The Dunstan Times CLYDE FRIDAY, MAY 30 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1161, 30 May 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE FRIDAY, MAY 30 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jusi The pen i» mightier thar the «word.

Thkiik is i o end to the vagaries of the Lund Board. They serin to autl'.T from spasmodic attacks of public virtue, allemating with dull indifference to the blighting effects of a hard and fa t rendering of the law. (ine day their administration is gent enass itself; the next is no lung too harsh. The Strat.htaieii dummies excited their extremes! indignation, having satislied which, their indignation subsided, and they could see nothing wrong in the doings of thf Waikouaiti dummies. 11l this way they periodically balance accounts with the unfortunates who are dragged before, their inquisitorial tribunal. Last week t'u’Ce selectors from Kankleburn appeared la fore tii'em and were let off quite • asily—indeed, in o. e case the Board absolutely went to the length of beseeching an assumed offender not to throw no his land But the week before they refused to listen to any plea even for. delay in the case of Mr Naylor, and summarily ptvcceded to forfeit his license. Again at a previous Botird meeting, when seven defer, oilpayment holders, all from Kank'eburn, and occupying contiguous area's, appeared b, fore them, they extended their clemency to 4, and pronounced judgment, on three. There did not seem to he icy very d [Went degrees of non-compliance with the law, but the Board invented a new distinction. The tour were adults, the three were yauig people living with their parents. This was the offence of the hitler. Children must not reside in their parent’s houses whilst they are endeavouring to make homes for themselves. They must turn out, young women and youths, and live on their land in a solitary hut on the slopes of a mountain range, or they cannot he allowed to settle in Otago- We say Otago, beeause in no other part of New Zealand can a Land Board, capable of enforcing such a brutal interpretation of the law be found. Mr Naylor’s case is best known to ns because it happens to be, as we may say, under our eyes. It is needless to say that Mr Naylor is a model farmer. That was admitted by the Board, some of the members of which have visited his farm, ’J he ground which has been wrested from him has 'men well and closely cultivated, but he does nbt actually reside on it. j That he has not so resided has been known to the Board all th-ough ! There ne\ er was any pretence of an “evasion” of the Acl- Uis homestead is openly situated iu another section, which is freehold. But being

pressed of tins knowledge, the Board cal" ; y collected .the payment year by year for 6 Tears, and then suddenly swooped down upon him, insisting in his 'doing an impossible thing—namely, that he should reside on his section during the first six years of occupancy, five years of which have expired. That there is injustice iu such a decision no one can dehy. More than this it? legality may be called into question of taking payment whilst winking at non-residence, and then making non-residence a pretext for confiscation- If this is not a fraud in law, it certainly is so morally. W hertTore, -wc say, th it a more unjust and immoral thing than depriving Mr Naylou of his land (for which he has already paid nearly 30s per acre) was never perpetrated by any public body in the world. <

The Registrar of Electors for the Elec 'oi al District, of Dunstan notified through our columns a few days since that his office was situate in the Court House, Clyde, and was open daily, Saturdays excepted, , from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. We took the - intimation as a kindly hint to the electors generally to well sciutinizc the roll, th sea if it was fit to stand the test of an election, or in ■ other words, a hint to all to see that their own names, as well as thoswof all their friends and acquaintances, aie enrolled. We cannot too strongly endorse the hint thrown out hy the Kegistrar, as from the present outlook there is every probability of a general election during the coming year, and in uo hj an event none will regret the existence f i bald and barren roll than those who, through their indifference, have allowed themselves to be disfranchised.

The return for the past week of the Dunedin Gold Drhdging Company's dredge was 3loz,

A case of great interest to all engaged in the destruction f rabbits, was heard in the R.M. Court on Tuesday last. It was a question of over the skins of rabbits poisoned on a run that had been poisoned by employees of the lessee. Thfe R.M. held that the right vested in the leasee of the run, and mulcted the defendant in a fine of E3 and L 5 4s costs, for trespassing on his run and skinning rabbits thereon, and in efault of- payment, and failing sufficient dis'i'f-ss, one month in Clyde gaol. .Next week we shall report the case fully, and would advise all engaged in the “ fur trade ” to well study it.

