CLYDE FRIDAY. DEC- 5, 1884

Dunstan Times, Issue 1188, 5 December 1884, Page 2

CLYDE FRIDAY. DEC- 5, 1884

Thb latest, information' we received last week up to the time 9! going to press as to the contemplated change of location, of the goldfields K.M. and Wardens, was that enr respected R. M’s. and Warden, . Major Ked. dell, was to be removed to Westport to relieve Mr Revel!, who.-was fixed for Naseby, and Mr Hickson, now there, was to have charge of the Ddrietan and Lakes diitricts. and that Mr Woods, and Mr Stratford of Lawrence and : Greymonlh respectively, were to change places, From what we can now learn, however; that arrangement is completely upset; but beyond knowing that Mr Woods has been granted <5 months leave of absence, and that Major Keddel, takes.fhe .Greymonth district, we are in the dark. ' The whole matter ef shifting .about these officers to onr mind is a mistake, and likely to create anything but that happy of mine the administrators of the laws and justice should be possessed, of, hue to keep on altering from place to place just to suit as it appears to us, the wish of one or other of those concerned, makes matters much worse and is the more lively to p-evoke an increased feeling of discontent than the actual removal. When saying it is a mistake, that but faintly expresses what is implied, it positively is a piece of cruelty in so far as those officers ate concerned who are married and have large families, and if the idea of carrying out the system every three years is given effect to, then it would simply mean ruin. Another phase of the question is, what have the goldfields done that they should be subjected to this system of change and inconvenience any more than the other parts of the country that are not blessed or cursed, as the case may be, with a gold production? We cannot say, and we doubt i? it can be shown, We hold that if it is necessary to to shift fr >m place to place the goldfields R. M’s., it is equally so with those on the seaboard, indeed, the more so. We can see nothing but confusion at any rata in dealing with the Land Ac’s for a year or Jso, as it will necessarily take that time before their intricacies can be mastered and the duties of District Land Officer, which devolves upon the Warden, properly and fully under stood.

To-day Mr Faohe disposes of by auction at Cromwell two first-class draught horses on account of the liquidator of tbs Cromwell Quartz Mining Company. Nearly every day for the past week rain in greater or lesser quantities has fallen throughout the district, thus completely altering the appearance of the country. Mr Fac'ne requests us to draw attention to the s ale by auction at Clyde, on Thursday, the ISth inst., of household furniture, buggy, hors- fl, etc., the property of Major Keddell, who is leaving the district for Greymouth, West Coast. Every article will be found to be of good quality and in good c ondition.

Mr Lowe, of the Public Work* Depart. ment, in company wi:h Mr Macgeorge, county engineer, paid a visit of inspection to the Cromwell Bri ige on Monday lost. We did not heir what that gentleman thought of the crazy old structure. The very genenl impress! m is that it is getting very unsafe, and for heavy traffic especially, approaching the dangerous. The county authorities wo look upon cannot be too persistent in their demands on the Government for a new structure.

Mr Keele, Postmaster, Clyde, has obtained one months’ leave of absence, Mr Bi-ebner being his relieving offiier. We hopaMrKeelo will enjoy his well-earned holiday, Mr Jeffary, during Mr Keele's absence, will act as Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, etc.

We understand that it is arranged to play the county cricket match, Vincent v. Mankdoto, on Friday and Saturday, the 26tb and 27th iiist., at Blacks. Mr L. Cards, the successful tenderer for the new premises for the Bank of New Zealand at Alexandra, is making arrangements to start on with the work right away

Horse owners are reminded that nomina tious for the various handicaps to be compete I for at the Vincent J. C. Races, Matakanui Park, on the Ist'and 2nd of January next, close this evening at 8 p.nr

At a meeting of the Clyde School Com mittee held last evening it was decided to close the school on Monday, the 23rd inst., and to distribute the prises on same day. The Committee apuointe 1 to collect subscriptions for the prise fund, reported that they had collected within a trifle of HO.

In the R. M Court, Blacks, on Wednesday last, a case brought under the \ agrancy Act, was dismissed on the ground of charge disclosing no offence. The charge was “ for using language in a public place that may be provocative of a breach of the peace.” The contention was that the lan guage mwit be provocative to be an offence. Litigants should be ir this in mind.

A London telegram of November 20 says; The trial of the breach of promise action Miss Forteacue versus Viscount Garmoyle opened to day. Defendant consented to a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages LIO.OOO, the full am mat claimed. The New Zealand Times accuses ouf. members of Parliament of not merely have ing had to much to drink, but "of open, scandalous drunkenness, paraded sometimes in the sight of the public.” This is rather a grave charge against our law which ought not to go unchallenged/ o

