The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, JULY 20 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1107, 20 July 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, JULY 20 1883.

Beneath the rut« of men entirely jniv The pen is mightier that the sword.

A meeting of ie«idents was held m one of the Clyde Town Hall Committee Rooms on Saturday evening last to discuss with Mr John Park. Mining and Commission Agent, of Dunedin, the possibilities of forming a company to prospect the Dunstan Plat for deep leads. Mr Park explained that the question had been mooted by several gentlemen in Dunedin, Mr James Hazlett being of the number, and being up country, he had determined to gain all infoimation on the subject, and also to test the feelings of the residents. He went on to explain that, during that morning, accompanied by Messrs Holt, Dickie, and Pache, he had gone over the Flat, raid from what ho had learnt from those gentlemen, he had little doubt but that a lead or leads existed on the Plat, and that little trouble would be experienced in raising sufficient capital for the purpose in Dunedin, if the residents would join in the venture. He pointed out the great benefits that would accrue to the district from the opening up of deep leads, and said, should the first cotnoauy prove successful, it would he but the forerunner of many others, as there was plenty of available money for mining investments in the country. So as to bring the shares within the limit of all classes he would propose that the shares he only s'. H e then opened a list and those in the room promised to take up close upon >IOO shares, and theopini n was expressed that fully l n oo would be subscribed for in the district. Mr Park then sai 1 he would, on his return to Dunedin, lay the information he hud ob'ained before the gentlemen who had first moo'ed the subject, and afterwards communicate with the residents here. Mr Park was thanke I for the steps be had taken and the meeting seperated. We have received another letter from Mr Bsgg, of this town, in reference to the charges made by him against the Hospital Committee, and in answer to the action of the Committee at its last meeting ; but,as in our opinion, no good can result from any further correspondence on the subject, we must decline to publish it. Moreover, we think Mr Begg has allowed his temper to runaway with his judgment in importing into the question personalities and attacking in no measured terms a member of the Committee who is also an officer. We have never yet allowed, nor do we intend, the columns of this paper to be used as a means of offence or to gratify private pique and spleen, and as we can only look upon the letter in question as being a splenetic attack by the holder of a supposed grievance, we we have to refuse its insertion. The deaths and three funerals in eight days, and those of mothers of families, is an expeiienoe that is devontedly to lie wished may not again occur in Clyde. The first to pass to that bourne from which there is no returning, was Ihe wife of Mr Keleher, ■ settler, of Wai Keri Keii Valley, and mother of six childieu, on the Bth mat ; the next to follow was the wife of Mr Alfred Brown of Clyde, and the mother of two children on the 15th inst. ; and then on the IGth inst., the wife of Mr Joseph Edward Thompson, and the mother of seven children. As may be well imagined the sad events following so quickly after each other cast a gloom over the place, and comraisseratinn was expressed for the bereave I husbands at their sad loss. In each instance the funeral was largely attended, representatives from all parts of the district attending to pay their last tribute of lespect to the deceased ladies. As one of the deaths that took place during the week was from typhoid fever, we think the Local Board of Health should so that the house in which the death occurred is well fumigated, and the premises generally disinfected. We don’t want to raise a scare, but it is well at all times to be on the aide of safety. At a special meeting of the Hospital Committee, held on Monday evening last, it was decided to give 1.300 per annum as the salary of the incoming Resident Surgeon. The article on the “ Rabbit Question ” appearing in another column is one well worthy of perusal, and we commend it to our readers, '

