The Dunstan Times CLYDE FRIDAY, JULY 25 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1169, 25 July 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE FRIDAY, JULY 25 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just The pen ia mightier that the sword.

So far as we are able we give in another column the results of the recent election. Of the old M.mstry Mr Dick is refused a renewal of the confidence of his old constituents, as also are a number of other members, notably Messrs Bathgate, Bracken, Fish, and Gieen (2). Mr Fache reports havine had a successful sale at Tinkers on Tubs .ay last of progeny and effects in the estate of the late VV. Jergons, who it, will he remembered be. queathed the whole of his property to the Matakanm Lodge of Good Templars, Messrs W, Plew and J, Simes being the trustees.

A meeting of members of the Duustan Racing Club will be held to-morrow evening.

In this number will be found Robin Hood Co.’s programme on the Melbourne Cup. The straightforward manner in which all the consultations advertised by this Company is so well known that comment from us is unnecessary.

A change of officers in the Rank of New Zealand, Alexandra, is about being made, Mr Moorhead, the accountant, being relieved by Mr M'Leod, from the Lawrence branch. Mr Moorhead has gained many friends during bis sojourn at Alexandra, as was evidenced by the manner he was met on last evening at a reunion at Ryan’s Bendigo Hotel, got up. specially on his account. Air Moorhead is a young mau with many good points of character, and we wish him every success.

Whilst apologising in our last week’s issue for the brief report of Mr Pyke’s addresses, we stated that in this issue would appear a full and complete resume of his utterances. Circumstances over which we had no control have prevented us carryng out our promise in this issue. However we will present it to our readers in the form of a supplement.

A very heavy fall of snow fell on all the surrounding ranges and mountains on Wednesday evening last, but none as yet has fallen in the low-lying countiy. The season, though wintry still, continues sufficiently open to admit of full time being made in the whole of the sluicing claims at Tinkers. The system of sluicing in vogue there we should think Is about perfect, the solid faces of hard gravel, ranging from 20 to 100 feet deep, being removed entirely with the force of water which is convened on to the ground in iron pipes of 7 inches and 11 inches in diameter. The chief drawback in most of the claims is want of fall; but the difficulty is in a manner over, come by the elevator principle which is found to answer remarkably well, though as a matter of course the expanse is far greater than if there was plenty of fall in the ground to carry off the gravel as it is broken or torn away from the faces.

The notice in another column by Messrs Laidlaw and Crawford respecting trespassers on their Matakanui run, it is well should be acted up to, as trom the amount of annoyance they have been put to by per-ons roammg about their run wuh dogs, they have determined to put the law in full force and prosecute the first person caught.

A meteor of more than ordinary brilliancy passed through the heavens on Sunday evening last within a minute or so of seven o’clock. For the time of its flight the surrounding country was lit up as if by an electric light. There was no | erceptible sound, though when within what one would consider five degrees from the earth it bur.,t into numberless atoms. The flight was south ast and was seen to the south of Clyde,

At Alexandra on Monday evening last, a fire took place in the residence of Mr J, number of persons alarmed -bv ihe smoke, hastened to the spot aud “reremoved the furniture fiom the building, and thtir being a supply ~f waer handy’ succeeded after some difficulty in extinguishing the flames. Thegdamuge - one is estimated at about L3O, none of which is covered by insurance.

A concert is advertised to take p'aoe at Alexandra on Monday, August 4, in aid of the Sabbath School Funds.

From what we can learn the Government are stirring np the vaccination inspectors to action. Now as all parents of children are liable to be prosecuted if any of their youngsters are not vaccinated by the age of six months, and also subjected to a considerable monetary penalty, we give this piece of information , but leave it to parents to choose between paying the vaccination fee alone, or a fine and the fee as well.