At Port Adelaida's dispute occurred * om * BniUsh’and Qsrmsa sailors. William Howe, aged thirty-four, cook and. •toward on the brigantine Minnie, and Hugh M’Farlane, seaman on the name vessel, with William Abernethy,a seaman ontheßebmgton, were each »tabbed with a knife. Howe was stabbed in the throat, and died in a few moments afterwards.' The following men h*re been arrested for the murder:---Auguste Bear, aged twenty-one; JohnNarsen, the «uae age, Roth serving oa (board the steam•Up Catania Aberaethy was stabbed in neck above the left shoulder blade, and- is to dangerously ill that bis dying depositions have been taken. One of the men of tbe German war vessel Hyesne, on his way home in the Catania with the rest of the crew to be paid off was subsequently'amated, At the inquiry into tbe murder of William Howe the jury -returned a.verdiot that the deceased met his death through being stabbed in an affray ■at the Commercia Wharf on November 3, in. which all the prisoners .were involved. Tantonand Larsen made no statement, and were committed for trial

Richard Waterhouse, probably the oldest man in Victoria, as he was born in 1790, was taken before the city magistrates recently on. a remanded charge of vagrancy,, as he was - found wandering about aimlessly having no fixed abode. It was stated that be had for the last eighteen months been walking to Melbourne from Adelaide, beg ging hie way from day to day. He was a great many years ago in the army, and still enjoys a small pension as an old soldier from tbe British Government, the last instalment of which pension he received whilst at Mount Gambier. From thence he wanderail to \\ arramboo], where in a deserted bush hut he was found almost starving He told tho Beach he had a son, who was a groat grandfather himself, at or near Port Albert, on .the .road to Sale, and he wanted to be allowed to join his son. Ho was discharged, with some useful magisterial advice.

“ Rough on Eats.” —Clears out rats, roaches, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers lack-raboits, cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” The N Z. Drug Co., General Agents.

" Melbou ne . society,” remarks the World, ** has been stirred to fierce wrath by the conduct of the wife of one of the officers recently detailed from the Home Army to command in the Colonial forces Their wives seem from the first to have given themselves airs at once ludicrous and unladylike; but if there be any truth in the unoontradioted statements appearing in the local papers, the wife of an artillery lieutenant has been guilty of an outrage that ought to make her a lonely woman during the rest of her stay in Australia, The story as told is that having been named a member of the 1 Ladies’ Committee in connection with. a. public ball, she sent her maid to represent, her at one of its committees; and thatiwhen some ladies called on her and were admitted to her drawing room, the servant informed them that her mistress must have gone out, when the feet of the said mistress were visible, projecting from below a sofa, under which she had hidden herself.” Melbourne Punch has improved the occasion pictorially and otherwise.

A Great Business. —The United States of America is the home of some very large enterprises, but non® perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr G.G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is the proprietor of the well known Boschee’s German Syrup, which is unequalled as a remedy for Pulmonary and Bronchial affections. He manufactures also Green’s August Flower for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the Liver. These preparations are. u«0‘l throughout the civilized world and thousands testify to their valuable curative properties. Both these preparations have reached an immense sale solely on their merits. Sample bottles of each are sold at 6d., or full-sized bottles at 3s. 6d. All druggists keep them.

The New York Graphic is responsible for this:—“ Alligators are known to swallow their meals at a gulp instead of decently chewing their food. The other day Captain James Anderson, of Pensacola. Fa., killed a monster alligator, and on cutting it open was surprised to find in its stomach a live hen sitting on a dozen eggs. The hen was carefully taken out, and in due time hatched her chickens. The only peculiar circumstance about the thing is that the little chickens have all scales instead of feathers, and fiat bills with very sharp teeth. The skin of the alligator has been preset ved as a cariosity in the State Museum.”

Catarrh or thk Bladder.—Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and iamilar Complaints, cured by •• Bucbua paiba." The N.Z. Drug Co., General.Agents. Shortly after 1 o’clock on October 13 a strange scene (a correspondent of the Pall Mall Oautte says) was witnessed in Westminster Abbey. A crowd numbering 500 persons of both sexes—young man in semiclerical attire predominating—knelt around the tomb of King fi (ward the Confessor, and engaged some time in prayer, during which the Roman Catholic practice of making the sign of the Cross was indulged in, to the evident wonder of the ordinary visitors. It appeared that this being the feast day of St Edward, King and Confessor, the anniversary was celebrated at the neighbouring Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Palace street, Westminster (Cardinal Manning’s parish), where, in the presence of a large congregation, high mass was snog by the Right Rev. Dr Patterson, bishop of Emmaus, and a sermon was preached by. the Rev George Akers, M.A., who details I the circumstances of the building of the Abbey, and where the ashes of Kind Edward were interred. The preacher. invited the congregation to join the bishop and clergy in a pilgrimage o* devotion to the shrine of St. Edward, and implore hi* intercession for the conversion of England to the ancient faith. In response to this invitation', the whole congregation accompanied the clergy to the A bbey, and performed their devotions in the manner above described, undisturbed by the verge** or, authorities,, of the Abbey. •

;An extraordinary , being waa a abort time •go to be seen at the American Hotel, Imndon. A boy waa living there whose face here a sinking resemblance to that of a terrier dog. Every feature -was hidden by silky hair, which was very abundant about his ears,. He was fourteen years of age, and. was the son of a savage who w*s exhibited ten years ago as a dog man. and whq was caught with the child in a Russian forest.