The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, 31ST JULY, 1883.

Southland Times, Issue 4700, 31 July 1883, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, 31ST JULY, 1883.

Gaelic Society. — A meeting of this Society wi'l bebeld on Wednesday at 2 p.m., in the secretary's office, the business beins: to receive a balance-sheet and appoint director's. The Suppose" Suicide. — The young man Allen, whose supposed suicide appears in oi.r Auckland telegrams this morning, is believed to be a man of that name who was some time ago in tbe employment of ll r W. H. Mathieson, coachbuilder, Dee street Postponed. — The sale of section 13, block X, Invercargill Hundred, 75 acres improved land, advertised yesterday for the 4th August, has be«n postponed by the auctioneeis, Me3srs Carswell, White and Co., until the following Saturday— llth August. Mr Mobeton's Pictures.— lt wiil Ye seen from our Wellington correspondent's letter how high a place this artist* pictures have taken in the" Fine Aits Exhibition held in that city. This appreciation is flattering to Mr Mo"eioD,and will gratify his many f liends here. A Great Age.— The death of a centenarian occurre 1 at Franklin, Tasmania, recently. The. deceased, Mr James Coleman, was 106 years of age. He had been bedjidden for 8 yeirs, but was otherwise in full possession of" his faculties. He had resided at Frankliu for 44- years, and was probably the oldest man in the colonies. Real Doss's' I.—1 '.— A board of guardans in Dorsetshire the other week diseu>s€d the question whether or not representatives of the press should be admitted to their meetings. The guardians objected to thenprofound utterances being maie publ'c. and one of them declared, with an emphatic thump of the bucolic fist, " We don't want them 'ere short-horn writers neie 1 " another River Victim.— lt is feared that Mr Morris Buchholz, third son of Mr 8. Buchholz, an old resident of Nelson district, has been drowned in the Takaka river. He waT acting as traveller for Mr Moss Davis, and on Thursday afternoon left Collingwood to ride to Takaka. On Saturday it was learned in ColungwooJ that he had not arrived. A search was made on Sunday, ani the horse he rode was found with one stirrup leather gone, and the saddle turned round uudei the horse's belly. The Tbajmways.— The tender of Mr R. W. Harvey has been accepted f r the extension of the tramways from Dee street along Tay s'.reet to \Tary street, in East Invercargi I— a distance of 65 chains The work of laying the rails will be commenced walnut lus^ of time, as the necessary materials are already forward. There is, it ia understood, a provision in tbe contract for further extending the tramway northward along Mary street for one mile, and carrying the line ou from the present terminus at Gladstone, if either or both is considered advisable. He Jumped.— The following mode of eliciting truth was adopted by a Danish magistrate : — An English friend seated beside him on the bench noticed that whenever a witness t^ld a palpable lie he jumped. He asked therea^OD, aar> the rmgistrate after a caution, revealed his secret:— "My orderly stands behind the witness, and whenever I put my left hand to my ear, that indicates i lut the evidence is false, and he runs a pin into him." The sting of conscieoce" in this material foim proved effectual, and the magistrate, who died honored throughout Denmark, in three years turned an Alpat.ia in one of the most orderly of communities. He could always get the truth. The Tr ND. — The European Mail says : — " Of the luviucibles the six informers are at liberty ; but Brady, Curley, Fiigan. Caffrey, and Kelly have been banned : Fiizharris, Patrick Delar.ey, and Joseph Mullett, are umier^oi^g penal servitude for life ; McCaffrey, Dan Delam>y, O'Brien, Moroney, a-id Jnmes Mullett have beea sentenced to ten and Doyle to five years' of the same puni-h---ment. Martin and Do>le alone escaped. We repeat the gloomy list in the hope that it. will teach its own lesson of the sure punishment of those who enter into such Brotherhoods of Crime as that upon which the curtain finally fell the other day in the courtyard of Kilmainham Gad. Complimentary — On Friuay evening last the residents of Pine Bush were entertained by host Sanerater at his hotel, which he is about to leave, A goodly number sat down to a substantial suppe-, to which tuey did ample justice. After the supper the usual toasts were proposed. Mr Sangster, by his affability and hospitality, well deserves the goodwill of the district, and his removal will b 3 a great loss. He and h : 8 amiable wife are higiily spoken of. but certainly not more so than they deserve. A purse of sovereigns was presented to him as a tok^n of respect, and a handsome gold locket was presented by Mr Sangster to Mr Richard Home, one of the most obliging of coachman, for a similar reason. Songs and recitations kept up the enjoyment to past 3 o'clock, when the guests bade farewell, no/je the woiae for the abundance with which they were surrounded. Mr Bates, of Oaklands, added greatl? to the amusement by his comic, alitiet. High Schools Board — The usual monthly meeting of this Board was held yesterday evening, the following gentlemen being present ; — Meß^rs Lumsden (chairman), Matheson and Watson. The secretary reported the receipt from Dunedin of &H 18s, as Southland's share of the rents from the secondary reserves. Tb« reports from £hn schools were as. follows : — Girls' school, number /;u tho toll, -17 ; average attendance, •14. Boys' Seiiool i number on the roll, 58 ; average attendance, 52 Mf Blanchfbw^r also reported that drill had been coainienced , in both scbojl?, and suggested th.it the next' term should begia on Tuesday ll'h Sept. The suggestion was adopted. Mr H. M. Speftcer wrote stating that he would accept the terms offered by the Board for ihe temporary occupation of section \,qf block R f SVairaki, upon cermin conditions relating to. fencing. It was resolved to ngiea to these conditions. Accounts and salaries amounting • to £166 Is Id w»re passed for payment, and the Board went into committee upon some epeqisl buiinesj?,

