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Southland Times, Issue 8082, 10 August 1885, Page 2

Delated Steambb.— The b.s. Te Anau left Hobart on Friday at 3 p.m., one day late, and if she does not arrive at BlufE in good time this afternoon, will be detained iiii to-morrow. '' Lecttjbe.— Mr Daniel's lecture on the chemistry of alcohol is to be delivered tonight in Hanan's Hall. Of late years the subject is of such engrossing interest that it will no doubt attract a large audience. The 'Frisco Service. — Tenders are invited in our colums this morning for the San Francisco mail service, full particulars being given. The first boat under the new contract is to leave the American port on or about the 18th November, and tenders are to be in by the 17th of Sept, Hospital Returns — Inpatients remaining from last week, 20 males, 3 females » admitted during the week, 6 males ; discharged during the week, 7 males; out-patients treated during the week, 19 males, 21 females. Visiting committee for the week — Messrs Blacke and Hamilton. The|lllußTßlotjs Dead. — Saturday being the day fixed for the funeral of the lade General U.S. Grant, ex-President of the United States, the American flag was hoisted half-mast high ou Measrs Trew and Hall's building and over Mr W. H. Mathieson's coach factory. Bright as Day. — On Saturday evening Mr J. Stewart had a large-sized Bower light outside his shop in Tay stieet, and by its means the street for a considerable distance round was brilliantly illuminated. The light was equal to what would be given by about half a dozen street lamps placed together, while no more gas was consumed than would be consumed by two. Horticultural Society. — The committee of this Society met on Friday evening, the President, Mr J. T. Martin, in the chair. The printing of the prize list for the midsummer show was postponed for a few weeks, it being intimated, however, that no alterations of a material nature would be made. At the nest exhibition, to be held on the 31st December and Ist January nest, prizes will be given for honey, extracted aud in the oomb, and for improved hives. A Timely HiNT.—The Wellington Post says:— ''Very great difficulty is already being experienced by visitors and persons intending to arrive in Wellington, in obtaining suitable accommodation. We have fre* quenriy drawn attention to this matter, aod even now, belore the Exhibition is opened, ihe difficulty is making itself seriously apparent. If the Exhibition proveß a failure in point ot attendance, the fact will be largely due to the litliculty of obtaining suitable lodgings." The THEATRE.—The attendance of the publio at the second production of " Impulse " by the Wybert Beeve Company on Saturday evening was no doubt gratifying to the management, The comedy went with great smoothness and finish, and the audience were hearty aud lavish with their applause, To-night the well-known drama* tized version of Wilkie Collins" 1 " Woman in White '' will be submitted for public ap* proval, and as Mr Beeves pourtrayal of Uount&Fosco is said to be hia masterpiece a fall house may be anticipated, Unconsidehed j Tbii?les.— A medical man has/ralied the attention of the Evening Herald to the danger of allowing empty pre* served jam or fish tins to be played with by children. He has had several cases of blood-poisoning, the result of scratches from these missiles. Only the other day, a little child scratched his finger with the ragged rim of an empty jam tin, Within a few hours blood-poisoning set in, and in about three days the child's arm was swollen abont five times its ordinary size, and the swelling quickly spread to the body. Since then the child has died with most virulent symptoms of blood-poisoning. Why The "Times" Was Mad.— Mr Pyke appears to have been in good form when Bpeaking on the Hast and West Coast railway. He created plenty of laughter when he said that the colony should follow the advice given oy a weli-knowo character in Dickens's " Barnaby Budge " ; " Dolly, my dear, don't have a Migga in the family '*'; and he referred to Meiggs as the mau who •' went under in California as Meigge and cams up in Tasmania m Clark," aud bad lanced that colony iv a quandary in regard t'j her railways frorafwhich she did not know haw to extricate heweif . He also referred to tbe Lyttelton Times bb a malignantly mal* content paper, which slandered every person who aid not support this propos&li Lacrosse.— The match New Zealand v. the World was concluded on Saturday last, and resulted in a decided victory for the colony ; they Bcoring some six points to the World's nil. For the victors Twemlow and iiitford defended well i while D'Aicy and Hannah did good service iv the home field, the latter obtaining mo^t of the goals, Towards the close of the game the World made some very determined attempts to score i Ham, Strack ( Kiogslan^ and Niven being conspicuous by their repeated efforts to re* trieve thn fortunes of their aide. As the evenings are lengthening players will be able to practice duriug the Week, and a decided improvement in their play should be the consequence. the Degradation otf French Abt.