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Dunstan Times, Issue 1116, 21 September 1883, Page 2

The report of the Dunatan Presbytery will appear next week. The foundation stone of the Beaumont Bridge is to be laid to-day by Mr Vincent Pyke, M.H.R. Cn Wednesday next, the 26th inst., the twenty-fifth ordinary meeting of the Vincent Council will beheld in the County Offices, Clyde. The order paper appears in another column. Mr Fache reports having sold during the week a small mob of fat cattle, and a small m ob of stores, at fairly remunerative rates. A short time since a meeting of the local Cricket Club was convened, and we believe held, hut the result of that meeting has not, so far as we are concerned, transpired It our local cricketers intend doing anything this year it is about time they made a start. We learn that the machinery of the law has been set in motion to decide s very nice point, and ou which there appears to he a division of opinion. The question is, has a woman, who has been living with a man in comcubinage for a number of years, anv claim on the ' property and estate gathered together by the combined industry and perseverance of the man and woman ? Tlte steps are being taken by the woman to test her rights. Most encouraging prospects are still being oncae'ici ~i, uuv of nn-irf-/ reefs on the Old Man Range, but nothing can be learned of the real extent and value of the reefs without tunnels or shafts, but for the want of timber nothing hut a species of surface scratching is being done. The construction of the roadway from this side of the range to the Waikaia Bush is the only thing needed to render the Old Man Range one of the busiest and most prosperous districts in Otago ; an 1 it is to be devoutly wished that the present favourable season will not be allowed to pass without the L2OOO voted during the past session being expended. In a late issue we referred to Mr Forsyth’s rabbit exterminating machine, and pointed out that on payment of expenses the inventor would send a man into the district with one or more machines to test their capabilities. We now learn that a man with some I of the machines will arrive at Clyde on the 27th inst., and by consent of Mr William Fraser will give a trial on the Earnscleugh run. We shall hope to see a large attendance of all interested. It is notified in the Government Gazette that owing to unavoidable consequences the preparation of the rolls of Vincent County could not he completed in the proscribe.! time, and accordingly such time was tended as follows :—For the preparation of the roll until August 23 ; for inspection of same until September 15; for appealing against such roll until October S ; Assessment Courts for hearing applications with reference to the said roll until October 23.; and when roll comes into force November 1, ISS3. This (Friday) evening a concert will bo given in the Town Hall, Clyde, in aid of the Presbyterian Church. A very good programme is provided, and amongst the vocalists are several ladies from Cromwe'l, who alone aio worth hearing. A rather novel feature in connection with the concert is a tea table, with other nice things, for the convenience of visitors from a distance. From what we can learn the Com mittce have spared no pains to make the affair a success. We accordingly hope to see a large attendance. At a meeting of the Committee of the Invercarcill Racing Club the secretary of the Dunstan Jockey Club wrote intimating that his Club declined to remove the disqualification from the horse Pathfinder. It was moved and seconded that the disqualification be removed. After considerable discussion the chairman refused to put the motion, upon the ground that the meeting was too small to decide the quest on. The following sums ns handed us by Mr Inspector Hickson, Clyde, on behalf of the Wohh belief Fnnd were omitted by mistake from former published lists J. Hickson. 10s ; John Fleming, P, Nolan. Thomas Nestor, Wong Gye, ss. each. We desire to inform Mr Howard, of Hindis, that the sum of Ll4 Ss was received through A. MacI phail, Esq,, of Morvern Hills Station, and xVasdncluded amongst the donations published in this journal on July 27, current.

At the K.M. Court, Clyde, on Monday last, W. Brown, at the suit of Ellen Forder

for assault, was fined in the sum of twenty shillings and costs, in all L 3 Is, and bound over in his own recognizance of LIO, and one surety of LIO, to keep the peace for 6 months. Thomas Webb, at the suit of John Cox for assault, was fined 10s and 19s costs, or the alternative of seven days, free board and lodging ; the latter was accepted. In the Warden’s Court the application of C. T. Marie for an agricultural lease of 300 acres, on the Clyde commonage, was opposed by Mr William Fraser, Chairman of Vincent County Council, on the ground that a portion of the land would he required for a reservoir in connection with a proposed scheme to supply the town of Clyde with water; and moreover that through the whole a water race in connection with such seheme would have to be cut. During discussion, and the examination of surveyor’s plan, it was elicited that the application was for unsurveyed land, and that ISO acres only was available, and of that 32 acres was within the Town Belt. It was eventually decided that on the applicant giving a written guarantee that the County authorities should have the right without compensation of constructing a water race through any part of the land granted bim, that the ■ Warden would recommend the granting of 1 150 acres, more or less, of the area sur- • veyed. Objections to the application by I the miners not being supported, were not l considered.

