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Dunstan Times, Issue 1234, 23 October 1885, Page 2

We have to apologise to onr readers for non-appearance of our usual supplement. Vincent Pyke, E,-q., M.H R. for the district. who during the week has vi-ited Blacks, speaks most e ithusiasiicady of th--discoveries there. He says- From what he saw mid cou d learn he is convinced that Mr Green’s reef find is but the precursor ->t many others of a s'miiar character, that if worked propedy will give fortunes. Of the drainage channel that is being cut through the fiat he says it will be the means of opening up hundreds of acres of Ian 1 , an i will give profitable employment to a large number of men.

The cricket season in Vincent County maybe arid to be fairly opened, judging by the following programme Blacks open the had against Cromwell to*morrow ; Clyde against Blacks (at Blacks) on the 3Ut; Bannockburn and Wanaka on the 7th November; and the return match between Blacks and Clyde (at Clyde) on 9th November. To-morrow afternoon the Clyde Club play fhe nnnu .1 match -President v. Vice-President, aides to he ch sen on the ground. Wickets will be pitched at 2 p.m., and a large attendance is requested. The CaulfieM Cup, rnn at Melbourne last Saturday, was one of the most extraordinary races, perhaps, in the annals of racing, as through the stumbling of one horse (Too Too) 16 others were mingled together in a confused heap. Unfortunately the riders also suffered, Nioolson, who had the mount on Lord Exeter, being killed ; while Cracknel!, M'Grade, M'Gratb, and Wymond were aerioua'y injured. The horse Urara was killed outright. The Hon. W. Robinson's Winchester held a good portion at the time of the accident, and it is considered but for this he u ould have been well up at the finish, trace Darling was first, Britisher second, and Coriolanus third. At the inquest on Nice!son, a verdict of " accidental death” was returned,

The following paragraph recently appeared in a Wellington paper: “At a late examination of teachers in Hawke’s Bay, the following were amongst the posers pnt s “ What is the feminine of bullock t’ “ Form a diminutive from deer." “ What are the boundaries of Afghanistan I" A great many people would very much like to know the correct answers to these questions, especially the latter one, which of coarse would end the dispute between ■ England and Russia on the subject. Shortly afterwards the following reply from a correspon dent was published i What is the female of a bullock ?—A spayed heifer. Mention a limiontive of deerf—A little dear. De scribe the boundaries of Afghanistan f— On the north by General Kumaroff and Colonel A'ikanoff. On the east by the Himalayas. On the west by Persia. On the south by Scinde. it

It would be well for parents to know •hat under section 6 of the B location Aot 1877 Aot Amendment Aot JBB3, wliio'i comes into operation on Jannarv 1, 18S8, every child required by the said Aot to attend a public school shall attend such school during thirty days in each quarterly school term; and cn the hearing of any informations of complaint under tho aaM Aot for an older to s* n 1 a child to a pu Lo School, or for the recovery of a penalty, tho onus shall be on th ■ parent or guardian showitm that the child has or is attending school, in accordance with tho requirements of the Act, or is exempt from attendance. Under the heading “ A Stran■«* Story," the ‘ Lyttelton Tim h* <eporta "On Fri. day aftertax"- • niherm in n mod Richard \Vi--ae, who was the sole occupant ( ,f a tisuing smack, wih a dingey astern, dropped anchor opposite the Mew Brighton beach, and came ashore in the dingey. Mounte I. constable Oroekall was riding along the sands at the lime, keeping a look out for the body of the supposed to be drowned Mr Howard, an 11 > the constable the lone fisherman t »H his story, which w a in effect, ihat he bad left Lyfctelto" four days previously wi hhU mate * Jack ’ They had ha i rough weather, and the craft sprang a leak. ‘J..ck’ becoming apprehensive for his personal safety, had begged to bo put ashore, and occur dngly While had Uuded him at the Heads near Sumner. He then hovered aboit the coast tilt opposite New Brighton, where be c line ashore iu the boat. Subsiqcently the smack was leichel, and it is stated that some repairs ware effected, but the exact nature of the damage the craft has sustained is not know i. Cariosity was excited as to what' had bee ,tne of 1 Jack,’ and on Saturday inquires were ma le in L> tteltou couceruiug him. ‘ J ick’ was found, and st ite I that he had never gone to sea wi hj White this trip at all, and that he wis entirely aucou’’cious of his adventures on the stormy deep, or having been landed near tho Heads. Perhaps Whre had been labouring under some hallucination in cons, qaence of the excitement of a rather peril,,us trip ; perhaps in his exoi einont lie euu,o not resist the sailor's piedi* lection for yarn-spinning. Ho might have been out on a private excursion, looking for the body oi the m'ssmg Mr Howard (whose life is stated to be insured for L3''Uo, aud for-whoao ho ly a reward of LSO is offered), aud ha 1 bis min i temp warily unhinged by' long uni anxious, hut unsuccessful, watching.” The House last session voted a sum of money to be used for the extirpation of seal), and the sheep branch of CoUmid Seoietaty’a Department is now making tho moat vigoioas efforts to give fal. iff-et to d isire of the House. lufecte 1 docks which f urn any cause c .nnot he cleaned will lie destroyed, compunsa.ion of a moderate km i being given to cwueis. Already (says the * i’ost ’) one or two huge flocks in tuc Marlborough district have been doomed to de struction, and the Colonial "tecre-ary fu ly expects that within less than six mouths scab will have ceased to exist amongst New Zealand flecks. This will be a grand achievement if accomplished.

