The Dunstan Times FRIDAY, 14th DECEMBER, 1866.

Dunstan Times, Issue 242, 14 December 1866, Page 2

The Dunstan Times

FRIDAY, 14th DECEMBER, 1866.

deneath the rule of men entirely just, th pen is mightier than the sword!"

The aimual Soiree in coniifxion with ihi Clyde Church of Eng'aud Sundj) School, was held on Wednesday las", in ilie Church, Camp Street; the atteudance of visiters was very satisfactory. Tlie uhtldreu sang and rt-cited s.verul pieces in a very cridituble manner. Messrs Robins n, .Mratfurd, Clarke, and Cjpe made ■uiirnhle and appropriate add e.-ses. The Rev. Mr Connor, Presbyterian Minister, of ■ 'amarn, held Divine Service in the Church of England, on ■ unday even ing last, to a numerous and attentive congregation. After the service, a subscription was made and liberally responded to. v e draw attention to the advertisement enumerating the horses and weights of the handicap-races. In the last issue Rambler's weight was eight stone instead of nine as now advertised.

The following extract from the commercial article in the ' Westland Observer' is to quaint to be lost: —" To one of two extremes we must shortly arrive—either we may expect to see about one-half of the business places and stores advertised to let, if the community should then be blessed with an advertising sheet, unless some new discovery inland be made. It is now very apparent that we are to have a dull summer's trade, as each week gives more distinct evidence of such."—Grey liiver Argus.

la our last issue we notified by Advertisement the Sale by Auction of Oaten Hay aud lye Urass, at the Kawanui (Jorge on the 22nd. We beg to state by special instructions from the Auctioneers, that the Sale will take place on the loth inst. and not on the 22ud. To trainers and Livery stable keepers; this is an opportunity to obtain some first class hay. Three distinct shocks of earthquake, from North to South were felt on Tuesday afternoon last, between three and four o'clock; in some parts of the town, the vibration was greater than in others, and in some instances created a certain amount of consternation. Dr. J. D. Owens, who for a number of years represented Bendigo goldfield in the Legislature Assembly of Victoria, died suddenly on the 26nd > ovember last, at his residence Windsor, near 1 'raliran. It is supposed that epilepsy was the cause of his sudden death. The long deferred charge against James Wilson, alias Murray, for tht murder of Mr George Do. son, on the road between Hokitika and the Grey, on the 28th March last, came on for hearing at Hokitika on j the Ist inst. Mr South appeared for the prosecution; Batten and Kees for the defence. When the name of Joseph Thomas Sullivan was called, he, with a firm step, walked into the Court and proceeded to the witness box. A glance of recognition passed between him and the prisoner. .- ullivan gave his evidence in a very firm and collected manner. lie was in the witness box four hours and a-half, and as his examination-in-chief is on Impartially heard, it is very probable that it and his cross-examination will occupy the whole of another clay. The prisoner seems very restless, as he was constantly talking to his counsel and handing them memoranda. The Licensing Meeting adjourned from the 4th inst will be held at the Court House Clyde, on Tuesday next the 18th inst. Persons having made applications for Publican's Licences must attend personally on that day, or by an authorised agent. The ' Daily 'I imes' says—" The immigration of Chinese to this Province during the present season promises to be very considerable. Yesterday thirty-three Celestials were landed from the Omeo ;and ( we notice that, by the steamship Otago, which is due a Port Chalmers to-day, eighty-three more have taken passage from Melbourne for i'unedin. The Cb is ra-s examination of the cliildre attending the C.yde Day-School, took u'aco yesterday. A considerable numb >i of persons intensted, were pr sent. The exiininntiim gave ample evidences of improvement ; one and all endorsing tin • •pii,iun, that notwithstanding the late long and serious indisposid. n of the m ster ilr S. M Clarko the School had improved amazingly.

Telegraph to Australia—The followiug extract is taken from the select report of a committee of the Hoube of Commons on telegraphic and postal communication with India:—"ln relation to Australiaj the committee gather that neither the depths of water nor the distance between one station and another present any difficulty as regards the construction of a line between Rangoon, Singapore, and the Australian colonies. That a proposition made to your

committee for the establishment of a direct communication between Alexandria and Bombay by way of Aden, on the principle of a line practically u< der one management, and responsibility, between London and the Indian presidencies 'in the first instance, and aft rwards with China and the Australian colonies:, is deserving of serious consideration and such reasonable support as the influence of Her Majesty's Government may' be able to bring to its aid. That the magnitude of the interests involved in the trade of this country with China and A ustralia, and the rapidly increasing development of the colonies in population, in commerce, and in the various elements of national greatness, render it desirable thfct arrangements should be made to bring these communities within the reach of telegraphic communication with Europe." Printers at work—Perhaps there is no department of enterprise whose details are less understood by intelligent people than the " ait preservative"—the achievements of types. Every day their life long they are accustomed to read the newspaper, to find fault with its statements, its arrangement, its looks; to plume themselves upon the discovery of some roguish and acrobatic type that stands upon its head ; or of some waste letter or two in it, but of the process by which the newspaper is made, of the myriads of motions, and thousands of pieces necessary to its composition, they know little and think less, I hey imagine they discourse of wonder, indeed, when they speak of the fair white carpet, woven for thought to <walk on—of the rags that fluttered upon the back of the beggar yesterday. But there is soirething more wonderful still. When we look at the hundred and fifty two little boxes, somewhat shaded with the touch of of the fingers, that compose the printers " case"—noiseless, except the clicking of the types, as one by one they take their p'aces in the growing line—we think we have found the marvel of the art. We think how many fancies in fragments there are in the boxes, how many atoms of poetry and excellence the printer can make here and there, if he only had a little chart to work—how many facts in a small " handful "—how much truth in chaos. Now he picks up the scattered elements, until he holds in his hand a stanza of " Gray,s Elegy, " or a monody upon Grimes " all buttoned up before. " and now " Paradise Lost ;" he arrays a bride in ' small caps,' and a sonnet in ' nonpareil;' he announces that the languishing ' live ' in one s ntence—transposes the words, and deplores the days that are few and ' evil' in the next. A poor jest tricks its way slowI ly into the printer's hand like a clock just j running down, and a strain of eloquence | marches into line letter by letter. We | fancy we can tell the difference by hearing !of the eaf, but perhaps not. The types | that told a wedding yesterday announce a | burial to morrow—perhaps the self same letters. They are the elements to make a | world of—these types are a world with ' something in it as beautiful as spring as ! rich as summer, and as grand as, autumn flowers that frost can wilt—fruit that shall ripen for all time.—Bayard Tayl. r, in the "Philadelphia Printers, Circular." 'I he pr gramme ut'l e (Jiomwdl S r9, will be f, u d in our advertising rol ni s. 'lhe Tiiz'Stobe contended for, :r on id 'X.-eedi g'y liberal s ale, aud will doublkss be keenly c mpeted lor.