The Dunstan Times CLYDE FRIDAY, MAY 23 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1160, 23 May 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE FRIDAY, MAY 23 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely Just The pen is mightier thar the sword.

What inigot have neen a very serious accident happened to Craig and Co 'a mail coach on Wednesday, the 14th iuat, while crossing Shingle Creek, bstweeu Alexandra and Roxburgh, The creek at the lime waa in flood, and large boulder* were being carried down with the stream, and by some mischance the driver (Mr P. Denham) waa thrown from his seat into the seething, waters, from which he with great trouble extricated himself. The horses took the coach through, and being wider no control went off a full speed till the coaoh oapsiz'd The only passengers luckily were a woman and child, who miraculously escaped wilh a few bruises. The necessity of ab.idge over this errek has frequently been pointed out, not only is this creek a dangerous one, being subject to floods, but tho approaches are wretchedly bad, and aa the creek is all but on the boundary of the Tuapeka and Vincent counties, rhe work might fa rly be undertaken at the joint expense. We throw out the suggestion feeling therein we have down oar rtutv, but whether noted on of not we hope that body on whom rests the responsibility will, before some valuable lives are lost see that a bridge is constructed.

Mr Faihe announces.Jn another column the sale of the White Hart Ffotel, Cromwell, to take place to morrow. Thia house is doing a reallr uood paying business, and as it can be woi ked at little or no expense, it should comman I no end of buyers.

The New Zealand Illustrated News for this month has duly reached .us. It is undoubtedly a first-class number, containing a number of well-executed plates represent‘ng New Zealand and Australian so.mery. li. is accompanied liy two rally first-class chromo-lithographs from paintings by the rising Colonial artist, K. Ashton.

The contractor for painting and renova* I ting tha Clyde Soboolhouse is getting well ahead with the work, of which we understand he is making a really first-class j0b..,. The master’s room is now finished, and we | are desired to state that the upper clars room will be opened on Monday next. A rather ourions circumstance connected with this contract is that v 'hilo the.contract was not let till Wednesday, the 14th inst,, the contractor had arrived in Clyde and commenced his work some week or ten days previously. Is it that the Education Board have the power of divining the minds of would-be tenderers, nr are those little jobs arranged for beforehand, and the calling for tenders a mere form.

The Timarv Herald says .—At least ten millions would be required to give effect to the ideas which Sir Julius Vogel modestly expresses in a single paracraph. The expenditure might easily run into fifteen or twenty millions. Whence is this huge sum of money to be obtained ? On that point Sir Julias Vogel is ominously silent. He says, reasonably enough, that he is not making a budget; that, in fact, it is not to be expected that he should disclose at this stage his financial plans for carrying out the political proposals which he offers in general terms, We assert, nevertheless, most emphatically, that until those plans are disclosed it is impossible /or any prudent man to consider those.,proposals seriously. The question of funds is the only one about which there is any difference of opinion, and until we know Sir Julius Vogel’smiud upon it, we should only be wasting time if we discussed a scheme which turns entirely on the question of funds. So seldom is it that opportunity is afforded the residents of this district with hearing outside talent, that when an announcement is made of tie coming of a troupe of professionals, a little quiet excitement is at once raised, and the day appointed is looked forward to with interest and pleasure. During last week the district was visited by two different separate ‘parties, Mr Millis, a renowned ventriloquist, leading the way, followed by the well-known and inimitable fisher and his oompapy. In Consequence of the former, however, making no public and timely announcement of his coming, saving the posting of a few posters and the distributing of some handbills, he was but poorly patronised, though from what wa can glean his power of affording a good evening’s amusement deserved better. With Fisher and his company things were, however, different, as having given timely notice, he was met by a large and appreciate audience, all of whom were highly pleased with tha evening’s amusement afforded them. Mr Fisher is an old favourite with the people, and the hearty applause he was accorded on his first appearai.ee on the was testimony of his being a favourite with his audience, and a sign that they were pie paied to receive his company witn good feeling, and as the programme of the evening proceeded it was proven that their continence w.ia not misplaced. The entertainment opened with the comedy of “The Young Widow,” Mr dram Uking the role, of the Alan of Fashion ; Mi Fisher (his Valet); Alisa Kate Howard (he Young Widow) ; Miss Jessie I Inward (the Wai mg Maid). This was followed by a musical melange, during w>. oh Miss Jessie Howard sang “ The widow Uunu” in good style ; Mr Fisher sang *• The awful Little tmrub,” and other eomica Lies ; ‘ Mr Crain rendered “The Death of Nelson Mr Alexander gave a moat amusing kind of medley of Inbh and Scotch song and iccita tion, and fairly carried the house with him ; and Mr St. Clair danced in clogs in a marvellous manner, but in exact time. The screaming farce of the “Lottery Ticket," which was successfully performed, followed, and brought a most pleasant evenings amusement to a close, the same caste as in the “ Youny Widow" with the addition of Mr Alexandra, appearing. In all, the com pany is a highly creditable one, and on their next appearance, which is to be on Monday, June 2, when the proceeds are to be given to the Duustan Hospital, we shall hope to see as large an audience as ever got together in the Clyde Hall. There are no ends of amusements provided for the holiday makers to-morrow, the.anniversary of Her Majesty’s birthday. At Tinkers, sports of kinds ; at Alexandra, boga dos shooting ; at Clyde, an all comers cricket match j and at Cromwell, horse racing.

