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Dunstan Times, Issue 896, 20 June 1879, Page 2

expressed. Messrs John Stuart Ilandyaido ami James Jolly have been appointed Hangers, within the Provincial District of Otago, under “ The Protection of Animals Act, IS7J-” The heavy and continuous rains that fell during Sunday night and all day Monday last had but little effect on the river. During Tuesday there was a rise of about a foot, but the following day it fell again and still continues falling. By the steady working and close application of the Chinese on the beaches as they arc left high and dry by the receding water, w’e judge they are making a rich harvest. In our paragraph in last week’s issue anont the accident to the coach on Wednesday last, and by which Mr Vincent Pyko was injured, wo understand that we were in error in stating that the horses were quiet and were pulled in, as to the contrary, when the coach toppled to the one Side through the breaking of the axle, the horses started off at full gallop and after a

time got away with the fore carriage minus the wheel, ami that on this happening the body of the coach capsized, lodging on Mr Pyke’s legs in its fall, and perfectly pinning him to the ground, and also striking the driver a severe blow on the forehead and nose, Mr Dove, the other passenger, escaping unhurt. We also omitted the fact that having got all right again and started, and when within about! two miW of Clyde, a second break down took place, this time however, saving the shock and the inconvenience of waiting till another vehicle was obtained, by which the party finally arrived at their destination, no harm was done. Mr Pyke, we regret to say, is more injured than it was at first thought, and that weeks must elapse before he gains sufficient strength to move about.

In consequence of the removal of Mr Warden Simpson to Dunedin, Mr Fache has received instructions to sell by auction on Wednesday, July 2nd, his horses, buggy, harness, and very superior furniture. George Purton, Esq., has been appointed a member of the Licensing Court for the District of St. Bathans, vice A. Holland, Esq., absent from Colony. The total contributions to the Tvaitangata Relief Fund amount to upwards of L 15.000. Of this sum about LIO,OOO was collected in Otago alone ; while fully half the total contributed is represented by sums of LI and under.

Parties in search of a mining property are informed by advertisement in another column that a half-share in a good paying claim in Conroy’s Cully will bo submitted to auction by Mr Fache, at Alexandra, on Monday next, at 2 o’clock. It is in full working order, satisfactory reasons can be given for selling out, and the terms of payment are easy. On the same day, hour,' and place, will be sold the old Court House building, &o.

The Rev. Father Kehoe will celebrate mass on Sunday next the 22nd instant at Alexandra at 11 a.m.

Still another accident occurred to one of the stage coaches. This occasion was to the coach running between Clyde and Lawrence, and occurred on Monday evening last somewhere in tiro neighborhood of Mr M‘Lachlan’s Hotel, Shingle Creek, and was we believe through the smashing up of one of the wheels. Of the many passengers in it at the time, including his Honor Judge Harvey, several hank agents, ant some members of the police force who were escorting gold, wo are pleased to say none were injured.

A nice compact block of land consisting of six quarter-acre sections in the town of Clyde, will ho offered by auction by Mr Fache, at his rooms, Clyde, on Tuesday next at 2 o’clock. Immediately 7 after the above will be offered the hull of the dredge now lying on the river bank at the back of the town.

A very 7 attractive programme has been prepared for tiro conceit to take place at Alexandra on Friday, 27th June. Wo notice the names of several well know n amateurs, and the object being to augment the Manuhorikia Bridge Fund, should draw together a crowded house.

The Cromwell Arens j s responsible for the following “Within the past two days wo have heard a rumour that serious defects arc becoming observable in the recently erected pier of the Macandrew Bridge. dVe give the statement fur what it is worth, but sincerely trust there is no cause tor alarm.”

The Mount Ida Chronicle speaks in the following “ high fallutin ” terms of the Central railway. “It is not too much to ssy that the Otago Central railway will ere long prove itself to be the noblest work that New Zealand has yet undertaken ; nobler far than the coastal railway between Dunedin and Christchurch, and infinitely nobler both in magnitude and breadth of purpose than the best of the mere haekneyeab railways which elsewhere have been by so many years preferred to it. We question much whether the initiation of this work will not bo eventually recognised as the most noteworthy epoch in the not unremarkable career of the lion. James Macaudrew, if not even as the chief event in the history of the Grey Ministry itself ; and we cordially congratulate our readers and the inhabitants of the interior generally upon the right promise of better things ahead afforded them by the successful ceremony of Saturday, the Cth Juno.” Poor Mr Pyko, ’t will he observed, is out in the cold. All his woi k, from the inception of the undertaking to the turning of the first sod, coos for nothing with the Chronicle. Daily Times.

