The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, 14th SEPTEMBER, 1866.

Dunstan Times, Issue 229, 14 September 1866, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, 14th SEPTEMBER, 1866.

1 licneath the rule of men entirely just, t! i pen ia mightier than the sword!”

A special meeting of the Clyde Municipal Council was held at their Temporary hambers on Tuesday evening last, to consider the telegram received from Mr Simeon Isaacs, in answer to a message from the Mayor, requesting Mr Isaac:: to call upon the Provincial treasurer rt specting the grant to the Municipality Mr Isaacs' telegram was to the efiect that no application had been made, but thai the Government were ready to place the

stun of £3OO to the credit of the Muuici- ' fi a hty. The following reso ution wa3, < after a lengthy discussion, agreed to : j the Town-clerk write to then [Superintendent applying for a grant of I |£soo, as the subsidy for this Corporation, '• J under the 3rd Section of the .Municipal Corporation Amendment Oydinauqe 186.5., - j at the same stating applied to the Provincial Treasurer by 1 letter dated 7th August last, to which a reply has been received from hud',;, stating that the application with others would be laid before the Government in terms of the Ordinance, with a view to iii the -.1 mounts payable to each Municipal ity , respectively." A case of ejectment oi' considerable interest to the mining community, was heard at the ' arden's ' ourt, Clyde, on Saturday last the Bth inst. | tl. W. Kobin- • son Esq, presiding. Fr"m the evidence it ippeared that two shares in a registered claim at Sandy Poi t, belonging to J. W . Quinn, were jumped by Harris and o+hers, the defendants. "1 he Complainant, Quinn, proved registration and ownership, and that he gave defendants notice that the •shares were his, but refused to vacate the i >ame. The defence set up w?s, th;itthe ground was workable. Ihe Warden gave a verdict iu favor cf the complainant but without costs, on the ground that complainant had neglected to comply with ec. 3 Reg. 8, of the lioldfield's Rules and Regulations, in posting a protection board. We have been, favoured by Mr Femud , with a sample of wash-dirt from the • Frenchman's claim, Alexandra. It was j only a handful, yet, upon testing it, we I found it contained 1 dwt. ; it was taken I from the new lead that the party have I lately struck, at a greater depth of 15 t'.u': j than the old work ings ; on account of the , body of drainage weter they have to con- > tend with, a lower level cannot be reached, j though the wash-dirt, evidently, becomes ) richer. 3 We are not in a position to state j the amount of the precious metal obtained i as yet from the paddock the sample referred to was taken; but, we believe, all ) former yie'ds are eclipsed. > c ome of the shareholders, —backed by the opinion of ! practical men, acquainted with mining iu every phase—feel confident that it is a continuous lead they have struck, »nd nor j merely a patch as was supposed. Two 'patients have been admitted into [ the Hospital during the past week, one II from the suffering from 1 of the whole of the onesid3, supposed to be caused through exposure. The other from j I'romwell, with dislocation of the hip, i j caused by his horse falling and rolling upon him; ihe dislocation, after an enor- ,' mity of trouble, was satisfactorily reduced Iby the -.louse Surgeon, assisted bv It i Morice. | A meeting of the Volunteer H'lic Corps, took place on Wednesday everting, the 12t!; inst., at the Unioa Hotel, for the purpose r of electing officers and oilier business^ • The meeting was gostr/Kicd till the 2u'th jto allow of *Jirtfs gentlemen belonging to 1 Itfie corps, residing at Alexandra ami Crom|wol, to ta.ee part in the proceedings, The secretary, M r ate, tendered his resignation, ou account of his official duties taking ( j hiin from the district, Mr Cambridge was i olected secretary and treasurer pro tern. , j The Melbourne ' Argus' speaking on ' j the condition of the working-classes of I Victoria, says :—" By an unfortunate coincidence in time, the actions of the ministry and the accidents of the season | have combined to make the cost of living ( muchhigher than it was, so that wages have been not only absolutely lessened in , amount, but their purchasing power has > beeu still further reduced. There never was a time since the discovery of gold in j this Colony when employment was found to be so scarce, and when the evidences of poverty were so painfully apparent in the i hordes of begging children which are to be 1 met with in the streets." From the report of the meeting of the ' Oamaru School-Committee, we learn that Mr Fleming, late of Cromwell has been appointed School-master at i amaru. It t appears, from his numerous certificates, he has been singularly successful as an instructor of youth. We sincerely join with our contemporary in the wish that his career in Oamaru may be equally so. A diamond, estimated to be oi the value i- of £7,000, has been obtained on the y West Coast, at the foot of Mount Cook ; o it was purchased by a Mr Blake, ot r -Nelson, from the digger who found it, for e JEI. '1 he trial of Burgess, Kelly, Levy and ullivan, the MaungaTapu murderers, commenced at eison on the 13th iust., aim t nid is expected to extend over three days. ! is Honor Air Justice Johnston prei siding.

Raiting, on a large scale is about b'ing Bimediujiilesjra Duncan and | thelarge store next to/dp hamrock-Hotel Auto a malt-house, fitted with all the newest machinery and appliances brought from Britain by Mr l'uncan ; y T ne -Evening Star' Kays: —Should the ', er . al 3 XxWnent succeed in their intention to appropriate the fees and lines received in the Mayor's ourt, the Municipality of Punediu/ wiii lose an annual revenue of'about JUl^OOj. In the event of such, it is proposed that the Court sh 11 be closed. In our issue of the 16th ultimo, and afterwards in the ' Daily Times,' was inserted a paragraph-copied from the ' Sund y I imes,' headed ' A Month Without a Full Moon,' in which it was stated, and correctly, that February last- had no full , moon ■ it was a'so stated thai this astronc- J mica} event had never occurretLsince the Creation, nor would again happen for two and a half millions of years ; struck with the idea of the comprehensive vastness of such a calculation on the part of our Engi lish astronomers, and surprised that so uni paralelled an occurrence should not have i been heralded by our almanacs, we were led to consult, upon the subject, a scientific gentleman of I uncdin, in whose abilities, as a practical astronomer, we have every confidence, he at once stated that the calculation, though highly practical and awe-inspiring, was ' all moonshine,' and has since furnished us with the following facts :—' i his occurs 3 times and occasonally 4 times every 76 years. there was no full-moon in February, in the years 1847 and 1860, and there will be none in Feb. 1885. As a general rule, when the epaet of the year is 14, and it is not a leap year, there will be no full moon in Feb. The years whose epact is 14 are found thus— ivide the year by 19, if 4 remains the epact is 14 ;*that is, the moon is 14 days old on the Ist Jan., and consequently about loh days old on Ist Feb., and about 13 days old on 28th Feb. Now, in these years (the 4th of the lunar cycle) the Feb. moons are full when abov.t ' 14 days old, so that they both fall beyond the limits of the month; unless it is a leap ytar.'—Bruce Herad. In our last issue we noticed that Ealph 'onkin the ate Engineer for tin- Dunedin rt'aler *> orks Company, had been tried and acquitted on a charge of embezzlement. He was brought up and tried on the follow i!.; day upo i two other charges, and again acquitted. There were several other c:i3es against the prisoner, but Mr Go'ok, the 'ounsel for the prosecution, declined to proceed further, and the prisoner was discharged. We extract the following from the !' Government Advertisement > heet :'— , { The police have been instructed to destroy i all dogs at larg- without a collar, after . 30th September, 1886, and otherwise to carry out throughout the Province the provisiofJSJl.? Jij '.Rog Nuisance , Ordinance, 1802,' and the ' InjuriesTby' Hogs of, 1805.' Fine f„r keeping an unregistered dog not less than £2, nor more than £5. "n Tuesday, Thomas alerove, a miner, who has been working at Backs, was brought into this town by his mates, and placed in the hands of the police, the • unfortunate man has for some time past shewn unmistakeable signs of insanity, and has attempted self-destruction several times. The MrmV a nf the •'<>,• Star of the , Dunst > A ■ F. «i'! hj..! tier 2n. ; tb'ti»htly meeting uu Monday next, tin <7 ■ si. i at o i .'chick Bliarp, L the IVnipu ary 1,,-..ig.. • Ru in, Clyde. i Our Curr, spendenc frur CVni-v -!l, [ Blacks No. 1, and oili. r quarters, together f wi hj our usual Editorial Article, ve are . compelled to hold over till our i ex: issue. . We h::ve much pleasure hi st'nting tha' the Concert and Hall at Cr, mwrll, on .j Wediiesila* eve in?, in nid ; j Funds w as a p. rfi ct su a s--.