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Dunstan Times, Issue 1115, 14 September 1883, Page 2

Sixty-thousand rabbit ski os were collected [ during the month of August on one station in the Dunstan rabbit district. And yet it i« generally admitted;thpt bunny is nothing like so plentiful this year ns last. The gardens are beginning to look quite charming, the beautiful green of the willows blending with the pink snd white of the peach and almond. If there are no late frosts, the same as wore experienced last year, we shall have a plenteous supply of fruit tb : s season. The Treasurer of the Dunstan District Hospital requests us to acknowledge the receipt of £lO sterling, subscribed by the men on the Morvorn Hills Station. Mr Fache desires that special mention should be made of his sale of fat cattle on Wednesday next, at the Clyde Pound Yards. A party of bailiffs who had take possess sion of the house of one Samuel Gunns, at Tbrapstone, Northamptonshire, received a temible treatment at the hads of an infuriated debtor recently. Mr Gunns first locked tho men in a room, and then threw a hive of bees amongst them. Tbe agony of the impi isoned baikffs must have been fearful. It is not surprising that the perpetrator of the ingenious outrage has been sentenced to a month’s hard labour in gaol. At tbe last meeting of the Waste Lands Board, held on the sth iust*, tho following memo, from tbe Under-Sooretaiy for Crown Lands, was considered, viz.:—“ The Board considered a memo, from the Under-Secre-'tary for Crown 'Lands regarding the d«v sirability of offering for pastoral lease 5960 acres on run 22'n. —;The Board recommended that the land bo offered for pastoral lease at an upset rental of 6d per acre for seven years.'’ We would ca'l the attention of the County authorities to this significant bit of news, ns It proposes, to dispose of a very large portion of the Dunstan Commonage. Doubtless due consideration will be given to tho matter by tho County Council at its ne .t meeting. A correspondent signing himself. “ Longoff,” wishes to know if any steps havo been taken in the direction Of forming a cricket club iu tho district this season. Perhaps some of our local knights of the willow will be able to give, him the information ho desires. If there is to bo a club surely it is timo that stops were being taken in tho matter. ' , On next Friday a grand amateur concert will take place at the Town Hall, Clyde, in aid of tho funds of tho Presbyterian Church. Clyde. The programme appears in another column. Members of tho Civil Service whose salaries are at present over £l5O per annum may give up all hopes of obtaining increased remuneration. Tho Government have, it appears, decided not to raise any salaries that are now above the amount stated. : , Purify tho blood, cleanse tho stomach, and sweeten the breath with Hon Bitters. Read.

According to Mr Donald Stronach's mar* ket report, all descriptions of produce (dead and olive) are selling Is high rafts, Cattle bringing from L 6 2s per lOOlbs ; sheep-merinos,’ jls to ISa 6d i oross-brods, 13a to SQsJ?andijjd rper lb } lambs, lie. A good ditoaild 'fo^'rabbitskins, at an advance on former rotes, for carefully dried and well-furred skins, pikes quoted, being as high as Is 6Jd per lb, 4a of'.the Unde' 1 of the '.Valley Lodge, 1.0. G.T., will bfhold in the Schoolheuso, Ids Valley, on Friday, 21st September. The Dnnstan Presbytery meets at Opbir on thn lath inat.: —— r ,. , j, „ By reference to our advertising columns it will bW fotind that the Electoral Bolls ; WI. ridings. A party of Chinese on, the Upper Waikaia numbering four men, nave cleared £876 fpr tfjeir winters work. Tho Evening Star says have to apologise to one of the county contemporaries for doubting the 1 cbrrectneis of bis ins formation relative to Mr Warden Stratford’s good fortune. Jt is a fact that he has been left the sum of £16,000. Af the Invercargill Supreme Court on the 6th |nstj,'the case of Hornsby (Lake C6unty PreSs) v. Warren (Lake Wakatip Mail), was concluded. The plaintiff claimed £IOOO , damages for libel contained in the following extract from tho Arrowtown correspondent of the Mail, on the occasion of a lecture on Ireland bV plaintiff Ireland has onco more to cry * Save me from my friends.’ The lecturer appears to have an insatiable penchant for * blood and murder,’ inculcated perhaps, in his,early yputh, os he hails from '"asmanla, and it has before now been remarked that the lineage is to be traced in the lecords of the Chatham Islands. This accounts for and excuses a great deal." Mr Solomon appeared for tho plaintiff, and Mr Jan es Smith for the defendant. On behalf of the plaintiff six witnesses were called, the defendant called none. The specific question put to the fury was as to tho meaning of the reference to Tasmania in the paragraph complained of. The jury, after an honr and a half’s retirement, found for che plaintiff; damages £SO with costs, Mr Smith obtained leave to move lor a nonsuit. Tho following particulars with regard to the detentions on the north line through the racent bad weather are furnished by the the’Palmerston paper :— * 1 Owing to a heavy land-slip near the edge of the bush between tho Merton and Phkoteraki stations the line was blocked on Thursday and tho 6.50 a.m. passenger train from Palmerston tc Dunedin was detained there oyer five hours before it was ablo to proceed. Tho express was also stuck up near Seaoiiffc and had tc wait at Puketerabi until the train crossed there. Asa consequence it was there hours and a bnif behind time on reaching Palmerston, The train duo at Palmerston af 930 a.m. from, Dunedin did not coma on. and tho express picked np any passengers at the intermediate stations. It is duo t( the department to state that the ntroosl despatch was used in clearing tho line, anc the convenience of prsrongers was spcciaUj considered. We have heard of no stoppage on the line north of Palmerston. The amount of beer brewed in the Uniter States during tho year ending in May, ISS3, was 17,347,424 barrels of S7 gallons each. Counting the population at 50,155,783, that gives nearly 10 gallons for each person, Earl Granville is small, slim, straight, oi the most symmetrical figure, with whitt skin, pink cheeks end gray hair, and dressei nattily in the style of a quiet, fashionabh youth, just of age. He has reached th« scriptural limit of years, ;A New York Herald reporter Inter viewed Mrs Langtrv on July 24. 11 1 an off to-day,” she said, “by the Alaska. ! have cleared by my American season ove: 125,000d01., but I have invested nearly al of it In New York in bonds and mortgages I think I hold mortgages on about half thi houses on F'rth avenue. I have have had, oh 1 such’a happy time. I have seen sucl a chappy time. I have seen much of thii ■beautiful and wonderful country, met man; .nice people, and received much kindnesi from public audiences and piivate friends My next American season opens in Mon treal, October 29. I shall bring hack man; of my old company, including P. W. Coope an leading man, and Dodson, I shall ahi have several new people in tho company among them Mr and Mrs Wearer, well known in London, I will have a new pla; wnitten by. Bolton Rowe. The season wil lost 86 weeks. Then I.go to Australia. '' Tyro cabmen ran into each other at night and one, whoso horse was killed, summon the other before the magistrate, “ Whs yon hart run into- the complainant’s hors and knocked it down and run over it,” say the court sternly* •*? Why didn’t you stop t see what damage had been done?” “Oh, cabby, “,1 didn’t knew it was horse I’d hurt—l thought it was on'y man." • ;-sio'isif > ■ In a lecture recently delivered in Sydnc by the Rev. W. G. Taylor, tho importune of music in the'family circle was nUrre to. Tho lecturer was of opinion that “ wei there more frm'ly music in tho ovonin; rnd wore fathers,tp leave at , the office an shop their business cares, and try to mak tho homo happy, there would bo fowl larrikins.' Home' for many boys of tl middle class even iai merely a' place f< men’s and whore they sleep. To ca'l it home is a misnomer. There is no fam s ' He. and few common pleasures or interest No wonder, whore the parents do litt except to forbid, the so-called homo avoided by ardent youth. Music is, douh less, one great attraction. Anything tin will make horns Ho attractive and moi potent is of incalculable value in the con munity. Give a proper homo life, sociel would Soon become revolutionised. But ♦his hpme, life- is defective, not' all ‘4l churches, Sunday Schools* and religious i; struction in public schools in existence c i make up for it.”

