The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, l879.

Dunstan Times, Issue 922, 19 December 1879, Page 2

The Dunstan Times. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1879.

Benea'h the rule of men entirely just th pen /sMtoilTlKß than flu sworn).

Our remarks iu last week's issue regarding dredging and dredging machines lias had t he iff'et of not alone waking up some of our contemporaries to the fact that dredging the red of our mighty Molyneux is not only possible, and that wherever tried has been a success, but it lias suggested to s uno patentees of dr dging ma chines resident iu the Province, tint there is a possible outlet for some of their paten's no (he Molyneux. Our contemporary the Tuapeka Times, however, has somewhat overshot the bolt in saying that the paitiotilar dredge we alluded to is at work between the Horse Shoe Bend and Roxburgh, and in thus trying to throw discredit on our remarks has rather thrown ridicule on himself. We are perfectly aware as to what class of dredge our friend (?) alludes to The dredge* ref rred to are the primitive bucket and ladder dredges, which in his ignorance ho confounds with “Simons and Co.’s Patent Hopper Dredger," now on view at the Sydney Exhibition, but which bear os much nsemblance to each other as dots a vcigo watch with a chronometer

The machine we referred to was **■ Priestman’s Patent Bucket and Gripper,’" anil if oir contemp >rary and friend will trouble himself by inspecting the various <1 rawin.'S and other descriptive papers of di e*dgers in our hands, he will see that we vs--<ere perfectly right and justified in our r-asmirks, and admit that he got somewhat OLit of his depth. We favor, however, no machine above another. We a'e fully- alive to the fact that a fortune awaits tli.~>-se who have sufficient energy to enter i aito the speculation of dredging the Molyne »jx, an d accordingly take every of referring to the fact in our columns.

In our last weeks issue we r< zs mark el that pleasure seekers during t.ii & coming festive season would have no diBS-equity in finding something to their tas-e. Since then the programmes anil other pa rticulars have been placed in our hands, an X accordingly found their way into other 'Columns, We can do no better than draw thr-e attention of one and all to these an 1 allow them to select for themselves,. and if between Skaters, Tom Pepper’s lost, Caledonian Sports, Horse-racing, 3-nd that great attraction-a Gift interspersed with vocal and instrumental music, either he or she cannot find then from our heart of hearts we p>L tv them, and say they must be hard to plea.se.

We have receive 1 from the Printer late numbers of Hansar-T, Public Works Statem»nt, and other Parli: *_rneiitary Papers.

The Waste Tan Is Board at its T meeting decided that tlie leases of the Wakatip runs are to be solil in Dunedin.

In the Legislative As«emb’v tlio “ Alexandra Corporation Reserve Bid. -which is a measure altering the survey of the Corporation Endowment, was passed. AV e have since ascertained that the Bill Jias been passed by the Council. The profits of the lite V.R. O. meeting were not so great as in the pre\-£ous year, the total amount received LI 1,k97 Bs., againstLl2 CIS 175., the difif -oreiice in favour of last year being a few shil dings over L 1.221, though the selling stakcis== in 1879 brought in 1-339 more than in IS 78 This year the stakes were L2oo moi-e, and the hand received LIOO for playing t throughout the meeting. The profits, however are close upon L 6 000, which is a very respeor tablesum in these hard times.

The following sad accident ocr-ourrcd at Mah (-no on the 12th instant : “A Miss Gordon, assistant teacher at lire Maheno school, and about 18 years of age, was proceeiling to her duties this m. im mg, in a dray, in company with a Irid named Fiamanck and Mr Davis, who driving. While trying to ford the stream -rit Davis’s crossing, which has now floole«l the road, the dray got into a hole, which had been made by the wash of the water, sand upset. Mr Davis swain ashore. The li--s-a-se struggled until it freed itself, and 3.X so got on shore ; but Miss Gordon an.X the lad Fiamanck were drowned. bodies were recovered in the afternoon entangled in a fence. Efforts were made *- -y both Mr Davis and young Mr Gordon to save the lives ot the girl and boy, but thoj3’ were unavailing. No inquest will take palace.