We do not know when we saw so large nr so truly A representative gathering in Clyde as was on Thu slay afternoon to pay the 'ast tribute of reaped f n the wif of Mr Benjamin N'ay'o-. who departed'this life on Monday rf’enn in last. The deceased lady bad he i! in delicate health tor some months st. and though the final separv 1 ion was - new’’at sudden, it wai not quite mtexp-cl- . Th-i remains, followa 1 by a large conc urse of people <-u foot, and in every description of vehicle, were conveyed to the Cly'e Ce r.etcry and interred in the Church of England port'on, the I lev, Pyuea-Ciiuton reading the impressive service.

T e Secretary A f the Dimstah District Tins.nt,,l ro'i’iest* ns to notify that in eonsof| «noe nf the Town Hall he ng engaged on Mon lay evenin'; next, the 2ml June, hy Fi-herb tpnnne. who give a honeflt for poor Mnnlo ih, one of'ho hosnital patients, the nstul nimbly m eting of the committee of management wi'l not. ho held till Monday eve-ing, the 0 hj of Jun". We have receive 1 from “Jock” Graham the renowned, a supplement to his Hot Springs' Guide an I general directory. It is a decide- 5 no-elty in its way. and doubtless will mnnse Booio of those who may happen to see it. We yet think that however nice “ undressed tomatoes” may ho to the lovers of that veptahle. tkat more fully dressed photos won' 1 he more acceptable to the generality of peop’e.

The Clyde Sc-to >1 Committee at a special meeting on Monday evening last, receded a rt- in favor of Mr Elder, of Port Chalmers, for the spat on the Education Board, vacant by the resignation of Mr Thomas Fergus, M H.U fm the fakes. The Government hive consented that the Secretaries of Fimndly Societies eh-mid he paid for filling in animal returns. ,

The Rev. Joseph Cook said that out of’ every I0,ii()0 dea'hs in Europe, only seven are murders ; whilst out of every 1000 in the linked States, twenty-oue are caused by murder

At the sale of M James Al’an’s property on the. VaO' i, t.h» local paper says Whilst thn land realise I L 26 [Ot per acre, the Wilding for tlie other things was dud, in many instances Into being sold far below value. Sumo draught, h- rses were dispn e I of-»t prices ranging from 1.10 10s to L 36. Dairy oows sold at from (.4 2s 6 1 to L 4 ss, and 8 heifers wore disposed of at L 3 a piece.

A Fact- Worth Kmowintl — Are yon snft'ring with Consumption, Coughs, Sevo.’o Co'ds settled on the Breast, Pneumonia, or any dieens ■of he I’hioat and Lungs? If so,go to yonr Druggist mid geta bottle of Bnscbee’s German Syrup. The people are going wild over its sncee s, and Druggists all over our country are writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simnly because it is of so much value in ail affections of this kind. Chmnic cases quickly yield to it, Druggists recommend it ami physicians prescribe >t. If yon wish to try its superior virtue, got a Sample Bottle tor 6d; Large size hj ittle 3s. 6d. Three doses will relieve any case. Try it.

A Commission to consoler the heat means of relievin'; the destitute is sitting in Adelaide, and the chairman has made a proposal that compulsory weekly payments shall he made by all young men between seventeen ami twenty-five years of ape, in order tosnsure against sickness and old age.

Ju ge Nolan, of Melbourne, intends to make an example of those guilty of robbery with violence. The three men charged with assaulting and robbing Mr Butts, a Tasmanian gentleman who attended the Masonic festivities in Melbourne last month, were convicted. One was sentenced to six years’ penal servitude and three whippings of fifteen lashes each ; the other two to five years’ each, and three floggings of twelve lashes each. The London correspondent of the ‘ Adelaide Register ’ tells this extraordinary storyA short time ago a superintendent of police and companions called at the house of a gentleman holding a high position in society. “We should like to see all your servants, male and female 1 ” The men and women came up. “There is no on? here we want. Have you no other?” “ There is the lady’s maid.” “ Would yon object to have her up, jnst to satisfy us ? ” said the superintendent. •* Certainly not,” Presently the woman, a tiny woman, came ini The detective looked at her, touched her on the shoulder, and said, You’re the man we want,” The pseudo lady’s maid was a ticket-of-leave man, hairless and diminutive. He hail not reported himself to the police for some time, and they had looked for him. I understand that the lady upon whom the convict attended has not yet recovered the shock of the discovery. This true history* was mentioned to a doctor the other day, with a hint upon the difficulty of carrying on such a false personation. He had been in attendv ance, he said, on an old lady during the last twenty years of her life, and she lived to eighty, and when she died she was found a forerunner of our ticket-of-leave friend,

