The Dunstan Times CLYDE FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1156, 25 April 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely juii The pen ie mightier than the award.

On Saturday evening last Mr D. A. Jolly, merchant, Cromwell, who ie about paying a visifc to the Old Councry, was entertained by his friends at a complimentary dinner in Mounteney’e Hotel. The company present was a thoroughly representative one, members of all classes and of every shade of opinion being present to wish God speed to their guest, thus evidencing the very general esteem in which he is held, Tn consequence of the resignation by Mr Jolly of the office of councillor for Glutha Riding, Vincent County, an election will shortly take place to fill the vacancy. We do not like to throw atones in the dark. We, however, on this occasion think that a worthy successor to Mr Jolly could be found in the local representative of the owners of Mt. Pisa station. In the local papers is announced the death of Mr M. J. Mahghan, one of the oldest and moat influential residents of ■ Queenstonn, at the comparative early age of 49. The deceased gentleman through life was a most energetic man, and while able to pay every attention tn his business which was most successful, had always time to devote to public affairs, at same time to give kindly aivice and a helping hand to any who applied to him. He may truly be spoken of as having been a really good man and citizen, and by bis death a void is c eated that will not be easily filled. Ilu the fourth page will he seen a paper entitled “ Buddhism in relation to Christianity,” as delivered the Rev. R. C. Collins before the Victoria institute, London. It. anothei column is announced a sale of mining plant at Ida Valley on Tuesday, 6th May; and of household furniture and freehold properties iu Cromwell, on Saturday, May 10th Ge.rge Faobe auctioneer. People looking out for a really good busi ness opening, are referred to Mr Collins’s advertisement announcing that his White flare Hotel, (Jromwell, is for sale. We have received the thirty-fifth annual ieport of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, with the Resident Secretary’s compliments. While respectfully acknowledging the compliment, we must decline to C 'liiply with the implied wish and give insertion to its contents as reading news. If the Resident Secretary has sufficient tact and ability to conduct so stupendous au in stitution as the Australian Mutual, to our mind he should possess also sufficient c unni 'M sense In know thaVnewspapers are hoc published without cost. The attempt to get a chea > advertisement we could cu»racte.ise in a few words that would lie more forcible than polite We allow the R.S. to till iu the hj ank. News from tneUld Man Range we may sav there is none, exccpui ,g that it has been decided*to abandon fora time driving the lunnel iu White's Company,and to Carry on the shaft following the underlay of the re f. The Hon Mr Kollos ton, Minister of Lands, and in, mber for A von, after addressing iiis constituents on Saturday evening last, was accorded a most dicided vote of, no confidence. Out of an audience of about 50U peisuns only a dozen voting against the vote. The notice by the Vincent Jockey Club of the “ Guinea Stakes” to be competed for on N'ewY.ai’s Day, should he acceptable to owners and hivedeis of horses in the counties named, fhe function of racing clubs is to induce the breeding of horses, and in no better way can it be done than hy offering an annual premium in the shape of a special piize. While commending the notice to hoise owners and bieeders, we congratulate tlicclnb units pluck in introducing their Guinea Stakes,” and have but to hope that year by year the amount will so increase as to make it the premier race of the County. If anyone has any doubts as to the rapid strides the Australias are making the following figures taken from Goldsbrough’s Monthly Circular for March will di-pel them. Number of hales of wool shipped from Vic tuna since July 1883, 310.995; bushels of wheat, 826,609 ; tons of Hour, 27,873 ; whi e for the month of MarcU alone, 1565 barrels of tallow. Skinny Men.—“Wells’ Health Reii'wer” restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotmce, Debility. Moses, Moss Sydney, General Agents. One of Admiial Courbet’s aides-de-camp nas sent home au account of the capture of Sontay, and in his loiter thus speaks of the B1 ick Flags:—“ Superb and active men who devote their lives to warfare, armed as they are wish rifles of the most improved models, the Black Flags arc redoubtable warriois. As infantry soldiers they are at least equal to nearly all the K .ropeau troops. They tire with wonderful coolness, instead of wasting (as young soldiers do) au enormous quantity of ammunition. . . . Their leader-is' no ordinary man, although of humble origin ; he has succeeded iu creating a power which lias been able to contend with France, and lo inflict on Her—by surprise it is true—a painful check ” A Fact Worth Knowing Are you j suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Colds settled on the Breast, Fneunionia, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs? If so,go to your Druggist and get a bottle of Bosohee’s ! German Syrup. The people are going wild over its success, and Druggists all over our I country are writing us of its wonderful cures I amoug their cusiomeis. It has by far-the I larges side of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value m all affections of ibis kind Chiimic cases quickly yield to it Dniugis'K recommend itaud phy.-icians pr - scribe t. It you wish to try its superior virtue, get a Sample Bottle for Cd. Large size bottle 3s, ()d. Turco uosca will relieve any case. Try it.

