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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 358, 20 May 1884, Page 2

On (Ut that several important banking changes will take place in Dunedin shortly. Premier Gladstone's wife, after wearing plain clothes all her life, h:is suddenly taken to rich dressing and diamonds. Itis understood thafc Mr Homy Driver M.H.R., has resigned his seat on the Board o£..Directors for the Waimea Plains Railway. /' The Rev. Mr Mackay, lately from Scotland, succeeds the Rev. Mr Currie at the Gordon Presbyterian Church. His duties commence on Sabbath next, and his stay, like Mr Curries, will extend over some weeks. The local trotting hor3e Fred left for Dunedin yesterday in charge of his owner. I He ti entered for the Handicap Trot, iv which he has 35 sees, start of W. J. Taggart's Wakatu. , On Tuesday night four wheat stacks on a farm near Ashburton were destroyed by fire and the farm hands declare that they saw lightning cause the fire. We learn that 50,000 of the bricks to be used at the Bank of New Zealand, Gore, come from the Pukerau yards. It is certainly a feather in Mr Norton's cap that he is able with limited appliances at Ms command to turn out first class material and successfully compete with old-established brickmakers in the Southern City. , '' Few farms could show a better average yield for three years than that of Mr James Todd at Chatton. It consists of rich swampy land, and from 120 to 130 acres have for three years in succession been sown in oats. The average yield for three years is , 60 bushels to the acre. Evangelistic meetings wero held throughout last week at the Presbyterian Church, Gordon, with encouraging results. The attendance was well maintained each evening, and considerable interest was manifested. There is every reason to believe thafc many have received good, and it was onlj'- natural that the wish should find expression that similar meetings should be held in Gore during this week. This has been arranged for, and the services will be held afc the new Wesleyan Mission Hall. On Sunday evening last,, the Gordon Church was crow ied, and the following ministers have given their assistance during the past week, viz : — Rev. Messrs Currie, Wright, Buttle, and - Spence, together with Messrs Nicol Kirk, and other 'laymen. Bate'raan's hymns are used, and all are cordially invited to be present. The names of John Q. Adams and Jackson will be handed down to posterity. They are not ■ the immortal American statesmen, though. These were both citizens of Alabama and both loved the came girl. Jackson, having the good-will of the girl's parents, got her and moved to Texas, where she became the mother of nineteen children. Adams found another to love and to cherish and he became the father of twenty-one children. His rival, Jackson, and his own wife died recently, and he has gone to Texas to marry his first love and preside over the destinies of a household made lively by the presence of forty children. The proverbial vitality which cats so superabundantly possess has been again successfully tested by an animal of that species, which was found out afc sea not long since in an open boat. She had been cast adrift by some children at Staten Island , and for nine days—one day for each of her lives — had subsisted on some fish that happened to be left in the bottom of the boat, and upon a pan of fresh water which the rains kept filled. Hamlet says there is a Providence in the fall of a sparrow, but those who have had experience with English sparrows in this country are inclined to believe that they can take care of themselves witnout any Providential interposition whatever. Cats and drunken men indulge in like independent and reckless careers. Stack fires are now becoming common. We regret to hear " that four stacks of wheat, the property of MrA. Gait, jun., Tuturau, were destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The fire was first noticed from the farm of Mr A. Gait, sen., about 5 a.m., but before the place could be reached the stacks were all destroyed. They were estimated to contain 800 buahels and were uninsured." This much from the ' Southland Times.' Our own cor respondent at Mataura telle a different tale. He says : " Two stacks, the property of Messrs Smith and Gait respectively, were burned on Friday night, that of Mr Gait being uninsured, and its value estimated at L 160." At a public meeting on Saturday morning at Gisborne, Mr Rees absolutely refused to retire, saying that any local man would have more weight for the district in the House than Sir J. Yogel, as it was notorious that the latter only desired to go there to prosecute his claims on the Government. It is now snd that Sir Julius Yogel will drop out. and the three local men will carry put the contest. ._ , A ' It will be seen from an advertisement that Mr Driver is to address a meeting of Hokonui electors at Gore next Thursday evening. We expect there will be a very large attendance, nd that the hon. gentleman will be subjected to a rigorous crossp/saminaMon the passage through the ll use vi .li: IJi, I < mpowerijig the Waimea li.o\ v;y Co n>mnv to levy a rate that is without a pur. lie! i ■ New Zealand. All other matteis will be i.i-iguifioanfc beside this. For ihe cpny< nience of electors residing at Lumsden, Riversdale, Maude.. ville, etc., it is probable that a special will be run over the Waimea line. This is a matter that is not yet definitely settled, but our friends on the Plains will be duly .uivised by haadbills of any arrangements made,

