By the Way.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, 28 May 1895, Page 4

By the Way.

• A new paper ! The 'Wyndham Herald' about to unfutl its banner to the breez9. A penny paper at that ! A smart, live, up-to-date tri-weekly. Thb Wyndham Herald. Heavy fall of snow up country. It s to be hoped a quick thaw will not ensue. Eastern District footballers went down on Friday, before Pirates and Star. Defeated, but by no means disgraced. Was rough play the cause of Byder meet'ng with his accident? Tbe Birthday rifle-shooting tournament at Gore a great success. Mr William Gardiner, one of Mataura's most respected and best known men, has gone to his long home. Bay. J. A. Asher is to preach a sermon to young men next Sunday evening. Flour has risen 30s a ton dv in? the past few days — it went up 20* yesterday. Shepp-worrying dogs don't pay for their koep. At Palmerston North, an owner of a worrier was fined LIOO througn his dawg worrying 150 ewes, and costs according to scale. Saturday's Football. — Kaikorai beat Liawood, at Christchurch, by a try to nothing. Alhambra drew with University, at Dunedin ;np score. Oaveraham beat Owaka, at Dunedin, by 27 to 0. A carriageful of Masonic dignitaries left Gore by yesterday's Wa'mea train, I for the installation ceremonies in the even'ng at Lumsden. Big dividend at Dunedin on Thursday, over Sail Home's win ia a trot — L 93 14. v George Giffen presented with an address and 400 sovereigns, in recognition | of his valuable services in the test cricket matches. 'Frisco mail arrived at Gore yesterday. Terrible accident at Pine Company's new mill at Colao. The belt that drives the governing balls of the engine came off, and the engine ran away at suoh aa awial speed that it smashed a lot ot machinery, killed a man outright, and made terrible havoc Entries for Ofcago A. and P.'s Winter Show cose to-morrow. Mandeville Baces on Thursday. Good fields promised, there being few defaulters from the acceptance list. Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs Thomas Perkins, two of Southland's oldest residents, celebrated yesterday at Invercargill. In the Junior Flag match at Dnnedin on Saturday, between tue Warehousemen and Pacific Clubs, one of the latter team so far forgot himse'f as to abuse the referee (Mr Campbell), and was promptly ordered off the field. Hear, hear I Mr J. W. Thomson, lat3 M.H.B. for Bruce, has left Lakeside, and gone to hts property at Clinton, the owner, Mr James Landels, taking up Lakeside. Premier Seddon is said to have refused knighthood ; l'kewise our own J.G.W. Our very own T.H.B. now has a son and heir ; congratulations. The silver cradle in prospect. Beported that Dunedin ' Star ' is to be floated iato a liability company, with. t a capital of L 25,000. Est'mated there are at least 400 oyclists in and about Christchurch, from whom could be selected 50 pickod men of exceptional physique, who could be trained to be a most valuable adjunct to the Volunteer force. Tbe ccaza for collecting the first numbers of newspapers is becoming almost as absorbing an industry among amateurs as the possession of rare stamps and book-plates. The ' Wyndham Herald ' will fill a gap locally. The Natives of the pa at Ohaura took a vote reoently on the question of allowing one of their number to take himself a wife. The vote was adverse, and so the young man has to remain siDgie for the present. 22.919 children on the school rolls in Otago. Over 100 grocers called meetings of their creditors in Melbourne during March. Wangamoa district, Nelson, is suff?ring from the ravages of caterpillars. 5,832,064,000,000,000,000,003 tons is the weight of the earth, as calculated by Professor Boys. Wo won't dispute tho boys' figures. Bishop Moran's funeral, to-morrow. It will be an imposing ceremony. A piece of evidence in a Quebec breach-of-promise case was a cuff with an offer of marriage written on it. One night, while the defendant was holding the plaictiff's hand and whispering fervid words, he popped the question in manuscript on the linen on her wrist. She was sentimental or shrewd enough to keep the artiole out of the wash, and it has proved of practical valne. A young man advertised for a wife, and his sister answered the advertisement ; and now tho young man thinks there is no balm in advertisements, and the old people think it is pretty hard to have two fools in one family. About a quarter of a million sheep have been frozen by Gear Company, Wellington, during the season just closing. A Wellington game dealor keeps a rabbit farm of 2000 acres near Blenheim. There the animals aro fed on turnips, and the result of this culture is to be seen in a plumpness tempting to consumers of rabbit flesh. No less than 1100 loaves were served out by the Christchurch CA. Board the other week. Another example of the state of the country, which certain members of tbe Government have told us is fairly prosperous. Bah ! An offer of L 7500 cash is said to havo been refused for a 177-acre improved farm within a mile of Papanui, near Christchuroh. A settler at Taurauga has grown some excellent bananas. The bunches were taken from plant 3 three years old, and grown and ripened in the open. Tho Austrian Emperor, being asked by tho editor of a girls' album for an autograph sentence, wroto "Demand from yourself and from others the earnest fulfilment of duty. Bo indulgent, however, in judging the failings of your neighbors." This week's ' Christian Outlook ' will be a special anti-gambling issue, and will contain a series of articles on tho subject, a list of tho paper 3in the colony that publish gambling news, with tho amount of space they givo to the subject, tho draft of a bill dealing with the evil, and other matter relating to various aspocls thereof. Hi ! Mr Crabb, temperance lecturer, is taking proceedings Hgainst Kimbell, a Danevirke publican, for alleged slander. It's a wonder some publican hasn't instituted proceedings against Crabb I before now.

