The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1122, 2 November 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 1883.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jus. The pen is mightier than the sword.

As will be seen in another column a pnbli meeting is convened for Monday evening next at Alexandra, to obtain an expression of opinion of the district as to tbe de.irability or otherwise of the sum of money (£2000) appropriated by the Legislature for the construction of the Waikaia Bush Road being expended. To our mind there can be no two opinions on the subject, and it will be much to be regretted if the meeting by attendance and the expression of opinion given isjnot such as to convince the Govern ment that the delajing of the work even for a day would be gross injustice, and, moreover, a great slight to the district. Of those who attend the meeting, it will be well *or them to bear in mind that the question of opening up this road is not the outcome of the present excitement over the quartz ree’a that are now being taken in hand, and in whatever shape or form the meeting decide to approach the Government on the subject, full stress must be laid on the fact that for the past tenor twelve years the necessity of it has been ever apparent, and time after time has the question been mooted. It is a fact patent to all that during all those years the progress of the district has been retarded for the want of this trifling expenditure ; and further, that so long as it is delayed, equally long will the district he kept from reaping the benefits of its hidden wealth. We have been accused of harping on this question in season and out of season, but we deny ever being out of season in dealing with it. It has always been a want, aud the more so now than ever, that the reefs are being opened. Other districts, with prospects no better—question, if so good as this—and for which sunn have been appropriated, can get them expended at once ; and Monday night’s meeting must be the means of having similar treatment meted out to this.

Of political news it is reported that Mr Johnston, the Minister of Public Works is about to resign, he being about, to visit the Home Country, and that Mr Rollestou will succeed him, and Mr Dick has offered to resign if a better man be found to represent Otago.

The Daily Times says We have just had shown to us a specimen of the newest, and perhaps the prettiest, thing in the Colony in gold coinage—a half-sovereign, coined at the Sydney Mintfromdies received from the Imperial Mint last month. The Colonial Bank, seeing the scarcity and generally overworn state of this useful coin, have, we learn, received ex Wakatipu a supply direct from the Sydney Mint. This will help to meet an admitted want, which their customeis and the public will be sure to appreciate, and set an example which we hope the other banks will not be. slow to follow by further imports of a coin so g nerally used, but at present so scarce.— We perfectly agree with our contemporary as to the scarcity of the pretty things, but for the matter of that the common place halfcrown and the uglier shilling are pretty scarce articles in these parts.

A Home telegram says “ The Irish Government has been warned that it will ho impossible to restrain the Orangemen if the proposed National League meeting is allowed to be hold in Ulster.”