We have to acknowledge from the Government Printer further batches of Parliamentary papers and Bills, also Nos. of Hansard. The next meeting of the Vincent County Council will be held on Wednesday next, at which the business to he transacted will be “ the election of Chairman, ‘‘receiving Auditor’s report for the year ending March 31st, and other business on the Order Paper, the particulars of which is to be seen in another column. The well known footballer J. Taiarna, son of the Maori chief and M.H.R., fractured his collarbone in the Otago Rugby Association’s match on Saturday afternoon The death is announced of Charles Warren, better known as General Tom Thumb. Information has been received hereof the return to Dunedin of Thomas Webb, who, it will be remembered, had both his legs amputated just below the knees through having them frostbitten whilst conveying provisions by pack-horse to a party of rabbiters on Messrs Car-rill and Anderson’s Tevioi Station during the Inst winter. A committee of gentlemen was formed in Clyde who started a subscription in aid of the poor fellow, and the appeal was moat liberally responded to ; the sum received being between L6OO and 1.700 The first act of *he Committee, as soon as the legs were sufficiently heated after the amputations. was to despatch him to Melbourne for a pair of artificial legs, and as we note above he has returned to Dunedin with his new aids to locomotion.and failing accident, he will in Clyde on Saturday. The Committee, we understand, will meet on Monday next, to decide on investing the money subscribed, and next week will be published the lists of donations. The Daily Times, in noticing the return of the lad, says:— “The lad Webb, who some time a !r o suffered amputation of both legs in consequence of frost'bite, returned by the Tarawera from Melbourne, whither he had been sent to obtain artificial limbs. He has been provided by Gallagher, of Melbourne, with cork legs (joining the real limbs a little below he knee), which appear to answer their purpose wonderfully well. They are constructed upon the most approved principle, and already the lad is able to walk with tolerable ease by the aid of a couple of sticks, which, it is expected, he will be able to discard before long. He looks exceedingly well in general health,and is now residing with Mr Z'ele, in Dunedin, but retinas to Clyde on Friday next. Tne Committee of the Webb relief fund will now probably cast about in find some suitable occupation for their prntiye The trial of the Wains (fat her and mother) on the charge of the manslaughter of their son, who died through illtreatment and the want of piopcr care and nourishment, was concluded on Saturday last, the jury returning a verdict of guilty, and the punish ment awarded was seven yeais* imprisonment. Work has been stopped on the Conroys Quartz Re.f f.r a time, inconsequence of the gre it inflow of water in the «huf . they are sinking. The p oprielors, Messrs Bennett and Dewar, however, are in no way disheartened, and purpose procuring a lift of pumps, to be worked by the same wheel that drives their battery, and then continue sinking. The pluck and energy of Messrs Bennett and Dewar in sticking single-handed to this reef, des-rves a rich reward, and we have to hope that they will meet with it. Venders are called in another column for cleaning ths Clyde School. Our Alexandra correspon lent say; The Chinese who used to come in from the r .ng s and stop for the winter are this yeir e,mspicuous by their absence. The late raid on the Fan Tan players here has evident y frightened them, and they have left for Cromwell and other places, where they imagine they will be aide to carry on their innocent amusements in peace and quietness. The sale of fat sheep to be held at Clyde, on Tuesday, the 31st inat., should bo worthy the attention of the butchers in the neighbouring towns. The following paragraph, taken from a Home paper, is of general interest : —•* The judgmsnt just given in the Croydon County County Court in the case of Dee v, Dalgairns will, unless reversed in a superior Court, strike terror into the hearts of plumbers, and will cause unmitigated satisfaction among the publ-c generally. In this case the plaintiff (a plumber) sued the defendant (a civil engineer) for the sum of L3O for the erection of a lavatory. The defendant made a counter claim of Ll2O, on the ground that,the work being improperly done, sewer gas escaped into the house and caused the illness of six members of the household and the death of hi* son. He, therefore, claimed the doctor’s bill and other expenses. The Judge struck out the plaintiff’s claim, and gave judgment for the defendant.” The Indian papers have begun to haul th» great exhibition promoter over the coals The Lahore paper thinks that a pertinent question would be, “Who is Mr Jouhert ? ’ No satisfactory reason has, it says, yet been given for an arrangement which appears to hand over the profits and honour of an enterprise—lavishly paid for with public money, laboriously worked up by officers of Indian administrations, and built entirely by Government -to a lively gentleman from Nsw Zealand or the Yarra River, [t is true that Mr Joubert proposed that an exhibition should bo held at Calcutta ; but surely there was no novelty or invention in the proposal that he should be so extravagantly rewarded. The proprietors of The Schoolmaster, pnhlished at Napier, announce in the July number that it “ will cease to be published by the present proprietors after this date unless the teachers, through their associations, guarantee a sum sufficient to cover the cost of publication. ”

