The Southland Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, 27th JULY, 1886.

Southland Times, Issue 9280, 27 July 1886, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Luceo Non Uro. TUESDAY, 27th JULY, 1886.

Hospital. — In-patients remaining from lasl week, 18 males and 2 females ; admitted during the week, 4 males and 1 female ; discharged during the week, 4 males ; died, 1 female (Mrs Catherine Chisholm) ; out-pa-tients treated during the week, 15 males and 8 females. Visiting Trusees for the week, Messrs U. Wilson and Hast. Those Modern Guns.— A fatal accident occurred on board the British corvette Cleopatra outside Port Hamilton (Corea) on June 11. While the crew were engaged in prize firing, one of the guns being loaded, the charge suddenly exploded, killing one marine and blowing off the arm of another. )t is thought that the accident was due to imperfect epoDging. WyuDHAM. — The Mutual Improvement Society's foitnightly meeting took place on Thursday evening, 22nd inst. There was not a large cumber of members preseot but the evening's discusion was very interesting, Mr David McKay affirming the desirableness of disposing of the #ew Zealand railways to private companies, and Mr I. W. Baymond taking the negative side. Messrs R. Miller, K. Doull, J. Allan, 0. Allan, and John Lumsden also took part in the discussion. The chairman (the Bey. R. Wood) having summed up a vote whs taken, wben the affirmative secured a msjoritj' of one. Thb Old Man at his B_3T.— Mr Glad•tune was him3df again, and at his best, on the fatal morning. The magnificent perorati- >n by which he^Lushed into awed silence one of the most turbulent Oppositions that ever jeered and-^JHStwrupted >i great orator stands unf quailed and ut approached by anything th?.t bas.^een heard in the House for many a long year. Of Mr Gladstone it may be emphatically asserted that " none bit himself can be his parallel," and for anything to compare to the splendid burst of 'dignified aud sustained eloquence the echoes of which are ringing through the land we must go back to his famous speech on thd second reading of the Reform Bill of 1866, to which, indeed, it is in socue respects very cuiiouily similar. -—Pail Mall Kudget.

