The Dunstan Times CLDYE. FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1887. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1297, 7 January 1887, Page 2

The Dunstan Times CLDYE. FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1887. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

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[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (Prom cur Correspondents). Dujtedin, January 5, 7.30 p.m. JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIPS. J. M. Hickson and Henry F. Hueston, of Clyde, and Jean L. Muokelli'.', of Cromwell, get Junior Scholursuips.

Dukbdis, Jmuary, 6, 7 53 p.m. At I.and Roard }e*terdty Mr V, Pyke, W D Moran. applied for exfen aion of time to l*e allowed for payment often!; <>f ptnjjetiial lease at Lauder 1 he Hoard decided that as six month** tent had l-eeu paid, consideration Le deferred. The application by Mr Wilson for lease of gravel reserve at Lauder, was declined. The second cricket match—Australia v. England, was drawn, _ Latest I ten j nor ou D-n. din Cun Nelson and Spade Guinea 8 to 1; Loehiel and Disowned Id to 1 ; Mali ■' tier. Fair Veil, Lady \orali, Tasman, and Hermitage, £0 ft) 1. Rig pi ices we-e re i ise lat sale of racing yeai lings ves nrd tv. The highest price re distal -v as f,„- a Musket filly, £ISOO. 'I ho twenty-two Mils. keis sold average I over £4OO each. Two men were burned to death at a fire at Napier early this morning. Wafers, of Wellington, was arrested on hoaid the Waihora on arrival last night T) ilgetty and Co. report the. tend enoy of the 1 ondon wool market decih'.fy upwards, prices in general show half-penny to tliree-farthinga. A mm named Thomas 'Vewtoi was drowned yesterday evenin<» whilst hal hing at Lawyer's Heads. ° The Omapere. yesterday, came into collision with the Id' dredge in the 1 over hj -rbonr The .reamer was slightly d ranged, but the die ige now iirs nearly submerged in the hottom. It is f,-ared that she may he totalv lost though o.i soft I ot-om only 300 yar-.s from shore. , The National R-,nk ef I land pay interim dividend of ere neI cent. The Pleiades has arrived from Glasgow. The Pricmor left for Wellington to dav. The Governor leaves for Dunedin on Fiiday wh<'r* he proposes Spnuiin r two or th ee i eks. It is decided to 1 t the law take Its course in connection with the Mount Rennie outrage. Discouraging reports arc received rc small pox in Australia. I -Ondon. January 4 Messrs Dillon and O’Brien are con tinning the Irish Campaign, The ‘Times states that a further shipment of gold to Australia is expected. hew York, Jan 5, a serious railway collision occurred near Tiffin, Ohio, between goods and the passed trains, resu’tiy.g in the loss of fit I y 22 lives caught, (he and twelve passengers were Intent to death. Many oth-rs weie .serio.isly injured. Wo-k lins l ean pretly well at a s’andslill da'ing the holidays, hut we bear tint in most p’a esir. is agiio ;esurn.*d, and the b airicss ot an aher year ent a A heartily 11-ion. The late waim wrather his great y •hied P the el,cams, accordingly oi.r a'uic-rs are all hub iUo. , In trave 1 iichtough the district Jat !v we noticed some spiundel crops of both wheat and oils hat will give plenty of work for busy hands to do. The rs'inn cricket match between the Blacks and Clyde Cricket Clubs will take niece to-morrow on the groan I of the fo>. Mr, nlay c ■minenoing at 10 am. sharp. The followin' are the teams Bhn-ki-W. and A. Pi’cbes, Wiliam*, f. ntr* B. Bvnn, Barren., Brown, B nmerm in, Gar n.t, Barrowchff, and Ge kins ; em.r; n-y ’ Waldron and M'Atamauy. Clyde— Stevens, Hogan, Shaw, Tbo t.s-n. R.ilden, Simmon la, Martin, Hyde, ICe ddl, Faohe,' and Filch )tt. At a sale of hind in the ITawea Fit, h°ld last week at Cromwell, the prices realised were most encouraging, an 1 evidence t that the people in the most fat away Botth inent of (Jingo have, faith in th.* future. The laud was the properly of the kite Mr Heimau Arodt, and was su'd bv older of the execute's ioO'acres realised 1.4 10s per acre. 9l) acres T 4 17. C ;. 50 acres Lo, and 100 acres 1,5 5«. It has to he borne i.i mind that the land L mJuuced and unimproved in any wuy. Every sclm’ar in the State schools of Vidona and South Australia next year is to receive a small testament herring the Queen’s antogiai hj, in coiinnrmoration of lbs jubilee. Mr J. 11. Angui is th) donor of the books for South Australia, atd 40,0l)l) ' copies will bo required,. .

