The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1885. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1235, 30 October 1885, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1885. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Beneatn the rale of men entirely Jast The pen is mightier than'the sword.

[BY ELBOTBIO TELEGRAPH.]

(From our Correspondents). .A

Dunedin, October 29, 9 ».m. Mr Pyke has received a letter from the New Zealand Constabulary Commissioner's Office informing him, in reply to his letter of the 7th inst., that authority was given to the Public Works Department on the Bth September to call for tenderers for the erection of a stable and forage store at Clyde. On making further enquiry at the Dunedin office Mr Pyke was informed that Inspector Hickson had been instructed to ask for tenderers locally, but that it would not be advertised, the working being small. Thus for ten shillings worth of adver* tisement L2O may be lost to the country. Mr Pyke has telegraphed a remonstrance against this procedure as being penny wise and pound foolish. Ihe contemplated structure is to be of stone or wood, alternative tenders being receivable. The dimen sions are to be 30ft by 17ft, comprising one stable, a loosebox, and a forage store; the site selected being the camp reserve.

It is reported that th» snow poles on the Waikaia track are destroyed.

Dunedin, October 29, 7.35 p.m,

At the Land Board yesterday, Mr D. Mackellar was granted a further license to occupy for 10 years section at Cromwell under Mines Act.

Deferred Payment Lands were granted to C. Aston, Tiger Hill, Mr Pyke contributes the first of a series of interesting articles on the new find ot gold at Ophir in this week’s ‘ Witness.’

The direct steamer lonic has arrived at Wellington. Sir Julius Vogel, in the course of advice to his constituents at Christchurch, stated the Government would shortly introduce a system of sixpenny telegrams.

The Tiraaru Agricultun-l Show yesterday was attended by over 4000, and was highly successful. Sir Julias Vogel will visit Dunedin before he returns to Wellington, Consequent of a good trial Tiger Tom has advanced for the Canterbury Cup to 100 to 8. The other favorites, however, still retain their positions.

Stony hurst ban resumed his training, and now appears in the mornings. He was a trifle lame this morning after his gallop’ There is no alteration in the betting on the Melbourne Cup. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland to-day, the usual dividend was declared, and L 27,000 earned forward. The miners strike at Lambton, N.S.W., still continues. There is a disposition on the part of the Newcastle miners to join in the strike.

London, October 27. The Cambridgeshire stakes was won by Pleasonteric. Sir Drummond Woollf is on his way to Egypt.

The Government are in receipt of despatches from General De Courcy, commanding the French forces in lon quin, announcing that his troops have succeeded in capturing the Black Flag stronghold of Thau Mai, completely dispersing the enemy, and occupying the position in force. It is currently reported th it a revolution has taken place in Mandalay, and the Burmese King (Theebau) has, been murdered by his subjects. The report so far lacks official contirmaiion. I'he representatives of Great Britain and France yesterday notified to the Sultan that their respective Governments had agreed to take part in the projected conference on the Bui* garian question.

The Turkish delegates hare not yet beet appointed, and the conference consequently postponed until next week.

In regard to the Roumelian difliculey, King Milan, of Servia, has intimated that he will be concent with the restoration of the status guo ante. Skirmishes have taken place along the frontier line between the Servian and Bulgarian troops. Diplomatists anticipate that little good will result from the Conference of the Great Powers on the Boumolian question.

The first meeting of the Board of the District of Central Otago under “ The Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act,” will be held at the Vincent County Clyde, on Thursday next, November sth. Mr G. N. McDonald, Mayor of Alexandra, has been elected to represent the Borough of Alexandra on the Board of the District of Central Otago under “ The Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885.” The following is a copy of a telegram from the Public Works Deprrtment in re Roxburgh Bridge: October, 1885. Vincent Pyke, Esq., M.H.U., Roxburgh. In reply to your letter of tho 7th inst. re. Roxburgh Bridge, advertisement calling for tenders will be issued next month. (Sd.) C.Y, O’Cosnor, Under Sec. Public Works,

Wo are informed that Mr J. E. Kennedy has disposed of the well-known racehorse Foul Play (late Coburg) with hi* engagements to M r H, Swift, of the Sowbnrn, at a satisfactory figure (*10). Foul Play will remain in the hands of Mr Kennedy for training. f. ' ■ ' - ' "4; By advertisement in another column it will be seen that Mr Cooper, of the Otsgo Bible and Tract Society, will be in Clyde to-morrow and Monday next. On Saturday (to-morrow) the Blacks and Clyde cricket clubs meet for the first time this season,when a good game is anticipated. The Clyde team will be chosen from the following Stevens, captain ; Morrison, Thomson, Hogan, MoOonnochie, Shaw, Kediiell, Simmonds, Holden, fiaper, Cowic, Bowden, and Nicbol,

