The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11.

Southland Times, Issue 3321, 11 February 1879, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11.

_____» r Bradshaw.— We have received from Mr Rose, stationer, Dee street, Bradshaw's Guide for the current month. Committed.— John Paterson, who was arrested last week on susoi-*ior_o£_li"_l_.cns_ -__yium7 One "More Unfortunate.— A young woman named Elizabeth Wells, having been arrested on* a charge of using obscene language in a public street, was taken before Mr McCulloch yesterday,' and sentenced to three months' imprisonment' The Steamer Mountaineer.— We hear that the new steamer that has been put together at Kingston for the Wakatipu Steam Navigation Co. is to be launched to-day. Mr McQueen, of Kincaid, McQueen and Co., the builders, arrived here from Dunedin yesterday, and proceeds to the lake this morning to superintend the launch. Rainek's DIORAMA.r-This: interesting exhibition, which took so well in this town a year or, two back, is again here, having arrived from Melbourne yesterday. Mr Raynor has engaged .-the new Theatre, Dee street, and will have the honor of practically opening the house with his Diorama of the American War. He intends .to run four nights here, commencing- on Wednesday night, and jvill *then proceed elsewhere. The South Public School. — This school was opehed) yesterday according to announcement; but the workmen are still busily engaged in painting and finishing off the exterior of the building. About 150 children were enrolled and classified, most of them being from Appleby and the vicinity. It is anticipated that by the end of the week the rooms will be well-filled, and th'e business of the school fully established. The contractors for the making of the road that leads past the front of 'the school are pushing On their work quickly, so that access to it, even in " wet weather, will be tolerably good. | Smart Work. — The first instalment of several thousand sheep that are to be conveyed by train from the Levels Station, Canterbury, to the New.Zealand.Land Company's estate at Edendale, were delivered on Saturday morning. They were eleven hundred in number, andbecupied twenty _ve trucks. As there was but short time to unload the train and send it back, so that it should arrive at Clinton before the tirne for'the.starting of the mixed train, for iriyfircargiir, : Mr Arthur, the •General Manager; and a full staff were waiting at Ederidale : to. receive the train and unload it; The 'train arrived at thirty-two minutes past two o'clock, and within thirteeii minutes evei'y truck was empty, and within the half hour the' men had taken refreshments, the train had been shunted, and was on its back to the -Levels. The second instalment of sheep' are expected at Edendale to-mbrrbw morning. >- ; Volunteer /Encampment. — We are pleased to see that the citizens have taken up the question of a Volunteer demonstration at Easter time, and have requested the Mayor to convene a public meeting at which the question should be thoroughly discussed. His Worship has complied, and has; named tomorrow evening as the time, and the Council . Hall as the place of the meeting. We feel assured that there will be no lack of attendance to promote a most laudable undertaking. InvercargiU asserted: .itself .very creditably at? the proceedings in connection with the opening of the railway, and nothing less than a similar display; of hospitality and public spirit may be looked for, we are sure, should it be decided to support the Ideal Volunteers in inviting and entertaining their Northern brethren, iri arms. The Volunteers will of course take prominent interest '.in the movement, and one of the^ Engineers — have requested us to state that their" meeting for the election of- officers unfortunately fallsiipon Wednesday evening, and cannot be postponed. Hence their absence from a portion of the meeting at the Town Hall will be accounted for. Stringency of Money" —It has been reported recently that the stringency of the colonial money market is in a great measure due to the drain of gold to.England, and we did hear— albeit we did not believe it— that three millions had passed from New Zealand that way. That, however, there has been a flow froin the colonies homewards is apparent from the statement of the London commercial correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, who, writing ,on "December 20, says : — " The higher value of riioney J here, and sales of securities abroad, together with the steady competition of French houses for the best commercial paper, have turned the continental exchanges decidedly in our favor, with the result that gold in considerable amounts is again flowing from Paris and elsewhere to this countiy. About one million has come from Paris this week, while befoi the close of the year nearly a million of gold will reach us from Australia." The corr'esspondent also remarks : — " The past fortnight has been an extremely gloomy time in the Stock Exchange. Failures, political disquietude, and money _ave 'combined to discourage operations. The English funds, owing to the investments of the general public, have been fairly supported, but railways, banks, industrial and financial companies have been severely depressed." A Carrick Castle Specimen.— Perhaps no vessel that ever, came out .herewith immi- , grants has given a -better idea of the success 'attending the Home Agency's adoption of the "How-not-to-do-it" principle, than did the Carrick Castle, which brought.out a number of immigrants who settled/in' luvercargill. A great many of ,them , came from the Emerald Isle, and' that ' most of the " boys " inquestion were not a credit to themselves or their country, is a notorious fact. John McCarthy, a ,man , brought up at the Police Court yesterday, was ' ojae ' of the Carrick Castle selection. He is, we believe, or was when at liberty, collector of ' " unconsidered trifles," or otherwise a -jag and bottle man, a pursuit which he varied pretty frequently by getting horribly intoxicated "and setting up in business as a public riuisance. Latterly he has distinguished himself in the latter capacity, with unprecedented success. He was brought up at" the Tt.M.- Court yesterday, on *hree different charges, of , using obscene language, and also -with breaking a pane of glass in the Gridiron Hotel. On the first charge he was ordered to pay a fine bf or go, to gaol for, three months ; on jthe second be was dismissed, as.Mrs Fahey, the only witness, declined "to repeat the language that accused had made use of, and the Police very naturally did_not press her to do so ; , and on the third , charge he was -ordered. to pay 14s for 'the .damage ,done, arid a fine of 20s, or one month's imprisoraent. 'In each case' the alternative was accepted. Tnis man's wife, Kate McCarthy also -appeared before the Magistrate in answer to a charge of having been drunk i nd disorderly, and the -case being proved, she wasfined'los,'pr in default three days' im-priebl-iineni; '. . . ' ,J -

