The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1134, 25 January 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, JAN. 25, 1884.

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

The report of the examiners of candidates for the Otago Education Board’s Scholarships was read at the last meeting of the Board on Thursday last, from which we take the following particulars :—For the ten senior scholarships there were 37 candidates. of whom Jas. B. Stevens, of Clyde (Boys’ High School), stood seventh on the list. For the six Junior Scholarships there were 45 candidates, of whom Sydney A. Stevens, of Clyde, was fourth on the list. The Clyde School during the past four years, has now succeeded in gaining six junior scholarships, of whom three have since gained senior honours. The result, whether to be ascribed to the beautiful evenness of the climate, or to the skill and ability of the Clyde master, Mr J. E. Stevens, in imparting knowledge to his pupils, we will not pretend to say, but it is really a something for the place to be proud of that of its very limited population so many of its boys have gained such honours, and are thus launched on the fair road to success in after life. Mr Leslie Dnncan Maegeorge, Eugin eof Vincent County, we learn, has been admitted as an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. Many, we are sure,will join us in congratulating Mr Maegeorge on having so honorable and distinguised a mark conferred on him. The second trial of William Pearce on a charge of murder was concluded at the Supreme Court, Dunedin, on Monday last, and a verdict of wilful murder was returned, after an hour’s deliberation. The jury recommended the prisoner to mercy. His Honour passed sentence of death on the prisoner, but stated that he would forward the recommeudatiou to the Ministers of the CrowU. The valuation list of the Borough of Alexandra for the year ending March, ISSS, is now lying for inspection at the Council Chambers, Alexandra. Objections must bo lodged before February 15, 1884.

