CLYDE FRIDAY, FEB 6, 1885

Dunstan Times, Issue 1197, 6 February 1885, Page 2

CLYDE FRIDAY, FEB 6, 1885

PeoffS'Oß Black announces aseiies of lectures to be given at Alexandra, commencing on Monday evening next. The Professor makes his lectures not only instructive but highly amusing, therefore none need apprehend other than a real treat is in store for them. It should be borne in mind that the

larger the attendance the greater the zest the lecturer will have for entering into his"' subjects, and, moreover, on the attendance at the these opening lectures will depend whether the Professor will on his subsequent visits to the goldfields again visit the district. The advantages to be derived from chatty discourses with men professedly learned in the sciences of mineralogy, metallurgy, and geology by miners are out of all reckoning. From the want of knowledge many valuable ores are passed by to the loss of the finder and the Colony at large, and much valuable time and capital is throw ll away on valueless stuffs from a similar cause. We do not think, nor do we suppose,for one moment that the Professor will contemplate making all his hearers perfect in the science, but apt patient students we are quite assured will obtain such an insight will give them a desire to seek further knowledge, and as will stand them in good stead in their search for the precious racial whether in alluvial drifts or in quartz lodes. The Press at Lawrence, Nasally, Cromwell, Queenstown, and Cromwell, have spoken in the most flattering manner of Professor Black and his lectures at those places, and anticipating the like good results frera the series of lectures to be given in the Duustan District, we can but repeat our advice to one and all that can possibly spare the time, to put in an appearance.

In consequence of the cricket match between Clyde and Cromwell and the sale of Mr John Campbell’s fuimiture and effects falling on Saturday afternoon last the time fixed for the holding of the annual meeting of subscribers to the Dunstan District Hospital, the latter was neglected and accordingly had to he adjourned till to-morrow afternoon, the 7th mat., at 3 p.m As the business is of more than ordinary importance we shall hope to see a large and influential attendance,

< n Thurgilay night last several stacks of last seasons oats, situate on t!ie pre-emptive right of Laldiaw ami Crawford’s Matakv nui Station, and the property of the firm, were destroyed by fire. There is no accounting for the origin, excepting it is possible that some of the men who were working about the stacks during the previous day having dropped some matches and they ho came ignited accidentally.

Mr Fache draws the attention of farmers and others to the sale on Tuesday next, the 10th inst., at Ida Valley, in the estate of Jrmes Anderson, deceased. The advertisement in another column gives in detail ths properties to he sold, and announces the fact that everything has to be sold without reserve.

The complete ret irns of the trial crushing of some 12 tons of stone as taken haphazard from the heaps of stono raised from the White’s Reef Company Claim is now to hand, the qnantityjof retorted gold got being nearly 22 ounces, or an average of loz 15J(lwts to the ton. Wo think such a return highly satisfactory, and sufficient'to induce the directory to put up a battery of their own.

The late rain* did an incalculable amount of damage to the roads at this end of the County, and though a lot of work haa been done in the very worst places, still they are very bad, and a deal more requires to be done before they will be anything approaching so good as they were. So much rain during the summer months has not fallen as during the past few; accordingly the roads are bad, but cattle and sheepowners are in high glee at the abundance of grass. All kinds of stock are looking first class now.

We learn that Mr Federlie, a gentleman who is under engagement to the Government to travel through the Colony for the purpose of lecturing oif the growing of fruit and sericulture, will shortly visit this district and give lectures on the above subjects.

We have received from the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company lists of rams, also wethers and ewes, that company has for sale. We shall he most happy to show the list to intending purchasers. The local lots have to be taken delivery of early, consequently there is not mnch time to lose.

The contractors for three of the sections of road to theWaikaia Bush are ad vertising for pick and shovel men. As there are some ten mile of road to be mv'e under these contracts within the next two months we shall not expect to hear anything of the unemployed.

The number of buildings that are being • reeled in Alexandra and the other improvements being effeo'el in that town are indications of a greater prosperity than are observable in any place we know of. With the completion of the Bank of New Zealand building, Mr Theyers’ laree stone store, Mr Cards new stone house, Mr Simmonda’ extensive range of stone stabling, and other buildings in the course of construction, we can safely say Alexandra will have a very substantial look about it, and by the time the new police quarters and gaol and the other buildings contemplated are finished* there will be few towns in Central Otago bearing so substantial and permanent appearance.