The fruit gardens in and around Clyde are looking very pretty just now 1 , andjqdg iog from the abundance of blossom on the trees, we should imagine the fruit supply will be larger than has been known for years past.,

On Saturday last, the 24th inat., the Clyde Cricket - Club held their opening match of the season. President v. Vice* President, and the day being very fine, a fair muster of players tamed up, - The play throughout was of excellent quality, and should the club go in for good steady prao* tide they will no doubt give a good acconut of themselves at the end of the season. One great drawback to this clnb is the great distance which some of the players have to come to attend practice, and seldom, if ever, are the eleven seen .at practice together. The President’s side, captained by Stevens, won the toss, andeleated to bandia the willow. In this they were moat unfortunate, for Thomson being dead on, it was impossible to score, the whole side being disposed of for the small score of 7. The Vice- president’s side, captained by Thomson, next handled the.'willow, their innings closing for , 23, Thomson being the only scorer of note, he having made, 18 (not out) in fine form. In the second innings the President men showed much bettor form, and were not dismissed until they had scored 61. Stevens 23, Shaw 9, and Simmonds 17 played good cricket Requiring 45 runs to win, the Vice president sent in McCounochie and Thomson to wipe off the score, they succeeding in running up 35 before Thomson was dismissed with a regular trimmer from Stevens. KoddeU played a not out innings for 11, while McCounochie played sterling cricket for 29. The bowling on either side was very good, while the fielding was well np to tha standard. The game resulted in a win for the Vice president by 18 runs after a really good afternoon’s play. Old men, tottering round from rheumatism, kidney trouble or any weakness will be made almost new by using American Co.’i Hop Bitters freely. Read

A shocking affair occurred at Blenheim on the morning of October 24th. A boy, aged 14, son of a merchant’s clerk named Wenstanley, pointed a loaded carbine at his brother, a lad of 10, who was lying in bed. The elder boy was nnaware that the piece was loaded, but it went off, and his brother’s brains were blown out on the pillow, death being instantaneous. Tne affair was purely a misadventure. The boys were both cadets, and had been at skirmishing drill the previous day, and the elder one had inserted a piece of lead into his carbine for practice at shooting at a mark. He was handling the carbine in his bedioum on the morning of the accident, showing his brother how to drop on one knee to resist cavahy, and the weapon was resting on the floor at half cock, when it accidentally went off, with the fatal result already described.

A guard on one of the railway trains from the South yesterday, (reports the ‘Tmiaru-Herald’ of Tuesday) was nearly blown to pieces, or at any rate was scared to an extent that led him to doubt whether he was whole or not, by an explosion which occurred in the van. It was sufficiently severe to knock the luggage about, and give him a broad hint to clear into the nearest carriage. After a while on hearing no more reports, he summoned up sufficient courage to return to the van, when he found that a jar containing medicine of of some sort—and not dynamite, as he at first supposed—had gone off. Whether this medicine was or was not meant to kill the person to whom it was consigned, we were unable to ascertain, but the guard has his. own suspicions on tho matter. It is needless to say that on the arrival of the train at Timaru inquiries were set on foot to ascertain tho exact nature of the compound! but whether they resulted satisfactorily or not'we do not know. A ludicrous incident occurred at the Hawke’s Bay agricultural show last week, which is thus narrated by the local paper : —“The ladies’ hacks shown were supposed to have been ridden by ladies. One buxom lassie was dressed well and rode well, but seemed to be bursting with laughter at some very good joke. As she passed a group of men a gu«fc of wind blew aside her habit, and revealed a 1 beetlecrnsher ’ of portentous size, well studded with big nails. ‘ Great Scott exclaimed one of the group, ‘ What a foot t ’ The amused smile on the face of the rider deepened into a broad grin as she said 1 Don’t yon know me Jim ? ’ ‘ She ’ was a boy I" It was found on the departure of the U S. corvette Enterprise from Melbourne for Wellington that eighteen of her crew had deserted. Several of these (the ’Argus’ states) were young apprentices, towards whom Capt. Barker felt that he stood somewhat in the position of guardian, and whom he was anxious to return to their friends in the United States. One of these lads had Ll2O due to him as wages. It any of the deserters rejoin tho vessel at Wellington before the end of this mon:,h they will not he officially reported and will be dealt with leniently, i

