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Southland Times, Issue 10202, 8 July 1889, Page 2

Cablegrams. — There is nothing of prime importance in the messages published this morning. Mr Deasy has not been able to substantiate his charge against the Postoffice of New South Wales of having opened his letters. The jurors at Paris have a good word for Australian wines. Sir Hercules Robinson will stand in the Home Rule interest for Dover. The sentence on Conybeare, M.P., has been" confirmed. Another defeat for the Native team. There is trouble at Hankow where the Celestials have risen against the outer barbarians. An Opportunity to Explain. — H. E. Stirling, who it is alleged has been victimising numerous persons here and elsewhere by offering to provide remunerative work, was arrested on Friday nighfc aboard the Mararoa at Lyttelton. Hospital Management, &c— Mr W. H. Hall haa given notice of the following motion for the next meeting of the Borough Council, viz : " That the Government be informed'that in'the opinion of this Council it.is not desirable tliat the management.of 'hospitals and charitable aid should be placed in the hands of Municipal Councils." Something to Boom On. — A trial crushing of a ton of stone from the Eureka Company's claim at Nenthorn, Otago, yielded I.Oozs to the ton. Where the stone was taken the reef is nearly 2 feet thick. There is considerable excitement in Nenthorn, and shares in the Eureka have been sold at the rate of LIOOO per seventh share, with a rising market. Manly. — A minister sends the British Weekly the following story about Mr Bright: — The train in which Mr John Bright was once travelling to Rochdale was detained at a small village a few miles from the town. Mr Bright inquired the reason oi the delay. One of the railway porters replied peremptorily by saying : " Put thee head in, and 'owd thee din " (hold your noise). Another railway servant, who had recognised the tribune, asked: "Do you know who you were speaking to?" " No." " Why, John Bright." The porter hasted to the compartment, and putting his head through the window, said : " Aye, Jon, you mun' forgi'e me. I didna know it war you," Football. — The match Pirates v. Rangers, played on the Union Grounds on Saturday afternoon, resulted in a win for the home team by 10 points to nil. For the winners Ekensteen and H. Rodgers each kicked a goal ; Mentiplay, Galbraith and Jenkins scoring tries. The game was in favour oi the Pirates all through, their goal seldom being in danger. For the losers, Murphy, Rallingehaw, Devereux, and Greenshielda were the most prominent. — The match for Wednesday is the final of the series between the Star and Pirates Clubs, and is being looked forward to with a good deal of interest. As this game decides the premiership of the town clubs it will probably be the most closely contested one of the season. Successful Co-operation. — At the annual meeting of the Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury last Saturday the balance-shest showed that the net profit for the year amounted to L 7150 12s Id. Adding the! balance (LllO3 19s 7d) brought forward from last year the total amount to be dealt witfiisLß2s4 11s Bd. The directors propose the usual dividend of seven pei cent, and a bonus of four per cent, on the called up capital, also a bonus of four pei cent, on shareholders' purchases of merchandise during the year. They also propose tc write twenty per cent, off the items •' machinery and office furniture," and to add to the reserve fund Ll5O0 — the balance tc be carried forward. The directors propose a further issue of 3000 new shares at a premium of half a crown — the premium to be added to the reserve fund. . This Association has had a remarkably successful career. Feasible. — The New York World states that an object of great curiosity in Bridgeport, Conn., is a rabbit which Professor George Poe, a relation of the late Edgar Allan Pje, has drowned 11 times and then bi ought back to life. The professor has invented in artificial pair of lungs which he uses to restore life after apparent death by drowning or asphyxiating. To demonstrate its usefulness he submerges his rabbit in water in the presence of witnesses, and holds it there for ten minutes. The rabbit has also been sir.othered with the fumes of burning charcoal until all signs of life have been extinct. A mirroi held at the mouth and nose shoved no vapour, neither was there any heart action. .Professor Poe then attached his patent bellows, covering over the month, and forced the oxygen into the lungs. The returning suction of the pumps draw out the deadly gases, and thus an artificial respiration produced a muscular expansion and contraction of the lungs of the subject until life was restored. Professor Poe claims that lie can drown and restore human beings as well as rabbit 3. He will not divulge the secret of compounding or the quantities of gases used. He thinks his artificial lungs will become generally adopted by fire depart ments and hospitals throughout the country. Gladstone. — The Borough Council held a general and a special meeting on Thursday night, the Mayor (Mr Grhnwood) and Councillors Murray, North, Scott, Ibbotson, O'Brien, Broad, and Newman being present. —A general rate of Is in the £ was struck for the current year. The Mayor, Councillor O'Brien, and the clerk were authorised to arrange for the sale of the lease of the Corporation reserves. — The Inspector of Nuisances asked for instructions as to how he should deal with a ratepayer who had been taking gravel from the Corporation's pic. — A resolution that the solicitor's ser* vices be dispensed with was lost, as also was one to the effect that a former motion refusing gravel to the ratepayers be rescinded. —As the Council had no funds available for making Oxenrig and Grey streets, a previous resolution making the work a first charge on the current year's revenue was rescinded. — It was decided to license a public hall built in the borough by the Ofcago and Southland Investment Company, at an annual fee of LJ.— Tenders were ordered to be called at once for cleaning air the ditches in the borough, and in three months' time for continuing the footways on Russell and Albert streets. — Consideration, of a suggestion from the \Vqrks Cpmrnittee that a new and through system of drainage should be obtained for the borough was postponed tijl next year, -^-Councillor North gave notice of a motion providing for the opening and management of a public pouni wittoft tb©