The portions of a human skeleton found on one of the beaches of the Clutha some few miles above the Beaumont, we understand, are unrecognisable. It was therefore deemed unnecessary to hold an inquest. The Clyde Quadrille Assembly held their second meeting on Tuesday evening last in the Town Hal!, which passed off most successfully, the Committee having spared no trouble to make the Quadrille Assembly of 1884 most creditable,

Lady Burdett-Coutts owns the smallest pony in the world ; he is five years old, and stands 13in. high. ' That Husband of Mink is three tiemthe man he was before he began using *• Wells’ Health Renower." Druggists. Moses, Moss & (Jo., Sydney, General Agents. Enjoy Life.— What a truly beautiful world we live in 1 We can desire no better when in good health ; but how often do the majority of the people feel like giving it up disheartens I, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling. Green’s August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct cause of seventy-five per cent, of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, aud other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect. Sold by all Druggists at 3s. 6il, per bottle. Sample bottle, fid. Try it. Don’t nre stimulants, but nature’s brain and nerve food—Hop Bitteis See.

A strange story comes from Locbmaddy in the Outer Heundes. , About a month ago a woman died thei o under mysterious circumstances, and was buried. Suspicion having been at cased that the funeral had been unduly burned, the authorities arranged for a post mortem examination, and proceeded to the churchyard to have the body exhumedA crowd of people assembled, and forcibly prevented the authorities from carrying out their intention. Three of the ringleaders, sons of the deceased woman, were afterwards apprehended, tried and sent to prison. The authorities thereafter raised the body without molestation but while an attempt was being made to raise the lid the coffin bur t with a loud noise, and one of the boards struck and threw down a police inspedter* named M'Kenzie. Dr Macdonald, the medical officer in attendance, fainted, and after remaining some time in an unconscious state died from the shock to his system. He was only thirty years of age. The occurance has created much excitement in the sparsely-populated, district and further inquiry is being made by the authorities.

Mr Davitt, speaking recently at a pnblio meeting at Tramore, said the value of land in Ireland would come down from twelve years’ purchase, as at present, to ten, and from ten to five until the great wave of popular sentiment which was assuming gigantic proportions in England and Sootland on this question would tumble across the Irish Sea and call upon the Irish people not to give one cent of compensation to the landlords. Deferring to the prosposal to advance the tenants the full purchase-money for their holdings, he charaoterisedjit as a trap and called on the people of Ireland to keep “ a good square hold ” on their money for a couple of years, till the law of supply and demand would bring down the landlord interest to its just value. If they purchased at fifteen years’ purchase of the judical ent they would yet repent it

An important copyright case has just been decided in the Chancery Division of the High Court o! Justice. It appears that the plaintiff, Mr. Arthur Nicola, wrote and delivered at the Working Men’s College, Great Ormond street, a lecture entitled “ The Dog as the Friend of Man.” Mr Pitman, the originator of the system of shorthand most commonly in use, attended at the college on the acoasion in question, and took the lecture down in shorthand. This was hot objected to; but when Mr Pitman subsequently published what he had heard in his journal, the Phonographic Lecturer, Mr Nicola brought the present action. Substantially it was a claim that the copyright of the lecture resided in the lecturer, and this view of the case the C'.uit upheld. The publication by Mr Pi man uf ‘Toe Dog as the Friend of man ” was an infraction of Mr Nicola’ lights, even though the lecture was printed only m shorthand It was urged on behalf ol the defendant that, the publication being only a phonographic journal was not a publication in the legal sense of the word. But, as Mr Justice A ay >dd, it is impossible to regard publication in a system of shorthand, the key u< which could be obtained by anyooity who chose lo buy it, as being oiffereui in any material .sense from any other kind of publication. Of course, an article in such a magazine as that of Mr Pitman appeals to a much smaller circle of readers that it would were it to appear in a magazine of the ordinary kind. But this does not in the least, says the Standard, affect the principal involved. If it is a legal publication to print anything and sell it for profit to a thousand persons, it is equally a publication to sell the same to a hundred people. That is to say, the rights of the author are interfered with in one cose quite as actually and directly, if less extensively, as by the other.