Matters in connection with tbe OM Man Quar*z R:efs are looking as favourable as could be desired. An amount of work is being done on all the claims marked out, and in every instance good indications of permanent reefs has been obtained, whilst the prospects obtained are everything the most sanguine could wi.h for. It will lie seen by reference to another column that one Comp my (ihe Union) his already been floated, and we learn that for White's Reef there were applications for 8400 shares out of a possible 7000. Nominations for the office of Mayor of the Boiougb of Alexandra are to be received on the 19th inst., and the election fit’any) bn the2B‘.h inst. Mr Vincent I'yke's card ,in another column fully explains itself. 'With his numerous oircle-of friends and-admirers we» imagine he will have plenty to do. Mrs George intimates that if the Dunstan Hotel is not either let or sold during the coming month it will he sold by public auction early in December. The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Duusr-an District Hospital wi Ibe held on Monday evening next, the sth. Mem iers are requested to accept of this intimation. The Clyde School Committee meet this (Friday) evening at 8 p.m., when all the memters are requested to put in an appearance. Messrs Fergus and Blair, of Dunedin, are the successful tenderers, atL94,074, for the construction of the Mersey Ddoraine railway in Tasmania. The line is 37i miles long. Mr Fergus is M.H.R. for the Lakes district. Captain Wm. Jackson Barry was presented with a purse of sovereigns prior to his departure to the north to claim his dusky bride. The Dunedin butchers have decided to raise the price of meat Id per pound all round. The Illustrated New Zealand for the month of October is to hand. It contains its usual number of illustrations representative of this and the neighbouring colonics. It has been decided by the Cromwell Jockey Club to hold a summer meeting on the on the 26th and 27ch December, and to give prizes amounting to L 335. The items of the programme are : Grand Stan* Handicap, 50 soys ; Hack Race, 15 sovs ; Derby, 50 sovs ; Flying Handicap, 4) sovs ; Selling Stake", 15 sovs. Second day—Maiden Plate, 30 sovs ; Shorts, 10 sovs; Jockey Club Handicap, 70 sovs ; Hospital Race ; County Plate, 30 sovs ; and Consolation of 25 sovs. The Kaiapoi Woollen Factory appears to be a successful concern. At the sixih annua! meeting held last week, the profit and loss account, after due allowance for depreciation of plant and buildings, show a surplus for the year (including balance brought forward from last year) of Ll9 222, which is to he appropriated as f dlows;— Dividend of 10 per Cent., absorbing about L 9,500 (an interim dividend to March 31, at nhe same rate,having already been paid) ; LSOOO to the formation of a reserve fund ; leaving about L 4700 to be carried forward to the new account. The action for libel—Denniston v. Daily Times and Witness Company arising out of a paragraph in “ Passing Notes,” and tried before Judge Williams and a special jury, resulted in a verdict for defennants, the plaintiff having to jay costs amounting to LSI, ) The 48 hours walking match at Christchurch, between Scott (Dunedinite) aud Edwards (Australian), resulted in fovour of the latter by 1 mile and 1 lap. The Daily Times says by a strange coincidence the distances made by the men were exactly reversed in their walk at Dunedin a few weeks previously, Scott then covering 192 miles 16 laps, whilst Edwards did 191 miles 15 laps—the same distances as made at Christchurch. Mr Flannery, who has been reinstated in , the gaol service left Dunedin on Monday last for Auckland, where he will assume the position of chief warder. At the Bank of New Zealand’s halfyearly meeting, held at Auckland on the 25th inst., the net profits for the half year w;re reported at f.84,500. being rather less than those of the last half-year. A dividend of 15 jer cent was declared, L 25.000 placed to the reserve fund, aud LS9OO carried forward. The coin and money at short call i in London is L 1,900, 00. The dep .sits and advances are I oth somewhat increased as compared with the previous half-year. The action for judicial separation, James v. James, to be heard at Hokitika, and re erred to in our last issue, has Veen withdrawn by a settlement being made on the , wife of £IOOO, respondent to pay costs. ; The Tuapeha Times says:-We under, stand that the Government have appointed four official assignees under the new Bankruptcy Act, at a salary of L 550 per annum, no solicitors being amongst the appointees. A large number of applications had been received, principally from those engaged in journalistic work. Some difficulty was ex--1 perienced in making the selection, as applications had been received from all parts of the Colony. As Government are of opinion ’ that tbe Bankruptcy Act will not be of 1 long standing, tlry consider it bettor to 1 only appoint official assignees for each of ! these four places—viz, Dunedin, Christ--1 church, Wellington,‘and Auckland ; so that in ca=e nt the Act being spee lily repeated, ’ there would be fewer claims for compensation. ' Tne Gore Jockey Club endorse the notirn 1 of the Dunstan Jockey Club in disqualifying Pathfinder Mr Joseph Mackay, well-known from his lona connection with the Bruc Herald and as Die proprietor of Mackay’s Almanac, ha* joined tbe forces of the Government Assur--3 anco Army. B When worn down and ready to take your 1 bed, Hop Bitters is what you need to relievo you. See,

