The Southern Cross PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, April 13. General News.

Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 2, 13 April 1895, Page 8

The Southern Cross PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, April 13. General News.

Our Volunteers left for the encampment at, Waittatip’n Thursday night; v .; ' - ; : Mr W. (J. Gully has-been elected Speaker of the 1 House 1 of - Commons, beating, the Government candidate, ■ . •

In spite : of'' the - unfavourable ■ weather yesterday about three hundred ... ,hedict ay local Christian Endeavour Societies 'held ;a

picnic. The steamer 'rnvefcafgilT left"-here for Preservation Inlet op. Saturday. Among betf passengers were three young fellows from Dunedin ; who brought .with, them a large whaleboat and a complete camping out’ equipment;, .. I They .intend to ■ devote a .couple of months to prospecting and to “ seeing life in the Sounds The steamer Strath'brd, from the' Bluff, has called at. St. Vincent with her: 'pibpeller broken' It will be necessary to discharge a portion of the cargo. . Parliament has' been 'prorogued until ; 3Qtn May. i; ? ,

The Mosgiel Wbollen Eactory Co- has de‘ dared a dividend at the rate of; six per cent per.annum.,, , ,; Enox' Ghurchr congregation, Dunedin, has* given a unanimous call to the' Rev. Mr Hewitson, of B run a wick, Melbourh e;"' ■ It is notified in the Gazette of the 4th itist. that the Governor has issued a warrant to the :Gore Borough Council to construct a traffic bridge over the Mataura' river at : Gore,* the cost of construction, to be equally, divided between the borough and the ,'Sqpthlai\d, County Council, less £IOOO to be contributed , by the Government. - ■, The butchers, ; consider. .the. New,' Zealand bullocks sent Home in the Buteshire eicdlent;' but too old and slightly wasted. ‘ They are selling in Smithfidd at : oifd; per' lb; • The: market is unusually good owing to, the ; spar-. city of American cattle. .. Thirty of the New Zealand sheep wpre. sold at from s|d to: fid per lb. They averaged from 60 to 641b'. .• -Six,lives have’ lieen lost, during, floods .in Daintree district, Queensland. 1 ' - ■ •

Judge Denniston has issued a writ ,df mandamus to:,compel the. Registrar-General to place the name of A. B. Worthington, minister of the Students of Truth/ on the list of officiating ministers under, the 'Mai-nage. Act.

The Hon. A. "W. Reel has retired from! the Speakership of the House of Commons.

Much interest has been excited in; Sydney by the case,of a man named Dcari, who has been sentenced to death' for -attempting to poison his wife. Judge Wmdeyer’s . direction to 1 the. jury has; called forth a, .good deal of remark. ‘The jury after eight hours’ deliberation. not having arrived at a' verdict; the Judge informed them that the ■ issue was so clear that he thought he- must.haye failed tomakC' himself plain, and; added if They' did not arrive at a verdict they would bo locked mp.from Saturday, .night until Monday mornin g. The jury there upon returned' -iii seven' minutes with a verdict’of; ‘‘Guilty*’’ ..with., a recommendation ; to ; mercy. The Daily Telegraph, in reviewing,the case, says ■ public opinion, oxpFes.sed.fclii’ougb,the usual channels', : utterly fails to support, either the responsible Verdict of the ; jui-y or the .remarks, of the, judge, who declared himself, as .satisfied that, Dean had committed The crime as if he ; had seen him with his own eyes. Tire paper considersthat the jury’s verdict was literally taken put of.the‘ j udgeV mouth,. • Mr A. Gilder, a settler in the Charlton district, was killed through a fall of gravel: in a pit in which he was working on; Wednesday.

