The Dunstan Times CLYDE FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1884.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1180, 10 October 1884, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

CLYDE FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1884.

Beneath the rule of men entirely juu The pen is mightier that the sword.

Theer appcan to be a feeling of antagonism springing up, we will not aay against the County Engineer, Mr Margeorge,b:.cauße personally we believe there are but few public or private men . ini the County that are more highly esteemed or respected, but against the position itself ; the arguments, so far as wo can glean, being,that under the (resent circumstances the whole of the main works in the County being now com* pleiad, the services of so highly a paid and necessarily so highly a qualified gentleman, is no longer necessary, and that a road inspector—a man of ordinary capacity and intelligence, at a far smaller salary—could perform the duties. In the face of the reports that reach us almost daily from the Lake County, where the ' insignificant (?) work of road making has been carried out cud. planned without professional and skilled assistance ; of the wretched state of the ica ls there ■, and of the complete collapse oi many roads for the want of proper plans, etc., wo can hut say we are ashamed of those who would for the sake of a few pounds run the risk cf similar mistakes being made in this Cuuuty. Wo agree with prevention rather than cure, and if those w bo, now 50 load in their denunciation of the present system, look at the matter firm this standpoint, they will, \va thick, fait into our view.

'Thursday nest, the 16th insb, bein'; tho Anniversary of the Bank of Now Zealand, the business of the Clyde Agency will bo transacted cn Wednesday the !5.h itat. In consequence of Miss Smithson having the Town Hall on Monday evening last, the usnat monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Dunstan Distiiot Hospital was adjourned till next Mono ay evening, when it is hoped there will bo a full attendance, as business of an- important char, cter has to bo transactad.

\\ e regret that in consequence of another break in the machinery, the Done-,in Dredging Company's iron dredge is again idle. Ibis is the more to bo regretted, as from the amount of gold obtained during tire past few days, there was every prospect t-f sufficient of the precious metal being got to make up for past lost time. To-day, the Lowburn spring races take pl.ee. In the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Clyde, on Tuesday last, two debt cases, but of no general interest, were dealt with. In the Warden’s Court, Messrs Bourka aim Jamifsnn were fined one. shilling and ten hillings c sis for non-registration of their water race in tho pi escribed lime; S By ford’s application for water race. West Bank Mylyntux, above C’yle, was granted ; C Holden, exten.lo 1 claim, g anted ; A Keith, wa f er race, in Coal Creek, Blackman’s- objections were lodged by Mr Buckley, the Wardrb, however, said he should refuse it on tho ground of informality .f application ; refused accordingly. A. ICei.h, tail race in same gnllv. granted. J Holt, cod lease, 18 acres, head of Cooper’s iV.ly ; no objections. Mr F, !, Wilson sai l he had on objection to lha plan on general prin.iphs that the ground appliwl for was rot c nnected by road to a main road. The Warden said he fully concurred with tho views expressed by Mr Wilson and if ho would emb > ly samr iu a letter hwould fonvaid it with tho application to he llOvernmerit. He would iccomnieud that the appliortion he granted at an annual rental cf L 5.

M' Pym s speech iu a condensed form on .he Financial Statement wo recommend to he attention o£ our readers.

For general debility and prostration Hop Ritters will do won (era. Provo it by trial. So.

A plague of rats have appeared at Coll ingwood, Nelson. Tho Colonist’s correspondent writes that from West Wanganui to Capo Farewell the country, bush, and beach are overrun with rats, which have made their appealanen suddenly. Hawks and Gnlls are preying upon the rodents, and some lads with a dog killed 4500. rooting n a the seed potatoes. It is stai d that a person travelling to tho south of West Wanganui toot a drove of them, and cleared out to let them pars.

BucHp-Pajba. ’—Quick, complete all arm ,ying. Kidney. Bla .der and Uiinery Diaeatis, Hriiggisti,. Moees, Moss end Co. Sy.lney, General gaou.

The recent native, outrages at Alice Springs, South Australia, are being punished by the police and black trackers Tne abo. 'iginos have been followed into the ranges, and as they showed fight, several of them' were shot. It Was found impossible to carry nut the plan ef arresting the ■ chief offen Icrs, Numbera'of fat cattle were found lying dead with native spears in them.

The Supreme Court in Melboprna has been occupied for nearly a week with the trial of a divorce suit—- Belcher v. Belcher—alt the nauseous details of which have beeu given at full length in the evening newspapers The petitioner. John William Belcher, is a wool and sheep classer, 39 years of age,, and his wife, Henrietta, is 23 y iars of age, Heutor Mackenzie, tea merchant, of Little Flinders street, was made co-respon-dent in the suit. The evidence disclosed eccenti icities of behaviour on both sides, The jury finally found that the respondent an i co-respondent had not committe I the adultery alleged against them; that the petitioner had not deserted his wife without reasonable excuse; and'that he had not connived at his wife's misconduct. This is a verdict practically in fav .nr of Mrs Belcher, but the Judge said he would not de ■ ci e to dismiss the petition for divorce until he had heard the counsel for all the parties. •

