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Dunstan Times, Issue 763, 1 December 1876, Page 2

A man at Napier has'been committer! for trial for the theft of a cheque, which he picked up in the street and got cashed. The Evening Star understands that the Otago Licensed Victuallers Gazette has ceased publication. Scarlet fever is -etifl very /prevalent in Dunedin, and one case has occurred at Port Chalmers. Mr M‘Arthur, late Provincial Government Engineer, is appointed Chief-Surveyor of the Provincial District of Otago. Mr J. G. S. Grant, who has been quaranteened for the scarlet fever, is pronounced by the Health Officer thoroughly recovered. Mr Tilden, the New York Democratic Candiilate 'has 'been elected President of the United States. We notice that His Excellency the Governor has'been pleased to delegate his powers under the Gold Fields Act to the Hon. George M‘Lean. A telegram from London dated November 15, says /—Average rise in the price of wool 2d to 3d per pound, and that it is expected the market will maintain its present level for a time. The first load of this season’s wool passed through Clyde during the past week ; It'was from Mr J. M‘Lean’s. Ardgour Station, The price given for shearing we 'believe is IGs 8d per hundred. We have lying at our office a subscription list on behalf of the sufferers in Servia and Bulgaria, and shall be most happy to receive and acknowledge subscriptions given in so good a cause. A large and influential meeting was held in Dunedin re the Turkish barbarities and atrocities in Servia and Bulgaria, and a committee appointed to receive subscriptions for the sufferers. A list is lying at our office. The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of Management of tho Dunstan District Hospital will be held on Monday evening next, the 4th instant, in the Committee Room, Clyde. Complaints are rife it Lawrence, Queenstiwn, and other places at the late rise in the price of the (whatps’called) 41b loaf. The Wakatip Mail ascribes the cause to the rise in flour from LlO to Ll4 per ton. The Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company ( have declared a dividend at the rate of six per cent, after carrying to profit and loss a sum equal to three per cent, for depreciation entire Company’s plant and property. We are requested to specially acknowledge, through Mr 11. C. Jones, agent for the Bank of Now Zealand, Alexandra, the receipt of LIT, Collected by Gim Lee, storekeeper, Alexandra, from his countrymen in the Alexandra district for the benefit of the funds of the Dcnstan Hospital. We have to apologize to onr readers for a typographical error which appeared in our local column last issue, viz., the word “ tomorrow” instead of the word “to-day,” in the paragraph respecting the sale of horses at Clyde Pound. Consequent on several articles which have lately appeared in the New Zealand Times Wellington, Mr G. E. Barton has threatened an action for libel; the Times in a temperate artide justifies its action on public grounds, and names its solicitors to receive service of process. Valuable Discovery por die Hair.—If your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, uso the Mexican Hair Bcnower,” for it will positively restore in every case Grey or White hair to its original color, without leaving the disagreeable smell of most “ Restorers.” It makes the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth of the hair on bald spots, where the glands are not decayed. Ask your Chemist for “The Mexican Hair Renewer,” prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493, Oxford Street, London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere, at 3s -Gd per Bottle.