The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5th 1882.

Southland Times, Issue 4494, 5 December 1882, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, DECEMBER sth 1882.

All Saints', Gladstone.— ln accordance with usual custom, the Sunday evening services at thia church will begin at 7 p.m., instead of G 30 du'ing ihe summer months, Gaelic Services.— lt was iitinated from the pulpit of the First Church ou Sunday last that the Rev. D. Ross, of Queenstown, would conduct a service in Gaelic this evening, at 8 o'clock, iu the above Church. The Buunt Mail.— Per favor of the Chief Post mas; er, wo have perused the correspondence with tbe British Postal authorities, re the mail bags destroyed on board the Alaska. Much of the information has already appeared in our columns, Ve note, however, that " the country letter bill and registered letters," from New Zealand are altogether missiu^. "Tt is supposed, therefore, that at lea^t one New Zealand letter bag has been entirely consumed.'' Conference on Temperance. — The qnai'terly meeiinprof the Presbytery of Southlaud will be held to-morrow in the hall behind tbe First Church. In the evening a public conference will be held in the Church upon the temperance question. The petition presented to the Presbytery some time ago by the local temperance bodiej will be disaissed, find any fair motion with respect to temperance mntteis will be received. We expect to find tbe general public present io '-large numbers. Tbo conference will begin at SoVock. Successful Dairying — The Ashburton Cheese Factory has imw been in operation for a month, during which time 1*.',3501bs of excellent cheese has beeu made. The saipply of milk ha-3 been gradually increasing, until 600 gallons are now every day delivered at'the Factory. Cheques to the amount of £*22l he.ve been paid away to suppliers of the m T>-, aud in several instances cows have yi Tied their owne s £2 per head per month. The cost of prod icing the cheese, including the £2, the price paid for milk, is now little short of If 1 per lb, and if the milk supply was increased to 10'iOeallons per day the cost of production would bu only 4£ per lb. The faclo*y must prove beneficiil iu tbe highest degree, not only to the pietnoters, but to the farmers, and indirectly to the community at larg:*. Youkg Heroes,— The IN lowing is from the Chri-tcburch Star, and will have interest, for many of our readers : — Dr ileOinre, who recently commenced practice as a physician in thia city, has sent is the following extract from i dispatch from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Secretary of State for War. Lieutenant Cunningham, who is nephew to Dr McClurc, was exactly 20 yeais of age when "he arrived in Egypt:— The conduct of the soldiers of all arms was excellent, and many gallant depds were done throughout the action. Two roeoDt instances have come under my notice cf men, who, being painfully wounded caly in the day, continued to do their duty un' il severely wonoded later on. One, on the 2-th ultimo, . ns that of Lieutenant G. fl. Cunningham, of the Com wall Light Inf.mt y ; and *h<* other, on the 'oth ultimo, was that of Gunner Joseph Knowles, of IT Brigade A Battery Royal Horse Artillery. As it is by soldierlike courage of this nature that the British Army has always maintained its high reputatiop, I have great pleasure in bringing these uamea to your ijoUvsi

Might Havjb Been Wobse.— A large number of people, including of course tbe members of the Fire Brigade, turned out soon after ten o'clock last night — in response to the tolling ofthe fire bell. The locality of the fire was not- so apparent as *is usually the' case, and everybody became naturally very^- much excited,,' and rushed frantically about the streets to find out the cause of the alarm, wondering at the same time how anything could be dry enough to catch fire oa sach^'a •> wet night.- Strangely -enoagk—ifc-i turned oub that the fire was owing to ibis very, cause, a truck of lime at the railway station = having been set alight bj th^jrain. Reassured by this somewhat humbling* explanation the curious cit : zens retreated- to their homes with rather less celerity than thky had emerged but a few minutes before; Doubtless some of them will soon be making interested inquiries into the curious scientific relationship between two such ordinarily antagonistic elements as fire and water. The Licensing Meetings.— The quarterly meeting of the Licensing Committee for Invercargill North, was held at the Couit« house yesterday. Present — Messrs Hatch (chairman), Wilson and Sanson. The only application was that made by the licensee of the North Star Hotel who applied for a twelve O'clock license. The Chairman said that the committee were generally of opinion that a 10 o'clock license was late eaough, statistics showing, that three or four times more drunkenness resulted when the houses were allowed to be kept open till midnight. The committee would grant this application, but next year only first-class houses would be allowed to keep open after 10 o'elock, The committee for Invercargill second next occupied the bench, there being present IVfessrs Hatch (chairman), Froggatt and Cleave. The applications of Mrs* Lang, of the Golden Fleece Hotel; ""if r Hogue, of the Criterion Hotel ; and Mr Roe, oi the Clarendon Hotel, to. remain open till II o'clock, were granted, the applications in each case having been made for* 12 o'clock. The only midnight license granted was in favor of Mr Bridge, of the Princess Hotel, Deestreet. The Late Mb Norman Buodrick.— Sharing in the feeling that inspired it, we copy from the All Saints Parish Magazine for December, the following paragraph :— " The saddest among the events of the past mouth was the death of Norman Hall Brodrick, son of the parochial churchwarden of 'All Saints. Thej great sympathy which was felt for him aud for the family was shewn by many enqui'ies during bis sickness, and the large number of cut fl .wers, wicaths, and crosses, which were sent to be placed withiu or upon his coffin, as well as by the heartfelt manner in which the service was said by those who accompanied him to bis last resting place by the side of his mother. Shortly before his illness, Norman Brodrick had passed bis final examination as a surveyor, and had received a presentation from the. members of his survey camp as a token of the esteem in which he was held by those under him. Being of a humble aud self-dis-trusting disposition, he had been more than ordinarily pleased by both these circumstances, and was full of plans as to his future life. The memory of his simple, kindly character, unsullied by any youthful vices, and the sudden rending oE a family of more than ordinary united affection, tend at the same time to deepen the trial and afford consolation to Ihe mourn jrs."