The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1128, 14 December 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, DEC. 14, 1883.

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

The criminal sittings will open atDunedia on January the 7th. It Trill be well for Property Tax payers to bear in mind that to-morrow, the 15th inst., is the last day on which payment can be made to escape the penalty of ten per cent. We are requested to draw special atten« tiontothe advertisement inviting tenders from persons willing to rent the Eureka Dredge (late Scott's,) The sale of the Dunstan Hotel, which takes place to-day, should command the attention of capitalists. The terms and conditions of sale, we understand, are most reasonable. The Roxburgh Borough Council at its last meetin? resolved :—" That the Clerk write to the Tuapeka County urging that body to co-operative with tho Vincent County in gettiug the Waikaia Bush road surveyed. On Saturday first, the 15th inst., Mr Faohe, instructed by Mr R. L. Begg, who is leaving the district, will sell by public t auction the balance of his large and varied stock of groceiies, crockery, clothing, glazed beok cases, and a variety of other things. The sale will be worth attending as it is a real bona fide clearing out. A scratch match was played on the Clyde Cricket Ground on Saturday last, sides being chosen by Messrs Stevens and Evans. A good all-round display of cricket was shown. The game resulted in an easy victory for Stevens's side. The highest scorers for the winners were M'Connochie (36). Stevens (23), and Thomson (21). For the losers Moorhead was top scorer with 12. The 48 hours walking match between Scott and Edwards was concluded at Wellington at 10 o'clock on Saturday last and result d in Scott winning by two miles and five laps The attendance throughout wej poor, and neither of the contestants ap. peared knocked up by the performance. The distances covered were :—Scott, 191 miles five laps ; Kdwards, 189 miles four laps, At the Australasian Convention, which closed at Sydney on the Bth inst., a resolu. tion proposed by Mr Wnitaker, that criminals should be prohibited from landing in the Australasian colonies, was carried. The British Government have agreed to the presence of Turkish fiigates in the Red Sea, where they have been ordered to ren. dezvous by the Porte along with the British war vessels cruising on the eastern ooast of Egypt A deputation of members of the United States Congress has petitioned President Arthur to obtain from the British Govern* meat a respite for O'Donnell, convicted of the murder of Carey,

The Argus sayir of the Victorian larrikins “ There is no spirit of fun, no comicality, no wit, no humour, nothing kindly or humane in their proceedings to leaven coarseness, or to plead as an excuse for illegality. Their outrages are, for the most part, wanton, senseless, besotted, bestial acts of vulgar savagery. There is only one way of appealing to such natures, and that is through the hide.” Mr A. A. Corbett, father of the young man convicted of the recent extensive robbery from the Commercial Bank, Melbourne, declined to accept, and accordingly returned to the bank, the awards, amounting in all to L4OO, made to himself and his two daughteis for giving important information regarding the robbery. Mr Corbett stated that he made the claim for himself and his daughters with the full intention of refunding whatever amount might be rewarded to them, and to prevent that amount falling into the hands of others less entitled to it. The directors, while according Mr Corbett credit for his motives, considered that the retention of any part of the award would be open to misconstruction, and therefore returned the £4OO to him. A singular case occured recently at Montreal. A student named Villainoourt was arrested for creating a disturbance in a theatre in that city. He was defended, ■and his counsel, while admitting the disturbance, claimed that his client was perfectly justified, as Carmen was announced and La Perickole, which was submitted for i tlwas an admittedly immoral corapoaitiric' The Court took the same view, and said® sat it was clearly proved that an immoral play had been submitted for a pure ■one, and that therefore those present had a perfect right to express their disapproval. The magistrate went on to say that if he chanced to be present where such a change in the plays had been made be would think himself perfectly justified in rising and hissing in any manner he thought fit to express his disapprobation. The Academy of Music Company forfeited all right to protection from the law when they allowed such plays to be produced in their theatre, and he accordingly dismissed the case. A correspondent sends the Melbourne Telegraph an account of an extraordinary •occurrence which took place at Sandridge recently. A shark, about s£ft in length, was seen close to the pier, in shallow water Two men, under the influence of •drink, vyent out in a small boat to try to capture it. The shark got under the boat, and the men, in trying to strike it with an •iron bar, capsized themselves and the boat •on the top of the shark. One of the men ■struck out for the shore as fast as he couldThe other, Samuel Jackson, made for the shark, and seized it in his arms. Immediately the shark knocked him down with a blow of its tail. Jackson pursued him in the water, aind caught him again by the body. The shark threw him down four times in the water. On the founh fall a man went to bis assist nice, atid between them they succeeded in carrying the live shark to tile shore in their arms. Amongst the devices for money raising at the Olde Englydhe Fayre in Wellington was that remnant of the good old days, the ■“ stokkes ” These (reports a local paper) were still a terror to the unwary ; one unfortunate who, when asked to put into a half crown raffle, confessed that he had only sixpence left,” being instantly “ run in ”on that ground as a vagrant 41 without means of support.” He was released from his humiliating imprisonment on a subseripition being raised on his behalf among the bystanders. A crime has Just been investigated at Lucerne, which ought to prove useful to the ■sensational playwriters, A young man, after being divorced from his wife, lived with a woman whom he subsequently deserted. Vengeance seems to have become the woman’s passion, and she went to live with another man iu order to compass the death of her former lover. She lepresented that he was still persecuting her with atten tions, and so worked on her new lover’s jealousy as to induce him to fall in with her plot. The former lover was asked to meet her one evening at a spot by the river, where the man was hiding with a heavy atone tied in a pocket-handkerchief. This was the implement of the attempted murder, and when they thought their victim was dead, they thre'- him into the river and hurried away. The plunge into the water, however, restored him to consciousness, and he swan ashore and gave information which led to the arrest and conviction of his assailants. Meanwhile, he himself was 41 wanted ” on a charge of robbery at Fluelen, and on the way there he jumped overboard from the steamer and was drowned in the lake. This would be a fine finish to a sensational drama. One Sunday recently, says a Home paper, the inhabitants in a parish in West Berkshire were considerably startled by the loud and rapid tolling of the church bell in the afternoon, and the inhabitants rushed out to find the cause of the alarm, most people supposing that a fire was raging somewhere in the vicinity. It appeared, however, that the worthy rector, while engaged in a pastoral visitation, had been shocked by tbe sight of a lawn-tennis partv in the grounds of one of the principal houses in the parish, and he had taken this means to remind the erring members of his flock of the injunction of the Fourth Commandment. Tbe Natal Mercury learns that Cetewayo entered the Etchowe camp on Monday afternoon, October 15, and gave himself up to the British authorities. He shook hands and talked with several people in camp. He was looking much thinner, and was not very well. His wounds were not quite healed. Another account published by the Mercury states that Fynn brought the King into Etchowe, with an escort of Hlubi’s men, in an ambulance. He had about 150 followers. Usibepu has broken up his temporary camp at Ibabanango.