The Southern Cross. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. INVERCARGILL, SATURDAY, AUG. 16. General News.

Southern Cross, Volume 10, Issue 20, 16 August 1902, Page 8

The Southern Cross. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. INVERCARGILL, SATURDAY, AUG. 16. General News.

Mr A. Prentice, of the Yarrow afreet grocery, notifies that lie is prepared to receive a few well-fed pigs every week. He also calls attention to several of hia specialities. Tenders are invited by the Eoads Department for maintaining the track and conducting the tourist traffic between Lake To Anau and Milford Sound ; also for several road and bridge works in Southland. Mr C. Wyeth, of Woodlands, intimates that he has a large stock of early and late seed potatoes for sale ; also cabbage and cauliflower plants. Mr Wyeth is a most snecessful exhibitor at our local and northern shows, and his products are always in demand. Shortly before 11 p.m. on Saturday a fire was discovered in Messrs Anderson and Crawford’s drapery and fancy goods establishment, Bluff, and these premises, and J. Weir’s boot shop, were destroyed. The buildings, which were owned by Mr A. McC. Hami ton, were insured for ,£2OO in the Hew Zealand office, and Anderson and Crawford’s stock was insured for £1250, £750 of this amount being with the Alliance Co., and the remainder with the North Queensland office. Messrs A. Baldey, I. W. Eaymond, and GL McLeod were the successful candidates in the Southland Education Board elections. A plebiscite will be taken in this district on 3rd September on the Bible in schools question. Prom the Wellington correspondent of the Southern Standard we learn that Francis Thomas Moore, well-known in connection with the frozen meat industry, was committed for sentence on Thursday on a charge of sending threatening letters to Sir Joseph Ward. He wrote :—“ I believe if I carry out my threat of yesterday and remove you from the head of the State, as McKinley was removed, I shall be rendering a service to New Zealand. You are head and foot in monopolies and you stop my progress, and why should I let you stop me when a bullet or dagger will put you out of the way. I would willingly sacrifice my life for the good of the cause as Anarchists do.” Being called on to plead in the Police Court, prisoner replied, “ I plead guilty ; I admit writing the letters. I wrote them under a sense of irritation without the slightest intention of doing what I had written, I showed the letters to a friend before sending them and informed him X had no intention of carrying out my threats. I thoroughly realise I have been foolhardy.”

Section 21, block 7, Waikawa, will be open for selection on lease-in-perpetuity at the Land Office on and after 16tfa September. A concert in aid of the school funds wil be held at Wallacetown on Wednesday night. Busses will run to and from in connection with the concert, which will be attended by a number of pipers, and to which the I.A.D. Club will contribute a farce. t Mails close at Invercargill on Monday a 1.45 p.m. for Australia, Cape Colony, and the United Kingdom, and for Australia at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr C, W. Brown publishes a notice re properties for sale. The Oteramika Road District has been merged in the County of Southland. The Southland County Council notify the striking of rates. Mr R. J. Gumming, Athenaeum Chambers, has properties in Earn street and at Richmond Grove for sale. Mr E. S. Perry, nurseryman and seeds, man, inserts a change of advertisment in this issue. He directs attention to his stock of fruit trees, of which he makes a speciality. Mr J. W. Mitchell of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Co., calls the attention of workers to the advantages of insurance. We have had the pleasure of reading Mr Lex McLean’s book on physical culture. The book contains a number of hints of great value to all interested in securing that most desirable combination, “ a sound body and a Bound mind,” and is written in a style that proves Mr McLean to be a master cf the subject. Mr McLean has opened classes in Invercargill, and has already enrolled a large number of students. His rules and exercises are easily followed, and can be carried on without the introduction of elaborate or costly appliances. Mr McLean inserts an advertisement re his classes, although this is scarcely necessary, seeing that he is himself the best advertisement his system could possibly have. INVENTION AS A ROAD TO WEALTH “ AT no time in history has the demand for useful inventions been so great as at present, and never has there been such activity displayed in invention, and such astonishing results produced.” —Extract from pamphlet giving information npon Patents, obtainable free by post from Baldwin and ,Hayward’s representative, J. F. LILLICRAP (of Hall, Stout and Lillierap), Solicitor and Registered Patent Agent, Esk street, Invercargill.