CLYDE, FRIDAY, FEB 20. 1885.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1199, 20 February 1885, Page 2

CLYDE, FRIDAY, FEB 20. 1885.

Whether it is there is any neglect in the matter, or that Vincent County Councillors are quite indifferent to the benefits of “Local Government, Local Option, etc..’ - we do not know ; certain it is that no action relating to the election of Licensing Committees, as laid down in Section 13 of the Licensing Act, ISSI, as for taking a poll under the 46th (the “ Local Option ”) Section of the said Act have as yet been taken. We hope that some explanation will be given.

At Alexandra, on Wednesday last, Mr Pnrves gave his interesting, amusing, and entertaining lecture on tho Songs of Scotland, with numerous vocal illustrations, anecdotes, and recitations. There was a good attendance, and the entertainment was thoroughly enjoyed and was well worth hearing. Mr Pnrves sang some of the best old songs in a sweet and touching manner, and his humorous illustrations brought forth frequent laughter. Altogether the entertainment was a success, and wound op with a pleasant dance which lafatod for a few hours.

The Bishop of Danedia, who is making » tour of the goldfields portion of his diocese, we «ro given to understand, will oondnot Devine Service at . Ophir, assisted by the Bev. Fynes Clinton, this Friday evening ; On Sunday morning next he will conduct service at Cromwell, and in the evening will administer the rite of confirmation in St. Michael's Church, Clyde. Mr McEachen, photographer, gives an intimation m another column that his stndio at Clyde will positively be closed from noon on Monday next, after when he will visit Ophir. Mr McEaohen’s pictures are of a first-class character, and his stndio, if for nothing else, is worth a visit to inspect his collection of portraits and views. There are not a few in this neighbourhood but will remember with affectionate regard the modest and unaffected Christian worth of the wife of the Rev. A. G, Boyd, whose death is notified as having taken place on the I4th January, at Dayton, Oregon ; and we thick there are many that will take this opportunity of conveying to Mr Boyd and family their heartfelt sympathy in their sad and trying bereavement. We have received a copy of The Newspaper Map and Directory of New Zealand published by MrW. S. Pulford, of Auckland. We can honestly recommend it to al! business houses, as the directory contains a complete list of all New Zealand newspapers and the days of publication. We give a prominent place in our office to the copy received, and invito an inspection of it. The nomination of a Licensing Committee for Alexandra takes place on Friday, 27th inst., and the election, if any, on Tuesday, March 10.

We notice that Mr Holt is laying the foundation of a stone building adjoining the Vincent County Hotel and Mr Bell’s baltery. If we aro rightly informed, the building when completed, is to be occupied by Mr Bell for the extension of hia biscuit baking and sugar boiling trade. The Illustrated New; Z aland News for

February to hand still keeps up to the standard of excellence, and is fast working its way into the front ranks of New Zealand journals. The illustrations are highly instructive and illustrative of New Zealand and Colonial life and customs. Wo never fail to send our copy to the Old Country where it is greatly welcomed.

Professor Proud, the face reader and physiognomist, save one of his entertainment" in the Town Hall, Clyde, on Friday evening last, and “ there is no midake about that.” The entertainment was a novel one in more ways than one. as instead of the entertainer demanding a fixed sum for admission, he left it to the audience to say how much they were entertained, a very novel idea and “no mistake about that,” but if we can judge by the jingle of the coins as they fell in the hat a very payable on o and “no mistake about that.” Wo think we are perfectly justified in eay'ng that tho Professor has the power of reading character from the face, and that he possesses the happy knack of entertaining a mixed audience for a limited period, “there is no mistake about that ’’

The utmost reticence is being observed as to the doings at the Old Man Range Reefs, whether V>y managers, workmen, or sham holders, but why this is so it is hard to guess, as we can see no possible reason for keeping secret to-day what must in the nature of things ooze out or bo blabbed out as it were to-morrow. Secrecy in matters of this kind ever generates suspicion ami in tlic interest of ail concerned this is not to be desired. Wo have heard, however, that the trial crushing of stone from the Great Western Comp my’s Reef on the Butcher's Gully fall of the spur, was a long way below expectations ; indeed,it is proved that so far the stone is not payable. To make up for that disappointment anew discovery has been made in Mervyu and Cavan’* claim, indicating both permanence and richness.