— French artists, says Blackwood's Magaaine, being thuo supreme, the anomaly is all the more Btartling ( that works are persistently produced which shock the propriety and the moral sense of Europe, The explanation would appear to be that the nation, through continued political debauch, has become demoralised. The products, it must be admitted, are beyond compare for technical qualities j the drawing, composition and handling can hardly be surpassed for mastery ; but when we seek for attributes which reveal the mind of the artist and the Bpirit of the age, we discover, as indeed might be anticipated, the symptoms of a great people gone astray. The pure art of Italy was a serene heaven ; the brilliant art of Paris is a hell. One Exception.— The Eev. Dr Bitchie of Edinburgh, though a very clever man, once met his match. When examining a student as to the classes he attended, he said : " I understand you attend the claeaes for mathematics ! ,; "Yes." " How many sides has a circle 1 " " Two," said the student. •< Indeed ! What are they 1 " What a laugh in the court the student's answer produced when he promptly said : '• An inside and an outside." The doctor next mquijel: "And you attend the moral philosophy class, also ? " " Yes." " Well, you doubtless heard lectures on various subjects. Did you ever hear one on • cause and effect ? ' " •' Yes." " Does an effect ever go before a cause 1 " " Yes." " Give me an instance.' 1 ' A barrow wheeled by a man." The doctor hastily sat down and propo3ei no more questions. A Philosophic Maori.— *> esse believed without a parallel in thiscol ony has just been decided on tbe Thames goldfleld. flome: months ago a young and buxom Maori' damsel, one of the wives of ru educated Maori obief named Taipara, who occupies a beautifully famished house tf twenty rooms i in the suburb of Parawai, was discovered to ! have had illicit relations with two youDg aboriginals. The guilty trio were brought before a properly constituted Maori committee, and each of them was fined L3O. The unfaithful spouse and one ofthe men pad their fine in cash, and the other culprit gave tbe committee a promroissory note for tbe amount. When tbe bill became due the money was not forthcoming^ and the chairman of tbe committee therefore sued the man for tbe amount. The case was heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Thanes, before Mr H. Kenrick, 8.M., and two native Assessors, and judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costs, It is un ieratood that the whole $1 tbe fine* go to the injured, hug*

Gas Day.— Consumers -are reminded that to-day is the'lastdiseounfc day of the month.

About the Truth o*; It. — Sir Julius Yogel haa got another bonus craze. This time he wishes the country to pay bonuses to those who will tin and export to Europe a given quantity of New Zealand fish in a" v given time, lt is a wonder it did not strike him that Europe is better supplied with fish than we are, both in respect to numbers and quality. It is also strange that he should have forgotten tbat England and ! America have been exporting tinned fish to these islands for years, and that nothing we have been able to proluce could drive the foreign article from the market. When 4here appears to be some chance of New Zealand fish of good quality being caught ! in sufficient numbers to justify canning them I and sending them to England, there will j also be a chance for consumers here obtainj ing an occasional _i_ at less than three ■ times the price a fish of similar quality could be purchased for in Europe. When that time comes there will be no need to ofier bonuses to fish canners— Hawkes Bay Herald. He Might Be Mistaken.— The Press's special, who is doing the Uxhibition, writes : — " Considerable amusement to outsiders and chagrin to the Welliogionians has been caused by the determination of Sir Julius Vdzel to take the management out of the hands of the working committee altogether. It is true that if they were responsible for the Jiasco at the opening they do not know how to run an Exhibition at all, but at any rate some amount of courtesy should be shown to them, Now Sir Julius has determined, as be says, to run tbe Kxhibhvon on business principles. In order to do this he has selected three members of the House to be associated with the chairmen of the local sub-committee* an the permanent Managing Committee. On what principle he has made the seiection I am unable to say, but.certainly, so far as can be learnt, the most unlikely persons have been appointed. The members of the House who are to form part of this committee are Messrs D. Reese (Canterbury^, Hatch (Otago), and Peacock (Auckland). The member for Stanmore was, as your readers know, a member of the committee of our Industrial Exhibition, which was not by any means a financial success As to the chairmen of 6ub committees, they have never evinced the slightest interest —in many cases not attending a single meeting, so tbat it is hardly to be wondered at that those who have borne tbe hett -nl burden ofthe day are annoyed to find themselves entirely put on one side." The Lyttelton Times at Bay.