The Southern Cross. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. INVERCARGILL: SATURDAY, MAR. 2 General News.

Southern Cross, Volume 9, Issue 53, 22 March 1902, Page 8

The Southern Cross. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. INVERCARGILL: SATURDAY, MAR. 2 General News.

The Home and other mails uia San Francisco will arrive by to-day’s express, and the usual special delivery of correspondence will be made over the counter of the Post Office between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m. Settlers wishing to visit the Old Land should read Cook and Son’s advertisement in another column. “ Multum in Parvo!” was the exclamation of the P.D. . our readers scarcely need be informed that P.D. signifies a much less important personage than the name implies—“ Printer’s Devil.” Reverting to the advertisement, readers will doubtless coincide with P.D.’s exclamation. The H. & C. A. Board has decided to ask the Southland Times to give the name of the writer of an anonymous letter reflecting on the management of the Bowmont street Home.

The following tenders were accepted at the last meeting of the Southland H. and C.A. Board : Milk— J. Tosh ; meat—W. Wills ; hoots —J. Kirwan ; groceries for Some and outdoor relief in town, and bread —G. T. Smyth & Co.; coal—W. S. Waterston ; firewood—Geo. Knipe ; funerals—Wm. T. Goodsir. Invercargill is out of it again. In view of the shortness of time available for mobilisation of the 10th Contingent, the Cabinet has decided that it must be despatched from two of the four larger centres. Miss M. Brass, who has conducted the Central School of Shorthand and Typewriting in Invercargill very successfully for some years, is about to open classes at the Bluff. Particulars are advertised. Shorthand is every year becoming more indispensable to success in commercial and professional life, and new avenues for its use are continually being discovered. So far as Invercargill is concerned, a knowledge of shorthand has resulted in not a few young people obtaining good positions in some of our leading mercantile establishments, and the opportunity now presented of utilising tke services of a thoroughly competent teacher, will doubtless be largely taken advantage of. The Members of the Pipers’ Association of N.Z., a young but very vigorous organisation, will hold their first social in Ashley’s hall on Monday evening, 31st March. In our next issue we shall have something to say about the aims aad objects of the Association. Major Hawkins. Commanding the Southland Militia and Volunteer Sub-District, inti, mates that applications from persons wishing to obtain commissions in the Tenth Contingent will be received up till 4 p.m. to-day. Sail way arrangements for the Easter holidays are advertised. The Southland H. & 0. A. Board require an inspector for the new buildings at Borne Earm. Mr P. Walker invites tenders for brick additions to a house in Gala street. Messrs J. A, Mitchell & Co. s Winton horse sale has been postponed to Friday, 4th April. Notice is given re the Valuation Rolls for Invercargill and Wallacetown Riding. Objections, if any, will be received up to 9th April. Mails for the United Kingdom, Australia and the Cape close at Invercargill at 2.45 p.m. on Monday. Messrs J. A. Mitchell and Co. hold their usual sale of horses in the Prince of Wales yards to-day. Mr W. S. Waterston inserts a special notice re coal and firewood and bis method of ensuring correct weights and measurements.

Mr William Rennie, who recently relinquished the position of machinist in the Southland Times Office to undertake that of Sanitary Inspector of the borough, was on Monday last presented by his late associates in the office with a substantial proof of their esteem in the shape of a very handsome writing desk, bearing the following inscription Presented to Mr Wm. Rennie by the staff of the Southland Times. March, 1902. The presentation was happily made by Mr Joyce, and was feelingly acknowledged by Mr Rennie. Mr Rennie, it may be re. marked, has a record of which any man might well be proud. For over 20 years he has arrived at the Times office punctually at three o’clock each morning, and with unfailing regularity got the paper printed oh in time for early distribution. Rain or shine, he was always at his post, never once caught napping—he was, in fact, like Tennyson’s brook—men mightjcome, men might go, but he seemed destined to go on for ever. However, he is now in a position in which his punctuality and other good qualities will have ample scope, and if it ever happens that he has a spare half hour, he might reckon up how many tons of paper and ink and millions of papers have gone through his hands- and let us know the result.