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Mataura Ensign, 9 November 1908, Page 2

Sir Joseph Ward was our of exhibitors at the Palmers ton North Sluiw. He had on exhibition his handsome bhick spotted fox terrier <loy Awarun ] ','iiti, and with this one entry scooped three second prizes. Ponti is a New Zealand-bred dog, obtained from J)r Stopi'oril, of Hawke's Hay. Apples from Canada this year may be expected to bo plentiful. The report's are especialy favorable, both as to quality and quantity of the fruit. Growers exported last year nearly four million bushels to British ports, and this considerably exceeded the United States exports. Some ten years ago the States shipped by far the groatest proportion of apples to the United Kingdom, but they are being rapidly pushed out of the field. It is estimated that in the Dominion there are over twelve million trees bearing apples, and that fii the course of a few years ten or twelve million more will come into full bearing. At. the close of tho season it is probable that the tuUl shipments of apples from all quarters will exceed nino million bushels.

The weather is fine in Dunedin to -cloy, and tho principal attractions are the Taieri ruces and the bands' fete at tho Cardens, states a Press Association message.

A resideul of Katika li. in the Auckland province, Mr G. Vesey Stewart, wroto to King Edward some time ago, soliciting a subscription towards the erection of a Presbyterian manse in that district. The other day he received a reply from the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, expressing the King's regret that.the many claims upon Ins private bounty would not allow bis Majesty to contribute.

A Christchureh message states that tho weather is superb, and many people are observing the King's Birthday as a holiday, but it is not being so observed by any means generally, the great majority preferring People's Day at the Show—Friday. Yesterday was the hottest day of the season, the temperature in the shade at mid-day Wing 81deg.

A Christchureh message says that the award of the Compensation Court on the claim made by Mr James Clegg for £7150 compensation for premises acquired by the Government in Lower High street, Christchureh, for a branch post office, was given on Saturday morning. The .£4900 with interest £39 and costs £O4 5s are to be paid by the respondent. The assessors' fee was fixed at £ls los each. At a meeting of the Southland County Council the inspector, in his report upon tlie house at Edendale to which Dr Ogston had drawn attention, stated that the building was in a (iltliy and dilapidated condition, and should be destroyed. The Council gave instructions* accordingly.

The Prime Minister, replying to a deputation at Auckland, said that the subsidy o( Ci(100 for the island mail service was not for Wellington's benefit, but for the benefit of the whole Dominion, which would improve the Home service and would involve no extra cost to the State. Mails would be carried Home ten times a year in seven days less time than otherwise. It was possible that southern ports had a right lask . lor a direct service far l mil. They would get an improved <fmce, and, as far afc Auckland was concerned, the tendency would be to cheapen the cost of fruit because of the direct service, and Wellington would 'avoid tlje heavy losses now sustained in transhipments..

The Ki'v. Wm. lieatty (Auckland) and the Kcv. I>. M. lsitt are in active controversy 011 the question of Nouceiise. ilr lieatty says that Mr lsitt, m complimenting him 011 his intellectual powers while speaking slightingly ol liis arguments makes linn feel like Ihe burglar in the presence of the hulllog. As the hull-dog showed its teeth and wagged its tail at the same time, che perplexed burglar didn't know which end ol the animal he was to believe.

A lucky lind of a 1107, nugget has •ecu made by a youth named Leslie Appleby, a resident of Inglewood (Victoria). Appleby is employed by a carpenter, who has a contract for erecting Oiolter sheds in the State school grounds, and while engaged in sinking 1 (lost-hole he found the fhe ilud was made recently but \V»S kept ipiiet so that the friends of the party mijjlit be first in pegging out claims. Quito a number ol claims have now been marked out. Owing to the locality, ■vhicli was originally famous as tli'o Ilerjin goldfield, being so favorably known, I lie discovery caused some excitement, "lid a number of prospectors went out iioui Jiigknvood. It is said there is cry little new ground in the vicinity. 1 lie locality having been well worked many years ago.