Even the.conseivati sm of that most con-: servatiye race, the Jews, is not proof against that ..spiritof tUe age. We learn that at the first day of the Passover a novelty was introduced in the Melbourne synagogue in this shape of a choir of mixed male and female voices. A considerable section of the older Jews ire reported to be .aggrieved at the innovation. ' I C 7 ,

The annual' meeting of members of the Mutual Life Association.will.be held at Syd-, ney. on the 22nd inst., and arrangements Have been made for placing the bonus certificates' in the. hands of members . resident, in .Netv Zealand immediately after the report has been adopted; The cash; value of the bonuses has been ascertained to be £58,575 and reversionry £II6,COD a result which-will ho doubt be considered very satisfactory to all concerned.

illistrated W lime»ligt^<;,.vilw!sS|f^a3'l Mehaffey in the Temperance Hall before 1 a. fairly large audience^on Wednesday evening, Mr W. Smith in ihtrddufaihg the lecturer said that the lantern was used extensively for edudatiohal purposes at.'Hoine, especially in teaching geography, astromony*,and other subjects where views* and idiagratns:\y£re very essential. Thedahterh and; slides;; used on this occasion .belonged to the Middle District School but the humber 1 oi: ■ their ■ slides was sadly deficient and the proceeds of the lecture would be 1 devoted to : raise funds')for -the= purpose r *ofprocuring ■ /.more i slides. Mr Meh^ey L treat.ed his subject in a .mannermost interesting to., both '6ld and' young who were present.. He described ’the giant city the denseness of its popuratioh, the vast amount of its trade, and 'the height and proportions, ofr its structures very pstrickingly by comparison, .avoiding , statistics as much as possible. London . was. illustrated and dealt with as, a commercial, centre, the celebrity attached to its antiquity shown, the plague-andthe great fire referred to, and a great deal of information, greatly, enhanced in interest by the views, given regarding its public “institutions and, of interest, together with an illustrated recital oi the Jackdaw of 'Rheims, Mr - Lindsay manipulated the lantern Very successfully. i Harvest thanksgiving services .werb held in the Don street Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday last. The church was very tastefully decorated, ah'd thefe was ' a fine display of fruit ;apd vegetables on ,t\yo jarge. tables in front of’ the pulpit. Appropriate 1 sermons w,ere delivered by the pastor, the Rev. P. W. Jones, ahcbthie choir ; dicl good; service in the' rendering,of. special .hymns. , A feature ; of,the evening, service,. ,was. the singing by ..■Miss 0. Yarcoe, of the solo'‘‘Consider the Lilies.*’i ‘ ‘ : ' " '

Messrs P. Hi Mohr and Wi Bi O’ToclC (of the City Guards' Band)- and Wi V. Siddall and R. Jenkins (of theilnvercargill Garrison Ban d)i left for, Oamaru on pL'liursday to. at - tend a meeting. of. the Brass. Bapd Association to be held there "this -yveek.','' There are forty notices of motion' to ' be' dealt with by the delegates; • , The hearing of the charge of libel preferred by Oscar Wilde, author; •; andn dramatist, against the.! Marquis of Queensberry ; ended ;inia verdict.of,not guilty, the jury expressing the opinion that the charges' made were for the public benefit.' The defendant has since been arrested. ’ : ; " { , r; " ‘

The Education Board ' has ’ been asked to erect a schbol on the feserve at the corner of the,cemetery road, .Waikiwi. Th,e ( - Executive Committee will consider the request. ; The .Mataura Dairy Factory scored well at the ilawera show last week, its cheese securing first prize in' the Ldvell' and' Christmas £so* challenge cUp competition.' . • The Invercargill Chamber of Commerce, on the motion of Mr Jv Fisher, ; has asked the Minister of< Railways to;; reduce, the,: haulage and. unloading: charges, on grain at the Bluff from Is. 6d to fid per ton. , iTt is understood ,that all the. vessels , of the TJ.SjS. Co.’s fleet .are to.be.fitted with a' new boat-lowering apparatus "indented' by Capt. Cameron; i

From bad to Worse. ThATaieiu'County Council agreed to 6hange the; name of G-reytown to Allaxiton'. ■, 1 vI-..*;-. ; ■i,

* The H6U. J. Gr. Ward, addressing! the Colonial party of-the House of Compaons, ,advocated preferential trade rates throughout the Empire; Imperial postage, and a Pacific cable j provided the latter is left to private enterprise i, It is stated that, Mr W. Nelsohj of Nelson. rßrothers,. acting in conjunction With the Tyser Cornpariy,. will / Send Home -by the steamer Hawke’s Bay, from the Bluff, 100 specially selected live, sheep. Green fodder will be placed;in one .of the cool chambers as feed for them. •, , • .

