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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 370, 1 July 1884, Page 2

Our readers \vill, this morning, abserv that our supplement is somewhat curtailc J/ in reading matter. We ■ must ask their indulgence and plead that press of work caused, oy the preparation of the Hokonui electoral roll is so taking up the attention of •our staff — and such work iuust be done in a limited speciiied time — that we arc reluctantly compelled to hold over a quantity of interesting matter. . The following are gazetted registrars of marriages :— C. Walter Southern', Lumsden ; James Robson, Winton : Thomas Theodore Eing, Gore. ■ ■ ' ; ■ ■■ ■''■•' ; Parliament was dissolved by proclamation '6n Friday, and the writs issued. The elcc'tions are fixed for July 22, and the writs are returnable by August 6. The new Parliament is to meet for the despatch of business on August 7. To 'suit the convenience of counsel ' it : ha 4 beep arranged to postpone the further hearing' of the cases between the Waimea Plains

Railway Company and Brennan and Bcattie until- Friday next; ./'The N. Z. Agricultural Comply arc laying out more poisoned grain jjh'is year than ever. ,It takes, five pack/horses all their time-to keep the men pfi "Wantwood and Oroydon supplied witlvthc grain. The late frosty, weather has been very favorable for' the operations, the^ rabbits being killed in thousands. ■■ <■ '

On Thursday night last-, tit WyiKllmm, nhut was broken into and about LI 5" wurth oC sundries, — such a<? sieves j* gai-leu tools, rabbit traps, etc. — stolon. The property belonged to the trustees in the estate of the late Mr John Fitzgerald. ..The police are searching diligently for the missing articles.,

A (ire occurred on Sunday evening about S o'clock at Ota Creek. By it was destroyed a dwelling house forming part of the old home station. The building was occupied by some contract ploughmen in th c employment ©f Mr Shand and was totally destroyed. Further particui lars are not at present attainable other than that the premises were insured ' and that they and their • cdjlte'nfs were -^completely destroyed. . : To show how the value of town lots has

in the rapidly growing township ofPdversdale, we may. mention^ that lately, onfreighth-of an, acre — withou/any buildings on it-r- was sold for Ll2O. .Another, eighth, with a building worth soiuje* L7O on it, was sold the same day for L2ss. Another section in the township was so\a last September for LBO ; in May it changdcl hands at LIOO, and it was sold' again tho/ other day for L 125. Such facts as these a^e encouraging, in view of the hard times. /

One of tho best ; stories of the Duke oi Eucoleuch, says the London correspondent of the ' Liverpool Mercury,' was his rebuke to the servant of a gentleman who was staying at Dalkeith on a visit. The proud stomach of ■ the gentleman's gentleman would not sit at table with the lower ser vants, He complained to the Dnkc that he had been accustomed only to miiv with the upper servants. " Very well," said the Duke, " ask your master to let you dine with him and me. You may for all 1 care." The gentleman's gentleman cGased to grumble at having to dine in common wfth the lesser domestics after that.

Thus Mr Geo. Lumsden at Jnvercargill o n Friday evening :— " He was in Parliament ■when the District Railways Act was passed, and he then regarded it as a mistake. It had led t o great dissatisfaction. With respoot to the Waimea line it wa,s quite clear the settlers there -would never be able to pay tho rate, and he thought, in the interests o£ Southland and its chief, towns, particularly luvercargill, that it would be far better il! the Government were to buy the railway at. a reasonable valuation ; pay in debentures bearing four per cent., and then charge the settlers now liable a rate that would provide two pa? cent, as against them. In that way the concern would not piove such a burden as it promised to become. He noticed that a person in Gore had been summoned {"or LlB or L2O on account of the railway rate, but really it could not be said that Gore had bene tiled particularly by the lino. It had railway communication before the line was opened. One great reason in favor of the Government having Ihe line under its control was because it could then be made to dovetail in with the other sections : and thus en-* able a man to do what was at present impossible — go to Rivcrsdale, and return to Invercargill on the same day. Now he had to stay there all night, which was absurd, The sooner tha Gpyemij+ont got possession of the Hue the bettor."

/ ' Mr T. E. Carroll who has recently assumed the propietorsnYp of the Stoney Creek Hotel has already suftlred a severe loss by ' the destruction by file of his stable and a stack of wheat adjacent thereto, How the fire originated is a mtstery. It was discovered shortly after thrc<| o'clock on Friday morning ing Mr Geo. Jeffr^'s who was awakened by tlie crackling of ihimes and the glare. He roused the family but the fire had obtained such' a hold that jail exertions had to be devoted to the ho|el which was for some time in imminent (langer. The contents of the stable, consisting of harness, saddle and bridle, oats, tools, aEjpd a valuable dog-cart were entirely consigned, as also the Istack before referred to anc| a cart shed and store room attached to the ! ; stable. It is believed that the stable was' injured, but particulars on thid head are yet It is pretty certain, however, that there was no risk" on the contents. .>,

The Otago Harbor Board have dispensed with the servic3S of Alton, receutly defendant in a breach of promise case.