At Hawera the other day Mrs Ward stated at a temperance meeting that “ her husband (Judge Ward) travelled from Christchurch to Invercargill, taking in tha Otago goldfields, and often did 800 miles in a week without any stimulant. In fact, he did the work of three Judges for the pay of one—(a Is ugh)—and he drank nothing but water. He was now a better and stronger man than ever he had been,"

The Melbourne ‘Age ’ states that it is proposed by the Government to introdace the system of employing shorthand re* porters in the law Courts of the Colony. With a view of affording the members of the Legislative Assembly an opportunity of judging the value of the system as adopted in America. Canada, and New Zealand, the Attorney-general has compiled a memorandum on the subject containing extracts from English, American, and Australian papers. According to the memorandum, the introduction of shorthand reporting into the superior Courts of Canada has been so successful as to justify tbo Government in extending the system by appointing additional reporters, and also by introducing them into the county of York and the city of Toronto. Experience has proved the system to be a preat success in New Zealand, and the testimony is also forthcoming from a number of the leading judges of America approving of the system as one altogether indispensable to the rapid dispatch of business.

There has been no mining sensation nothin recent years to equal that produced by tbs rich find made by the Hepburn Estate Company (says the Melbourne Herald). In a single day the market value of the compuny’s property and of two adjoining claims rose an aggregate of L 75.000, and in two days the increment in value had reached LI 10,000. This enormous advance has been caused by reports from the mine that the company had bottomed on three feet of washdirt, which yielded 4dwt. lOgr. from four dishes of dirt, aud by later information that the bottom part of the gutter is the richer. If present expeditions are realised, it is not too much to say that the find is one of national importance. The result is that in two days the market value of properties in the Creswick district has increased, consequent on the find of tha Hepbum Estate Company, by an aggregate of L 113.000,

Another exploring expedition is about to start from Adelaide, under Mr Lindsay, to gain further information regarding the Australian Continent. Lieutenant Hennas Ditterich, from Melbourne, haa volunteered the work of botanical selection, Ha is highly recommended by Baron von Mueller and the Austrian Consul in Melbourne as a man of great experience in connection with camel and desert travelling, and was correspondent for the < Daily News’ at Cairo during the cholera epidemic in 18S3. Mr Lindsay has obtained from Baron von Mueller a large quantity of seeds of various kinds to plant at suitable points through the continent. The party consists of seven men and ten camels.

Ready-made St at nee” is the name given to a piece of news which is certainly of a startling character in so far as its mere details are concerned. A chemist of Brest proposes to convert the remains of human beings into statues by a process of a ohemi. cal and electrical nature. The dead body is treated so that it becomes as hard as marble, and is thus rendered practically imperishable. What is to be done with the remains after being ro treated our chemical friend does not suggest. The possession of the bodies of our friends treated in this way does not appear to present any agreeable or advantageous prospects, and on this account we fear tho proposal will not bear practical fruit. An ingenious critic, however, has been equal to the occasion. He sngvests that we may save the cost of statuary by converting tho bodies of om great men into imperishable figures. It would certainly {wri ca “ Health”) bo a startling innovation on the ordinary process of embalming were the proposal ever carried ont, and were wo to place the veritable bodies of notable persons in our streets as incentives to the culture of great qualities among the people. Bat such a proposal Is rather too advanced for adoption by the present age. A most barefaced attempt at a large swindle came before the Police Court at Sydney recently, when a respectable-iook-ing man named Alfred T.evy was charged with obtaining goods under falsa pretences. Jnst before the hoar of closing he had entered a furniture warehouse accompanied by a young lady, and, on being interviewed by the manager, he informed him that he was about to be married to the young lady, who had a fortune in her own right of L 30.000, besides an income of LBO a week, all of which she had made over to him. The lady, ho said, came with her mother from Christchurch, .New Zealand, and they wanted to purchase a quantity of fumitnte. The story was a plausible one. Everything seemed en regie: The couplewere shown through the rooms, and selected goods to tho value of from L 450 to LSOO, and then left. The following day the man returned with an elderly lady, whom ha represented as his prospective mother-in-law, and made further purchases amounting to about LIOOO worth. These he desired to be sent to his residence, “ Oaklands,” Balmain. The manager politely intimated that, as he was a stranger to them, some reference would be necessary before the goods cenld be despatched, and he was at once referred to the manager of tho A.J.S. Bank, sconsed at the same time handing him a cheque for L6OO, and taking his departure. Fortunately for the firm the goods were not sent, as the cheque on being presented at the bank, was returned nulla hona. The prisoner was committed for trial.

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