The Southland Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MIRNING. Luceo Non Uro. MONDAY, 7th JULY, 1890

Southland Times, Issue 11501, 7 July 1890, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MIRNING. Luceo Non Uro. MONDAY, 7th JULY, 1890

Cai:le<:rams. — The Australian cricketers have managed to win another match. New Zealand hemp is believed to have touched bottom in the Loudon market. The strike of gas stokers in Leeds cost the Corporation, who own the works, L 30.000. Another bartering of foreign rights is reported between France and Britain. The West Australian Bill has got through the House of Commons at last. The telegraphists stick to their demand for shorter hours of labour. Tlie postmen also in town and country demand advances which are reasonable. Several postmen have been suspended for taking part in a Union meeting and the whole body threaten to cease work if these are not reinstated. A movement is on foot to put King Milan on his throne again. The colonies are to fortify and rind the garrison for Albany, the Imperial Government supplying the guns. Fluctuations in the wool market are given. The Argentine political and financial trouble is not abating. ! Mr Came, the defeated candidate for Barrow on the Liberal Unionist ticket has gone over , to Mr ( dads tone and Home Rule although the j i'LO.M. put up the man who beat him. I A large petition from Newfoundland has been received in the House of Commons. I The captain of the British warship who i closed several of the lobster factories admits | that he misinterpreted his order. The Statist deals very roughly with Victorian railway j proposals 'in view of the fact that no proj vision is made for immigration. A great j publicans' petition for compensation has S been rejected for sufficient leasons. The Northumberland miners havesecured another advance, making 30 per cent, recently. The Tasmanian Government is to make another effort to buy up the main line of railway in that colony x S.N.Z. Finance Co. — Borrowers are reminded that to-day is the monthly term for making repayments, and applicants for fresh loans that their proposals will be considered to-moriow evening. Southland Hospital. — In-patients remaining from previous week, 12 males and 1 female ; admitted during the week, 3 males ; discharged during the week, 1 male ; ! remain ing, 14 males and 1 female. Howard's I)k;<;kr Plough. — MessrsTotj hill, Watson and Co., agents for Howard's i implements, received a telegram from Milton jon Saturday stating that the Howard digging ploughs took first and second prizes at the Milton ploughing match. I Water-Colour Exhibition. — Mr S. H. j Moreton has now on view in a shop in Dec-st. , opposite Messrs W. Guthrie and Co.'s warei house, a number of specimens of what his brush and pencil can accomplish. There are about a dozen finished water-colours, renroscntiiig scenes on ilie West Coast and elsewhortf with which Mr Moreton has made ns familiar, and executed with his customary vividness of colouring and atmospheric effects. There arc also a number of very pretty and effective Indian-ink sketches, numerous pencil ones in all stages, from the first rough outline to the finished drawing. These are for the purpose of showing the gradual growth of a picture, and will afford an interesting and instructive study to the | previously uninitiated. The ticket of admisj sion, the price of which is one shilling, gives I the purchaser a chance in an art union for j J the pictures on exhibition. J

To Contractors.— The special attention ' of contractors for brick or mason work is called to the fact that an addition has been made to the County Council's advertisement inviting tenders for a culvert on the North Road. The culvert is to be of brick or stone. Masonic— The monthly meeting of the Southern Cross Lodge, N.Z.C., was held on Friday evening when there was a fair attendance, W.M. Bro. VV. Smith presiding. The arrangements under which the joint property of the Southern Cross, St. .iohn and Victoria Lodges is to be vested in twelve trustees— four from each Lodgewas ratified, and four of the members appointed to act on behalf of the Southern Cross Lodge. A Snaiting Cub.