The Dunstan Times CLYDE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1883

Dunstan Times, Issue 1111, 17 August 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1883

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

The Cromwdl Argu* understand that Mr J. Rees, the agent of the Bank of New Zealand there, is to bo removed.

A fire, attended with fatal consequences, took place shortly after eleven o’clock on Saturday night last. A dwelling-house, occupied hy Mrs Cockroft and two of a family, was totally destroyed. It appears that the mother had retired to bed first, an 1 before the children wre asleep they v"re alarmed by seeing the flames proceed* ng from the bedroom. They made nn effort to rouse their mother, but were unsuccessful, the flames gaining possession of the dwelling very quickly. The children were got ont safely, ami an alarm was raised as soon as possible. The Pwe Brigade turned out promptly, but all excrions to save the unfortunate woman were unsuccessful. The body has been recovered. To-day a special meeting of the Vincent Onunty Council is to be held fo consider the notice of motion of Or. Marginniss’s relative odummy contractors. We shall he sum prised if the debate will not be a heated one. On Wednesday next the anniversary Hall of the Court Star of Dunstan, A.0.F., will be held in the Town Hall, Clyde. The affair pr-misea to be somewhat mnr„ than ordinarily good, the committee sparing no effort to give satisfaction to those who will fttt“nd. The music will be provided hy the Alexandra Brass Band, and Mr William Rohertaou. of Alexandra, acts asM.C., and Mr Bell, of Clyde, provides the refreshments. The steamer Theodore made a private trial trip on Lake Wanaka on Sunday last, and we learn, behaved herself most handsomely. though it wag blowing pretty well a ga’e whilst she was out. Yesterday, «he was to have made her firt public trip. The undertaking is a heavy one on the part of the propritary, Messrs Heddith, Russell, and Ewing, involving as it does some three thousand pounds. We join with their other well wishers in wishing the speculation may prove a paying one We have received from the publishers. Messrs Massina and Co,, Melbourne, copy of the “ Australian Journal,” which we find up to its customary standard of excellence We have frequently referred to this journal as being equal to the ” London Journal,” and such like magazines, and recommending it to the reading public. Our opinion is in no wise altered, indeed, we are more convinced than ever that the class of reading in the Auslra'nsian is of a higher standard, the better side of life and hnman nature baing pourtrayed iu its columns than in th ise of the more pretentious journals, which give if not a distorted yet the disagreable and ugly side of things. We learn thit a billiard match between two well known players, is to be played in Mr Barks’ Hartley Arms Hotel, Clyde, on Thursday evening next, the 23rd inst., one receiving a start of 100 out of 300. The game, we hear, will be well worth s :eing. The late rain, we learn, put all the creeks bank-high and rendered travelling anything hut pleasant or safe. The Lauder Creek was quite impassable for a couple of day's, and but for the bridge, a short distance above the old crossing, the mail would have teen stopped ; the difficulty, however, in reaching t.ho main road after crossing the bridge was extreme, audit was only by the means of good driving that it was reaebel in safety. Amongst the many urgent works of the County that is one, and in all justice we think it should be attended to, and that at once. But apart from the justice of the case, a bridge and no road to it from one side is a ridiculous spectacle. Gorged Livrrs. Bilious conditions, constipation, piles, dyspepsia, headaches eured by ” Wells’ May Apple Pills ” 5d and Is boxes at druggis's. Moses, Moss and Go., Sydney, General Agents for Australasia. Last week, two waggon loads of heavy thick slabs of timber passed through here from Lake Wanaka en route for Mr James White’s Quartz Reef, at the back ol Bald Hill Flat. If the road were only open to the Waikai, that timber and much more would have come from there, and a considerable sum of money been saved. We do not yet see any mention of the road on tl.e Parliamentary estimates, but hope to do so, or we shall be much ii dined to think our member is paying rather too much attention to the bridges and railways in the lowor end of Lis electorate. Dr Lewis, the newly-appointed Resident Surgeon of the Dunstan Hospital, entered on his duties on Wednesday afternoon last, and Dr Ward ale, on the following morning, took his departure for his new location, Invercargill, where wo hope he will be as highly appreciated as he was here. During Dr Wardale’s short stay in the district, only some eleven months, he proved himself a skilful and attentive practitioner, and his departure will be much regretted. Di Lewis, however, comes amongst ns with grand testimonials and high class diplomas. Th# liberality of some public bodies in dealing with the funds at their disposal, is comparison with that of others, is truly wonderful. The Lake County Council a few months back donated to the Frankton Hospital the no mean sum of L 151), and at its last meeting gave 1.100 to the Anow' institution. The Vincent County, on request some months hack, opened its heart and resolved that when the funds were available iho munificent sum of L 25 each be donated to the Coomwell and Clyde Hospitals. Cheques f-«r the two amounts, we understand, are at last made out, but they are not to be issued till •sch institution pays all arrears of rates duo, the which, wo think, will pretty well cover the donation. For snob unwonted liberality the V.C. should be re* cognised, and we suggest that it take the ahape of a medal struck out of the lid of an old kerosene tin, and that each Councillor whar it week and week about,