The Oxford University havo beaten the Australian cricketers. From June next tho New Zealand Meat Preserving Compuiy at Woodlands will be prepared to receive rabbits from • those persons who may now arrange with the manager. ' The addition to the Mataura Prcsbyic-ian '; Churchis now all but completed. To say noth- ', ing of the additional accommodation, the J appearance of the building is materially im- j proved. j The Mataura Mushal Association bids fair 1 to be a decided success, and though in existence for ouly a iV-.vv weeks we understand that a coucert i.s projected— the 'first ol the kind in the district. Thero is still crop in this district nofc yet harvested, writes our Mataura correspondent The same remark unfortunately applies to nearly all distriots in Southland. ,/ The Mataura Library Committee held a meeting on Friday las>t, in order to tako iiual steps for the opening of the Atheineuui. That institution no doubt will be largely patronised. The Otago Medical Association have received a reply to the petition for the commutation of the sentence on Dr Parry, convicted of manslaughter at Kaitangata. The reply is that the Governor sees no suificienfc grounds to justify him in complying with prayer thereof. Mr Thorne of the Government Insurance Department has taken action against the Department, claiming LSOOO damages for alleged breach of Mr E. Shaw has been retained for the plaintiff, and Messrs Buckley, Stafford, and Fitzherbert,- r and Mr R. Stout for the defence. The Hon. Edward Richardson has been elected as M,H.R. for Kaiapoi without opposition. Mr E. G. Wright has resigned his seat for Ashburton owing to ill-health, and Mr J. C. Wason intends standing for the vacancy. He is in favor of a local railway board and against land nationalisation and perpetual leases. Mails for the United Kingdom and South America (per s.s. <; British King " via Rio de Janeiro), cioso at the Gore post office tomorrow at 12 noon ; for the United Kingdom aud Continent of Europe (via Brindisi), India, China, Japan, the Australian colonies, etc., on Friday, 23rd inst,, at 7.15 a.m, j and for the United Kingdom aud Continent of Europe, North and South America, the West Indies, etc., (via 'Frisco) at 12 noon on the same day. f - The man James Grant, who was arrested by Constable Fretwell at Gore on the Hth May on a charge of lunacy, was brought up at Invercargill Court on the loth inst., and handed over by Mr' M'Culloch, 8.M., tp the charge of his brother, Peter Grant, but he esciped from his brother's custody at Woodlands same evening. We have, not heard : ii! the man has been re-arrested or not. In Friday's issue we shall furnish a report of an adjourned meeting of the County Council, held yesterday. The chief business was the adoption of a report from the Finance Committee to the effect that cheques should be drawn for the balances due on contracts Nos. 550 and 592 (L 3Os 5d and' L37s 6s 7d) less amount held under injunctions or orders of Court, and that the abovementioned amounts be paid to the Colonial bank on account of C. Douglas. ' Verily the pot does sometimes call the kettle black. Thus the ' Southland News ' of* last Saturday : " With characteristic dishonesty, the Matauba. 'Ensign reprints without aeknowled^tneiit 'from .our columns (•tixe-fMSsagp o£^?^r«3rg%^^^ the impropriety of Colonial Office officials holding shares in squatting companies ih Australia." We don't deny it, and what is more to the point, we msy repeat the offence when opportunity-offers. Our reason is simply this : the 'News ' has a nasty habit of appropriating paragraphs from this j ournal without acknowledging their source. Two. can play at that game, and we have only taken part in it that our little friend in Invercargill maj be able to correctly gauge the enormity of his offence. Information has reached Christchurch of a case of poisoning at Urral, near Rakaia. It appears that a party — seven in number — left Tiverton on Thursday on a shooting expedition, and bsfore starting were supplied with, a bottle of whisky by Mr Mann. On reaching Urral they stopped to have a drink, and immediately after were all seized with convulsions. One of the party, who was not so bad as the others, drove off to Ashburton for a doctor, and in the meantime three settlers in the vicinity administered emetics. When Dr Koss arrived from Ashburton one of the men, Thomas Fahey, was dead, but the others were soon out of danger. It seems that a jug which had contained stry. chnine, and had not been washed out, was used by Mr Mann for the purpose of pouring the whisky into the bottle, Had the men reached their destination before partaking of the whisky, they would most probably have all died, aa they would have been too far away to obtain assistance.

A general servant is advertised for in this issue. Thomas Falconer, Chatton, has 40 acres of turnips to let. J. Simpson, tailor and hairdresser, Gore* 1 solicits public patronage. The Knapdale ftoad Board call for tenders for works east of Waikaka. The Wyndham Dramatic Club give a performance on Saturday night. Mr H. Driver, M.H.R., delivers an address at Gore on Thursday evening. Tenders for various works in connection with the Gore Town Hall are invited. The estimated receipts of the Gore Town Board for 1881-5 are officially published. P. Lyons' farm at Eiversdale is to be offered for sale by Green and Souness on May 29. Nominations for. an extraqrdinary vacancy on the Toi Tois Boad Board will take place on May 26. Scott, Prentice and Co., auctioneers, Wyndham, insert a business announcement. Mr Prentice also publishes a card. Application to vote forms are obtainable at the Ensign office, and in view of the near approach of the general election no time should be lost by parties desirious of registering their claims. Carsweil, White and Co, hold a clearing sale at Mr Fyfe's, Wyndham, on May 27, Green and Souness sell planks on Thursday, and horses on Saturday. I. S. Simson sells a Chatton farm on June 7th. Flies and Bugs.— Beetles, insects, ants roaches, bed. bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack rabbits, cleared out by "rough on fiats." New Zealand Drug Company, General Agents.