The Ensign. GORE: TUESDAY, APRIL 14.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1169, 14 April 1903, Page 2

The Ensign. GORE: TUESDAY, APRIL 14.

On Sunday last (Easter Day) festal services were held at the district Anglican and I Catholic churches. At Holy Trinity Church the decorations were of an artistic character, the predominating features of which were white flowers and ivy. At a recent sooial gathering in a certain district township, over which the local clergyman presided, it was arranged that dancing should commence at 11 p.m. Some of the young men present became impatient as the evening wore on, and a scene of larrikinism ensued for several minutes, one of the ringleaders mounting the stage and arguing the point with the chairman. It is needless to add that the behaviour referred to was sternly reprobated by the orderly seotion of the audience, but, in the face of so much hostility it was impossible to keep the rowdy element in check.

Attention is drawn to an advertisement in another column relating to " B. G. Testit" Corsets, which are claimed to be the latest and beet in the market.

Proceedings in divorce have been commenced by Thomas Attewell (Mr Bowler), of Gore, against Jane Attewell, with Charles George Thurston, of East Gore, as co-respon-dent. The sum of £250 as damages is claimed. The case will come on for hearing at the next sitting of the Invercargill Supreme Court.

Harvesting operations are in full swing throughout the Western district. The exceedingly hot days, it was thought, would bring on the unripened grain, of which there is still a large quantity.

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la regard to a paragraph appearing in Saturday's issue regarding the leaße of the Mandeville Hotel, we have been asked to state that negotiations in the matter have not yet reached a definite conclusion. An important sale of Otago School Commissioners'leases is to be held at the Biversdale Drill Hall an Thursday next. Mr J. L. McDonald, Southland agent for the School Commissioners, will be at Biversdale on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning before the Bale to give any information to intending buyers. The Invercargill bowling tournament was continued on Saturday, a start being made with the doubles. Craig and Dewar defeated Baeside and Forde by 15 to 7, Holmes and Smith suffering defeat at Ibe hands of McPhail and Borrie by 17 to 12. In the second round C. Mao Gibbon and Hannah defeated Tate and Peake by 19 to 16, Cowie and Capstick defeating Craig and Dewar by 19 to 8, and Lock and King falling victims to Porteous and Grenfell by 17 to 14. MacGibbon and Hannah defeated Leggat and Mcllwrick by IS to 14 in the third round, but were put out at the fourth by Allnutt and Balk (16-15). The contest was won by Porteous and Grenfell. Most of the Gore representatives fell out of the singles at an early stage, T. Lock, however, ge'ting into the fifth round. Mackie and Campbell were to/ play off for this match to-day. In the rink match Craig brought his team safely throuKh the semi-final, being beaten in tbe final by R. Taylor's (Southland) rink by 2a to 13.

When Constable Moffett endeavored to arrest an employee at tbe stone quarry at Millington, New Jersey, for shooting and hunting on Sundny, the manager intervened and asked that the case might be settled by telephone. Moffett rang up Judge Bowers and stated his case, when back came the reply, " Fine him £4 and costs." The fine was paid, and the constable departed.

As a result of the introduction of the Bertillon system by the Zurich police, ihe town has practically cleared out all its bad characters. Every tramp gives the place a wide berth, for as soon as a person is arrested he is photographed and his measurements taken, even if the charge is not Eerious. Of late the police have bad so little to do that there is talk of reducing the number of tho force. So few crimes are committed in the town that Zurich is considered to be tbe most moral town in Switzerland.

