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

In the Warden’s Court, Clyde, on Thursday last, during the hearing of an information against a party of race owners for allowing their water rtico to overflow, and thereby damaging a rbadway that had been ih use for a number of years—the plaintiff, however, was non-suited through an informality in the summons, the whole of the registered sHaroholders not being‘Summoned—the Warden (Mr W. L, Simpson) said water race owners were, as a rule, under the impression that it was not necessary to make "bridges over their water races where they crossed roads br tracks. Ho would take the opportunity of stating that it is compulsory for Owners Of water races to construct culverts or bridges'over all roads or tracks in common use. Though the plaintiffs in this case were non-suited he would advise the defendants to make the requisite bridges, ahd he fvbuld request the surveyor to visit'the race 'and scfc that the culverts Were made properly. Dr Carr, the mesmerist ahd phrenologist, has been exchanging civilities with the editor of the Wairarapa Standard. The following letter from Dr Carr, said to have beeh forwarded' to the offending journalist, has been published:—“ Sir,—l, —l beg toreturn, in half-penny stamps, the one add fourpence you paid me four months ago for a chart of your head. In doing so, permit me to say a word in explanation. Durifcg the twe!nty-five years 1 have been in active ' prafctice I have'examined allkinds of heads, from the head of a sucking pig to that of a barber’s pole, but your head is, without doubt, the mostextraordinary phenomenon ot the kind I ever’witnessed. But for the fact that you presented the thing to mo poised upon a pair of human shoulders, I should have imagined that you had made a mistake and brought'me the fore-quarter of of a:jackass to be operated upon. 1 have often heard your readers complain of the unmitigated twaddle with which ydur columhs ate filled, but if they had read ydur head as I did, they wohld not be in the least astonished. — lam, &c.-, The Doctor.” In the District Land CoCrt yesterday on the adjourned application by Mr Butler for right to construct a water race for irrigation and domestic purposes fromißutcher’s Gully being called on, the District Land Officer said he wohld have again to adjourn the hearing, the Waste Lands Board not having appointed a member ot the Board in the room of Mr J. Hazlett resigned. The annoyance and trouble the parties concerned had been put to in attending time after time and yet to be told the case must be adjourned till the District Land Court Avhs fully represented, was Vexatious and to be regretted, but he could assure the parties there was ho blame to bfe attached’to him.— The very peculiar muddle each Ahd every department of the Government must find themselves in through the abolition of the provinces and the consequent changes and transferring of accounts would necessarily cause little irregularities, but to neglect to fill a vacancy in a district 'board, thus virtually excluding that district froth operating under the Waste Lands Act, is a thing we ’cannot understand, and confirms us in the opinion that so long as the Waste Lands Board is irresponsible and subject to no control, so long will similar irregularities to that w’hich >ve hiive to complain of be committed. To drag half a dozen men a distance of ten or twelve miles day after day, to the members of the Waste Lands Board may be considered as nothing, but to the men themselves it is a very serious affair, and means a positive loss they are little able to afford. The case referred to is adjourned for another fortnight, by which time we must hope the District Board will be fully constituted. A correspondent of the Grey River Argus, in describing a trip from Melbourne to GreyraOulh in the Gleaner, states Even the sailors Were “ all at sea” on this voyage, ahd one and all declared they had never known or heard Of such a prevalence of easterly weather in these waters as this, or indeed, any other time of the year. One 1 said he fell positively unwell in consequence, 1 and asked Captain Agnew for a dose of 1 Holloway’s pills. The captain gave him ’ about a dozen, and with them a printed I bill, setting foHh the manifold virtues of ‘ these famed remedies for all diseases under the sun. Presently the sailOr returned, co .l the following dialogue ensued Sailont/ “Please, sir, can you give me a pin?” Cap- " tain Agnew : “A pin ? Yes : what do you : want a pin for ?” Sailor : “To stick it into ‘ indigestion, sir.” Captain Agnew (aur- ' prised): “To stick it into the ! What - on earth do you mean?” Sailor: “Well, r sir, those here pills cure a lot of things, and I want a pin to stick it into my complaint (which is indigestion) on Holloway’s hill ■ which you gave me. Else how would tho ■ pills know for what sickness I took them ? ■ They might think it was for general de- ' li’.ity, or dizziness, or shortness of breath, or eruptions on the skin. If I stick a pin i into ‘ indigestion’ on the hill they will work : for indigestion. I always stick a pin in tho i disease when I lake Holloway’s pills.” Capi tain Agnew (to the sailor after a long and • amazed pAiise): “All right; here’s a pin.” (To himself)“ Heavens above ! And this - is the nineteenth century ! But perhaps it’s the confounded easterly winds that have ‘ knocked him off his ‘ chump.’ ” Floriltne ! For the Terth And ■ Breath.— A few drops of the liquid “ Fieriline ” sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush pro--1 duces a pleasant lather, which thoroughly cleanses the teeth from all parasites or ira--1 purities, hardens the guVns, prevents tartar, 1 stops decay, gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly-whitenCss, and a delightful fragrance ’• to the breath. It removes all Unpleasant odour arising front decayed teeth or tobacco sniCke. “The Fragrant Floriliiie,” being ; composed in part of Honey and sweet herbs, ■ is delicious to the taste, And the greatest 1 toilet discovery of the age. Price 2s (id, of 1 all Chemists and Perfumers. Prepared by • Henry C. Gallup, 493 Oxford Street, London. SncCriilg hoy on the walk (to boy bri IM : fence). “ I don’t cave—our little dCg'sgtl I si* pups,”