The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. WEDNESDAY, 30th SEPTEMBER, 1885.

Southland Times, Issue 9026, 30 September 1885, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. WEDNESDAY, 30th SEPTEMBER, 1885.

Pay Day. — Members of the Southland Building Society are reminded that to-day is pay day. Melbourne Steamer.— The sailing of the Hingarooma from the Bluff has been postponed from Friday to Saturday. Fibe at Mykoss Bush, — By a fire at Myross Bush on Monday, a cottage occupied by 0. Day, dairyman, was with all ita contents destroyed. No particulars are at hand, Accepted. — The tender of Messrs Jones and Co., of the Bluff, has been accepted for the erection of an addition to the Culonial Bank in town, and the work will be commenced at once. Hope Deferred. — The Secretary of the Invercargill Garrison Band telegraphed from Wellington to Captain Heywood yesterday as follows :— " Wanganui band play oa Saturday week. Judge's decision will not be known until close of the Exhibition." Mine Host. — G. Bench announces elsewhere that he has taken the Royal Mail Hotel, Lumsden, and has put the premises in thorough repair, as well as the stablea. An extensive covered yard for holding sales has also been erected, makiDg the Royal Mail one of the best country hotels in the district, Returning.— Dr Hanan's friends will be glad to learn that that gentleman will soon take up his residence again in Invercargill, He is now on his way out by the b.s. Aorangi. Dr Hanan was for some months on the staff of the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, one of tho hospitals at which he has been studying during his stay in England. A Novkl Scheme. — lhe proprietor of London Tit Bits has started a new system of life insurance. He promises to pay £100 to the next of kin of any person who is killed in a railway accident, provided that a copy of the current issue of Tit Bits is found upon the deceased at the time of the accident. The first payment was made at the end of July to the widow of a man named Long. Not Quits What He Mbant.—A promi* nent M.F. was not complimented the other night when he was addressing his constituents. He asserted that he was not an idle member of the House, and that during the last two years he had put " no less tnan 182 questions to the Speaker and members." «' What A hignorant old beggar you must be I" cried a voice from the crowd, COLD COMfoßT.— Men very frequently find excuse for their misdeeds by comparing them with those of greatel 1 sinners than them, selves. On the same principle (if it be one) we may extract a little comfort from the fact that our local bankrupts have a little more conscience than those of our immediate neighbours, in that they stop before they have reached their "bottom dollar," and leave a little for their creditors. In Inve> cargill the average dividend in last year's bankruptcies was 2s lOd in the £, as against Is 9d in Oamaru, and Is 6d in Dunedin, South Ikvbhoargill, — The monthly meeting of the Borough Council on Monday evening was attended by the Mayor and Councillors Cratvley, McQuwie, McMaboo, Pollard, Duncan, Brown, and Rogers. The tender of Eunson and Co., £37 7s 6d, for work on the tramway road, was accepted, as was also that of R. Kyan and Co,, £7 3s sd, for works in John street, Georgetown, Tenders were ordered to be called for deepening a ditch in Kew road, and the Works Com mittee were empowered to deal with the matter of clearing a roadway from the formation on Saturn street (o the north end of Mr lee's property. The sum of £15 was voted to Mr J. Maher for deepening Kingswell's creek. Jt was resolved to hold fortnightly meetings in future, and after forming the standing committees n.nd passing some accounts, the Council adjourned. BUBGLABY. — Sometime on Sunday night the shop of Mrs Cooper, in Tay street, near the corner of Deveron street, was broken into by some person or persons at present unknown. Several articles were stolen, including Mrs Cooper's children's money-box, cor • taining about- five shillings, but the lo.'S sustained by the proprietress through dama;. c to the stock— which was considerably rummaged — is greater than the value* of what was actually abstracted. The felony woud appear to have been the work of malevolent mischief- makers rather than of professional thieves, and we trust that the offenders will be discoveed and smartly punished ; the more so that Mrs Uooper depends oa her small business ifor the support of her family, and should have been the last to BuSer from such a dastardly act. Southland Honours,— The Southland, Agricultural and Pastoral Society have secured the first prizes at the Wellington. Exhibition for oats, barley, and wheit. All the prizes in the oats class came to Soucfr land, the N.Z.L. and M. Agency Company being awarded necond prize, and Messrs Jferswell, White, and 00 , third, Again, Mr v. Strang, of Invercargill, has gained high honours for his coffees and spices, having, with four exhibits, secured three first prizes and a highly-commended certificate. — And so much-abused Southland, with her horrible climate, gravelly and sour soil, bair-raißing bursters, and Greenqckian meteorological conditions, leads the van in the staple cereals of the colony, and can boast of a manufacturer of coffees and spices who cannot be heat where the genuine article is in ques'tioal