The Cromwell Argus is informed that this week’s escort from the Cromwell district was the heaviest for some months back. The weight of treasure was over 01)00 ounces. it then vary rightly' condemns the system of withholding from the local Press the returns from the various goldfields districts.

The Daily Times says “It seems proliable that the contract for the Wiugatui section of the Otago Central Railway will be vigorously prosecuted. There are, wo are informed, about ‘2OO men now engaged at the work, and the cuttings have been commenced as far as the first tunnel, is more than five miles from the Wiugatui station. Mr J. S. Mollison is the engineer in charge of the work, and Mr Alexander Fraser, the inspector.” It is understood that the Hon. R. Stout will retire shortly from the Ministry in consequence of the urgent demands of his private affairs. The usual monthly cake of gold from the Cromwell Company’s mine is the largest for the last six months, namely, 909 ounces from 480 tons stone. The average for the last six mouths is a little over loz Sdwts to the ton. The Kcep-i '•Dark mine at Rcefton last week crushed 193 tons of stone, yielding 221 ounces of gold.

Mr Facho, auctioneer, directs notice tu tho advertisement of salo by auction on Saturday, 28th hist., i it Clyde, on account of Mrs M. Murphy, w ho is leaving for Dunedin, of a four-roome .1 cottago and household furniture. At tho County Con noil meeting hold at Lawrence on the ISftji instant, Mr Bastings protested against the resolution excluding 'Chinese from employ nionton county works, passed at tho last an uting in Ids absence. At tho same moot! ng vouchors for over L4OOO were lodged with tho Council for payment, but in the course of tho day a communication was :j 'ccoived from the Council’s banker to the e'l Toot that lie could not allow any further o' 'erdraft. Hitherto tho Council has been I vllowed LSOOO, and of that sum only abov it L 2500 is at present operated on. Tin i action of tho bank, without a moment ’s warning, may cause great hardship to contractors and others unless tho Counci; I can make ppecial arrongements elsewb ere. .On Sunday nigh, b and Monday morning a disastrous f re raged iu Wellington. It commenced iu 1 ho roof of the new Operahouse, and was u it subdued till about 30 houses had been destroyed. Tho following is a list of the pi aces burnt : Opera-house, Working Men’s ( Hub, with Englcmau’s and another shop in f .-out, branch Bank of N. Z., Wesleyan Churc) i, Eddie and Jack’s wine etoro. Groves aa< I Fleming, drapers, a confectioner’s skq i, Rickman, bootmaker, M‘Lennan, boot naker, Marryatt, tobacconist, Simeon, ta lor, the old market-house, Williams and C ameron, saddlers, Groemy’s Royal Oak Hi itel, Drown, upholsterer, Nag’s Head Ho" :el and stables, Dixon street school-house, H ogarth’s timber yard, Warcnp, bootmaker , Smart’s oyster shop, some sheds behind Opera-house, Scott, ironmonger, Young 's oyster saloon, and four or five cottages i i Dixon street. The insurances amount f o a little over, L 25,000, hut the value of p ! oporty destroyod may be set down at more than three times this sum.

The Duned n Athenaeum was partially destroyed by I ire ou Tuesday morning. It is supposed f o have broken out near the librarian’s des Ic. Thanks to the smart attendance of tl ie Fire Brigade and the good ■water supply, the fire was principally confined to th.e li >rary, the reading rooms not sustaining a; great deal of damage. About one-third of the volumes were destroyed, but fortunate !y these wore principally old novels ; the: standard works and reference library were but slightly damaged. The building and contents- were insured in the New Zeahin I office for L 3300. Circumstances haw : transpired which will necessitate holding an inquest. Letters fr >ra England state that the distress among the industrial classes is fearful, while the < lovermivßt refuse to acknowledge it. S > great is the desire to escape from it tint from 500 to 000 written applications a' e received daily by the New Zealand agenoi from persons desirous of emigrating to t 'iis Colony.

