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Southland Times, Issue 4484, 23 November 1882, Page 2

y AVENAL;— Mr E;T.£Kemp was duly^elected; Mayor of thie .raiuiici^iaiy>3Syesterdayi .;.-.; A ■'?. North J^ercabgil^ -Slauf^^J^ hated for office as. Mayor of this borough. A poll will take on the 29fch instant tb decide who has the greater confidence bf the ratepayers. * . •*-:y'---:y,y-... liVAI/LAOB OOIJNTT COUNCIL.—- At the sta- 7 tutofy annual meeting of 7 the Council held yesterday, Mr H. Hirst was unanimously reelected chairman. . Mr Hirst in returning thrinks for the confidence they had once' more showrl in him, 'said he would still endeavor todohisduty. , - 7 '"-' Southland County Council.— - At the meeting of .this. body; yesterday, Councillor Ch F. Richardson was unanimously elected chairman for the year. Our report of the °rdihary is crushed out of this issue. ■ No business of paramount importance was transacted. WOOL JSSnv— The Albion Co.'s clipper Jessie Readman is advertised to sail from the Bluffabout the 30th of December. She has just completed discharging her inward cargo, and leaves Port Chalmers to-day for the Bluff in charge of a tug, As the two Shipping Companies have arranged to load jointly this season, woolgrowers will be certain of smart^ despatch for their clips. The Hon. Mr Johnston.— The Minister of Public Works and party left Kelso for Invercargill yesterday morning. A* deputationof Gore and Gordon residents met Mr Johnston at Pukerau to lay before him the urgent need for a traffic bridge over the Mataura. Deputations also awaited him at Gore, re extension of the station buildings and platform accommodation, also fencing railway lines. Accident at Centre Bush. — The accident to which reference was briefly made in a former issue occurred to one Jacob Taylor, an employe at Mr Dawson's sawmill, Centre Bush. It appears that Taylor, who was work- ! ing a planing machine, incautiously placed his hand in the vicinity pf the revolving cutters, which reduced the hand to a mere stump, all the fingers being destroyed. With all available speed Mr Dawson got the sufferer conveyed to Winton, where he arrived much exhausted by loss of blood. Fortunately Dr Hoctor was at hand, and under his care the unfortunate man was made as comfortable a<? circumstances would admit of, and he is now getting on well. The Forbes Lectures. — The public are at length furnished with information respecting the course of lectures to be given in Sloan's Theatre next week by Mr Archibald Forbes, the famous special correspondent of the London Daily News. The course will include the four lectures which hare excited most attention in other countries, viz :— l. Experiences of a War Correspondent. 2. Kings and Princes I ha^e Met. 3 All Europe in Arms ! (which must possess special interest in *he present critical condition of affairs in Europe). *. Warriors I have Known. The lectures will be delivered on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Course tickets are to be issued for all parts of the theatre, and the plan of reserved seats will be opened to-day at Messrs Bodgers and Cos. The Minister of Public Works.— We are given to understand that thf- Hon. Mi Johnston, the Minister of Public Works, wil. receive deputations to-day in the Chief Postmaster's room. He will receive first the members of the Borough Council at 11 o'clock. At half-past 11 the Seaward Bush Railway Committee will be received ; and at noon the members of tha Southland County Council. Thereafter the Chamber of Commerce will have an audience. The intervals if any, between the times of these appointments may be availed of by other deputations or individuals desiring an interview with toe Minister. According to present arrangement, Mr Johnston will proceed to the Western District to-morrow, and to the Lake on Saturday. A Burglary Frustrated,— We lean that a daring attempt to abstract the saf« from the stationmaster's office at Edendale was made yesterday morning, the burglars having apparently been frustrated in their designs by the unlooked for arrival of the nigh, train. On the train reaching the station, a. about two o'clock, the guard noticed that tht door of the stationmaster's office was open and on proceeding to investigate the cause discovered that the safe belonging to the office had been removed into the centre of the room, and placed on a hand-barrow The thieves had, however, at this stage of ths i proceedings been interrupted by the approaci of tbe train and had decamped, leaving tber booty behind. We understand that the cortents of the safe amounted to a good rounl sum. Early Vegetables. -Mr Hammond <f Lime Hills appears to have a choice spot fo; his market garden, and to be a first rati hand at his work. Last year, if we mistake not he was the first to exhibit garden produce and this season he has gained similar honors so far as we are aware. Yesterday he brougb to tbis office a box containing samples d green groceries which it was a real pleasun to look upon, viz., early rose potatoes, greej peas and cucumbers. The potatoes — aboa two dozen of them, ranged in size from i pigeon's to a common hen's egg, and wee remarkably clear and well shaped. The pcs were full grown, the pods being both larg and well filled, while the cucumbers, abort 2 lbs weight each, were of perfect form anl excellent quality, Notwithstanding tie acknowledged backwardness of the spring Mr Hammond is a little earlier with his prtducts this year than last. Seasonal Gifts.