— lt " seems that two members of che House have been giving it to our contemporary for " expressing its excited eloquence so energetically." But it is a match for both. It turns round, and with a Til quoque, or, as we say in the vernacular, " lour another," gives first Mr Pyke and then Mr Wakefield a taste of its antlers- The former had accused the Lyttelton Times of using "malevolent ribaldry in a style unworthy of the lowest society j journal." Our contemporary evidently does not Hke this, and holds that the member for Dunßtan *' must be made to feel." Here is how it says " Your another " to the rash Mr Pyke. " The member for Duustan infotmed the House that in his opinion this journal was not a respectable newspaper. We do not imagine that Mr Pyke's estimate of character carries much weight anywhere— 1 even in Wellington. We have watched Mr Pyke's political career closely, In all honesty do we pray that ere this newspaper sinks to the level of what he may consider public 'respectability ' the Lyttelton Times may be blotted out of existence." That, we say, is how the noble stag, at bay, despatches dog tbe first ; and dog the second is tossed in precisely the same manner. "Our constit* uency— the people of Canterbury— they and our other New Zealand friends may judge between Mr Wakefield and ourselves. Wheu the day comes oa which theae prefer his word to ours, or put our reputation on a level with his, we may consider the propriety of putting up our shutters and selling our printing presses," The publio will have to judge between the Lyttelton Times and its two assailants, but we may remark that (to adapt its own words) " we do not imagine that its' estimate of character carries much weight anywhere— even in Christchurch." Foiled.— The Dunedin Star's Wellington correspondent, writing of the Bast aud West Coast railway debate, cays s— The termination of the debate, and .the division, were great surprises to most hon. members, who bad expected that every Canterbury, Nelson, and Westiand member would speak over the heads of the House to his constituents. It was therefore generally believed that the division would not take place till tha ♦• wee sma' hotirs ayont the twal." So confident were they of a prolonged debate that many of them, thoroughly sick and weary of this Canterbury job, were preparing for aa afternoon at the Exhibition, But a little bird whispered to Mr Mitchelson that the supfiorlers of the motion, though almost hopeess, had determined as a dernier reasort, to endeavour to convert an apparent defeat into a victory bj- a snatch majority, So he personally took steps to prevent such a terrible disaster. Though very ill) he posted him* self at the don: of the lobby i the whips' Card in his hand, and induced a large 'number of the amusement*seekiDg throng to pair before leaving the building. The Canteihury intriguers had put up tbe moot dreary speakers they could muster to ensure a thin House J and when the Speaker put the question there was indeed a thin House, The division bell was rang, and the opponents of the motion came in so slowly that the editor of a Christchurch daily who was at my shoulder muttered " We've got them." But just theu a dozen or so of Auckland and Oia^o members trooped in i the aoors were closed i and a few minutes served to show that Bir J. Vogel's motion had received a orushing def ear, The opposition were very confident, but they allowed their victory to pass without a cheer. Twenty seven voted for the motioh, and thirtyionr against it, While twenty -six paired. This was one of the longest pair lists I hive ev-rseen, and is a silent memorial to the excellence of Mr Mitchelson s work in the afternoon, 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. Undoubtedly the cheapest sale of the season Goods going at great sacrifices. Cheaper than ever we have seen before. McLeod Bros.' stock must be sold out regardless of cost. Removing to new- premises in fourteen days. Men's and Boys' Clothing at half-price. Shirts, Drawers, Hats, Caps, half-cost) Mantles, Ulsters, Millin« cry, and Underclothing at your own prices j Dress Goods and Remnants, any price. — McLeod Bros. au4 Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Lrver Oil with Hypophosphites is far superior to plain Cod Liver Oil, and, as the following shows, is easily digested:— "l have prescribed 'Scott's Emulsion,' and taken it myself. It is palatable, efficient, and can be tolerated by almost any one, especially where cod liver oil itself cannot be borne.- Maetin Miles, M.D., <fee., Stantonbury, Bucks, England." Any chemist can snpp y it. Trie public and the medical profession of Australia are unanimously of opinion that Wolfe's Schnapps is the purest and best stimulant tonic, and diuretic at present before the world.