The following wore passcnge —s by tbo Rotorua, lately arrived at Avi ckland ;—- “Alex. Hannah, president of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce ; Stephen Mason, of Glasgow ; and Clark, the weli-Pc. mown cotton and sewing-thread manufmaclurer, of Anchor Mills, Paisley. They are on a tour through the Colony.

The Daily Times says : “ .'V. party of surveyors are now engaged niak.s a woiking survey for the Public Work) Department, of the Otago Central line I —etweon the Deep Stream and Hyde, in anti cipation of tenders being called shortly for this extension of the line This is across the Strath Taieri Pla : n, and the land along the route is reported to he of excellent qu -a.!i y. For this reason, therefore, the (lover- uncut will probably push on the work over— this portion with the least possible dclcs-_y. As has been stated frequently of late, —here is at present no really suitable Ciown land in the market for agricultural settlement, while customers in the shape of 3minigraiits with capital are constantly ardv big." The property known as Ha.-v=wth->rn!lale, which was bought by a Hunedan speculator some eighteen mouths ago f*_sr L2J per acre, was resold by auction at jCuvercargill on Fii lay last, and realised LSS» per acre. The number of wool ships, w taioh cleared from Melbourne during the iu<>2us.th of November for England was twe.v-«e, carrying 70,425 bales. The greatest, mints, her of bales carried on one bottom was Ss(_» -i, and the smallest 2431). In addition to the above 5915 halos went by three steam «srs via tho Suez Canal, and two ships saile i direct for Boston, United States, taking 63741 t ales. This makes a total of 89,085 Dn-lcs for die month, and, with previous shi |p»meuts, the grand total of the season, to No vemlui 39, is 130,847 hales.

The Wakatip Mail says ‘ -Mr T. F Roskrnge, for ninny years legal and work-J ing manager of the Nugget a.--ad Cornish Quartz Mining Co.’s mine, Sh<»—«nvr (which has passed through ninltitmlirx. ous victs-i----tudes. and for a seem I time ha.-s justnudergone the “ win ling-up ” process ]} seems to have determined to try his Inn- 1 and head at something mo-e reliable thra.ii mining; he has accepted the appointment of stationmaster at the Kingston railway terminus. eEgles snys : “ In a township rather a long way up the Darling—saw a couple of thousand miles by water above Echnca—there is a lively young Irish dor»-fcur. Bertie Campbell, the squatter, drove "Enim out to the stat ion to prescribe for his *= ike overseer, (icing through a mol) of eat le . aid the doctor, “By George, that’s an «~-*l 1 fedow," pointing t<> a hulluck. '■ Whaf. -the mischief do you know about the age bull <-»cka ’"(retorted the owner “ Sure there’s the brand on him. ” said the doctor, “ ii. CD. 77. ”

