The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1885.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1215, 12 June 1885, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1885.

Beneath the rale of men entirely Jnsi The pen is mightier that the sword.

By our special telegrams it will be seen that the Gla 'stone Government has been defeated by a majority o! 12, and will consequently tesign. Parliament opened yesterday. The speech from the throne delivered by the Governor is to be found in ex tenso in another column.

The reported assassination of the Ameer of Afghanistan by soma mem hers of his suite has not’been endorsed from any other source, the news is accordingly disbelieved by the authorities in London.

The Melbourne detectives have already ar. rested six persons as having been implicated in the Simpson’s Eoad ank rohberv, and a portion of the stolen monies has been found in Studley Park. The New Zealand division of the Salvation Army have published their balance sheet up to t e 31st of December last. Their accounts are brought under two headings, the spiritual department and the trade department. The former has a debit balance of some Ll4O while the latte' has a credit in the shape of L4Ol balance in bank and stock in hand 1,537. Du ring the’year the building fun I swallowed up 1-890. The report lays on >ur table, and can he seen by any one interested in the doings of the army. At the Alexandra licensing meetini; the whole of the old licenses were renewed, but the application f Mr J. tsimmonds, tor his new sto e house was refused,the local option polling hein against he increase of licenses. At the Dunatan licensing meeting a renewal of all the old licenses were granted. The licenses being granted Mr Inspector Hickson said it afforded him pleasuie in bringing up a clean sheet, thus enabling the Dench of Commissioners to grant a renewal of the whole of'the old licenses. Be, hj .w----ever, would remark that fqr every 44 of the adult population on the Clyde division of the distnct, there rt-aa one hotel. The Bench, whilst admitting there were by far too many hocused bouses, said in ihe face of the police report of good behaviour and the like, they could not but giant the applications ; but they bad niado up their minds that on the very that lOmpiaiut to reduce the number.

Mr Hickson, R. \f, was engaged a t Arrowtown the whole of yesterday and the day before investigating a charge of horse stealing against Mr Henry Graham, the well known sto ekeeper, and the result was a commiita'l for trial. The charge arose out of a civil case heard at the same sitting nf the Court.

Froiii the tone of Goldshorough’s Melbourne monthly circular the market for all kinils of produce is in a healthy condition for "rowers. Merino wools range form 9d tolSdper pound ; crossbreds, from BJd to 15d per pounn ; rabbit skins, from 8d to 18J per doz ; New Zealand salted hides, from 4Jd to Si I per pound ; tallow, LlB to 1/27 per ton ; wheat, 3s 10d to 3s J Id, with a firm feeling ; oats, 2s 91 to 3s ; but New Zealand supplies have somewhat depressed the market. Barley from 3s for feed to 4s Cd for prime milling sorts. The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of the Dunstan District Hospital, to have been been held on Monday evening last, lapsed for want of a quorum. The chief cause being through the ill-health of several members.

Mr Faobe reports having sold a number of nattle and horses at Ids Val’ey on Saturday last. The prices realised, however, were very indifferent. We regret to ha- u of the sudden death of Mrfi, F. C, Browne, the well-known forwarding agent of Lawience. The bus! ness will be carried on by the two sons of the deceased gentleman. The New Z aland one million and a half loan was a grand success, seven millions being tendered for.

It is reported from London that Russia has yielded to the British demands f-r Zulfikir Pass, and that peace is now as sured.

An interesting and lively debate on the mining industry versus the agricultural, took place at the weekly meeting of the Alexandra Mutual Improvement Society last Tuca lay. After a Well sustained discussion, the chairman,Mr VV F.F nest, put the question, when eleven members chose to record their vote in favor of mining, and nine in favour of agricultural pursuits. A large number seemed to view the question in relation to the present circumstances of the colony,and considered that the prosecution of the mining industry, in present circumstances of depression in agriculture, and every other industry, ought to be vigorously encouraged and fostered by the public and by the government. It was thought if gold and other minerals were plenufully got just now, they would give an impetus to every other industry, as.the discovery of gold did at the beginning of the settlement of 0 ago; and also that the settlement of the colony would he hirgnly increased and means obtained to meet ami cope with the heavy debt with which it is burdened. The subject for next Tuesday nhhr. is the reading and discussion of a paper by Mr A hired on the subject “ How to write a paper."

All mining lease holders will do well to bear in mind that the government purpose enforcing the labour'clauses of all leases.

A man named Peter Newton, alias Charles Jones, altos Edward Williams, alias William Walsh, was attested at St. Batlisns on Friday last by Sergeant Livingstone on a charge of vagrancy, and on the fodowing day was sentenced by Messrs Burnett, Purton, and McConnochie, J.F.’a, to seven days imprisonment in Naseby gaol. Before conviction ‘he prisoner told the police a most extraordinary tale of crime, but from inquiries since made the whole storey was proyed to be a tissue of lies. The tale was to the effect that it was he that robbed Hyndtnan’s jewellers shop at Auckland 13 months ago of a quantity of jewellery, and that he had planted same close to the Catholic convent under a Norfolk pine tree); that he stole Pat Quinlan’s cash oox at the Tearoha hotel; and robbed Thomas Richmond’s place at Nevada. He came down to Dunedin in the steamship lonic about 3 months ago, since when he had robbed Fagan’s cash box, and about three weeks ago he broke into Mr John Stephenson’s house in Lees St., getting in through a bay window, and stole L 6. The prisoner, from his gaol record, is a bad lot, having since 1879 been convicted no less than ten times, and it is assumed he concocted the tale with the view of getting a cheap trip to Aucklan 1

The Daily Times Wellington correspondent says that the Hon. Mr Larnach has de aided to made at an early period of the session a Mines Statement, much in ;the same way as the Public Works Statement. Tbe statement will be comprehensive, and deal ‘ally wiih mining industries i» each district. Ue will recommend - the adoption of Professoi Brack’s suggestion as to the establishme .t of mining schools, ami has induced his colleagues to place L17,00d ou the esti mates for the purpose. Mr Kerr, the elect of Waimea, has some original notions. When speaking on the beer tax he is reported to have said :—“ 1 am not one to rub a poor man of bis beer, for I take a drop myself occasionally, bat 1 think the brewer can pay more. I know men who bave’raade their fortunes at brewing when they had to pay never less than 6s for harley’and they said they c mid manage it np to Bs. Now they got ic at 3s 6d, and pay the grower when they like, and yet the beer i-> those days was as ,ood as now. (A Voice : Aye, and better too). And now we pay exactly the same prine, and I notice tbe glasses ate smaller.”

“ Chinamen ” (sayj the News) “ are very literal, A msmber of the Southland Hussars staying in one of the hotels happened to men ion last night in the presence of a Chinese cook that his 1 trotter oases’ were cookham boots. This morning the gallant soldier, on picking np his boots, was horrified to find they bad been baked overnight—so thoroughly that in one case the sides bad been burned through. ‘John had taken the remark about * Cookhams ’ to mean that he was to ‘cook’urn boots.’ ” And he did.