The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1172, 15 August 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely jus* The pen is mightier than the sword.

The question raised in the following paragraph which we taka from the Daily Timis of the 13th inst, is not alone novel, but it involves a principle that we have up to the present thought to be fixed and unquestionable. As notice of appeal is given, the case is subjudice, we are therefore barred from further comment. We, however, cannot but commend the case to the attention of all residents on ' the Goldfields : There was a somewhat lengthy sitting of the Police Court yesterday, the principal portion of the time being taken up hearing a case of trespass on the Barewood Station, Strath-Taieri. It seems that a number of workmen and others have squatted down on the land adjoining the Nenthorna contract on the Otago Central railway. Thn station proprietor, while not objecting to homfide workmen occupying the land distinctly sets his face against allowing slygrog shanties and kindred institutions to be erected on the run. In the first case tried yesterday the prosecution alleged the belief defendant in the ease was not above sirs* picion regarding this matter, and lienee a removal of his tenement was deemed necessary. '1 he d fence set rip was that the occupier was the holder of a miner’s right, which gave him pow r to settle upon the land...Mr Oarew, R.M., fined the defendant L 5, and counsel for tho defence gave notice of appeal.

In tie firgt clay’s play in the cricket match between All-Kokand and Australia, the Australians have made 363 for two wickets down ; Bannermau, 4 ; M‘Oonne’l, 103. Murdoch and Scott are not out for 145 and 101 respectively. Mr Arthur Dunn advertises that hois a cash buyer of rabbit skins ; 200,000 are wanted at once.

The Salvation Array appear to have the intention to commence a campaign upcountry, an application having been made lo rent the Alexandra Town Hall far tho purpose of holding their meetings. Mi' Andrew Britton, an old resident and well knows throughout (ho Danstaa District, died last June at Wallscnd, New South Wales.

A singular tale of destitution comes from South Australia Tho Port Augusta De spa'ch of Juno 27 says“ On Wednesday evening, Mounted Constable Knight re ported at the police station tha k ho had that evening found a party of about twenty mea camped six miles from Port Augusta, near the Chinaman’s dam, in- an utterly desti tuto condition. They had constructed a wurloy of branches and were cowering round their fire. They had one billy between them, and a number of pannikins ha ■ been improvised out of old jam tins. Food they had none, but they had a little tea and sugar left. They stated that they had been granted free passes by tho Government to go into the country to find work, and had been searching for it fruitlessly. They had onyiually been sent to York’s Peninsula on Government work at 5s a day, were there three weeks hut owing to wet weather wore only able to make seven days’ work ; and as they were not paid for idle days, they wore innning into debt. They conse quently left tho Peninsula and came north, where they found that they had made a bad exchange. The police have no power to do anything for these men beyond arresting them as vagrants ”

11 Rough on Rats.”—Clears out rats, roaches, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jaek-rahnits, cleared out by '•Rough on Rais.’ TheNZ. Drug (Jo., General Agents.

A woman without a grievance is more lonely than a pelican in Nubia, or a gull without a mate on a stormy night at the Parrallono rooks. Yot there are uncomplaining females, gentle as the air which are supposed to murmur all round the groves of Thessaly, or mild as the most insipid California cheese which ever disgraced a churn. Such a one speaking of her husband said “Ho is ahsouttly almost without a fault, except that he does not realise that sometimes I pine for a little relaxation. In ten years ho has not taken me to a funeral, and in all that time I havent had one good square cry at my neighbours’ expense.” This story is , erfcctly reliable and should furnish a foursided quad into meal,of reflation to many a father of n family who imagines that ho anticipates his partner’s every wish.— San Francisco Ncwa-Leiiers

A sensational trial was oonoln led at Mo»own few weeks ago, resulting in a sentence of deportation to-Siberia, against a woman uaioeu Bulakh, forkeeping arioh orphan girl of whom she bad charge aa governess in a state of wretched confinement and'semistarvation for nearly thirty years in order to (ibtaiii'posaeiion of her fortune of LSO.OOO. Bulakh was governess to Mazann, the girl, in the house of the Utter's grandmother in Masco v. Underfear of being foreed into an unhappy union, and various. other pre‘exis invented hy Bulakh the girl was induced to run away with her governess to the town of Rejeff. where the girl was gradually reduced to a helpless state of imbecility. Having got hold of her money Bulakh then did all •he could to persuade her victim to commit suicide As to Bulakh herself, she lived well, built almshouses, and helped her two sons to become rich] ' Bulakh’s only defence seems to have been that the accusation was a conspiracy against her, and that Mazurin had always been insane. She has given notice of appeal, and has been set at liberty on bail for 200,000 roubles.

The following little story is told by “Atticus” in tho leader “ A sturdy busbman-liko looking fellow got into one of the public-houses that do not reflect credit on Melbourne. He cashed two small cheques of the landlord, commenced a carouse with all and sundry, and handed back in shillings what he had received in pounds. Then he got awfully drunk, and finally handed over a largo cheque, which he said he would drink out. Gradually he fell into a stunor, and suddenly the police wore heard at the door. Said the prudent and far-seeing hostess, ‘ Have you got much of the last cheque left ?’ ‘ About L 22 ’ said her husband. ‘ Shove tho money in bis pocket quick,’she said. Is was done in a twinkling. lu came the police, and up jumped the bnshman. He felt hurriedly in his pockets, felt and pulled out the money and said. * Is this the money you gave as change, landlord?’. ‘ Yes’replied the latter. ‘All right said the visitor Then he walked out, and has doubtless gone back to the station he came from. Where that is no one knows. Tho three cheques were duly dishonored.”