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A shocking boiler explosion ocnire 1 at Ballarat on May 6. At about eleven o’clock that morning a boy named Swan, fourteen years old, turned on steam at his father’s chaffcutting works and immediately afterwards the boiler lifted and exploded with a terrible report. His statement is that the gauge-glass showed plenty of water when he had fired up. Por a few moments after the explosion the air was tilled with bricks and timber, and a servant-girl on the premises adjoining, named O’Nedl, was found buried beneath a large wooden building, which had fallen bodily upon her. It is feared that her spine is injured. Mr Kvans, a tailor, who was in the yard, was struck by the sh.ll of the boiler and knocke I down, receiving in jury to an arm ; and a hundred yards away Mrs Allen, wile of a cooper, was killed in her garden, having been snack on the heal by a portion, f the boiler, which sm-.shed her skull. Tho wreck age imediately round the so ne of the disaster w.;s c\-*en-

Tbe A-eklnnd 4 Herald ’ admini-t'-rs the following rebuke to some local “ends**:— “ Amusing stories are being told of he franHi; efforts that were marie by 'sinne people to obtain car 's for laly Jervois's

•At Home. ’ Excessive mo'hutr and aretirinst disposition are rot qua i'ies (hat ire always thought muo'i of nt this anil of the wo Id ; hot to f-el o.' to V.ehray is.anpohiv in' nt at not being invited, even f« Go-em-inent House, eannot be thought tlm mark of very high spirit; wlvle to neuter tho=o i n authority by going in nerson and asking why yon have not reeoive 1 an invitation, nft,"r yon have tak-n the trotiMe to write your name in the visitors’ hook, this, if it, is not something very near the I’nvt. of social ivlecency, is certainly a kin 1 of behavior which is not likely to give the party at Govern ment House, any very pleasing ideas of the breeding of some members of colonial society. Whether the successful mendicants found the game worth the candle is a thing which these gentry must decide for themselv»s.”

CATARRH OT THE 'BLADDER.— stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by BtmhnBaiba." The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents.

Many are the ups and downs of life. A noteworthy illustration of the truth of this ancient proverb has just been brought under the notice of the peonle of Camara, in the change which has befallen the fortunes of a gentleman who has done some colonial “roughing" during his long residence in this distnot. This has occurred through the death of the eighth E irl of Seafield, who died on the 3’st of March at ClarMge’s Hotel, London, in the thirty-third year of his age. The late Lord Seafinld was the on’y son of his father the seventh earl, by his moniage with the Him Caroline Stuart, youngest daughter of Robert Walter, eleventh Lord Blantyre. He succeeded his father rs eudit.h earl in 1881, and as he has died a bachelor his Scotch titles and estates are now inherited by his uncle the Hon. James Ogilvie Grant, the eldest surviving sou of the sixth earl, and formerly M.P for Wick. His lordship is about seventy-years of age, and his eldest son, well known in Oamaru and North Otago as B. W. 0. Grant, becomes (says the JV. 0 Times) by his fathers accession to the earldom Lord Reidharen. As already mentioned, Lord Reidhaven has experienced a good many of the ups and downs of colonial life in this district, and many will be pleased to hear of the change of fortune that has befallen him and Lady Reidhaven, who is a daughter of the v ner ible Major livana of Oamaru.

Holloway’s Pills,— Dysentery, Diarrhoea and disnrded Bowels.—These maladies are ever present, and if left unattended frequently terminate fatally. It should be everywhere known that all these complaints originate in the presence of some undigested substance in the stomach or bowels, or of some deleterious matter in the blood, and that Holloways Pills can eliminate either with ease and expedition. They combine in a surprising degree purifying, alterative, regulating and strengthening Qualities, and thus exert over every internal organ the who'eaomely con Voting influence so necessary for anhdning exoessing ai ion in the frame. Holloway’s medicine may be advantageously taken as means of keenn v the blood pure and the body cool—the only practicable plan of maintains health in youth, in manhood and in old ago.

Says the Bruce Herald :—“ A gentleman residing in Milton, who has the misfortune to be compelled to contribute a handsome sum yearly to the revenue of the country on account of Property Tax, submits to the imposition without a ranrmer. He has a pretty large family, and as the State educates them for nothing, he places that as a set off against the property tax, and cries quits with the State.’

A resident of Hobart, who has been twice married, and is over seventy years of age, recently had his twenty-eighth child bom unto him.