■ The Christchurch Prohibition League, at the instance of the Rev. F. W. Isitt, carried a resolution asking,the Government to remove from the list of Justices of' the Peace' three men who, if it, alleged; incited to breaches of the Licensing Act. ; i . ■ -, .

■ ' Owing to ithe building alterations rtaking longer ’ than.. anticipated,. •. the Southland Drapery Supply Company' were utiable to begin operations oh Thursday. ’ They open to-day (Saturday.) ' • ’ ' The bblief. in witchcraft dies hard. According to a recent cable 5 message nine resi"of BaLlyvaloa ■ (Ireland) . have been cohhriitted- for trial tor the . murder of ! Bridget,Cleary,; by .roasting her before a fire in . order . to extract from Her ah’admission that she was a witch. Thb ; husband,, lather, aiihts arid cousins 5 Of .the ■victim jare implicated. ' ■ •' 1 " ; 1 ■ ■

A girl named Elizabeth Duffail, aged 13, daughter df a farmer at Ashley, (Canterbury) Was Rilled in a singular, .way pa,. Saturday last.., As, she was; - passing her mother, who was washing up., the dinner things, .she accidentally presse d , against the point of Scarring knife id her mother’s hand. The-bfade entered the girl’s left side, and penetrated the heart, ■deatlv;ensuing a few minutes later. ' : Tour buildings in Chritschurch, : including ' a boarding ; house, were burned , down on Monday:,night.- , A,child pf years named ; Burns, lost its life,in the flanies:' Jabez Balfour, is at. : .last /within the toils. He has sailed from Buenos, Ayres.' for' England in custody. td answer charges in Connection with the Liberatorßuilding Society and other ■institutions-. -v,; ■ b •• V-..