The circumstance of a stowaway confining himself in a box for eight days, are given in the following telegram in the Melbourne 1 Argus’:—“ On the steamer South Australian, from Wi stern Australia, reaching Port Adelaide, a box a idre-sed to “W. Byles” was taken from the after bold where it was placed eight days ago at Fremantle. Its unusual weight ie.l ihe cus toms officers to open it, when a living man, about 6t't in he-glit, was f.. U n lin tbe pack age He gave the name of William Alderson, and said that no one on board knew that he was in the Case. He had no nomp'ice. By means of a string atraohrd to screws he had managed to keep fie lid down tightly. He had a few biscuits and a billy, which was empty. He seemed very much exhausted, and his first reque t was for water. Hr J. F. Matthews, a p.isseng»r, attended to the wants of the man, who was afterwards give i in oba-g of the po'ice as a stowawiy The dimen sinus of the box were 3't 6iu by 2t't lin. by 2fr, high, and the man must have lain in a curled uo position all the voyage. He hail a small augur, and had hore.l a few holes which gave him ventilation. There is Iht'e doubt that he remained in case all the way. as th re was a large quantity o' luggage above it, and it was neiry the last package in the hold. The engineer of the steamer states that during the voyage he heard a knocking, and thought, that arnns of the cargo had got adrift. He went down into the hold but could find nothing wrong. Byles, who is a passenger by the steamer, dec’ares that he. knew nothing of the (natter, but he admits having wokel wt, Alderson in a railway g-ug about a mouth ago. Alderson is an old expiree.” Call a girl a chirk, and she smiles ; call a women a hen, and the howls. Call a ynu g woman a witch, and she is pleased ; col an old woman a witch, and she is iniigiiair. Call a gid a kitten, and -ho ra'hcr likes it; > all a women' a cat, ani she’ll hate yon. Queer aes, isn’t it f The weakest woman sma’l; st child, -aid si kest invalid, can use American Co.’a.Hop B.ttera wih safety and great good. , See

Here in a story of the young nobleman who aspires to be the modern Disraeli ,-—A few years ago Miss Jinny Jerome, the second daoehter of Mr Leonard W. Jerome, met Lord Randolph Churchill at a dinner in Paris. Attracted by her bendy and the brilliancy of her conversation, be soon con* fined his attention to her. Those who s*( near them stopped their talking and listened tu them with undisguised admiration. Miss Jerome was noted for her conversational powers, but they had never seemed to her friends as brilliant as on tbi- occasion. Lord Randolph, however, proved a match for her. Her satire was met with sparkling repartee, and her wit and humor for once fojnd a fair exchange. When the ladies had withdrawn Lord Randolph turned to a friend and said enteusiantically ; “Thai’s the brightest woman I have metand added, with the seriousness of a fatalist, ‘•and I mean to many her.” Singular enough while he was saying this, Miss Jerome was miking an almost identical remark concerning ’him to one of her sisters* Wuhin a fortnight of their first meeting they were engage I, and very soon afterwards ma ried. By this uni<n Lord Randolph s cured a wife whose aspiring and ambitious temperament has spurred him on in his political career, and w hose income is sufficient to £ rm a weh ome a iliti-m to bis am ill annuity. MrJerom conveyed to his daughter, before the marriage, the valuable pro parly upon which the University Club of Kew York city stands. i * witness at the Dunedin Police Court oa Monday was adroitly questioned by Sergeant major Bovin. Her husband was char ed wufi making me of bad language *UDiu tiio ueariuj ot passers Dy ir\ a public place, and ehe wa, called to rebut a constables evidence. Cross examination waeas followss;-Sergeant-major : “Now, .M,a how long have you been living wt.h the accused?’ Witness; “Seven ye.rs. Sergeant maj »r: “Have you nved wi-h him ail that time?” Witness* Yes,j exc pt for 12 month whou he was on the West Coast, hut then we corresponded with each other." «• Have you tie or been in g ml during r he seven years V '• Yes; hur, diet. you set he was mgaol too, though we were at different ends of the burbling.” Here the witness’s frank answers cause I .oars of laughter, in which the Bench j -ioed, and the accused, in admir.tion «-£ what he took so be smartness on the part of his spouse, exclaimed “ She’s cornered y--u, sergeant." However, the man did not profit by his wife’s “ gift of the ga», and Lad to go to gaol for fourteen days.