The Crescent,— The two sections between the pretnises r of the National Mortgage and Agency Co.'s premises and the Coffee Palace have been purchased from Messr* Pearson and Hast by th« N.Z.L. and M. Agency Company, at about 1.4000. The new proprietors will erect a large and handsome building on the sections, to be used by them as offices, &c. - They " Mixed Those ChildbenTJp."— \ regular. Solomon's iudgment will have to hi given in a New York case, in a suit by Miss Maillard, who recently accused one I-evy of being the father of her child. He declared that her .child had died, and that she had got another to personate it. To this Miss Maillard replied that it wasn't her child another woman's — Miss Sheehaa's — who died. But Miss Sheehan claims the one now in Miss Maillard's possession as her own. The Sheehan girl says she gay« the baby for adoption to Jessie Maillard, Jessie's having died. Jessie asserts that they (she and Miss Sheehany exchanged babies, and that it was her adopted baby that died, and that her own proper but illegitimate offspring is the identical one who played such a prominent part in Court during the trial. To determine j which of the women is the mother of the child is the question at issue, for if the child be Jessie Maillard's she cannot be found i guilty of* perjury. It would seem, thereI fore, that change of babies does not take place only in " Pinafore," but in real life as , well. Effects of a Tornado.-- The force of the tornadoes that have recently bpen devastating parts of the United States is illustrated by an account supplied by Mr R. Perkin 0 , of the Cairo Line, to headquarters at St. Louiß. Ho visited the region struck by the tornado that swept through Missisnppi directly after the wind had tpent its force, and was astonished at what he saw. In travelling over the track of the tornado he saw a freight car that had been lifted bodily from the ravine and carried almost directly skyward thirty feet on to an elevation. In this car three negroes were playing cards at the time it was struck, in addition to a white man and bis wife, who had fled to it for refuge. All but the white roan were instantly killed, and he was blown, with a fragment of the car amrin'g the limbs of a large tree, sustaining biuisesin his flight that caused his death shortly afterwards. When the explorer began to look after the property of the railroad company he found that the station building had been blown away, together with its contents, tickets', iron benches, and all. There was no station house at all, and nothing to indicate where its ruins were likely to be found. He discovered a woman to ing near the ruins of a house, who bad evidently attempted to escape. Sh« was in a dying conlition, bub from her friends he learned that a baby had besa torn fiom her arms, and that it could not be found ia the neighborhood. The telegraph operator of thi sought refuge in an hotel, but was blown away with it, and was so badly injured that it was thought he would certainly die. Mr Perk-ns, although not in the tornado, was near enough in its track to hear ;ln noi3e and see 'he cloud, which was intensely black. The Lky looked like a lake of molten lead. A piano was blown £00 yards from a house. Mr Perkins says that he never saw such a sight i before, and did not care to look upon such a spectacle again. — Iron. Bargains. — In consequence of Messrs Thorn son and Beattie's dissolution of partnership, a rare opportuuity is offered at the .Exhibition of securing good bargains. Very Special. — Fancy Dress materials re duced from Is to 3d ; Colored Estaxiiaes reduced from ! s 4d to 7£d ; all Wool Beiges reduced from Is 3d to 7iii. Children's Jackets and Ulsters beginning at Is. Ladies' Jackets reduced from 80s to 7s tid. Ladies' Cloth Jackets from 3s, at Thomson and Beattie's Dissolution Sale. Nevjsr Return.— -It is said that one out of every four real invalids who go to foreign countries to recover Health never return, except as a corpse. The undertakers, next to the hotelkeepers, have the most profitable business. This excessive mortality may be prevented and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if they will but use Hop Bitters in time. Read. Indigestion. — The main cause of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused by weakness of the stomach. No one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purity the blood, aud keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry oft: all the poisonous and waste matter of the system. See.