Our Cromwell neighbours are evidently bent on developing to the fall the resources of their district, and that they may succeed in the many ventures entered on we are sure is the wish of all. A few months since the brewery property and plant, formerly owned by the late G.W.Goodger, was locally purchased and formed into a company, and is now in full operation ; the next movement was the formation of a Dredging Company, the which has progressed so far ns the accepting of a tender by Messrs Kincaid, Mo Queen, an 1 Company, for the construction of a full plant, of which the following is a full description:—The hull of the dredger will he 75ft in length and constructed of wood j and the bucket ladder 43ft in length. The dredger will therefore he capable of working to a considerable depth below the material met with 0 n the river bottom. The propulsion of the machinery will he effected, by means of a wheel situated at the stern of the vessel, which receives its impetus from the force of the current of the rive ■ impinging on the float-boards secured to the outer edge of the wheel. The tumblers, on which the buckets for lifting the spoil are placed, are connected by spur gearing, and by means of a friction brake the speed of the buckets may be regulated. The spoil is discharged from tho buckets into ordinary sluiceboxes, from which the gold is abstracted, and the ladings from the boxes are passed over the s em of the vessel. Next in order is the further testing of the late Cromwell Company’s Q lartz Mines at Bendigo, in which a largo proportion of tho now Company’s shaves are locally held. Tho last is the formation of a prospecting association the consideration of which is now being mooted. Liver coughs often taken for consumption are cured almost instantly with Hop Bitters. Find.

The United Irishman, a Dublin newspaper, is.stated to have published an offer of a reward of LIO.OOO for the body of the Prince of Wales dead or alive. Tho offer is believed to have emanated from people in Dublin.

The following instructive commentary upon the distress prevailing in England is taken from the Some News lust to hands —“The agricultural and commercial depresaion now prevailing in England may be said to have resolved itself jnto a fight of Charity against Starvation. Never was misery more severe, or helplessness more complete | never was the hand of the bountiful more liberal, or the organisation for the relief of goffering more conscientiously as wide spread as that created by the cotton famine twenty years ago, it is in many quarters as deep. In every town from the Eastaend of London, throughout the Midlands, to far north of the Tweed, thousands and thousands of families are huddled }n furnitureless rooms, hungry, cold, hopeless. On the Clyde, on Tyneside, at Jarrow, at Gateshead, at Aberdeen, at Glasgow, at Sunderland,Jand at a hundred other centres of industry, men with large families to support have been unable to get work now for nearly twelve months, and it says much for the thrift of the working classes that many have until quits recently staved off the hour when an appeal to charity became inevitable, solely by their hard earned savings. What the condition of the country would be at this moment hut for its chari» table organisations it is impossible to conceive. At places like Jarrow thousands of children are fed and families relieved out of the funds of the Local Committee; in Newcastle LIOOO a month goes in relief j in Sunderland over L7OOO has been raised for similar purposes. And these are only a few instances of the noble efforts which charity is making to withstand the starvation of the masses.

Lawrence White, one of the men who was concerned in the Nenthorn affray, was brought np at the Dunedin Police Court on Saturday last, charged with being disobedient and insolent to the Gao' (fficers. Mr Phillips, the governor of the gaol, stated that the prisoner had been very insubordinate ever since he had been committed. He had, however, that morning expressed regret at bis misconduct, and promised to behave himself better in future, Mr Phillips therefore asked that the Bench would not inflict punishment on the prisoner, who accordingly was convicted, and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon.

At a meeting of creditors of Richard Bmuko, farmer, Wyniham, on February 13, I he bankrupt accounted for his position by the statement that he had gone to the township i n 24th December for a Christmas stock of liquor, having in his pocket 1,265 in sovereigns. On his way home be sat down on a hill and drank most of a bottle of whiskey. He got drunk, fell asleep, and when he woke at 4 a.in. his money was gone. He had taken it from his trousers peek t, because of its weight, and laid it beside him before going to sleep. He bad not informed the police of his loss, nor told a yoiid for a fortnight after. The Deputyassignee said this seemed to be a new de» parture among bankrupts. They got large S’lms of money together, and then told their cieditors they had lost it. For his part, he did not believe a word tbe debtor had said, and bis affairs would be thoroughly investigated. This is the second case of the kind within a few weeks, and by a coincidence