— While Mr R. Blackham and his dogs were taking exercise on the North Road yesterday afternoon a dog rushed out of an enclosure and seizing the well-known greyhound Black Pine tore a mouthful of skin and muscle from the poor brute's ribs. Mr Blackham knows the owner of the delinquent, but is not certain whether he was incited by any one to attack the hounds, although on a previous occasion he was. The occurrence is an unfortunate one as Black Pine is entered for the Waterloo Cup which comes off soon, and the injury received will interfere with his training if it does not close his career as a crack courser. Satisfactory Results. — Mrs Bennett, widow of the late Alfred Bennett, who was accidentally killed some time ago by a dray accident, desires to return thanks to all those who so kindly assisted her in her trouble. A sum of L 72 2s was raised for her benefit— Ls3 12s by subscriptions and Ll6 10s proceeds of the concert (the gross proceeds haviiu' been L 25 Bs, and expenses L 8 18s). Out of this sum L 57 9s (3d has been expended in purchasing the property on which Mrs Bennett lives, leaving a sum of Ll4 12s 6(1 in the hands of Messrs Spence, Royds, and Rattray, to be expended from time to time as Mrs Bennett may require. Teachers' Institute. — The annual meeting of the .Southland Teachers' Institute was held on Saturday when it was decided to take steps to form a Union. The secretary was instructed to write to the other Institutes in the colony suggesting that the question of establishing a Union for the whole of New Zealand should be discussed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Teachers' Council. Mr A. Young (president) occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance of members. Mr J. Smyth was elected president for the ensuing year, Mr W. Clarke vice-president, Mr C. A. Strack secretary anc treasurer re-elected. Mr Wako's Attitude Towards the Ministry.— A supporter of Mr Ward in the Awarua district writes :— " In ' Noodle's Oration' in Bentham's Book of Fallacies the following occurs— ' If his own motives were as pure as possible they cannot but sutler contamination from (hose with whom he is politically associated. This measure may be a boon to the constitution, but I will accept no favour to the constitution from such hands. ' In Mr Ward's speech on the motion for going into committee of Supply the followfng ./«<.' *imll<: to the above occurs : — ' The Financial Statement was no doubt an able one. but he regretted that the rules of the House did not prevent a Budget being written, as nobody could tell from whom it emanated.' Moral— Read Bentham's Book of Fallacies." Gladstone. — The monthly meeting of the Borough Council was held on Friday evening, the Mayor (Mr Grimwood) and Councillors Broad, Murray, Mclvor, Brey, and Scott - beimr present.— Accounts amounting to L2.S lis lid were passed for payment.— The Inspector of Nuisances reported that the sanitary state of the borough was unsatisfactory, several persons using tlie side drains as receptacles for tilth, and" there being a large school and a boarding house from which tlieie was no adequate means of carrying away sewage and other offensive matter. He also stated that in contravention of chaise 2S of the Public Health Act several cases of infectious diseease had not been reported to the Council. The report was adopted and the Inspector directed to use his own judgment in abating nuisances. —It was reported tint persons were taking sand from streets that would he required for their formation. This matter was also referred to tlie Inspector. A SociiiiT-AKTEii Party. — For the union of the intended victims of such a system the show of strength on the Ist of May, Prince Bismarck said, would not be without its advantages. " Until now the hatred of every party against their next neighbours in politics is still stronger than the fear of Socialistic domination, because they do not lieve in the strength of the Socialists, and in their struggle among themselves each party counts the favour of the Socialists, their alliance and their votes. In their greed for and pursuit of votes they dc not keep before their minds the danger and suffering civilised society would be exposed to when ruled by the least educated and least intelligent portion of the population, whose ignorance is easily led by any eloquent liar, whose stock-in-trade is ' the thousand natural ills that flesh is heir to,' for which they will denounce any existing Government as responsible, while they themselves indulge m large promises at cheap rates. That is what I consider being a liar. The mob is a sovereign that needs flattery as much as any sultan.'' Worse than Banks. —Mr John MeKcnzic, it is stated, intends to spring a mine under the Ministry by making proposals in the direction of confining the operations of banking institutions to the terms of their charters, so as to preclude them from engaging in the barter of land and mortgage investments. This (says the Bruce Herald) is a very serious and difficult question to deal with. It is said that a majority of Ministers, including tlie Premier, favour the scheme. Certainly, if the banks are acting illegally, as they must be if their proceedings arc not consonant with their charters, something should be done. But if the banks are doing business in such a way it seems to us finite unnecessary for Parliament to interfere, the ordinary processes of law ought to be sufficient. However, the subject will no doubt be brought up in Parliament, and we shall be surprised if anything definite comes of its discussion. " It is better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of." Better a long way to incur indebtedness to the banking institutions than to get into the grasp of the private money lenders. Tiie bankers may strip a man of his garments but tlie money lenders skin him. Shylock is dead, but his descendants survive and flourish, and not only get their pounds of flesh but many ounces of blood into the bargain. Ark we so Healthy.