1 he true explanation of sleeplessness ::i church is that the auditor uuconcionsly hypnotises himself by concenI rating thn ga/.e. for a long timo 611 a -ingle object, whether the countenance it the preacher or the pulpit or what not. The more desperate the effort to heed the sermon the surer this effect of -ell-hypiiotisation. 'llevue Scieritifi:[Ue,' fa lis,

'"lt is an.'lmpressive feature of coni emporary thought that science is not nearly So cocksure as it was a generai ion ago. Men of science to-day do not hare the mood of confident dogmatism liii-h distinguished Huxley and Tyn.'all. Science |ias made great and won- • lerlul advances ill the past half-.entni-y. Hut we -are 110 nearer to a olution of (lie riddle of the universe. >Vith every hill-top that is gained man only sees a wider horizon outstretching before him. Science cannot unlock the

civts of life or of death, and on tl\e great, problems of human- destiny it . beds no light," says the 'lxmdon •Chronicle.' "As Carlyie has finely nut 'Hen; 011 earth wo aro as soldiers fighting in a I'orotgu land, understanding not tho plan or the campaign, and having no need to understand it. Seepig well what is ut our hand to bo done, let us do it like soldiers, with submission, with courage, with a heroic joy. Heliiud us, behind each of us, lie thousands of years of human effort, human labor, human achievement. Beforo us is the boundless Time ;yith its as yet unronquered anil uncreated continents mid Kldorydos which we, even we, have I > conquer, to create, And from the bosom of eternity there shino for us "clestial guiding stars.' " Mr Stevenson, a woll-known ju-jitsu •xpeit in Australia, had a somewhat Manning experience near Bydal, Now -'outh Wales, a few days agp. Ho \vas walking Bonio little distance from tho town. The, ground was bushy, and ho frequently had to use his hands to break a passage through. He caught' at a branch to bond it back. It appeared to bo a bramble, and a thorn, as lie thought, prickod him in tho arm. Without taking any particular notice of tile fact, ho shook his arm, but the supposed bramble clung to it. Looking more closely at the object oil his arm ho was surprised to lind that it was a whip-snake. It had him fast with its I nigs. But a ju-jitsu expert is a match fir a snake. Ho flung it down violently, broke its back with a stick, and, sitting down, backed at tho marks of th« fangs with a penknife. A remarkable feature .of tho incident is that tho snake had shuck him hardly an inch from an old bite nl n black snake somo time ago. He profited by his former experience, ami treated his arm as it had been scarified by the doctor beforo. Drowsiness soon seized I\l r Stevenson, who walked back to Hydal in a somi-wake-ful condition. A medical man, who was sNnnnoiied, injected strychnine, and the ill-effects of tiie bite soon disappeared.

The following is a lisl of authorities fur (iovcrmmmt grunts received for expenditure by the Southland Couuty Council so far as district roads are concerned :—Wailiopai Hiding.—Kdendalo to Seaward Downs, £300; Edeudaio to Dacrc, L' '2(10; Woodstock to Main Itoad, I; for £ (part Hokouui, £100), I'.'iO; total, £550. Oreti Hiding.— l.ongridge North, £SO; (ilenure to Josi'phville, £100; total, £l5O. Hokouui Hiding.—Redgehope to .Mat a mil, £'2oo; Horseshoe Hush Hoad (Fords'), £1.50; Dacre to Titipua, £100; Woodstock to Main Hoad (£ for £, part Wailiopai, i' 100), £SO; Horn to Kelvin, £200; total, £7OO. AVaikaia Hiding.—Garvie Hum Bridge, £100; Waikaia Bush Track, £25; Waipounamu Bridge, £2 for £1 (on account of £1000), £500; Otama Hill Hoad, £ for £, £IOO ;total, £725. Mataura Hiding.—Shanks' Hoad, £ for £, £SO; Kaiwera Bridge, Otaraia, £ for £, £100; total, £l5O. Too Toe Hiding.—Mimihuu to Waircikiki, £150; Quarry Hills to Waiknwa, £200; Mokorct a Main Hoad, £200; Mataura Island to Titiroa, £100; Mitchell Hoad, Ulonham, £ for £, £200; Otara to Haldane, £100; Waikawa Hiver Bridge (Troup's), £100; total, £IOSO. Tho £rand total is £5185, of whicli £3135 was applied for by tho County Council,

Just an Oddrnent at the fianoy Counter; 47 pairs of Elbow-length Cream Swede Kid Gloves. We are anxious to quit the balance of this line, hence the small price we are asking. The usual price was Ss f}d; our Special Price to-day is 2s 6d. All sizes: 6, 6|, 6~, 61, and 7. MACGIBBON AND CO., LTD., The Main Street's Busy Corner.

Notice re unclaimed laud. Dates of Mr McNab's meetiugs announced. Election of Pyramid Drainage Board Trustees notified.