The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879.

Dunstan Times, Issue 895, 13 June 1879, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1879.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just the PEN is mightier than the SWORD.

An accident happened to Cobb and Co. Coach on its up journey from Nascby to Clyde on Wednesday afternoon last, and when within a mile or so of Mill ward's Hotel Manuherikia by the breaking of the fore axle close up to the wheel. The coach necessarily was capsized, and precipitated the driver, Mr Cook, and two passengers (Mr V. Pyke, and Mr Dove, of the Hawea Lake) who were on the box heavily to the ground. The horses fortunately were pulled up and remained quiet, and as soon as possible were unhitched, and the party proceeded on to Mrs. Millward’s for assistance, with another coach that was there the disabled one was put in repair, and after a delay of a few hours the journey was proceeded with, and Clyde reached without further mishap The driver received some contusions on the face, which fortunately is only superficial and Mr Dove escaped saving the shaking, he received from the fall, Mr Pyke, however, we are sorry to say is more seriously injured, as be has been confined to his bed since his return home. Winter has now fairly set in, the frost for the past week being very severe, and consequently all outdoor work for the time is stopped—the farmers being unable to plough their ground, and the miners being stopped in their work for want of water. The skating season has commenced, and those who indulge in the pastime have plenty of opportunities on the large reservoirs throughout the district. Though we have nearly reached midwinter, as yet there has been no snow, and the brown ranges present a very unusual appearance. In previous years the heaviest falls of snow by this time had fallen, therefore it is hard to conjecture what sort of a season we are to have. A telegram from Wellington in the Dunedin papers says :—“The insurance offices are said to have resolved to rebuild all buildings burnt down whenever the insurance money will permit of this course being adopted. “ London ” was the subject of a lectum delivered by the Dev. T. E. Ash in the Athenaeum, Roxburgh, on Monday evening last. Mr Cooper occupied the chair, and there was a good and appreciative audience. A vote' of thanks was accorded the rev. lecturer at its close. Sergeant M ‘Nally, who was formerly at Clyde, has succeeded Sergeant M'Gann in the charge of the police at Cromwell We are requested to notify the sale by auction by Air .1, C. Chappie, at Balmoral, near Alexandra, on Wednesday next, of miscellaneous goods and household furniture belonging to Mr Duncan Robertson (who is leaving the district). At 12 o’clock, without reserve. At the sitting of the Land Board held in Dunedin on the 4th instant, the agricultural lease-certificate granted to John Cole Chappie for section 32, block I, Tiger Hill, was cancelled, the land being required for railway purposes. A telegram has been received in Dunedin stating that 228 tons of stone from the Keep-it-Dark claim at Roefton yielded 194 ounces of amalgam. At a special meeting of the Lakes County Council held on the 30th ultimo, it was resolved to offer Mr Owens L4OO for the Morven Ferry Punt; and in the event of his refusing the offer to take immediat* steps for putting on a new punt. A long-felt want is now supplied in our midst. Mr I. Peters, announces in another column that ho has opened a hair-cutting and shaving saloon, next his old shop, Clyde.

A Wesleyan minister, Mr Wells, is now permanently located at Roxburgh.

Mr Fache desires us to draw attention to a sale by auction of six sections in the town of Clyde, being in one block and occupying an acre and a half, on Tuesday, the 24th inst., at 2 o’clock. Mr Alexander Maclean, of the firm of Maclean Brothers, Dunedin, died very suddenly on Sunday morning last. He was driving in his buggy on the Ocean Beach, in company with Mr Todd, the Balclutha agent of the firm, when that gentleman noticed him turn his head round as if he was looking at something, and next perceived that he dropped the reins. Mr Todd immediately «aw that something had happened to Mr Maclean, and throw his arm round him to prevent him falling out of the buggy. Mr Maclean did not speak a word, and to all appearance his death was instantaneous. The cause of death was probably either the bursting of a blood-vessel or disease of the heart. Respecting the deceased gentleman, the Morning Herald says : “ Mr Maclean will be sincerely regretted by large numbers in this Province, and by the many people from the other Provinces who have come into contact with him. His abilities as a business man and as a judge of stock were beyond question, and it can be said of him, which cannot be said about every business man, that those with whom he had dealings had a feeling of respect and of more than ordinary friendship for him. Simple, homely, and kindly, with nothing catchy or showy about him, he was a true man, and everyone who knew him will regret his sudden and untimely end.” The contractor, Mr Robinson, has just made a start in erecting the new schoolmaster's residence, on the site adjoining the old one, at Roxburgh.