It would seam that tho E lunation Da | partment (say* Iha Ballarat Courier) occm ■ioually indulges in a j <ke at the expense of its teachers, for it can hardly be believed that a conical letter, covering two sheets of f«olfonj\ which Was received by ;wo pupil ■ teachers recently, was written in a a irious mood. The teachers lodged in a house at which measles broke ou\ and they ah* j sented themselves from duty pending Instructions from the sail department. The 1 instructions arrived in due time. The ' teachers were censured for staying away 1 from school under the circumstances. They ! should have either renoved to different lodgings, or have iso’ated themselves in t.heir nsual quarters. They were to resume duty at once, and pursne one or other of the courses imnSoned. If the latter, they were to fumigate themselves before going to school, and immediately after leaving school They were not to go direct to school from their lodgings, but were recommended to take a Walk around the country for the purpose of themselves to the hre»£». A similar cnn r se was to he pursuer! after coming from school. If it hap. paned to be a ca'm day, an 1 the-o was no breeze about, they were to expose themsolves to the action of Root’s patent blower. They were to uncover their heads at intervals of a few yards, as this would have a powerful effect in causing aT traces'of the measles to depart from their persons. If. in addition to this, they washe I tbsm»“lves frrqnent'y, the department notified hat there was no necessity for their absenting themselves from duty. The contents of the letter having get noised abroad hav--naturally caused much amusement amour •heirfelhiw teachers, and numerous jokes •ve cracked at the exper.se of the two lodgeis in the measles infected house. The mania for collecting postage stamps seems to be gaining more ground than ever m Franco (writes the Paris correspondent, of the Daily Telegraph). Among the inoatTimous collectors io France is a man who has over a million postage stamps preserved in 130 richiy-honnd volumes, and another who keeps two clerks emp'oye l in classifying and arranging h : * enormois colI' ction. Added to this, there are in Paris about 150 wholesale firms employed in the tra te. and one of the ires'-, kno vn .-f these has lately nffe ed from L2O to L4O f- r certain stamps of the vear 183(5 Tn-c n postage stamps dated before 1860 w : ll be pai l for at the rate of L 6 eaih, white stamps from Mauritius for the year 1847 fa»ch LBO. and French stamps of 1849 are quoted at Ll each, Messrs tlninness.and Co., the well-known firm of stout brewers at Dublin, have converted their brewery into a j >int stock company with a capital of I.G.O'iO.O'IO, about one half of which consist of assets, and one ha’f of good will. The assets and one«’x'h o* the goodwill are represented by debentures and preference shares. The ordjmry shares represent five-sixths of the pool will. The shares when, the last mail left London were at above 60 per cent, premium, so that the public deem the goodwill, and reckon five-sixths of the business to be worth L 4,800,001. The subscription asked for was about L 5 200,0(10, but the applications amounted to th- enormous sum of L.27.000,000, The rus\ as described in the London papers, was some thing frantic, and the very prospectuses sold for 10s and 12s each for the sake of the application form which it contained aud which, owing to the enormous demand, could not be otherwise obtained. Prince Alexander went, to Bulgaria with T.IOO a year. He leaves it with real property in Bulgaria alone worth LIOO.OOO. He has evidently combined business with pleasure during his short career as a Russian agent. There is a brave and polite young man in the gaol in the City of Mexico, who is awaiting execution for the murder of his mother. The other day several of bis friends received nice'y printed cards worded