The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1140, 7 March 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely Just The pen la mightier that the sword.

A case brought under the provisions of the Public Works Act (the first of the kind we believe), for obstructing a public road, was heard! in the H.M. Court,. Clyde, on Tuesday list, before Major Keddell, R.M., and resulted in a judgment against the ohstructer; a fine of L 5 and costs being inflicted. The case is this, C. T. Marie some years since, at his own expense, constructed a roid from the main road to his coal lease. Since then other leases have been granted, and the holders of them use this privately-constructed road. On the day on which the obstruction was made, Marie was driving an empty dray up the road, and the holder of another lease was driving a loaded dray of coals down the road and both met in a narrow part, and Marie deeming he had not room to pass the dray without risk of accident, took his horse out of his dray, and afWwards chaining up the wheel, left it there. The Magistrate held that the road was a public road though privately made, and that the course adopted was not only illegal, but was provocative of a breach of the peace, and accordingly inflicted the penalty named. Harvesting is now pretty general throughout the district, and thongh the weather has been much against the operation and against a good yield, appearances so far indicate most satisfactory results. The weather continues most unseasonable, rain continuously falling on the Hat ground, whilst the ranges are nearly every day covered with snow. We do not know if there is any one in who has any control over the trout streams in the district. We have heard that one streams has been completely depleted of fish, lime having been employed for the purpose. It is uotonly a great pity that the work and labor of years should be destroyed in one short moment, but that the vandal could not be caught and severely punished. Mr Fache draws attention to the valuable coal mining lease, and other properties, to be sold by hi o on Siturday next, the 15th ihst., at Croirmvll. We are req iis cd to notify that the usual monthly meeting .of the Committee of Management of the Dnnstan I fistrict Hospital will be held on Monday next, the 10th inst. Isic.ilcricketers are notified that it is intense 1 to play a scratch match on the Clyde ground on Spur lay afternoon next. The Cly ;e chib pitting themselves against eighteen of all com-ns As the match will be an interest! ig o m we should like to see a g ad atten lance. Wc hj ive rrccve l from the Secretary of the Victorian (Philosophical) Institute of London, an e-irly copy of Sir Edmund Beck •M , s, Bart. Q C., address “ How did the World revo' e itse’f," delivered by him on the 21st of J .iina-y. In it Sir Edmund descrilv s the la«- of nature, reviewing tl e steps in the prog ess «t scientific research rece tty made in various countries, and snowing bow th-v oore on the subject, A trotting race for L4h a side, between Jenkins’s entire, Tom Thumb, and A B or n’s Shetland pony mare, wsa arranged for Wednesday afternoon last, on the old racecourse at Blacks. As Mr Brown nor his mare came up to time Mr Jenkins trotted over the course alone and claimed the stakes, the which, we understand, was handed over to him. Another case of poisoning from taking “ Rough on Rats,” occurred at Wanganui on March 2. Amm named Peoples, who had been drinking, took two doses from a bottle of poison which he bought from a local store. No reason is assigned for the deed except that the man was temporarily deranged from the effects of drink. Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.”—Ask for Wells’ *• Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. The London Telegraph thinks the time is not far distant when every night farer will carry his own ray of electricity about him, enclosed within the compass of a machine not larger than the watch now ticking in his pocket. The Canadian officials announce that an attempt to swim the Niagara Falls will be treated as an act of insanity, and lead to the arrest of the man who contemplates it. At the Newcastle Police Court recently an ostler and his master were charged at the ins' anne of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with cruelly ill-treating a horse by cutting off a portion nf its tail Jt was stated that the cutting off a portion of a horse’s tail to improve its appearance was a cu-t m that prevailed all over England and was known as docking. Three veterinary smgeon’s stated that the docking of a horse’s tail entailed upon the animal great suffering. The Bench said in consideration of that being the first prosecution in the north of England they would inflict only a tmall fine, hut if another such case came before them the penalty would be a heavy one. The Loudon Chartered Bank of Australia at Horsham Town, in *he nnrth-west part of the colony (Victoria), was broken into by burglars on the night of 2nd March ; and LSOOO had been abstracted, chiefly in notes, the number of which are unknown. The safe was opened by duplicate keys. The clerk, who was sleeping on the Bank premises. heard no sound. No clue'has been obtained to perpetrator of the theft. The Home Government have offered a reward of L 2001) for the arrest of the perpetrators of the recent attempts to wreck the various Metropolitan Railway termini by dynamiter