In the Warden’s Court, Na»eby,i*»l week, Mr Hertslet, in making application for an agricultural lease, asked the Warden if he could let the applicant* know the exact amount of rent they had to pay in advance. He had looked up the Rules ami Regulation* and found a oUu*e, the language of which was very ambigaou*. The only construction he could put upon it wa< this : That hi* client* would have to pay 12 monih’a tent iu advauce (at 2s fid per making ifi4o). They would then be credited with eix viMthi’ rein, and the remaining £•2O be kept by the Govcrpment for inciden • tat expenses—preparing lease, surveying! etc— Mr Hickson, after reading the clause to which Mr Hertslet had drawn hi* attenj tiou, coincided witii the construction he hacj put upon it. An applicant had to pay 1? month’s rentiip-advance,jwhen he would be credited with eix month*’—the other half being’retained by Government for survey; ing lhe laud, .to. That v as, ho believed) the usual mode of procedure, and Mr Hcttalet could rest assured that that being the practice there was au authority for it. j The following is the account given of the leading incidents in connection with the unfortunate shooting fatality at Balulutba the other day. by Francis Stewart Siuimonds “ He took his gun from a corner of the bedroom and said, ‘ I think this will be better than mine, as mine is very foul.’ Ho pio ceeded to blow down the gun, and asked me if 1 had any matches. I said, ‘ls your gun loaded or not ?’ am' he replied •No ; I discharged it the last time I was out shoot, ing at Riverton.’ 1 1 held the match to the left-hand nipple. He blew down the barrel and nearly blew the match out. He then said, ‘Try the other barrel,’ which 1 did, the match being about an inch from the nipple at the time. He said, ‘ Closer, as I cannot see the light.’ I did so, and then heard a report, and fell backwards from the shock of the gun, and on coming to my senses saw spots of blood over the bedroom. I looked to Heywood, and saw him lying on t ie floor, with his head toward, the washstand, 1 asked him to get up. I uotioed a large .pool of blood by bis bead, and I staggered from the ■room to call for assistance 1 met Mr Willraot coming to the room, and I told him that Heywood was shot. He told me to go for a doctor, and ion getting into the street I fainted.’’ The verdict was, of course, one of accidental death. A curious and novel point of bankruptcy law has been raised in the case of Louis W Heintz, before the Judge of the Livcrpoo County Court. The debtor, who had carTied on business as a gineial merchant in Liverpool, presented a petition for liquidation of his affairs iu 1881, and at the statutory meeting of eredi ors a resolution was passed accepting a composition of 2s in the £. and authorising the trustee to allow the 1 ■debtor's disoiiarge on being satisfied with ! the guarautu. s for the payment of the com- I position. The composition was duly paid to j the creditors (.hougli not until after the j s ipulated date), out the bankrupt never ! ■applied for his discharge. Since then his brother has died, leaving property in bank ahar.-s to the value of L2,3d0 ; ami the question which the Judge was called on to deride was whether this after-acquired property was belonging to the creditois or to : the bankrupt personally For the creditors it was urged that he was in the position of an undischarged debtor, and that consequently, the property which came into his possession while he tilled tha-t position belonged to the estate. On the other band, it was contended that the original resolution was virtually a discharge, inasmuch as the creditors had bound themselves to sanction his discharge on payment of the composition, aud that, such payment having ' een made, the resolution was in force. The Judge thought that the balance of argument was in favor of the creditors, and directed that the property should be applied for the benefit ot the estate, but, as there was doubt on the point, he gave leave to appeal. “jEgles,” in the Australasian, writes ■“ At Ur* time (not so long ago) of those brutal murders committed in Tasmania by the youths Sutherland and Ogden, for which they were convic'ed and hanged, the surroundings of the crimes and matters incidental to them furnished subjects for coinmen«in many local pulpits. Said one rev, gentleman —‘Think, my brethren, how humane has become the treatment of criminals in these our times. Instead of the vinegar and water accorded our blessed Redeemer, these cruel murderers, before execution, were regaled on pork chops and onions,’ And this is the kind of realism which passes for preaching.” At Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, on September 6, three white men, indicated for the murder of Several Chinamen last spring, were tried and acquitted. The Chief Justice who tried the case said that, after the manner in •which the Chinese witnesses had given their fvidence, the reluctance of the white witnesses made him ashamed of being a white man. When the verdict was given several persons applauded, among whom was a young lawyer. He was ordered to stand before the Chief Justice, who administered a severe lecture, ending with the remark i “Sit down, sir ; sit down. Your aie an ass. The Tapanui Courier, of the 24th ult., under the heading of Birth, has the following : —<• At Tapanui R.M. Court on the IGth ult.. the Tapanui' Court produced an infant." On looking over the columns of the issue for a solution of this most extraordinary notice, wa discover that, a • efendant in a suit heard in the R.M, Court pleaded infancy, and accordingly the plaintiff was nonsuited. At the close of the hearing of the case the R.M. is reported to have said—“ That there is no such thing os honesty in connection with horse and land dealing, people seemed to throwhonesty to the winds once they commenced to deal in horses or land.

