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Dunstan Times, Issue 1110, 10 August 1883, Page 2

The Vienna po'ice have recently arrested

Heinrich Hunk, a civil engineer, sometimis calling himself Baron Knoblauch. Much importance is attached to this arrest. In February, 1882, an Italian Count, with whom Nuok had business arrangements, offered (or sale to Vienna jewellers diamonds worth 1,20,009, and the police, whose suspicions were aroused, interrogated Nuek on the matt r. His answers were considered satisfactory, but within 24 hours, the Count had disappears)! from Vienna. Nuek has been watched ever since, and the police are now convinced that he is the real head of the gang of international thieves and swindlers who ware most probably the chief actors in the Hatton garden Jewellery robbery. Arsenicised parsnips, we are given to understand, is the most efficacious of alldoses for poisoning rabbits. The rabbit appears to bo most partial to the parsnip, •id will readily consume it, while horses, a ittle, and sheep, will not touch it. Ac* c irdingly it is a safe thing to lay about in placst *-here it is highly dangerous to lay phoaphorised grain. The Blue Ribbon movement is.it aupsars, taking a great hold.-’ Is is now said that fully 5000 peop'e in Christchurch, and 1506 at Oamaru have donned the bln -, sad that it is expected the Dunedin army will numher fully 3000 strong. So far, the work of enlisting has not commenced in the upcountry districts ; but wo expect it will not he long before the colour sergeants are to be seen on the war path. Mr Henry John Barclay has received the . appointment;of Receiver of Gold Revenue and Clerk .to the -R.M. and Warden’s Courts, Cromwell. We have received from Messrs Batson apd Attwater, of Sydney, the first number of a new monthly periodical published, by them entiled, <• The Industrial News.” A» s typographical wock,it is simply perfection, che printing being beautifully sharp and distinct. / The i reading “is on ■ various sub jncts, alike instructive and kinusin; to the a udeut as to the apt scholar. We are pleased to welcome the ati anger, amt wi»h it a long life. _ The special; .meeting »f ’the Vincent County Council to .dLcusi the no ice of motion , y Councillor Macgmuis relating to dummy u ntraotora. will lie held th s uay week, ih; l/th lost., at 2 p.m., at Clyde. Nugent Woo l, Esq., R. . and Wa den. was in Clyde during the beginning of the week holding an inquiry .hi to certain cnar..e» in,ole again,t Constable Derliss,. laic of S'-., Bathaiis, now of Clyde, l,ut as the inquiry Was held wi hj closed do m, we are unable to say anything further than that the inquiry wa< made. An accident of a painful character oc currod to Mr \V. Williams on Saturday evening last whilst driving over one of the numerous culver:a that abound in and around Clyde. It appears that through the suddeuness of the drop the seat of the trap he was driving was jerked out of its place, an 1 Mr Williams was r thrown heavily on to the road, receiving a severe shaking. —There was a time when it was the rule for all drains and water-races crossing roads to be covered in, but now it appears to bo the exception, and we can but deplore the change in the system. Members of the Dunstan Jockey Club are informed that a special meeting for the discussion of important business is called for Saturday evening next at the Pori Phillip Hotel. By the report of the Dunstan H spitvl Commitiee meetings it will beaeen that. Di G. A. Lewis, of Christchurch, was of five candidates leleole I to succeed Dr Warda e as Resident Surgeon. Dr Lewis comes amongst us with unexceptional t- stimoni:- * as to his skill and ability as a surgeon an I physician. Onr Alexandra correspondent informs ns that at a meeting held on the Bth inst., in the Public Library, it was decided to organise a Caledonian Society, and to get up sports on New Year’s r, ay on a scale mm . extensive than has hitherto been attempted there. At a meeting of the Alexandra Jockey Club it was decided to en lorse the action of the Dunstan Club in disqualifying the horse Pathfinder ; also Mullens from entering a horse to. run on the Alexandra course. The Hon. W. W Johnson, Minister of Public Works, expects to leave for England in March next, and will not stand again at next Mention for the Manawatu constituency. Two publicans were fined at Riverton last week for having their places open afo r legal hours ou the occasion of the Otau*au Ploughing Match. They had .ebta nsd leave from the Licensing Committee, but were fined in small sums, Ins(»ector Buckley stating that it had been the custom for committees to grant snob privileges under the impression that they ha I power to do so ; and his principal object was to call attention to the fact that no such power was vested in tha committees, and not'ichetanding such order license-hollers were liable to the penalties imposed by the Act.

