The Southland Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Luceo Non Uro. MONDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 1891.

Southland Times, Issue 11630, 12 January 1891, Page 2

The Southland Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Luceo Non Uro. MONDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 1891.

Cablegrams. — The Recorder at Plymouth declares a strike illegal if it is intended to debar non- Unionists from working. The intense frost still continues in Europe. N.Z. butter is acquiring a character in London, some has sold at 118s. Mr Dillon does not approve of the agreement between Mr O'Brien and Parnell. General Miles ie trying to force the Indians to fight. The Canadian tribes are restless. The Jews are to be driven out of the Russian Caucasus. French physicians say that Koch's lymph cure is bewildering : they await further developments. Russia is said to be helping Servia handsomely with munitions of war. A Belgium paper says that a treaty has been made between Austria and Great Britain. The Admiralty wants 6000 officers and men for the navy. Funds for the relief of Irish distress are flowing in. Mr Gladstone, although favourable to it, will not take immediate steps to introduce the " one man one vote " system. A Victorian loan is expected to be floated shortly. Mr Fitzgerald, the Sydney delegate, is charged with the work of federating the maritime labour of Australia with that of Britain : here we have had enough of that sort of thing — it has not paid. A steamer has been burnt in N.S. W. The railway strike is said to be breaking up in Scotland. Virchow thinks Koch's remedy creates other diseases. N.Z. mutton is advancing: it will not require freezing in London with the temperature at sdegs. The Church of England is recognising the gravity of the unemployed question in New South Wales. Winding Up. — The subscribers to the Picturesque Atlas Defence Fund will meet on the 17th inst. in the Prince of Wales Hotel for the purpose of receiving the treasurer's report and balance-sheet and winding up the business. Personal. —Mr F. Larkworthy has resigned his seat on the Board of the N.Z.L. and M.A. Co., and the Right Honourable Sir John E. Gorst, Q.C., M.P., and Mr H. J. Bristow have joined the Board of Direction in London. S.H. and C.A. Board.— The Relief Committee of the Board sat on Thursday and dealt with thirty-six cases, relieving twentyfour at a cost of L 6 13s 6d for the week, the remainder being either declined or held over for inquiry. The master's report showed the present inmates to be 20 males and 10 females ; of these seven are sick. Defarting. — Mr Win, Dougall who has carried on business iv Invercargill as a photographer for many years leaves for San Francisco towards the end of the month. Mr Dougall's skill in his particular line of business is widely known, and he will leave behind him many a memento of his artistic capabilities. He will be succeeded in his Invercargill business by Mr C. Gerstenkorn, formerly cf Canterbury. Hiiiii Time Thky Did. — The Government have ii-ceivud advice from their agent at 'Fii«co and the U.S. Postal Department pointing to the probable passage of the Tonuagu Bill, devoting a subsidy of L 60.000 per annum to a fortnightly mail service to New Zealand, or L 38.000 for a monthly service. The President, in his address to Congress, dwelt strongly on the necessity of Congress stirring in the matter. Police Ciiamjks. — For some occult reason the authorities have decided that Sergeant Macdonell, of Invercargill, and Sergeant McLeud, of Queenstown, should change places, and the transfer will take place in about a fortnight's time. AsSergt. Macdonell has only been here about a year aud as he has proved himself a painstaking, courteous and thoroughly efficient officer, the general public will be sorry to lose his services and somewhat perplexed to know why he should be relegated to a third-class station such as Queenstown is. Southland Racing Club. — The committee of this club met on Friday evening, Mr M. Inst one (President) in the chair, when all accounts in connection with the late Summer meeting were passed for pay ment. A rough balance-sheet was presented, showing that the meeting was very successful financially and left a substantial balance to carry forward. Four new members were balloted for aud duly elected. It was decided to hold an Autumn meeting the date to be fixed later on. Some alterations in the tutalisator arrangements and stvwanld' stand were ordered to be done. The stakes were distributed as follows :— H. Tellonl L"fi ; G. Smith, L 57 ;J. Howarth, L_'S 10* ; A. Baird, L2S 10s ; J. Smith, [JO : .1. Poole, LH 5s ; J. Finn, Ll4 5s ; i; S.-.nnfoi-d, [/) KM ; J. Crockett, L 4 15.s ; I il.-iimim:. L 4 \~>* i H- McDonald, L 4 los. i'.i-'jii l/_'til ;">>. S'>ine routine business having been transacted, the meeting closed.