The Secretary of the Southland Education Board has receive:! a telegram from .he Department,, Wellington, informing him that all teachers travelling\.by rail to attend the Conference will have one half of their expenses refunded; :

i The vote'of L 43,000 passed the other even i ing was not, as would appear from the I parliamentary summary, for the honorarium alone, but includes the whole appropriations } for the expenses of the Legislature for the ( i session. Last year the " expenses of mem- I bers of both ' Houses " (the honorarium)] ainounted'to L 27,500, and their travelling ? expenses to Ll,ooo.

A few days ago when about to break up for trjc holidays, Mr Mpurgeon dismissed his young men with a caution. " Now you will havcia brief holiday," said he smiling. "I£ you italk at meetings' talk sense. If you preach, preach ,as well as you' can.* Your chiefi business,- ■howeyej.', will be to take things remarkably easy. And don't get couriing. That is not good for students. Keepj yourselves to yourselves. Come back as someone ; puts- it, ' with your hearts and manners uncracked. Walk in the fields like Isaac, by all means, and meditate; but don't lift ijp your eyes for. Rebecca. She will come soon; enough."

Tljere is nothing like "bold advertisement." A Cincinnati firm who manufactmx^ haugmcu's rope,s.j recently wrote to an Arkansas sheriff to offer him "the best hangmanfs rope in the market." "We have given long study to hanging," they continue, "regarding it as one of the finer arts of civilisation! Tour geographical location -is favorable, in this way, and we doubt not that you handle many fine specimens ; therefore to secure a certificate from you, we will let iyou have a lot of ropes with improved, nooses at half-price. A noted criminal recently made a speech in favor Of Our rope, in which he said : — ' My fellows-citizens, I would . rather bo hanged by such a rope as' this than live!!'"

"JLight, Late Heavy Weight," writes to the ;' Standard :,— After attempting with sigual failure the different systems, Banting, Harvey, &c, I found that the great secret of keeping away fat was to limit the quantity of liquid consumed) and not the quality..; To a man of moderate appetite the amount 'of solid food is of no importance ; it is the management of liquids that makes the difference in the amount of fat, and conseuently in the amount of weight put on. The following rules, faithfully carried out, will in a month take off a stone weight of fat from anyone who carries it in excess of wbat is necessary for his system : — Ist. Three meals a, dhy ouly. • 2nd. No intermediate nips or snacks, ' 3rd. At each meal any reasonable amount of ariy 'solid food, and one half pint ol any -liquid. This regime leaves you : healthy and vigorous, and one week is quite enough to make one reconciled- to an apparently (not really) • limited amount of liquid. On it I have hunted, shot, played racquets' cricket, and tennis, and for years have bacn as sound as bell. The xate at which weight is lost is surprising at first. A ' fourteen stone man who is carrying two stone of useless fat will part with it at the rate of one pound a day, but suffers no inconvenience beyond the looseness of- his garments. An occasional unbending of the bow, in the shape of a relaxation of .the quantity rule, will very soon work itself off, but these unbendings must not come oftener than once in five or six weeks. For the coifpulerA this is a cextain cure, 'but if very large feeders are anxious to try it, it is necessary, to made some reduction, in solid food as well. Hunting men will : find themselves a ston^ lighter for it, if they carry unnecessary fat, almost before they are aware Of it. as they will waste so quickly from the exercise. The details of a double crime of an exceptionally revolting character that was perpetrated in Galicia a clay or two ago have just reached Vienna. It appears that a peasant returning fiom a town near the Eussian frontier, where he had been to sell some corn, wascornpelled, owing tea sudden storm to take refuge in a wayside inn. While there he was unfortunate enough to allow the landlady of the place to see that ho had what to her seemed a considerable amount of money upon him. The woman's cupidity was tempted, and while the man was asleep she brutally murdered him, and then hid the body undex- a dunghill. Unknown to the murderess, the crime and subsequent lading of the body were witnessed by her little child, a girl aged four, and although the murder does not seem to have had a very terrifying effect upon the child, she nevertheless, on the following morning, recounted, in childish fashion, the circumstances of the crime to some neighbors. On returning home it is supposed that she told her mother what she had done, when the woman, maddened by the iinininqnce pi discovery, seized thc'chikl and Hung it into a laige oven which had been healed either for baking bread or for disposing of the murdered man's body, A short $iinq rwter, some of the neighbors, who had listened to the child's tale, summoned up courage to enter the house to ascertain if it were true. What passed inside the inn is not exactly clear, but probably detecting the strange smell, one of their number opened the oven and discovered the body pf the child, whose clothes were reduced to ashes, and whose body was charred to a cinder. The tallest chimney in the world is said to be that at the Port Dundas works, Glasgow Scotland. Its height from the foundation is 4(18 feet ; above the ground, -15 1 feet ; the foundation bein& 1.1 feet deep, The cuttide diameter, ou a level with the ground ] is 31---fe at the top of it 12 feet 3 inches ; thickness at the ground seven bricks.

