The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1882.

Southland Times, Issue 4488, 28 November 1882, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1882.

Southland Institute. — At a recent met ting of the Council of the Southland Institute, Dr 0. Wm. Siemens, F.R.S., President of the British As.-ociation was Dominated as an honorary member of the New Zealand Institute. Forbes' LECTOHES.— For the accommodation of residents aloDg the Winton line a special tmin will leave Invercargill for Winton this evening immediately after the lecture. We have no doubt the railway authorities would put on trains for other places »ere the residents to bestir themselves and " offer sufficient inducements." Chicken Thieves. — Ve regret to learn that some robbers of hen roosts are about. On Saturday evening a resident at the east side of the town had his poultry house broken o. en and three of his fowls stolen, one <f them a genuine Brahma rooster for wbicb a good price had been paid. The thieves murdered tbeir victims before carrying them off, the heads beiog left lying about. Owners will have to be on the look-out, and the first pil'erers caught should be summarily dealt with. The Yeomanky.— The annual carbine competition of the Southland regiment of Hussars for prizes offered by the Government will take place at head quarters, Invercargili, on Thursday next (St. Andrew's day), commencing at 11 o'clock, a.m. Competitors will attend in full dress uniform with foragecap*. A foot parade will be held the s&me evening in Ramsay's hall, at 6 40, finishing at 8 o'clock so as to enable those who wish to at end Mr Forbes' lecture in Sloan's Theatre to do so. Repudiates Them.— The following important explanation with regard to the recent case of cruelty in Sierra Leone, i3 given by the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society : E\)rtunatus John and J. Williams are African. 0 , Both were at one time lay ngents of this Pociety. John was dismissed in 1875, three years before the alleged cruelties are saic" to have occurred. Williams withdrew from the service of the Society in 1880. Neither, therefore, ought to be desseribed as ageuts of the Ohnrcb Missionary Society, much less as missionaries." Mb Auchibaxd Fobbes — This evening in Sloan's Theatre Mr Archibald K<_>r{?ea, who arrived too late yesterday lo \ee.lat6 aa AQ> nonnce'd, will deliver the first of his course of four lectures entitled—" Experiences of a War Correspondent ;" in which the vicissitudes in the 1 feof that modern chronicler of c«nejjt events— the special correspondentare ;vi<Mdjy depicted'.-' The lecture will, naturally, be ra6sUy 'occupied with a recital of i tie lecturer's own adventures, comprising lis experiences during the Franco-Geijttan war,' i he Kusso-Turk;sh war; the reign of the (Jpmrauae in Paris, and the Afghan 'and Zulu campaigns,

/feJßg^boi, MAKKBi^Thfcßrmsh^and . «%; Co^imlt^lfave 'id|^athe pbllbwjtfg telegram fibyrtheirUagente^ .esflrwueimatn, DC(iivßrtß^> &na 10,, xionaon^ datJtfithp^ :-\'M|>6ls!rgthe n^fctip^ superior, iiHgrease JsSreott a par with prices ! of laat ''■jfiaMi Adelaide, In 4 grease'*, rather. lower in^grease ; acbursd |d lower f^coarsM crossbreds, £d to Id lower." Crawford,- secretary;; to the Miners National Union,; England^ hii8 r issued a circular to p/oc^saf hojfr being, extenßively*tised"as'a means "of getting coal inr wall' workings it is an entiredfjtcgeasi To put * it into general use will require -some little alterations, but if by the process coal can be as easily 'got; • and in .better condition , than wtien "powder is' used, i* becomes the duty of the State to enforce its general use, or at any, rate to prohibit the use of blasting . powder Where there is the remotest risk of' an explosion taking place. " fak Birds abb ;,Faib Birds*"— An English paper states :— Chinese servants are to be at once, and in large numbers, imported into London. " Servant-galism" has reached such a; " pitch'' that, short of the family waiting on Matilda Ann, Matilda Ann, has bound everybody in the house to her chariot wheels, and is virtually master of the situation. '.She kindly condescends to accept " wages" for permitting people fco enjoy the pleasure of her company, and she further will oblige by ; eating of the best your table affords. There; her duties end, uplesß;the family sit up to have the hapiness of welcoming her borne, on a return from one of the innumerable holidays she claims as a right. John Chinaman, good tempered, amiable, if ugly, master of cooking and laundry work, able to nurse baby and make an omelette, will find himself epgaged directly he steps- foot on;, pur shores. ; . ! Te^td Ye« Cabbage, —r Sfamebodv w* . . niaei rwju.l iil trie Uect with a peach-stone,-/and he awoke and offered a' resolution to the effect that America entered her solemn protest against the action of the British in Egypt. •' DeTesolnshuii am entirely out of order/' replied the President as he tossed it into the wood-box. " What goes on obef de sea am none o' our bizness 'tall. If de British want to lick de Turks, or de Turks want to lick de British, dat's nuffin to us. Elder Toots I " " Yes, sab." " Has you got a cabbage-patch dis y'ai ? " " Yes, sah." " Den you 'tend right to yer cabbage an' let dj British Government 'tend to Egypt. When you cum to our meeting remember dat you have de asthma an' doan' try to talk too loud | nor too much." The Elder sat down in one j time and three motions, and in forty seconds had resumed his nap, — Limekiln Club. Hope Defehued.— The Wellington Post states . — " A few days ago we mentioned that it was intendsd to introduce an important change in the passenger-ticket system on the New 1 Zealand railways, by abolishing " return" tickets and reducing the price of " single" tickets. Wh«n a supplementary i Gazette was issued last week containing a revised scale of charges, it was supposed that this included th? proposed charge, and some people were much puzzled to discover any difference. This is not surprising, seeing that the intended alteration will not come iotj force for some little time, probably not for two months, certainly not before next year, j The reason of this delay is the magnitude of ! the work involved in printing an cotirely new supply of tickets to the number of some hundreds of thousands. This will necessarily occupy a lengthened period, and it is impossible to say just now how long it will take to K et the new tickets ready. We may state, however, that the present intention is to reduce the first-class single fares from the present rate of 3d per mile to 2^, and the second-class from 2d to Ud. It will thus be evident that while single "journeys will cost j one-third less than at present, double journeys will come to just the same as now. A further reduction will be made in the Saturday and Sunday fares. On those days single tickets will be issued either way at H<? per mile first-class, and Id secondcfass."