The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, DEC. 28, 1883.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1130, 28 December 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, DEC. 28, 1883.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jus. The pen is raighlScr thar. the sword.

Mr Paohe directs attention to tho sale by auction to-morrow (Saturday) the 29th. inst, of household furniture and effects, the property of Mr K. L. Borg, who is leaving the district. 1 We have received from Messrs Bernardy, of L ondon, a volume of their unclaimed I money register, being a list of tho names of persons in England, Australia, and ' tncrica ' entitled to property at Home and abroad. Wo have placid it on tho table of the Clyde Public Library, and sng eat all (whether , with great expectations or otherwise) to run through its colfttm?. The dirt etors of tho New Zealand Shipping Company entertained a largo number of persons on hoard the Tongariro at Port • Chalmers on Eri lay last.

To night, Woo lyear'a K er-trio Circus ; opens at Alexandra, tin 1 to-morrow (.Saturday) at Blacks. As tin 'how will • o for one night only at «wch plaw, i'! who uusira a realty uiji 'a un • mi t sV ad not fail to be priM.i,'.: /i'hy .Yoi.pe iKiiprigcs amiu of Lhu in lit olvci' ai talented per formers th.u it was possi le to obtain, whilst the trick animals, > -iaiag horses, monkeys, and lIO4S urn wonderfully clever. Wherever M r Wood year's troupe have appeared the Ptyjia has; b an loud in its piais;s, and speak of it as bei ig the very best that has ever visited the colony. A dramatic petformiuee in aid of the funds of the local ciicket club tok place in the Town Hull, Alexin I ia on Boxing Night, the pieces given '■ Who ilo they take trie for?" and "Bombastes Furioso;" to- . 'gether with a musical interlude. The ac tendance was on y moderate, but those preI sent appeared to thoroughly enjoy them- [ selves, and testified their approbation by , frequent bursts of applause. A dance concluded the evniog's entertainment.

"Gkßtr-.N Syrup."—No other medicine m the world was ever given tuoh a test uf its curative qualities as Kuaohee'a German Syrup. In thioe years two million four huntlrel thousau.l small bottles of this medicine were distii iuted jrte of charge ,'oy Druggists in the Uuited States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat ;nd lunus, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup wi 1 cure them. The result has been that Druggists in erery town anil village in civilise! countries are recommending it. to their customers. Go to your Druggist and ask what they know about it. Sample bottles 6d. Regular siz* 33 61. Three doses will relieve any case.— [Advt.] The Illustrated New Zealand Herald for

the month is to hand. It contains the usual numbers of pictures, the must of them depicting seines of great colonial interest and beauty. Tlio report of the cricket matc\ pk/el aj Cromwell last Saturday, anil wMch retnlted in a v'ctory lit Cromwell, willapf sal in our next issue, Though the season his against fruit growing in ihis part of the distric-, and as a rule it is very backward, an I moreover scarce, we yet notice th.t s rawuerripg, c'ierries k and currants, are offering ?n fair quantities and at prices fairiy within ;he reach of all. '■ Boa?." notifies in anothercilumn a cr nd distribution of money przs under the principle of the Hamburg Drawings. Tbe prospectu* is well worthy of perusal by speculators. 8. As the Supreme Court sittings commence witnesses i ■ John N« vr o n, charged wwh r;.p; iji ... ',". , . . id William Yielding, buig'ary si Clyde, to bear it in ni'nd, The Kennedy Family ire m Dnnedin playing to .: owde 1 hj uses, an'! we u.'.der. sand that they pnrp.ue paying the gold, ti Ida a vWt atan early date The annual met'in:; oF the Clyde Athenseun and Li' r.r.y frost will I e held in the l.i.nary Hail, on the 9;h J.yiuaiy. The Mutual Assura'.ce Society advertise for an Agent, for the Dnnstah district. Mi'ls D!(k and Co.'s almanack for the year 1884 is to hand. As usual it contains a larsio amount of useful and reliable riformition, covering some 85*3 paaes, besides a KOldfiellg directory i.f 174 pates. No house, however, large or small, shnnld be without a copy. The price, only Is 6d, is within the reach of everybody. On New Year's Day, Alexandra with its Caledonian sports enters into com* petition with Blacks and Matakanui. win announce two day*' racns. whilst on the 4th and sth Clyde coma i'i with a two day's rate meeting. The peasnre loving public haTe n> occasion to complain for the want of amusement. About 50 of the unemployed at Christchurch have accepted the Government offer of 4s 6J a day for temporary employment. The commit'ce of the Dunertin Jockey Club have voted Messrs Whetham and Walker the sum of HO to assist them in bringing out their Turf Register. Ohstruelions of the kidnaps and attendant organs will prove fa.al if not removed by Hop Bitters. Read. The Melbourne correspondent of a contemporary writes -: Thy ! trough rottenuess of the police force is daily becoming more apparent aince the abolition • f " fii* gigism," under wh ch system habitual crimi. nals were employed by "astute" detectivig t-i en'ice their comrades to commit offences which the said "astute' 1 members of the force afterwards ■ brought to light. The perpetrators of all the important burglaries and robberies in Melbourne have remained " unwhipped of justice." Nothing apparently rouses Mr Chief Commissioner Chomley and his merry men from their state of somnolent apathy. In vain is a list of swijdle s, specially de-ignated ly name, published in the dai'y j uirnals ; in vain is a spe-ifierl charge of having attempted to committ a capital felony made against a high offijia! in one of the Gove>T • mant departments ; not a finger is riirrel by the police to brmg the offenders to book. While the Polhe Commission was sitting and Temoialising men and officers belon, "ng to the force, there w >s some excuse for the laxity disp'aved. Now, however, there is j none to be c ffered for the dis rracefn! cnm'i» Ition into wMch it li ••■■ tieon allow i o drift, "Bcc tr '-Vaib: -ec:Tes allami.yii. Ki'i, , bl. CJi.' '.ry D senses. f ' Did '.iji<.: ,}>,'; , ...oa.- ••art C'j., Sydney. (">e • . 1. '•__■. The ftry pi St.vr hj iving w.. • jkod f to a-lvise 11. r Mi>j- » y. y. ; ' b :r.iu i v. Tichborne claimant mi-,« .t:«.'u, !.-td .'.c-.jrj, the Home Secretary hii can ei tlia following communication. to hi,sun. : ■" Wuito'ual!, October 23rd, 1883. bii,—ln answer to

