By the Way.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, Issue 17, 4 June 1895, Page 3

By the Way.

Excelsior! p; Th,e Ensign about to appear as a tn---'y weekly. Tbe Ensign is also to be enlarged to the largesfc^sized broadsheet south of Dunedin. Price, One Penny. G-ore Borough Council meeting, last j , evening, finished by 9 o'clock. Annual Licensing meetino: at Wyndham I to-day; Eiverton, Thursday; Queenstown, Friday. A large window in the Federal stores, Gore, was stove in last night by a party under the influence o£ spirits. A local pulpiteer on Sunday evening had occasion to illustrate his remarks by a reference to tho' recent China-Japan war. China, he explained, had no idea of tho immense possibilities before her, and was consequently an easy prey for Japan, who had risen from her sleep, robed herself, and gone forth as a man of war. A few years ago the ordinary charge .for clipping a horse was LI, but a contract was entered into last week to clip 100 horses in 0 hristchurcn, the rate being 2s 4d per head. Crpmwe'l Darby f0r.1895 wid be reatricted to horses bred and reared ia Vincent, Lake, and Maniototo counties ; tbe stake will bo L4O instead of LSO. Carpenters started on Simson's new auction rooms. Elopements becoming quite common in Wellington. Reported that the wife of a well-known gentleman h<»s just departed with a friend equally well-known in the Empire City. At a sale of Mr Douglas's, stock, Oamaru, a draught horse realised L 32. Clydesdale horses, four years old, handled but not broken, suitable for >trams> and, 'buses, are being bought in Buenos Ayros at about L 8 a head for shipment to London. Similar sorts, sent previously, realised in London from L 22 to L 27. These are what New Zealand horses would have to compote against at Home. Among tbe costumes seen at a recent North Canterbury race meeting was one said to be a replica of an illustration in the Christchurch 'Weekly Press. : The list of Victorian divorce cases for \ May numbered 32— petitions by wives, 24, by husbands, 8. Five women, who were nned a small sumatMinmi, N.S.W., for tiD-ketlliug non-unionists, were sent to. Maitland Gaol, as they refused to pay. The wife of a Euroa (Victoria) resident has presented her husband with their 31st child, and it is said that s all the offspring of the couple are living. All the borrowings of Ohtna prior to 1894, amounting to L 3,755,000, were to have been paid off by the Ist inst.; and the external indebtedness of the country is now L^eSS.OOO, as follows:— 7 ncr cent, loan of November, 1894. . . £1 ,635,000 6 per Sloan of February, 1895 .. 3,000,000 For the service of these loans—interesfe and repayments-— about L 660,000 is required annually.' " The libel action McLelland and Co. v « Tuappka Times ' has been withdrawn ; defendants apologised and paid costs. Mayor Fish's reply to one of Premier Seddon's telegrams, over the destitution of the Dunedia unemployed, is a model of brevity. He wired : " I have to acknowledge receipt of your telegram." Tho Mayor took this course for the reason that he found that the contents of the Premier's message to him had been published before he had time to peruse them, thus showing that a copy of a tolegram addressed to him officially had been sent to some other person in DunJn a certain Otago school there are two fceachers named Freeman and Huggs. Freeman teaches the boys and Huggs the Judge Ward will preside ov<»r the district Court of the Western District sice Judge Eawson, resigned. The 'North Otago Times eaya the Hob J. MoKenzie's health is so unsatisfactory that "it is neoessary he should not experience any of the worries ot office— in the meantime, at least. Combined grand stand and luncheon booth/ to be built on Canterbury show /rrosincls; • Aldington. IkVercargill correspondent ot Arrow * Press 'j— The Prohibition Party will lesvd Ut Eawson's exit with some degree of satisfaction, for the difficulty ot obtaining convictions in cases involving beaches of the licensing laws was supnosed to indicate a leaning towarda the trade, Jn my opinion, Mr Rawson had a tendency to lean overmuch to the side of leniency, and can hardly be said to be a " terror to evildoers," An Invercargill man writes thusly on Mr Kingls paper on Spiritualism r-The whole theory is very vague and the satisfaction of inquiries upon the sub 3 ect is circumscribed by the necessity, so we xce told, £or comprehension received only by" Spiritual development. . . I* "no* Smnnn^ble that communication with the «3 world may be a department of SnceTn which the G-reat Creator may £k the world ripe enough for revelation in the near future. It iniproveg ;your memory to lend a friend a sovereign, but it destroys the memory of you* friend. Surmised tbat only three Ministersthe Hons. Seadon, Reoves, and Cadman —will be present at the opening of PariTament, unlesa the Hon. J. MoEenne ■ health should improve, when he also will be present. It is not likely that there will be an adjournment on account of the Tb enoe of Ar Ward as thero will be snfficient businefls in the shape of s>lls dropped last session to keep the House fuilv employed. . Otago shooting season closed on Friday last Southland keeps open another paonth— until 30th June. Althongh Messrs Jopp Bros, have disposed of their livery business at Gore, they still retain their connection at TJiversdale. J J. Kennedy, after a run of 14 confcinuous months in Dunedin theatres, is to open to-morrow evening at Wellington, with the full strength of his Kennedyli&cas dramatic company. 'Napier Telegraph ': Ia one paper tmMUhed in Auckland three racing P V are now being advertised, hoE c e h o Gamins and Lotteries Act £«Ssyfotbia« that to be done. The pSy for a breach of the aw may be as l Weh as LSC; but if wo are to judge by 'results, the Police most bo instructed not to interfere in certamcßPOS. No nominations received on¥ndßj last for the vacancy in South Ward of Gore. Borough Council. It cannot there, fdre be alleged, in this instance that councillors stuff all vacancies with their Ir Eumored that by no means the last fcas yet been heard of tho " Paterson dispute." < ___