A destructive hurricane has occurred at Tonta. • The schooner Golden Isle, says the N.Z. Herald, which arrived in Auckland from Tonga, brings news of a severe hurricane which swept over the island on the 7 th of February, lasting to the 10th, The storm, which was of a rotary nature, commenced at 8.8., and ending in the westward, did considerable damage to the houses and plantations on shore. A number of the former were considerably destroyed, whilst trees were uprooted and blown •down; fortunately no lives were lost. When the first indications of tho hurricane were felt, every preparation was made to meet the full force of the storm, so that the extent of damage was not so great as might otherwise have been the case. The barometer was down to 29.18. The Golden Isle fell in with the hurricane when about 20 miles off the island, during which the starboard bulwarks were carried away, and other damage was done. At the Mansfield Police Court on the 14th inst, says the Aye, Mr William Forsyth, editor of the Deiaiite Free Press, was charged with publicly horsewhipping Mr A. J. Curtis, editor of the Mansfield Guardian , Curtis swore to the whip that ho had been castigated with. Mr Usher, another witness, testified to seeing Mr Curtis severely horsewhipped. Sergeant James said he thought it was soma one flogging a horse. The defendant pleaded provocation, an t stated that Cnrtis had been in the habit of regularly writing columns derogatory to the Free Press and its editor. He produced the Guardian, with a paragraph alluding to his wearing crape for his deceased wife. Forsyth stared that this was the paragraph for which Curtis received the whipping. The bench said it was not creditable to either party to appear before the Court, especially Mr Curtis, who had written a? paragraph which could be p oved to be utterly untrue. They fined Forsyth 5s and 13s (61 cos s. The public subscribed the amount of the fine. A very extraordinary case was reported to the detective police on 26th lust , says the Melbourne Age, Amongst the passeugers by the'steamer Waihola, which arrived late on Tuesday night from New Zealand, were a Mr Marmaduko Clarke his wife. O i the steamer arriving at tile wharf it was found that Mrs Ciarke v/as extremely ill, and Mr Ciarke, seeing that it was impossible to procure lodgings owing to the late hour at vviiieh the steamer arrived, went on shore In find a doctor. Prior to his doing tins, however, he called the stewardess' of tie boat, and having expl lined to her the saiuusucss of Mre Clarke’s condition, told her tuat a largo quantity of valuables in M-s Clarke’s cabin also rtq ired looking af er. Mr Glarke went on snore, and after an absence of aoiit“ time returned tn find that his wifi* was dead, ihai-shehad been snipped of her jewelry, ati'l that a sum of £9 i m gold, of which she was possessed. Was missing. He at once made inquires, ami after some lime the stewardess haitde i to him two gold lings and an empty purse, stating that the whole of Mrs Clarke’s wearing apparel had been thrown overboard, although for what reason was not stated. Tlte gold, however, was missing, and M r Clarke, feeling that the case was one which required inquiry, reported the matter to the deltctiv.re. The greatest appetizer, stomach, blooq and liver regulator on earth—Hop Bitters. Look fur and read. The London correspondent to the Argus gives tho following particulars of a singular prosecution for libel :—“The senior member tor Northampton has been fortunate iu securing from the Queeu’s Beuch Division his discharge from a criminal prosecution for a libel published in Truth, of which Mr Laliouchere is proprietor and editor. The . article complained of by the Duke of Vallambroia, resident at (Cannes, alleged that the Duke’s father had been an army contractor, and naif rwly escaped banging on the charge of supplying as meat to a French army corps the flesh of soldiers who had died iu hospital or who had been killed iu action, but that, luckily for him, the first empire came to au end before the trial came on. The contractor thereupon retired to Italy, purchased a dukedom, and became a grand seigneur and an ardent adherent of the Bourbons. The Duke contended that this was a false and malicious statement, libellous on the memory of his father, and calculated to bring himself and his family into public hatred, ridicule, and contempt. Among the objections urged to a criminal information were the facts that the applicant resided abroad, and that the person libelled was dead : and the Court, while declining to recognise either objection as necessarily fatal, dec ared both to be very cogent arguments against the interference of the Court. On the general question, the judges laid down the rule that in the case of private persons criminal informations should omy be granted where the libels were of such magnitude or pernicious example as to deserve the most public animadversion.” Colonel Fairfax of Newton Kyme, who says the World of February 13), died on Friday, was a typical Yorkshireman and an ardent sportsman. For six seasons he was Master and Huntsman of the York and . Ainsty Hounds, and h’s was the long central figure in the hunting coterie which met to talk sport at the York Club It is just five years since Colonel Fairfax resigned the Mastership, when ho was pr -ented with a portrait group of tho membera of the Hunt. His death, at the early age of fnrty-five, has been received with unfeigned legiet hy all who bad ever met him. Another notable Yorkahireman, who died on the same day as Colonel Fairfax, was Mr William Fostea, of Hornby Castle. Ho was the principle of the firm of John Foster andlSnn, worsted manufacturers of Queenshnry and a man of great wealth and influence both in Lancashire and Yorkshire. i Fries and Bugs.