Good Gold. — There is now on view in the shop window of Mr Stean, tobacconist, a good gold watch, to be given as a prize to the scorer of the " five highest breaks " at; billiards in Mr H. F. Wilson's saloon, between this time and 9. h October- - iNVEKOABGIIiL PCHOOt COMMITTEE — The monthly meeting was ' attended by Messrs Trew (chairman), Anderron, McFarlane, k Rodgera, McLeod. The^attendsnsea at the schools for tte paßt month were reportel to have been as follows ; — South School, average attendance, 450 ; ! Central School, on the roll, 750, average attendance, 640; North School, on the roll, 218, average aiteudance,_ *152.— Miss Cumming's resignation as pupil ■'teacher at the £outh School was accepted, and it was resolved to recommend the Education Board to appoint Miss Wilkin to the vacancy. — Applications for repairs at the South and North Schools were referred to the Vißiting Committee. —The Chairman stated that the bead master of tbe Central School bad informed him that during the dinner hour a couple of teachers were always in attendance on the playgronnd amongst the children —Accounts amounting to L2B 19s Us were passed for payment. — The secretary was instructed to request the bead teachers of the schools to meet an -I confer with a sub-committee with the view=.of arranging for an entertainment to raise funds to cover the deficiency for the current year. The Scheme Failed. — A curiouß circumstance is told by the Napier Telegraph in connection with prison management : — " a petition was sent from Napier praying that the prisoner Rtn-ile might be released, on the ground of the, punishment he had already received, he having only some eight months more to serve, aud of his wife's illness. Shortly after this petition reached the Minister for Justice a letter was also received stating that Mrs Bendle was in a dying condition. The Minister, who would not recommend his .Excellency to exercise bis prerogative on the mere petition, was, apparently, moved to do so by the letter. At all events Bendle was called away from his work, had his clothes changed for his own, and was taken to the steamer leaving for Napier. For some reason the steamer was detained, and, before she left the wharf, Bendle was ta^en from on board and sent back to gaol. The inference is that during the detention of the steamer it had been discovered that the statements contained in the letter respecting Mrs Rendle's health were not borne out by facts." Warm QUABTEBS.—The men who are working on White islaDd (Bay of Plenty), says the Opotiki Herald, on the s.s. Douglas arriving at the landing there, put off in their boat and refused to return again. It seems that during the past week the volcanic action was something terrific, and the men considered their lives in imminent danger, so much so that they had got their boat out and would have put to sea but that it was blowing a gale from the sou-west and such a aea running that they were afraid to venture, ao they took shelter where "best they could, and waited in fear and trembling to learn their fate In the basin near the foot of a cliff over 800 feet high a new opening has been made by volcanic action, and the jets of steam rising from it are of such power that ! stones over 1 cwt are thrown right over the cliff. Sometimes as these projectiles rise to a height of 1000 feet they burst like a shower of small boulders. In many cases, when the stones were of good size and came down unbroken, they buried themselves deep in the Burlace, and so continuous had this become that the men were unable, with anything likesifety, to goon with their work. — The island is covered with deposits of sulphur of considerable value. When to Train. — The age at which running can be practised with impunity by a healthy man '.n training is fiom twenty to thirty. Boys of ten and twelve— and girls also- can run, and run with little breathlessness even, and no apparent fatigue. When the age of puberty is attained, and the limbs are rapidly growing, the lever action of iha muscles and bones is continually being altered and the centre of gravity varying almost from day to day, At this stage training for running races is not only likely to be unsuccessful, but positively injurious to the growth of the body, and to tbe health of the body in general. In boys' races, for those under fourteen years, no previous