TABLE TALK.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 11, Issue 779, 8 June 1888, Page 4

TABLE TALK.

This colony has hardly been fairly dealt with in tho treatment of its delegate to the Chinese Conference about to be held in Sydney. The lord-like Sir Henry Parkes was first of all doubtful about holding a Conference at all unless all the colo»ies wero represented by Ministers of the Crown, and now that Mr Oliver has started away to gire expression to New Zealand's news it seems that he stands a good chance of coming in a day behind the fair, it having been decided not to await hi* arrival but to proceed with the discussion and trust to New Zealand's representative turning | up before anything of importance is done, ; That is not a satisfactory state of affairs \by any means, but apart from it some cnriosity is naturally felt as to the line Mr Oliver is authorised to take on this question. Legislation on the subject in this colony is at present almost at a ! stand-still, the stringent measare which j passed the House having beea hung up for some time in the Council, where there is evidently a strong feeling against the bill. Last night's telegrams ad visa that it has been passed, but in a modified form, or, as the telegram puts it, " in an emasculated state." Is Mr Oliver going to represent the views of the House of Representative* or those of a ctasiderabla body of the Council P Sir Henry Parkes will, try hard to secure a verdict from the Conference in favor of keeping the Chinese away altogether, disregarding entirely Imperial interests. It looks very much as if ho had an idea of banding the colonies' together over tkii trou. ble, with an ulterior view of being in. stalled as first president of an Australasian Republic. We hope that New Zealand's representative is not going to be inveigled into any such scheme, or s offer his judgment to be influenced by the howlings of a Sydney mob. We sincerely trust that the Conference will result in the adoption of a safe and middle course. Thb reply to the letter which the G-or* don Town Clerk was, at Monday's meeting of his Board, ordered to send to the Southland County Council, will be looked for with interest by those of our constituents who are interested in the ereo tion of a traffic bridge over the Waikaka at Gordon. In our report of the last meeting of the County Council it will be remembered that there appeared a paragrapk to the effect that the Council had resolved to grant Ll5O towards this bridge, the work to be commenced as soon as the Gordon Towa Board's contribution of LSO was forwarded. But the members of the latter body pointed out that this ssm was only voted on the understanding that $he Council would take over the roads leading jbo the bridge, and in the absence of any mention of this agreement by the Oonncil the Town Board is naturally in no hurry to part with its LSO« We have very little doubt that the work will be shortly undertaken, because the deputation from fch» Board that recently waited upon the Council explained the matter fully. There is evidently a fear £hat the Couacil is inclined to shirk its full share of the bargain, and wants to get the LSO for the bridge without giving any undertaking about the roads, but we hope that there is no shuffling of the sort contemplated. The bridge is badly needed, and the want has been felt long enough, A satisfactory settlement of the question would be welcomed by a large body of settlers. &fNS)W& has become so much the rage that it is only reasonable to put in a plea for moderation. ft does not distress us much that this pastime interferes considerably with other fixtures, because th« entertainments of one sort and another with which the Gore » people have beon accustomed to pass away the winter evanings are #o numerous and so similar in character (hat an outbreak in a fresh direction is not likely to (jo any harmSinking is purely a corporeal en|oynjent* and regarded as a bodily exercize i£ has ijfcs advantages. Its dangers are well known and can be provided agaimt. The physical .consequences of taking violent exercise in a heajtrd room and going out into a Southland winter night n^ed not be discussed : the danger is obvious. isTe only ask for moderation. In a month, or t#o we suppose the mania will die out, but even whilst the rage lasts we might sug- ' ges£ that something Ics3 than six nights a week be #.iyen to it.

