The Dunstan Times. CLDYE FRIDAY, NOV. 19, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1290, 19 November 1886, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLDYE FRIDAY, NOV. 19, 1886. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (From car Correspondents). Dunedih, November 18, 7-55 p.m. At Land Board yesterday a . coalmining lease was granted for 30 years at 5s per acre per annum to John Pryde, Bannockburn. At the annual meeting of the National Insurance Company yesterday ihe report and balance-sheet was adopted. The master butchers here are going to raise ihe price of beef. In the Victoiia Legislative Ae< sembly on Tuesday the vote of noconfidence, was negatived. Large numbers are leaving Melbourne tor the diggings in South A ustral ia. 1 lie vepoi ts are s{ ill favorable. Two loads of washdirt yielded 11b of gold. At a large wool Sale in Auckland yesterday pi ices fetched l|d per lb all round in advance. The inquest on the body of Captain Cain was resumed at Timaru to-day, and is still going on. At Education Board tenders were agreed to foraddiuons to Clyde School residence, Charles Hueston is the successful tenderer at LI89; also additions to Alexandra School residence, the tender of Robert Hill,* LI 17 13s, was accepted. Owing to the dilapidated state of the Roxburgh school it was resolved to erect a new building W. J. Strong has been appointed teacher at Bannockburn school. Invermay won the Wagga Cup yesterday. Spade Guinea, Titbit, and Tale beaier are scratched for all engage menta at the Dunedin Spring Meeting. The material for the Ghatto Creek Bridge arrived in town to day, and will be sent up country at once, and the work will be gone on with imme diatelyLondon, November 16. Mukhtar Pasha, Turkish Commissioner in Egypt, admits that the immediate evacuation of that country by England is impracticable. The leaders of the Socialistic Organisation have notified Sir C, Warren Chief Commissioner of police, that there will be a great Socialist display, in Trafalgar square, on Sunday. They have also forwarded a request to the Marquis of Sa’isbury, that he should remain in town on that day in order to receive a cleputaof the unemployed. Count Kalkony’s speech to the Hungarian delegation Is much resented in Russia ’generally, and is interpreted as a menace to this country. News is to hand from Wady Haifa, on the Kile, that a large body of rebels were hovering in the Surrounding country, and it is expected will shortly renew hostilities. Overland mail arrangements which were interrupted during hostilities in Egypt, have now been resumed Latest news from the New Hebrides states that the French show no intention of leaving the Islands, the roids and bridges they have constructed present a permanent appearance.

In February last the dwelling, of Evan I Jones, of Bannockburn, was forcibly I entered and the turn, of L2O, in four L 5 | notes, stolen therefrom. The numbers of J the notes being known, a description of them was left at each place of business in the district. On the evening of the l6th inst a boy entered the store of Knm Goon Wab, at Cromwell, end asked for 11b of tobacco, presenting in payment a L 5 note. The Chinese storekeeper’s suspicions being aroused, he looked at his list of stolen uotes, and finding the number and bank corresponded, he came outside the counter with the intention of detaining the boy, but the latter ran away. He was arrested in a few hoars afterwards and brought before Messrs Jolly and Brown next morn* ing, who remanded him until Friday (today), when he will : be brought before the E.M. We have ierrned that the mother of the boy has since been arrested and confessed to the robbery, Mr S. H. Turton has been re-elected Mayor of Cromwell for a second term. The death of Mr Charles Peake, of Bannockburn, 'is announced as having taken place last week after only four days’ illness. We also have to notice the death of Mr Robert Watson on Monday last, in the Dunatan Hospital, after but a few days’ illness. Mr Watson has been living about Clyde and neighbourhood ever since its inception, during when he was chiefly engaged in mining. His funeral took place yesterday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of Good Templars, to which Order deceased belonged, A fire occurred at Bocky Point on Wed* nesday evening last about which there were some elements of suspicion, and full enquiry into which will be held judiciously to-day. Mr George M‘Lachlan and his sons occupied a hat and a tent which were quite 50 yards apart, with a small stream running between them. On Wednesday evening ihe M'Lachlans were at a neighbors a short distance oft and on leaving his place it was seen that both but and tent were in flames. Before anything could be done everything was consumed, Mr M'Lachlan estimates his loss at LIOO, including'a good many articles which to him could not be computed in money value. The police have been making searching ihe result of which (says the Argun) will come out at the official enquiry.—The inquest on the above was held at Rocky Point on th* 16th inal., before D. A. Jolly, Esq., J.P., when the jury returned a vefdict that the property was wilfully and maliciously set on fire by som« person or persons to them unkown. There was some furniture, a considerable quantity of bedding, wearing apparel, and other effects in the house and tent, and hi the pocket of a pair of trousers there was a sum of Lls in notes, all of which were destroyed. There was no insurance. The cricket match between the northern and southern ridings of Vincent County will commence.at Cromwell to-day, and continue to-morrow. A great amount of interest is being taken hj the contest, as it is the first of its kind. Play will start at 12 o’clock sharp to-day. The following will represent the northern Messrs Turtor, Maingay, Cogan, Do Raven (Cromwell), Torrance, Strong, Horn (Bannockburn), Bradshaw, Tobin, Horn, and M‘Donald (Pembroke). The South will qonaist of Fitches, Laidiaw, Ryan, Baoncrman. A. Pitches (Blacks), Williams, Simmonds (Alexandra), Shaw, Thomson, Hogan, and M. Holden (Clyde). Mr Fache reports having had a fairly