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Southland Times, Issue 4483, 22 November 1882, Page 2

Thanks.— Mr Joseph Grace requests us to return his sincere thanks to the people of Wjndham and neighborhood for their kind, ness towards him during bis illness. Rumored Painful Accident. — It was rumored in town yesterday that a man employed at one of the sawmills to the north of Winton bad bad an arm taken off by getting it entangled ia a planiDg machine on Monday evening. Fair Dealers In " Bonds."— Two strong, minded females at the Thames have entered into partnership as brokers for the sale and purchase of mining stock, and have secured an office in the principal business quarter of j the town. Masonic. — The Southern Cross Lodge meet i this evening, and St. John's on to* j morrow evening. Members of the Scottish j lodge are, however, invited to meet the W.M. to-night at eight o'clock, for the purpose of paying an official visit to the Southern Cross Horse Taming. — Mr J. Dewe announces an exhibition for Thursday evening, which a great many will no doubt be anxious to witnesß, viz., a display of his method of howetaming. He proposes to operate upon three animals in view of the public, in the Caledonian grounds. Ahcident AT Wyndhah — A little girl, daughter of Mr T. Mortimer, narrowly escaped being severely injured yesterday morning. She was in the street when a horse that was being yarded suddenly broke away, and knocked her down. According to latest accounts the HMle sufferer is progressing well. We are Pbivileoed to Pay.— The Waverley-Waitotara agent for the Press As. sociation evidently considers it very important thatbi* particular race meeting shall have due prominence in the papers. Oc Friday last he wired at our expense 600 words, of which about 50 were worth publication. — Ashburton Mail. This from " Blackwood" ?— " Grand [old libeller, unscrupulous old antagonist, bitter and malicious old reviler, speedy retribution awaits thee ! Tby sin has found thee out 1" " There is not the least chance of his making his last speech on Tower-hill, much as be deserves to do so." These are specimens of the language used in BlackwoOd's Magazine about Mr Gladstone. The Druid3' Concert.— The programme of this event is published this moming. Aa it was generally understood that Mr G. Me Alpine was to appear on the occasion it becomes necessary to explain that that gentleman not having arrived in time for the lehearsal, the promoters did not feel justified in putting him on the programme. It is expected, however, that he will appear. Solar Observation.— With reference to the use of a perforated card in viewing the solar eclipse a correspondent; of the Wellington, writes :— " People should have done as I said and drilled' the card with &fiiw needle. They would not then have been blinded, or have used strong language. The pin-made holes were too large evidently. This plan will serve well for the Transited Venus will be easily seen throurh such a needle- hole as it crosses the sun's disc." Cremating, —An account of the first cremation which has taken place in England is published. The bodies were those of Lady Hausham and Mrs Hausham, who died in Dorsetshire in 1877 and 1376 respectiveljv Tbey both expressed a wish that their bodies should be cremated. Their remains were kept in the mortuary house until preparations for the process were completed,* and on Sunday, the Bth inst., the remains, enclosed in substantial coffins, were placed in the furnace on plates of iron and reduced to ashes. Proposed Concert and Dance.— At an adjourned meeting of the committee appointed by the various Friendly Societies of the town to arrange for the annual benefit in ai 1 of the funds of the Southland Hospital, it wa* considered that the most popular kind ot entertainment for tbe occasion would be a concert and dance, and this it was unanimous'y resolved to have. A sub-committee was appointed to make the necessary arrange, ments and to fix on the most suitable date for the entertainment, after which the committee adjourned. ' f- • " ''. ytiiY Not.— A new principle 6f, locomotion is being tried in Philadelphia. The tramcar, before starting on it-s journey, is wound up ' like 'an eight-day clock, and then despatched. Steam is used for the winding up, but for no /btßer purpose. The ca,Fbeing I all of passengefs^ there is force enough in the spring to pi-op- 1 it for five miles, ; *bd a speed can be religion which would acc^plish that distance ' in 35 minutes. At tt§f necessary intervals r along the line there arjj; half rstations where tfie machinery necessftf^ for '!! the winding, up act "is get 'np./^'^vi^'s'peed^is'aeeti'redi' immunity from accident, economy •in the ' Raying of horse-flesh, and the advantage of the absence of tbe smoke and nbfee of w en*