A meeting of the Town Hall Trust nnl Library Committee was held on Tuesday evening last, when it transpired that after reckoning every item of assets and liablitiea there was a liability of about LlO, to wipe Which off it was decided to ask the Cly « Amateur Club to give an entertainment in aid of the Library fun is. A reference to the subscribers honk showed that a great many of the townspeople and a still greater number of the residents in the outlying districts did not subscribe to the Institution. The unwelcome fact presented itself to the Library Committee that unless a more general support wag given the Institutiou it would have to be closed, or that many of the papers and journals now supplied the reading room, would have to be discontinued, and it was resolved, that individually and collectively the Committee urge upon their friends and acquaintances to beco ne subscribers. A meeting ol the Clyde Racing Club was held on Saturday evening last, when it was decided not t» hold a spring meeting this year. A committee was appointed to report to a future meeting the exact status of the Club to the racecourse reserve. And after a lengthy discussion on a letter received from Mr James Cowan, in which that gentleman demanded the amount of consolation stakes of last meeting, it wm v esolved to ask Mr Rivers to refund the amount, the same having been paid to him n error. The action of the Dunedin Club in disqualifying he racehorse Dalesman and the jockey was upheld. The request of the Southland Jockey Club to withdraw the disqu dification from the hoise Pathfinder (late Joker) was refused. At a meeting of the Webb Trust held at Mr Naylor's residence "n We Inesday even- a last, it was stated that after paying all expenses of providing the lad with artificial legs, and all other expenses, there would he an available balance of about LSOO (or investment, [t was also resolved : That two trustees—Messrs F. J. Wilson and Geo. Faohe—bo appointed by deed to deal with the fund. The Earl and Countess of Roseberry pur* pose visiting Australia shortly. William Barnes, a firem in, and Thomas Baldie, cook of the 'I arawera, have been arrested at Auckland for smuggling. When stopped by the Customs officers on the wharf they said that the parcel they were carrying contained books, Barnes rualud back to the steamer and threw the sack over the vesse s -id >, hut it fell into a boat alongside and proved to contain 201b of tobacco. Baldie was carrying a similar quantity of tobacco. We learn by letter received from Mr F. J, Wilson, in which all the pains and penalties of an aci n for libel js contained— “ That the enquiry held hers by Mr Nugent Wood, R.M., last week, was not “ into the charges nside against Constable Doris,” but to the converse. The transfer from Messrs Keenan and Morgan of the northern part of Run 220 t> Mess is D.jlgetty and Co 1 , andthi southern part to Messrs Ross and Glemliiiing, was sanctioned. Work on Stocks and Clark’s Hin lon contiat of the Central Railway has been stopped for the last week owing to some misunder* standing. The contractors inform us { Taieri Advocate) thatjwork will be resumed shortly. Mr V. Pyke, M.H.R., informs the Tapanui Courier that tenders have been accepted for completion of the Swift Creek Railway. Mr O’Kane was the successful tenderer, the sum being L 2.431. The time allowed for completion is the end of November. We did not think that there was in this Colony a man so mean and despicable as to be guilty of the conduct thus described by the Uokiliki Guardian : A patient died in the Westland Hospital on Friday morning last, and ere his remains bad become cold a distress warrant was served on the body at the suit of a soulless and relentless creditor to who n the decease I had nnfortunately while in life owed a sum of money Finding the effects of the departed had been taken possession of by the Hospital authorities, and that there was no plunder forthcoming, it is given out that the imp acnble creditor appliei to the Resident Magistrate for a warrant to seiz ■ the body, but to hi-t credit be it said that the n quest was peremptori v and firmly refuse.!.” —Sir Abraham Woodiwiss, one of the batch of new British knights, commenced life at Derry as a labouring stonemason,and his wife, now Lady Woodiwiss, rose from an equally humble social position. A young lady from Canterbury thus gives her impression in the Lyttelton Times of our Parliament“ I went into the House and heard Major Atkinson speak. It’s not very edifying. In fact, it couldn’t well be more undignified. Most of the members keep their haos on. A large number sit with their feet cocked up on the seats, or sprawl full length on them They laugh and jeer and abuse one another like a lot of express drivers.” Among the items in the estimate of expenses for the Duke of Edinburgh’s special mission to Moscow is LIOOO for ‘gratuities.’ People who think that this amount is exorbitant (says a Home paper) will perhaps change their opinion on learning that when the Emperor Nicholas visited the Queen at Windsor Castle in 1814 he save L2ioo to the servants and LIOUO to the housekeeper, as well as six gold snuff boxes, with Ms picture set in diimonrla to the lords of hi household ; and six with his cipher to toe equerries and grooms-in-waiting. These ■were the chief gifts ; but for the other dependents about a bushel of rings,watches, and brooches was distributed. When the lata Emperor Napoleon stayed at Windsor in 1850 he left LlnOO for the servants. We [Tapanui Courier) understand that Mr W, Scott, of Cromwell, has lease I Mr James Rodger’s property at Ran'debur.i,