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times states that Mr Pyke’s speech duting the debate on the local-government resolutions “ was deoidly the most noteworthy I have ever heard him deliver, besides being one of the best yet made during the present session, and certainly the very best upon the particular question j st now before the Houae. It had other good qualities. Shrewd common-sense, mingled to advantage with the particularly rich vien of humour belonging to no one else in the House hut the great ‘V. P-’ himself, were two of its leading characteristics; but it had greater value withal than th-t merely of excellent political fooling. There was in it, when the hon. member for Dunstan had got off his prepared jokes and settled to the work, a flavour of atatemansbip as distinguished from the political smack that mars nineteen twentieths of the insipid speeches heard in the House of Representatives—such a rarity that the dainty dish was quite enjoyable in its seasoning.” In these dull times when there is “nothing in the papers” it is refreshing to come across a pleasant little paragraph like the following, which is published by a London contemporary You mint he capful in your use of nitric acid,” said a professor of chemistry to his class, “ for, win n benzoylnaphtylamirte is treated with active isomeric monitro benz'ylnaphtylami « aia formed, one yielding monononamidobenzonoiphtylamide, the other akydroben zodiamidonaphalene, and an explosion is pretty sure to follow.” Doubtless, like a famous (production by the late Artemus Ward, this is •* writ sarkastik,” but recent contributions to the literature of explosives have given us a number of words. ,y closely resembling these polyt ,anr : 0 periods. The average newspaper reaiK is expected to know, and, as a fret, does know a great deal, but it is unfair to heave such typographical tapeworms at him without a moment’s warning. The New Zealand Shipping Comnany are increasing their capital by a quarter of a million. A leading Lonlon daily the other day printed in large type the announcement—in connection with the New Guinea question- of the rather striking fact that Victoria had annexed New Zealand 1 Don’t use stimulants, but nature’s brain and nerve foo 1— Hop Bitters. See. During the hearing of a ease at Wan nam. 800 l (Victoria) in which a publican w a charged with a breach of the Licensing Act allowing dice throwing in his Par after hours, the informing constable admitted that he saw what was going on by looking through a window, whereupon the police magistrate dismissed the information, saving t.h.tsiich a pi action w.s calculated to bring the force into contempt. It may not be generally known that in the Lyttelton Oaol there are complete workshops of every description, and that p isonts there are taught any trade for which t iey seem particularly adapted. When in Lyttelton the other day a meinb-r of <mr staff (Star) was shewn over the gaol, and found prisoners fully employed as tailo .-, bootmakers, an I compositors. In the tailormg department Kaupoi cloth was 1 eing made up into uniforms for the warders in various parts of the Colony. The woikmauship in each department was excellent. Mr R. Bom-nliier, Government Inspector, informs the Wakatipu Mail that he made a trial lately, on the farm of Mr F. M’Bride, Frankton, of Stewart, Watson and Co.s (lnvere.ir.il,) Registered Universal Best Destroyer, for the suffocation of rabbits in burrows, and he found it highly successful in fact he is so well sa isfied that he pur. poses ordering two more. The machine is simple, a id after being charged with the • necessary materials—charcoal andsulpher it will last for hours, George Fimofchy Stephenson, who ha* become notorious in connection with the Dunedin tragedy, was (says the New Zealand Times) well known in Wellington, having passed his early life here, and there are hundreds of his old schoolmates who regret the sad termination of his career. His father, Timothy Stephenson, was in business in Wellington. Thomas Dwaan and Co now occupy the premises 'formerly Stephenson’s store. Mr Stephenson sen., was for many years a commercial traveller in the Colony, but he has now settled in Sydney, where he went some time last year with his fa l ' ily. Ut-iKS and Bugs.— Beetles, insects anti, roaches, bad-bugs, rats, mice, ff 1 pliers, jack-raboits, cleared out by “Rough, on Rats,” 74d, Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. The Pope s circular has been received with anything but implicit submission in Ireland, by the priests or people. Its immediate eff-ct has been to give a strong fillip to the Parnell testimonial, which, before its issue, seemed inevitably destined to become a complete fiasco. In the week succeeding the publication of the circular the fund very nearly doubled in amount, aLhough it had been in existence for more than a month before A significant element in the affair (says the Dome Lews) is that the moat considerable of the later subscriptions have been collected by parish priests, who, in forwarding them to the Freeman’ Journal, pointedly express undiminiahed , confidence in Mr Parnely, and tacitly ignore the Papal mandate. But, after all, this may be regirded as merely a spasmodic effort of Land League agitators, both lay and clerical, to save themselves from instant extinction. The condemnation of the Popo must ultimately result in seriously impairing the strength of the movement. The process by which it will achieve its end may bo slow, but it will be sure. The Irish , priests are, as a body, too astute to offer prolonged resistance to the Papal edicts, as as they are conscious that their influence . upon the people derives its strength from the belief that they are the trusted repreasnI tatires of the Infallible Supreme Pontiff,

A recent issue of the New York Tribune contains the following calculation by U’Donovan Rossa of how much it would cost to bring England to her knees “ Let us see how much it would cost to burn England, to burn London, the heart of England, say Passage money of 1000 evicted Irishmen from Ireland to London, L 6 each, L 6000; rooms in 1000 London hotels, one night, 5s each, L 250 ; 1000 boxes of matches, at a farthing a box, LL Os lOd ; passage money to fly after the 1000 beds are lit, L 0 each, L 600 0; contingent pocket money for 1000 men, L 5 each. L 500 0; total L1T,251 0s lOd. That is somewhere about 85,000d015. That much would strike England to her knees ; that much would help the men at Home to free Ireland. Can the Philadelphia Convention raise it?” This is reckless extravagance on O’Donovan’s part, a critic of Rossa said. The L 250 for rooms is quite unnecessary, as in the prevailing confusion the 1000 Irishmen could easily “ skip out” without paying a penny. O’Donovan also forgets that at the same time they might'quietly pocket the jewels of flying guests, and thus not only defray all their own expenses, but perhaps make a profit out of the transaction.