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Dunstan Times, Issue 1109, 3 August 1883, Page 2

Or Mao innis’s notice of moti >n, in reference to dummy tenderers, was fully discussed at the meeting of the County Council on Tuesday night last, and it was resolved that the Chairman convene a meeting for Wednesday, the 15th of Anst to enquire in terms of the motion into the matters referred to.

Our supplement this week is confined to MrPyke’sspeechin Parliament on “ Centralisation of Government,” and which will be found of more than ordinary interest. Mr Pyke was complimented by both side* of the House for the able manner he dealt with the question.

Tomorrow, Saturday, the 4th inst., Mr Pache will sell by auction a miscellaneous assortment of articles without reserve. See advertisement.

The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of the Dunstan District Hospital will be held on Monday evening, the 6th inst, at 8 p.m. Amongst the business to be transacted is the considering of applications for the post of resident surgeon, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr Wanlale. a full attendance is accordingly desired.

The Bank of New Zealand proprietary, we understand, have at lenglh made up their minda to erect new bank buildings and officers quarters at Alexand ;a South, and none too soon eithei, as the dilapidated rattle-trap of a shed that now does duty for a bank an I dwelling is a veritable disgrace, being neither wind or water-tight and in no sense suited for the purpose it is put to. Hard frosts still continue night and morning, though as a rule it is gloriously fine and sunshiny duiiug the day. The farmers are beginning to complain of their enforced idlen S3, they being unable to touch the ground it being so icebound.

In addition to the consultations previously r.ferrert to, and which are lobe seen on our f >nrth page, we now draw attention to “ SiuHad’a” ami “ La Mascotte" advertisements “Sinbad” comes before the pup. ;ic this time with some decided novelties, ihe nomination prizes not being ths least.

Mr Fache reports having bean unsuccessful at the sale of sheep on Tuesday last. Whether it was that the owner’s reserve was too hi.h or that the company present under-estimated the value and weights of the sheep wo cannot pretend to say ; but, it is a fact, not one of the mob offered changed hands, and Mr Tubman, accordingly, had to drive them to Moa Flat again. Mr Tu man was looking for 3d per pound, whilst the hi s were between 2d and 2’d.

We have to aoknowled »c the receipt of a batch of Parliamentary papers including he publi: works s tement, ieport of West Coast and Canterbury railway commission, cold-fields report, eta., etc. ; also several numbers of Hansard.

The two dredges on the river between here and Alexandra are, we understand, both on payable ground ; and in the way of dm ten is arc making up for lost time. The leviatbat iron dredge just now is idle, some neoes-ary a idilions and improvements being mvle to some of the washing gearing, which, when completed, will it is thought be the me ms of saving a deal of the gold that now escapes.

In this issue we publish a letter from Mr James Rivers, of At xandra, on the sub ject of “ Fevers an I their causes” that is worthy of the moat earnest consideration, and we shall hope in future issues to receive further letters on the same subject; and that the eff ct will he the appointment of some gentlemen to analyse both the water and the air throughout the district. Mr Rivers is by no means alone in the opinion that the prevailing sickness is attributed to the decomposins bo lies of the poisoned rabbits polluting both the air we breath and the watei wo drink.

Typhoid fever is prevalent all over Otago just now. Cases ire reported at Invercargill, Tnapeka,, and Tapanui, some of which have terminate 1 fatally, while we know o| cases lately in Clyde, Alexandra, and Cromwell. '

During the past year 100,000 rabbitakin* have been takea off Eernscleugh Station.

Lord Al ngton’s reported winnings on’tho Derby amounted to L9.C00, Sir Frederick Johnstone’* to a trifle over LIO.OOO, anil the Prince of Wale* —who accompanied them to Kingiclere to see St Blaise tried with Geheimules, Shotover, Incendiary, Condor, and Energy on the Friday previous—won L 5.500. All the party backed Bonny Jean for the Oak*.

They have a Derby over in Peiaia. A lot of men enter thalr horses and deposit the entrance fee with the Shah. The race is then ran, after which the Shah takea p s•esion of (ho winner, and sticks to all the .entrance money. There is a business-like simplicity about sport in Persia which speaks for itself.

“Life” is responuba for the following »tory:—A very popular but blind count lives in the Champs Elysces, Paris. Being witty and musical, bis society is much sought after. He left Paris three months and on bis return calls 1 on a fasbtcna'de marchioness, who was preparing to go to a fancy ball. She begged to he excused, but, .as he bad an important message to derive, he was shown in, and. being blind, was asked to tak* a chair in her boudoir. Gossip ensued, and during all the time the marchioness, assisted by her maid, executed all the myaterie* of her toilet. Bung ready to deicend to her carriage, the count atated be had been absent .in London, had under gone a successful operation for cataract, and could now see as w*ll as the marchioness. The latter shrieked, and jumped into her carriage without even an cu renoir to her unwelcome visitor.

