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Southland Times, Issue 7018, 5 January 1885, Page 2

Something Like Tbaffic. — On Christmas Day and Boxing Day fully one hundred and thirty thousand persona left Melbourne by rail. Ghastly.— A large shark caught in Hobson's Bay recently was found to contain portions of the remains of two men who were drowned while out sailing, Change of Day.— Members of the Southland Education Board and all interested in the first meeting thereof, are notified that said meeting takes place 'on Wednesday, 7th inst, not on Friday as customary. Hospital Rbtubns. — la-patients remaining from last week, 24 males and 7 females ; admitted during the week, 2 males and 3 females; discharged, 1 male, 1 female ; died, John Shobbrook; outpatients treated during the week, 9 males and 15 females. South InvebcakgH'L Loan. — The Government Insurance Department has taken up the balance of the South InvercargiJl Municipal loan of £4000 at par. The Council will therefore be in a position to proceed at once with their schedule of works. LATEST. — Four of the Invercargill cricket team, viz. Kingsland, Douglas, Niven, and Wilson remained in Daoedin over Saturday, and having taken unto themselves others they defeated a team of the Warehousemen's Club. Thescoies were— lnvercargill 92 and 128, Warehousemen, 62. The Stbasbubg Clcck.— The exhibition of the model of the Strasburg Clock in Esk Btreet wa« well patronised on Saturday, especially during the evening, when the Fife and Drum Band played a number of selections in front of the show. The exhibition will open on Wednesday in Gore. Discovered. — In our prize list of the Horticultural Show it would be noticed that the name of the winner of the first prize for 12 kidney potatoes was not published. The omission was dae to the fact that the exhibitor bad neglected to enclose his name in the envelope sent in with the •• murphies." It now turns out that Mr L. Longuet was owner of the lot. The Exhibition. — In connection with the Industrial Exhibition, the Government intend giving prize; for essays on the present condition and future prospects of the industrial resources of New Zealand, and the best means for fostering their development. The prizes will consiat of one gold medal and twenty guineas, one silver medal and ten guineas, and ona bronze medal and five guineas — the essays to be scot in on or before Ist December, 18P6. Further Contbibutions.— We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a considerable quantity of fruit and vegetables, donated and unclaimed exhibits, from the committee of the Horticultural Society, for the use of the Hospital- Acknowledgement has also to be made of a very nice basket of fruit sent in for the patients on Christmas Day by Mrs A, Blacke, and of 10 pounds of excellent fresh butter from Mrs Loftus, Koalyn Bush. holiday Railway Traffic— On the 2nd inst., 2400 tickets were issued fit Invercargill for the Bluff, and 2450 for Eiverton. This gives a total of 4850, but that number does uot represent the actual number of passengers, many children having travelled by all ths trains. Considering the extensive traffic, the local officers of the Department tnubt be complimented on the punctuality observed, aiid the thoroughly satisfactory manner in which their complete arrangements were ca ri<?d ou<\ Mixed Weatheb. — There was a heavy thunderstorm in Palmerston North on Wednesday last. Lightning struck the chimney of tbe residence of Mr Watson, a schoolmaster, driving one etfe of the chimney completely out dowu to the roof. It then ran along the iron roof to the corner of the building where <heie was a wire clothes line attached by staples, the ends of the wire running to a fence in one direction, and a po<t in the yard in the other. One post was split and another was shivered to splinters, which were hurled to a considerable distance. Tbe same afternoon there was a very severe hail storm at Karere. Tome at Last. — Eeference to our shipping column will show that for the third time in our history Southland *' rates" as the owner of a steam tug, the Awarua having arrived at Bluff yesterday after a voyage of 221 days from London. When it was decided to order the vessel we suggested that she should be bronght out under steam via the Suez Canal, Aden, Point de Galle, Batavia and Torres Strain, but the Board knew better. Had that been done wa would have had a vessel ready for work on arrival, and for the wool sea a on. We congratulate Captain Cunningham and his crew of twelve on the comple? tion of their terribly tedious voysg ■. FAOeilfgb. — A tremendous commotion wan caused at tbe Roman Catholic Cathedral, Aroridale, New South Wales, on Christmas morning. During the service, as Bisbop Torrezziana was about to celebrate mass, a man named McCafferty, an Irishman, walked up the church with a tword in his hand When he got to the altar he raised the sword tn-strike' the b : sh6p, but some of the congregation prevented him. As they did so McCafferty fired at the bishop with anvolv r. The ball passed through the bjshop's vestments but be kept cool and proceeded tr.th his religious duties. McCafferty, who is supposed to be mad, was arrested. A Prospective Hint.— We have had several complaints from our country -friends touching one of the railway arrangements for the holidays. Special trains were run on Cbri;<miß Eve and none oulffew Year's Eve, Now ir- har«penp, from the constitution, of the populace, that Ohristmas Bye is not much taken notice of here, consequently the trains on that occasion did no great business. New Year's Day is our great- holiday, and hnd trains been run ou the various lines the previous evening, the likelihood -is. that they Would hive i frsfih largely, patronised. The authorities would do well to the j natipnali,ty:df ,.the b;ulk o£ the cqnimumty, aad makif their arrangements to faty in with the prevailing lodfal customs, so far at IJeaßfc I jib tbe working of ijhe public qgsvipnQef aje