Nothing purifies and enriches the blood and destroys all poisons in the system like Hop Bitters. Head.

The divorce case of Howitz v. Howitz and Solomon was concluded at Sydney on September 18 The Jury returned a verdict for the petitioner (the husband), with damages, LSOOG, against the co-respondent. The Melbourne coroner (Dr Youl) recently stated that he always made it a practice to hold his inquests before three o’clock in the afternoon, as after that hour it was nearly impossible to get twelve sober men. A dispatch from Dublin says the assassinated informer James Carey, early in 1882, sent two men to London to shoot William E. Forster, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, but their courage failed them.

In Dublin, on August 20, two men were put under heavy bail for threatening the life of Francis Carey, the brother of the murdered informer. When Francis was attacked ho drew a revolver, covered his assailants, and held them till they were transferred to the custody of the police. A correspondent writing to the Nelson, Colonist says: —“ In Greymouth and Hokitika there is a free and easy social tone, not without it touches of rough playfulness and humour, as is illustrated by the following incident which occurred some years back A certain magistrate had been on tbe spree with some jolly miners, one of whom, however, became slightly furious, and had to be put under lock and key until next day, when be was brought uo before tbe magistrate who shouted for him the previous night. The accused disclaimed having been drunk and disorderly. 1 Have you any witness?’ asked his Worship. ‘Yes, I have you, You were present at the time ; 1 was along with you the whole evening,* was the reply. ‘All right,’the Resident Magistrate said: ‘ I will tine you 10s, and

advise you to keep better company in future.’ The Greymouth people are especially witty, genial, and hospitable.”

The anti-European feeling which recently manifected itself amongst the Chinese residents of Canton is rapidly spreading to other towns in China. At Hong Kong the Chinese have assutned a menacing attitude towards the Europeans, and the situation is so alarming that a complete panic prevails in that town. Englishmen at Hong Kong are loud in their expression of indignation at the absence of the British squadron, as they consider the presence of the war vessels is essential to their protection.

If the Eton hoys were in these Colonies they would stand a chance of being dub >ed “larrikins,” We read in a Home paper that the head master of Eton College is making a strict inquiry into tho riotous conduct of a number of students who, while returning from the Harrow match at Lord’s, are alleged to have damaged several of the carriages of tho Great Western special train by which they were being conveyed from Paddington to Windsor. The glass windows of some of the saloons and carriages were wantonly smashed, the blinds tom down, and tho cushions thrown out, and tho Company have, it is said, made, or are about to make, a claim upon tho school for the amount.

The Saturday Review has an article upon the unwisdom of allowing cricket, as is only to,/ surely though gradually occurring, to fall into the hands of professional players. It concludes the article with these words: “We are to some extent fortified in the opinions we have ventured to express by what we understand is occurring in Australia. There the distinction between the amateur and professional player is not so well marked as it is here. The professional in the strict sense of the word, is the ground bowler, but all the great players—such, for example, as the members of the eleven which played in England last yearare paid, and some make cricket their principal source of income. There arc very few people, we understand, in the position of the so-called ‘gentlemen’ player in England ; the result is that disagreeable incidents are not uncommon,and that the game is played with a keenness, hardness, and greed very different from the good feeling which is almost invariable in England. ' r his seems to us the inevitable result of making cricket a business, ami it is an evil we should desire to postpone in this country as long as possible,”

The death occurred recently at Darlington of John Barnett, the first railway porter ever employed in the passenger traffic. Barnett accompanied the old No 1 engine on its trial trip with George Stevenson.

