The Dunstan Times. Beneath the rule of men entirely just. The pen is mightier than the sword. CLYDE, FRIDAY. JANUARY 8, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS;

Dunstan Times, Issue 1245, 8 January 1886, Page 2

The Dunstan Times. Beneath the rule of men entirely just. The pen is mightier than the sword. CLYDE, FRIDAY. JANUARY 8, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS;

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

(From our Correspondents).

Dunedin, January 7, 7.35 p.m,

Yesterday was awfully hot all ovei the Colony, in Dunedin it was 78 in shade at noon.

Over one hundred men left by the Waibora to-day for Melbourne to work as lumpers there in place of men out on strike.

Special telegram in * Daily Times ’ says it is generally recognised that grain crops in Oamaru district have been utteily ruined by the prolonged drought. The Union Insurance Co have de« blared the usual interim dividend 10 per cent. - - ■ ;

Of the eight (16) Junior Scholarships offered by Education Board the fifth and seventh are taken by Alexander Joss and John M. Hickson respectively both of Clyde. A cable message received from London states that the National *Bank New Zealand has declared dividend at rate of five per cent per annum. An accident occurred in the river Derwent, Tasmania; yesterday, involving the loss of several lives, while one of the boats engaged in the river trade was proceeding with a cargo of lime and several passengers, she was upset, and four women and a boy lost their lives by drowning. The remain ing six occupants of the boat w.-re only rescued with groat difficulty, owing to the burning conditionof the lime, caused by contact with water.

Serious bush fires are raging in Masterton district.

Thirty four houses were destroyed at Stratford, and all the settlers are leaving the township. Yesterday there were eight deaths from sunstroke in Adelaide.

London, January 6, The Greek Government have issued a note to the Powers claiming the delimitation of the boundaries of Greece in accordance with the treaty of Ber. lin.

The recent defeat of the Soudanese Arabs by the English troops has intimidated the rebels, who have retired beyond Daibar. The British forces are returning to their head quarters. The Dacoits are still troublesome in Upper Bnrmah. Intelligence is to hand staring that they have killed three Europeans who were returning from timber cutting at Palsit, 24 miles from Mandalay

The Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland meets in the First Chutch, Dunedin, on Tuesday first, the 12ih January. We learn that the Kirk Session of Alexandra and Clyde have unanimously e’ected Mr John Steuhouse, rector nt the High School, Lawrence, to be their commissioner and represcuta! ive to the Synod,

The continued dry weather is becoming very serious, and portends greater mischief and trouble than is to bo desired. The cereal crops in moat places will not pay for the reaping, whilst the root crops must he a failure unless there is a general and steady downpour of rain. Added to this the miners in many places are knocked off for the want of water in their races. There is, however, one blight spot (though but a •mall one) in the dark cloud, that holders of grain will'benefit by the rise in piice that is sura to follow a light harvest. And still they come- will the Dunedin High School authorities bo able to say of the Clyde boys. This year again one of Mr S evens’ scholars. Master Alexan ler Joss, has gamed a Junior Scholarship, being the fifth on the list of percentage of marks gained ; whilst Master Hickson, another of the Clyde boys, stood seventh. For the past five years Mr Stevens has sent up scholars to compete fot the Junior Scuolar« ships, and on each occasion has gained one, iometimes two. Such a continuity of successes denotes most unmisi akably the possession not only of ability, but great taetjin imparting knowledge, and we should much like to see Mr Stevens’ ability recognised in more than mere woids.

S Information has been received in An civ lend that-the temperance organisations of Melbourne are negotiating with Drß. W. Richardson, the well-known temperance writer, to deliver a course of sixty lectures throughout the Australasian colonies. He will oi coons visit New Zealsod,

A telegram from Adelaide wu published la a Sydney paper «s follows ■ A serious attempt to intimidate members of Parliament was made on Thursday, when Mr Rees received an annqnymons letter telling him to keep away from the House daring the evening as it would be destroyed by an infernal machine. The letter, which attracted much attention, was placed in the hands of the police, and the parliamentary buildings were carefully searched and guarded by the police. Mr Rees did not attend during the evening sitting and the House was then adjourned at an annually early hour. Th» manner in which the confiscation of private property is now daily advocated at tnrhnlent meetings of the unemployed and others is having even a wore disastrous effect on the commerce of the Colony than the hard times and the failure of the crops.” The Adelaide Redster characterises this telegram as a far-ago of exaggeration and falsehood. The anuonymous letter to Mr Rees was treated by himself and fellow-members as a joke. I’he other meetings it characterises as ridiculous fabrications.

At the Core Police Court on Wednesday an information at the instance of L. T, Symes, local manager of the Bank of Australasia,'against lan & Simeon, auctioneer, desiring that he should' be bound over to keep the peace, was heard by Mr Revill, R. M., who bound the defendant over for three months, reoognaisance L2O. It transpired that the proceeding arose out of a banking transaction by which the defen. dant considered himself aggrieved, and bad threatened at the railway station to horsewhip the complainant.