— The approach of t'i« holiday season is already indicated by thi display in shop windows of a variety rf fancy goods which meet with an interraittert demand ; and also by obvious preparations on the part of tradesmen to tempt cistom by the promise of "something iito the bargain." Mr W. Dunlop, draper, Tay street, has entered npon the gift distribution business with almost reckless liberality, judging from the size of the pile of pictures and photographs he hal stowed away ready for distribution amonga; his customers when the proper momen. arrives. The art of producing these cheap pictures for trade purposes appears to have reached a wonderful pitch both in point of lowness of cost and of excellence. Probablj the remark '• Its the quantity that does it," explains the matter in both respects. Mr Duulop's lot includes a large number of really very pretty pictures, copies, many of them, of celebrated works by first-rate artists, which will no doubt in due time find thej way into many of the homes of the lieges. Hybernating ?— The famous sleeping gxl of the Beaujon Hospital, we learn from the English papers, has awoke at last, on the 73rd day after her longs' umber began; and the case has now passed out of the hands of the mere purveyors of sensational paragraphs into those of the doctors. It appears that the waking on this occasion has not been sudden but exceedingly slow, and that the use of the faculties as well as the limbs has returned bj very gradual steps. The power of speech having been one of the latest to return, i; was necessary to communicate with th« patient by means of signs, and it was onlj with much difficulty that the doctors coulc for a long time ascertain whether their conversation was heard by the sufferer. But as the sense of hearing has from the first been pietty good, and as the others are by degrees returning, no doubt seems to be entertained that in a few days the usual health will be recovered. As for the causes of this malady — fqra malady, no doubt, it has been — they are explained as hysteric in their character, and of a sort not by any means uncommon in the' hospitals o£ France, where people seem to be more hysterically inclined than in England. One of the most remarkable features in these long sleeps is the fact that they take from the sleener all desire for food, for, during the whole time, however long, there is not only no opportunity for eatiner, but no sensible injury to be traced to the want of food. The waste of tissue appears to be arrested tor the time being ; and the sleeper, having no exercise, does not require to ,be fed, but dispenses with all nourishment just as dormice andother creatures that have ft long winter sleep,

East Intercargill.— To fill the vacancy in the Council of this borough, Messrs Walker Boyce and James Cosgrove were nominated yesterday, so that there is a probability of a contest for the seat. The Athew^eum Committee.— A a Ordinary meeting of this committee was held last evening. Present— Messrs Mc Donald (chairman), J. Feldwick, Perkins and Dr Galbraith. The secretary read a letter from Messrs vNichol and Tucker stating that they—were willing to accept the terms for the lease of their premises as proposed by ihe committee. A letter w^s read, from Mr Robert Bin-ell, dated the 21st inst., asking the return of £8 | sent by the writer on behalf of the subscribers to Hooker's Flora. On the motion of Dr Galbraith the matter was left in the hands of the secretary and treasurer with power to act. An energetic agent, wishing to dispose of a copy of Landseer's works, with 200 steel engravings, as also a copy of Virtue's Im-. perial Shakespere, sent specimen sheets, which the committee examined with very great interest, and decided that they would be beautiful ornaments for the drawing-room, but of no use to an Athenaeum After calling a meeting ofsthe Library Committee for this afternoon, the committee separated. The Waikaia Educational Reserves. — At the Otagp School Commissioners' meet- , ing in Dunedin, yesterday, with reference to the reserves at Waikaia, Mr Pearson recommended that a certain portion of runs 326, 326 A,327, and 327 A should be excluded as land suitable for settlement; and that 10,500 acres in run 393 should be put in the market and let on lease for pastoral pur. poses, as it was unfit for agricultural requirements. He also recommended that a portion of the land on the south side of run 326 a should be surveyed into acre sections with I jthe view of forming a township. It was resolved that a block containing 7100 acres should be taken from run 326 for the purposes pf settlement, and that the remainder of the *run be l®BJ§'d"'3& follows : — A portion containing 25,200 acres to be relet for 10 years, the balance consisting of 9500 acres to be let with run 327. Ifc was also agreed that the two blocks of land containing 4500 acres be taken for settlement from run 327— the redainder of the Yand to be let in two portions, viz , run 327, to Contain 18,370 acres, and run 327 A, to contain 17,700 acres. The r.ortion taken from run 193, containing 10,500 acres, and originally reseved lor settlement, is to be re-leased as run 193 a for \en years. "Oh, Gemini I" — A faa\3dle-aged Irishwoman pushed a pair of shoc^-headed boys about eleven years of age iuto the witnessbox (at. the Thames Police Court) "before her, and addressed Mr Lushington as follows . — " There, your Worship, ain't they an llUgant couple? two as nice little rascals as y.vfd find in a day's walk. It's disgracing their family they are every day of their blessed lives ; tearing their clothes off their backs, and their boots off their feet. This one (putting her hand on the head of the taller and more ragged looking of the two) is worse than his brother, and laches him to run away from school ; its twins they are, and no one ever saw such ; its little they care for the School Board, though he's after. them every day." Mr Lushington (to the biggest boy)— Why don't you go to school and take your