The Dunstan Times. CLYDE: FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1131, 4 January 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE: FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 1884.

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

The Dunstan Times Calendar for 1884, is now ready for distribution. Mr Heney, the local registrar, has sup* plied ns with the past years’ (1884) vital statistics of the Dunstan district. These show :—Births, 13 ; deaths, 10 ; marriages, 4. The figures for the year 1883, stood : Births, 17 ; deaths, 8; marriages, 8. It is to be noticed that Mr Hallenstein, he representative of the Dresden Pianofortet Manufacturing and Agency Company, ia now in Clyde, and will remain for a few days. The instruments sold by this firm bear a very high reputation, and, moreover, most advantageous terms of payment offered. We, accordingly, recommend those who ate desirous of possessing an instrument to interview Mr Hallenstein. The weather this past week has been most unsettled. Monday was a pleasant day, the sun being sufficiently powerful to make things pleasant. On Tuesday the wind was powerfully and interferred much with all outdoor sports, while on Wednesday it rained pretty steadily all day until late in the afternoon, and yesterday sunshine and shower alternated moat unpleasantly. Though most unpleasant to the holiday and pleasure seekers, the farmers and graziers are in high glee as the moisture is keeping vegetation well forward. The Secretary of the Dunstan Racing Club kindly informed as last night that all the horses entered for the Grand Stand and Flying Handicaps, to bo run to-day, accepted; That four are entered for the Maiden Plate, and six for the Trotting Handicap. At Emerald Hill, on December 15th, Rayner attempted to walk 120 miles in 24 hours. After he had walked over 23 hours, during which time he had covered 119 miles 8 laps, with only fourteen laps to do to win, he fell on the track exhausted, and lost the match. I thought (observes the London correspondent of the Argus) we had come to the end of badges and ribbons. When one has red to show one cam drink like a fish, and blue to indicate one cannot for will not drink at all, one would think there was enough of “ colourable pretence but a certain Admirable Ryder, at the late Church Congress at Reading, has out-heroded Herod in this sort of protestation. He proposes that very excellent persons (like himself, I presume) should go about with a white badge in sign of “ moral purity.” Priggish* ness can surely no further go than this, unless one should wear a rainbow ribbon to show that one has all the virtues. Not to be decorated will soon be something very distinguished indeed. If a ribbon conld be found to indicate 11 humbug” it would suit a great many people a deal better than the insignia they are now in the habit of wearing. August Flower.— The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-fire per cent, of the people are of flioted with these two diseases and their effects : such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costivenesa, Palpitation of the heart, Heart-burn, Waterwash, gnawingjand burning pains at the pit of the stomach, Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue, and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating,low spirits, eta, Go to your Drnggest and get a bottle of August Flower This valuable medicine has cnrod thousand* and thousands of sufferers and is known in all civilized countries. (Two doses will relieve you. It costa only 3s. 6d. a bottle. Sample bottles fid. According to tbs Maiaura Ensign's report of-the late gathering of the Mataura Caledonian Society, very fast time for a hundred yards was made there. F. Willis is credited with running the distance in 9&sec,

At the Melbourne Divorce Court on the 17th nit., the case of Towle r. Towle was beard. It was a petition by the wife for dissolution of the marriage on the grounds of the husband’s cruelty and adultery. The parties were married at Christchurch, and the husband is the well-known tenor and opera conductor. The Court considered that there was not sufficient evidence of the treatment to justify them in granting a decree for a dissolution of marriage, though they thought the petitioner was entitled to a judicial separation if she wished it. The petitioner consented to accept a decree for a judicial separation, and the decree was made accordingly, A peculiar case came before lodge Williams at Invercargill, One John Malony sought to recorer L2OO from Dr Cotterell, “ for loss and damage caused to him by the defendant having falsely and maliciously appeared before a Justice of the Peace and charged the plaintiff with being a dangerous lunatic wandering at large, whereupon tha plaintiff was arrested on warrant, but afterwards discharged by the Resident Magistrate.” Maloney had been a patient of Dr Cotterell’s, whose treatment he considered the reverse of satisfactory, and the manner in which he choose to express his opinion may be gathered from His Honour’s remarks in giving judgment:—“ The point was not whether or not the man was mad, but whether the defendant had reasonable and probable cause for supposing him to be so. Plaintiff was previously a quiet man, and of good character, and for him suddenly to become violent, knock the defendant down, brandish a poker, and go about threatening to shoot the doctor, might fairly induce the supposition that he was insane. He was of opinion that the doctor had reasonable and probable cause to lay the information, and the plaintiff would therefore be nonsuited, with costs. A terrible fatality occurred at the Daks Mine, Timar, near Maryborough, on the 18th inst,, by which four miners were killed The unfortunate men entered the cage at the eight o’clock shift for the purpose of going below to commence work. The braceman gave the signal to lower, but, to ths horror of the bystanders, the cage in place of descending was drawn rapidly upwards, striking violently against the ponpet heads. The shock broke the chain, and the cage with the men fell with fearful rapidity to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 338 ft. The mining manager and the captain of tha shift were at once lowered down the shaft, where they found the remains of the unfortunate miners lying literally smashed to pieces amongst the debris of the cage. Four trucks, filled with the mangled remains, were sent to the surface, so severed and crushed that the body of one only was recognisable, and the blood was flowing from the trucks in a sickening stream. Jones, the engine-driver, whoso fatal mistake was the cause of the terrible occurrence, is said to have shown a tendency towards religious mania since attending the meetings of the local Salvation Army. He is reported to have previously borne the character of being a most careful driver. Questioned by the mining manager, after the fatality, he could give no explanation, and seemed unable to reply coherently. Three of the unfortunate men were unmarried; but the fourth, Whitely, leaves a wife and five children, There is, we (Palmerston Times) believe, well-grounded foundations for the existence of tubercolusis amongst the rabbits in the Waihemo district. Two rabbitters working on the run of Mr A. D. Bell, named Kid son and Morrison, brought the liver of a rabbit billed by them into Palmerston and submitted the same to Dr Brown for analysis who haa expressed tha opinion that the rabbit in question was affected in an advanced stage with contagious consumption (tuberculosis), and that no doubt can exist but that the disease has broken out in the distriot. If any reliance is to be placed in the story of those men, who say the rabbits are dying in hundreds, the disease must be very rapid with victims.