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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8610, 27 August 1896, Page 3

Tenders are invited for the lease of a paddock belonging to the late John Ogilvie ; also fora quantity of timber, doors and sashes. Tenders must be sent to Mr James Shepherd, grocer, by Saturday next. The weather bulletin for 9 o’clock this morning indicated that the souther was breaking up. The breeze at that hour in the south was north-easterly, and blue sky was reported from many stations. Mr Paulin yesterday afternoon stated that the indications would improve to. day. The Wellington correspondent of the Dunedin Star has collected the talk in the lobbies concerning probable candidates for the several constituencies. For the three South Canterbury seats he mentions the Hon. W. Hall Jones only for Tirnaru ; for Geraldine, Messrs Flatman, Rhodes and Richardson ; for Waitaki, Messrs Steward and D. Sutherland. The Labour Jovrnal for August contains the following local branch reports “ Tirnaru.— Building trades: bad weather has prevented much advance. Engineering trade : dull. Boot trade: very busy. Clothing trade: dull. Unskilled labour; no demand, o ns to bad er; and

farm-work especially almost at a standstill; several married and single men seeking co-operative work. Waimate. — Building trades : busy. Engineering trades: dull. Boot and clothing trades: fairly busy. Retail trade : Fairly good. Unskilled labour : a good many married and single men will require work as soon as repairs to roads and bridges are finished ; about 30 men now employed at repairs.” Our people are growing more and more in the habit of looking to J. C. Oddie, chemist, Timaru, for the latest and best of everything in the drug line. He sells Chamberlain’s Cough remedy, famous for its cures of bad colds, croup, and whooping cough. When in need of such a medicine, give this remedy a trial, and you will be more than pleased with the result. A cabman in Invercargill has recovered £l7 7s 6d and costs £5 from the Borough Council, for damages to his cab and harness, due to the defective state of a drain. The'cabman’s horse put its fore feet into a recently filled drain in the street,sank through the filling,scrambled out, and, being scared by the adventure, played up and bolted, throwing and hurting the driver, and damaging cab and harness. The corporation employees swore that the drain had 'been properly filled in, but that a long spell of wet weather, amounting to a case of “ extraordinary natural conditions ” had made the ground soft and, as it proved, dangerous. The Magistrate held that the drain had not been properly filled in, and gave judment for the plaintiff. Most of our readers have heard of “ Farr’s trench,” a device hit upon by the Harbour Board’s foreman forgetting the shingle carried across the breakwater into sheltered water, whenever “ shingle shifting ” has to be adopted. Mr Parr said that if a narrow trench were cut across the top of the mole, where the running surf could reach it, the surf would sluice the shingle through as fast as it comes up to the work. Mr Parr has lately experimented with a trench in his model harbour, and it works capitally. In a quarter of an hour it carried through a “ trench ” about half an inch wide, a heap of [miniature shingle representing several thousand tons on the scale adopted. The trench represents one 3ift wide in the breakwater. Mr D. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble round with canes, and even then it caused him great pain. After using Chamberlain’s Pain Balm he was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He says this liniment did him more good than all other medicines and treatment put together. For sale by J. C. Oddie, chemist, imaru.

The Christchurch Hospital is to have another inquiry. A short time ago there was an imposing Commission set up to inquire into matters relating to the staff. The Board yesterday set up a Committee of members to inquire into the financial management. The mover stated that about half the expenditure goes in salaries and wages, and that there are 74 people, besides the honorary medical staff, to look after 120 patients. Mention was made of the fact that patients’ payments are lower at Christchurch than at any other large hospital, and in reply it was said that the hospital is more used by poor people than any other. The Rev George Tripp, who lately died in a workhouse in England, was at one time the possessor of £20,000, the whole of which he gave away in charity. With his cheque book in his pocket no appeal was made to him in vain, and foreign missions and other institutions largely benefited by his generosity. In the matter of money President Kruger did a good stroke of business for his country in the prosecution of the Reform leaders. The account up to date stands ; —Cr., to four leaders at £26,000, £100,000; to 68 followers at £2OOO, £116,000 ; total, £216,000. And there is still the compensation from the Chartered Company to come. Among gun accidents, which are so common, the most stupid are those in which old cannon ai - e loaded to the muzzle to he fired on occasions of rejoicing. A bad example is reported from the States. At the celebration of independence Day at the village of Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, an old sixtypound cannon was to be used to tire a salute in honour of the day, but when discharged the old gun, from which numbers of stones and scraps of iron had not been removed, burst and scattered its contents on all sides with disastrous effects. Two bystanders were killed and fourteen injured seriously. The latter all had some limbs either broken or badly burned. Several arms and legs were blown off altogether. Sander and Son’s Eucalypti Extract - Advt.) A British Commission on the manning of British ships reports there is a growing proportion of foreign seamen employed in British ships, and “ ten years hence,” said one ship-owner member, “a British crew will be almost unobtainable,” unless a system of training ships is set up. It is said that this is a consequence of grand motherly legislation, which prevents owners frdfn shipping boys as they used to do, and also handicaps them by requiring crews of a certain number. Foreign ships are run with fewer hands, and with no such restrictions as are imposed on British vessels. Two methods are recommended for equalising the competition : one that foreign vessels trading with British Ports must comply with British rules as to crews; the other, that the Mavy should be made the training ground for merchant seamen, who should be manufactured from the raw material into a good article and then sent into the reserve. An Irish sympathiser in a Home paper sneers at Lord Salisbury’s appeal to President Kruger for clemency ” towards the men who conspired to upset the Transvaal Government, and askes what clemency was shown in the hangingof'Riel in Canada,in the five to fifteen years of penal servitude inflicted on the leaders of an abortive attempt at revolt in Ireland thirty years ago, very similar in many points to the Jameson episode ; in fitting an iron collar to one-armed Michael Davitt, political prisoner, in order to get more work out of him as drawer of a dung-cart; and in the imprisonment of twenty-two Irish members of Parliament less than ten years ago, for merely speaking at Land League meetings, and helping evicted tenants. Circumstances alter cases,