An intoro-ting discovery has been made in Paraguay of a trioe of Indians with tails. An Argentine domiciled In the Argentina Missions has a yerba establishment in the Paraguayan Missions, in a district called Taoura Tuyu. While collecting the yerba in the yerba woods his mules were attacked by some Guayacuyos Indians, who fled after killing several mules. The muleteers pursued, tiring on the Indiana, one of whom, a liny about eight years old, was captured. This boy was brought to Posedas, where Don Francesco Goloochoa, the Argentine referred to, lives, and excited much curiosity, owing to his having a tail six or eight inches long. The boy, who haa been photographed by some Germans, is, it is stated, very ugly ; but[his body is not covered with hair. A brother of the boy, at present in the possession of Colonel Eudeciudo Eoca, has also a tail, and all the tribe are said to be similarly adorned.

The Queen, at Windsor, decorated Privote Robert Gaw, Ist Battalion Soots Guards, with the medal for distinguished service in the field. Private Gaw was shot in the head at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir,

on September 13, 18S2, but although severely wounded, he marched with his battalion to the railway station at Tel-el-

Kebir (a distance of four miles) ; here the

battalion was halted, and Private Gaw saw the surgeon, and made so light of his wound

that it was thought to be slight. Though suffering great pain he remained with his battalion, proceeded to Cairo, and did duty there for five days during which time he took his share of the guards and other duties furnished by the battalion. At the expiration of this period he cou’ ( ; /^ < 'no longer continue at his duty, and w v -,nt to hospital at Cairo, and from thence to Netley. On March 16, ISS3, the bullet was with difficulty extracted from his skull, and he is now convalescent.

Before leaving Wellington on Saturday (writes the Wellington Post) Mr Joyce, M.H.R., Waited upon the Colonial Secretary, and brought under his notice a new description of hospital bedstead, which had. received high encomiums from the hospital authorities at Home. Mr Joyce urged that steps should be taken to bring them into use in New Zealand hospitals, as a means of relieving ranch suffering and inconvenience on the part of of patients. The bedstead in question is the invention of Dr E. A. .Moncton, formerly coroner of Southland, ami its peculiarity consists in the adaptation of a balanced lever, suspended from the ceiling;- as a powerful medium to raise a canvassed frame, supporting the patient from off the bed, the horizontal position being governed by pnrrellsl guides as in a parallel ruler. The raising the patient on the frame enables bedding to bo changed, and, by appropriate apertures in the canvas, allows invalid ware to be used without disturbing or altering the position of the patient, other than by the net of elevating a few inches. Th: humane device has been warmly approved in the English hospitals, and io liUoly to c >mo in o gonoral uso. Mr Dick promised to make immediate inquiries as to the cost of introducing this improvement, and if it should not prove excessive, to hdve the various hospitals supplied with some beds of this pattern for the accident wards, at any rate.

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“ Anglo-Australian,” in the European Mail writes “The late Premier of Hew Zealand, feir John Hall, is at present staving with his family at Kensington. 1 am pleased to report that ho is now somewhat better, but he still suffers a good deal fiom the natural effects of overwork, in about six weeks’ time from now Sir John will try the change of a trip to Germany.” According to a recent decision by Mr Justice Johnston, games at cards, whether for money or not, are not debarred in licensed houses under the present Licensing Act. The Lyttelton Times thus explains the alteration of the law in this respect : “ In the oid Licensing Act publicans were made liable to a penalty for allowing ‘gaming or unlawful games’ in their houses ; the words used being copied directly from an English Act. In the Licensing Act of ISSI tlie word gaming was omitted, and the penalty attached only to permitting an unlawful game to be played in a public house. Xow what is an 1 unlawful game’ ip Docs this expression apply to any game of cards for which money is staked ? Certainly not. The courts in England have decided directly the other way. They have held that the game is not unlawful unless it is fraudulently played or unless it has been expressly declared unlawful by statute. Various English statues, from the reign of Queen Ann downwards, have been thus branded by enactment. Among them are old friends, like faro and the famous hossett, synonymous with gambling in the comedies of tho eighteenth century. Strange games are also mentioned, such as ‘ rowley-powley, ’ ‘puff, ami-dart,’ and others. But euchre, beum distinctly an invention of the nineteenth century, has naturally escaped the legal censure’of tho Georgian era. Mr Justice Johnston, therefore, considered that it could not be called an unlawful game.”

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