The pen 'leman who called a meeting of his creditoi s recently, and when a°ked what proposal hj ) had to make to Ins creditors replied “hj one whatever, ” may he consoled by the refh otion that an offer of five farthings in the pound proposed and accepted in Glasgow. The following appears in one of our Home files received by the last mail: creditors o t Henry Taylor and Son, cornmerchants , of Glasgow, of which William Taylor, th i imprisoned bank director, is the senior partner, the offer of Henry Taylor, hissn of Ijl per pound was finally accepted. Tho liabifitiesof the firm, including th : present calls ou the City Bank stock, are estimated at L 174.000. ”

Says “1 Vtlas ”in the World “ Everybody has heard of tho Shenandoah, the notorious privateer of the Southerners in thoAraori oan Civil War, but do not suppose that manj know what was the ultimate fate of tho sk p when tho war ended. Of ail places in t ho world, she now lies ‘ fathoms deep off tl ie island of Socotra, in the Arabrian Gulf. Her story is a strange one. She was 1 msy burning whalers in Behring Straits, w hen Waddell, her commander, the ‘mihh st-inannerod man who ever scuttled a shi,) or cut a throat, ’ heard of the collapse ol the South. Kis occupation being gone, .and being without homo and harbour to which he durst with safety return, ho ran th e Shenandoah to Liverpool, and immediab ;ly sui rendered her to 11. M. S. Donegal in tho Mersey. She was handed over to tb c American consul, and afterwards bought at. auction by Nicol Fleming and Co.—a I’r.'m that has earned a notoriety in conneotic n with the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank—tor the Sultan of Zanzibar. After re naming idly at Zanzibar for some years, she was sent to Bombay for repairs, but foir idered off Socotra, all hands being lost cxc jpt one Englishman and a few Lascars. ”

The “ Champion drunkard ” has made his appearance at Birmingham. Pall Mall Gazette says “ A carter and coal dealer named William Poole, 40 years of age, made his 90 th appearance on a charge ot drunkenness before tho Magistrates at the Birmingham Borough Police Court recently. He was fined 40s and costa, and informed tho Court that ho has paid L2OO m fines. ” Bates, tho tallest woman in the world, has recently given birth to a baby, which is described ns probably tho largest on record. It weighed 23 jibs, was 30in. in height, breast measured 24in, head 29in, and the foot sJin long. The mother is known as the Nova Scotia giantess, and elands 7ft 9in in height, her husband, Captain Bates, a Kentuckian, being 21n shorter. This gigantic couple visited London some years ago, and after giving a series of public receptions, were married at St. Martin’s Church, Charing Cross—an incident which attracted some attention at tho time.

There is a curiosity now in town (says tho New Zealander) in tho newspaper way thjt is likely to find its way to tho Sydney

E'bibilion. It ia the first number of the (irat newspaper over published by Sir Julius Vog'il, in Victoria, when in a very humble way, and plain and very struggling Mr Vogel. It ia styled the Inglewood Advertiser, and is dated March 21th, 1 800. It ia a single deray sheet, printed on one side only, and its contents are brief and remarkable. The introductory “ loader” is so short that wo reproduce it entire. It ia addressed “ To the public, ” and runs as follows : “ Wo make our first appearance this morning, and intend publishing on Wednesdays and Saturdays, instead of, as announced, Tuesdays and Fridays. This alteration has been made from the expressed wish of our advertising friends, in order that their advertisements might enjoy the benefit of the increased circulation certain to accrue for Saturday’s issue. Our reading matter is rather more circumscribed than wo could wish—caused both by the pressure of advertisements and the monster letter list, which we give with the present issue, and which will be continued weekly.” This ends the introduction. The other reading matter is about throe inches of mining nows, a paragraph about the Post Office, and another relative to amusement?. The “ monster letter list” is about twothirds of.a column of long primer. The print is— “ Printed by J. Vogel and G. Pettifor, the proprietors, at their office, Commercial street, Inglewood. ” No one at that time (18(30) —Sir Julius Vogel least of all—could have the least forecast of what the whirligig of time would bring about, or that the potty struggling journalist, editor, canvasser, and collector in one, of that day, would be the literary and political luminary, whoso brilliancy required only the New Zealand air to draw it from its obscurity, the relic in question will be framed and glazed iu a day or two, and hungup in St. George’s Hall, prior to its transmission to Sydney. This fragment will show from what small beginings groat things arise, and is another proof of the old quotation which tolls us that “There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood loads on to fortune.