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Southland Times, Issue 1148, 18 March 1890, Page 2

Cablegrams. — The Times is of opinion that the labour struggle just commenced will be the greatest the world has yet seen. Masters employing 30,000 men have given in, but those are but a handful of the quartermillion miners on stiike. A strange disease, inducing death-like trance, has appeared in Italy. The dealings of Russian officials with tho.e jondemned to Siberia are attracting attention in England. The Mongolians have elbowed the European population out of the best parts of San Francisco, but are in turn to go, and when Jonathan says it he means it. To prevent disturbance during the strike the Liverpool liquor shops have been chsed. There is again internal trouble in Afghanistan and Russian troops are said to be hovering on the borders. The late destruction of property by the floods iv New .South Wales is appalling, the loss being estimated at half a million. A poor creature has suffered a fearful death in Victoria. A murder by a lunatic is reported from Queensland. Handicaps. — The " penalties'' in connection with the races at the Irish Athlete Society's games to-morrow are published this morning. Fatal Accident at Cork. — An infant son of Mr John Cox, butcher, of Gore, fell into a well behind his parents' house on Saturday afternoon and was drowned. The child was 17 months old. Jcry List.- All Justices of the Peace within the Southland Jury district are summoned to attend a meeting in the R.M. Courtroom, Invercargill, on the sth April for the purpose of revising the jury list. Earnslaw Convi'krkd. — A telegram from Dunedin states that Harry Birley, the well known guide, and Mr Muir have reached the top of Mount Earnslaw, being the first men to accomplish the feat. The extremely fine weather prevailing lately has doubtless denuded the giant mountain of much of its snow and made the task easier than it generally will be. Stotpinc; John's Amusement. — AtTimaru five Chinese gardeners were arrested on Sunday afternoon for playing "pakapoo. ' Attention was drawn to them by their excited cries, the house being in a prominent situation in town. They were remanded for a week at the request of their counsel. Bail was found. At Christchurch yesterday, a Chinaman was tined LlO for keeping a house where fan-tan was played, and another LlO for acting as croupier at the game. Old Rome. -During the last 19 years over 1500 acres of land in the very heart of old Rome have been turned over by the pick and shovel of the excavator, and the treasures exhumed have comprised 45,000 coins of gold, silver, and bronze ; 200 marble statues, 25 figures of animals, 302 busts and heads, 500 works in bronze, upwards of 400 columns and fragments in rare marbles, 200 marble capitals, nearly 800 amphora-, 700 works of art in terra cotta, and 600 examples of choice workmanship in bronze, besides thousands of minor objects in glass, ivory, copper and iron. Anniversary Services. — The Sunday school anniversary services in connection with the Elles Road Primitive Methodist Church were held on Sunday. The Rev. Mr Wood, who has just arrived to take charge of the church, preached in the morning to a good congregation from Matthew xviii. , iv., 10 — " Take heed that ye dispise not one of these little ones ;" and in the evening to a large congregation from Mark viii. , v., 36 — " What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul." In the afternoon Mr Bell conducted a children's service. The Park Reserve. — Councillor Mackintosh has given notice of the following motion for Thursday evening's meeting of the Invercargill Borough Council :— " That in order to give the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, the Caledonian Societj of Southland, the Southland Amateur Athletic Club, the Irish Athletic Club, the. Inveivargill Lawn Tennis Club, and the Invercargill Cricket Club, the security of tenure they ask for, and also to provide for the further improvement of the Park reserve, it is desirable that the necessary steps be taken at au early date to have a bill introduced into Parliament empowering this Borough Council to grant leases of the whole or ;my portion of the Park for a term of 14 years, with a special provision that sections 13, 14 and 15, may be leased for a like period by private contract at a rent to be fixed by the Council, not to exceed the average rent obtained at auction for the other twelve sections, and with due'provision that the public shall not be excluded from any portion of the Park unless for the ten days already provided for." LitiHTi.v Out ov it. — The other day we published some details of a case of bigamy in Victoria, in which the accused, in order to hoodwink her lawful husband, wrote an artful letter to him in which she stated that she had been married before she met him, that her husband was alive, and asked him not to seek her out, as she would commit suicide if he did so. The Argus since reports that Emilie Pauline Diedrich (the woman in question) pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. She had married, on the 23rd December, ISBS, a man named George Henry Diediieh, at Melbourne. On the I lth December, 1889, whilo Diedrirh was alive, she married one Walter R. Smith, a master mariner. The prisoner stated that dhe was 20 years of age. Her mother said that the prisoner was only Hi when she was tirst married. The marriage was not . a happy one. Mr Justice Holroyd sentenced the prisoner to six. months' imprisonment in Castlemaine gaol, but directed that the prisoner should be released on her mother becoming surety for her to the amount of L3O for her good behaviour for 12 moatlis,