Rnn No. 328, Waikaia, 12,480 acres, wa leased by auction at the Invercargill Lmid t Office on Tuesday to the Bank of Australasia ] at the upset of L4O. i A lady residing in the Hyde district, near Mauchaster, has just bad a strange experience, .and one which proved very pain- J ful and more alarming even than the Bushy I Park sensation of the same sort not long ago j alluded to in these columns. There a bar- ■ vest hand was unfortunate enough •?■ allow i one of his ears to become Atie resting and 1 hidiDg place for a fly, to remove which the < surgical aid of a Gore doctor had to be t called in. Whilst the Hyde lady was ia i bed, she was aroused by a peculiar sensation < and deafening pound in one of her ears, g Strange to relate, ii was found that a com- c mon black beetle had got into the ear, and i although means were taken to 'withdraw it ] the beetle finally disappeared entirely in that sensitive part, of the human orginism. It took a couple of medical men a considerable time to relieve the ear of this extremely foreign and irritating substance, and the work had ;then to be.donewrtb instruments, the enterprising beetle being extracted piecemeal. Present and prospective Town District Commissioners in Gordon, Mataura, and Wyndham will thank us for reproducing a question put to the Colonial Secretary the other day by Mr Hutchison. It was,— Whether the Government will take steps this session to correct the anomaly which fixes the qualification for Commissioners in town districts at an annual ra + ing-valuation of L2OO, while the qualification of ratepayers to x ierve on other local bodies is not limited by &ny amount of valuation 1 Mr Hutchison eaid the Colonial Secretary was no doubt aware that under " The Town Districts Act, 1881," ' provision, was made = whereby the qualification for Councillors was fixed at an annual rental valuation of LIO at least ; and by section 14 of the Rating Act of the following year it wa?s provided "tfaaC wherever reference was made to tie ratable value of property in any previous Act such I reference should be so read and construed that every L 5 value should be deemed to be equal ; to LIOO ratable value for the purpose of voting. The qualification for Commissioners in town districts was thus raised to an annual rating value of L2OO, whereas for Borough Councils; County Couacils, Road Boards, or even for election to Parlia-< inent, possession of any rateable property Jalmost was sufiicient. Mr Hislop said he was not ftware, until the honorable gentleman put the question on the Order Paper, that the anomaly did exist ; but .the matter should receive? consideration, and, if tKere was time, an alteration might be made. Messrs S. Scott and W. Davidson »re gazetted postmasters at Otaria. and Waikaka Valley respectively. Both appointments date from Ist April. v Mr Mathieson, a maker of carriages, etc., residing at Invercargill, has addressed a letter to Sir Harry Atkinson in which he points out that the new tariff will be : ruinous to his There are complaints against the tariff raised by many manufacturers. At a meeting of the Athenaeum Committee held on Tuesday aftersoon, a report from the sub-comunittee recommending that the Nineteenth Ceatury, Fortnightly, and Har per s Magazines ami a Wltes' j .urnal be procured was adopted, and they will be ordered at once. The secretary was empowered to make airangementa for firing, aad some small accounts were passed for payment. The adviaableness of changing the library day from Wednesday to Tuesday was discussed, but it was thought best to make no alteration at present, No one appears to be able to understand where Mr Anderson, tha member for Bruce, picked up the idea that horses in South Otago suffered from rheumatic gout. We have made some enquiries, but have not been able to find any person who has ever even heard of such a disease. Some oae muat have been hoaxing the honorable gentleman. ' The prospectus of the proposed Tapanui District Dairy Factory Compmy is published, The. eapital is L3OOO, but it is intended that the company be floated when 1000 shares have been sold. Ac a recent meeting of the provisional directors, Mr Quin stated that he had made the fullest enquiry as to cost of buildings, plant, etc., and he was indebted