Robust and blooming health in Hop Bitters, and no family can afford to be without them. Read

The North Otago Times has this reference to an indi idnal who is supposed to have levanted from that town “ When last seen the supposed levanter was in a more ‘ confused’ state than bis books could possibly be, and he was frequently in a state of • confusion,’ the result of holding views diametrically opposed to Blue Ribbomsm. On these occasions he has more than, once disappeared, and re appeared again after a brief interval of solemn sacrifice to Bacchus. It may therefore happen that the individual referred to will turn up again in Oamaru j but should he not do so, a number of tradesmen will be able to abstract little satisfaction from the perusal of certain folios in their respective ledgers. Two local bodies will also mourn a deficit, for the recovery of which there is no legal remedy. From what we can gather, there would be but a melancholy satisfaction derived from bringing the levanter, or supposed levanter, back.”

The Timaru Herald is glad that Dr Haast has got the Royal Geographical Society’s gold medal, because Dr Hector will be green with envy till he also gets on“, and a healthy rivalry between scientific men is a good thing. But there is something comical in the worthy curator of the Christchurch Museum peing rewarded for his exploratious in the Hew Zealand Alps, and tho Herald cannot help inquiring, without wishing to be personal, whether the Society ever saw the worthy and learned Herr Von Professor, Does he look the sort of man to explore tho Alpine Peaks ? There is a story told of him —ben trovalo anyhow— that when he was once prowling about the hills at the foot of Mount Cook, be stopped for the fiftieth time to admire the scenery, and exclaimed s —“Poof, poof I Ach Goites I Tnen dis is the soommit of Mount Cook. Gott in htmme! 1 I am glat I am got higUer as no oder man. Poof, poof ! I am like Hobinaohn Crusoe, monarch of all what I survey I” Just at to a proud moment his solitude was invaded by the voice of Big Mick about a hundred tvet above him, caiha> ouii boo ce ! 1 gay, y.m down there ! Have you seen aoy of ray sheep knocking about as you came alon s ?’ i aoleau.Uonnerundblit-zecspiiz-.au undeeufem ! ! ! ! '

Skinny Men.-" Wells’ Health Re-

n ewer ” restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Imp .trace, Debility. Moses, Moss Sydney, 1 General Agents.

The sen encing summarily by the R M. at (Veiling on of W. C. Macdermott, to six tnoiilhs imprisonment for embezz'ing Government insurance Department funds, has, says the Wellington Pont, caused a go-.d deal of surprise. Our contemporary adds . “ I’he amount involved in this ease was a substantial one, and there do not appear tu have been any extenuating circumstances; Had the case gone to the Supiemo Court, the sentence would undoubtedly have been a much heavier one than it was within the power of the Resident Magistrate to award, and what people want to know is why was Macdermott dealt with in so exceptional a manner and allowed to escape with the veiy mildest penalty which it was possible to give him.”

A wonderful pearl is on exhibition in Cardiff which has a singular story. The kinky owner is a Mr Rawlins, a resident of Thoinastown, who owns a small garden on Thomastown Tips. Two years ago a large quantity of oysters came from Grimsby, consigned to a local ovster de.ler, but the sale was not rapid enough to clear them off while they wete fresh, and several barrels remained on hand unfit for eating. The oyster-dealer sold a barrel of these oysters to Mr Rawlins, to be used as a fertiliser in the garden, and the lot was dumped on the ground. Rawlins happened to notice something peculiar in one of the open shells, whmh proved to be a pearl. This particular oys’er was placed u der a hush, where it remained for months, and then, seeing that the pcnrl remained as white and clear as ever, Rawlins brought it fo town a d had it lest,ei| by a jeweller, who appraised its vale at L2i),OOU.

THE IS \ D AND WORTH LESS are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tasted and proved by the whole world thal Hop Bitters was the purest, best and mo l valuable family med'cioa on earth, many imitatioua-sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to inriuce suffering invalids to use their stulf instead, expecting to make money on the oe lit and good name of 11. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word “Hop” or “Hops” were used in a way to induce people to believe that they were the same us Hop Bitters, All such pretended remedies nr cures,no matter wuao their style or name is, and especially those with the word “ Hop ” or *• Hops ” in th ir name or in any way connected with them or ttmir name, are imitations or counterfeits. Bewaie of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a hunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and IV. Bottle's name blown in the glas>. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Cnemists are warned acainst ooa.ing va imitations or coiuiteifeits.