Irish Athlktic Society. — A meeting of T the directors of this Society is called for this J evening, at which some important business ' has to be discussed. Northern Stkamkr.— The s.s. Wairarapa will not leave the. Bluff forJDuuedin and the north until after the arrival of the .3 p. in. train this afternoon. Hot Without Coals.— At the Cainpbelltowii Police Court, yesterday morniug lntoro 8. Niehol, Esq., .J.P. , a boy was charged with stealing a quantity of coals. As this was his first offence, and as his father stated that he had already given the boy a thrashing, the Bench ordered him to receive a sharp flogging and dismissed the case. St. Patrick's Day. — -But little honour I was done to the memory of Ireland's patron saint in Invcrcargill yesterday, the closing of the banks, lawyers' offices, and one or two of the public offices l>eing the only indications that the date had any peculiar significance. Of course the irishmen of Itivercargill had previously decided to celebrate the occasion on Wednesday — taking advantage of the usual half-holiday, and no doubt the demonstration will be brilliant and successful. Thk Enmuktevment of (iOKE. — -It is reported that the Gas Company which has been established to provide gas under contract with the Corporation of Gore, and for which a concession of 14 years has been granted to Mr Watt (the patentee of the hydro -carbon process), has been successfully floated. Should the gas fulfil all that is claimed for it on a large scale as it has proved in a smaller degree lor the past nine months in Me Watt's establishment it will create quite a revolution in gas lighting, as it is expected the cost ol production will be considerably less than that of coal gas. Existing gas works by simply altering- retorts can make this gas, as the same plant will otherwise answer just as in thft case of coal gas. It is probable that Gore will be lit up by the end of May. Football. —On Saturday evening the annual meeting of the Mataura Club was held. Mr H. Cameron presided, and in opening the proceedings expressed the hope that the season's play would be characterised by the same spirit of fairness as had characterised the past. The balance-sheet showed the club to be indebted LI 4s Bd. Of the 10 matches played 6 had been lost, 2 won, and 2 drawn. The election of officers resulted as follows : — President: Mr Hugh Cameron ; vice-presidents : Messrs Culling, (Jrierson, Perry, Meade, and Thompson ; captain : Thos. Pryde ; deputy -captain : John Waddell ; secretary : Mr Hutchinson ; committee: A. Smith, C. J. Humphries, J. Maw, B. Walton, and J. Jarvis ; match committee : Walton, Waddell, and Pryde. A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Maw, the retiring secretary, for his long services. Messrs Pryde and Hutchinson were appointed delegates to S. R. Union, and it wns resolved to communicate with the Gore club with a view to having the annual meeting of the Union this year held on a Friday night. The opening of the season was fixed for Saturday, and on the Saturday following a mateh — President v. Vice-president — will be played. — Own correspondent. Bkspokk Clkan L/viMi. — A ScottishAmerican, Mr John Crerar, has just died, leaving a vast fortune, acquired by Scottish thrift, in the main to charitable objects. "Nearly a million dollars are given to various charities and church benevolences, including 20,000 dollars to his pastor. Then ho gives 100,000 dollars to oreot a colossal statue of Abraham Lincoln, and directs that the rest of his estate, perhaps three and a half million dollars, be devoted to the erection and maintenance of a public library." This shrewd Scotchman, however, knew that books are forces as potent for evil as for good unless wisely chosen, and he inserted iv his will a stringent clause as to the character of the books to be placed in the new institute: — "I desire that the books ami periodicals be selected with a view to create and sustain a healthy moral and Christian sentiment in the community, aud that all nastincss ami immorality he excluded. Ido not mean by this that there shall not be anything but hymn books and sermons ; but 1 mean that dirty French novels and all sceptical trash and works of questionable moral tone shall never be found in this library. I wan' its atmosphere that of Christian refinement, and its aim and object the building up of character.' ■ ipcuiug Winter Goods at the Hxhihirion — Mantles unusu iby choice. — iHOMooa and BKA.ITIK.