to Mr Bobbins and Mr R. Dewar, of the Gore Dairy Factory, for most of his information. He reckoned that a suitable bmilding could be erected for about L3OO, and Mr Bobbins' estimate for the plaut f.o.b. in New York was L 230, exclusive of small engine and boiler. A circular was received at the last meeting of the Tapanui Borough Council from Christchurch, w^th a copy of a petition asking Parliament to do away with the lotalisator. It was decided to support the movement fer the suppression of tha machine, and to write to the member for the district asking him to vote for any measure to abolish the totalisator. In the Legislative Council on Tuesday an animated debate took place on a motion by Mr Oliver in ifavor of raising the school age and abolishing Education Boards. The Hou. Dr Pollen said he agreed with the raising of the school age, and said little children four and five years of age would be better passing the lime in a gutter instead of being stifled in hot schoolrooms, cramped up in one position, and listening to matters which they did not understand. The motion was finally adjourned till next day, when it was divided, with the remit that the raiting of the echeol age was favored by 13 to 7, and the abolition of Education Boards rejected by 11 to 9. Rinkers having acquired considerable proficiency in the arfc, Mr T. A Williams, the proprietor of the Ideal, has arranged for a h*'f mile handicap raca at the Town Hall to-morrow evening. Entries clase to-night. The course has been measured, and will be marked off to»night, so that intending com. petitors may practice upon it. It is intended to place the seats, presently round the sides of <the buildiag, in the centre in order to give the greatest amount of floor room. Mr Williams has other interesting competitions in view. The Rev. Thos. Smaill, who preaches on Sunday in the Gore Presbyterian Mission Ch»rge, £ails from Inch Clutna. Graduating at the University of Otago, he went home to Edinburgh, where, havine: finished his theological studies, and having taken a courss of medical studies to fit him for the mission field, he came back to his native colony a few months ago. He is at present ministering to the Chalmers coagregatjoa in Dunedin, but is about to proceed to the mission field in the New Hebrides as a missionary of the Nqrthern Presbyterian Church. An advertisement elsewhere aotifies a meeting for to-Dight at O'Kane'a Hotel of gentlgmen favorable to the formation of a < second Sinking Club, We understand that the promoters haye received a very large measure of encouragement, though the pro» < ject was only mooted a day or two ago. It is intended that the club shall be a thoroughly i representative ene. If the Town Hall can be obtained for a reasonable price, tbere should be no reason why a second club should not flourish in Gore. A great improvement has taken place in ] the lighting of t t)ie Oddfellows' Hall at Mataura. ?ome time ago the Ltwig.e aathorised • the officers ta procure new burners and £ globes, which have pro<ed 9 good acquisition ] to tha building. Mr White, the hailkeepsr, lit jbhem last night for the first time. . The Re4den£ Bffagjstrafe's Court was opened at the Gore CourtbxiHse on Wednesday afternoon, syfren the 'gase of the New' Zealand Loan and Jjergantiie ' Agency Co. "v. Jas. Kennedy was called «n. Ui Fletcher for the Company asked that the caseinight be withdrawn, the magistrate before whom the a information was laii having consented to that £ourse. The R. M. remarked upon the absence of the d/;fe.tj.dant, who, he «aid, ougU certainly to have been' presep,t, but; after hearing Mr Fletcher's outline of the'dircum* stances of the case v he allowed the information to be withdrawn,