Mr Bichard Hudson, r-enr., head of the well-known Dunedin firm of B. Hudson and Sons, died suddenly on Friday from heart disease. He leaves a widow, two daughters, and five sons, lie was aged 61. The police attach no importance to the sensational statement published by the ' Waimate Witness' re the confessions of a settler about the Kaiwarra tragedy. The police believe the statement to be similar to oa6 made by the same individual, with a love affair added, which was inquired into about twelve months ago. The settler is believed to be suffering from a hallucination. An unusual case came before the Timaru Court on Saturday, when a young woman was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for having cruelly beaten ber little eight-year-old sister. The evidence showed thit in an ungovernable fit of temper the accused beat her sister with a broom handle and shovel in a most inhuman way. Accused admitted the offence, and said she did it in a fit of temper. An officer in the Ninth Division of the Army in South Africa, under the command of Sir Henry Colville, tells me (says Mr H. W. Lucy in the Sydney 'Morning Htrald') a curious story illustrating and explaining many of the regrettable incidents in the long campaign. Ordered to march to the relief of General Broadwood, in difficulties in the neighborhood of Sanna's Post, the Ninth Division had a long string of mules carrying the burden of the men's great coats. Nothing could exceed the nicety of the calculation made on this important detail. At headquarters a soldier's greatcoat was carefully weighed, the Btrength of the average mule was taken into account, and by a simple multiplication sum the burden to be appointed to each was determined. It seemed that human foresight, based on practical experiments, could not go beyond this point. But the sapient authorities at headquarters, quite forgot that the difference between a dry overcoat and one soaked with rain is a very serious matter. The mules got about blithely at the start, drawing the waggons with an ease that justified prescience at headquarters. Then came a storm of rain, which soaked the greatcoats through and through, practically doubling their weight. The wretched mules could not stir tbe waggons, and after long struggling and loss of time that imperilled the manccuvre, one half of the greatcoats had to be abandoned.

M. Costin, Paris police magistrate, has informed several people who were in the Avenue de Clichy, that they have grounds for an action against a dog, whose identity is at present unknown. A clothes dealer kicked the dog out of his shop. It knocked down a young woman who was passing with a jug of milk. She, in turn, upset an elderly genleman, and both were cut on the broken jug. The accident did not end there. A cyclist came upon the prostrate figures, and was thrown from his machine, spraining an ankle. To complete the misfortune, a passing cart smashed his bicycle. Tbe injured parties complained to the police magistrate, who advised them to proceed against the dog.

The three-year-old son of a farmer at Wrkovil, Moravia, who had been watching his kill a pig, ran into the house afterwards and killed his baby-sister, aged six months, with a knife. He explained that he wanted to see if she would squeal as the pig did.

A Chinese burglar who was oharged at Shanghai bofore a British magistrate for stealing nine pieces of silk from the Italian Trading Company, was sentenced to receive 500 blows, to be eangued for six months, imprisoned for five years, and then deported. The cangue ib a wooden collar, weighting sixty pounds, with a round hole for the neck. It is so broad that the unfortunate convict is unable to reach his mouth or defend himself from insects. This may Beem absolutely inhuman punishment in Europe. Among Chinamen, however, while considered heavy, it is not unusual.

Attention is directed to an important announcement in this issue by Mr John Jamie, watchmaker and jeweller. Mr Jamie has just opened out a shipment of goods imported direct from Home manufacturers, and offers special bargains in all lines of jewellery, silverware, watches, clocks, etc. He has on hand a special line of watches manufactured expressly to his own order, and these he can guarantee as the best procurable. Special displays are now being made at both Gore and Wyndham, and special attention is called to a large line of novelties. Repairs receive careful attention, and work turned out is guaranteed.—Advt. Referring to the revival of an apparently dead baby, which was mentioned in a recent telegram, the ' Auokland Star' says :—The father returned home and with hie parents and some other friends they kept watch over the baby form throughout the night. The night dragged slowly on and the clock had just struck three, when to the father's joy, though mingled with a sort of superstitious shock, be observed the eyes of the baby slowly opening and gazing upon him. He called the women folk and found that tbe rigidity and coldness of tße body had vanished, and warmth was returning. The chill was alive again. Rapidly some food was prepared and bady ate as he had not eaten for the last two days. As the morning advanced the unbereaved father proceeded to cancel the funeral arrangements. He met the coffin on the way to the house and astonished the undertaker. by ordering it to be taken away again. The peculiar experiences of the undertaker had not hitherto included a baby's resurrection, although he could recollect some older people ohanging their minds.