The Test er Actual Trial.- This is wbat. proves the merit of a preparation. The proprietor of Green’s August Flower, knowing its valuable properties, meets this test boldly by preparing sample bottles of this remedy, which are sold at 61. This enables doubters to try its virtues at a trifing expense. August Flower is a panacea for Dyspepsia a .d all disorders of ibe Liver, including Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headachy Costivencss, &c., &o. Three dos s will relieve>iy of the above, and a faithful use will certainly cure. No medicine in the world has ever given such proof of its merits Druggists recommend it with perfect confidence and physicians prescribe it regularly. Price for fullsized bottles 3j. 6d. Sold by all druggists. Referring to the wreck of the Su«an Gils more, the Sydney correspon lent of the Australasian says:—“ Poor Captain Carver, who h.s just stranded - 1 hope not loso—a fins 1200 ion .American ship (the Susan Gilmore) under Shepherd’s Hill, near Newcastle, appears to nave been doomed to lie ludihrium ventis, but if ever there was mariner who less deserved the epithet timidm it mus. be ilut ca-itaiii. The story of his quiet but resolute bravery under circumstances W'deli might well h.ve unnerved the stoutest of men, the rescue of Ins drown, iug wife, aud bis own terrible battle with the raging surf, through which he had to swim to safe his life, and the splendid success of the Newcastle Rocket Brigade, diected by that fine ol i salt Captain Allen, the harhourmaiter, in rescuing all onboard, even to the captain’s little boy and the mother’s canary, are just now (as they could hardly help being) the absorbing topico i f conversation, and groups of earnest t dkers are to be heard everywhere rehearsing the story of the wreck with many pathetic little episo es.

A suggestion has been made in Melbourne that the eruptive disease which is puzzling the medical men of that city as to whether it is or is not smallpox may possibly be a return of the erupt, ve disease which on more than one occasion made great havoc among the aborigines.

Mr« Evanson, the wife of a publican in Melbourne, has been committed for trial on charge of manslaughter, by causing the death of her husband, George Evanson. The evidence at the inquest was to the effect that while her husband was lying on a sofa she attacked him by hitting him on the head with a bar of iron. Evanson was taken to the hospital and had his wounds dressed, but at his own request he was taken kme again. It would appear that shortly after his arrival, while again lying on the sofa, his wife repeated her savage attack. He was again taken to the hospital, and died ithree days afterwards from inflammation of the lungs, brought on by the injuries he had received.

A terrible balloon accident occurred at Lille, France, on a Sunday during the races which were being held there. A. large number of persons had ascended in order to obtain a view of the racecourse, as well as of the town and neighbourhood. The car, which was capable of accommodating eight or 10 persons, was packed with 18 01 20, and owing to the excessive weight it became detached from the balloon and fell from the height of 40 metres. Three persons were killed on the spot, and several others were seriously injured by the frightful concussion.

Conflmatory reports (the Pall Mall Gazette says) continue to be received of the fabulous richness of the gold deposits on Moodi’s farm, on the Swazi border of the Transvaal. The yield is said to be something wonder, ful, assays of the quartz showing 250z to 85oz of golp to the ton. Mr Mcodie is on his way to England, presumably to sell his rich possessions to a company of English capitalists, of course. Maanwhile it may be noted that the enlightened Governmenc of the Transvaal, probably trembling for the consequences which must ensue with the rush of civilisation, now deny that Hoodie has any concession.

Concerning the dynamite outrages in London the correspondent of the, Argus says . “Wo get much hearty sympathy from the leading nations of the Continent. The Republiqne Francaise goes so far as to declare outright that the responsibility of putting an immediate stop to the ‘odious scandal* • ests with the Washington Government j contending! that the public collection of money in the United Stales for the avowed purpose of doing deadly injury to English life and property is not incompatible with continued friendship. The leading Berlin papers dwell on the necessity of all the powers coming to a mutual understanding to preserve society from anarchy. The Vienna Press is of opinion that the measures for preventing dynamite plots are totally insufficient, and that the manufacture ■ f exo.odvessh uld he mo*e a Government nionop.nv. In Brussels astonishment is expressed by an English Parliament for t..,« flogging of the dynamite rutfiuis when convicted, as in the case of garoi.tera.”