The Rev. G. Fynes-Clinton will conduct Divine Service on Sunday, 27th in»t,, at Matakanui at 3 p.m.; and Blacks at 7 p.m. A ease of suspected robbery and murder is reported to have occurred near Geelong. Francis Beech, a farmer, living at Bettarel, was found to have been murdered in bis house, and his wife was in a dying state. The house had been ransacked throughout. No arrests have been made. Householders are reminded that the, annual meeting for the election of the blydo School Committee for the current year.win be held in the Schoolhouse, Clyde, on Monday evening next, 28th inst. The annual cricket match between Maniototo and Vincent Counties is expected to be played on the 16th February. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Dunstan District Hospital will bo held in the Committee Room, Town Hall, Clyde, to-morrow evening (Saturday), 26th inst. As the business is to receive the annual report and balance sheet, and to elect a new Committee for the ensuing year, a large attendance is requested. By advertisement in another column C. J. Voak notifies that he has commenced business as bootmaker, etc, in the premises adjoining the Port Phillip Hotel, and assures the residents of Clyde and surroundings that all orders entrusted to bis care will receive prompt attention. Amongst the principal purchasers at the sale of Messrs Murray, Roberts, and Co.’s Waiwera stud sheep, which took place on Friday last, were Messrs Laidlaw and Crawford, of Matakanui, and Mr Robert Turnbull, of Linbnrn and Moutere, the former giving as high as 51 guineas for one ram, 45 guineas for another, and 36 and 25 guineas for others ; Mr Turubull giving as high as 70, 36, and 25 for his chief selections of rams. The total purchases of Messrs Laidlaw and Crawford were 159 rams and 465 ewes, the highest price for the latter given being 12 guineas ; and of Mr Turnbull 61 rams and 280 ewes, the highest price for these being 6) guineas. The Cromwell and Blacks Cricket Clubs will try conclusions to-morrow on the Clyde Cricket Ground. The first time these teams met this season the game had to be postponed on account of the inclement weather, and it is to be hoped that the visitors will have no occasion to regret the trip this time. As both teams are reputed to be strong in every department of the game, anti the addition of some good all round men to their ranks since their last visit here, a very close and exciting game may be exacted. Players are requested to put in an early appearance, so that play may commence at such an hour as to allow the game to be played out, as it is always unsatisfactory when it has to be decided on the first innings. Tenders are invited from persons willing to lease the Clyde Domain. (Sob a Ivt.) Tenders are wanted by the Sheep Inspector, Clyde, for keeping the Clyde Commonage and mining reserves adjoining clear of rabbits for twelve months. In commenting on the proposal, which emanated from New South Wales, to spread a disease amongst rabbits which would kill them off, the Southland News says “ The ravages of the rabbit are to a large extent due to a system of land tenure that enables one person to hold vast tracts of country for purely pastoral purposes. Where a population fairly occupies the land, the rabbits, although somewhat of a nuisance, cannot be said to be a source of peril. Instead, then of trying a hazardous experiment, one of tha consequences of which might be far-reach-ing and horribly fatal, would it not be well to try the effect of legislation in the direction of limiting the quantity of laud to be held by any one person ? Experience has already shown in this colony that population is the true remedy for the rabbit plague Not a few thinking people contend that the money now being spent by this colony on inspectors and poisoning is thrown away that it would be far better applied in the introduotion and placing of settlers on the land.” The old technical jargon of legal indictmeets, says the N. Z, Times, caused much trouble to twelve good and true men, who were sworn as a jury recently to try a man for stabbing a woman. Out of a few vulgar facta there arose three issues which puzzled the jury many hours, for they had to say whether the man stabbed the woman of malice aforethought, whether it was in. tent to kill, or without intent to kill. Besides the legal issues, the jury evolved a fourth question, namely, how far is a man accountable for his violence when his passions are inflamed with drink and jralousy ? The judge expounded the law to the jury over and over again, and they were locked up several hours, their first decision being that the man stabbed the woman with the intent to kill, though not of malice aforethought ; but when the judge pointed out that if the man intended to kill the woman, and did actually stah her in a dangerous part, the law inferred that he did it of malice aforethought the jury could not agree to that form of verdict, and had to cogitate again, their final decision being that he did not intend to kill, but did stab her intending grievous bodily harm. They wanted, in fact, to let him off easi y. The judge gave the man three years’ penal servitude. With reference to the wages of railway laborers, the, the following information has been gathered by the Sydney Morning Herald In South Australia ths greater number of laborers are paid 6s per day ; in Victoria platelayers are paid 6s 6d per day ; in Queensland laborers are paid 6s fid ; in New Zealand the traffic laborers are paid 6s, and on permanent way 6s 6d per day. In New South Wales permanent way laborers are paid no less than 7s fid per day, the higher wages here paid representing an additional cost for maintenance from L 25 to L 35 per mile of line. The day’s work in sack colony is eight hours.