NEW ZSALAND EXP<3BTB TO tfUBOP*.-4. Frota an interesting tattle compiled by the New Zealand Shipping Company, we learn that dturin^ the wool and grain season of 188i-88~^e., from I«t NoTenaber, 1881 to 1882— the total export* from the colony to Europe ; j»efc, :— 192.734 bale* of ' #^|^ r aHi^;>7ss^^Mcka^of>^l^ ; 27,490 sacks of barley ; 7193 sacks of oats ; 15,100 packages of tallow ; and 14,954 -tons sundries To convey this produce 127 ships were required ; of theae7fix;Bailcd trolntbe Bluff ; 21 from Port , Chalmeis ; 10 from Oamara ;^ seT|n from Timaru ; 57 fronj liyjfc-' telton'; Ml2 from 'Wellington f eigit'from' Napier : and six from Auckland. \ The DruEOT Stbam Tbade.— Belerence to a telegram from Ohriatchurch in tHis issue will show that the ground taken up by this' ; journal in the -nMUtetuof -^direct steam^comm^nieaiion with Pritaitt-— aaflae]y T fcMtVfliib sidy for -such a service was: notxrequired-— is re^iTibg r gtatilyit^^a*pp^r^;^'wiir'6e'.\D^-'.< served that the 'New 'Zealand Shipping Co. hare resolved^ to embark ln ';tlte enterprise, .arid have! 'even announced their first vessel , and the date of Her departure. : " It was impossible that it should oe other wise^or^that thje Oompany should; staid idly bjrV while foreign firms appropriated; the choice bits of the shipping tirade and left nothing but dead weight and low freight merchandise to the saiJirig.' vessels,; ;s ; Before Jong the difficulty i is ; morelikely to,be,theotherway, and weßhaU have more . steamships offering for our, traffic tojand 'fro than . will , be conducive to. their owners' interests, ; y .",; .;/;..;....(.,*". j, .«:■,- M-. jsl Tight Pl£ce;-4A curious incident, ; -which afforded considerable amusement to everyone bat^thechiff actor in it, occurred the other day at the drainage works in Tuam street, Christchnrch. Some of the men employed by the contractor while excavating the trCT'chyahd fittingjthe' train-pipes, were surprised'at /hearing unwonted sounds issuing from a 16-inch pipe lying leady to be placed in! position. On examination, these were found to proceed from a small boy; tightly' wedged in the pipe. The men at ooce endeavored to pull him out, but so firmry-'fixed i was he that this mode of release was out 6t. the qdestioa. After some time spent in fruitless efforts to extricate bin), it became evident that the T only way of doing bo was to break tbe'pipe. This was accordingly done, and the youngster, who was too mucb eshansied by his imprisonment to give aiy. satisfactory account of himself, was liberated and with the aid of some other children ma(\e the best of his way from, the scene of his miihap. The Caledonian Society.— At a meeiingof the directors of the Caledonian Bocietj, held yesterday afternoon, two designs for a corporate seal were . submitted by the sub. committee appointed .for the purpose. The one selected by the directors is two and a quarter inches in diameter, in the centre of which is a, shield bearing the Scottish lion rampant, surmounted by the national motto, ■ and garlanded with thistles, the title of tie . society, with the dates of its establishraeit 'and incorporation, being cut round about t. The rejected sketch was neither so elaborate nor so costly as the one under notice. 1 letter was received by the directors from thb New Zealand Blondin, who offered to gta his performance!* during the two days 1 game). The directors decided to grant the writer £U) out of the funds, aud to allow him to make i collection on the ground. After revising thfc prize list, and granting an application made by the boys attending the High School, to be allowed the uae of the society's vaulting poles and other material for their games, the directors adjourned. Free-speaking of Sotalty. — Writing of a ball at Cowea, a lady says in a private letter :- The Prince and Princess of Wales came early (about eleren) and stayed late — that is to say, the Prince did, letting his wife go home alone (not an unusual thing with his Hoyal Highness). It is curious how fond be still is of dancing. He never by any possible chance misses a valse, that being bis favorite dance ; for which reasou does it always predominate on London ball programmes in the ratio of at least three to one of all the other dances combined. With all the practice he has had— for he has been out since he was seventeen— it is strauge that he should b? a bad dancer. Yet he is. And a little short hoppity-skippity step he has that sends him spinning round like a badly-balanced teetotum, with a velocity that would make one's head swim merely to look at, He likewise gets very bot and out of breath, and his collars grow limp early in the evening. As to his " steering " powers, it is quite impossible to judge, for when he dances everybody gets carefully out of his way, and lets him have the floor to himself. One mustn't jostle royalty, you know, even in a dance. Saw Too Much. — Some time aeo the morning papers in Sydney were invited to send reporters to inspect a home for destitute boyp, situated at Middle Harbor. The reporter of the Morning Herald made an unexpected visit whilst the master and his wife (Mr and Mrs Anderson) had gone in a buggy to meet hi« confrere of the Telegraph, whom only did they see. He of the Herald, in their absence, discovered a variety of