The London correspondent to the Age writes oa follows s—Mr Humphreys, the { newly appointed emigration agent of the • Tasmanian Government, is a most energetic representative of the policy of the "tight little 1 * colony. Ho baa been tonring it amongst the towns and villages of Kent, gaining many converts, shortly to bo trana* formed into full blown emigrants, to his ex« patriation theories. Mr Humphreys, nn« ij|ke sonyj pf our travelling colonists, does not bolid the community which gives him bread and batter. At each of' his lectures he dilated on tho excellent quality of the Australian hops, and declared them to ba fully comparable to those produced in Kent itselL Mr Humphrey’s hearers were broad minded enough to excuse his patriotism, though doubtless they hardly liked their dearly hugged preeminence in hop culture being so bluntly impugned. One or two of the local connoisseurs wont beyond tolera. tion, and wore willing to confess that Mr Humphrey’s samples were all that could be wished as regards culture and curing. Per haps it was the hope of finding another hop land on the other side of the sea that made so many of Mr Humphrey’s hearers yield to his seductions and agree te become Tasmanians. The editor of the Lyttelton Times has received a threatening and abnsive letter from an " O’Donnell ” in consequence of a leader animadverting on the assassin of Carey, which appeared on the morning of September 10, The Melbourne Society for Protection of Animals are determined, if possible, put e atop to the practice of lacerating the ears o! sheep, pigs, and other animals for the pur fc j, pose of identification, and havo issued'.; ' notice intimating that in the future all per* sons offending in this way will be prosecuted. On the occasion of a recent visit to the pig market by tho society's inspector, that offi. cer found the place more like a slaughter house than anything else, through a wholesale cutting of tho pigs’ ears. The Taieri Advocate says :—A horsewhipping case occurred in Dnnedin recently when a gentleman well-known in connedtion with insurance business, was chastised , by a young lady who is employed as bare maid in an hotel situated close to tho Dunedin railway station and nearly next door to to the gentleman’s office. If all the reports concerning the affair are tiue, we fancy that very little sympathy will bo ex. pressed for the gentleman, and that the general verdict wi'l be “Served him right,” The following paragraph regarding a case of alleged false imprisonment which en« paged the attention of Parliament towards the end of session appeared in the Christchurch Press yesterday During the past day or two Detective .Brown, of Welling, ton, has been engaged hero in obtaining information in connection with the charge of larceny preferred against Angeliquo Therasso, who, it wJI. bo remembered, was sentenced at Wel'ington to a term of ira. i prteonment for the larceny oi a do'man, . and liberated before her sentence had been complicated. The counsel engaged to de- . fend her had led evidence to show that the i g-’™ient alleged to bo stolen had been purchased by tho accused at Messrs Strange and Co.’s in Christchurch. Detective • Brown brought the dolman with him, and for tho purpose of indent!fication submitted it to tho (Am from whom it w?s supposed to have been bought. It is now stated on good authority that the dolman produced by the detective wai not purchased from 1 Messrs Strange and Co. ! Tho follow*ng is the article for the pnbß--1 cation of which tho editor of tho Lytfdton T*mes is stated in a telegram to havo roceivedj a threatening letter The few . particulars of the career of tho miscreant i O’Donnell, who put to death that other i miscreant Caroy, are enough to make every • man feel thankful that the crew of infoi mera 1 has been shipped back to the Old Country, , Had that crew been allowed to scatter over' > the colonies it would have been followed by another crew of which this O’Donnell is tho > i type. Careless of bis life, dissipated of i career, the man was ready at a moment’s' ’ notice for any service. It is not pleasant to i think of that man worming the secret of . Carey’s identity out of Carey’s own children. . It is even less so to picture him in close rer lations with the informer for sever.-’ weeks - r of simulated friendship and good fellowship. > ) .With his Infernal machine ready to sacrifice , unknown numbers of lives (with his own), ■ - tho man’s figure becomes simply appalling, r Such was tho chosen agent of criminal ven- ■ I goanco, and that he is not aione there seems / to bo every reason for believing. Eveiy > approver of the Dublin, trials is,probably .at .!-, j this moment being watched by men of the •, j O’Donnell stamp, as resentloss as they aro.i B unsci apulous. That being tho case it is ns • g we(l that they wore kept from spreading g over the colonics. When tho approvers - were first arrested there did not seem to be a my fear that Carey’s fate would be theirs, n But since the facts of the apprehension of Carey’s murderer have,, reached us that , complexion of tho case has been altered. As a the landing of these men would have j been (in all probability) fo'lowed by bloodshed and tho consequent danger of local blood, the highest law— salus populi—- • must bo allowed to have rightly prevailed, Ihe Imperial authorities seem to be quite e awaroof tho difficulties of the case. They ir have made no difficulty at all about taking the inen back. From their point of view it, ir is the best coarse, for unless they can save men from the consequences of informing there will be no more informers. For the , a sake of future convictions they must, when | tho approvers have been “spotted” in one place, withdraw them into obscurity, so that another trial may bo made to got them , 0 off elsewhere witii better success. The next time they will probably bo sent singly, y The great question of whore will be asked if by mankind in general with some interest. But that question, if the insane plan of i. sending these men about tho world in large A droves is dropped will probably never be I answered.