A lecture in aid of Mrs Rutledge, the ■widowed sister of the late Mr Wilson Gray, was given by Mr W. E. Murphy, under the auspices of the Trades Hall Cnt&mittee, in Melbourne, recently. There was a pretty good audience. Mrß. Douglass, who presided, mentioned that the brothers of the late Mr Gray—whom he highly eulogised—and one of his two sisters had died, and that the remaining sister, a widow, was now in Melbourne in great distress, having five children, and being totally unprovided for. It was proposed to raise sufficient funis to pay her passage back to New Zealand, whence she came, and where she would have a better opportunity of getting a livelihood than in Victoria. A subscription list would be opened in connection with the movement. A terrible accident occurred last week at the Red Cross preserving Works in Sydney. A young woman named Rebecca Anderson whi'e supplying a large cauldron of boiling jam with fruit accidentally slipped into the vat. She was extricated wi f h great difficulty and removed to the hospital in a dying condition. It is now known that King Cetewayo was not killed at the battle of Ulundi.hut is safe ami well. Another item of interest by cable this morning is that the Speaker of the House of Commons has conferred a dignity upon the Agents general of the Co'onies by allowing them the use of the Ambassadors’ gallery. A breach of promise case in which a wellknown resident, of Christchurch will figure, is to come before Mr Justice Johnston ghorriy, and the Press says that some very remarkable disclosures will be made during the trial. An express train, carrying only a limited numbei of first-class passengers, now runs between Sydney and Melbourne in twenty hours. The train leaves Sydney at 5 p.m. and arrives in Melbourne at 1 p.m. next day ; and one leaving Melbourne at 4,45; p.m. arrives in Sydney at, 2 pm. next day The Premier of New South Wales has cabled as foil >ws to M* - Whitaker “ Informers now, by order of British Government, on board H.M S. Nelson, and thus out of our jurisdiction. We know nothing of Imperial future intentions, hut feel sure that whatever their ultimate fate, these men will not be landed in any Australian colony.” Jesse Tavlor, of Findlay, Ohio, was ea joying h’s birthday party, recently, and w is about to sit. down between two young ladies when they moved the chair from under h ; m and he fell and broke his neck One of the yonog women is now a maniac through grief. Seventy seven thousand p-un Is were le-ied and.c dleotod by he Road B -ar 'a in New Z -aland in ISS.L , Their 'total retjei p’s were LIBI.OOO, and total expenditure L245.0M0 dnridg the ..year. JTeathcote w; S the richest Road Board iu New Zealand that year, with receipts amounting to LG37B. ;• . V .... Koaoena, a New Guinea chief, of the Aroma tribe, and ru'er over (5000 people, been visiting Queensland.,. He is 6ft. 2in, in he'ght, and one of the handsomest men ever seen in Cdoktown. An anplicarion for remission of sentence has been made to the Victorian Crown Law Department on behalf of P. A. C. O’Farrell, who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for attempting to shoot Arohbisliop Goolcl. O’Farrell seeks to have a portion of his sentence remitted on the ground of illhealth. From inquiries made there seems (says the Age), to he no justification for shortening his term of imprisonment on the ground stated. The progress of poverty is making itself visible in Invercargill (says the Southland Times), and the best gange of its rate is found in the record of the small debt cases in the P.M. Court. Up to the present, time of tins year more summonses have been issued by the clerk of the Court than there were during the whole of last year. It appears probable, says the Lyttelton Times, that something very like a gold prospecting rush is about to set in to the Hororata district. On Thursday (the 9th inst.) Mr Edmund Ford made an appiica ion at the Land Office for a license to prospect for the precious metal in the above district,and > .iia example lias been followed by several briber persons, so that already a consider able portion of the lanl in the locality t'as been applied for. It is stated that Mr Ford lias been quietly conducting investigations into the geological character of 'he district for some time past. It would annear, bv the following extract from Tne Garden of June 19, that the Alpine plants of this colony are beginning to attract some attention in horticultural quarters in England:- “The Alps of New Zealand will doubtless contribute as much to the gardens of the future as the European Alps have done to those of the past and present, time. I was glad to receive the other day through a mutual friend a very interesting little collection of seeds from the Reverend Mr Green, the gentleman who recently ascended Mount Cook, and among them I found a tiny plant of wh.it may bj cillel a kind if Edelweiss (graphalium grandieeps). It seems thecounterpart of the Swiss plant, but has short rounded foliage Unfortunately the ascent of Mount Cook itse'f. with its blinding snowstorms and dangerous glaciers, does not off r many, facili ies for the collection of either seeds or plants, but at the same time, it is pleasant to know that this same New Z aland Range offers to plant collectors, if not quite a new botanical field, certainly one hnt little worked up to the nresent time. Failing professional aid in collecting, amateurs who have friends on the spot might do worse than induce them to send see Is of such mountain or upland plants as may be now and then obtainable;