The latest Dunedin sensation is a i "haunted swing." The peculiarity ofi the invention iB that while those who are seated on it experience tho sensation of moving up and down to such a height that they feel in imminent danger of falling off, they are astonished beyond measure in being assured that ail the time they have remained perfectly stationary. The illusion is said to be complete. What a neck ! Lord Salisbury wears a collar 19| inches in circumference ; Sir William Harcourt, 18. Treasurer Ward's measure is not available. Union Steamship 00. has chartered steamer Mount Sirion, 5000 tons, for Calcutta-New Zealand trade. A Dunedin correspondent suggests that foundling hospitals should be established in the colony. The daughter of a Melbourne oyster saloon-keeper, who is an accomplished singer, is known as " Oyster Patti." Two men who applied to the Wellington Benevolent Trustees for relief, and were offered employment at 5s a day carrying sandwich-board?, declined. One, who said he had bled in the Crimean and Maori wars, stated that if he was to die before he got outside the door, he would not do such work. A. boy thirteen years of age could not take the oath in the Court at Masterton | recently, because he did not understand its meaning. He said he had never been to Saaday-school, and fcad not been taught from the Bible. Our " godless system " of education ! Out of hundreds of applications for the positions of four Melbourne debt-collect-ors at LI 10a a week, those finally selected had all been bank managers. A meeting of creditors held in Invercargill presented some novel and refreshing features. It appeared that the bankrupt had filed in the interest of hia creditors, and as soon as he had been examined an offer was made for tho estate of a sum sufficient to pay all expenses and 20s in the £. A motion, that the offer be " gratefully accepted," was carried with emphatic unanimity. 6> Over 60 men temporarily thrown out of work at Achilles Goldfields (Phceaix) mine, Wakatipu. Sir Patrick Buckley claims to have been completely cured from rheumatism by his recent treatment at Botorua Sanatorium. Queen Victoria has signed more important State papers than any other Queen who ever lived. Every day sealed boxes of documents aro brought to her, and in one year she has read as many as 28,000 State papers. Her hand, it is also stated, has been kissed by more prominent men than the hand of any j othpr woman. The address of Mr William Fraser on the 11th inst. was an able exposition of the principal points on which the honorable gentleman felt bound to oppose the policy of the Government, and to declare himself dissatisfied with their administration. — Queenstown ' Mail.' Writing of the Leamington election, the Liverpool • Post ' remarked :— '• The Tory candidate is Chairman of Nelson Brothers, Limited, and is one of the leaders of the New Zealand frozen meat trade. He is a native of Warwick, and has a residence there, but he usually resides at Hangerhill House, a luxurious place at Ealing. Mr Nelson is a wealthy man, ambitious, and aged fifty-three." Our cable advices this morning show that Mr Nelson was defeated. One day last week, while some youngsters were playing on the beach of tbe Arrow Biver in front of the township, one of them found what he callsd " a pretty yellow stone." He amused himself with it for a while, but, child-like, soon got tired of it, and was about throwing it away, when he bethought him to show it to his mother. The mother, being a miner's wife, had no difficulty in divining the character of the yellow " stone," and admired it accordingly; but, being more of practical than aesthetic mind, speedily bartered it for a certain number 'of articles of whitish metal. The yellow "stone " weighed 4iwt and some grains. —Arrow ' Press.' , W. A, MoGuire, a well known citizen of- , McKay, Ohio, is of the opinion that there is nothing as good for children troubled with colds or croup as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He bas used it in his family for several years with the best results, and always keeps a bottle of it in the house. After havo ing la grippe, he was himself troubled with a severe cough. He used other remodies without benefit, and then concluded to try the children's medicine, and to his delight it soon effected a permanent cure. Soid by D. B. Esther. wmmnmmmmmmmmmwmmammmummmHmmwmmmammMmmmmmmmmmmmm