A rather peculiar wager was recently lost and p»l4| in Melbourne. The item cf news coneerningjthe duplication of the Suez Canal was under discussion, and the conversation incidentally drifted to the date of the commencement of the first projected canal through the Isthmus of Suez. People were puzzling thamsslves about the year when a little man present said “ 1 don’t know tho exact year, but it was some can* tnriea before the birth of Christ.” A laugh of incredulity greeted the speaker, but he was positive. A wager war made, and the next day the little man triumphantly produced an unquestionable authority to certify that Nekas or Ne hos the Second, who ruled Egypt some 6;)0 year* B.C, planned 'and started a canal across the Isthmus of Suez, bnt desisted from the task upon tho advice of tho Oracle, after he had lost over 100,000 man in at* tempting to do what the present century has seen accomplished. It is not a good thing (remarks the Bulletin] to make rash wagers with people who have good memories.

Tbs cost of the coronation of the Czar, it is estimated, will reach 1^3,030,030. Arrangsmeots are being male fer the deapatoh of an English team of cricketers Australia. Ths team will consisi entirely of p ofessional players, anil it is expected to leave London for the Antipodes shortly. William Hunter, a rahgious monomaniac who create'! a disturbance at the Victorian Barracks, Sydney, a few weeks ago, was brought up at the City Police Court and charged with shooting Robert Crant in the leg with a revolver. Tho prisoner, whode dined ta question the witnesses, was asked whether he had any statement ta make Li reply he said : a * 1 wish to state my reasons for doing it. Our Saviour had been maligred in the daily newspapers, and I don’t mean to put up with it, I refer particularly to a paper called the Weekly Aduocats. in which it is aaid distinctly that onr Saviour told lies.” This statement was taken down, and the prisoner was then commr.te 1 for trial. The National Bank of New Zealand has declared a dividend of 4 par cent, for the past half year.

Writing upon the Nelson tragedy, th Timtru Herald says that the crime at the Lyeli for which Davidson was condemned was “ons of the worst cases of man slaughter that aver came before a com-*-and Davidson was proved to be a ruffian of the most dangerous type. Yet, in the face of all these facts, he was treated in th gaol as if he were a harmless creature who had the misfortune to get into a scrape. He was employed as look, entrusted witi. knives and a tomahawk, and ectually lei let loose to perambulate tlie gaol premises unguarded. It would have been a mattei for astonishment if .he had not taken the first convenient opportunity for perpetra ting some dead of bloodshed. Theie are regulations in force in prisons for proper custody of convicts undergoing penal send tude for violent crimes, regulations, we mean, of so strict and imperative a character that they cannot be suspended, at the will of the gaoler or warders, in favc xr of any prisoner who happens to be quies and docile in his demeanour. If so, the auihouties of the Nelson Gaol must be held di reotlyresponsible for this horrid catrstrnphx the only alleviating circumstance of which is the good behaviour of the gaoler and his wife when brought face to face with the murderer. Had they shown less courage or self-possession their own lives in ail probability weald have been sactiticed, the gaol would literally have been left under the control of a;desperate convict, and there is no saying what the consequences might have been."

The British Ministry have recently beer questioned in both Houses of Parliament respecting the deficiency in the strength of the British army, which is from ti*H)3 to 8000 |mon below its proper complement. The Government attribute the falling off to t‘t« ago for recuits being raised to i 9, ami also the stringent examination required. The age will henceforth bo lowe el to 18, and the height sit 4in. The War Office hss also resolved to permit enlistment for 12 years, with faciliti s for le engagement in order to earn a pension. The short-service system was strongly attacked by nembera durieg thedebeth.

A meeting bus been arranged between the Herman Emperor William and Emperor Fiancis Joseph, of Austria, to take place at Gastein, Upper Austria, on the 4th August. The Union Bank of Australia has de. dared a dividend of 9 per cent, for the past half year, and cairied L 30.000 to the reserve fund.

The “friends” of the heathen Chinee must feel gratified, writes a contemporary, at the result of the recent legislation on hi* behalf. During the half year en ter Juno 30ib, 19 Celestials anived in the Colony an I 111) left it. In the month of June there were no arrivals, but 19 departures. The Chinamen are even tak ng away the bon a of their deceased brethren, and we 0 mnot wonder that they feel glad to get quit of a country which has treated them •o I urvily. we would like to suggest that t ie next piece of legislation of a similar ch-racier should be almost a transcript of the Chinese Act, on y for Chinese substituting the woid “sundowners”—a class of men infinitely less use, and infinitely more injurious to the interests of the working man than the much and undeservedly abused Mongolian.