The Collingwood people are fond of a sonsatlon, and considerable efforts have been made to create a stir in connection with the discovery of a quantity of bones beneath the floor of a cottage formerly occupied by a married woman named Sarah O’ Carrel, who mysteriously disappeared several years ag . When she disappeared she was living with her husband and his' brother, and it was widely believed that she had been murdered by the men, and her remains concealed beneath the floor of the house. The detecs tives, however, searched the premises and were unable to find any trace ot the missing woman, nor has any clue since hem obtained. Some time ago the two brothers died, and the cottage having fallen into a dilapidated condition, it was decided to pull it down. On its being razed to the ground last week, a quantity of bones was found a few inches below the surface of the earth. The old tale'of mystery was at once revived, and after the bones had been sold to a dealer the police were sent fr- Unfortunately for the sensation-mongers, medical examination showed that the remains wore not those of a human being. The explanation is a very simple one. The tenement was built on red-gum blocks, leaving a si ace of about a foot between the fl >or and the ground, and for many months past ail the stray dogs and cats in the neighborhood made the place a refuge, ■ They carried rhe bones they found in the adjoining thorough fares under the house, and after gnawing them, left fhem there.

“ Seldom, if ever, in the wholn history of hanking has money been so cheap a-> at present, says the Economist. A quarter of one per cent, per annum (IJd a day inter* st o i LIOCO or only 13s 8d a day for the ln.au ot LtOOjOOJ) is so strange- we had writt n impossible—a condition of affairs thaf it, will tend all tho sooner to wok its own cuie. County bankers cannot aff ncl to have balances eating their heads off in London at even, a i per cent, and their London agen s who receive money on such terms and relend it at |, or, in default of a better price, let the money lie idle, are equally desirous of being rid of it. That the ‘ official minimum’ is not now below 2 per cent, is owing to the c rcumstanco that the Bank of England never has published a quotation below that figure, bn l- , under present conditions, they must accommodate their private customers below -hat rate, or practically for tho time surrender th ir discount business. No other State bank, except tho Bank of France, has ever lowered its rate to 2 per c. nt., and tho Bank of France has only done so on two occasions, in 1877 and 1879. But the present is the tenth occasion on which the Bank of England has reduced its rata to a 2 per cent, level 1 ”—It is a pity some enterprising financier does not import some of this cheap money into New Zea land, and relievo the existing depression caused in a great measure by high rites oi interest.

More health, sunshine and joy in nop fitters than in all other reme lies. Ob

serve. Tiie Tiehborno one dies hard. Scarcely a month has passed for the last ten years without some allusion being made to it in Sydney. The latest phase was an application ma-lo to the Supreme Court lately tor the release of the lunatic William Cresswell from the Parramatta Lunatic Asvlum on the ground that ho is Arthur Orton. Thomas Cro well, who lately srrived from England hy the Cnzco, was examined, lie deposed that ho i-icntifie 1 the lunatic as his brother. William C-osswell, but ho could not say that the lunatic recognised him as his brother. He had not notice'! that the lunatic’s nose was broken, hut he knew that ho was his brother. His Honor remarked that tho afH lavits in thecas- were very un satisfnctoiy. Mr Barton said he was in a position to obtain tho evidencs of Henry rirown, chemist at South Melbourne who was in Hobart when Arthur Orton arrived there, and who dressed the wound on tho hack of his head soon after his arrival. Brown had positively identified the luu.itio as Artnur Orton by a photograph His Honour expressed grave doubts as to the value of Thomas Cressweb's evidence, and said he would have tho lunatic caiefully examined by medical men, especially as In the scan and the colour of his eyes. He would also order the lunatic to ho photographed afresh with the Ortons, and again with Thomas Cresswell. On this nn-loistanding the further hearing of the noplicatien was adjourned until the 25th ult.

“Rough os Rats.”— Cloara out rats, roaehes, bed-bngs, rata, mice, gophers, jack-raboit*, cleared out by “ Rough on Rate.” The N Z. OrUgCe., General Agents.

| The “ Mudlark *’ is dead. He was, years' j a g°>, chief gucioty reporter on the London Morning Post. His baptismal name was Rum-vy Foster, and the way in which he obtained the nickuameof “Mudlark” was thies prom the position of society reporter lie was promoted to that of a kind of correspondent j «nd once when the Queen and Prince Albert went to Fance he managed to secret himself on board the royal yaci t Unluckily he was a little too quick in emerging from his hiding place. Ho was at once an object of interest to equerries and such like, and Was ordered tu go ashore. He smilingly pointed to the mile or sr. of water between the yacht and the coast. equerrydom was inexorable, and the ifW h.ppy stowaway was pitched into a boat and rowed to a much bank, on which he was in a way maroone I until a paaser-by too Him ashore. From this untoward exploit he got the name ot the “ Mudlark.'’ The Joint Sheep and Babbits Committee have discovered that sum of Lls OuO in excess of the amount <it the disposal of the Daoartmenb has been spent during the past year in an irregular manner; but whence the amount was obtained has not been aseer* frune (. The Committee have appointed a sub-Coramittee to examine the books of the Dspartment, ai d have demanded tne production of all vouchers. It i- stated that the Committee will report, recommending the dismissal of the whole of the l)e----pertinent, with a view to its ro-or anisat’ou.