A Melbourne telegram n be Hobart Mercury of September 6, referring to the annual sheep sales s " The sensational event of the day was the sale of the first ram of the flock of Mr Camming, of Terreniltum. For this fine ram several stud-flock, owners had waited. He was started at 200 guineas nnd as fast as the auctioneer could take the bids he was ran up, 50 guineas at a time, till he stood at, 1000. Here there was a momentary pause, and from this point the contest lay between Messrs W. Camming and Son and the Hon Thomas F. Cummings The bids gradually came on faster, till, amid the greatest excitement and loud cheering, he was knocked down to the Hon. The*. F. CnmmingsatSlOOguineas, more than double the price ever paid before for., any ram in Australia.. After this a ram which had been sold at 390 guineas was resold at' 1000. Wells’ “ Rough oh Coens."—Ask for Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.” 74- Quick relief;' complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses Moss & Co, .Sydney, General' Agents. l ' T. R: Brounsden, a retired paymaster in the Imperial Navy, committed suicide at Motueka by drowning himself in the rivep • there. A note was found under his pillow this- morning expressing his intention of destroying himself, the supposed cause being that information for indecent exposure against him would be heard next Court day; The information was hnd upon ridiculously weak grounds, and there can be little doubt that ho would havo been honorably acquitted, but the thing preyed ■on his mind. He was greatly respected in ' the Motueka district. London covers 72,000 acres of land, on ' ,which dwell 3,814,571 inhabitants. It contains 89 almshouses ; and an average of 28 now streets are opened and good houses built every year, A very strange “ case” lias been admitted into Huddersfield Infirmary. A boy bitten by a cat, and hearing the possible consequences of it much discussed by foolish persons, has developed certain symptoms of hydrophobia; but other symptoms always ''observed in that disease he has not t deve- . loped. He “looks about in a furtive manner and scratches the floor," but exhibits no loathing at the sight of water. It is supposed by the doctors that he is not poisoned, but frightened. Prisoners put in beds supposed by them to have been occupied by'■holora patients havo died of cholera; sensitive persons, sitting with their backs to a huge window frame, and thinking that the window was open, havo caught cold, but can mere apprehension produce hydrophobia ? That is the question. Gorged Livers. ■ — Bilious conditions, constipation, piles, dyspepsia, headaches eured by “ Wells’ May Apple Pills.” 5d and Is boxes at druggists. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents for Australasia. t t, ; - Says an Adelaide correspondent:—l have 1 trustworthy infonnation from a private but .reliable.source,. that two : Irish informers thrived in Melbourne by the Orient steamer’ Iberia, and succeeded in landing without arousing the suspicions of the authorities. One of the passengers by tha Iberia, an Irishman, says that there was no suspicion of any of the Invincibles being on board the .vessel until within two days’ Sail of Adelaide, whm two passengers, also Irishmen, quarrelled, and in the heat of temper disclosed each other’s identity to a few of their fellow passengers. Those who became possessed of the secret kept their own counsel, pnd only a few on beard had any idea of it. The men did not attempt to land here, and were booked for Melbourne, .The authorities hero may have known that the two men were on board, but they did not allow the’r knowledge to become public at the time. The passengers of the Iberia express a firm conviction that members of [the Invincible brotherhood have bean sent out to wait toe and murder Kavanagh and the other in formers. The Now South Wales, correspondent of the Argus writes ;—Our health officer has been a little disposed to patronise the idea suggested by Mr Willow; of exterminating rabbits by inoculating some of them with tuberculosis, and has made experiments on a couble of rabbits, he having had no difficulty in getting tuberculosis matter from the lungs of bullocks slaughtered at the abattoirs. But two objections have been made to carrying out this idea—the first being that it is cruel, and the second that no one can say that it would not be dangerous to human Jife, as well as to our live stock. For if,- aa so many of our physiologists think, phthisis is| dno to a poison germ, what a quantity of snob germs would be sent adrift into the atmosphere by keeping albthe rabbi ts in 'the country dyihgfor three mouths of tubdnSuloSis. Our stock-breeders might find that they had only got rid of dud evil to get a worse, ■ A correspondent ef the Lyttelton Times gives a very flattering account of the prospects at the Southern Cross Petroleum Works, near Gisborne. He says the boring pirty are expecting at any moment to be in a position to send the joyful intelligence that oil has really been'struck in large quanities and (lows frota the pipe, for the gas can bo plainly heard roaring in the latter. Water and oil are continually coming up together from the bore, and when the pipe s are cleaned out the last 2ft of stuff brought up is always petroleum, umnixed with any foreign substance. The tubes are now down 650 ft, which is far deeper Uiaa they have ever been drived,'