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Southland Times, Issue 4987, 26 July 1884, Page 2

Poob Willie,— Mr Allwright telegraphed to Mr Swanson — " Victor by 40," to wHi-h Mr Swanson replied — " Vanquished by 63." BAPTIST Chubch. — We have 1o remind adherents of the above church and others interested therein, thafc the R-ev. Alfred North, of Dunedin, will conduct the servicss to-morrow, morning and evening. HOUSES. — We have been requested to draw attention to the sale this day, at 1 1 a.m. sharp, of 20 magnificent heavy draught mares and geldings, specially selected for this market by Mr R. Cupple?, to be sold by Carswell, White and Co. Attempted Suicide.— lt will ba seen from our Dunedin telegrams that the man Flaherty, who was recently brought before the It. M. Oourh, Inverrari»ill, charged witb the theft of a Masonic jowd, attempted to commit suicide m the lock-up at Outram, whither he bad basn remanded. Touofi. — Anew " everlasting"' wood pavr*. ment has beea brought out m France. The wood block 3 are baile I m a solution of sulphate of copper, sulphate of zinr, and cbloriiio of sodium, raised with heavy mineral oil, liasced oil, and tallow. The blocks are after.vard4 cotnp-eised by about one-tenth of their original volum\ lathis state they are said to be practically ua;veiiablo. Daxgshous — Without wishing to unnecjs?arily"harass the Tramway Company m j their present circumstances, we think that j it is q'iite a? much m the : r interests as for those of the' public to call attention to the dangerous practice of leaviDg 1-ads ot rastal, . intended for ttaintaining the lines, m heaps on the streets. A cubic yard of rond metfil is an ugly obj j .ct for a horscnaan or vehicla to go full tilt at on a. da:k ni^ht. Southland to. the Fb^nt. — It is sometimes said that Southland County cannot produce wheat of a superior quality ; aud l"ke all errors this prejudice is hird to ■ vercome. Ihe fact that fl/e tois of flmr Lave be^n despatched from Wnikaia to Kaitangata at a remunerative rate shows what good material and good woikmanship csn effect. Flour that <*an beat the produ.-.t -ofthe Tokomairiro plains after paying X U miles carriage "caunot have baen produced from inferior grain. • „ . A ClosjS Cobpobation.— A deputation from the Au:kland Pharmacy Board waited upon Mr Mitchelson on Thursday with the view of pointing out the amendments which . wire wanted m the Pharmacy Act (o tn-iki it useful aud workabl". Mr s'iitchelsoa promised that theqtjGstion should lairo due coq-. ; sidcr.itioa. It appears that any person putlin? 1 i v Chetniß! and btupgist" over bi=i sbo) door readers liinijelf Jiable to a penalty of £5 uu*efi* registered, but that if he does not do so he may sell drugs, &c . without the. least hiaf ranee, J ici YfELD".— Qaecnsl^nd i« we-1" keep-: lag up her excellent gold -yields. Rsrely in"' tho h.t tvt : of -guld-uainirig id Australia has the last .yield of the VViliuot ffixie i ided mine,. Gym pi", beon exceeded, (n May o? l«tst' year the tqtal xesul s of 10. months' crushing^ horn th« 7auc 8 Monkl-t:ul{ Gympie, gave" 17.i:>00z:.. But- a little m«re thau two yiia s prr.vious'y, the^Nsw Zealand P?C: t>yuip[e, had ex:eide-lvt{h*t amouut by 36)' •ca«. iift we've months. Mor.e recent] j-j" Np 1 (Sforth Pboe us has yielded, : isi 12 taontlrsr 5 17,331^28. of, gold, worth £Gi:,8;23.;8atlS J WUuiot Extcu<Jc<J, for oaly:W?ee monthV^ R.-ashings, bhows 15,4 9} OZ3, of gold, ftoca 701 tone <?l $t>ne. The la&t diyließd Trpgi thi>nij^>#^^Uoßr>h?,i9»

«• A Gooa Conceit of Himself."— At the declaration of the Auckland City. West poll a telegram was read from Mr Dargaville congratulating the people on their triumph over capital. Mr Swanson said that m Mr < Dargaville they had a better looking representative than he would have bsen, but be questioned if Mr Dargaville had the will or power to serve them as well. Interwstinq to Anglebs ;— Mr Harvie B rown (a noted fisberman)has shown that both ordinary trout and common burn trout, when m a Barren loch, altered their entire '-character, and became Salrno ferox. This lastel as long as their feeding was higb, but changed to their old states when it fell "»ff. Mr Brown evidently thinks r that some :pf~thefc so-calkd species of trout are merely varieties due to. changed conditions and diet. Football.— A anatch will be played on ;the Western .Reserve at 3 o'clock to-day between Past and Present of the High. School and a Fifteen of the I.P.C. The following I will play for the High School :— B. Bewa, T. J McKellar, J. Kings well, W. Thompson, K. Collins, W. Collms, J; _ Powell/ W. Hare, H. 'Soxoull, H. Hay, K. Mclvor, G. McLoskey, . 0. Borne, W. ikensteeu ; emergencies :R. Wade, Hanan, and Math?son. 1.