BY THE WAT.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 5, 11 July 1895, Page 2

BY THE WAT.

•What about That balance-sheet - Is the Council afraid to publish it, or what?

Orange Ball at the Town H*ll to-morrow night.

The sun having withdrawn the light of his countenance from us, salmon-pink noses and chilblains are again plentiful upon the mottled anatomies of Goreites.

Tha deepest boring in the world is at Schladebach, near Keffman, Germany. It is 5735 ft in depth, and is for geological research solely. Protests against the bank's preposed lottery continues to be made all over the colony. The Standing Committee of the diocese of Chriatchurch and the New Zealand Workers' Union are amongst the latest bodies to join in the outcry.

At the Christchurch S M. Court, yesterday, on tbe application of counsel, Mr Bishop allowed the withdrawal of the remaining informations laid against hotelkeepers for alleged Sunday trading, and the informations for conspiracy against the informers were also withdrawn.

The St. Augustine Lodge of Freemasons (Waimato) held a special service in aid of the poor and distressed, at which L 22 odd was collected.

Mr Frank W. B. Fitehett, a Dunedin medical student at the Edinburgh Uni versity, has pasßed bis final examination for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery ; and is appointed one of the resident physicians in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. John Reid, alias Burns, charged with being concerned in the recent robbery of gold from the Ohristchurch museum, has been committed for trial.

Sheepskins with wool on were exported last year to the value of L 40.361, and the skins withoutwool exported were valued at L 122.283.

At a meeting held at Dunedin on Tuesday night a resolution was passed that it is desirable to commemorate in a fitting manner the memory of the lata Bishop Moran, and a committee was appointed to raise the necessary funds.

On Tuesday afternoon the signalman at the Lyttelton Heads noticed a small vessel drifting about in an aimless way, and the tug was sent out, and returned with the vessel, which was the ketch Annie, trading between the Peninsula and Heathcote. It was waterlogged, and there was no sign of the crew of two men, but they have since turned up, having deserted the craft.

As showing to what extent the price of sheep has risen during the past few weeks, it is instanced that ia Canterbury sheep that were bought at 53 Id six weeks ago have been resold at 9s 9J each.

Highwaymen cyclists were encountered noar Donciater. Standing by their machines on the roadside, one challenged a passing wheelman with "Money or your life " The cyclist riding on was shot in the thigh, and reached York in a very exhausted condition. The footpads escaped.

Recent high .tides are said to have reopened the old' channel in the river Molyneux from the ocean that was closed by the big flood of 1878.

■ Professor Black, of Otago University, lectures on " Lime and its uses " at Tapanui on the 22nd inst., under tbe auspices of the local Farmers' Club.

The 'Tapanui Courier strongly urges farmers in that district to support the proposal of Mr McQueen re the Southland Frozen Meat Co. The Tapanui district is being asked to guarantee L2OOO.

Great complaints are being made that the Dunedin unemployed are little better than loafers, and that for their 4s 6d per day they do a minimum quantity of work. The capitalists who found the funds are now wrath to think that their liberality was misplaced. A visitor to Muriwai to see the stranded whales on the West Coast picked up 800oz of ambergris. This is valued at L2OOO.

During the year ending 31st March last, 40 licenses were issued to persons connected with religious bodies under the Gaming and Lotteries Act.

The Tasmania brought 48 horses from Sydney, eight being for Wellington. Professor Black, Government analyst at Dunedin, reports that of 29 food samples analysed during the year, 13 were found to be adulterated. They were : Of oatmeal 1, mustard 7. sugar 1, milk 4,

Oscar Wilde is now being educated in the importance of being punctual. He is doing his six hours a day on the treadmill, and has to lift his feet to the time or he will know the reason why. Such circumstances ought to be favsrable for the manufacturing of puadoxes.-

It is stated that thousands of sheep have pesished on the stations surrounding' Ophir. At Morven Hills some 10,000 wethers were snowed in, and were offered to anyone who cared to endeavor to rescue them, but the chances of being abie to do so were very remote. The snow was clearing away rapidly oa Monday, and as heavy rain had fallen there waa a prospect of floods.