A decidedly novel 'rider 1 was attached i to the mo ion passed by the Wairuna Licensing Cammittee when granting an ; accommodation license to Mr James McDonald, of Railway Hotel. Waipahi. It ' w*a— That the foe be Lls— Ls for the I licens«, the remaining LIO to be deposited, i with the chairman, and spent on the roads ■ Ljythe vitality o c Waipahi. ; A correspondent at Mataura favors us '< with the following :-."The Salvation Army has again made its appearance at Mat aura. On Tuesday evening; last they approach© l the town in great state, accompanied by musical instruments, which attraciion caussd the larrikin element to muster in great numbers. The} became extremely disorderly and about 40 roughs interrupt vl the officers in the execution of their du'y. It is to be hoped that t;ie Army will continue coming, and that their visits wi.l be to some purpose, as judging from the consuet of a number of young me« in this township on Tuesday night last they will have some , work cut out for them to reform and subdue th«m." Last Friday evening members of the Waikaka Debating Society were to have met at the schoolhouse to hear aad discuss a paper by Mr McLeod on "Free Education." but owing to carting and ploughing operations engaging so much attention at present the attendance wa3 not encouraging, and an indefinite adjournment was agreed upon. The Mataura Domain Board propose planting trees on their property at Mataura East. They have just accepted a tender for a dividing 'fence between their reserve and Mr Uockburn's land". There were sis tenders, the highest one being 16s per chaiu and the lowest 10s Bd. It ia antitii. pated that when the tree planting takes place the Chief Magistrate will proclaim a : hoiiday. .-■.».*. Representatives of Mataura in the football match with Pukerau leave by to-morrpw'a North, express, Mi Hugh. Cameron'accompanyirig.the. team ' as umpire. " Following .are. the players :— Full back, Cunningham; three quarter backs, Johnson, MiilariF and ' Thomson, ; half backs, A. Smith and" 0. Humphries .'; .forwards, G>lt, Pryde, j. 'Cftlder, Hiddlestone, W. Smith, Lambert, Bigwood, Sangater, and M&w, . : Xtijpra , will also be a match at Matauia tomorrow bstween juniors from that place and Gdr£. The honie players' will be G. Cameron • tty Stark, J. Sinclair, A. Clarke, G. Smith; H. Hirst, C. Mills, W. McLeod, J. McLaod, W: Pryde, W. To wnshejic|. f ,^. i ,Sniith, w U .Shanks, A. Gardner, C. McGregor jand the Gore Juniors are to be choita from* th^e' following i-i-Bren-nan, W. Calder, Coupar. Coutts (2), W. Fieher, Ferguson, Fletcher, Fox, Gibsou (2), Redding, Rjder (2;, Bobine, Macara. Sullivan, Walli«,and Ward. : ; ■ A meeting of the East Gore Domain Board. I was held in Mr Dunlop's house on Monday ! evening, and attendee^ by, ; Messrs E. MacGibbon (chairman;, Dunlop, McCaw* Wallis, and Brown. The principal. business done was as follows :— Moved by Mr McCaw, seconded by Mr Wallis, , and carried : That tenders be called for cropping the whole of the Domain with oats or barley, the Board lo take possession after crop is stacked, the threshing to be finished aad grain carted away within one month after. On the motion of Messrs Mac Gibbon and McOavv, Messrs Dunlop, Brown and the Chairman were appointed a committee to deal with •the tenders, which the chairman was authorised to advertise for. On the motion Qf Messrs Dunlop and Brown, the railway authorise* were requested to remove the railway crossing presently at Nelson street a few chaius further . no?th, which would give the Board a good entrance foj vehicles ; and if the authorities should accede to the request Messrs Dunlop, Wallis and MacGibbon were, en the motion of Messrs iiaoGibbonaad McCaw appointed, a committee to act re altering gates and fences. Me Brown was appointed eecrcUry and treasurer on the motioa of Messrs Dunlop and McCaw, thereafter the meeting adjourned. Meetings will ia future be held on the second Monday of the month in the house of Mr R. Dunlop, Huron street. The first Monday, it has been found, clashes with the Gordon Town Board and other meetings. The Presbytery of Southland met at Invercargill on Wednesday last, when an application was received from Gore Presbyterian Mission charge asking to be constituted into a Church Extension charge.