A recent letter from Mace (13th June) i i London, saya that Slade, the Maori, had for hir firet English trial a stiff set-to with a tider boxer named Mulberry, but the Zea auder won from the beginning to the end, Mace and Slade sparred in several Yorkshire towns and at Sheffield drew a great throng. During the Derby week they packed some of the largest halls in London Slale had lost 201h«., having been tht-prin cipal sparrer. Adda Mace, “I am mJ rly thunderstruck at such exhibitions ; there I *-, ■ot one here 1 could not do in a trot myseli and at my age, too.”

Mr Labouchcre recently challenged Irving Bishop, the “ thought reader,” to tall the number of a hank note known only to the challenger and to Mr Frith, M.P. T • latter had hold of the note. “ Labby ” put up LIOOJ against LIO3, the winner to devote the money to charities. Bishop guessed the number of the note at once, and demanded the money, Tho case had not been decided.

Numerous incidents have been related idust-ative of Mr Maacndrew’s kindness to struggling settlers and others in the early days of the colonv, but we (Clutha Leader) believe the following, which is perfectly true, has never been pu listed. In or about, the year 1867, bo was on a visit to the Tuapeka goldfields in company with Mr John Hughes, then member of the Provincial Council for the district. The two stayed all night at a shanty, Iti the morning Mr Maeandrew discovered that the keeper of hie shanty was a very poor man with a family of twelve children, and without a cow to supply them with mdk. He asked hlmto come to town and he would give him a cow. The man having only one suit of clothes went to bed until h.s wi'o should wash and dry them. Next morning he pro. rnred a rope and with it smarted for Dun* din On arrival he went to M r M aC andrew’s office and throwing down the rope said he had come tor tho cow. Mr Maeandrew replied “ you surely don’t th nk that 1 keep her in my office, but wait a minute an I I’ll arrance the matter. He then wrote a note to the constable stationed at West Tiieri, asking him to proceed to the farm of a certain wealthy settler on the plain and select for ihe man the bast cow on the farm. The man walked to the Taieri with the note, arid got a magnifieient cow which he led home much o the da'ight an 1 future comfort of bis wife and family.

The Neucbatel Council of State hj ve issued a decree forhdliling until farther orders all public meetings of the Salvation Army within the limits of the canton. The guardians of a piorhonre at Canterbury e ■minenr>« I a practice of giving fiih dinners once a week to the paupers, hut the D'x jndlce among thp mrer classes with re» •nect to the nutrient v» uo of fish led to amb an outcry among the inmates of the local workhouse, that the guardians have felt compelled to a'an don their sagacious project, Mother %xVs Worm Svhhp.—lnfap i de. tasteless harm'ess, eatha tic; for fovenshnes-, rest’eness. worms, constipation. Is at druggists. Moses, Moss nd Co., Sydney, General Agents. Intima'ion has been received by the laaj. mail from Home of the appointment of Mag J rsie Josphine M‘Kean as Lady Vic - principal of the Dunedin Girl’s High S-hoyl. Uisa M‘K>an gained a presentation of a year in 1872 and a hrearv of Llfl.fin 1376. and in dime, 1876. ahe obtained an honor certificate in four subjects at the Edinburgh University examinations. She was one of tht first of two ladie* In Scotland who passed the M.A mathematical ex animation with honors. The Rev Robert Miller, matheraa deal master in the George Watson College for ladies at E'inhnrgh, states that she was their best mathematical pupil, and at the time of competing for tbs LIOO scholarship (which she gained) wag before all others in the mathematical department. The head master of the same college speaks of her as being a good scholar in English, French, grammar, Latin, and drawing. Dyspepsia, biliousness, nervousness and miserahleness all cured with Hop Bitters, Holloway's Ointment. -Sores. Wounds Ulcerations, and other diseases affecting th skin, are capable of speedy amendment b if S , Ins anrl healing nngnent, which hi called forth the loudest praise from persoi wo had snffere I for years from had leg abscesses, and chronic n’ccrs, after eve hope of cure had long passed away. No but those who have experienced the soot no fffoot of this Ointment on form an if of the c 'mfort it bestows by restraining ll inmatinn and allaying pain. Whene H'dloway*’s Ointm nt has been nice it established its own worth, and has ni been eigeily sought for as the easiest safest remedy for all ulcerous complai in neuralgia, _ rheumatism, and gout, uJbHttlsSibf**' 00 ' us P** 9l