Pity He is so Badly Rutted. — Mr Beatty ' Kingston, a journalist traveller, resents the stigma of indolence so commonly put upon the Turk. " Every unprejudiced Briton," he contends, " who has had personal experience of the Ottoman Empi-e will testify that the Turkish peasant is the most hard working, sober, content, and orderly man of his class in Europe — a model of laboriousness, honesty, and general good conduct, which the agricultural populations of Western realms would do well and wisely to copy in their own habits and behaviour. The Modern Reaper Knife. — An Egyptian scythe, recently unearthed, is exhibited among the antiquities in the private museum of Flinders Petrie, in London. The shaft of the instrument is wood, supporting a row of flint saws, which are securely cemented into it. This discovery will set at rest the speculations as to how the crops of the land were gathered in the flint and early copper age. It has long been suspected that such an instrument as Mr Petrie has brought to light was used, but there was no direct evidence. Southland Hospital. — Remaining from previous week, 16 miles ; 1 female ; admitted during the week, 1 male ; 2 females ; discharged during the week, 3 males and 2 females ; died, John Clarke (69 years), from asthmatic bronchitis ; Mary Jane Preston (2 years) from diphtheria ; remaining 14 females and 1 female ; outpatients treated during week, 15 males and 10 females. The secretary acknowledges with thanks receipt of some vegetables from Mr Brown, Dunkeelor ; also, New Year presents from Messrs Millar, baker ; Organ and Co., and Borne, baker. Visiting Trustees for the week, Messrs Jas. Fleming and Howie. Smothkrino a Paying Department. — The reduction in the ocean postage rates does not seem to have affected the first mail under the new system. The Tainui only took 11,935 letters as against 9584 by the lonic in December, and 1 1 ,944 by the Coptic in November last. The Government calculate that the colony loses one farthing upon each letter under the 2hd rate as the payment to the mail steamer is 12s per lb for letters, and the average cost of each is 2£d. On letters via Brindisi the loss is Id each, but not many go by that route. The Government is under an engagement with the Imperial authorities to reduce the Brindisi rate from 6d to 2^d also next year. Who were their Builders ? — The Asiatic Review for October contains a remarkable account, by Mr H. B. Sterndale, of the Cyclopean remains in Polynesia. 1 hey are far more numerous and extensive than is imagined, and sometimes include gigantic defensive works. In the island of Lele, for example, 9deg. , S. lat. 160deg. E. long. " a volcanic island has been scarped and walled to the summit, while on the neighbouring shore is a wilderness of ruinous castles, the walls in some cases 12ft. thick, and from 30ft. to 40ft. in height. They are in the form of parallelograms 200 ft. by 100 ft ., some very much lirger. Many of them are erected upon islands entirely artificial, surrounded by canals lined with stone, crossing eacli ether at right angles, into which the tide flows." Mr Sterndale's theory is that early Hindoos reached not only Polynesia but Central America, and he points to the use by Polynesians of the word Meru for " Paradise," and the word dewa for " spirit " as distinct evidence of this. Let it Pass. — The suit brought in the Riverton R. M. Court last week by a knight of the scissors to compel the defendant, a well known boniface, to pay for a suit of clothes which did not suit him and which resulted in the plaintiffs being nonsuited, had rather an amusing termination. The knight of the goose, finding the suit did not suit the person it was made for determined to find a man whom the suit would suit and cast his eyes on one of the two most portly men in Riverton as a likely person to fill the suit. This gentleman, who is a very substantial person in every sense of the word, is also of a very enterprising disposition and does not believe in hiding his light under » bushel but advertises iutnaelf as the " awls of propriety." Finding that the suit suited him to a " T " he became its happy possessor in exchange for » few pairs of " eolea," thus ending this celebrated suit by suiting everybody. The knight of the goose got nonsuiked ; he of St. Crispin got a suit that suited him ; our worthy boniface won his suit ; the lawyers engaged in the suit were suited with good fees and the public had a hearty laugh which suited them. — Own correspondent. The Lakk Time Table. — Our Lumsden correspondent writes: — In your leading article of Friday last you have only partly shown the inconvenience to passengers arising from the present running of CTTe