The bicycle ha? roach -I China, and it astonishing the natives. A letter from the gentleman who introduce.! ’cycling t l iera | says the inhabitants “ stare at it in great wonder. When I dismount I have a crowd round me in a minute, which soon increases to a huu Ire I if I stay.” The Celestials exhibit their wonderment by raising “a great shout” as the rider glides swiftly away, and some try to keep up what they term a “ Tye.sbing Cli**h,” which means a self going cart, but arc soon glad to give up the contest “ What astonished them is that the bicycle goes' quicker than a horse, and many have been the inquiries by curious Chinamen whether it contain.? a spring to make it go?” The adventurous Englishman finally sold bis machine to one of the princes, who “is not making much of a j ib of riding," ami has sent to London for another, with “ an alarm bell, to make as much noise as possible.” People are going cranky at Christchurch about the supposed diamond fields, and wonderful prices are being paid for shares m the claims where the stones were first found. Plenty of money,, no doubt, will be won and lost.over the business before a single diamond of any value is discovered. At the same time we (Timaru Herald) should not be in the least surprised if the field proved genuine after all. We hate from the begiriiiihg had an impression that Mr Jacobsen knew what he was about and we could not fpr the life of us see why diamonds should nit bo found in a country which contains almost every description of minerals. The first that made ns think seriously of the matter, howe er, was the decision of the scientific big-wigs that the ■tone* were only quarta-pebbles. Whenever a learned doctor with half the alphabet after his name declares quite positively that a particular substance .is valuless, and that the genuine 'article sever can, by any possibility, b« found in the locality in it. cated, we always think it is about time to sell out and invest heavily in that quarter. Wo sincerely hope ife,-«ri!l prove eo with Mr Jacobsen’s discovery, for a good, rich diamond field w uld come'in particularly handy in.New Zealand justfet present. The following mining accidents are recorded by the Tudpeka Pre-ii John Gray, a miner, was broil-ht into, the Lawrence Hospital from Waitahuna on Saturday last, 'b ing very seriously injured, his left collarbone beingfiactfired; as also tho wrist on the sime side.' He was working,in bis claim at Havelock Flat takiiig dfi'wii a “ fall ;’’ it appears that the ground was considered very dangerous, and vvh'Rstengagel driving under it a ske'pof earth felVout «f he face, right on the top of him. The u fortunate man is now in a very critical state.—A serious accident ocenrr; I about n id flay on Sunday at the Wetherstones Cement C •.’« claim. N1 ssis Cur e Coxm and Millard were engaged drawing timber, when, as the former was underuiiiig to enable biin to draw out a prop, which there was some difficulty Jia netting at, a heavy lump to 1 from above, s'l-iking Millard,who was ho d ing a light, on the breast and 1 eft am,, an I Coxon on tie head. Coxon receive a severe scalp wound and was hurt in the aide, and Millard’s arm wi* much nmi-s hut not hr >hen. Both sufferers are progressing favour.i ly. In reference to the assassination ef the arch-informer Caiey. the Tablet writes;— “ We have no sympathy wh itever for this man's crime, and can only abhor it as an atrocious act of vengeance. It may be true that the wretched Carey deserved no better fate But no man, or no emi »sary from any. body of men, o mid under any circumstances be justified in following him, as we may conclude O'Donnell did, with the design of killing him. The act has been murder only, and deserves as such to be reprobated. Nor can we say that we have no pity for the nnhsppy wretch killed. To say so would be to confess that we were not Christian. None are deprived of their right to charity except the lost, and whom they are God alone knows.” We (ifalaura Ensign) have gathered some interesting facts and statis ios regarding rabbit poisoning on the estate of the Now Zealand Agricultural Company. During May, June, and July they laid 150 OOOlb of poisoned grain, and they have taken 122,000 skins from the rahbiters during the same period. It is reckoned that fn’ly half as many rah! its die in the bur ows an ! on rough ground, where they are not found by the men, which would bring the number of rabbits killed to, say, 181,000, or about a ra ! bit and a quarter for every pound of grain laid. Although the Company laid .17,-000:b more poison in July 1833 than during ths same month in 1882 they receivnl 26,000 fewer skins for the corresponding per'od. This Ipoks encouraging.