brother ? The Boy— l don't know, sir. Mr Lushington — Well, if you don't you will get your father and mother into trouble, and then I hope that he will, thrash you. The Boy — Thank you for nothing, sir, and I hope he won't, (Laughter). His Worship (to the mother) — Take them home and give them both a good shaking. The Mother — And faith I will, your Worship, l'jl shake the life out oi: 'em. A Terrible Remembrance. — Philios Alexin, who died in Lamia the other day, at the great age of 94, had in his youth contributed — under compulsion — to one of the most terrible deeds perpetrated by the Turkish forces to crush the Greek rebellion of 1821. He was plying his trade as a carpenter, in his native town, when Omar Brionis Pasha entered Timia in triumph, after his victory over the insurgents at Thermopylae, where he had taken several insurrectionary leaders prisoners, amongst them the celebrated champion of Ue.lenic liberties, Athanasios Diakos. The fierce Moslem doomed the heroic youth to be spitted on a wooden stake and roasted alive ; and Alexin was required, on pain of death, to supply the executioners of the barbarous sentence with all implements needed for its fulfilment ; that is to say a spit of timber, fitted at either end with a handle, by whioh it migtt be made to revolve, ana two wooden trestles, whereon both extremities of the stake might have free play during the patriot's martyrdom. As soon as Alexin had completed the task imposed upon him, the inhuman decree was carried out to the letter. Diakos displayed unflinching fortitude throughout his horrible torture ; and his death scene, to which Alexin was a witness, made an impression upon the latter's mind that time could not efface. The Third Time of Burning.— There are not more than forty people in Little Akaloa,and not mnny thousands in the whole Peninsula. In so small a community it passes all civilian understanding how one hotel can be burnt down three times in succession in the most bare-faced, not to say unnecessarily public manner without the police discovering the incendiary. To such an extent has this individual the courage of his opinions, that be always gives the unfortunate hotelkeeper notice of his intentions. We do not know whether he will be superstitious enough to consider that three is a lucky number, but if he should burn the hotel down sixty times, under present arrangements we do not see that there appears to be much to prevent his doing so, Joking apart, this chronic incendiarism reflects very discreditably not only upon the police stationed at and about Little .Akaloa, but also upon the authorities. If the local police are not wilfully blind it is obvious that they are lamentably incompetent. If they could not catch tbe man who committed the first offence there is at least no excuse for the house being left unwatched under the circumstances, lt is nothing less thaD a public scandal that in a email township like Little Akaloa terrorism as bad as any existing in Ireland should go so completely unchecked, — Telegraph. Arabi on His 7 rial.— The strong reaction in favor of Arabi personally in England was very much intensified by the refusal of the Egyptian Ministers to allow English counsel access to tbeir client. Arabi bad been promised that be should have such assistance, but it was persistently denied bim. A genuine sensation was therefore created on October 15th, when a letter appeared in The Times from Arabi's personal friend and sympathiser in London — Mr Alfred Blunt — who forwarded a copy of a letter of his to Arabi, which Sir Edward B. Malet had been instructed by the Foreign Oifice to intercept ; and another letter from Mr Blunt to Mr Gladstone, accusmg the Foreign Office of bad faith, and the Government of having actually given up Arabi to be executed. A dispatch from Cairo, dated October 16tb, says :— "Sir E. Malet announced that the trial of Arabi and his associates will not probably proceed unless they are defended by EDglisk counsel ; and the Egyptian Ministry iniormed Sir Edward that they will not be responsible for the government of tbe country if English counsel are introduced — a method of procedure unknown to the Egyptiau Courts. Arabi persists in declaring that he would defend himself if denied English counsel at his trial. The evidence of his complicity in the June massacres at Alexandria will not be obtainable, although it is said M. Minerl, the Swiss Consul, can prove that many Bedouins were shot by Arabi's order for looting. In regard to the defence of Alexandria Arabi avers that he acted under the orders of the Khedive, and continued the war after the bombardment by order of the Naive Council at Cairo. The chief counts of the indictment against Arabi are— that, in violation of the rights of nations, he hoisted a white flag in Alexandria, and, under cover thereof, retired with his troops and gave up the city to fire and pillage ; that he incited the Egyptians to arm agaiust the Khedive ; that he continued the war despite news of the peace ; and with having incited civil war, with devastating the country, massacring and pillaging the Egyptians.

has been received by the agents, the N.M. Com- ' pany. ■ John Kingsland announces the dates on which he;will address ratepayers. - ■- ; -vZZVA i y Archibald Forbeß' course of lectures; is announced, •••-'y' : "^illiam Todd will sell in the Exchange, on ;';Dec. 2, a section at Fortrose, together with hotel in occupation of John Boyer. . . - "ZA William Todd will sell on Dec. 2, in the evening, section in Liddell sireet, on whice is erected „a superior dwelling. „... .. ..,......_,,..,...._,„ „ . . ....... The first wool ship for London from Bluff will sail about Dec. 30. AEori y Wanteds," "Wanted knowns," and "Tenders," see first page