Invercargill to Kingston and Kingston to Gore trains. Taking Tuesday, the Gore train leaves Lurnsden at 8.20 a.m. and the Invercargill to Kingston arrives at 10.2, thus compelling passengers for the Waimea line to remain until Wednesday morning in Lumsden. There is, however, on Tuesdays a train from Lumsden to Invercargill arriving in time to catch the express. On Thursday the trains arrive aud depart at the same hours as on Tuesday, but as there is no train to Invercargill on that morning anyone wishing to reach Dutiedin or intermediate places from stations between Invercargill and this place are " boxed," as the Lake train does not connect with the Waimea and, as I said before, there is no train down from Lumsden to Invercargill. A still worse feature is that station masters and booking clerks are not conversant with the intricate way in which the trains run and issue tickets to passengers wishing to go down the Waimea line on the days on which the trains do not connect. Several cases have come under my notice of passengers being disappointed in this way, and having to wait until next day to get through, and in one case the passenger returned to Invercargill, as his time was limited and he could not carry out his intention of visiting his friends on the Waimea line owing to the trains not connecting. In the latter case I am told the stationmaster at your station gave the desired information, unfortunately inaccurately. Lamentable. — The Wakatip Mail says: — It is our painful duty to record the sad death of Mr Henry Manders— an old resident. On his father's side he was descended from a wealthy family of good repute (the Manders, of Dublin), and on his mother's side was of Spanish extraction. Although hailing from " dear dirty Dublin " he was born in London. His education was finished at one of the great schools of Eugland — Rugby. He had a bright intellect, keen perceptive faculties, and was a ready writer. He took great interest in all public matters and, before coming here some 28 years ago, took an active part in Victorian politics — chiefly at Avoca. As might be expected his light could not be hid under a bushel when he took up his abode at l^ueenstown, where he led an active life and lent valuable aid in building up our social fabric. In fact, he was widely known throughout the Wakatipu from the numerous positions he held in our various public organisations aa member of the old Otago Provincial Council, and later on (alxmt fourteen years since) as representative for this district in Parliament. He held more offices than we can recollect ; was secretary of the old Town Board, the Jockey Club, Hospital, etc., town clerk to the Borough Council and first clerk to the Lake County Council ; and besides these things, he carried on his private business as a commission agent, etc., often giving valuable advice to miners on questions of law. But, for some years before death his health began to fail, and latterly he was all but incapable of any useful work. He was intimately connected with this journal, almost from the beginning, but not lately. Upon the last hours of his career we must daaw a veil — as a "thick cloud." The brief facts, as disclosed at the inquest on the body, ore, it appears, that a few days before death he was visited by a miner and an old acquaintance, James Towers, and that they indulged, alas ! too freely. He was the victim of chronic gout and rheumatism, and on Sunday complained of severe pains. Soon after taking to bed he was, doubtless, much worse and (his brutal companion neglecting to call in medical aid) ho was found dead in the morning.

EwcotTBAGE the trade of the town by having ] local-made clothing. Twelve months ago rhomcoQ and Beatti« began manufacturing for their o*n ira.de. The goods ma c ar« excellent, and the b-iii--tBB is growing. A* th* need 01 loctl in u* tries is much ftl f it is well to encour >ge thost- we have. Every n»w worker employed 1 •> gum to the town. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is & -ioti'a Kncalpjti Ext^ac . Peet it- eminently |>ower(ul effect in coagbs, colde irfluenzi; the relief is instantaneous. In serious caHes and accidents of all kinds, tbev wounds bums, scat dings, braises, sprains, it ia the safest remei — no swelhne — no inflammation. L.ke surprising eff ct« produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of theluogs swellings, 4c, diarrhoea.dyaenter?, disease of the kidnsys and urinary organs. In u*e at all ho-pitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majerty the King of Italy ; crowned with roedal ana diploma at International Fxhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this appioved article and jeet all others. oo!6