- Of coarse it must bei-remembernd that hj i Company owns and leases a ver large tract' of country some 300 00d acres, Titis should be borne in mind when reidin about ISOp'OOib poison laid -and 122.000 skins received in three mouths. Preaching at St. Mark’s (VVcdington) on Sunday, the Rev. R. Coffey said he hal been requests 1 to ask his congregation to sign a petition in opposition to the Catholic claims in regard to education. He could not do so, for the Catholic claims weie .f r the glory of G»d in religion v. so-called secularism, mid were in principle the same as those made by representatives of the Church of England So far these c aims hail been successfully opposed by the supporters of godless education, partly on the plea that they. wore afraid of the Roman Catholic. It could not bn said of him tnat ho had any leaning towards Rorai-h doctrines, but he would rather have a good Catholic to deal with than an agnostic, materialist, or atheist, which were the lenoininations now monopolising the schools. Thick Heads.— Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions—“ Wells’ May Apple Pills” anti-bilious, cathartic, sd.andls. Moses, Mobs t Ob., Syduteyi General Agents.

Sir George Grey has given notice, of motion to the effect that the Premier of r the Colony should not be solicitor for the Bank of New Zealand, nor receive fees or emolument from that institution. The hearing of the libel case Hornsby (Late County Press) v. Warren '( i Vakatipa Mail) takes place at Invercargill on the 21st lost. | The Hobart Mercury reports the death of ! Mr George Arnold, formerly the Grand Chief Templar of Tasmania. For thirty three years he drank nothing but water, declining even a cap ot tea or coffee. Very keen inlsrtet Is being manifested In Ashburton (says the Press) about the «MtaU or otherwise of diamonds at Alford'-JipWat, and every scrap of news from Christchurch on the subject is eagerly devoured and discusaed. In fact the gold discoveries on the Ninety*Milo Beach and the probability of gold being found in payable quantities at Alt rd Forest, together with diamond!, have formed some of the principal topic* of conversation during the past week. Whatever the result of further news about the existence of diamond or gold rimy bo. it is pretty certain that before long a thorough prospect of the hills will be made with the object of discovering the actual mineral resources of the ranges be tween the'Rakaia and R mgitata. The Wellington Post say A somewhat singular method of testing the Hare system of voting has -been set on foot by the Go vemmenf with a view, we suppose, to- its passible adoption in connection with the Legislative Council. A circular has been sent by the Premier to each official in the Government Buildings enclosing a list of English authors, and asking the recipient to write down his favorite ant ho s in order in which he prefemithem. The circulars after being filled up will be examined in accordance wi hj the Hare system, and it wi 1 then be seen who are the write a most affected by the occupant* ot the “ Big Buildings”—or, what perhaps may not he precisely the same thing, the authors whom th-y wish it to be thought they most affect. Rumour has it that a mim’-er of young clerks somewhat hastily jumped at the conclusion that a paternal Government smitten •with remoise at its past conduct in regar to the 10 per cent, reduction, and anxious far the intellectual improvement of the S rviie, intended to make them presents of books, and this was the reason for enquiring into their predictions. The. disgust of these young men with representative instituti' ns in general, and the Hare system ol voting in particular, now that they have aseeitained the real purport of the memorandum, may be better imagined than de scribed.