successful sale at Tinkers on Monday last of the estate of the late A. Sutherland (deceased), prices realised being satisfactory. Mr Fache requests n8 to draw attention to the sals by auction (Saturday, the 20th inst.), at Alexandra, of drapery, etc., in the estate of G. N. M‘Donald (deceased); also a parcel of fully paid-up shares in White’s Quarts Mining Company. Dr Hyde, who has been appointed Resident Surgeon of the D. D. Hospital in place of Dr Lewis, resigned, we understand has arranged to enter npon his duties in the first week of December. At a meeting of the Dunstan Presbytery held on Wednesday, Rev. Mr Blackie, of Cromwell, signified his acceptance of a call to the charge of Turnigaturn. A full report of proceedings will appear in next issue. Use American Co.’s Hop Bitters and you will use no other medicine. Teat it. Take no other, be suie and read The Commissioners .appointed to investigate the causes of the Belfast riots have commenced their work. On the opening day all the baristers interested but two insisted on a short adjournment to suable them to consult as to the course to be pursued, which Mr Justice Day refused saying that would bo a waste of time. Despite protests the Judge proceed d to examine the witnesses, whereupon the Bar rose aud left the Court-room, one of the gentlemen of the long robe saying • “ The Iriah Bar is not used to such treatment." A later telegram states that the result of the Commission is to show that the Homo Rule proposal caused the Orangemen to lose their heads. The tragic death of Father Kavanagb, of Dublin, caused a great sensation in that city. Ha was one of the moat prominent aud eminent of the Irish Catholic divines. He was killed by the fall of a statue which stood above the altar of the church in which he was officiating. On being ecruok by the atatuo ho fell backward, his head striking a marble slab, inflicting a fearful wound that caused his death in an hour. The melancholy event cause 1 much excitement amongst his worshippers. Deceased was instrumental in effecting the settlement between the Duke of Leinster and his tenants, and was a prominent figure in almost every Irish movement of importance. Balmy sleep, good digestion, rich blood, elastic step and cheerfulness in American Oo.’s Hop Bitter*. Read and believe

It is believed that counterfeit pound-notes are circulating in Christchurch. One was taken by a shopkeeper yesterday. Unprecedented frost in the districts south of Napier on the morning of the 12 th,inst, destroyed all the potatoe crops, beans, vines, and flowering shrubs—even docks were kill, ed. The mischief was [done through a, fiercely hot morning succeeding the frost. The‘Post’ understands that there has been a marked improvement in the business of the Government Insurance Office since the direct control was resumed by Governmeat. In a recent week’; upwards of 200 new proposals wero receivedThe latest developments of the Salvation Army work in England have been Jthe despatch to rural districts of a number of tricylo corps, and of four “squadrons" of female cadets from London to the principal towns of the east, west, and south of Eng. land; and'another corps was te embark to India, clad in Native costume. A Wellington paper says:—“ There are some funny anomalies in the grain trade. In New Zealand not a single bushel of mill, ing wheat can be .bought for 4s fid a bushel, and yet New Zealand Wheat is quoted at 4s 2d in Sydney. New Zealand flour as cheaper in London than in the colony the wheat was grown and ground in. Somebody must be at a heavy loss in consequence ” There is no doubt that the lo«- quotations for New Zealand wheat in foreign markets is brought by the growers themselves. The price lists of Great Britain and all the Australian Colonies invariably place :> ew gealand wheat as of least value. The fault is not in the soil, neither is it in the seed It arises from the almost universal custom of carting the gfainjto market almost immediately after it is ent This plan answers well enongh in the hot and dry climate of Australia,but aa the market quotations show it detracts very much from the quality c£ the grain ia the humid and very temperate climate of New Zealand. No Home farmer would dream of offering weeat for sale until it had been stacked for some months and such a courso is equaly necessary in New Zealand, especially ia this part of the country. Contrasting the difference between the first Cup race in 1851 and that of 1886 Timotheus ’’ in the Argus moralises thus'; —“ Yes ; time has changed most things at Flemiflgton. Dress ha-r changed. Crinoline may not be altogether unknown, but the ladies have treated it in a ‘ get tht« behind me, Satan ’ fashion. The scene has changed, Melbourne was invisible from the course then. Now, the city ia coming down to it, and spires and buildings crown tho nearer h-lls. The course ia transformed out of recognition—its ways, and its buildings, and its style. But the great change is in the people.. They' were all hard-headed 1 Britishers ’ who attended in tho old time, whose ialk was either ‘ horsey ’ or of the goldfields. Now, the crowd is largely composed of yonog people, who wereot born in ’6l, or were not in their teens, or, at any rate, wjre not out of >■ thsm. The dress,., the J- nth, the wealth, are all ns w. Theci'.y in ’CI was absolutely rncrpable of such a show as yesterday, no matter what enthusiasm bad been worked up, for there was not the luxury, net the . equipages, not the milliners, not the ladies. The ry was of bard times. P opie did not hesitate to say that Melik urns was done for. The Otago diggings brd just been opened out, and Luredin was supposed to be the real FI Dorado There may be pasting ckuds again, but tho e who can contra, t the Cup of ’6l with tbe Cup of 'B6 will never be pessimistic about Victoria.” Herr Hencbenter, the Bavarian Premier’s father in-law, after witnessing the trial and sentence of an editor at Munich on October 12 for libelling the Premier, ran out of the court-room and shot himself. He had been depressed latterly by seeing numerous editors, fathers of families, imprisoned for small Press offences.