as follows:—“ Francisco del Moral lias the jl asure to invite yon to be p-fsenl at his t xecution, so that yon m-y be able to judge , how a man should die ” The postal department have courted a good deal of odium by the exercise of what 1 has been characterise! as a piece of sharp prac’sc p —some even go tariher aud designate it meanness. The cause of thrs unpopularity has been the reversed interpretation of an old regulation respecting the traosm! —‘on of notices. Hitherto the demand ■ notio s from local bodies have been transmi ted for one pennv, but the deoarlm nc have suddenly discovered-—the credit is attributed to a post-master at Ashburton—that the law has been infringed, and without a hint of their in‘fiction the authorities suddenly impounded all such notices and enforce the two-pence fine for insuffl uer.t postage. The action of the department is by no means creditable, and the Postmaster General should mark his sense of it. * Palmerston Times.’ The Sydney ‘ Presbyterian,’ or rather its Dunedin correspondent, wrote the other day • —“ The properly tax as-<easmen'. is woiking its way to a finality. The Djpart-m-.nt summoned a number of citizens to the Police Court lately, charging them with I wilfully evaling making proper returns. A petty persecution of this k nd is a • isgrace. Itwi'lmake capitalists give a wide berth to the eb >res of New 2 aland To bo summoned before a court, browbes'en and threatened with ruinous Penalties, because a precious tax paper had miscarried, are more than people can bear pleasantly. It will be a near tax for the country ” the correspondent is in all probability a parson i and being such the generation of this world j will regard his opinions as of little value. Pa sons, however, have a good deal more sb ewduess (ban they get credit {or, arid we fancy there is a good deal iu the paragraph quoted abow.

The <i ivernment, we learn, have i sued a circular iutimsting that on and after April Ist coroner’s juries will be abolished and tho coroner's fee will be reduced from L2 2s to Ll Is. In all cosns of doubtful death l , in* vestigations will be held by the corn ter who will it necessary report to the police authorities The coroner's jury has in our opinion (says the ‘ Wair.irapa Star") all a'ong been a cruel farce enacted aUke a*, tin expense of tho dead and the livinr. men have been picked up anywhere airUßßc everywhere, and working men and trad< amen have bad frequent'y to sub-nit to a most uncalled-for Sicrifi e. When enquiry is needed the work will he done more efficiently, expeditiously and economically, by a competent and responsible coroner than it could possibly be by tho old tribunal system. Grief stricken relatives will no longer have their feelings hj rrowed by being made public spectacles of, anil the A solemn and disgusting ordeal of viewing the dead and performing unnecessary dis«eo- ' tions will disappear in compsnv with soma of the grotesque barbarities that modern reforms are expunging. The collision between the Helen Nicoll and Kdlawarra, off South Solitary, op the New South Wales coast, was of soecial Imal lot -rest as one of the passengers on board the Helen Niooll was Mr Matthew M‘Rarest “O i of Mr A Ml.ireo. of Milton. At the time of the collision many of the passengers on boar I the Helen Nicholl were below and ru -htd undn.k. fa .posing that their vessel was going down soma »f 'he si’oon p-a-sm-gets (four in number) jm.pel from tho FI len Nicol to the K -il.iwa r-a. Four of them succeeded in gaining tho o’her vessel’s side, but one of them, name S Briley, was drowned. Tile others, name 1 resp o irely Orav, M’Lrren. Maher, and Ayres, were subsequently pick d up in the water. Meanwhile a mini er of those on board ihe K-iiawarra hai jumped into the ser for safe y. All this happened in the space of from five to seren minutes, when and lenly the Kei awarra w-n down, stem