"A telegram from Melbourne, dated the ; 27tji OotpJjffiC, says : myde j i«h»leiUede&qont’ bp lnning :*rfsep; promoters, 18 of whonrwere arrested. Quan-, titles: of tickets, prospectuse*, letters, j cheques, and stamps have been seized, Thit Wakatip Mail says : -We regret to learn that'Mr $. M. Dalgletsh, Clerk of the Courts, Gold Receiver, eta,, at QueenstownI and who has only held his present office a few months—i* about to return to Cromwell. ~VV,e understand, however,. thq,e*i-* geneies of the piveunistauees demand a ibhavghof the' kind, but that it is only likely ; to bo te'ihphraryi ‘ ■ 1 M r. J.jUiiUt At the present time, says the Taieri paper,, thore aro,about 200 men woikipg. at the Mullouky. Gully, section of .the .Otago Central railway. Good men who have had experience in railway Voik get six shillings per day, and others,’ who have not liven accustomed to pick and shovel work, only get five shillings. Those who prefer contracting for small sections hove the opportunity afforded them, and in some instance* can make better wage*. The cost of jiving is reasonable, and a man, if he goes properly to work, can keep himself very well on from twelve to sixteen shillings per week.' ,11 has hot yet been decided whether, a bridge or a culvert will be built at Mullocky Gully. It will be an expensive wotk whichever way it is done. The height from the bottom of the gully to where the decking of a bridge would be is about 180 ft. If a culvert, is built, and a bauk, some hundreds of thousands of yards of material will be required fo, filling in. Although there are about 200 men at Work at. the small wages we have quoted, it is evident that things are not nearly so bad with the working men as they were some £ .ur or five years ago, when there were about 600 men at work at the gully and the wages were something like 21* a week for single men, and 28s for married men. The Mt. Ida Chronicle says :—The probability ot the proposed visit of » goldfields representative team to Dunedin becoming an aocompliahed fact, has induced many local knights of the willow to go in for improving their styleof battingandbowling, in anticipation of Deing called upon to represent Naseby in the team. The wife of a man named Gouldstone, living at Stratford, near London, gave birth to twins, making five of a family in three and a-half years since their marriage. Gouldstone, it appears, was enraged at this increase, and drowned the three eldest in the water tank, and killed the twin babes whilst at their mothei’s breast by striking them on the head with a hammer. At the inquest the jury brought in a verdict of wilful murder against Gouldstone. Catarrh of the Blabber.—Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by “ BuchuBaiba,” Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. Tim Empire City of the States, according to the New Vo-k Weekly Times, contains at least 40 nr 50 persons who make their living solely by acting as agents for thedis posal of children whose relatives, being either unable or unwilling to support them, desire t-> make them over for a consideration, to some one who will adopt the little waifs. One of these agen’s was recently interviewed by a reporter, to whom he confided, amongst other trade secrets, that a light-haired, blue eyed boy of 10, with a dimple in his left cheek, was worth to him as much as a hundred dollars, aud that a girl o f about tbe same age was worth fully fifty, although her hair was inclined to assume a very unfashionable tint. » The Melbourne Divorce Court the other day granted the petitions of six husbands for separation from tbeir wives. In one case an Englishwoman (Mrs Ah Yang) sought for a divorce from her Chinese bushank, on the ground of adultery and desertion. She ha 1 saved about L6OO, which he , took from her and went to China with it. Her petition was granted. A will case of a somewhat unusual character came before the Supreme Court on October 17. In May last a hotel-kueper named Shumate (a negro) died at Wetherstones, near Lawrence, and left a will devising all his properly to one Robert Car ter (also a negro). The only clue to Carter’s whereabouts was an advertisement giving his addresses H street, Alamosa,.Colorado, United States of America- Letters were sent to this address, advertisements inserted in American papers, and a letter sent to a sister of Shumate’s, who is living in America. No reply was received by pest, hut on Augnst 28 last a negro who stated that be was the Robert Caiter named in tbe will made his appearance at Lawrence and claimed the money now lying in the hands of the executors. He stated that he had left Colorado when the letters arrived there, and was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, hut one ot the letters was sent after him. On receiving it he did not wait toisend a reply, but departed straight for New Zealand, bringing with him certificates and photographs, and the letter sent by the executors. He wanted the money to lie paid over to him forthwith, hut the executors refused to do so, and recommended him to wait for some time in order to enable them to get replies—if any—to the letters and advertisements sent to America. He, however, took legal proceedings for the recovery of the money, and it was then agreed to state a case for his Honor Mr Justice Williams, aud ask him to decide whether or not the evidence produced by Carter (the plaintiff) was sufficient to warrant the executors in concluding that he was the person named as legatee in the will- His Honor 1 declined to decide the question without the 1 aid of a jury, but suggested a method by 1 which the Lustres might be relieved of reI sponsibility by paying the money into Court under tbe Trustees Relief Act. so that possibly the case may not come before a jury. Carter, who claims tbe money, is a barber by trade, and as the estate, after paving all liabilities, has LI4OO to its cre< if, he will, if he su ceeds in proving that he is the real Carter, be able to make a good stait i in business.

Regal ding tfie alleged discovery of the fimains of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat, » few mdnths ago, the London Daily News b! 2tid August says “We have received a number oi letters anxiously inquiring about gopher wood and the fabled discoveiy "of the Arlc id a glacier of Mount Ararat. No fufthe; details have arrived as to this interesting ‘ find,’ and we fear that the survival of the Ark must be reckoned with the late destent of a monstrous meteorite which crushed a whole house somewhere ‘but 1 Texas way.’ Tli» imagination of the and of tin West is lively, the Oneutll, like the Occidental journalist, is impulsive. We are incline Ito believe that the report about the Ark is due to the invention of some Levantine pres.-man envious of the achievements of his biethren on the boundless Western prairie. Symptoms of this scepticism might, perhaps, have been detected by the very acute in our remark that the Ark was no longer seaworthy, and in our expectation that Hittite inscriptions would be deciphered on its venerable beams. But peihaps since Chinese turned out to be connected with Babylonian, there is nothing to suipnse any longer in any philological nr archaeological discovery. However this may lie, the tidings about the Ark have di» cidedly not been confirmed.” Welts’ “Rough os Corns."—Ask for Wells’ “Rough on Corns." Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents.