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Dunstan Times, Issue 701, 24 September 1875, Page 2

Travellers will be pleased to learn that the bridge across the Spnttis Creek, near Blacks, is completed and thrown open for traffic. In our advertising columns Messrs Bames and Charnock, blacksmiths, farriers, and wheelwrights, intimate their having started in the above line in (llvde. Both men are well known to be masters of their separate trades'; we therefore opine for them a share of public snnport. In another column it is notified that all creditors of the Pneumatic Gold Mining Company must present their prored claims to the District Court, Clyd», on or before the 2ffi!i of October, or the same will not be recognised in the distribution of the estate. At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Clyde Town Council, held on Wednesday evening, the 22nd instant, there was no business of public importance transacted. There was, however, a discussion on the proposition passed at the last meeting relative to memorialising his Honor the Superintendent anent the application of Messrs Strode and Fraser for pre emptive right on Cairn Muir. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, I Clyde, yesterday, a case ot using j threatening and abusive language was heard i wherein the defendant was bound over to keep the peace for two months. W. Eames was granted a temporary license to sell on the Dunstan Race Course during the Spring Meeting. The Licensing Bench sat to consklerthe annfi cation of Mr A. Blue, Farmers’ j-Ho f el, Clyde, for a general license. Mr Johnston, solicitor, stated the application was withdrawn. We understand that Mr Chappie sold the Gorge Creek water race and claim on Monda v last, the 20th b'staht. by auction, for L3OO. Messrs Tohill and Forrest being the purchase) s. St Vincent’s Gam Concert Company— Th’s talented Commnv made their first appearance at St Batban’s on Monday and Tnesdav l a=t to good audiences. The hornpany comists of Madam St. Vincent, (the Queen of Wizards) as she is styled on the p’-oyamme, and. we must ee i- t.vn'v admit she is faiidv entit'elto tin's cognomen—all her illusions being cleveriv executed. Mr Frank Verten, one of the best Negro Comedians and dancers we have seen. Miss Lillie rlo'-enoe, a capital Pianist and Vocalist, and Mr St Vincrnt, the best and most Ds;? IP-nate Comic Vocalist we have heard. Their ente ■•lain'rents are thornn'.lily refined, and entirely free from vulgarity, and they de-erve liberal patronage wheveever they mny appear. On Tuesday afternoon last the Dunstan racing season was opened by some private matches. The first was a trotting race for LIO, distance one mile and a half, owners up, between T. Gilmour’s Maggie and and Attfield’s Gay Lad, resulting in an easy victory for Maggie. A flat race followed, between Hawthorne’s Bohbv, and Faehe’s Florence, for L2O a side, distance one mile. To the great disgust of the backers of the mare, she refused to start, giving Bobby the race fora quiet canter. On a second trial between these two for half a mile, Bobby was again victorious. A handicap trot between Gay Lad, Blind-eye, and a chestnut, in which Gay Lad was victorious, brought the sport to a close. At the first Spelling Bee in Auckland, the winner of the prise was a lad— James Geddes—an apprentice in one of the newspaper offices. The finding of the nest of a trap-door spider somewhere in the neighborhood of Oamavu, appears to have made quite a commotion in scientific circles in Dunedin, and the matter has been made the subject of a learned description at the Otago Institute, when Mr Robert Gillies, the discoverer of the precious insect, read a long paper on the supposed little wonder, and the manner of its finding. For the benefit of tho Otago Institute, we would inform thathody that the trap-door spider is found all over the Northern gold-fields of Otago, where the soil is of a sandy loamy nature. In Australia trap-door spiders are almost as common as da}', more especially in the Northern portions of New South Wales, It is not so much the scarcity of this species of spider, hut the difficulty of discovering their whereabouts. A Cricket Club is being formed at Lawrence.

The Tuapeka Times Bays The new spoon dredge built by Mr Buchan and lately sot to work on the Molynoux, about eight miles below the Beaumont, has got upon p good payable gold. t 1 The Tuakcka Times says :—A man named g Bursome, an Italian, who has been an in- v mate of the Hospital for some days suffer- r ing from chronic rheumatism, left bis quarters on Thursday afternoon without leave, and has hot since been heard of. A h man answering to tho description was seen on the same day leaning on a crutch ascend- ] ing the reservoir hill. The police have been j sent in search of him. Wo learn that he was well known at Blacks some time since I as a steady, industrious miner, but of somewhat eccentric habits.—lf, as we suppose, I the man Bursome is tho “Old Carlo” who escaped from the Dunstan Hospital, and ( was ultimately found at the Arrow, and from there committed to the Lawrcncei gaol as a vagrant, and he is again found, we thmk the lunatic asylum is the more fitting place for him than an up-country hospital. Kant, the American philosopher says : “ Jonas was a stranger among whales, and they took him in.