— lt was resolved | that the attention of the committee be called i to th« Presbytery's minute of the 21st Decem- • ber last, in virtue of which the Mission charge was instituted, viz., "But the Presbytery wish it to be distinctly understood that they cannot undertake any responsibility iv regard lo payment of supply ; further declare that the institution of these services is only a temporary arrangement." Mr Orniond'a resolutions were rejected in the House on Tuesday, and thus cleared the way for a debate on the Customs and Excise Duty Bill ths following day. This measure is still exereistng tne attention of the House. The estimates circulated in Wellington on Monday show Bavingi of upwards of L2i0,000. Mr McCulloch is reduced from LSOO to L 475 ; the chief postmaster, Gore, from L 230 to L 220 ; postmaster, Mataura, L 202 to L 180; postmaster, Wyndham, L 172 to Llfis. The office of harbormaster at Fortrose (L 26)' is abolished. There are some increases, viz., ! Edendale postmaster Ll3 to LdO ; cadet at j Gore, L9O to LIOO ; telegraphist at Lumsden, LIOO to LlO5. There was a fairly good muster at the meeting of the Gore Literary and Debating Society oa Wednesday evening, Mr W. A. McCaw, vice-presideat, ia the chair. The RevJ. Hobbs explained that he had resigned the presidency because of the little interest taken in the Society ;. because financially it wasinavery bad way; and^ because it was better to bring things to a climax than let the Society diea hegering death, Soa»e of the members present disagreed with Mr Hobbs, and although his resignation whs accapted it was decided that an adjournment should be made to Howell'i Hotel next Wednesday evening in order that the position of the institution might be fully discussed. The pillars of the Society were not disposed to allow it to be snuffed out incontinently, and some comments were made about the u«isuitablenesa of the Oddfellows' Hall as a meeting place for small gatherings. Holloway's Ointment and Pills— Coughs, Influenza. — The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs, In common colds and influenza the Pills, taken internally, and the Ointment rubbed over the cheat and throxt, are exceedingly efficacious. When influenza is epidemic, this treatment is the easiest, safest and surest. HolJoway's Pills purify the blood, remove all obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs, relieve the engorged air tubes, and render respiration . free, without reducing the strength, irritating the nerves, or depiessing the spirits ; such are the ready means of saving suffering when anyone is afflicted with colds. Goughs, bronchitis, and other j>hest con&plaints, by which so many persons are seriously and permanently afflicted in most countries, A LOSING JOKE. A prominent physician of Pitlsburg said jokingly to a lady patient who was complaining of her continued ill-health, and of his inability to cure her, " Try Pr Soule's American Hop Bitters 1" The lady took it in earnest, and used the Bitters, from which she obtained permanent health. She now laughs at the doctor fo.r his ioke, but he is not so well pleased with it, as ifc 'cost him a good patient. • Harriaburg Patriot.' Melbourne House, Mataura, has specialties. , Skating prizes at the Ideal Bhik. 'to Qreeu and §ouriesa' sale at East Gore m Monday. •' '■ - : '■, > "* «■•... "T. Tbdd,- Woodlands, sells drain pints. .§.ljanjts>rid Co., tfreijn rfnd Soiftass arid I. S. Simsoa mnounce stooi sales, ' " ' ' Tenders for cropping wanted. Anglican District services for June notified. Green and Sounew sell horses oil 16th inst. I. S. Simson sells furniture on the same date. Paddock is wanted. , . . • Sunday services at the Mission Hall. Tenders, for f en^nc, 5 ' A second rinkihg'olub on the tapis, . • J The Education Board have luridrj! notices r« Com. J

mifcteo eleotiona and ex&minations for soholarships and l ( pupil tcaohers. . Appliaatf on for spocUl claim at Waikaia. Publicans' license feca payable within U days after i granting of certificate. Tenders wanted for right of graziag at Charlton. ' District orders for June. . I Forest trees for sale by J. Bullantyne, Waikaka. , The best medicine known iajA. SANDER AND SONS 1 EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, in^ ' fluenza; the relief is instantaneous. In serious'cases i and. accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, bnrns, acaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— no swelling— no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, etc,: diarrhoea, dysentery ; diseases of the kidneys and urinary orgaus. In use at all hospitals and medical^ clinics ;„ patronised by* His Majesty the King of Italy : and orowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam uafc.n this approved article and reioc* *ll otheri.