General News.

Southern Cross, Volume 10, Issue 19, 9 August 1902, Page 8

General News.

Train arrangements for the Coronation celebrations are published in this issue. The town programme will comprise a procession and religious service, sports in the Park, and a fireworks display at night.

Messrs W. C. Wilkins and Co, of the Dairy Plant Works, Tay st., require a boy for the workshop.

The Lands and Survey Department insert several notifications in this issue.

Two boys named Roy, six and eight years respectively, were burned to death at Wairuna, near Clinton, on Tuesday night, in a fire which destroyed their father’s house.

The State of Victoria is faced by a big deficit, and has set to work to economise. The civil service is to be pruned to the extent of £75,000 a year, and extra taxation may also be imposed

McGregor’s American Carriage Factory was gutted by fire on Monday night. The building was insured for £2OO and the stock for the same amount.

Perfidious Albion again. French newspapers resent the despatch of Australian emigrants to the Hew Hebrides, fearing annexation of the Islands by Britain.

Mr G. R. Waddel has been elected to the vacant seat on the Bluff Harbour Board.

The selection of the two riders to represent Hew Zealand in the WarrnamboolMelbourne road race took place on Monday, from Timaru to Christchurch, and resulted as follows: —A. Ralston,!; A. Calder, 2; J. Arnst. 3. The winner’s time was 7 hours 15 minutes.

The Southland Poultry Society closed a three days’ exhibition on Saturday night. It attracted entries from a wide area, and waa

very successful

The Pittsburg Amalgamated Tin Plate Co.’s workers refused to accept a temporary 25 per cent, reduction in wages in order to prevent a large order going to Wales.

The Bank ot ISTew Zealand pays a dividend of five per cent., absorbing =£21,366. The institution has had a very successful year.

It is now believed that 100 miners perished in the Mount Kembla explosion, the exact cause of which is still a mystery. McCabe and MoMurray rescued several persons, but lost their lives while leading a rescue party.

Headers wishing to purchase a freehold 4-room property should read Mr W. B. Scandrett’s announcement.

Mails for the United Kingdom and Australia close at Invercargill at 2.45 p.m. on

Monday,

It is possible that ere long the throb of the war drum will cease to echo through the world. The Czar of Russia wishes to bring about the disarmament of European nations.

The Mabel bachelors intend holding their annual ball on the 15th inst., and the week following the benedicts are going to have a a night out in the shape of their first annual ball.

A correspondent writes agreeing with the note published in last week’s Cross, in reference to the Post Office, and adds, if three little growls of his are attended to the town will be almost perfect. We may as well give them ;—Commence with Baxter’s verandah, corner Don and Dee st., on a wet day you get a shower bath, then across Don st., the same thing occurs at Alexandra building, by this time one is pretty wet, but strike out for Neil’s red white and blue verandah, and Cresar’s Ghost, if you want to get wet anchor under there a little while, and when leaving, just by Flint’s shop, corner post, you’ll get a “back-wash,” sufficient for all purposes, whereas a few feet of down pipe would put the matter right. In the other cases a little attention to the spouting would suffice.

Houses of four or five rooms are in good demand at high rentals. Mr B. J. Cummings has a nice four-roomed house and large section in Yarrow st., for sale. Another house can easily be placed on the' section, and the rent will allow the purchaser to to live practically rent free, with full valuation on expiry of lease ; Mr Cummings has two first-class sections in Bowmont st, for disposal.

A Wellington firm has been ordered to buy <£lo,ooo worth of poultry for the Home market.

Once a soldier, always a soldier. One hundred returned troopers at Wellington volunteered for service in the Philippines, but the United States vice-consul at Auckland declined the offer, regretting that he could not accept the use of such good material.

A large number of troopers have returned to Hew Zealand during the week. Bitter complaints have been made as to the privations endured through overcrowding, and a Parliamentary committee has been set up to report on the question.

MrD.Munroe, of the local railway service, had his left arm cut off through an accident at Gore on Friday, 30th ult; while on Saturday last Shunter Williams had his foot injured by slipping from a train at the Invercargill station.

At the forthcoming elections for Wallace County Council, Mr D. McPherson will be a candidate for one of the seats for Otautau Riding. The ratepayers are to be congratulated on Mr McPherson’s acquiescence to their request that he should allow himself to be nominated. As a member of the firm of McPherson and Co., sawmiliers, he is keenly concerned in the well-being and advancement of the district, and he has moreover done service on the Otautau Town Board of a quality that has proved his ability to fill the still more important position to which he aspires with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He should, in a word, make a model representative.

McCallum’s barn, Gorge Hoad, has been in great demand this winter, and has been the scene of many pleasant gatherings. The next engagement is one that should secuce a record attendance, viz., a concert and ball in aid of the school funds, to be held on the 15th August. The prices are low, the entertainment will be good, and those who attend will have the satisfaction of knowing that their money is being devoted to a real good cause —assisting in educating the young.

Will it Pay P — “ There are many fortunes lying dormant in the shape of valuable ideas carried from year to year in the minds of men who lack the courage or enterprise to bring them forth to the world.”—Extract from pamphlet giving information on Patents, obtainable free on application from Baldwin & Ray ward. Representative —F. J. Lillicrap, (of Hall, Stout & Lillicrap), Solicitor, and Registered Patent Agent, Bek st, Invercargill.