^.C. : J. Watsan, Morrah, Williams, Morgan, McPhersbn, Hawke'"(2),. Cumraings, Finlay, Joyce, Walker, Cox, Peters, and Johnson, \ Even fNG Lessons. — The report of ihe special committee, consisting of the Mayor of Bradford and other gentlemen, with members of the Bradford School Board, "appointed to inquire into the memorial from medical men urging that home lessons were - injurious to young children, statea " That the small amount of evening bminwork required from children as home lessons is m no degree detrimental to the health o^-tha scholar-;, gate m very exceptional instances. Thi subcoTnmi.tae are convinced that the nifldical men hardly realized ihe small amount of evening brainwork required from the children. Altogether, the sub-committee do cot feel cajled upan to recommend the board to j discontinue home lessons." Cost of Murdeb. — The misery entailed on tho people of Ireland by the agrariau murders and outrages during the receut agitation 7 is showu (a Dublin correspondent says) by the large atnouat of money paid m compensation to the relatives of the victims The money is extracted from the pockets of the ratepayers by means of the " bloodtax, " which m many cases the disafficted reo;>le refuse to pay. Uader the Crimes Act, no less a sum than £47,175 has lately been awarded for murders and personal injuries, the sum including £2-i.250 compensatioi for thitty-^ix murders within the last four yeara. Tae very large amount expended m the cost of extra police and military expeditions will swell the murder bill to a high total.' Terrestrial Magnetism. — A discussion has been gong oa m the columns of the French scieuiiiic journal, Les Mondes, on the question whether terrestrial magnetism has any such influence oa the human system as to; make it advisable to Us with the head directed corthsvards m sleep, ftme of the writers strongly maintain that the nervous organisation is directly^ affected by the magnetic currents of the earth, and one of tbeni says :—" There must be some foundation for the practice adopted by the Swedish peasants, who cause themselves to be buried for several hours so as to lie north and south m orJer to cure neuralgia." The existence of.tuch a custom is vouched for by the consul of. Sweden at Algiers . The .Anglo- Saxon Mission. — Another expedition to New Guinea is projected A cable ma age states that Mr H, A. Forbes proposes to explore the Owen Stanley Range?, a id that, the Koyai Geographical Souefcy has voted him £250 for the purpose. This range extends for some di-tance along the uarro * eastern portion of the island, and contains mountains of great altitude. The highest are Mount Owen Stanley, which is 13,205 ft. ; Mount Sackling, 11, 276 it. ; Mount Obree, 10,24Gfr. ; and Mount JTale, 10,0i0f t. This part of New Guinea was first made known by Captain Owen Stanley, of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, after whom tha range and the highest peak arc named, who surveyed a portion of the coast, ani ascertained the elevation Gf the principal mountains. The National Bank Buildings. — Tha contractor for the erection of the National Bank building m tbe Crescent, Mr H. Walker, hns had a goad deal of difficulty to coutend with m getting m the foundations, but by dint of hard and •persevering labor he has triumphed o?er them. He had not to go to a much greater depth to secure a good firm bottom than hs expected, but the inclement waather was a source of considerable trouble, causing a large quantity of water to lodge m the excavations, and so throwing back the work for * about a month. Now that these difficulties have bsen overcome Mr Walker iatends pushing oa with the work a3 quickly as possible, so that notwithstanding his unfavorab'e beginning be vvUlbiable to finish the buiiding within the contract time, which extends to January next Wheeb we Came Fbjm.— Facts, both eth io ogicd and philological, have recently corns to light which a^d compelling our scientific ethuo'.o^ts to modify tbe usually accepted theory that the crigiaal home of the Arjan race was Central Asia, aud that the earliest migrations started th.nee. Indeed, Europe, and not Asia i 3 now declared by some of them to have been their aucestrdl seat, more particularly the eastern portions, i.icludi:jg the western birders of Asia One distingii-jhed Get man anthropologist holds the starting point of Aryan erni^ra'ion to have ben Scundtnavia ; and nearly all our lftadiae scientists who have cone icto the subject h'i^e given up the Himalayan plateau as the cradle of the Aryan race, an'l are now teaching us that o:ir Aryan ancestors were probably herdsmen as well as forest ranker?, living partly on the treeless plains of Euro-" peari Kusiia, and partly m ih-j fore3fc lowlands of Scandini.via.and north-eastern G rtnany. Professor Schrader even boids. that the Swiss lake-divelWs weie Aryans. Wablikr RELTC3.