Local and General.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2094, 10 September 1901, Page 4

Local and General.

The Court sits at Blacks on Thursday September 26th. A. concert in aid of the funds of thel. cal school is to take place at Clyde at an earl} date. The annual horse parade under the auspices of the Central Otago A. and P. Association takes place at Blacks, on Thursday, September 26th. We understand that it is the intention of all district stallion owners to enter. Mr C. J, Coombs, surgeon dentist, may be consulted at dyde, on Monday and Tuesday, September 80 flnfl October 1.-t. and at Blacks on Wednesday, October 2nd. The poultry industry is assuming! large dimensions in New Zealand. Two Southern firms have, for some time past been shipping 2.000 fowls a month from Lyttelton and Dunedin to South Africa. They have bpen offering as high as 2s 9[d per pair for birds. A freight train at Motana, United States, broke in halves on a steep gradient Eighteen trucks ran 16 miles to Nyach station, whore they crashed*) into a passenger train. Thirtyrsix persona were killed. The oaig took lire and 28 bodies wore cremated.' You can depend pn ridding your children of vox pis with Wade's Worm ¥igs, the

Robberies are t king place in a wholesale manner in New Soudi Wales' A man (riding a bicycle) held up a stage coach at Sydney last week, and got away with about £I4OO in notes and £SOO in opals and jewellery. Presumably, owing to the quantity of stock sent to South Africa, the price of meat has been risen in the majority of districts both in New Zealand and Australia. At last weeks meeting of the local Debating Society two interesting papers were read. One by Mr Hutton on The "Beginnings of Greek Philosphy," anil the other by Mr H. E. Stevens on" Single Tax," At the Invercargill Supreme Court, the , four youths charged with making and issuing counterfeit coin, were acquitted on the first charge, >'.'•> convicted on the former. |J Ts Honor advised them not to amuse themselves in such a way again, and ordered them to come up for sentence when called upot:. News from the islands states that during a volcanic eruption in the New Hebrides the shocks were so violent that many dwellings were shaken to pieces, The people hid themselves in the bush. As far as is known, there was no loss of life.—A tidal wave followed, causing' much damage to the plantations. Look at the number of young men who have returned from the war in South Afrca, and who are thrown back on our hands in New Zealand. Will a majority of those young men go back to their old pursuits, and settle down to st-ady industry 1 I venture to say that a great many of them—and I say it with sorroware, by too much coddling and flattery, spoilt for life.—Mr .Scotland in the House. WaDE'S teething powder tor babies are soothinjr, reduce fever prevent blotches Price Is. At the Supreme Court, Invercargill, A. L. Cheyne, charged with setting fire to a billiard room at Arrowtown, was acquitted. Accused was drunk, and had been using turpentine. It was afterwards found the room was jn fire, and Cheyne standing looking at the flames. The fire was quenched, and accused snid it was caused by his striking a match against the wall» Lo show this he lit a match again and the wall flared up. His Hono. said if accused were so drunk as not to know what he was doing he would not be guilty, having no evil intention and being unconscious of of the act. The ' Tuapeka Times' states tha 1 Sergeant Bowman has been transfered to Lawrence, and was expected to take up his duties there in a few days. In reference to this we understand that the transfer is at present held in abeyance. A sensational abduction case is on the lapis at VYanganui. Some two or three years ago a boy was kidnapped whilst going home from school, and his father, until a few A'eeks back, had utterly failed to find where, the child had been hidden, though the police throughout the colony had been informed of the case and a reward offered for his recovery. Quite recently the police discovered the missing lad (who is a son of Mr Joseph Soler, a well-known vigneron and wine-maker) near Balclutha, and restored him to his fathe-. The latter is taking legal proceedings against those whom he susj ects of having kidnapped his child, who, it is thought, was dressed as a girl and sent to various places to defeat the efforts of the police to find him. Out of 30,000 designs submitted for an Australian Federal flag, the committee have selected the winning design. It consists of the Union Jack iu the corner, the lower part of the field having a six-pointed star, representing the federating States, and the Hag bears the Southern Gross in a white field, being blue for the official flag and red for the merchant tervice. A lad named Frederick Parry, a trucker in a mine was the victim of a sad fatality at Wyalong (New South Wales) on August 20. The deceased reared with others to what was considered a place of safety while a shot was fired in the mine. After the explosion the lights went out, and the men felt what they thought was water running down their faces, but when a light was obtained they discovered it was blood, and they found the lad's head between their feet. The stone, it is supposed, rebounded from the slope, and tlun struck deceased. A shooting accident with an extraordinnr? result happened at Grafton (New South Wal s) on August 14. A young man, Arthur M'Kittrick, w.;s handling a revolver when it accidentally exploded, the bullet striking a young girl, Miss Joyce, in the mouth. Several of her teeth were knocked out, but otherwise she escaped injury. In addition to pieces of teeth, she spat out the bullet. We regret to learn that the health of Mr Scobie Mackenzie, who for the last few days has been suite ing from the (Sects of a paralytic seizure, continues to give grave anxiety to his friends. —' O. D. Times.' At the Inveroargill Supreme Court Captain Me Gilvray. charged with manslaughter, was practically discharged. being o dered to come up for sentence when called upon. On cur third page will be found, French Ideas on Cricket, Political Assassinations. Topics of the D«y, Here and There, Gibraltar and its Defences, etc.; on our sixth, TheDisappe rig Cook, Jhe Bu ial of England's Mon.rchs, Banqueting the Ministe of Education, The Transvaal Wa t'ableg ams, Napoleon's Surrender, The Professor was Hasty, and Miscellaneous, It's football that, works up the muscle, And gives a man plenty of -ash, Its kick, it's serum, and it's bus le, And a general looking for lash. In the good old hunt for the leather, If a cold you should have to endure. You will soon pull yourself altogether, With Woods' G eat Peppermint Cure. Mr W. Fraser lias asked that a, velum be laid before the House of the annual cost incurred, by the. Department of Agriculture in destroying rabbits on the Earnsclcugh run, from the date such tun wns resumed possession of by the Government t o the 31st March, 1901. HOW TO SAVE DOCTOR BILLS.. Wo have sayp msmy doctor • ills since We began using Chamberlain's ( ough Remedy in our home. We keep a bottle open all the time and whenever any of my family or myse f begin to catch cold ' we begin to use the Cough Remedy, and | as a result we never have ti? send sway for a doctor and a large doctor J bill, for Chaipberlain's Cough Remedy i never fails to cure. It is certainly a ' medicine* of great merit and worth.—D. S. ] Meark e, G enera l Merchant and Farrp?x, ! Mattie, Bedford county, Fa. For sale by B. Naylor, Clyde, and, Jaweg Rivers, '