When the body of the murdered man Gifford was found near Greymouth, an urnbrella, supposed to have belonged to his murderer, Donohue, was found underneath the body. Both men were known to have had umbrellas that night, and the theory of the prosecution was that Donohue, after killing Gifford, took the latter’s umbrella away in mistake for his own. Some people, however, doubted whether the one found was Donohue’s, and the most careful search failed to discover Gifford's. Some sawyers near where the murder was committed have now found the remaius of .Gifford’s umbrella concealed under a log, which,they had out and turned over in following their ordinary avocations. It is still good, hot considerably mildewed and stained, while on tho hand e there are what appear to be ; blood stains. The police have taken posses- { sinn of the umbrella. The West Coast j Times remarks There must he some satisfaction felt hr the police and the jury that yet another link—though it was hardly wanted—in the chain of circumstantial evidence which sent Donohue to his doom has been found. It is probable that Donohue, before washing tire blood stains from his boots and garments in tho dam, must have placed Giffo d’s umbrella iu concealment, which he hoped would be find.” There died in the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum recently a man named Benjamin Weodon, aged 100 years and five mouths. He was boru in Connecticut. He left his home when a boy and went to sea, and s died from London to Sydney in 1806 He went into Port Phillip Bay for water in IS2S, and was some years in Degrave’s employ in the cattle trade between Melbourne and Hobart. When the old diggings broke out he left the sea and went to Forest Creek. He went to Bendigo in 1852.

O’Donovan llossa was shot and wounded in the streets of New York by an English* woman on the 3r.i February. The latter was at once arrested and detained in custody.

What may be termed the fifth great hoax has been peipretrated upon the gullibi'ity of the Times. An aged and lame man, wo are told, asked Mr Gladstone to steer him across the street in Piccadilly ; and arm in arm the two aged men wandered in childlike innocence across, both, in spite of vehement gesticulations of the Premier's umhrelfa, being very nearly run over. The story seems almost too good to be true, for why should an aged man, con ■ scions of the infirmity of years, ask another aged man to help him ?

A deputation of country sheep farmers have requested Chief Inspector Bay ley to urge the Government to continue the importation of stoats and weasels as the only sure means of coping with the rabbit pest. Mr Bayley promised to make known the representations of the deputation, who intend getting up a petition on the subject.

In referring to a Sunday liquor-trading case at Wellington, recently, ihe Resident Magistrate (Mr Wardell) said that in order to get a glimpse of what was going on inside dining prohibited hours th» police wort, obliged to slip in and do oth»r things which were not altogether pleasant; and his opinion was that if they would confine themselves to the maintenance of good order outside the hotel, and not show an anxiety to get inside it, the whole policy of the Act would be given effect to.

A juryman summoned for services at the District Court, New Plymouth, was excused on a very sufficient ground. He is just now serving Her Majesty in another capacity—being under sentence of imprisonment for larceny.

A timely use of Hop Bitters will keep a whole family in robust health a year with but a little coat, Bead,

A new journal, says the Northern Wais roa Gazette, rejoicing in the name of Truth whose columns are to be devoted to radi* calism and atheism, *is'to make its appearance before the Auckland public next week. It is to be edited by a notorious infldel lees enrer who calls himself Or Hughes, and we both hope and prophesy that it may have an early decease. High Chnrchism, Tory, ism, and-eld port for ever.