jour letter of theO.h inst., I am directed by the Secretary ut State to acquaint you that the convioc Arthur Oi ton or Castro, will be due for licence i> the ordinary course in October 1884. Oherif Pasha considers that either Turkey or England should take steps to subdue the rebellion in Soudan. In Tasmania (says a contemporary) ar; efficacious plan has been adopted for the eradication of the rabbit plague. The Colony is divided into districts and placed under what is called the rabbit trust, the members of which are elected by the ratepayers. These trusts or commissioner* levy an annual rate upon all property will in their jurisdiction sufficient foi their purposes. They buy not the mere scalp*, but the entire skins, for which in winter they pay 2s 61 per dozen, and in summer something less. The result has been that in several districts a rate of is 61 in the pound w«« levied ; now in the majority of districts the necessity for a rate has almost ceased.

A rich story is told by the Philadelphia Times concerning two democratic metnontft of the Legislature from that city. A mam. ber bad wound up a grandiloquent steech with the quotation, "Vox populi rox Dei.'* Tho two Philadelphians, Crawford, an I Mackin, had both been lis:eninn with great admiration, and Mackin, turning aslle, said to Crawford, " Al., wasn't tbat a fi n e climax!" "Oh, it was grand !" replied the Eleventh Ward member. Mackin eyed Crawford suspiciously for a moment, and then offered to bet him ten dollars that be did not know what he said. I'll take r.hat,' said Crawford : " Of course I know wha? he said. It was ' Wox populi. wox Doi, and it means, ' My Gol, why bast thou forsaken me V " Mackin plunged bis hand into his pocket and meekly said—" There's the tenner, AL, I didn't know you were such a good Latin scholar." ( The Hospital question [in Welliug'on ia

still exciting much interest, and the evei i" J paper ia filled with correspondence on the subject. The latest development is that Dr Hammond, the late resident surgeon, to? applied for an inquiry, and that this hj; a been refused by the Government ou the ground that the management generally of the hospital has not been impugned. O'Donnell, the murderer oi Carey, the Phoenix Park informer, was hanged in London on the 17th iust. A shocking case of barbarity recently came before the Coonatable (N.S.W.) Ken hj, when Ch Ping, a Chinaman, was'charged with ill-treating his child. According to the evidence, it appeared that the child ba ( ie;u gull y of theft, and to punish him lie was tied by the thumb to the veranilan of Ah Ping's house, his toss being allowed to fust reich the gruuu.l. 'J he Catnuuaii plea led guilty, and swore that the punishment adopted was in vogue in Cl>>na. Th» rwucu nucu mo ueicutiouu ulU,' or four, months' impris mment. In a note to Bleak Houst there is mention made of a Chancery casein which so,'many counsel ware engaged that they filled all the seats set apart for the bar, There is a case shortly to be heard before Vice-Oh-ns-cellor Bacon which will make an equal demand »pon the services of the Equity bar. Half-a-million of money ia in dispute. There are ten defendants, wh, have al! pal in separate solicitors and counsel. Three counsel are briefed for each defendant; and the plaintiff, which is a company, ha; either three or four. Thus there will i » over thirty barristers engaged in the case. The leading counsel has JLIOOO marked on his brief, and as the case is expected to last a month, there will be pleuuf.il "refreshers " to reckon upon Several ot th 3 other counsel have L2 '0 an'l L3OO on their briefs, and even the juniors have Ls'. The pleadings in the case are bound up i.i a large folio volume, and the brief is too heavy to be carried by one clerk. It is some time since so Brobdignagian a lawsuit has been head of. Many fortunes have been lost and won over the Alexandra Palace estate, and now the lawyers are to have their pulL The London Time* of October 19 states : " Yesterday, at the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, the Earl of Kimberley, referring to the inadequate accommodation existing for prisoners in Norwich Castle, said he regretted the prisons bad been handed over to the Government. A worse. measure, he believe;!, had never been passed. Many people regretted it, and none more than the Home Office authorities. The Home Secretary was strongly of opinion that the prisons could not beproperly adraininstered without the assistance of visiting justices, who could exercise,if not absolute authority at any rate considerable supervision. He was anxious that increased interest should' be taken in prisons on the spot, otherwise their administration would degenerate into more bureaucratic management. He had the greatest possibU respect for Sir E. Dn Cane and otf>er members of the Prisons Commission, but unless there was very close and vigilant watch kept over all the proceedings of Government officers, they were almost sure to go to sleep, and leave many things undone which ought to be done. That being so, he hoDed the Court would take all measures in their power, not only to preserve Norwich Castle as an ancient monument, but also to secure the efficiency o f the prisons." In view of recent discussions respecting visiting justices in this colony, the above extract will be read with interest. The Salvation Army in Melbourne have resolved to enter upon a new and important field of effort—viz., to give a helping hand to prisoners on discbarge from the Melbourne Gaol, upon the sole condition that they [desire to live honest, sober, and reformed lives. The proposal is to establish a home, or retreat, for the above referred to, under proper and experienced supervision, to give the discharged priSonet.a an other chance, food,, dollies, work, and a shelter will be provided till the men cu. "turn themselves round," aud do -s>me. thing for themselves. '. : ' ' - ■ '■'•''" i •'>