'■'.'■'. M^Mi G. BRiGimPr-We. have branch plej* ; sureiri fewihg attentidri to a card^blishied; elsewhere rnot_yirig'_ta%Mr W. G^rh^'an old resident, has commenced business as accountaht: and general^ commission U%ent. fiom his long corinecti6h-mth'the\ Idistric^he -will ?ffieefc.with an -avCTage share; '6fcpuhlic:pa&on'ige.;. 7AP7y-k.77722 : ky' A' P^RITISH AiTD>F6REKOT'BIBIiE SOCIETY.7^An address: was delivered last night in 'St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Tay street, by ,the. Rey.^Mr. .E.ya,ns. .;';T^e..^at'tendance..wi_s. ' thin. ; Amorigs^bthers, we noticed Messrs Stobo, Tanner,^^ Summers, and Ward v The ReVi'Mr/Stobd ma*die S"fK-^'*femafks"at' '■the' outsetvpointing buVgerierally^the- great: benefits that had resulted froav the opera-tions-bf^the, society. ." For; a^distri^i'ofi , this importance, an auxiliary -ought tobe appointed" to, aid these., [.The- objects of the society were lof a, thoroughly Catholic nature, in ; the'. best., sense of the word, and deserving of 'wide- and general support. The Rev. Mr Evans's then addressed theriie^n^ He^ tying, : ahd -statisticai^^ -informatipm.r e g ar ding the society, extehdih^over a great number of | years. Even so recently as the beginning of the century the circulation- of the ISible m England "had been:of the most meagre des-r criptib_--about 2 copies for eyery;;l2oo of. the popnia'tibn;- 'Ithad been told him";when<. ■'a boy, by Ids "fathe^ that^at ; bne;time in his ■ recollection there :wasrx)nly-'one, Bible^n the parish where 1 he : lived^and that^waslobked, up in the-; church. -The 1 pdptilation?o£: about :; 800000 'in Walesa which" was.' mostly poor, had' notwithstanding in one ■■ year' sent £7550---to trie sbciety; The total annual' sum which, into its coffers* £800;000' of which-; ithe "-Church Am ®^^%*™7M?S "and -> : the ; Wesleyan Ay Church ;-; £195,000. Thetbtal of ■•^the■■■'increase : ■pf • mrculato.on:-;in^ Great Britain, -'and her dependencies, alone, ■ from' first tb last, resulting . ; froin > the endea- ■ "vors'bf the society, "was _5,000.000.; InFra^e It* had 'depots' for Bibles :' throughout -i the' whole country Hnth the best/results. The great mo^ .PJ Jn^f*_^-*_ n cf circulation" in that land was increased, at the rate of }abbut _90j006 per annum. ' The Church of ■ England; Missionify Society sent out the Bible translated into io fewer than forty-nine different languag s, •' This was.Vhbwever,: done iat most enormpis expense. The - Wesleyans" sent out transi?. . tions to the number of twenty-nine languages. ; Ladies' •".'_ associations" 'in connect-ov' with this society :h6 spoke of -very highly, am as . more successful than any other, and li trusted that these would obe instituted . -hert arid that when round; .this, way ' again i he's - year he would ;hear ; of encouraging : progre a made by them. - -Mr ''Evans concluded hi • remarks by referring tothe bad state of Gei many; as regarded the Bible.. There it wa •' ■rery.much put out of the way, and tbe-coh sequence was! that" /Socialism was tampan with : an inevitable tendency tb communism The Rev. Mr Tanner 'said that they were, very much obliged to Mr Evans for the address he had given, and all would be gratified to heart of the great efforts made at home,- and the^ success which they had met with. It was stated that Mr Evans was to go to Riverton ; to-day, but would return in a few days. . In response .to a requis'.tibn ,His Worship the Mayor has convened a meeting fory to-morrow evening, at the Council Hall, at 8 o'clock,. to make arragemehts for assisting- the Volunteers in carrying out their proposed Easter Demonstration.— ' '■■:- '.'■-'-■AA. .-_.■ .-: : " •■■..;.-.• :' : : Tenders are wanted for the erection of; a cottage in Leet-street. An emergency meeting of the Loyal Pioneer Lodge of Southland, M.U.L0.0.F., will be held •rthis evening. „■: : The first 'meeting of creditors in the estate of Thomas McCarthy, of Riverton', will be held at . Riverton on the 19th inst. " " . ■ ' Tangye. Brothers, of Melbourne, publish a business annouriceme_t elsewhere. • A reward is offered for the recovery of a small gold chain, with seal. . . . - This evening, the anniversary tea meeting in connection -with the Baptst Church will take place inSlcan's new music hall in -D.ee. street, commencing at 7 o'clock punctually^ 'Later in the evening there will be a public meeting, at which several ministers and other gentlemen are expected to deliver addressee. The Rev. J. JJ. Davis, of Dunedm, will deliver" a lecture at a" stage in the evening; taking for his subject " A. Stoot Lad, Faith !"_ The.leoture, it is under-; stood, will have spec'al reference to the -life of the late Norman MeLeod.