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Southland Times, Issue 8064, 20 July 1885, Page 2

Suicide — Harry Shepherd, employed in cutting timber at Lake Wanaka, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the throat with a gun.

The Mararoa Railway. — The successful tenderer for the Murray Creek contract of the Lumsden-Marsroa railway is Mr J, Concher, bis price being £2496.

More Like it.— The dividend declared by the Un-on Hank of Australia is 16 per cent., the telegram published on Friday being a mistake. The sum of £36,000 is added to the reserve fund.

At Last — Thomas Lawson, alias Roberts, the individual after whom the police have had ?o long a chase, was brought to Invercargill by Saturday's express, and will appear at the Police Court this morning charged with larceny of a watch.

Hospital Retubns — Inpatients remaining from last week, 19 males, i females . admitted during the week, 5 males, 2 females ; discharged during the week, 3 males, 1 female; died, 1 (Thos, hurley) ; out-patients treated during the week, 12 males, 27 females.

Football. — Two matches were played on Saturday afternoon, one between a mixed Invercargill fifteen and the High schools boys (past and present), and the other between the Pirates and the Wyndham F.O. The former resulted in a draw in favour of Invercargill.an'i the latter in a victoryfor tha Pir 'tes by a goal aad two tries to nil.

Too Sanguine. — The friends of Mrs J<.cob:on, who died from exposure in the bush near Norsewood, Hawkes Bay, were mistaken in their belief that the body showed signs of returning animation. The excitement at Norsewood was intense on Friday night. Hundreds of people were waiting the arrival of the coach with Dr Weibach, A careful examination and tests showed tbat the body of Mrs Jacobson was lifeless. The cause of doubt was the tlorid complexion cf the face, and the flesh in some parts being semi-elastic when pressed.

Sweeping Legislation.— The new Victoiiaa Licensing Bill contains some very drastic provisions, and under it it is expected the number of licenses in the colony will be reduced from 4200 to 2COO. Inspectors are to be appointed to each district. The license is to be forfeited if a house be purchased by either a brewer or a spirit merchant. Present barmaids are to remain in their positions, but no more are to be 1 allowed. All fees and fines are to be put into a gen ; ral fund, out of which compensation will be paid for compulsory closing of houses. Sunday trading is prohibited.

THE I'IOBAMA, — Thompson's Diorama of the Zulu War was well patronised on Saturday, there being a large audience at each of the two performances. For this evening an entire change of programme is announced, the subjects of the scenes being the leading incidents in the late Egyptian War, In describing this exhibition the Melbourne Argus ga yg; — •' Viewing the panorama as a whole we can cDnfidemly nssert that its workmanship is equal to anything of the kind that could be produced by the scenic artists of London or Paris, and it is a pity that come of the pictures of which it is composed should ouly have been painted with perishable material to serve a mere temporary pur« poie." Passing SiRAKRB.--Fire 1 Fire 1 Fire 1 The bells keep on ringing and the people running ; the fire brigade get no rest for the clangour of the bells. And yet we can't help noticing one peculiarity. Toese fires keep occurring in warehouses and shops where no fire is ever allowed or wanted ; where gas even is scarcely ever used. No careless servants, no fires left unattended ; in many places not even a fire place, and yet we have fire after fire. Verily, this is passing strange. Places like private houses, with their ashboxes, their unguarded grates, their very often careless servants, their children, their boxes of. wa* m itches for mice to gnaw at, don't burn worth a cent., while heavily insured warehouse?, with none of these aids to combustioD, "go" one after the other, and blaze most gloiiously when they do start, Here is a subject for the calculation of insurance actuaries. Find out the why and how of these blazes, and verily you'll sa/e a fortune in a year. Verily it is passing straugj ; yea, it passeth undemanding— almou, bat not quite.— Auckland Spectator,

Hob Nobbing with an loebbbo — The Inman steamer, City of Berlin, while on a voyage from England to New York, came into col'ision wi,h an iceberg, but escaped destruction through the good seamanship of her officers and crew. The steamer was proceeding at half speed at the time, because the fog w*B so dense that it prevented the officer on duty from Beeing the bow from the bridge. The look-out Was doubled, aad she steamed at a still slower rate after a sudden fall in the temperature was noticed. At thrae o'clock in the morning the collision took place, after warning had been given by the look-ou 1 ", but before there was time to reverss the engines. The bowsprit was splin« tered, and the pressure upon its stump ripped up the deck: for a space of ten feet. The upper iron plates were torn open almost up to the collision bulkhead. Over 100 tons of ice fell upon the deck, and a large quantity broke through into the hold, where it re mained until the arrival of the vessel at New York. All was sound, however, below the water«linr, and the voyage was resumed within an hour. The pa?sengers passed resolutions commending the conduct of the officers, and on Unding presented the captain wiih a costly watch. — The Incident.

Free To SPEAK.— In returning thankß for the presentation made to him at Ctnhtchurch, Mr A. D, Smith, latfl Locomotive Superintendent, Middle Island railways, Ba id ; — << a8 he wa9 now in a position to speak publicly, he could assure them that bis object had always been to mete out impartial iustice to all. He had had difficulties to overcome, and ho ft It pleasure in the knowledge that he left the Department in a state of efficiency which it would be difficult to surpass anywhere. Before he bid farowell tn his dd friends, he wished to remind them that to be successful in 1-fe, a man must Ho not only his duty, but more than h s duty, and that advancement was ture to reward zsnl and activity in the long run. He thought that the criticism of the Civ;l Service, aud particularly of the Department to which be belonged, in the Press, had often been uniust, as the Department was in a thoroughly efficient state. He thanked the officers wbo bad stood by him 6O long, and so faithfu ly, aad assured them that be would hear with great satisfaction of their future success in !»£•»."