fi-remost, and tie cries of those who went d'-wu wi hj her wel-e lost in the hoarse whirring noise of the propeller, which was revolving in ihe air at the last of the sinking steamer was seen. A boat from the Keilaw.ir a had been let down into the water by some of the men, and 'hree of the borts behm ’in<» to the Helen Nio-d were manned by the crew and -h is tire lives of thiae who were struggling iu the water Were save I. .Mr M‘bareo was for fully ha'f an hour in water, hut being a g->o I swimmer was not greatly distressed. He was on tje wav back home, but is detained in Sydn-y 1o give evidence at the enqnl y into the collision. Full particulars regarding the disaster ms landslip at Jackson’s Biy. H'.fcitiki, state that rain commence! lo falljthere on the 4th ult, and wi hj the exception of a few hours on Monday it was an incessant do-vis pour till the foTow'ng Thursday, At 9 I o clock on ihe night of ihe 8 hj the inma F es j of the hj nises were start e I by a loud nt (Iman ise, follows) I by avoir as of rA j ing waters. A sudden rush of muddy water ; * n rrounded the hone*. and the son of Mr i Bc-'.iuson. of the Royal Hotel, age 1 13 rears : was wash'd away. Mr Ro in>on accompanted by a boy, tried lo divert ihe 11 iwimo | another channel, and while so tiuaged an | cnormorus mass was detach-rd from the 'mountainside an i rapidly advance 1 on 1 them, Robinson tried to clutch bis son, but was himself knocked down, wh ; e the boy was ove whelmed an I oarrio 1 away. The b idy has not been recovered. At 3 o’clock on Thurs lay morning another avalanche of wafer an! earth catne down, overs throwing the feu-es and outhouses belonging to Mr Facfariaue, R. M , but did not carry away the house, tho occupan'a of which were rescued with great difficulty, (shortly afterwards another terrific roar alarmed the watchers and showed them what a ipeare 1 to be a mountain side movin ; slowly upon th in. Th ; s mass complet-iy s'ova in vr M cfarlane’s house. Robinson's house suff-re I equally, the kitchen big buried. T.ie dining room wa I was h-om-u down, an! the piano hurled through the partition into the a' joining loom Robinson s garden and paddocks were covered to a depth of from 6ft to 40ft with treis, boulders, ami mud. An attempt w's made ou Friday to clear away the mini, bn f esh mu i fl >wed in as rapidly as the oilier was taken away. The damage is not c-mlbied to the township. Tib track ou Arawata fl it is corap e'ely mine i by enormous p’ips The slip is stated to have taken place suddenly, and as if an whole in nnt.ain side bud leape-i into the air and preciaitited itself into the eea causing it to mrge up 30 or 40 t. Huge fiss'tri shj ive t-ei-ii cut into the mountain side, d-wu which roaring toirents are pouring. At Sydney last week an action hr night by Mr David Proudfoot, the well k loivn contractor. against Mr Tiootor, M. L. A., c’aiming LSOO as a penalty for Ins hiving a*i into-eat in contract while sitting am)effing ’ n tlie Aasembly, resulted in a verdict for plaintiff. Notice of appeal has been given.

DUNEDIN CUP WEIGHTS. ... ,, at Ih at Ih Nelson .. 10 1 Torrent 0 10 Timnnn 8 12 PiirJiell ... 6 9 Ribina 8 2 Q iibMe ... 0 9 I'aalia ... 8 0 P.ititcmn ... 6 7 Thunderbolt. 7 18 O'emo.ne ... 6 7 Fnsilada ... 7 12 ■ L.dy No'ah. 6 6 Spa 'e Guinea 7 12 Dorwenler ... (! 6 Locliiel ... 7 II P ik .. 6 6 Diowied .. 7 10 Uverton Lad 0 6 Artillery ... 7 10 LongwaUt ... 6 4 Maliuner ... 7 0 Ki.irkiThackVVel'Bter * ... 7 it er Sun ... 8 4 Tu qiinise ... 7 8 Charmer ... 6 4 Te'foid 7 7 Torpedo 8 3 July 7 7 • Howitzer ... G 3 Alpine Rose.. 7 6 'cotl F.-eo ,. B 3 First Lord ... 7 6 Water Kiiqy, 6 2 Hei milage .. 7 4 Apripua ... 6 2 Moana 7 4 Wild Drake... ’6 2 Derringer ... 7 8 St. Iv.s ... C 2 Cinderella .. 7 3 La i! ... 6 0 Titt.it 7 1 Beresford ... fi 0 Ruby 7 ft Ruhtzehal ... 8 0 Ian 8 13 Weasel ... 6 ft Itcpo 6 12 St. Clair ... 8 0