Por once {remarks the New Zealand Tim;B) the steady decrease in our yield of goal in New Z.alun I has been checked, and an increase is reeorde I. I. the September quarter of 1535 tha value of our gold expo, t (.he produce of New Zealand goldfields) was *-236.8611. as against L 208.493 fo the torr rp aiding quarter of 1884. We sincerely trust, that this change for the better will continue. Tbs total gold exported from New Zeaand from the first auriferous discoveries up to the 30th ult. amounted to a vdue of no less than 1.42,053,1925ter1ing. Hie Mat aura Ensign reports the death of another wsll known resident of Gore—Mr William J ihustoo, so’.citor. The deceased gentlemans figure was a familiar one in our Streets till about a year ago, when he was periodically attacked by illness Some eiglit or nine m mths since he was altogether confined to bis loom, and after suffering great pain he expired early on Saturday morning from pure exhaustion.- Mr Johnston was well known in many parts of the South Island. Many years ago he was a lending lawyer in D nedin ; an i as showing what.chan es the whirligig of time brings abuat.it may I e mentioned that Mr Basil Siev weight, now a partner of the Attorneygeueia.s. was atone time Mr JohustoMs cleik. Mr Johnston was 05 years of age. hid l ean 34 years n the Colony, and leaves nelur.d him a widow and nine children [ dr Joanston. it will he remembered, prao' tised in Clyde for some years.— Ed, ‘ D.T.’]

After ths hearing of a case at Invereareir), wbo-re George Helm, of the Eleodala Hosel, was fined LI, with L2 12s 61 costa, one of the witnesses in the case, which was remark 0)1 e for very contradictory evidence, demands I a stun to cover his expends, as ha had on'y keen allowed his railway fare. Tae 1 Southland Times’ states that when I ispectur Buckley, however, pointed vui that his evi lenoe had Ld > mm open to a penally of L 5. he having stated that he f .i»«<y represented himself to be a honajlde tnveller for the purpose of obtaining drink, the tentlem n, it is needless to say, “sub. side I.” T.ie inspector r marked that it was U't generally known that such a punishment could be it.fi cted under the Licensing Act for uiiaivpi esentation of the kind.

fn the Supreme Court ou Wednesday Mr Justice Williams mentioned, in the course ■if the case then proceeding, that Mr Justice Kiobimn l in addie-sing the Grand Jury at Wellington had been reported as having commented on the fact that the alteration in the law allowed accused persons to give evidence, hut a ide I that this might have been a miirepor . The provision in question lias not become law, it having been contained in the Criminal Code Bill, which was introduce i by the Minister for Justice and s ibo qnently dropped.

Mr T. B-ackeu, who is on a business visit to Australia, hw delivers I his lecture in ■tydney A u *• The Poets of Ireland.” Tbe ' Evening News’ ic the course of a eulogise tie notice of tbe lecture, says : “ Mr Bracken possesses the power not merely to amuse his audience, but to thrill and rouse them. His humorous rendering of 1 Widow Maohree’ brought down the bouse. Alto anther the entertainment was a literary treat.”

At Adelaide last week an amateur musician, name) Whelan, had just responded to a i encore accorded for the manner in which g rvo a selection at an entertainment he dropped dead. ’

Leading circles in Constantinople (says the Berlin correspondent of the London 1 Standard ’) do not share the English view, that the Ilussian advance in Afghanistan is j directed against British India. On tho j cn btrary, they regard it as preparatory to a | Russian advance south ot the Caspian towards the valley of tho Euphrates, and thence to Constantinople, as the Austro* German alliance has blocked the way across the Danube, The same influential Turkish circles are also concerned for safety of Tnrkif.fi Africa, and fear that the British may one day desire to advance through Syria to the Euphrates, in the effort to securethe safety of British ladia. The Sultan and the Grand Vizier, in short, believe that Turkey is in this dilemma, that not annexe I by Russia she must bo absorbed by England. Hence thov fear to enter upon any active line of policy, aud will consequently decline to enter into any engagement involving a new departure of this kind. They will undoubtedly feel very grateful to England for the special mission of Sir. H, D. Wolff, which they regard as an act of unusual deference on tho part ot the British Ministry, hut the feeling of gratitude by no means necessarily irn* plies the adoption of a new one of political action.

