Untitled

Dunstan Times, Issue 1138, 22 February 1884, Page 2

For rest of news see fourth page. The next English and European Mail via ’Frisco, will close at this Office o.i Wo luesday, the 27th day of February, at 2 p.m. Mr Fache, as by advertisements, will sell torooTow at Clyde, some drays, a waggonette, and other thing, at noon sharp; and at 2 p'm. on account of Mr Utn y, who is leaving the dstrict, household furniture and effects. The sales of freehold properties in Clyde < n Tuesday next, are well worthy of the attentinn of small capitalists. Amongst the properties is the Port Phillip Hotels- whirls is prodvcinga neat income. It is as well that everyone should know that‘the properties to be sold by order of the Registrar of the Hnpreme Court have to be said wi.bout reserve. , Wells' " Rotron on Corns.'’— Ask for Wells’ "'Hough on Coras ” Quick relief, complete,, permanent cure. Corns, warts bunions. Moses Mows and Co., Sydney, General A^eat-s.

Mr Junes MuDonsH, who was charged with omitting to furnish the Property-Tax I Commissioner with a retu nof hi* property, i has been fined L 23 and costs. The pre- i siding magistrate, Mr Carew, also stating s < We find by Siction 93 of the Act ' that defendant is a’so to assessed and i charged treble the amount of the tax of > which he has sought to evade payment, in < addition to the tux for which ho would i have been otbe- wise liable. 1 Out of the L 71.680 allocated for roads and Bridges, L 7511 each is apportioned to Vincent and Lake Counties ; LBBO to luapeka Couhty; L6OO to Maniototo County for Mad works ; and 1,753 to Maniototo ; and L6OO to Tuapeka for bridges or main • road. The amounts represent one-fifth of J the sums asked for, - ; ( At Ihe meeting of the Clyde School Cora- , mittee he'd on Friday evening last, the full , committee in attendance, a" unanimous vote was given in favour of Messrs Shand, , Elder, and Begg as memoers of the Ednoa- , tion Board. The Chairman and Secretary , were authorised to have substantial wooden gates made for the front entrance, and a , turnstile made from the school ground out to the public recreation reserve. The letter from Secretary of Committe to the Eriuoatien Board,urging that the necessary alterations and repairs to the school buildings and the master’s residence was read and agreed ' to, and some mihpr-'“matters’ being dealt with the meeting closed. The Daily Times with their issue of Tuesday last issued a map of the war in the Soudan. By its aid readers of the daily telegrams can easily trace the move-tne.-its of the contending parties. 'J he Selwyn Election resulted in the elec- j tion of Mr Wakefield. , The following letter from Mr E. J. Ver- i non (of Upper Waikaial was read at a meet- i ing of the Roxburgh Borough Counei, last , Thursday evening, and a request was made i by the author that publicity snould be given to it th-onyh the columns of the Tuapeka ■ Times and Dunstan Times “As I con i eider the su> j ct of much importance, lam • induce Ito address you re Waikaia Bush i Toa-d, For many years past I have advo- 1 cated the construction of this road, and have made close inspection of the line of 1 road, depth of bogs, drainage bottom (which < is very good), gradients (which are not < heavy) ;i]u n ity of timber (approximately), i 100 square ■ miles, covering an area that e would «q tare to about ten miles of oloselytimhered country, with good bottom and i well drained by guides; quality, best red , birch, which, although a good deal is in a , ■state of decay, there is probably three- ( fourths fit for milling purposes -approxi- j malely, 10 000 000 feet. And here I may | j-efer to the several absurd and untruthful j reports as to the bush being of small area, , -and the timber of inferior quality, and j *i mated in a swamp—ail of which reports I- ] have iro hesitation iu denying In reference , to Mr Gordon’s report, that the L2obo voted j for the construction of the read would only - be like afl a bite, it is art the least mislead- , ing i for I know a person who is prepared to ■make the road for a little over that sum 1. , may also mention that some years ago 1 pointed out to a Provincial surveyor (Mr | ' hosier) the line of road (there is only one . practical Hire), and be approved of it. at the , scime sfating that them were no difficulties that could not easily be overcame, and-I ( think his estimate of the cost of construe tion was L 2600.” , , A late Home telegram says:— Mr . Fawcett Postmaster-general, has decided At present to detain the New Zealand mails, unless special y addressed via Brindisi, until the ilepai ture of the San Francisco-mai s. This has been done in order to allow the Government of New Zealand and Victoria to negotiate as to the rates of pos age. Thousands of letters ami papers were delayed last Friday when the Brindisi mail left The following extract from the American correspondent's letter to the Evening Star , dated January, 18, 1884, is instructive if not phasingMr Finnerty, of Chicago, who is the representative in Congress of 100,000 Eoglish-hating Hibernians, at a meeting hailed to denounce the American Govern ment because they did not save the assassin O’Donnell's neck from the halter, made a speech from which I clip the following ■choice extract —“ The meeting was called to lament ’heimpotency of a great nation which, by a nation not fit to black its shoes, had been insulted in the person of its President. There waaa day when the cannon of America, feeble to-day, would have answered the insult and defiance of England. The question was not so much one of Irish liberty as American decadence. There was never an insult inn- e direct or inexcusable than the refusal of Lord Granville to consider the re quest of ihe American nation. Suppose the President on Friday night had telegraphed. Lowell: “I demand the respite of O’ Donnell for ninety days or diplomatic relations will he suspended.’’ If he had said that, the blood of the nation would have been up, and if England bad sent her fleets they would have been'met as they h-ad been met before. Referring to Ihe contest for the Chairman-h'D of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, he said the backbone of a certain party would resent the appointment of any man said to be under any influence of England as the head of that Committee, If one party was responsible for Minister Lowell, be did not want another party to be responsible for a gentleman certain to be the ally and supporter cf the policy of that Minister. He had spoken these words .as a Democrat, knowing the backbone of the party, because he thought some Democrat sh'-nld tell the presiding officer of the House what people of his sentiments thought of surr-Tidering the control of foreign affairs into the hands of a clique who believed in hobnobbing eithEnglish aris.ooracy.” The italics are the reporter’s. A timely nse of Hop Bitters will keep a whole family in robust'health a year with ' kutliUlAooeh Read. : • ’*•