The Black Flags appear to make abort work of their prisoners, and if any Frenchmen have been taken they are little likely to fall alive into the hands of the Chinese authorities. But death, according to all accounts, will bo a far preferable fate to incarceration in a Chinese prison. The cruelties and oppression practised in that at Canton exceed in horror anything that happened in Middle Ages. Prisoners on arrival are stripped of everything they possess by the officials,and thus, utterly destitute, are passed on to be shamefully illused by their fellow goal-birds because they cannot pay the prison fees. A common device is to run them up by a rope fastened to their handcuffs or leg-irons, and keep them hanging from the ceiling while their crys are silenced by filling their mouths with hot ashes from the stove More systematic illtreatment consists in tampering with their food. The daily rations of rice are mixed with sand and stones, or they are watered or made so hot that they cannot be swallowed. Other shameful practices go forward unchecked. Gambling tables are kept open from morning till night, the profits of which go to the keepeis, who advance money for play, recouping themselves by deductions from the food. If this is insnffioent, the defaulters are tied up and beaten and put in irons. In the interests of common humanity it may be hoped that French prisoners may escape such horrors as these, A strange outbreak of fanaticism has occurred among the members of the Edinburgh Parochial Board. At a recent meeting a report was presented from the House Committee of Craigloekhart Poorhonse, which recommended the immediate dismissal of the chaplain because of his expressed disbelief in the doctrine of eternal punishment, which led the officials and inmates to listen “with abhorance” to his ministrations. A very animated discussion ensued, and one member moved “that the chaplain be requested to attend to the conscientious discharge of his duties in ministering to the poor,” while another moved for a general committee to confer with the chaplain and to inquire into the whole subject. The latter was carried, but the chaplain escaped nbmissal by only three votes. Another and more tangible ground of complaint was that the chaplain had latterly taken to prolong hisdiscourses to from fifty to eighty minutes, as to which a member remarked that “while the minister was anxious to relieve the poor from future punishment, he appeared to be terribly determined to inflict punishment upon them at present.” The following additional information it furnished by the South Canterbury Times wish regard to a case of religious mania mentioned recently in a telegram : “ Rlizbeth Archer, a married woman of some 27 years of age, residing at Buchanan’s paddock, was charged with being of unsound miud. It appeared that the unfortunate woman had been a regular attendant at Salvationist meetings, and for some time past has manifested considerable eccentricity of bchavour. Yesterday afternoon j she displayed as mach violence and disposii tion to kill her children, that the neigh" I bours ba '* to ca " in the aid of the police, and she was, with some difficulty conveyed to the lock-up. There she conducted herself throughout the night in the most vio„ lent manner, making several attempts 'o strangle herself with her garters and stock, ings. She would allow no one to approach, her, and 'this moning p> esented a shocking appearance, raising her eyes and hands fr«qucntly and exclaiming--1 do believe in the Lord. Her husband is away un-country, harvesting—it is not known exactly where It was impossible te bring her into Court, and Drs Lovegrove and Drew having examined her, certified that she was suffering from religous mania, and was violent towards herself and towards others. She was committed to the Asylum at Sunnyside. A movement is on foot in Melbourne to raiat subscriptions from the Jews through, out Australasia for the endowment of a chair for the study of Hebrew and Hebrew literature at the Melbourne University, in commemoration of the hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart. Mr Zox, M.L.A., is now busily engaged in making arrangements for a canvas throughout Australasia and the holdings of public meetings. The movement ought to be very popular, not only amongst Jews, bat amongst al denominations whose clergy are required to have a knowledge of the sacred tongue before taking orders. One of the richest strikes known in the mining history of California was recently made (according to the Amador Dispa'ch) three miles south of this place. A pocket of quartz of almost unparalleled richness was found less than 100 ft. from the surface, in which was contained from 75,000d0l to lOO.OOOdoI, and about two tons in quantity. Much of this might be termed chunks of gold instead of gold-bearing quartz. Some of these pieces of solid gold were about as heavy as a man could lift from the ground. The largest was an oval piece 16in by 22in, and 6in or 7in thick. This gold is almost black, and of the same character as the former rich strikes found in the same mine. We have no doubt that this is the richest find of gold ever known in the United States at one time. Daring Friday a ton of this gold-freighted metal was taken out. It is not so rich as the gold streak taken out some time ago, but there is vastly more of it. The value of this bonanza is estimated at from 50,000d0l to lOO.OOOdoI. The ledge is sft wide, and the whole face of it was held together, as it were, by spikes of solid gold. Altogether 30001b have been taken from this hunch of ore, and the end is not yet. The very rich streak from which this mass of free gold has been taken ranges from an inch or so np to- ,20in in width. The previous seam varied from the thickness of a knife-blade to Sin. Flies and Bugs. —Beetles, insects, ants, roaches, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers' jack-raboits, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” ThoN.Z Drug Co,, General Agents.

Oowden Clarke tells a story of a gentleman who, lately, in making a, income to the tax commissioners, wrote on the paper: “For the last three years my income has been somewhat under L1B0; in future it will be more precarious', as the nuta is dead of whom I borrowed the money. 1 ' The police have obtained a clue to the perpetrators of the recent dynamite outrage, and to the depositors of internal machines at the various Metropolitan Railway, stations. Three Americans are believed to'be the guilty parties, and the police are now endeavouring to find their whereabou's. Catarrh of the Bladder— Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by " JBuchuPaiba." The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. In accordance with powers conferred by the Post- office Act of last year the Post-master-Genral of Victoria notifies pi the Gazette that no letters or packets addressed to “Box,” either to care of J. J. Miller, Melbourne, or to any other address in the colony, will be delivered. A novel mode of dealing with the rabbit nuisance has just been adopted by the Parsons JBrothers in the Awatere district. Early on the morning of the 28th February, before daylight, when the rabbits were down on the flats feeding, about 1000 yards of string netting was hung loosely on stakes driven into the ground at distances of about a chain apart round Starborough Hill. Soon after daylight dogs were employed to start the rabbits up towards their burrows, and the efforts of those engaged in the operation , were successful beyond anticipation. Started v . by the dogs, the rabbits made for their holes in large numbers, and rushing at the loose - netting, they became entangled in the meshes, and were then easily caught- At 2 o’clock 1700 had been killed, and it was expected that anoth', 500 would be obtained before dark.