Tho Mayor of Queenstown has received the following reply to the resolution of tho recent public meeting about the cessation of through trains on the Wnimea lino : I am directed by the Hon, Minister of Public Works to state that, having carefully inquired into proposal for a bi-weekly through service between Dunedin and Kingston via Invercargill, he regrets he would not be justified in acceding to your request, owing to the large extra expenditure which such a service would necessitate. — N. W. Webby.” A late London telegram says The heavy gold export to Australia is stiffening the money market, and the se'roey attempted 'Vtq«e observed about tho matter has produced unfavourable comment. It is inferred that the Australian banks have run, short of gold owing to the operations of the new loan agencies. The Union bank of Australia (Limited) and the Australian Mortgage Company have each shipped 200,000 sovereigns, and the total withdrawal of gold for Australia has reached the most unexpected amount of H.0' , 0,009. The Economist considers that tho Colony of Vic« toria is in a favcnrable position, and that whatever may be the faults of the Adminis tration, the Colony cannot be considered at ■all overwhelmed with debt. The Minister ot Justice has issued a circular which forbids magistrates, wardens, receivers of Gold revenue, and clerks of all inferior courts holding shares in any gold or other mining company The Bruce Herald says that “if the prineip’e thus initiated by Mr Connolly is consistently cairied out, the disabilities of Civil servants will be an numerous and extensive that the poor fellows will hardly know what to do or what to avoid. It seems to us that the Minister ia overstepping his authority, and that an Act of Parliament is necessary to give effect to these stringent regulations.” Tho following important information as to the disease which has recently attacked rabbits in various districts is furnished by the Oarnnru Mail :—We understand that Inspector Fullarton and Dr de Lantour have been investigating the nature of the rabbit disease. Dr de Lantour has examined the livers of three rabbits, and has come to the conclusion that the disease in these cases is not tuberculosis. In each case he found the liver enlarged and softened, with numerous cysts in its substance. These cysts had a sac similar to that of the hydatid cyst, and contained a quantity of yellowish fluid, which, under a miesroscooe, appeared to consist of numerous oval globular bodies similar to the ova of the fluke or other worm. He is of opinion that t.be disease in these cases is a form of rot. This disease is known to occur frequently in rabbits, hares, and other herbivorous animals. Inspector Fullarton and Dr de ’Lantour in end to more thoroughly investigate the disease. In the meantime it may be wise for ahe.opowners not to convey any pns ible causes of infection by proceeding ■fo inoculate rabbits in hitherto uninfected districts Tn giving judgment in a case at Lanark, in which a servant bad sued her master for ivagpe in consequence of sudden dismissal. Sheiiff Birnie expres'ed himself strongly against masteis who would not allow their servants, young marriageable girls, to have young men come and see them. With equal emphasis he o jeeted to the servant keeping nntimeous hours with her sweetheart, or insisting upon a too frequent “outing.” The Sheriff also took occasion to remark that instead of being prevented from going to church a servant should be encouraged to do so, and to become connected with a ■church. , , v At the change of life nothing equals Hop Bitters to allay all troubles incident thereto. See. Thomas Holloway, of patent-medicine celebrity, who receiitlydied, was accustomed to attribute his great success in life to persistent advertising. On starting the manufacture of his famous pills he began with a capital of £ldo. This he expended chiefly in advertising, and first receive I but a small return. Laying out all his available income upon advertising, he at length made the business pay expenses, and spent all his returns hut a bare living on the same object. He reduced advertising to a science, and became one of the best known names in the world. He once told the writer that he retrenched bis advertising considerably one year, nnd the result was a falling off of £20,000 in his scales He never repeated the experiment. When tho Australians resolutely refused to permit English convicts to land in Victoria, Lord John Russell vigourously defend, ■ed their action, and at one time the present Premier of England was strongly in favour of founding a British penal s-ttlcraent in the Port Curtis district of Queensland, at about the spot where th a town of Gladstone now stands. Fortunately, his colleagues declined to sanction the scheme. In the last Lord Mayor’s procession in London the representation of Australia by a stuffed kangaroo and emu were included in the programme. A Smithfield firm of melt-purveyors, however, without being authorised to do so. introduced into the procession a van of frozen New Zealand mutton. This sight made the Loudon batchers very angry.

“ German Syrup.” —No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’a German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed />ee of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat and lungs giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrnp wi'l cure them. The result has been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to’their customers. Go to your Druggist and ask what they know •boat it. Sample bottles 6d. Regular size 3s 6d. Three doses will relieve any case.'— [Advt.]

The cumber of Australians and New Zealanders at Cambridge at the present time is extraordinary large., The Australasian Club there has no leas than 140 members on its roll. A Sydney paper says:—An individual lately arrested in Sydney, and afterwards sentenced to a long term of penal servitude for several forgeries, was a “ cool hand,” if yon like. After imitating the signature of a respectable citizen on a cheque for a few pounds, he was walking about in some perplexity as to how he could get the dooument cashed without exciting suspicion, when ho met the very man whose bank account he was trifling with, and invited him to have a drink. Entering Bryant’s bar the swindler called for drinks, and invited the landlord also to join ; and while his friend’s nose was lost in the pewter, and his head thrown back so that he could see nothing but the ceiling, the cool one deftly tendered the cheque in payment. The supposed drawer thereof being well-known to the landlord as a good mark, Boniface cashed the document at once, without question or remark,' thinking that, as thp man himself was there, no doubt could possibly exist as to the genuineness of the cheque. A day or two afterwards, when he tried it at the bank, he found his mistake ; but bis friend was gone. '