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Dunstan Times, Issue 761, 17 November 1876, Page 2

Tho English cricketers have arrived at Adelaide all well After playing there they proceed to Melbourne. The publication of tho Provincial Government Gazette has been discontinued from the 31st of August last. The National Insurance Company have declared‘a dividend at the rate of 2fo per cent, for the half year. In the B.M. Court, Clyde, on Thursday there were several small debt’Cases, but being of no local interest are not reported in detail. We notice that new potatoes and greenpeas are already in tho market, and are ■ remarkable for their large size and good flavor. Mr George Arnold Barker has been appointed Deceiver of Cold Revenue at Arrow vice H. A. Stratford, Esq., on a leave of absence. The November number of the Illustrated New Zealand Herald is a slight improvement on many of its past issues the wood cute being particularly well got up. Briseis, the winner of the Victorian Derby, -likewise Melbourne Cup, also won tho Oaks Stakes, a sweepstakes of 2'5 sovs. each, 5 forfeit, with 300 added. She won easily. At the last sitting of the Waste Lands Board, Dunedin, Mr James G. Classford applied to purchase under agricultural lease section 1, block 2, and section 4, block 7, Lauder. —Approved. The Matakanui Annual Eaces will be held on the 2nd and 3rd January, 1877. For further particulars, see advertisement in another column. Programme will appear in future issues. The number of Penny Postal Cards we are receiving is evidence they are considered as a great convenience by business firms. When used, however, as accounts, we do not think they will be very acceptable to receivers. We have to acknowledge the receipt, from the General Government Printer, of a parcel of Acts of the General Assembly, passed during the late Session of Parliament, which includes the Counties Act and the Municipal Act. In our next week’s issue we hope to review their contents. A correspondent of a Devizes paper, noticing in a neighboring churchyard a stone with the inscription “Tiny’s Grave,” had the curiosity to inquire for the explanation, and was told by a resident, “ I have had children die without being baptised, and they were refused Christian burial; but that grave is the grave of the parson’s dog.” From the Waikouati Herald wo take tho following'.—“ On the Timaru show ground the following neat thing in bills of fare on the table of a first class hotel was found : 1 Soops, Jib blit, MackaroWney; Norned Beef, Stued Heals, Ehost Powk ; Gbosbury Pie, and Sellary.’ The schoolmaster is evidently abroad at Timaru.” We have it on the best authority that several sheds in the Waitaki country, notably the Kurow, Bonmoto and Oamarama Stations, have been filled with shearers at the rate of 3 6s 8d per hundred ; the demand for 20s, as made in this district, therefore, is not likely to be maintained. The number of men travelling through the stations looking for work is said to be greater this year than over previously. A. meeting is convened for to-morrow (Saturday) evening, for the purpose of electing a Committee of Management for the Clyde Caledonian Annual Sports. We are pleased that the matter is being taken in hand so early. The Clyde Sports have always been successful, and with the same amount of energy displayed this, as in previous years, wo have no doubt but they will maintain their reputation. The Coromandel Mail says “We are in receipt ot the first number of the Graphic, an illustrated paper, published in Auckland. It would have given ns great pleasure to have said something in its praise, and it is with regret wo can say nothing. It is quite unworthy of tho city which gave it birth, and of the firm from which it w-as issued. The first number of this publication wo presume will be its last. The Melbourne correspondent to the Dunedin Daily Times among other things says : —“ Only the night previous to the race, the bookmakers laid the owner of Briseis a thousand to nothing, and paid up the nomination aud so induced him to start the filly, so that it was in reality only on Friday night that it was finally decided that Briseis should start for the Derby. However, had the bookmakers seen Newminstor as he appeared on the course on Saturday, when he came out for his preliminary canter, they would scarcely have taken such precaution, as tho horse was not fit.” Throat Affections and Hoarseness.— All suffering from irritation of tho throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by the use ot “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches.' These famous “ lozenges ” are bow sold by most respectable chemists in this country at Is 1,1(1 per box. People troubled With a “ hacking cmigh,” a “slight cold,” or bronchial affections, cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, it allowed to progress, resnltin serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic affections. See that the words “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches ” are on the Government Stamp around each box. —Manufactured by John I. Brown & Sons, Boston, United States, Depot, 493 Oxford-street, London,