Heavy rains on Akaroa Peninsula recently caused losses of young oattle, and did enormous damage. Seventeen head of cattle were killed at Okain's Bay. The roads in various directions are blocked, and it will take some time to restore communication. The effect on milking oattle has been very marked, and the milk supply has fallen off to an unusual extent. During the flood of Little Biver fish 71b in weight were found on some of the township roads. Sheep were washed out to sea by the force of the wind and flood. King Solomon's Mines, that fabulous place, Heaped up with precious Btone. Poor Avarice even, cannot trace, Or claim it for her own ; There's something wanting more than wealth To happiness secure, Cure your cough, enjoy good health, TakeWoods' Great Peppermint Cure.

A Maori named Hore Tokewhanua, aged 40 years, met his death under singular oireumstanoes at an Auckland Hotel on Saturday evening. John Bvans, an elderly man, who was in the hotel bar at the same time as the Maori, left his glass of beer on the counter while he went outside. On returning he aoeused the Maori of drinking his beer. The Maori denied the allegation, and Evans threw the dregs of the liquor in his faoe. The native olosed with Evans, and both fell to the floor. Evans did not retaliate, but on getting up he found the Maori dead. A post mortem disclosed the faot that death was caused by heart failure, the result of long-standing pneumonia. At a subsequent inquest a verdiot was returned of death from natural causes.

A sensation occurrence took place at Napier on Saturday afternoon, a pillow-case contaming the bodies of two newly.bom infants, apparently twiPß, being fished out of the harbor near the pier heads at the Spit. The pillow-oase, with its. contents, was first noticed by two very small boys, who were fishing, and who brought the objeot ashore on their line and, on opening it and seeing its contents, threw it baok, being frightened, but afterwards gave information'and it was recovered by the police. At present there is fio clue as to the identity of the infants. At Waimate on Thursday Mr Seddon said that he was sorry that the New Zealand boys did not go in for fishing, and he thought that the lioense charges deterred them. Personally he hated the name of a game law. The Acclimatisation Societies had Btocked the rivers with the assistance of public money, and now the license fees were so high that comparatively few people could afford them. He intended to submit proposals to Parliament in the direction of allowing boys to go to any post office, pay a shilling, and obtain a lioenße for a day's fishing. The meeting loudly applauded the statement. / Whilst mustering sheep for dipping on the East Coast (Wairarapa) station, recently, a straggler ewe was run in with the mob, and on being shorn the staple of wool was found to measure 14 inches. Perhaps (says the ' Times') the record for the Wairarapa—if not New Zealand—is that of a Lincoln sheep shorn at White Bock station a couple of years ago. The Btaple of this particular sheep measured 2ft 6in. A hogget at Wairongomai some few years ago had a staple 13in long. The White Bock sheep had two or three years' growth on, which accounted for the extraordinary length of tbe staple. The following district mining returns are reported :—Muddy Creek 330z 18dwt, Waimumu Queen 28oz for 120 hours, Charlton Valley 21oz lOdwt for 190 hours, Central Charlton 21oz 3dwt for 119 hours, Mystery Flat 19oz 4dwt for 132 hours, Waimumu Extended 19oz 3dwt for 185 hours, Waikaka Queen 18oz 9dwt for 116 hours, Cairntrodlie 15oz 7dwt for 116 hours, Royal Waimumu 14oz lOdwt for 104 hours, Charlton Creek 13oz lOdwt for 132 hours, MacCharlton 13oz 4dwt for 130 hours, Spec Gully, lloz 9dwt for 130 hours, Waimumu Central lOoz for 124 hours, Central Mataura Boz 13dwt for 95 hours.

Becently on the Hutt road (says the Wellington ' Post') a lady oyclist charged a man with cruelty to a pony, and obstructed his progress. To obtain the name and address of the obstructor (with a view to proceedings) the man hit upon an ingenious plan. He advertised asking anyone who knew anything about cruelty to a horse to communicate with the advertiser. The lady fell into the trap, and the man having got her name and address instituted proceedings. The rest of the tale has been unfolded in the Magistrate's Court.

