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Dunstan Times, Issue 899, 11 July 1879, Page 2

The Resident Surgeon of tlie Dunstan District Hospital informs us there are now eight patients in the institution, aud that some of the cases are very serious and complicated. The mining property, house, and garden, the properly of Mr Whitaker, and advertised for sale in another column, is a good property and worthy the attention of a small capitalist. To a married man who understands tree growing and general gardening, the chance is a good one, as both situation and the surrounding laud is of first-rate quality. We are informed that Mr Josiah Compton Jones, Flour Miller, Spottis Creek, Blacks, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. The selection of Mr Jones is a good and a wise one, and to the residents of Blacks, Drybread, and Tinkers, the appointment will be a great convenience. The Lake Wakatip Mail office, which was burned down last week, according to the Arrow Observer, was set fire to by two of the children of tlie proprietor, they having made their way into the office and made a fire of a lot of waste paper, and that before it was discovered the flames had obtained so complete a mastery that though every effort was made the building and contents, amongst which was a valuable printing plant, were entirely consumed. Our contemporary, until a new plant arrives, will appear as a crown sheet, and will ho published at the office of the Arrow Observer. The hooks fortunately were saved, they having been covered up with a mass of other papers. Mr Fache instructs us to draw attention to the unreserved Sale by Auction of household furniture, to morrow (Saturday) on the Bank premises, Clyde. As Mr M‘Dougall has left the district, everything will have to be sold. The only business of local interest transacted at last week’s meeting of the Land Board, was the case of Air Benjamin Naylor, who asked permission to reside on sections 30 and 31, block 111., Lauder district, instead of on section 17 of the same block—the latter taken on deferred payments, the former being bought absolutely by applicant. The application was made under exceptional circumstances, as tlie deferred payment section, which adjoined the others, was unsuitable for a residence, being swampy and apt to be flooded in the low-lying portions, and unfit for garde”, &0., on the higher.—The Board having no power to grant the permission requested, declined the application. We direct a tention to advertisement in another column of tenders for road works wanted by the Vincent County Council Tenders close on 23rd July. We observe that Mr Blood, solicitor, of Cromwell, will regularly visit Blacks every Court day, and other places when professionally engaged. We have to acknowledge the receipt of No. 1 of the New Zealand Magazine, containing twelve popular songs ami pieces, with music for the pianoforte, published by Mr G. R. West, of Dunedin. To musicians and families our new friend should be very .acceptable. It is most creditably got up, and reflects great credit on the lithographer, Mr Thomas George, of Dunedin. The price is one shilling. The proprietary of the Current Wheel dredge that sank at her moorings a short distance above Alexandra, have determined to sell her as she lays, Mr Fache acting as Auctioneer, on Wednesday the 23rdinstant. The crab winches, chains, anchor, ropes, and other material on board should find a ready market amongst contractors. A Wellington telegram in the Herald sxys that in consequence of the high price charged for stock by breeders, the Wellington butchers have decided to import cattle from Sydney by a Sydney trading steamer. The next steamer will bring a lot down. It is stated that the Dunedin butchers have already commenced importing. At present, there is in Wellington a representative of a large New South Wales breeding firm making arrangements to supply butchers with live stock.

Richard Kenna, a wealthy resident of Bathurst, who was refused burial in the Roman Catholic cemetery, wa’ interred in the presence of about' 3000 persons, in a vault erected in a private piece of ground in the borough. No clergyman officiated, the deceased’s nephew reading three simple prayers. The re-sou the deceased was not buried in the cemetery was because he refused to withdraw his son; from the Sydney Gammar School, to which the Roman Catholic bishop objected as a Protestarit institution. The Taieri County Council, at its last meeting, occupied for the first time its new chambers at There was no open - ing ceremony or other joviality such as is common on occasions of a like nature; although the matter was mooted it went no fui 'her. The building is within a short dis .mce of the railway station. The Daily Times after describing the building further says “ The Council intend to havq the section on which their now chamber stands fin'd down in grass, and in the way of ornamental shrubs, gravelled walks, &e., to make it a pattern county property, rivalling even that of the Vincent County at Clyde, the laying out of which is stated to have been done under the superintendence of Mr Pyke himself.” An English paper writes The officers at the Cape have dotted all the ornaments which make them a mark for the enemy, and they are now only distinguished from the privates by having tlie braid torn from their tunics. Razors are prohibited to all, from the general downwards. When the Colonial legislators heard that the 91st Highlaude-s were coming, they found themselves in a curious fix ; for they had passed an Act forbidding men to walk about with uncovered legs. This regulation —which was, of course, originally directed by the propriety of the white man against the aboriginal fashions of his dusky brother—would certainly have been infringed by the wearing of the kilt ; and it must therefore have been a relief to theso worthies to find the canny Scot equipped in trews. The kilt would be a terrible impediment in the hush, and it is never likely to be worn in active warfare again. The dangers of Thuggee in India are by no means past at the present time, according to the Times of India, which states that the drugging of travellers and others by professional poisoners is just now so prevalent in Oudh and the North-west Provinces that official instructions have been issued to the authorities to secure the suppression of the crime. The detection and conviction of the offenders is, however, exceedingly difficult, for the poisoners travel alone, and carry out their plan without witnesses by drugging the food or drink of unsuspecting travellers with whom they have managed to strike up acquaintance. Some highly eccenttio bonnets are reported from Paris this Spring. There is the “ Stewpan,” adorned with a garland of spring verdure, the “ Scullion's Pie,” the “ Extinguisher,” usually smothered in poppies, and very pointed in shape, the “ Res-' toration Calash,” a copy of the old style, and the “ Learned Dog ” bonnet. The Passion Play recently performed in San Francisco aroused such intense indignation amongst orthodox circles that the Board of Supervisors arrested the actor who assumed the part of Christ, tried and convicted him of misdemeanor The post of public executioner in France, lately vacated by the death of M. Roch, appears to he greatly sought after. Five hundred and sixty-eight persons applied for the honour, the Parisian tells us, and amongst the applicants were eighty-seven doctors,, and twenty-four cabmen.