training should be inflicted. No one should trtin for running until he is at least eighteen ; but twenty would be the safer age. But twenty and twenty -seven is the best age for attaining speed in running, Training for running can at this age be undergone with comparative safety ; the heart and vessels have not yet begun to show signs of wear and tear, and the elasticity of the bloodvessels can be relied upon to accommodate themselves to the increased circulation through them. Fat has not at that age begun to accumulate within the abdomeu and thorax, so that the breathing haa free play. Between thirty and forty a wise' man will think twice before undergoing training for raie running. Idecanrun with imputiity at a moderate pace, and for practice, but not in races. Older men should run on no pretence whatever. An old man running to c >teh his train, and falling down in a fit of apoplexy, is an everyday tale, and from what baß been stated previously thia ia readily understood, — Book of Health. Old Besdigo Unexhausted.-*! correspondent of the Launceston Examiner writes :-»" Aa the subject of deep sinking in Tasmania is now attracting general attention from those who desire to develop our deepseated tin and gold deposits, the splendid success of the Victoria Quart2«inining 00., at Sandhurst, which bare got from quarts broken at their 1867 ft. level a yield nf" over 370z. of retorted gold per ton, deserves special notice. That yield disposes of all the oroakinga that gold will not continue to great depths, especially as the Victory and Pandora Companies, on ai o her distinct line of reef there, are working a • saddle ' reef with gocd profit at about the 6ame depth from the surface. The former company's success, however, presents tv o aspects, viz,, the continuity of ' shoots ' of grold to interminal deptha, and the humoious side of it, as will be remembered by all old Bendigonians in the fifties of tbis Ia the first place, this 'shoot' of golJ was found by a German from California, who represents Victorian quartz mmms 1 as the founder, His name is well-known, and Ballerstedt and Son were household wor^a amongst the miners of that period. After obtain' ing about £102,000 worth of gold, threefourths of which was profit, the party sold their claim— so miners' licenses of Bft. square each— to Mr Geo. Lansell, for £3b, ( 03 cash, who obtained a lease from the Government, row well-known as the No. 180. Mr Lanaell has ever 6ince worked <he lease, and the main shaft is now 2041 ft. deep. His profits are rot known : only of late the Mining Department directed the yields to be published, and they average about 2>z. per ton of the reef standing between the 1550 ft. and 187Oit. levels. The adjoining Victoria Quarz-miuing Company succeeded in driving from Lansell's 1857ffc. level in again picking up the rich ' run' of stone worked by Meters Ballerstedt, and subsequently by Mr Lanaell. Not to be Thought of— Mr C. H, T< phaaa, who is writing a series of articles in the Sydney Town and Country Journal, descriptive of a tour through New Zealand, make 3 some remarks about our railwa; s which are worth consideration. He says, when speaking of a run from Lumsden (q Kingston: — "I should ju9t like to remaik here, that after my experience of Ne>v Z aland railways so far, I have come to th conclusion that "their rate of travelling is the slowest, their carriage^ the worst nppoiared, and their farea the mest exorbitant of a"y railway in a^y part of the world that I ha- c visited j and they do pot pay—no wonde' , Leb tbe fares^and tariff be at least one-half, let their speed be increased 50 per cent., and let the present first class carriages be turned into second cla«s, and dectnt carriages put on the line, and I think we shall not then hear so much of railways in New Zealand not paying." These remarks express the sentiments of our tourist and other visitor*, as well as the travelling public of the Lakes, and we venture to assert, from repeated observation, that the present Bpeed on our lines could, without risk, be increasd from, say, 14 miles to 18 miles —and thus do away with the dawdling on the road so common now, in order that the train shall not get to or leave a station before the advertised time. If such a plan were adopted, it would obviate the present disagreeable arrangement which necessitates half : a Say and a night's stay at Kingston for down passengers and the arrival of up passengers at 11 o'clock at night, As tp reduction, of

the passenger fares, that is a~ question on ' which we cannot speak with confidence; and, with regard to a better class of carriages, Government may advance, as an excuse, the necessity of economy..; NevertheleeV, as to speed, the trains can certainly rim, without risk, considerably more than half the^speed of the s'owest trains in the-:-Home country. —Wakatipu Mail. " '*~-^J f