Mount Benger Mail SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1996. "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." Local and General News

Mt Benger Mail, Volume 17, Issue 854, 5 September 1896, Page 2

Mount Benger Mail SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1996. "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." Local and General News

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr D Oormack, J.P., Charles Joljna and John Wilson were charged with $ ealing a c»llie dog, value £5 from George Kutherford, blacksmith, Outran, on the 24th August Constable Fouhy asked for a reauad to Our m, and accused having u e obj ction were remanded acoerdingly.

The director* of the Golden Tteature Dredging romp my met at the beginning of the week and declared a dividend ef 4s per ihare.

A Millers Flat correspondent informs us that Messrs Pi ingle and parfcv, after Wne „ al'expenses, cleared L 175 per aaa for hist month's work. The run of gold worked by'the party's dredge o i the e*it nide of the riv®r i exceedingly rieh. —The OtagoCompany have just declared a dividend of ene shilling per chare. — | The Gold«n Gate d-edge is now opnrat-. mg oq a fiae run of wash, with every indication of prrmaneney. The Company xpeot to declare a shilling div'dend n«xt ! month —The Golde* Run d.edge is doing! well just now, and the shareholders are hopeful tbat dividend* will soon be the order ef the day again. '* j

The charge faUe nretences preferred •gainst J 1j Ro ney w«s heard in the Supreme Court this week when (by the d rection of the judge) a verdict of net gu Ity was returned, and the accused was a quitted.

Messrs P Lafft/ and party (of Millers Fiat) are showing coniderable enterprise —having pugged off about 900 acres, a distance of two miles, tram JU liters Creak to Ittrick dredge, which it is it* .'ended to work by hydraulic sluicing. From tha prospects obtained the claim is expected to turn out really goad*

Sir Rene Proust (formerly of this diatrict and presently oi Weilpor ), we learn fro* a contemporary, has received an important appointment m Frau(.«. Mr t'tomt is of opinion that .New Z alaud is about to become the the .ere of Ftench mining enterprise on a large scale.

The Duastan Times lsarns <hit Mr L 0 Beal, O.fc„M.K., ha* been retained at a hgh salary as au exoert tor a larg* a d influential Pari* auu London mining >yndiea e. Mr Barton reports that the Kttrick dredge washed tip 48nzs £old far th* last The Roxburgh dredge d'd no t [wash up, a* the greund is not oroperls [opened out ytt —having fouud it nece>* laary te shift over t<> the opposite side of ktii3 beach to get clear of the tailing".

The Roxburgh Scheol Committee at a meeting on Monday evening received to reeemmend Miss (of W««t Taieii) for the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Hayes. The lady recommended has verv good qualifications. Miss Fish (of Dunedin) is at the present time acting as relieving teacher at Roxburgh. The return frem the Golden Treasure Dredging fer last week wai 9ozi,

Miis Hayes, late head mistress ef the Roxburgh sehonl, rereiud several pres • entatieas prior to lercag fer Sawyers Bay.- Front the school children she received* handsome jewel case and photo frames, also a scent bottle and crocodile purse. F "om the Church of England received a purse of sdveraigns and nanasomely«mountei teachers' Bible; Srtrte <be Presbyterians, to whom also she had been fit some ser« vibe, gave her a sola watch.... * The representative of. Messrs Kidd and Ca £entißts£®Visits Roxburgh on Friday September 25th, ancf may be ceusulted at Heren's Hotel

Wanted Known "Refreshments, tea coffee, pies and confectionery, etc., served at Kinsston'a refreshment rooms every Saturday evening.—Advt. The Sanation Army's self»denUl week for 1196 will he from October i 7 to «»oteber 23 (both days inclusive). The main object of (the effort is the raising of funds to help the musienary werk of the organisation, The self-denial effort of U94 real ted L 1874, and that of last year brought L2S&7 9i 101. We regret tahear of the death at Lawrence of Mr Laarence Smith (nephew of Measrs GA- tad R M Smith) Funeral takes place at Roxburgh to-morrew .afternoon.