The discovery that the copy of the “ Roll Call” which was on exhibition in Sydney was not a genuine v plica of Mrs Butler’s famous picture enables London Truth to be very severe at the expense of the Sydney people. It says ; “ Tue art critics and the cognoscenti of Sydney. N.S.W., are having a bail time of it just now. It appears that some smart artist painted a * Roll Call' faithfully reproducing Mrs PuHers famous picture, and sold it to a gentian in who, taking it to the Antipoles, give out i i all honesty that it was the very work which had created such a sensati n over hero. Then all rhe people who love to twaddle a lout art went into, ecstasies about it. Some critics who had recently emigrated averred that they knew it by heart, having so often studied it in London when it was first ex* hihited. The furore, over this ‘gem’ this ‘ inspired battle-piece,’ culminated in the Government offering to buy it for the National Gallery of New South Wales. And all the time the • Roll Call’ was hanging at Windsor, in her Majesty’s galley, where it doubtless is at the present n.omout.”

Boiler explosions in Victoria appear to ho as numerous as they are infrequent in this Colony. During the past year 12 cxplo ions have taken place there, by which four per* sons were hilled, 14 irjnred, and several thousands of pounds worth of property dostroyed. At a meeting of the Victorian Engineers Association, Mr Wannan, mansger of the Australasian Boi'er Insurance Company showed that the proportion of accidents and results was as follows Nearly eight boiler explosions in Victoria to one in Great Britain ; six persons ki'led in Victoria to one in Britain ; and six person? irjured in \ ictoria to one in Britain. He made the following suggestions for the prevention of boiler explosions (1) Annual inspection by a competent and impartial person ; (2) boilers to be set in cis ; -iron brackets at each and, and iron or pointed fire-brick supports along the sides of a long boiler ; (.1) when a boiler is to be blown emp.y with a view of cleaning the tires should be drawn, and the pressure of steam should not exceed 101b; (4) hydraulic tests of old boilers should not exceed the wo* king pressure, and then only to ascertain where there are leaks, rather than as a o iterion of the length of a shell ; (5) to prevent shortness of water, the presence of a good attendant, aided by a fireplug in tie furnace crown, and aq alarm whistle attached to the boiler; (6) safety valves to be so fixed that they cannot be overloaded ; (7) the steam gauge to bo periodically tested and corrected! ; (-) when an engine is suddenly stopped while the fires aie in full blaze, and the steam rising rapidly, the furnace doors not to be thrown ooen, but the damper door shut, the safety valves looked to, and when smarting again the steana let slowly into the engine instead of folly opening the safety valve.

Mr H. C. M. Mastou has been giving bis experiences of England iu a letter to a Christchurch paper.-—“ In regard to New Zealand, I fi id pcooleg -nerallyand densely ignorant of it. I have addressed as many as four orfiue meotingsin a week on several occasions, and have always slven my audience some «~= >unt of New Zealand anl us ways. But people find it difficult to credit some of the facts of colonial life. They will hardly believe that capitalists can obtain 6 or 7 per cent, for their money. 1 But it is asked, *is the security good ? One gentleman came la me to say that ha hid a friend who wished to invest LlllOd, an 1 that the banks in the Colonies offered him 5 per cent for it ; * but were the banks sound ?’ A lady the wife of a cbu-ch dig. nitary, wanted to kn nr who was king of New Zealand ! That mutton should be 2d or 2J a pound completely astounds people who are paying 101 and Is a pound, air) so on. As to New Zealand mutton, I learn frem many sources that it is winning its way into geneial use ; and this reminds me of a kindred subject—wheat. I hear that one reason why the price of New Z aland wheat is so low is that many shipments arrived home In a soft or sweating condition. Toe wheat was it is said, put on board damp. It is to this fact I am told buyers avoid New Zealand wheat. Surely, if this be the ca°e, the evil can be remedied. n

Hollowao ’a Film. -The great need The blood is the life, and on its purity our health as well as onr existance depends. These Pi Is through y cleanse the vital flui I from contaminations, and by that means strengthen ami invigorate the whole system, healthy stimula’e sluggisu organs, r'eiir sg over excited action, estab ish order of circa* latiou and secretion throughout terry pirt of the ho ly. The balsamic nature of tl 0 ll 0 , ways Pil is exercises marvellous- power in giving tone to debilitated ami nervous con* stum ion*. The Pills dislodge all oostruc* tion both in the bowels and elsewhere, and are, on that account, much sought after f..r pro noting regnlaiity of action in young females and delicate persons who are naturally weak or havo from some cause become so,