— WbiI"! the workue > at Messrs Gill and Son'd ehipbjilding yaid, I ochester, were engaged m sawing a portion of hu oil ship's mainmast, formerly belonging lo a man-of-war, at Chatham, a 32---pbunderiroa shot was discovered embi.iJed m the ma3t, the apperture having b«ea plugged up. Tbe mast m question had been lying far a con-i lereble timj at Chatham Dockyard, aad is bjlicye.l to have belo aged tD N Icon's Vicor/. It is worthy of note that, 3:2-poun :er shot was (ha largest m use for naval warfare duriug Nelson's time. It is not loa? since ths Victory's nauasvl was d'scoverei safely stowed aw-iy at Qua him Dockyard, where it had been lying f or a dumber of years unnoticed. The sa 1 wis ridJled with shot fired durirsg the battle of * Trafalgar. The Causes of Poverty.- Mr J. Wood, ia a letter to tbe Otogo Uaily Tim^s, published a short time ago, made the following .excellent remsr'ts :—" Thg tendeucy of the present day — pe:haps of past times also is .-{sa^throw the whole blama of poverty upoa sorrifethiag external to the man himaelf. He is regarded as the victim of circum, lances ; and tliiS'tendency, instead of leading him to <6nde«vor wisely to adj. ist himself to bis cir■cuacstances, and rise superior to laera, leais "him to attempt the task of adjmtins ci-cum-s|ar.e3S to himself — that is to say,.he tries to lalter his circumstances and not hii habits and cod dust. This tendency was curijusly illustrated a few dajs ago. Idle ovsn < riel, Our bellifes are empty. Go, erie I the President of the Trade 3 and Labor Council, and ; .get your natn«s on the electoral roll, Absurd • : as It ne'e two things appear to be when thus placed together, overybody knew what was meant and tbe final reitilt aiaied at. Ido not profess to. decide as to whether or not famishing men who refuse to accept 4« per day, even at a distance,, fron Dunedin, deserve better food thaa registration, but I am faily persuadeJ that if ihoy do not loyk a : great way beyond what the prasent or any future Government can do for then they will never be anything else than poor men There will always be sources of poverty, over wbiah 'men have no control, -and proper legislation will no doubt teud to .alleviate much of thi* -pressure of povecty ; bit the miin eletnea's Jp. the' productioa of poverty aje under our own control, and they are not the woikiag i£»n-ii Vl?aL'frieuds who do not poj'nt on,t to '-hltn-thst 'the most - : powerful factor ia thereof his condiiion is within him, : and pot wi:h6ut {that prudence, puiitv, and self.restf aint can do more to. obviate noyerty than, all tbe laiys m the world," !

Seasonable.— The Frozen Meat Company have advertised for tenders for the erection of their freezing works on a site obtained from the Bluff Harbor Board, close to the .wharf. It is expected that the works will be m operation, early m December, and we understand that arrangements are m progress for-the employment of steamers m the frozen meat trade from the BhrfE Latest.— All the returns for the Awarua election are now to hand, and Mr Jfryce has a majority of 105, The voting at Stewart Island and Grove Bush wa<r~as follows :— Stewart Island : Joyce, 8 ; McDonald; 1 } Kinross, 1 ; Mitchell, 0; .Hodgkinson, 0. — ■Q-rove^Bush : Joyce;'? ; McTObnald, 7 ; Kn--f oss> 2 ; Mitchell, 3.YHodgkfnson, 0. In the "'wholes electorate^ loos votes were recorded, being 42 less than at last election, although 235 names have been added to the foil.' j - • - -■■ * ] The Dbink BlLli.-r-The Britjsh nations expenditure upon intoxicating iiquors during 1883 amounted to £125,477,275, a -decrease of '£774,084 .as compared with 1882. In 1882 there was a decrease from' TBBI of £823,101. In 1860, with a population of 28,778,000, the expenditure of the United kingdom npon m toxicatiue liquors was £85,276,870, Year by year the expenditure iose until m 1876 it reached the enormous sum of £147,288,759. Thus, while the population had only grown 15 pec cent., the drink bill had grown 72 per cent, Between 1876 and 1880 the drink bill receded from £147,000,000 to £122,000,000. This was largely owing to the great depression m .trade, and to- some extent it was also due to the vigorous efforts of temperance reformers. In 1831 the drink till rose again to £127,00),000, since which. year ib has fallen t) ths exc?nt of about three quarters of a million sterling per annum. Cube for the Depression .—■Writing of the Ceiar Ortiek reefs, the Ross Mercury of the 15th insj:., says :— " Excellent stone ha 3 been found "m the William Tell lease, and gooi payable stone has also been found m the Swiss tiepublic. Several other companies have also- fouad gold-bearing stone, thus proving that the reef exists qyer a good spa^e of ground. Since the solden stone has been found m tho William Tell claim, shares have gone up to an enormous rLju-e, and shares that could, a short time ago, have Ween procured at two shillings each, are now quoted at ten time i that sum. Several old reefers have visited Cedar Greek, and state that they never before witnessed such a sight m New Zealand as they did there. The reef has been laid bare for over twelve feet, along the whole length of which gold could bs