the men are fellow-countrymen. A London thic f , who pleaded guilty to a charge of pocket-picking, and was dischirged by the magistiato, not such a suprise by the unexpected decision that he fell down in the dock in a fit. It happened at the West-minster Police Court, the charge being one of attempting to pick pockets in the Buckingham Palace road. There was no doubt and no dispute as to the evidence. The prisoner was a well known pick pocket, against whom former convictions were proved, and he pleaded guilty, and wanted the matter to be “ settled at once.” But there was a diffimlty in complying with his wishes. The detective who bad seen him attempting to pick the pockets of several persons, had never noticed him in the Buckingham Palace road before, and this was fatal to his conviction. “It is,” said Mr D’Eyncourt, the magistrate, “ a most remarkable thing, but I am obliged to discharge you. I have no doubt you are as much astounded as myself, because you admit being guilty.” It seems that by a decision given by one of the Judges at the beginning of December, the fact of a man being seen but once in the locality for the purpose of committing a felony is not evidence of “ frequenting ” it, and thence the conviction of the prisoner was impossible “1 am afraid,” Mr D’Eyncourt added, “ until some amendment of the Act of Parliament is passed, the pickpockets will be able to ply a good trade.” Mr Broadbont, of the Salvation Army, informs the Otago Daily Times that the report of Mr Betlingfield’s death in America is untrue, as the following ext-act from a letter from him will explain I have been badly hurt, but am all right again now. We were holding an open air meeting in front of a saloon, and the proprietor came out and offered me two glasses of beer. Of course he meant it for an insult, and I pushed them away. One of the glasses jell out of his hand, and ho threw the rest in my face, and told me he would have me out of that somehow. Then he went into the house and threw some dirty slops ovei me from the upstairs window, and shortly' after that I went down on my knees to pray for him, and he threw a big, heavy picklekeg, hound with iron hoops, on me. This knocked mo senseless. They bad two doctors to me. Concussion of the brain set in, and I was insensible for 27 hours. However I am well again, and leading meetings. The people here raised a mod, and were going to hang the aaloon ket per if I died. They bought a rope, and frightened him pretty well out of his wits. I am not going to prosecute him.” We understand that some of Mrs BedingfieM’s friends wish to send her to join him.

Thaf Tftdigestion or stomach gas at night preventing rest and t-h ep, will cis appear by using Hop Bitters, Bead.

Here is one of Mr Booth's anecdotes i—He said that whsn living in one of the State# of America he had a friend who wae a Dutchman and who lived next door to his neighbor. This neighbour, who also hailed from the " Faderland,” had a very savage dog, which used to fly ont and snap at passers-by, and especially seemed to have a dislike to the Dutchman next door, never failing to spring out at him when he saw Hans pass the gate. One morning Mr Booth’s friend just cam* out on his way to work and hid a pitchfork over hie shoulder. The dog, as usual, flew at him, and Hans, turning round, drove the? prongs of the fork into the animal TheS, owner immediately came ont and accosted. * Hans thus: ** Mine gootnees gracious 1 vaiT ” you do mit mine dawg Hans replied “Veil, vat you dawg peon doing mit me!” Vy doan yon gheep him from barbing* py me f” 11 Veil, veil,” said the neighbor, “if mine dawg pits yon vy didn’t you go at him by de oderend of the fork?” “By shimmy!” replied Hans; “vy didnt your dawg ehump at me py his oder end ?”

A soldier in one of the Naples hospitals in the last stags of the cholera tried to raise himself to make the military salute as the king came near, but Humbert gently replaced the man upon his pillow, the soldier murmuring, “ Well 1 can die content now.’.

A Beautivui, Painting.— Mr.G.G.Green, of Woolbury, New Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to druggists and others in this country some very fine pictures in oil of his magnificent house and grounds and laboratory at that place. Mr Green ia the proprietor of Bosohee’s German Syrup and Green’s August Flower, two veiy valuable medicines, which are meeting with great favor, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complaints and the latter for dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have at-’ I tained an immense sale solely on their superior merits and are sold hy all druggists throughout the world. The price is the same for each, 3s. fid. per bottle, or sample bottles for fid. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost.

The Otago Daily Times of the 2nd inst. says .-—A precocious youth ma le his first appearance before Mr Beetham, R. -VI , in Christchurch last week. A boy nr.med Hutton was charged with unlawfully pounding ahorse, the property of William Gordon, on January 21. The aecncd was only 12 years of age,J bat seems 1 as if he had acquired a sharpness in bid piaelices tha t argued ill for his future. Mr Gordon a milkman, had left the ho ,«e in aceuseu’s charge to hold for a few minutes, when the temptation came to the hoy lo make something of it. He took the horse to He>thcote Pound, told the poundkeeper it had been in his father’s garden eating a lot of carrots, and he wanted a rewaul of 3'61 for bringing the boise to the pound. He did not get his 3s 61, but the horse was detained at the pound, and the owner hunted everywhere for it. At last he hj; rd where it was, and had to pay 21s 61 poundage fee". The boy admitted his guilt to the Bouch, and his father was 'requested to give him a good whipping in the presence of a constable, and also pay the expenses of the action. These amounted to LI 12s 6d.