" An Oxfordshire womanmet with an ex* perience a few days back which should act as a warning to intending visitors ,to lunatic asylum*. The person in qnestiojPfoaraeyei to Littlemore, a village four from Oxford, where there is anasylnm, with the intention of visiting a female patient. - The porter having admitted her, is said to have duly passed her to one of the matrons with the words ‘to visit a female patient; ’ but the nurse appears to have caught only the last words of the sentenee, and a mistake resulted which cost the visitor a great deal of unpleasantness to say - the'/least of it. The stranger was taken to the top of the building, under the belief that she was going to see her friend and then she Jwas snddenly shut into an empty room. Shortly afterwards a nurse entered, and.jto the consternation of the visitor at once prooeeed to undress her Protestations ana remonstrances were alike unavailing, andtfrmly thongh not unkindly, the poor woman was stripped and placed in i a batb . a^er which she was forcibly but to bed. by this time the mistaken lunatic i was of course in a frantic state of alarm, i which only favoured the belief that she was | really a madwoman. Where this gruesome farce might have ended it is not pleasant t° contemplate ; but by a lucky accident the mistake was discovered later in the day and the unfortunate woman .was set at liberty with profuse apologies. It is satisfactory tojhear, under the circumstances, that no complaint has been made as to un* due severity on the part of the nurses.” The following is an extract from ‘ John Bull s Womankind ’ may be of interest to Australasians 1—“ We were speaking of Euglish pulpit eloquence one day to an im* portant member of ,he political world, ‘ English pulpit eloquence I’ said he to me j ‘ we have none.’ ‘Yet 1 heard Canon X preach in the Abbey*the other day,’ I said •and I assure you I never heard anything more graceful; he fascinated me. He Is an eloquent preacher at all events ’ ‘Yes,* replied he, ‘ Canon X. is a very good speak* er, it is true . . , but, my dear sir, if be could only hold his tongue he would be a bishop.’ The canon in question has just been made a bishop after all j but only a colonial bishop at the Antipodes if our English readers recognise him 1 offer the n the primeiti of the anecdote.” , Catarrh of the Bladder.—Stincing irritation, inflammation, ail Kidney and ismilar Complaints, cured by “Buebaa paiba. The N.Z, Drug Co., General Agen g. In one of the suburban Courts of M . bourne George M Queen, a publican, has been fined in sums amounting to L2OO for evasions of the Trades Marks Statutes in selling brandy in Heunessy’s bottles which was not of H mncaay’g manufacture.

“ One of the most extraordinary cases of forgery brought to light of late years has this week, writes the Argus' London correspondent on December 5, “ b -en before the Central Criminal Court. An old named Whalley having lodged with the father of one Nash, subsequently died in the house of a person named Thomas. Nash and Thomas found out that Whaley had left the bulk of his property amounting to some L 50.000, to his natural son, Henry Priestman. The will making this bequest has disappeared, and though it is suspected th t the confederates destroyed it, there is nothing to show what became of it. But Thomas obtained Whaley’s signature by writing for him in pencil a letter to Priestman. then the pencil remarks b iug removed, though not quite erased, Nash wrote, at the dictation of Thomas, above Whalley's signature, what purported to be a will made by Whaley, leaving almost everything of which he died possesed to Thomas. Nash was offered a handsome sum for the j ib, and if the money had been promptly paid the crime would never have been discovered. Probate of the false will was disputed by Priestman, but the suit was compromised, and it was only subsequently that, the fraud being found out partly by the remains of the pencil marks probate was cancelled, and the rightful heir made good his claim. Thomas and Nash have now been sentenced to 15 years’ penal servitude.”

A Beautiful Painting. —Mr.G.G.Green, of Woolbury, New Jersey, U.8.A., is pre* seating to druggists and others in this country some very fine pictures in oil of his magnificent house and grounds and laborstory at that place. MrGreon is the proprietor of Boschee's German Syrup and Green’s August Flower, two very valuable medicines, which are meeting with great favor, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complaints and the latter for dyspepsia and disorderg of the Liver. These preparations have attained an immense salefsolely on tlJeir rior merits and are sold by all drnJgKto throughout the world. The price is the same for each, 3s. 6d. per bottle, or sample bottles for fid. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifline cost. 6

A baby was born in ono of the carriages of the Sydney express the other day while the train was travelling at full speed. As the express was passing through Longwood a lady, evidently in great distress, appeared at the window of one of the compartments calling out “ Stop the train.” The guard noticed the incident, and at once applied the vacuum brake. The train was quickly stopped, and ran back to Longwood station, when it was found that the lady had given birth to a child. The wife of the Longwood station master went to the aid of the mother and her infant, travelling | with them as far as Seymour, where the carriage was detached from the train.