The latest, version of lhe> accident to the Caw on December 17. wlple returning from i * shooting excursion to the Balyina Palace < in Austria, U) t6 the dff-*ot that ha was so- ' companiedhy. .his -shite ill eight sledges, 1 with a number pf servants,, Although dark- < ness was coming on, the party noticed ahead sis mm, apparently peasants. The ] Cz ir’s aides drove forward:gnd ordered the , men to clear the way. The men saluted the j officers ana appeared to obey the order, but , when the Czar’s sledge came on a level with ■ them they suddenly' wheeled round and , fired at him thrice, and tiro of them ran { towards the sledge. The' horses attached , became frightened and galloped some 100 yards, when the Czar was thrown out of the sledge. A bullet' lodged in his shoulder. ' hut it was not a dangerous wound. The Czar’s fo’towors immediately mounted the sledge horses and followed the would-be-assassins, who escaped to a neighbouring wood. Owing to the * depth of snow, pursuit was fruitless, One of the pursuing officers ventured too far, and did not re- , turn. Tbs Telegraph thinks the attack was an attempt to execute the sentence of - death recently passed on the Czar by the Nihilists. There are 120,000 miles of railroad, in round numbers, in operation in the United States. The total mileage in operation in - operation in 1867, two years after the war, I was 30,000. In-1883 only 6233 miles were i constructed, which was 927 less than in 1872. A Wethers tone’s resident named Mrs i Walker had a very narrow escape from drowning recently, we learn from the Lawrence paper. She and. a couple of her ! grandchildren named Russel, had gone out 1 in search of some cows, and one of the i children (a little girl) fell in a shaft containing about seven feet of water. Mrs Walker' I rushed In and got hold of the child, getting i one knee into a niche formerly made for i climbing by, and clutching a piece of scrub 1 a-1< e same time, by which she held on, ’ with the little girl to support besides, until assistance arrived from Wetherstones, to ! which place the little girl on the bank 1 ran and gave the alarm, about an hour 1 having elapsed before the assistance arrived. > Betwixt the exhaustion and the shock to -J the nervous system caused l-jr the thought I of the dangerous position for such a l»ngth 1 of time, Mrs Walk r was so prostrated that 1 medical assistance had to he, palled in ; but ' she is now considered out of danger. i Ur Bakewell writes from Christchurch to the Southland Times stating that leprosy is not communicable except by actual contact, and not then un'essVthe person is in a fit ( state to receive the poisonand reproduce it 1 in his own system Dr B ike we'd himself ' has had charge of a leper hospital, and never suffered through touching his patients or ' dressing their sores. He mak.-a the astonish- ' ing statement that there is a gentleman well | known inCmterbury and throughout the colony who has for years been afflicted with ( the disease, but who gets about and mixes * with other business men aar.-if theetf were 1 nofh'ng the matter with him. 1 Rebecca Summers, a girl ten years of age. w s (says ihe In ere I Argus) bitten on December 31 by a aeaih-adder. It appears j that the mother and ter daughter went, out to put up a slip-rail The little girl took ! hold of ono end ami the mother the other, j but just as they fixed the rail the child exclaimed “ Mother, 1 have been bitten by a snake." The mother rushed home with her chiiil with all possible speed. On the road to the house the child exclaimed “I hope, mother, that I have not bee.n bitten by an adder.” When they got inside the house the mother examined the leg. which was bleeding freely. She at once gave the child large dozes of rum, and sucked the wound, after bandaging thhtly just below the knee. The mother, desiring to know what actually bit her daughter, went to the spot with a lighted candle, when to her amazement she was confronted by an adder. She looked for a stone, but her candle having gone out she was compell°d to go back. Ihe child afte- about half an-hour lost her sight, but the mother still administered rum The sight returned, but only for a very short time, and then failed once more, and the poor girl succumbed to the deadly effects of the poison. The United States of America has 91,997 insane people and 76,895 idiots. Samuel Downes, a member of the Birken- ' head police force, while chasing thieves along the railway at Tranmere, was Overtaken by an engine, and while down on the rails had b. th his arms ,taken off. one at the shoulder and the other, below the elbow. He was conveyed to the-Borough Hospital, where he recovered, bnt was, of course permanently disabled and almost helpless. Much sympathy was shown for him by the public, and a'number of gentlemen under- . took to get up a subscription for him, the result.being lhat the sum of Ll<H was ob tained. The Corporation of Birkenhead voted-Downes a pension of LI per week for life, and supplied him with a pair of artificial arras costing L3O An interesting article on American racing in the Daily Telegraph concludes fwith the following eulogy upon the same sport in Australia and New Zealand : -“It is to be hoped," says the writer, “ that our shrewd Transatlantic kinsmen will profit not only by European, but also by Australasian, experience. In no country is racing carried 1 on undei more wisely framed laws than in ’ Australia and New Zealand. Their race ’ courses, the grand stands, and Ihe discipline 1 and order enforced upon them might he ' s udied with advantage—not only in the ‘ United States, but also in the United King- | dom. S me of the finest judges of horseflesh ' l in the world pronounce the Australian 1 thoroughbreds to be already superior to the 1 European. It is, moreover, worthy of re--1 mark that nowhore are racing officials, jockeys, trainers, and bookmakers more i vigilantly watched and kept in order by i the authorities than at Sydney, Melbourne, . Dunedin, and Christchurch.”