As an outcome of the recent combination entered into between the bakers to raise the price of bread to 5d per 41b loaf, the “ Otago Daily Times ” says—“ Mr R. Hudson has established a wholesale bread factory in Dunedin to supply the grocers with a first-class'ffull weight loaf, which will be sold to the public for cash at sd. ” Happy dwellers in Dunedin ! Why, in Lawrence the bakers ’ charge for’a 41b loaf is 7d cash or Sd booked, and until lately the charge was even higher. Our Waitahuna friends, we believe, are supplied at Gd per 41b loaf. It will be seen from advertisement that Messrs Humphrey and Leather are about to take the field as candidates for public support, at popular prices : —Tuapeka Times.

For some days a lunatic has been hovering about the Little River bush, near Christchurch. On Saturday he called at the house of a Mrs Clarke, who lives in a lonely spot, when he seized her little boy and was going'.to' cut his throat, but her cries brought some surveyors who were working near to her assistance, and the man was captured and lodged in the Little River lock-up. A sum of L2OO was found on him.

A rather singular mistake is recorded by the Christchurch Press “Acting on instructions Sergeant Barlow, accompanied by Constable Ryan, proceeded yesterday to Sumner, to make enquiries into the finding of a dead body on the beach between Hew Brighton and Sumner. On examining the bundle, which was sewn up in canvas, instead of a dead body the sergeant found an immigrant’s bed, which is supposed to have been thrown over the side of some ship entering the Heads. Edward Vaughan, a labourer living on the Sumner Road, who made the discovery, at once gave information to the police without investigating the contents of the bundle.”

According to the Auckland Star Mr G. M. Reed is appointed Emigration Officer for the North of Ireland, Sir Julius Vogel evidently being of opinion that the further this gifted scion of the great liberal party is away from headquarters the better. Mr Reed is the third or fourth semi-political limpet who has been provided with a rock at Belfast. All have, one way or another, come to grief, but it may sincerely be hoped to the interest of the Colony that this appointment may bepermanent. Oddly enough there is no information at present as to the manner in which the Agent General has disposed of Mr Rped’s colleague Captain (?) Jack Barry ! Under the heading of “ Hard Lines ” the Sun says a marriage was celebrated in Christchurch a few days ago at which the bride, it is said, wore LSOO worth of dress and jewellery, and had in addition L 20,000 settled upon her as pin money.

Innocent females astonish traders occasionally. The other afternoon one wont to a bootmaker and bought a pair of shoes. Tho shopman was in the act of sprinkling some French chalk powder inside, so they might slip on easily. Site glanced furtively at him and remarked : “ I know what you’r doing. ” He smiled acquiescence. She slid towards the door, and said in tones that startled the nerves of tho assistant, “ You cant’ chloroform me, mister, I was fooled once before, and I’m blamed if 1 do it again.” And she left without her shoes.

A Dunedin elector objected at the Revision Court the other day to having his name struck off the roll as being dead. Head voters used a few years ago to play a very important part in the Auckland elections, There was little or very ineffective revision of the rolls, and politics always running high, as a fact the dead men were always polled and polled early. On one occasion it came to light afterwards that a man who had been hanged was polled by both parties in an election for the Superintendency. Mr Ure deserves the thanks of the community for the purgation of the rolls within his jurisdiction. Ah ingenious yet simple contrivance for the purpose of preventing people from sitting on billiard tabl»s has been invented by the astute proprietor of the Railway Hotel, Milton. Upon the small table standing immediately in front of the bar, are placed two strips of wood in such a position that a

number of nails driven through them are fixed with their points projecting upwards. This mechanism bears the short but forcible inscription “ Please do not sit on these nails.” For our own part we were not particularly anxious to sit on “these nails ” and it did not take much persuasion to induce us to abandon the project. Should there be those amongst the customers of the house who are addicted to amusements of this description, we sincerely trust, they will refrain from the recreation while in Mr Stanbrook’s establishment at any rate. It is only courteous to accede to the proprietor’s request, although he does seem a little particular about his nails,—Clutha Leader.