plainly seen by anyone standing several yards off." The New House. — The actioa of the Opposition m forcing a dissolution, the Tiraaru Herald sa3S, is now most oasplttaly justified. The circumstances under which the dissolution took place aroused aa unwonted degree of political interest amongst all classes of the community, An unusual number of most desirable candidates came forward, and the elections were contested wiih the utmo t activity. Tbereault is that we have, decidedly the best Parliament that has been seen m New Zealand for ihe last twenty years. Almost every candidate who was at all conspicuous for. political ability, superior education] or good- standing as a settler, has been preferred over an infeiior opponent ; while nearly everyone who had Lmade himself known for obstructiveness, violence, or ill-conduct of any sort, ha* beea rejected. — The Obriatchurch Press sajs: — On the whole, it may safely be said that the late appeal to the electors has had the effect of relieving the colony of the weakest House vvbi^h has ever pretended to represent the public, and given us m its place one of the strongest. «• The Dangers of the Future."— Mr Henry Wade Eodgers, m the North American 1 Review, says : — '' Justice to foreign nations a3 well as to our own seems to require that we should S3 amend our neutrality laws as to make it an offence against the Government of the United States for per3on3. within our jurisdiction to conspire against the lives and I property ol the citizens oE a foreign State with which we are at pea^e. It also sjems desirable that oar extradition treaties should include among extraclita- 1j offences that of conspiracy to murder. These offences we do not consider to be btrictly poiitical m their character. 4s to offences which may properly be callel political, there can be no doubt that a nation may properlj harbor persons who, having ommittea them witsin a foreign State, seek an asylum m another. B;it we [say, with President Woolsey, that such persons having sought euch an asylum, ( may not, consistently with the ob;iga' ions of friendship between States be allowed to plot against the person of the Sovereign or against the institutions of their native country. Such acts are crimes', for the trial and puaishaaent of which the laws of the land ought to provide.' It becomes us to remember how expedient it i 3 for the peace of the world that State, should take a liberal view of their duties to each other, and should perform them with unhesitating fidelity. Toe dangers of the future to the nations of the ear h lie m the conspiracies of dynamiters, cf Coinoiuni ts, an r l Nihilists. " hose engaged the-ein must bo made >o feel the sever ty of Law, the.m9,jesty of which they have . r orgolten to respect." Bon Maucse Day.— This day a great clearing disposal of goods will take place to make way for Price and Bulleid's big sale. Just Received. — A choice selection of Dolmans and Jackets. We are able to offer these goods muck below the regular prices, having received a large concession m the buying. People desiring a really Good and Fashionable Article at a small figure should not fail to pay us a visit. — R. D. Yule & Co.. Don't fail to visit the cheap sale at the Ex hibition [ unusual bargains are to be had. The whole immense stock ia baing offered at reduced prices to m ike room for spring goods. When a cheap sale is advertised at the lixhibition it is a cheap sale.— Thomson & Beattib, iNvEUCAnon-L Election. — To the free and independent electors of Invercargill, we, the undersigned, beg to offer ourselvesas candidates for public favor and support. We claim to be liberals of the truest type, and might briefly state that our aim m the past has bven tD supply the public with the Cheapest Groceries ia Town despite the "rest and be thankful" doctrine of effete Toryism, and thanks to a liberal and appreciative public we have been rewarded with, encouraging support. Soliciting a continuance of your valued custom and support, — We are, ladies and gentlemen, your obedient aud grateful servants, Macpherson and Prentice, Grocers. Club Buildings. Dee street. A Wise Deacon.—" Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family so well the past season, when, ail the rest of us have been sick so much, and have had the doctors running to us so often?" " Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters m time, and kept my family well, and saved large doctor's bills. Four shillings' worth of it kept us all well and able to work all the time, and I will warrant it has cost you and most of your neighbors £10 to £100 apiec. ot keep sick the same time. I fancy you'll take my medicine hereafter," See, We Believe that if every one would use Hop Bitters freely there would be much loss sickness and misery m the world, and people are fast fiudiog this out, whole families keeping well at a trifling cost by itsusa. We advise all to try it, Head.