50 YEARS AGO.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3333, 9 August 1926, Page 5

50 YEARS AGO.

(From the Dunstan Times) The North Otago Times reports that cn a day named, a man named Morrison (a plasterer) residing at. the north end of Oamaru town poured some kerosene oil over his wife’s head and then set fire to it The woman rushed screaming into the street. Some neighbours extinguished the fire, but not before all the hair, and a great deal of of skin of the face had been burnt off. The poor woman was immediately sent up to the hospital and sub-inspector McCluskey lodged Morrison in goal. A long vexed question the location of a flour mill, is at lenght likely to bo settled by the residents of Blacks who, at a meeting held at the Shamrock Hotel, on the 29th ult., Mr J. Pitches in the chair, decided to form a company for the erection of a Flour Mill within two miles of Blacks (Ophir) Post* Office capital £2,000, 400 shares of £5 each. On the previous evening a meeting was held, when a gentleman (Mr Jones, from the Arrow) who was present, offered, on the district raising £l,soo'to fit up a mill and afterwards to rent it at a rental equal to 8 per cent of the total cost. Towards the proposed company: £BOO is already subscribed; it may fairly be looked upon then that a mill will be erected. Farmers shouid, therefore, if not too late in rhe season put in a good area of wheat. A fire occurred in Clyde on Wednesday evening in a loose box on the property of Mr John Cox of the Port Phillip Hotel, and in which at the 'time was Mr Goodman’s racehorse, Glengary. The alarm being quickly given, and there being plenty of help at hand and an abundance of water close by, the fire was extinguished before much damage was done. It appears, the boy who attends on the horse went in to the box with a lighted candle [in his hand and by seme means let it drop among the straw which was quickly ablaze. To save the horse the boy opened the door and let him out. There lives not far from here, a certain lady who has recently become endowed with remarkable activity in inducing sinners to attend “meetings.’ Amongst others was an old acquaintance “Gruff Tom” a most consistent old sinner but who lent a deaf ear to all her entreaties. Accosting him one day lately and deeming the moment favorable she pressed him with argument upon argument until at last she asked him “Do ee want to go to heaven then! to which replied Tom “Will 00 give I a free ticket 1 ? We notice that Mr C. Holden is sinking a shaft on his freehold land at the back of the town with the view of strik ihg coal. The opinion is that continuous coal scam cxisis from Mr Holt’s pit on the bankt of the Molyneux through the terraces in a northerly direction to Mr O. T. Marie’s pit in Dairy Creek. That the assumption is a correct one and that MrHolden’s energy maybe rewarded by him striking a good deposit at a reasonable depth we heartily wish. The shaft we understand is now down some 50ft.