at top two and a half brick. The internal diameter at the base is 20 feet, which gradually contracts to 10 feet -i inches in diameter at the top. There are no other human strctetures in the world higher than this chimney, except the steeple of the Strasburg cathedral, which is 4GG feet above the ground ana that of Sfc Stephen's Church, in Vienna, which is <l(js feet hjgli. The most wonderful part of the story of thi s lofty chimney is, that having been twisted out of the vertical line to the extent of 7 fact 9

by a violent wind, before the mortal' was hardened, human skill reduced it to a perfect perpendicular again. The mortar was sawed out on the windward side so as to allow the chimney to sufficiently settle to restore the perpendicular. Nearly two millions of bricks were used in the construction of this chimney and it cost LBOOO, It is 90 feet higher than the cross on the top of St Paul's in London.

The breadth of this chimney at its base is 40 feet, or equal to the space occupied by a large sized house, and it gradually contrasts to 11 feet at the top.

The San Francisco mail arrived at Auckkland on Saturday morning.

Mr James Gardner, of Birchwood, is out for Wallace. He intends to address the electors at an early date,

' Gore beat Balclutha at football on Saturday by one goal, one try, and two touchdowns to nothing. Eddie (2), Symes, and Macphe.son secured the touchdowns, and the List-iiamed kicked the goal. Our report will appear in full on Friday.

A meeting oE the Lindhurst Road Board will be held ou Thursday, to consi !■•■'• H Robert Allison's objections to land h^ . b taken up for the Waimumu ft iod channel, and to transact other ordinary business.

The Gordon Mutual Improveraeut Society met as usual last Thursday evening. An improvement has taken place iv the punctuality ;of starting the meetings, so that members had butter put in an appearance at 1M) if tluiy wish to be present at the opening. On Thursday Mr J. Mac Gibbon read hi -j paper ou. "Land Nationalisation." lie strongly supported the schema, urging among other 1 reasons for it the facto); immense tracts oi! land being owned by squatters, which he held jto be injurious to the best interests of the colony, lluniodulling- of- the land hw.s had been often attempted, but the best thing would be to let the Government have the entice coutrol of the land, and this Iho speaker asserted would be in accordance with the I.aws of 1 nature and conduce to the true prosperity ot! the colony. The discussion was continued by Messrs K. Mac Gibbon, Forbes, Douglas. Begg, and the President Mr Neil I, and at the close a vote wns taken which , resulted in a majority ng linst the scheme Next Thursday Mr J. M'Caw will give a papdr on " Time and the use we make of it." and -the rest of the evening will be taken up with' musical contributions. Election notices an;- published by C. Cowan, F. W. Mackenzie, and T. Green. The first' named addresses the electors at Gore on Thursday evening. Nomination of. candidates for Mataura seat ' take's place on July 15. Tolling places arc alsOjSpccified. ' A: bay pony has been lost from Wellbrook's stables. Hlugh Cameron has been elected to the Linfi hurst Road Hoard, Waimumu subdivision. Ti L. Filler announces a compulsory sale; P, S. Canning and Co. — Fruit and forest trees. ■ ■ „ r : 10s Reward — Saddle lost. BJarbing apparatus — Green and Souness. Green, and iSpuness — Farm fors.ale., I.j S. Sirnscm — Sale of reapers and binders — sth inst. Mrs 11 agon wants a smart girl. Glorious success of the British troops in tho!i-jt.mdan ! Numerous Arabs slain ! JOHX MAfcGlJßJtsox & SOXS, in thanking the public for :the most liberal patronage accorded them, beg to state that they are just unpacking their new season's goods, comprising a large and carefully selected stock of dolmans, ulsters for ladies and children, Jadiea tnmmed hats in all the latest shapes (about . fin.y to choose from), frillhigs in endless variety, Japanese silks in all shades, crewel silks and stamping in all the latest designs and shades, flowers, feathers, ilanuel tartan, and brocaded satin ribbon (a splendid assortment) woollen squares (a specialty, from 2s, large sizes) babies' hoods, kid gloves, &0., &c. These goods having been bought at a great roduc

ion fur cash, we are determined to gi^e our tustomers the benefit of it. Come and see cur prices, and values — never b^Jorc equalled o Gore.