Mr Wardell, of Wellington, is gaining an unenviable notoriety for his judgements. The latest, which has occasioned a deal of Press comment, was given by a man named Cosgrove, who was charged rrith telling obscene photographs. In support of their case the detectives produced the only real proofs of the prisoners alleged guilt in the shaoe of some photograpic cai ds of the nude human form divine, which the magistrate unhesitatingly characterised as not coming unde.- the category of indecent pictures” Unfortunately, however the accused bad admitted to the detective that he bad sob] ** ohscene’photograpbs, accepting that terra as meaning the pictures upon him when arrested, and now before the Bench. Upon this admission the young fellow, amin-t whom the magistrate himself had said there was no proof of guilt in the photographs pro. duced in evidence, was sentenced to seven days hard labor, because Mr War fell con sidered he had sold ths pictures with the " consciousness ” that they weie obscene • but on second thought the magistrate redaced the tern to fo* ty-eight hoars. The * Press ’ «ays that the decision affords ample proof, no. only that the possesion of a c>nscienee is a very awkward thing, lut also that it is deoida lly dangerous to the individual possessing it, when the power to read it is arrogated to hi rase f by another, mortal. A more it"would he harir tb imagine, and the “ bull ” con tained in its application quite puts into the shade the venerable verdict “ not guilty, bat advised not to do it again, ll

An important denature in legal procedure was made during the trial’of Fewdina.id Ward, the partner of the late Genera! Grant in Wall street, for grand larceny, at the New York Criminal Court. Ward is charged with obtaining from the Marine Bank by a fraudulent draft the sum of 71,800 do!. The principal evidence for the prosecution was given by James D, Fish, ex president of the bank and now a convict, and his brother paying teller of the Marine Bank, and it went to show that the relations of Ward with the Bank gave him in tact carte blanche to draw on its fund without limit, a privilege of which he had avails t himself to the arronnt of more than a hundred thousand dollars at a time prior to the specific overdraft for which he is on trial, and that this fact was known to James D. Fisli, president of the bank. During the time the latter was on the witness-stand the prosecution introduced an alleged telephonic conversation between Fish an I Ward with regard tothe latter’s cheque. Ward’s counsel fought hard to get the conveisation rejected but the Court ruled that it was admissible, and on it mainly Ward was convicted. Th's is said to be the first instance of this kind of evidence in Auk riean criminal jurisprudence.

Regarding the cholera which was brought to Queensland by the steamer Dmunda, th 9 Brisbane correspondent of the ‘Melbourne Age’, writing on December 24, gives the fol'owing favomahle news: You in Victoria will rejoice with us in Queensland at the good news to hand from our quarantine station at I’eel Ts'and. The latest bulletins aive ua reason to hope that the cho'era has been checked, and that the Dorunda’s passengers will 1)« released. At no time since the vessel arrived in Moreton Bay has there been anything like a scare among our popn. lation. The Jsol.Yed position of the quarantine station, and its distance from town, preventing alarm being felt lest the disease somehow or o her should he wafted to sh-ue. Here mi there, so 1 learn from medical friends, were to be found mclividua'a who 1 ecame frightened, and in this way brought upon the use! es disea e akin to cholera. The fright, though, w. s but temporary, and the symptoms of sickness soon passed away. Sufficient has been learnt from ihose cares to confirm one in t!ie belief that where cholera Kills ten fi ight kills a hundred, and also some notion hj s been gained as to the tiepidation many would be in did the direful disease find a footing amongst us. Some little apprehen- ( s'on has been felt lest the passenge'-s who landed from the Dorunda at Cooktown should communicate the disease to others. But the whereabouts of everyone who landed from the vessel prior to her arrival off Townsville has been ascertained, all are found to be free from disease, and no danger from that quarter is now feared.” The latest teleiram from Brisbane, dated 29ch nit., is as follows “Dr Hickling reports from quarantine to-day that there is one ease of severe diarrhoea, that of a German child. The latest report states that the child is doing welL There is no further eickuess.”

Two gentlemen in favncargill, who attempted to rescue the captain and two of the seaman belonging to tbe Annie Hill, bad a rather novel experience. The boat in which the captain and seaman were capsized. when another seaman from the vessel with Messrs Cheyne and Spence, who were en B a g®d in fishing, palled to the men straggling in the water. Instead of evincing any thankfulness (says the Sontbland News), the captain roundly berated hie rescuers for tbe manner in which they had gone about the work ; declared in effect that he had never seen a boat bandied in a more lubberly fashion, and altogether appeared to regret that he had been eaved by snch means. The discovery of what is asserted to be a payable goldfield in Western Australis is thas detailed in a telegram to the Melbourne “ Age " from its Sydney correspondent, dated December 29th: “ A telegram was received from Townsville on. Monday from James Farrell, of Herberton, who has received a letter from Joseph M‘Gagne, in Western Australia, dated 2nd October. M'Cagne states. that a party, of which be is a member, have discovered payable gold on the Elvira Creek, one of the bead waters of the River Ord. Owing to the scarcity of water the party conld only stay there a week, bnt during tba* time they obtained JOoz of coarse gold. The party have applied for a reward, which will probably be recognised by the Western Australian Government. M‘Gagne deprecates a rush at present, owing to the diffi cutties and dangers to be encountered, but he believes that ultimately a large field will be opened out. M‘Caguo is a reliable man and an experienced miner. The Elvira Creek is probably one of the creeks which combine and form a river which discharges into Cambridge Golly. Jt is through Palmerston that diggers would have to go, and it is 700 miles from Palmerston to the alleged goldfield. When Mr Watson left Palmerston a fortnight ago a party of 10 men were preparing to make a start for the head cf the Ord River. Tbe best route from Palmerston is first to make the Dar. win camp, thence to the Catherine River, and from Price’s Creek to Delmara Station, thence to Gregory and Victoria Rivers, on to the Warehill Station, owned by Mr Buchanan, who believes in the existence of a nch goldfield.”