The aggregatelog* of insurdtloa companies' in America last year was one hundred million dollars—L2o,o(W,ooo in round figures. This loss has accrued at poin's east of th>. Rockies, all the companies doing' badness on the Pacific Coast having paid well. Some j years ago, when the first team of English cricketers went'to Australia, they were accompanied by two men named Spiers and Pond, who landed at Sydney with only a penny a-pieco in their pockets. They closely followed the crickete'S, however, and managed to earn enough money to buy small lots of refreshments. The cricket field was noted for its poyeray of refreshment stands Spiers and Fond invested their little capital in food and drinkThey coined guinea after guinea, until at last were strong in pocket, and confident in 1 their ability to open up a wide range of business. They took leases of railway com panics to maintain buffets at the stations along the lines of travel in England and : Scotland. For years there had been gi eat complaint. One by one the email beginners opened new places, and one by one they ' established drinking places in London, until 1 their business grew to enormous proportionsSome time ago Pond died leaving property worth three quarters of a million. The firm has employed nearly 10,0ti0 girls since its start, and now gives employment to nearly 30,000 barmaids, who are under diciplihe as strict as that of the regular army. The New Zealand Times reoorts that the vagaiies of a seaman of the steamer Aorangi caused amusement as well as excitement on the Queen’s Wharf the other afternoon He had apparently found no difficulty in obtaining as much liquor as he wanted, and having got into such a state that he was in different as to what he did, he had a quarrel with one of his mates, who, however, con- ■ fined himself to chaff. The elevated tar eventually announced his intention of jumping off the wharf, and while prancing about on a stringer nearly fell in. In the end he bet ha'f-a-orown that he would jump off the yardarm of bis ship, and the money having been staked with a bystander, he ran up the rigging as nimbly as a monkey and along the yard, and, having reaching the en- , indulged in a few hops and then jumped off. On riling to the surface he indulged in various gambols, being, apparently, quite at home in the water, and then made his way back to terraJirma, to find that the stakeholder had disappeared—whether for- good or only for a joke did not transpire. The jump from the yardarm is said to be no less than 75ft. Not so very long ago (says the Pall Mall Oatrlle) a witness caused some confusion by declining to take the oath on the ground that he was a “Gnostic” —a refinement of conscience the exact nature of which one could hardly expect a. magistrate to appreciate unless he happened to be s ill burdened by the memory of Greek Testament lectures Hardly leas difficulty was caused in the Clerkenwell Police Court when the prosecutor in a case of theft declined to give his evidence on oalh because he was a “Cosmist,” which he subaequentlv explained meant “much the same as a Scenarist or an Agnostic.” itf a Secularist th. c erk (who must clearly he a mao of the world) has often hear l , bat not of a Cnsniist. Magistracy and their chief clerks must almost be wishing th y could go to school again, in order to learn the meaning of s me of these n.w friths, an acquaintance with wuioh is one of the pieces of “general intel igence” which every schoolboy is expected to know in these days. Anti-Christian riots have occurred in China. Two hundred Christians were massacied, i dfid mission stations were totally destroyed during the