Dr F. W. Pairman, of Lyttelton (says the ' Times') has made a successful experiment with the objeot of proving that early potatoes can be safely sent in the cool chambers of direct steamers to England. He kept a number of white kidney potatoes in the Lyttelton cool stores for six weeks, at tbe end of which

time they were in excellent condition, though some of them had been purposely wounded with a knife in order to make the test as severe as possible. Attention is directed to district stock sales at which large entries of sheep are announced—at Balfour to-morrow, and Bivers'uale on Thursday. Mr W. H. Paterson, accompanied by his brother, Mr J. B. Paterson, leaves Gore today in his motor car on a trip to Hanmer Springs. Mr Paterson expects to be absent about a fortnight.

Many of the Bibles used in police courts for the purpose of administering the oath to witnesses are, to say the least, dirty and objectionable in appearance. Most witnesses, when asked to " Kiss the book," open a leaf for themselves, whilst the majority scarcely touch it with their lips. Some medical men when called to the court bring their own Bibles, and have explained to the judge that they did so to avoid the contagion which possibly lurked in the official copy. An incident which occurred at the Newtown Police Court, says a Sydney paper, emphasises the reasonableness of the objection to labial contact with court Bibles. A Chinaman, who was prosecuting in a case of larceny, on taking bis stand in the box exclaimed, " Me belong Christian." He accordingly took the Bible, and the oath was administered in the ordinary way. " Now kiss the book," said tbe court sergeant. Thereupon John raised it to his mouth and licked every inch of the cover, going carefully over it from corner to corner. " That will do," said the officer, apparently as much amused as surprised at the completeness of the aot.

The new United Slates cruiser Baltimore will be the first warship to be fitted with steel furniture. Naval Constjuptor Crapp and his assistant, Constructor Nutting, have found that all the essential furniture of a man-o'-war can be made of steel. The reason for the use of steel furniture is to be found in the

fact that serious damage was done during the war with Spain by the furniture on the ships taking fife.

M. Currie, a Brench physicist, has discovered that radium continuously emits heat without combustion or chemical change or change of molecular structure, and maintains a temperature of* 2.7 degs. Fahrenheit above its surroundings. The discovery of radium by a French lady chemist a year or two ago, was epoch-making in physical history. Badium possesses the unique property of emitting light and actinism steadily and continuously, without any measurable waste or molecular change. Great things were expected from the discovery, but it has not yet been put to any important practical uses, the light not being powerful enough for ordinary purposes. But it had not been suspected that this remakable substance gave out heat as well. This latest discovery ranks among the greater marvels of chemical science.

What would a New Zealand farmer think of a farm whose farthest corner is seventeen miles from the farmhouse, a farm that requires three bookkeepers and stenographers to make a record of its activity ? That is the scale on which Mr Sherman conduots his farm in Central Kansas. He haß more than 40,000 acres. Every year he sells more than 2500 fat beeves. If a man were to start to ride round his farm on horseback, following the fence line and riding fifty miles a day, he would not make its oircuit in two days.

A paper very suitable for love letters has been invented in France. It is treated with a weak solution of Bulphurio acid, which destroys not only the writing, but the paper itself at the end of a certain period longer or shorter, according to the strength of acid used. Plaintiffs in breach of promise cases may be put to great disappointment through this paper, unless they keep certified copies of~thtir lovers' letters.

Madame Vera, Clairvoyant, will be in Mataura from 15th to 18th April. Tenderß invited for ereotion of dwelling in Gore.

Note additions to N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co.'s sheep sale at Biversdale. First and second-class bricks for sale. J. G. Ward and Co., Gore, have kangaroo traps for sale. J. Jamie, watchmaker and jeweller, Gore, with branch at Wyndham, has an up-to-date stock of watches, jewellery, etc., imported direct from the manufacturers. For Influenza and Cold in the Head take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2j6.