The London Times considers that, the revenue returns 6f the- Australian colonies indicate a finaneisl revivahand the approach of better times. r,-;'. The London Times lately-published a chart showing- • the .price of-wheat,during the last fifty years. Since 1876 the price has Jumbled down from 55s a, quarter to the twenty of today. The champions of Free Trade (remarks an English paper) used to jeer at its opponents; Jjpc&use for a considerable tithe the price of! Wheat-increased after the legislation 'instead; .of dwindling.: But since the, North-West of; America, was .brought intp touch -with us, the; .prophecies of the Protectionists hate been’ fulfilled, and wheat' Cannot be grown by'the farmers of Britain at a profit. " - , , ■ The sports to be held oh the Union Football grounds on Easter Monday under the auspices, of the Invercargill Cycling and Bowing Clubs have “ caught bn ’’ with local athletes, entries giving assurance of keen contests for supremacy in ’ the cycling and pedestrian events. A ■ feature of the day’s • doings will be a tug, of ,wav.., In the. evening the Theatre’ .Royal wiU'dbubtless ' be crowded to witness the' performance -by the ' Irish Dfamatic : Society’"Of the drain a ,“.-Fof Honor’s Sake.” • -Among the out-of-town holiday events on Easter,, Monday the'races of the Eiverton ' Bacing’ 'Club' will prqbably attract a large number of patrons., The ■ entries for the •various entries are numerous, and give promise of a good day’s sport. Special .train arrangements have been made, a special from Q-ore connecting with the 9. 15. a.m from lnvercargill to Eiverton. At the, meeting of the Southland Land Board oh Tuesday E. Kinzett was granted grazing rights over an area in Hillend Bush, subject to Sawmill rights being abandoned.— It was decided to recommend the Government to reserve all that portion of the township reserve at Waiau south and east of the road, with a- yiew of its being re.-classified, and dealt with as rural land. The yearly lease of section 126, Paterson District, Stewart Island, for which two applications were received, was ordered to be offered at auction at an upset rental of 10s.—Section 3, block jO, Dipton, was recommended to be set apart as a recreation reserve. ■ The following applications to complete purchase, were .granted James Loutit, section 1 of 406 a, Hokbnui.; Eobert Eobson, section 17, block 10j Tuturau; Thomas Phiipott, section 42, block 17, Invercargill Hundred ; John Murchison , section 300, Forest Hill Hundred; , John Thornicroft, sections 2,0 21, Hodgkinson village; Henry Windle, section 613, Hakopui. The following. ; transfers were sanctioned:—From W;’ McLellan to Charles Beangc, annual licence of block 3 and 4, Dacre township, and lease • in perpetuity of sections 2 to 19 21,, and 22, block, 12, Dacre township. ..The following applications for land were granted Leases in perpetuity : Josephine Eegojsky, sections 29 and 34, block 6, Otara : Catherine: Finch, section 49, block 6, Otara; John Wilkinson, sections 85,. 88, and .87, block 3, Seaward Bush; Jane Salton. sections 4to 7, block 1, Feldwick township; James Merrifield, sections 1 to 3, block 2, Danieltpwn.-—The chairman stated, in reference to his remarks at a former -meeting as to the way in, which settlers failed to improve their holdings, that he did not intend them to he .of general application, but merely that examples of what he meant were to be found in every part of. of the district. : - |

in the absence of a .public abbatoir for Invercargill, Mr S. E. Merrett, butcher, has decided to leave his yards open to the public to inspect his stock at any time before or during slaughtering operations: In his premises in Conou street he will be pleased to giye anyone the opportunity of inspecting all meat offered for sale. As a matter of

po'.icy as well as strict principle, Mr Merrclt buys only the very best stock procurable. In • that way his business has steadily increased; and he endeavors to meet the wants of customers in all parts of the town and suburbs through which his carts run daily.—Advfc. GEOCEEIES. —All consumers of Groceries should patronise Mr j. S'. Baxter, as the quality of his Groceries is unsurpassed, and as for ■prices,'they are without doubt, the very lowest in Southland,—An., • ; Yode Seeing and Summer Clothes, which may have been laid by during , the winter months, can be scoured and pressed by our new process which extracts all dirt and greese without disturbing the shape. 'Suits, 1 5s j Coats, 2s 6d; Trousers, 2s. Ladies’ Costume, Cricket, Cycling, Band Uniforms carefully , renovated. Country . parcels, carriage pai’d pneway. GEOEGE KOSS & CO., opposite '; Supreme Courthouse, Tay street.—Advt; ' ' S.P.Q.E!—These letters stand, for Mr J. S. - Baxter’s ; famous ; business motto Profits', Quick -Eeturns.” He has always conducted his business on these lines, and he is sticking most faithfully to the principle, as he is selling at prices which are, simply astonishing.—Ad. •‘What! Not closed up yet ?” No, and ' Mclnerney does not intend to be if he can help it.” ' “ Well we’d better go and see how Austin is getting on; we. are always well treated at his hotel,” “Yes, when I want > comfort and good' fare in Win.ton Igo to the Eailway Hotel.”—Advt. THE BROWN-JONES and KOBINSON QUESTION. Mrs Brown (married this week)—“ Now which do you really think is the best sewing machine ?” ' Mrs Eobin--lon (who has tried every make). — “ Why, the Latest' linpi’oved NEW DAY IS,' of course tis far ahead of all others, and you can get it at our friend JONES’, Dee street, who also repairs all other makes, I advise you to give him a call.” 1 ,