The Southland Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Luceo Non Uro. MONDAY, 9th FEBRUARY, 1891.

Southland Times, Issue 11655, 9 February 1891, Page 2

The Southland Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Luceo Non Uro. MONDAY, 9th FEBRUARY, 1891.

Cabl* Nbws.— The R.M.S. Arawa, outward bound left Hobart yesterday. Parnell still makes demands and a section of Mr Gladstone's following believe that his retirement from the lead of the Home Rule party is a sham and attempt to delude. Mr Champion is being championed by the Pall Mall Gazette for his action in connection with the Australian strike. As usual the English financial journals have something to say about colonial borrowing. One novel proposal is that we should take up portions of our loans ourselves, apparently as a guarantee of good faith : there is something in that. Shipping matters and colonial freights are in disturbed condition. The strike in Cardiff brought the Welsh coalmines to a stand. Several persona have been killed by an avalanche in Switzerland. A heavy failure in the woollen trade is announced, and others are threatening. The wool sales continue with good heart : foreigners buy the greater portion. China wants a cool seven millions on loan. Great floods have swept away thousands of Chinese: it . has been asserted lately that jthese floods are made to order by rascally mandarins in order to pilfer the public treasury. A Government clerk in Sydney is accused of filching several thousand pounds. A horrible accident is reported from Melbourne. The latest reports of the Horn* markets for colonial wheat are good. The Chilian rebellion continues with varying fortune for their combatants. A peculiar bargain is alleged to have been made between France, Portugal and Britain. Eren in America a protest has been made against Russian treatment of Jews. Meeting To-night. — Shareholders in the South New Zealand Finance Co are reminded of the annual meeting this eren ing in the company's offices. Bluff Harbour Board. — The election of two gentlemen to represent Invercargill on this Board takes place to-day, the candidates being Messrs W. S. Wateraton, D. Roche, R. Cleave, and A. McLean. Musical.— Mr J. Jago's singing of Mendelssohn's " It is enough," from " Elijah," at St. John's Church yesterday evening was much enjoyed.by thejarge congregation present. Turned Up. — Mr E. B. Jones received a telegram yesterday morning to the effect that the young man whose disappearance fiom town had caused him considerable anxiety had turned up at Temuka, where his sister resides, all right. Reaper and Binder Trial. — It has been decided to hold a reaper and binder trial under the auspices of the Southland A. and P. Association in a paddock belonging to Mr Crombie on the East Road, on Wednesday, the 18th inst., at which the trophy offered by the Massey Manufacturing Company will be competed for. Southland Hospital. — Remaining from previous week, 12 miles ; admitted during the week, 1 male 2 females ; discharged during the week, 1 male ; remaining in hospital, 12 males 2 females ; out-patients treated during the week, 12 males and 12 females. Visiting trustees for the week — Mesai 8 McFarlane and Wileon. The chairman desires to acknowledge with thanks receipt of some splendid fruit from Mr Warnock, North Invercargill, for use in the institution. Southland Fruit. — A correspondent writes : Those having a doubt as to the capabilities of our soil and climate for fruit growing had better visit Mr Cleaves Rimu Nursery, where can be seen numerous kinds of apple and pear trees, bearing heavy crops of fruit. Some of the plums are quite ripe and others will come in later on. According to Mr Edginton, the bead gardener, the best dessert kinds are, Blue Belgian, Jefferson, Coe's Golden Drop, Rivers' Oval, Kent's New Gage, Diapre Rouge. The best cooking are Diamond, Denzers' Victoria, Prince of Wales, Goliath, Red Magnum Bonum, and Golden Esperance. This has not been a fine season for fruit growing and it comes as a surprise that Mr Cleave s'tould have such a crop, and the question naturally arises — why do not all country settlers go in for fruit, and so put an end to the importation of such quantities of an article so necessary to health ? Fruit-growing would, there can be no doubt, help greatly to remove the depression ; and let no one imagine that only new, high-prized kinds are any good, for at Mr Cleaves the old Keswiek Codlin and Hawthornden are as good as any. Some Hawthorndens grafted in September, 1888, on old stumps, have at lea3t a bushel on each. Missisc. — One of the Government iturvey party at present employed on the Milfonl W<ikatipu track, named William Quill, has been missing since early in January. About the 10th of that month he was sent to plant a, flag on a hill some miles from the camp at thu (Jreenstone, anil took with him five days' provisions. As ho did not return .vh'.'n expected a search party went to look for him, and at a spot where he had camped a note was found .statiDg that he had gone down the (,'leildau valley, situated over a mountain a few miies beyond. The valley was searched, but no trace of him found. It was thought that he might have followed the track to Milford, nut when the Tarawer;i left there a few days ago nothing had been heard of him. It is feared that he has eiLht-r icoL himself in the bush, or met with some accident in travelling over a rough p.irt of country, ami that, in either case, he li;ta V>y this time perished. It has r>een »i'ii.'i u lly mnlei stood tli*L there was no pa3s but wi tii Llic Uleddiiu valley und the Wakatipu siile, the saddle endiug in a precipitous fai.fi mi its western side. <^uill was of an adventurous turn. He was the man who scaled the rocky face down which the Sutherland Fall pours and described the source of that wonderful waterfall. It would appear that bis desire to explore un known localities has led him into fatal diifioulti'M.

Presentation. — On Friday night members of the Fortrose Caledonian Society met in Elliott's hotel when a marble timepiece of chaste design was presented to Mr R. Paull, their honorary secretary, as a token of their appreciation of his services. The President, Mr McKenzie, who made the presentation, eulogised Mr Paull's worth, and said that it gave him great pleasure to be the medium of presenting to that gentleman a tangible memento of the Society's appreciation of his services as their secretary. Mr Paull, in returning thanks for the valuable gift referred to the faot th\t the society had wished to make a vote of money to him for his honorary services, but this he had declined. As they had, however, insisted upon his accepting some mark of their kindly feelings towards him and their sense of his humble efforts to fulfil the duties he had undertaken he had much pleasure in receiving the handsome souvenir just presented to him. Nothing they could have given him would have been more acceptable than this clock as it would be always before him to remind him of the appreciation of his servicet by his fellowmembers of the society, which he hoped would continue to prosper. Mr Paull's health having been drunk that of Mr MacKenzie was proposed and duly honoured, the proposer remarking that the president was the most energetic and open-hearted man he had ever worked with, and that he hoped he would long live to direct the society. — Own correspondent. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world ia Zander & Son's Eucilpjti Extrac:. Teat its eminently powerful tffert in coughs, colda influenza j the relief is instantaneous. In serious case* and accidents of all kinds, ta they wounds burns, Bcaidings, braises, sprains, it is the safest reme4 — no sweJhn? — no mfl tmmation. Like surprising e£Eoct« produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs swellings, &o,diarrho9a,dysenterr, disease of the kidneys and urinary organs. In me at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majeety the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, imsterdam. Trnst in this approved article and reject all others oo!6