— Beetles, insects, ants, j roaches, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, ’■•{nck-rabnits, cleared out hy ‘•Rousjli on , lia.s, 1 Tue N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents

The Salvation Army, has (says the Sydney Mail) opened* “barracks” at Newtown, in "the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Qhoat, and of General William Booth,” If there is auoh a thing as blasphemy, this looks uncommonly like it. This “ army ” may be attempting to do good work, and in the beat way known to its members. For any aaccess in the reformation of bad men, all rigbtminded persons will be thankful, but the doing* of the “army” must be heavily discounted by, such proceedings os these. Enough and to spare of lapsed men ■and women, and of boys and girls too, are to be met with. Whosoever can lay kindly hands upon them and lift them out of the mire should be cheered. But what is the difference between tambourines and their accompaniments of animal excitement and gesture in a taproom and the same thing in a “ barrick ’’-room ? The absnrdest and worst things may be done in the name of religion, but are they religious any the more for that ? It is possible to show that -all churches encumber themselves with a great deal of trapping in ritual and belief that could be laid aside with advantage. Bat as a rale it is always decorous surplusage. The “army" adds surplusage that is not decorous and that will distress sensible peop'e willing to be its friends. Upon the sympathy of such friends, much more than upon a chance crowd gathered by eccentric and profane antics, the permanency and usefullness of these new reformers will rest. To say that the work accomplished by them was that which none of the sects had even attempted, was true in one sense—a bad one—and false in another. Tosav that the Christian churches of the land have not attempted to reach all classes, that they have never succeeded, is to make a remarkable statement. Late reports say that the fame and success of the “ army” are declining in England Those in' the colonies should take warning. A Sydney journal pertinently asks—Will the execution of Edward Williams aid in humanising our larrikins ? It may lead them to be more cautions in incurring the risk of a similar fate, but it cannot alter their natures. We might as well ask the leopard ro change its spots. The punish meat of larrisinism is one thinf, its prevention is another. If we would root it from our midst we must nave a healthier moral lone pervading the community, a fe-ling adverse not only to larrikin displays in Woolloomoloo and Waterloo, but also in the Legislative Assembly, where the wholesale slanders and false accusations hurled about in every direction are traceable to the same icckless, lawless spirit which reached its culminating point •in the terrihle outrages which have shocked the whole civilised world, inflicting on the . fair name of blew South Wales a stain which not even the condign punishment of the principal offenders can wholly efface. For close confinement, want of air, and 'sedentary habits and brain and nerve tire, -trust iu Hop Bitrers. Head. The following anecdotes of civilization are ■supplied by a London correspondent of the Argus:— A collier having Hoped with a tr.en I’a wifo wrics to say, “I have aske I Sarah whethei she would like to go back to _yon,” and she sav« “I would rather die tirsi.'’ Under the e circumstances, kindly in I me a note, signed by. your own hand, satinr that youjare willing forme to make her and the children a comfortable home, on Sue receipt of which I will forward vou ! IDs in cash.’-’ To this the husband has replied that he is willing to come to terms j *• at the figure named.” What a favours le <■ uitraat does this present to the tardy and i cxpei sive proceedings of our Divorce Court. Thoiuh onr data is no longer B C., ce't.iin J barbarous tastes and ins ineis still sur ive .among us which would much better b fit that epoch ihan our own We hive, it is true, no gladiatorial shows; hut a larce • -conoonr-e of apparently respectable peoi le j ■can, it seems, be attracted by th« spectacle of seeing a husband shoot a potato on his ■wife’s forehead with a rifle bullet Not content with her survival from this perilous feat, they absolutely permitte I the man to j repeat it while lying on his back when—as ( they could not but have expected -he shot ( her. “ Upon fhis the audience dispersed,” , wth the comfortable conviction, no doubt, . that they had really got their money’s worth. This happen.-d at Leicester, a. d. 3884.