I The divorce case in which It. B. Stewart stud for divorce from hie wife, and also claimed damages from the co-respondent, i W. H. Dickson, was heard before Mr Justice Williams and a jury. His' Honor gtanied the decree ni-i for a divorce, and the jury awarded damages against Dickson to the extent of L 250, It was stated on bihalf of the petitioner (Mr Stewart) that he Would not touch a penny of the damages awarded, but would hand the' sum over to the Benevolent Institution. A case of some interest to coach passengers was determined at the Bourite (N.S. W.) Court on the 27th ult.. Mr P. Y. Wolseley (a brother of Britain's “only general") charged Watmore, a driver for C ibb an • Co. whh insulting behavior. Mr Wolseley. it appeare 1 from the evidence, had bonked in Sydney from Nyngan to Bourke, and at the start occupied a box seat. On coaches being changed at one of the stations Watmore removed his things to the inside of the coach, ami hied some amount of force to prevent M'’ Wolseley from resuming the’ box seat. In the altercation that ensued the language complained of was used. Watmore pleaded •in defence that he had' been coabtr 'driving \ ■for 35 years ; that during that tithe he had . always regulated the passengers, in their; seats as he thought proper, and that he would give the box seat to whom he' liked. The Bench took a different view of the matter, and imposed a fine that with costs amounted to nearly L 4. MrCarew, R.M., delivered judgment in regard to the stranding of the Eotomahana on Monday last. The decision exonerates Captain Carey and his officers from.negligence or unskilful navigation, and states that the dangers “on this part of the ceast will be lessened if not wholly removed, by the erection of a lighthouse on Waipapapa Point,” an 1 by placing a Inmi' nous bell-buoy on Toby Rock. The inquiry, in the opinion of the Court., has also elicited the fact that this reef <>f rocks extends further seaward than is shown on the chart.