from worldy and profane people, were received with genuine though suppressed applause. Auck.and, like Corinth, possesses the advantage of an inestimable situation seated on a narrow isthmus, occupying a position and enjoying the facilities afforded for carrying goods from sea to sea. The neck of land which separates Auckland Harbour on the eastern able from the large harbour of Mai in kan on the western is only a few miles acioss.