Careful Pater. — A gentleman in Nelson, whose son is an ardent footballer, does not spend a shilling at the gate to witness any match in which his son is playing, but in* vests it in an insurance policy for the day on the life of the youth.

No Sinecure.— One of the Windsor£!astle officials, speaking of the extreme diligence of the Queen, said— "People talk," he said, " of the dear old lady as if she had nothing to do but amuse herself, but I give you my word, she sometimes has scarcely a minute to call her own 1 The documents she has to sign come down in piles, and at all hours, and Her Majesty never puts her name to a single one before she has mastered the contents. Sometimes \a large batch of these arrive late at night, and if she sits up until the small hours of the morning, she will go through everyone of them carefully before she goes to bed."

Annual Banquet. —The annual dinner of the Invercargill branch of the Locomotive Technical Library of New Zealand Railways took place on Saturday night in the Southland Club Hotel, the chair being occupied by Mr A. McKenzie. Prominent amongst the guests was Mr T. Ronayne, Locomotive Engineer for the Middle Island. The usual loyal toasts having been done justice to the secretary, Mr George Bowles, read the annual report and balance-sheet, showing the library to contain books and periodicals to the value of Ll4O. The Society also had a credit balance of Ll3 9s Id. The toast of " New Zealand Railways," coupled with the names of Mr T. F. Rotheram, President and Locomotive Superintendent, and Mr T. Ronayne, Locomotive Engineer, was then drunk with musical -honours. Mr Ronayne, in replying at some leugth,pointed out the advantages to be derived from the library ; men being able to pass the Government examinations with greater facility than heretofore. Mr McKenzie, in replying to the toast of " The Chairman," pointed out that the staff had received great benefit from the library since its formation, and said that it would always have his strongest support. The toasts of " The Secretary," " The Auditors," " The Traffic Department," " The Drivers and Firemen," &c, were proposed and duly responded to. During the evening a telegram was received from Mr Rotheram expressing his best wishes for a successful gathering and regret at being unable to be present. Mr Rogers and Mrs W. G. Hartle enlivened the proceedings with a clarionet and piano duet. Songs were given by Messrs Bateman, Bowles, Hartle, Rogers, Atkinson, Belsham, and Allen. Mrs W. G. Hartle presided very pleasingly at the piano. Host and hostess Paterson provided the spread in their usual high clas3 style.