unsatisfactory things — that the boys were suffering from a skin disease, they were flagged by Mrs Anderson with almost unfailing regularity, that they complained of getting too little to eat, that they knew nothing of prayers or religious exercises, *c. The outcome of his expose next morning was that the Government sent a doctor and some police officers to investigate ; and it has been decided to remove the boys from the house. The first object is to cure them of the disease from which many of them are suffering. The Government will also tject Mr and Mrs Anderson from the land of which they have taken possession. Sportive Ponies. — After lunch on Friday those present at the Lonebeach sale were asked to go down and see the " circus horses sold next." Many thought this was a joke on the part of the auctioneer, but nevertheless followed him. Here the groom led out a couple of ponies, a bay and a nicely-made gray, Diet Turpin. Previous to the animals being offered for sale the groom gave the spectators an exhibition of what the ponies could do. The pair carefully mounted an ordinary two foot plank, raised in the centre about two feet from the ground, and immediately commenced to have a quiet game of " see-saw," and then walked backwards off the plank. Dick Turpin then did some clever jumping at the biddiug of the groom, and then the groom and Dick mounted either end of the plank, and man and beast had a game similar to that of the performance between the two ponies. This so took the fancy of the spectators that the bidding for Dick. Turpin at once became spirited, and the pony was bought by Mr Jobn Matson at 19 guineas. Dick Turpin has only been in training six weeks, and the manner in which be performed several very clever tricks in the sale yard speaks well for the able tuition of the groom. — Press. A. Terrible Suicide. — A, young girl committed suicide on October 5, at Notre Dame, Paris, probably impelled to do so by a love disappointment. At nine in the morning she was observed impatiently walking round the aisles, watching the doors as if expecting Bom»body. She occasionally went into the close, and often wistfully looked round. At 11 o'clock the verger saw her still in the church, and noticed her getting into conversation with an old woman. Independently of her refined beauty there was something in her manner that excited his curiosity, and he called the attention of the English cicerone to her. She asked the old woman to accept a dejeuner from her in a restaurant close by* They both lunched together, and at 2 o'clock returned to see Paris from the tower. When they ascended there was a heavy downpour. Both Went to take shelter in fche wahihMfln'fl senlfy-hox. When they were there the yonng eiri suddenly ran out. and after climbine on the parapet, flung herself forward. She fell on the railing, the spikes of which have the form of chisels. They cut the body in two near the waist. The lower part fell backwarks on the flags of tliejpprch, and the upper part stuck on the rails.. The head, on which a round hat remaiiied;and th* .cheat; were aot disfigured; but! quite blenched. The old woman said she 'talked' at breakfast about saints who devoted themselves to charity, and did not .appear demented or even excited. ■. She calculated theprice^of^ -the dejeuner Bhe wished to have before she ordered it, and helped the old woman largely, bat did n t eat heartily her* self. There were 60 francs in, her pocket, but no paper of any kind. Her dress wis plain, neat, and ladylike, but her laced shoes .were bad; and her stockings much darned. Her hair was of extraordinary length, and arrangedin two thwk braids yoUecl round/ her bead,

pi^nBLAiDOi'THE lißiL;-iiThe Attck" landj Herald remarks that " one by one of > r the Old settlers who have seen the rise of the coioriyi during the early stages of its growth are being removed from amongst us. On Sunday last one of the oldest was called to her last rest; We allade .to Mrs Pwditch, iHdow of the late Captain^iriliiam. Powditch.^ "who was the jSrst Speaker of the Provincial

Council when provincial institutions were first established in the colony. She arrived ?in :the i'dTjldny in 183lfand if tiot the oldest colonist in Auckland, was certainly amongst tfae oldest. ;; \.5;/ , > .': \ ',- *>■'<.■ ."." "A Sillt Claim.— A very uncommon claim was filed^by-a: plaintiff some time ago inChristchurch, ana the case was set down for hearing recently. Plaintiff did not appear, but it was explained by defendant On oath that one, Sunday morning he was passing 'the, place o£ plAintin* who aoeosted him with " Do you want to buy any onions ?" ,to which ; the r6p^y came, « What's the price?". Plaintiff, in answer, said; ss, and defendant continued,. "jYbtt.can keep your- onions.'*; In conse* quenceof loss sustained to the commodities, by being kept in, : .stock, occasioned by dei fendant'a refusal to purchase, plaintiff sued to recover damages.; The Court struck out the case and allowed the defendant his 4 half-day's expenses. I ■■■i. 4 ivf"i 'L-H '■ •■ ■■ l