1 Cbicket.—A report of the match, Oarisbrook v.; Invercargill, will appearto-morrow. Blacker Than Fainted.—A deputation interviewed the Premier of Queensland recently in favor of a mitigation'of the sentence of death on Michael and Williams.-.The Premier said he had read a document which had Jbeen ke^fc back until the trials were concluded, containing a mass of information sbpwipg that the whole business of the Hope-, f u:'sioyage^conaisted of nothiDg buf batoheryi ; fightiug, and murder. . On one occasion the crew...landed and burned hat?, and a fight ensuing, "thirty-sight •• nativi s were shot. On another occasion the coast of .New Guinea/at a place between south and east capes, was the scene.' Boats were landed and recruits obtained, including two brothers, whose mother rai down the beach and endeavored to stop her son*, but was struck on the head with; the back of a tomahawk, and thrown inro the boat and taken aboard the ship. The natives seeing the outrage attacked the boats, spearing two whites. The men in the boats fired and shot three natives. Women •were repeatedly outraged by the whiles. Mb " Bracken's Lecture.—Mr Thomas Bracken will deliver bis lecture "Ah Evening with the Poets of Ireland'" in Sloan's Theatre this evening. The lecture is spoken of in the highest terms of praise by our northern contemporaries, and from the proofs we have bad of Mr Bracken's capabilities we anticipate a thoroughly enjoyable evening's entertainment. Speaking of this particular lecture, the Auckland Observer, a journal not in the habit of lavishing unmerited laudation, says : —"The scholarly erudition and cultivated taste exhibited by Mt Bracken in his selections, and the genuine sympathy he evidently has with all that is best of tbe poetical and piose productions of all ecu t ies, but particularly those of his native land, the admirable contrast of humor and pathos, and the complete absence of meretricious or high wrought effects, render Mr Bracken's lecture a perfect intellectual treat." Another paper says : —" Mr Bracken as a poet himself, and one of no mean order, is keen to seize and appreciate the thoughtful touches of tenderness and the keen flashes of humor which adorn the poetry of the Irish, and he declaims the fine lines without any straining after effect, and without the sham elocutionary trickery which would rob the beet poem of its force." The program me for to-night appears in our advertising columns, from whica it will be noticed ihit aa an additional attraction Mr Alex, ander Fraser wiil illustrate the lecture by singing a number of Irish melodies. A Gloomy Outlook. —A recent visitor to the Clyde ship building yards saya : —" Amid sweeping rain and moaning flaws of wild wind I went thoroughly over the greatest of all the yards in Clydesdale, Here and there were signs of vigorous industry, yet the general aspect of the place was most disheartening. Elder's yard, the mainstay of Govan, wiil soon be closed, and the 12,000 men who used to find regular employment will be scattered far and near. The magnificent Etruria lies in the dock ready to receive her engines. She is a perfect picture, and she will travel 21 knots whenever the engineers give her all sue can stand to ; she is, fo/the present,>.he last of Elder's masterpieces. There is no harm in saying that Mr Pearce, one of tha members [sola member] of the firm; is building vesselsf torn time to time at his own risk. At present one splendid 5000-tonner U well forward ; but there is very, very little doing in any other quarter of tbe far-stretch-ing works. ' The head of the firm seldom comes near us just now. It makes him too sick to see the way things are droppiog off.' So said the cheery and hard-headed manager who escorted me. In 1881 Elders turned out 26,784 tons of shipping ; last year they rompie ed 43,000 ; next year, according to all appearances, they will not launch a single vessel, and the solitary watchman will tramp in the vast deserted sheds. The value of the tonoage supplied by the firm during the past twelve years is nearly £6,000,000, and now the flow of this steady stream of wealth is dammed up all of a sudden." For the Holidays. —A. delivery of Colonialmade Clothing just opened —men's, boys', and youths'. The patterns are choice, the quality good, and the prices unusually low. Also received, per s.B. Ooptic, a large assortment oj show-room goods. —Thomson and Bevttie. Coughs, colds, bronchitis, &c, are quickly cured by using Baxter's "Lung Preserver. This old established medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by members of the medical and clerical professions. Can be recommended.—G. Bailey, Chemist, Tay street, Agent. Feels Young] Again —" My mother was afflicted a long time with neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive condition of the whole system, headache, nervous prostration, and was almost helpless. No physicians or medicines did her any good. Three months ago she began to use Hop Bitters, with such good effect that she seems and feels young again, although over seventy years old."—A Lady in R.I. Look up Doctors Gave Him Up. —" Is it possible that .Mr Godfrey is up and at work, ana cured by so simple a remedy ? " "I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, and only 10 days ae:o the doctors gave him up and'said he must die.'' " Well-a---da y! If that is so I will go this minute and get some for my poor George, I know hops are good." Bead The mimetic art has been in existence from time immemorial, we might almost say; and the ■word, although usually, may not be strictly and literally confined to the dramatic age. To imitate, and especially to imitate what is successful, is a very old habit. Liberalised in its meaning, it not infrequently trenches on stealing. The story of Chatterton, the boy-poet's plagiarisms, evidently began in imitation, until failure to emulate his original led him to pilfer. So those who endeavor, fruitlessly, to mmufacture a cordial like Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, breaking down in the attempt to even simulate the renowned anti-dyspeptic invigorant, are almost invariably tsmpted to pirate the article.