Southland Acclimatisation Society. 1 — At a meeting of. the Council of this Society I on Saturday evening it was decided to increase the Curator's salary to £12 per month for tbe ensuing six months, datiDg from the 16th May last. The committee repoited that as the funds of the Society were rather low, they could not recommend the erection of shed accommodation at the hatching boxes. After transacting some unimportant business the Council ad journed. s^v — .•.«.;..■. Faojal Intoxication.— A telegram to the Argus (Melbourne) from Tataura states that a labburer-named Thos: Maker, aged 26 year's, well-known in the district, met with a ■•'liiifrribisae-^ returning from the Kyabram ploughing match, where he had been drinking rather freely, and he lay down in Murphy's paddock, ■ Kyabram Bast, close to a burning tree,' which S fell upon him, killing him instantly, the body waa discovered this morning by some men who were employed in clearing the Kyabram railway line. The body was fearfully burnt. Obttuabt.— Mr Bernard Berndston, a gentleman well known and highly respected throughout the Western District, died at his residence in South Bivcrton on Saturday, The deceased geneleman had, for a number of years, been engaged in mining operations in the Longwood, and had devoted all his energies and a considerable amount of money to developing the mineral resources of that district, One of his best known undertakings waa what is called the Berndston waterrace, a work which is calculated to be of great public service, and for the extension of which he bad only lately succeeded in obtaining a Government vote. Mr Berndston leaves a family, with whom a large circle of The "Oov-b" 'Qrj_sTio°N m _!^li«:— ay the civil sittings of tbe Supreme Court, Adelaide, the action, Ales. Dowie v. the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company, in which the plaintiff sought, to obtain £1000 with respect co a fire which destroyed his tannery at Bowden in January last, was heard. The plaintiff contended that a new policy waa being arranged for when the fire occurred, and that a clerk in the office of the defendant company verbally agreed to cover the risk for that amount. This statement was denied by the clerk, and it was also held for the defence that the plaintiff could not recover on an fxe :utory contract of such a nature. His Honour gave gay« judgment for the plaintiff for £1000, with £46 interest. Peep O'Day.— This evening Mr Grattan Biggs will produce the sensational drama in four acts, entitled " Peep O' Day, " and will sustain the character of Barney O'Toole. This drama was played by Mr Kiggs and his company at Dunedin during their recent engagement there, and was, we understand, one of the most successful performances given. To-night it will be pieseuttd with specially painted scfnrry and mechanical effects, and as the piece is comparatively new to an Invercargill andieace a large attendance may ba predicted. To-morrow evening " The Oolken Bawn" wi)l be the bill, and Thursday will be the la?t ni^ht of the season. The Mysterious House Disease. — Mr Edward Stanley, the N.S.W. Government veterinarian, has furnished a report upon the recent mysterious outbreak amongst the horses at Coonong statioD. He attributes the disease to the consumption of ensilage in an unwholesome condition. He says that tbe ensilage appeared good, but tbe horses were sluggish and spiritless, and got thin. Some of them had diarrboei. The silo pit being two miles from the station, and three and a half miles from the place where work was going on, it was necessary that a three or four days' supply should be fetched from it twice a week, instead of bfiing fre>h every day, as it ought to be. If kept over three days it became whitenod with a fuagus like mould, rotten and foul. This went on for three weeks, when the horses wera turned into the paddocks for a spell. The firnt case of illness was noticed on July 3, and then several other horses which had been fed eatirely on ensilage for some time previously died. Not Stringent Enough. — We (Pall Mall Gazette) have again to call attention to the emphatic declarations of Mr Justice Hawkins concerning tbe inadequacy of the law — even after it was amended lsat year — for the protection of girls. As Mr Justice Hawkins has himself tried 120 cases within the last »ix months he speaks as an expert wbose authority cannot be gainsaid. It is indeed scandalous that a satyr like Gibney, who was sentenced on Monday to four years' imprisonment for assaulting sixteen girl-children between ckht and fourteen years of age, cannot be sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, Penal servitude for life is the sentence for levying blackmail on a man of wealth, peual servitude and the cat o' nine tails for taking sixpence with violence, but neither penal servitude nor the lash can be meted out to those who spend their leisure in corrupting the children of the poor. For them there is only imprisonment, and in the case of Gibney it only extends to two terms of two years each. He ought to have had two years for each case, or thirty. two years all. Temperance Entertainment.— An enteTtainment under the auspices of the Southern Gross Lodge, No. 1, 1.0.G.T.. was given in the Temperance Hall yesterday evening, a good number being present. The chair was occupied by Mr B. McLiskey, who in opening the meeting sUted that this was the first of a series of winter evening entertainments to be gven by the various societies which meet in tbe Temperance Hall. He said their obj-.ct for holdiDg these meetings was to bring the hall before the public, and also to get the different temperance bodies to woik together with unanimity, The programme was commenced by a pianoforte selection by Mr McKinnon, and eone;s were contributed by Mesdames G-eddes and Loigh, Misses Graham and McSatty, and Mr Bellwortby. A pianofore selection by Mies Geddes, and a violin solo by Mr Jenkinson were each well received, and a recitation by Mr Patterson caused great amusement. The performers, judging from the applause, all gave satisfaction, and encores were the general rule. During the evening the Bey, Mr Guy gave a brief address ou total abstinence, and made some interesting remarks on the advancement of tbe cause in which they were engaged. A vote of thanks to those who had assisted towards the evening's entertainment was accorded, and the meeting was brought to a close by the siuging of " God save the Queen." Going Aloft.— The largest balloon that has ever been constructed is, in all probability, that of Herr Ganswindt, at Berlin, sayß the Builder. The inventor states that by help of this cologsal machine, which is capable of being steered with comparative facility in its ccurae through the air, be is able to attain a apeed of 11 yards to 16 yards per second, or a mile in less than t*vo minutes. The maximum speed attained by the celebrated balloon of. M. M. Krebs and ttenard, in their trials at Meudon, in 183-1, was only about three-quarters of this velocity. Tbe Ganswindt balloon is of ellipsoidal form, or cigar-shaped, being about 160 yards long by 16 yards in diameter. Its capacity is 20,000 cubic yards, or about 10 times the size of the Krebs-Renard balloon. The Uanswiudt machine is said to be capable of carrying a load of nearly three tons and a half, independently of its car and stt>am engines, which together weigh about 21^ tons. Propulsion is effected by means of tnree aerial screws. Two of these, each 11 yards in diameter, are vertical, whilst the other, measuring eight yards in diameter, is horizontal. Herr Ganswindt, who has been making preparations for an exhaustive tiial or. his balloon, affirms that he will be able to travel in any direction he pleasea, even in the midst of the most violent storm?. It will be interesting to know what cornea of this ambitious attempt^ Appropriating Niagara.— " Fifty yt a™ ago it was calculated," remarks the St James's Budget, " that tbere was enough effective energy ,in the Falls of Niagara to move All tne machiiv ry of the civilised world Fiom measurements lately made by the' United States Like Survey this rather geu* erai proposition can now be mote exactly stated. The average fall of the Niagara River is 275,000 cubic feet per Becond, and i*s to'al calculated force equal to seven milhou horse power. According to the laat United States census, the whole amount of power employed in manufacturing throughout the Union is about three millions and a half horse i-ower, of which, roughly speaking, one-third ia supplied by water and the remaining two-thirds by steam. It appears, therefore, that the water - power of th 9

Niagara 1b enough to drive all the] machinery in the United States twice ' told. The electricity for some 3000 telephones in certain cities and towns in the west of New York State is now supplied from a mill erected near the Falls. Local enterprise has been otherwise bnsy ; and driring the last two or three years many factories have been built on the high banks of the river, the machinery of which is driven rby its currents- Ttebin-js and water wheels o£ the most approved design are in dsily operation, and some novel kinds of millraces have been constructed. It is, however, only within the last few weeks that a solution of the great problem, how to make use of Niagara, has been fonnd in a new and comparatirely simple expedient, Lockport is a thriving city come 20 mi'es east of the Falls; and its authorities have hit upon tbe idea of diverting a portioa of the Niagara, equal to 50,000 horse-power, to their own city. This :isto be done by means of a canal. Thus, instead of vainly attempting to harness any of the seven million white horses of Niagara on the spot, the inhabitants of Lock port prefer to lead 60,000 home, and stable them in their own city for use." Gold ! Gold I Shining Gold 1 ! ! - Now that there is a Steamer starting direct from the Bluff to Kimberky, we should strongly recommend Diggers who intend to go tojiorin themselves into thoroughly organised parties, and to purchase all their supplies here, as it is a well known fact that our three main staples are Horses, Oats, and WAGGONS, and they cannot be purchased in any part of the Australian Colonies so cheaply as here. The first properly organised party procured a waggon from the AMERICAN CARRIAGE FACTORS", which establishment should be visited by all those who intend going to the diggings.. The Kimberley waggon is specially constructed sojihat it can be taken to pieces and freight alohe"bf l __(f> T 'i_|e^i n^ (^a saving in and is a comfortable dwelling where the enterprising digger can sleep soundly without fear of mosquitoes, alligators, snakes, or other reptiles. jyl9