We have omitted from thia issue an interestin'' n port of a case against the owner of a dog for worrying sheep, also other matter which, however, will bo dealt with at length in next issue. At the last sitting of the Tuapeka County Council, the Manager of the Mercantile A etiey Company, appliedon behalf of Mr K ching, for the L 3 10 owing to him for the B aumont Bridge purchase. —The Council re-olved to onen a sepa-ate account to meet the claim, and day in all moneys received into it; also that no new work bo proceeded with until such sum is paid. The New Zealand Herald savs that Andrew George Scott, a'fns “Moonlite, ” the leader of the New South Wales bushrangers, was formerly a resident in Ancklml, arriving here in" the Black E igle in 1831, from London. He received his education atone our public educational institutions, and ’verv early manifested a spirit of adventure, which led him into severa l scraues. He joined the Waikato militia in 1864, and, on its disbandment, endeavoured to get some of his old school fellows to join him in an expedition to California. He uutimately went to Australia. It is a curious coincidence (says a London society j mmal) that by the deaths of two officers—one in the Calnil and the other in the Zulu campaign—the Catholics have gained two peerages. These were Lord Oss.ilton and the Hon. E. Wyatt Elgell. Both were elder sons and Protestants, and the secou I aons arc, as it happens, in both cases “’verts.” The “worst-disgusted” man in New Zealand at the present time resiles in the Poverty Bay district. He entered for a Sweep on the Melbourne Cup at Gisborne, and on being told he had drawn Darriwell refused to pay tor his ticket. The ticket accordingly reverted to the hotel-keeper ■who arranged the lottery, Mr Page, who wins the money. At a luncheon given in Sydney recently to commemorate the experi ment of shipping Australian meat to England under the BellColeman refrigerating process. Mr M. D. M’Ea'han, one of the charterers of the Strathleven, remarked : “In Queensland it bad been said it would not le possible to compete with the Americans in placing good fresh meat upon the Engli-h markets, when it could be sent from Chicago to Liverpool at 31. per lb. But a gentleman who travelled through America and knew the ' s.ock trade thoroughly stated, on the other j hand, that when he was there—and by the latest advices from America the case had not altered—this meat could not lie landed . at less than from 470 101. to 5 101. par cental, which would make it aboiio per lb. It would pay everyone here if they •could get 5 I. perlh for meat landed in England, hut until this experiment was tried there was no occasion for them to compete with America." A correspondent of ‘he Chicargo Tribune, writing from the Dalrymple farm says : ■“Just think of a sea of wheat containing twenty square milts. —13,0)0 acres—rich, rip ;, golden ; the winds rippling over it. As far as the eye can see there is the same golden sunset rule, in all there are 115 ■self-binding reapers at work. During the harvest about 4■' 0 men are employe ), and during thrashing GOO—their wages being 2 dots, a day with hoard,” Adolphus Rosenberg, the publisher of Town Talk, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for his libels upon Mr and Mrs Langtry, and to enter upon his own recognisances of I 100 to keep the peace for •a further term of eighteen months at the expiration of his sentence. For bis libel on Mrs Cornwallis West to six months. The Judge regretted he was unable to ad 1 hard labour to the sentence, anil said that the offence should not have been t-eatnl as a firstclass misdemeanour, hut as a felony. The printer of idle paper \>as ordered to enter upon his recognisances in LIOO to appear for ju Igrin uit when called upon. Within the hist day or two (writes the Kihnore Examiner) we ha I the privilege cf ■examining certain papers, amongst which is a lengthy statement from a gentleman in the employment of the Victorian •-overnment, as well as a le'ter from Henry Smith, alias Arthur Orton; the first-named giving a circumstantial narntive of the latter, and the whole forming snob a chiin of evidence as will throw a light upon the mysterious cirenmstanccs still surrounding the celebrated riehborne cise. Thu particulars show that the veritable Arthur Orton is now in a neigh-bouri-ig Colony, and thatif the claimant now in prison is not Roger Tiebbomc, he is an imposter other than Arthur Orton, There must be something which blunts the sense of delicacy in inland life in Australia (writes “,Egles ”). That is, at least, how one might construe the following incident, which took place last month. Up near Midlands some shearers crossing an anabranch of the Darling to a shed in a cutdown tank upset the ship, and one was drowned. His mates scrambled out (the water was nowhere over seven feet deep), but no effort was made by them either to find the missing man, nor afterwards to roholy. Information was tardily the police at Midlands two days after the mishap, ami they hastened to the spot and sum fished up the body. Having no message from the coroner that evening, they (as they said, “to keep him sweet”) put a rope round the neck, and anchored the body in the water for the night. Next , day nothing fioni the coronc. The man in charge of the slid! suggested to the police to take their find to Midlands. They, however, preferred to tow it half a mile : down the river by the head, to drag it ashore, to throw it in a hole a foot deep 1 between two sheets of bark ami cover it 1 up. The pastoral tenant has since given ; ] decent, burial to the poor remains treated : 1 with such callous indignity. j The tnsk of ivory which Cetewavo sent ] to Lord Chelmsford has arrived in England. I It is of enoi raous siz ■. and one of the finest specimens of an elm hunt's tusk that has ! been seen in the country. 1