SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2993, 26 July 1911, Page 52

SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

(fnoii Our Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, July 24. A case of interest to farmers was decided by Mr Cauickshauk, S.M., on Friday. John Mullen, farmer, Edenclaie, sued Joseph Lawrence, farmer, of the same place, for £2O depreciation of the value of a draught mare lent by Mullen to Lawrence, and found on being returned to be suffering from founder. From the evidence it appears that Mullen lent the mare for one day only on condition that special care should be taken of her. The magistrate gave Mullen judgment for £ls, as the .animal was kept longer than was intended and was returned sick. The cycle business in lay street, formerly carried on by the late Mr H. A. Ladbrook, has been acquired by Mr Rod. M'Kenzie. Mr MTvenzie has been associated with the cycle trade in Invercargill for oyer 16 years, and 20 years ago, when he was engaged in one of the Dunedin banks, was one of the most notable cyclists in Otago, doing the 21 miles from Dunedin to Henley, meetly tough hill country, in an hour.

Thieving by boys seems to be on the increase in Invercargill. Last week a boy, seeking to force bis way into a building, was shot in the leg by a pea-rifie set by the householder, and this week two boys, each only 11 years old, have been dealt with in the local Police Court for stealing. One boy, convicted of stealing 3s for a shop till, being sentenced to a whipping, while the other, charged with stealing a watch at Makarewa, was sent to the training farm at Levin. The Invercargill branch of the Salvation Army has a debt on its barracks of £6OO, and has been offered £2OO from the general funds of the Army if they can raise the £4OO locally. Appeals to Invercargill business men have met with a splendid response, four small groups having each put up £IOO, leaving only £IOO for the members of the Army to find. This they expect to make up them selves with the help of small subscriptions from the general public. It is understood that Messrs Thomas Green and Wm. Ronald, the two oldest members of the Southland County Council do Hot intend to seek re-election at the forthcoming election. Mr Green has been a member of the council for 251,- years, and Mr Ronald for 12 years.

At a recent meeting of the Council of the Southland Acclimatisation Society reference was made to a rumour that Mr Friend, the society’s ranger, had been assaulted by a member of the council, and it was decided to ask the ranger to make a statement on the matter. At a meeting of the council held last week a letter was received from Friend in which he accused a member of the council of assaulting him on the Invercargill racecourse, giving details of the occurrence. More is likely to be heard of the matter.

Mr M ‘Glinchey, who has been manager of the Grove Bush Dairy Pactory for the past two years, is leaving for a similar position in Canterbury. On Wednesday he. and Mrs and Mice M'Glinchey were entertained at a farewell social in the Grove Bush School, when Mr M'GTlinchey was presented with a handsome clock and Mrs M‘Glinchey with a silver teapot. The Invercargill Golf Club has bought 120 acres at Otatara for golf links next the s'choolhouse. There has been a good deal of trafficking in Otatara lands during the last few months, and prices have risen considerably. There is a. great deal of land held for a rise in Invercargill now, and more will be put on the market in two or three months.

Mr Frank Haywood, secretary to the Bluff Waterside Workers’ Union, was last Saturday evening entertained at a social at Bluff by representatives of the various labour unions throughout Southland, and presented with a gold medal for himself and a silver tea and coffee service for Mrs Haywood. >

Mr W. A. Morris, of Wailciwi, has announced that he would be a candidate at next election for the Awarua seat in Parliament. Mr Morris is an old campaigner, having contested both the Invercargill and Awarua seats on former occasions.

Miss Evelyn Gray, who has been appointed assistant mistress at Fairfax School, was, before leaving the Waihopai School, the recipient of a gold brooch from her late pupils, a handbag from the members of the Hockey Club, and a handsome volume from the teaching staff.

Messrs More and Sons intend erecting a schoolroom 'at their Pourakino sawmills, and applying to the Education Board for a teacher. They are doing this in the interests of the married men who are working at the mills, and their action is very commendable.—Southland Times. -

Mr H. R. Spence, H. M. Customs. Invercargill, has been appointed Southland representative A>n the Council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, the present representative, Mr W. A. Ott, being unable for business reasons to accept renomination .

Whitebait are coming up the New River unusually early this year. A party of voung men who have a camp at Settle Bush caught a large quantity in the river there last Sunday. Mr H. R. Joyce, manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Co.’s branch at Wyndham, being greatly run down, has been granted three months’ holiday, which he will spend at Timaru. During his absence the branch will be managed by Mir Woods, from the Invercargill office.

Mr S. Young, who has been accountant of the Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association at Gore for several years, and is leaving for Australia, was before leaving presented with a purse of sovereigns by his Gore frienda The Southland Sawmill Workers’ Union has submitted to the sawmill owners new proposals regarding wages, overtime, ac-

commodation, etc. These proposals have not been accepted, and the matter will come before the Conciliation Board next month. The increases of wages run from Is to Is 5d per day. Mr W. A. Hunt has rasigi led the office of president of the . Southland Acclimatisation Society, but the council were very unwilling to lose his services, and a deputation has been appointed to try to get him to reconsider his decision.