— Registrar Mason, in his report on Friendly Societies, alluding to' the confident expectation that the sickness experience of this colony would be found in time, through climate and other reasons, superior to that of the Old Country, says that in order to institute a comparison he recently computed the sickness experience of ISBB of New Zeaiand lodges which had been established twenty years and upwards, and he comes to these conclusions: — "On comparing the result with the experience of the English M.U.1.0.0.F. for the quinquennium 1866-70, it was found that notwithstanding the comparatively small percentage of members in the societies of this country above sixty years of age, the sickness rate for the year specified had exceeded the English standard by more than 10 per cent. The rate for 1889 is still higher. In the Otago District, M.U.1.0.0.F., the average sickness per member at risk in the eleven oldest lodges during the year 1889 was F'Joo per week, or an average of nearly SO per cent, above the English M.U.1.0.0.F. experience. The valuers of this society also report for the entire district an increase of nearly 40 per cent, as tlie sickness experience of the quinquennium 1885-S9 as compared with that of the quinquennium 1875-79." Apart from this brief reference to fresh facts in support of the advice which has been given to unsound societies, the Registrar deems it unnecessary to repeat the warning which was contained both in last year's report and in his public addresses delivered this year at various places. The Registrar refers to the ! great fluctuation in the sick experience of ! single lodges in this country and he reminds societies especially of section 1-1 of the Friendly Societies Act, which makes illegal the application of the funds of a friendly society "to purposes other than those expressed as' directed in the rules of the society i and authorised by the Act.",

Dilutint; the Vikus ?—Dr Barr, of the Liverpool Northern Hospital, reports a number of cases of treatment of typhoid fever by prolonged immersion in warm water. Ono girl, aged sixteen, spent six days in a tank, and was completely cured. A man, aged twenty-eight, was immersed in a tank for thirty-one days, with successful results. The doctor states that he has treated in all twelve patients to the "water cure," and that the mortality has been nil. Forestry.—At the half yearly meeting of Court Star of the South, A.0.F., on Thursday evening the following officers were j elected and installed for the ensuing term : — C. R., Bro. Jas. McNeece ; S. C. R., Bro. R. Wotton; S.W., Bro. Jas. McDonald ; 1.W., Bro. A. Jenkins; 5.8., Bro. Jas. Brooks ; J.B. Bro. J. C. Thomson; A.S., Bro. Win. Sampson ; Secretary (re-elected), Bro. J. C. Howie ; Treasurer, Bro. E. Huffadinc. Oil Paintings.—Mr D. Ross's window in Tay street contains at present a fine display of oil and water-colour paintings from the easels of two of the leading artists in Dunedin, Messrs J. Douglas Perrett aud L. W. Wilson. These comprise some nice bits of scenery, principally in the most picturesque spots of New Zealand. The collection is the most varied, of the kind that the public have had an opportunity of seeing for sale in Invercargill, and the pictures have already attracted a great deal of attention. Perhaps the most attractive landscape of the collection is that of the Clcddan River, at the head of Milford Sound, by Mr Perrett. Several of the pictures have found purchasers, and as they will be on view for a few days only, those whose tastes tend that way should take an early opportunity of seeing them. Is it a Mania?— The Evening Star reports that some excitement was caused at the Dunedin Police Barracks the other evening, when a sergeant-major brought a member of the force from his beat to the station, and charged him with being drunk while on duty. This the constable indignantly denied, And after discussion was allowed to return to his beat. We understand that the constable intends to apply for a departmental inquiry to be held into his superior officer's conduct.—lt is not very long since a similar arrest was made in that city, followed by a departmental inquiry the result of which did not give general satisfaction. We once knew a demented ship's doctor whose main object in life appeared to be to prove that his patients were ad'ected with a troublesome skin disease. Is it not possible that these Dunedin sergeants sec drunkenness where it does not exist ?