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Mataura Ensign, Issue 14, 1 August 1895, Page 2

The appointment of Miss Florence Goodger as postmistress and telephonist at Fortrose has been gazetted. The 10 a.m. train from Invercargill to Gore was over two hours Uto yesterday morniDg. The cause of the delay was that some of the engine gear went wrong shortly after the train left Invercargill. Another and smaller engine had to be procured, and it fetched the train on to Gore with the delay above mentioned. The Gore Christian Endeavor Society met in the Wesleyan Church on Monday evening. Thero was a fair attendance of members, and Mr Gilbert read a paper by Rev. Mr Tinsley on "Christian Cheerfulness" The paper was well received and criticised by those present, and at its conclusion a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to its author. Ths next meeting, on Monday next, is to be a musical evening. Owing to bereavement in the family, Mr H. S. Valentine was unable to conduct the auction sale on tbe property of the late Neil Henderson, Waikaia, on Tuesday, and the hammer was wielded by Mr Horace Simson, who, with characteristic Simsonian loquacity, quitted all lines offered at satitf»ctory prices. Account sales for cheese scut from Tapanui Dairy Factory to London must be very gratifying to the company. Although general prices of prime cheese are quoted at 40s to 41s for New Zealand, the local company obtained 42s and up to 445. The session of the Gore Literary and Ddbating Society was closed on Tuesday eveninc, when Mr Poppelwell read an interesting paper on " The Social Morality of the Colony as Disclosed by Statistics." Most of the dozen gentlemen present (there were several inches of snow on the ground or tha attendance would doubtless have been larger) took pirt in the discussion. The secretary announced tbat there remained, after paying all exponses, a balance of 17s 3d in hand. A meeting of the Mataura Domain Bosrd was held immediately after the Town Board meeting on Tuesday night, when it was resolved, on the motion of Messrs Perkins and Balneaves, that a committee consisting of the chairman and Mr B-lneaves and the mover be appointed to seleot and order trees for planting on the Recreation Reserve on Arbor D*y. A very agreeable social w.s held in the Otama Church on Tuesday night. The ladies of the congregation, hearing tbat Mr D. Young was leaving the district, determined that his services in ths Sunday School, etc., should not go unacknowledged. Ths church was well filled, despite tha fact that tbe ground was covered with snow, and there were occasional snow showers. Mr Youn?, who has been for a long time a teacher in the Sunday Sihool, was the recipient of a Bible Dictionary from Mr R.msay, who gave it as a . token 'of his esteem and good-will, and thanked him for the help he had been to him in his church work. Master James Bruce, one of bis pupils, presented Mr Young with a writing desk from the Otama Sunday School children ; and his fellow teachers in the school also gave him a Bible. Mr Young, in thanking them for their gifts, said he felt sorry to leave them all, and would always look back with pleasure on the kindness he had received from them. It had been his delight and duty to ieacb jthe children, and they had never given him an unkind word, Mr R. Dodds also spoke in high termi of Mr Young's services in church work, and was o.ure flis place would not be very easily filled. He had oome out that snowy night to testify to tbe esteem in which he b^/i held Mr Young, and to express his sorrow at his departure. During the evening Mrs R. L. Christie sang " Tbe Four Maries," and solos were siren by Misses O'Hara and Stewart, $nd Master James Stewart. The ladies proeidsd tes., pakes and sandwiches very liberally, and they wave higbly appreciated. The singing of the hymn " God be with you till we meet again " brought the mooting to a doflj, A meeting, for th/? purpose of forming a Sheep-dog Club for iGore, ,was in $tr R. Dewar's office on Saturday afternoon. About a do#?n gentlemen were present, and Mr N. S. Kingdon was voted to the chair. A motion affirming the desirableness of such a Club was passed. The following officebearers were elected ( - President, Mr N. S. Kingdon ; vice-president, Mr H. Gr. Inder ; committee, those gentlemen present, and Messrs G. Marshall, W. Trembath, A. J. Gibbs, T. Green, A. Keir, and P. Cullen, with power to add to their number ; secretary and treasurer, Mr R. Dewar. Mr Inder intimated that L 25 in cash and prizes bad been promised. Two paddocks had been offered for a sheep-dog trial. The rules of the Otago Central Sbeep-dog Club were adopted, apd th,3 first trial fixed for the 14th .pf August. .The following geptlerpon were nominated as judges.:— j^essrs^.. .Campbell (pharlton), J. Irvine (Waimumu), McKinnon ! (M,oa plat), and JR.' White (Riversdale). Messrs Inder, McKinna, Waddel, Cruickshanks and &ingdon \vero appointed a ' grounds poninrittee, with power to decide on ■ m plan ; and Mflssrs Inder, ftlcj£inna and the secretary (Mr R. Dewar) were appointed a programme committee. Entries for the trial will clcse the evening before the day of the trial. Thus the Christchurch 'Sun:—l have known Mr J. W. Kelly, member for Invercargill, for many years, and have ever found him a staunch and true man, uncompromising jn fjis hostility to all that is mean or unfair. He has $-!?ays beon a thorough Unionist, really arid 'willing t,9 Jielp his fejlow jpon. Tbst such a man should-' have , considered jt flpcejsary to* bji,d farowelji to the Government conches i» confirmation of my previously expressed opinions that the (Ejo.vernraent is acting a double part, and merely making pretence of safeguarding the interests of the workers and of the people as A wholo. Mr Kelly's defection will be a heavy blow for the Government. The Progressive Liberal Association of Chiistchurch adopted tbis resolution : "That this 4-HO.ciaJ.on, vii'lp holder firmly the opinion $hafr %s'r,e js absolutely ftp -rjsi^id for apprehension on tfae part of tjie' depositors in the _*ost Office Savings Bapj^, th.c olients of the Public Trust Office, and fte policyholders in the Government Life Insuranoe Office, seeing that they have Stato security— having tho whole of tbo taxpayers p% the colony at their baok— are of opinion that the actio;? of: Mr Ward in intimating to tjhe' Enelish money-lending public that t tbe trust .funds 'o,f these institutions were pledgeable was unnecessary a_d"v6ry '.ill-, advised 4 further, that this Association derfire to record their confidence in Messrs' Alfre^ Sftundew, G. J. Smith, and J. W, Kelly,? '

Those interested are invited to attend an exhibition of Kindergarten work ia Gore School on Saturday morniog. The exhibition is undor the auspices of the Te-cbers' Institute, who will be glad to see visitors. .. i.. A.. ' ■ I