Meeting of Cbeditobs.— The creditors in the esta:e of John Melvin, sawmiller, met in the Invercargill Courthouse on Friday, the Deputy- Af-signee presiding. The debtor's statement showed that £SSO 17s 3d was due to secured creditor?, and that his unsecured liabilities amounted to £410 13* Bd. Toe secured creditors were;— C. Rout (secured by mortgage over a section at Hawthorndale), £90 17a 3d ; J. B. Ford (secured by mort^ gage over house and section in Eye street, aud five acrea of land at Myross Bush), £470. To meet the vnsecured liab.lities there were assets, consisting of household furniture ani a borss and cart, of the value of £50, the deficiency thus being £360 133 sd. The following were the principal unsecured creditors: — Hcdgkin oa Bros., bookmakers, £57 j John Erskiue, grocer, £35 ; A, Mair and Co., drapers, £34 15s 3d ; J. King"laid and Co , meichants, £26 16s Id ; J. lsbister, contractor, £27 ; Fleming and Gilkison, millers, £22 Us 7d; Mitchell, McNeil and Co, grocers, £20 3s Id; Thomas Giller, £14 0a 7d j McCallum and Co , sawmiilers, £14 18* 6d ; J Donne'ly, baker, £14 ; J. McKeczie, £13 15s 6d ; Tramway Company, £12 XOs ; John Murdoch, sawmiller, £10 19 ; J. W. Mitchell, tjrocer, £10 8s 7d, aad W. Lewis and Co., draperp, £10 12s. In answer lo a question the debtor stated that he had sold an engine about a month ago, and devoted the proceeds, £44, to the payment of housekeeping f xpensea. It was resolved to leave the estate in the handa of the Depu'y-Asaigaee, to. be u&lt with. »? he thought fit,

Give It To Them,— The Lake County Presß.says : — On Saturday evening, 4th inst., a ruffianly scene was witnessed in the Princess Theatre, Dunedirj, and we have papers like the Daily Times and Witness giving accounts of the affair as though the editor were an advocate for the Prize Ring and its accompanying brutality, Two men on the above date faced each other in a "glove fight" — sad gloves, we expect, being mere thin skins drawn on the hands so as to evadßthe law, which makes it illegal to fight with the hands bare. The account given in the Witness is sickening in its coarseness and revolting ia its details — apparently given with the greatest delight. Whoever the reporter was, he is a disgrace to his profession, and only fitted for the society of bullies and blackguards. No respectable journalist would ever discbarge such a degraded office as thafc of a reporter of a prize fight — even though a blackguard Marquis's name be lugged in to give the disgusting affair an attempted air of respectability. We feel astonished that the Dunedin paper*) did not each and all cry out at once against the fight, which degraded their beautiful city and will become a curse to the young men of the place. Surely Parliament will be asked to prevent even glove rights. We raise our voice agaiast it, and we earnestly invite every newspaper in the colony to speak out plainly on the matter for the good of New Zealand. Obscure country papers are little noticed, but if some of our influential contemporaries and all the country journals will demand that a liw be brought in to preve it glove-fights, or any other kind of fights, between men or boys, we may have an Act placed on the Statute Book whict | villsave us from the reproach of being con nteJ nothing superior to the semisavages of the dark ages.

St. Paul's Y:ung Men's Litebary Society.— At the last fortnightly meeting of this society, the Bey. D. Gordon presiding, an interesting paper, advocating Protection, was read by Mr W. R. Mathiesjn. A discussion afterwards took place, and a vote of thanks was accorded Mr Mathieaon for his paper. It'was announced thut at next meeting Mr Spence would read a paper on Evolution.

Popular Science.— Tha third of Mr Paniel'd course of popular lectures will be delivered to night in Hanan's Hall. The subjeot to be treated is "Carboa," ODe of the moßt important of the element , and with it w ill be considered the theory of combustion. The lecture will no doubt attract a large audience, as our people are well slive to the vast benefits conferred upon the world by the dissemiuation of a koowudge of ihe science of chemistry.

After groping in the dark for centuries in quest of a thoroughly pure stimulant and tonic the Facu'ty found it some thirty years ago in tEe now celebrated Wolfe's Schnapps.

Annual Clearing Sale at the Exhibition begins on Saturday, the llth July. As a great number of useful lines have been reduced with no sparing hand, an opportunity is offered of buying goods for less money than they cost in London — Thomson and Beattie.

'■ ' Many people imagine that a business must lose much of its profits by " advertising expenditure." My idea is when you have an article you can recommend *and deliver at less than your competitor, you should take all means to make it widely known ; then the extra business done will compensate for loss of extra profit. I therefore challenge my American Farm Waggons, Buggies, Dog Carts, «fee, &c, against anything produced in the colony for quality and cheapness combined. American Carriage Factory, Prince of Wales Yards.— Advt. je27

Coughs, colds, bronchitis, dec, 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