'•'tie French have diet 'euly got)’ “"tWr man spy” upon the brain. Every route, throughout Burgundy in particular, is so strictly watched that not a single stranger —no matter to what nationality he belongs —can travel the country withbut. being subjected »o all kinds of petty annoyances. A lew days ago two young English artists ■were out on a sketching excursion in the neighbourhood of Beaune, where they had bem sketching the vineyards, when, after a day sp> nt among the hills, they came down in search of refreshment. On arriving at a small village near, they were suiprised to find themselves becoming the objects of universal interest on the part of the villagers, and hy the tim« they had arrived at the little cabaret they had atti acted the whole population after them. They entered the refuge, however, nnd-called fora pitcher «f wine. Immediately the cry ofSpies ” was raised. “ They are Gernia” ; don’t, you hear their accent The woman of the house, pale with ra re, emerged from an inner room, and having gazed earnestly at the younger of the two trav liera. made him a low, mocking curtsey, exclaimed, “Good day to you, mein herr T What a fine yon tog man you have grown since the war. You didn't promise to become so stout when you w»re billeted on the Gheval Blanc here.” Ot course the words were greeted ly a tremendous uproar, and shouts «f vengeance were uttered against the thunderstruck aitisls. There is no knowing what might have been the result had ■ not the brigadier of gendarmes b donging to the place appeared in time to rescue the travellers. The Taierl paper has been informed that tome kind of disease is now very prevalent amongst the rabbits on the. Hope Hill Estate ;• what the disease is has not yet I etn decided. Some rabbits were submitted to a medical gentleman for examination, and who has not yet given a decided opinion upon the matter, but state* that the ani. Dials submitted to him show symptoms of blond-poisoning Our contemporary adds The holiday season is now approaching, and scores of “ slmotists” from Dunedin will be scojring the hills and slaughtering rabbits ly the dozen.- Amongst the slaughtered ther- are bound to be some of the ■ i-easod bunnies, and if these fin 1 their way into the I >ts and pans of Dunedin householders, the r■'suits may possibly he somewhat serious Let the Dunedin fo k come out and enjoy their -lr>ot,ing by ad moans, but let tnem also be sure to carefully examine I heir spoil before sending it to the oulinaiy dt partmi nt. It appears (says the Pal'. Mall G-z ■tt«j‘ that cricket, after all, is not so orofi table a pro'ession as many people fancy. Take the Care of W. U. Gilbert, for instance. He has just. he«ni declared bankrupt, wichlia-' bilities umoun ing to LBOO. The assets -consist of four cricket bats. Wtb some irony one of his friends declares that he has been eitremdy unfortunate in his affairs. It appears that in 1882 he arrange 1 2D matches i r the United Rleven. and ex ( peete Ito clear 1.600. Fickle fortune, alas, 1 would have none of him, and? he realised but L7O. Black care not only sat behind him, but accompanied him to the wicket. Many a time, we. are toM, an acute sheriff’s officer, in Hie mil Ue of a fine innings stepped up to his wi.ket, and, laying his hands on his shoulders, said ; “ Stop, Mr Gilbert. Pay me my money, please, or follow me.” This was a really cruel proceeding, worthy of any Hebrew brain But it snccee led, for be had “ repeatedly, while playing cricket, to appeal to his friends to release i im.” He received, it seems, about L 5 or L6f- re eh mat oh he ( laved, and is said to have cleared LI4O lost se men, on' of which he had to pay trivelhng expense . Had acrown in the pound was offered to be paid out of future earnings, hut refused. It has I men suggests I that the asses, the four ■cricket bats, which have, by the way, al l seen coo l service, sliall be purchased by the ■county as four trophies of Gloucestershire ' cricket.