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Southland Times, Issue 14512, 13 December 1900, Page 2

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A report of 3't i stt i relay's I'olico Court proceedings in the Arnett charges will be found on page 4. Frisco mail steamer at Auckland yesterday. Several reports and communications are hold over for a day. Waiwura, with 21 returning troopers, is at Hobart. When visitors from tho country are in town they are inn ted to leavo their orders for groceries, etc., with Mr J. S. Baxter, who has received large consignments of general goods, which he is selling at prices calculated to interest intending purchaser*. Teas of extra excellency at new tariff rates can also bo had from Mr Baxter. A German laryngologist says he can detect the sex of a person by looking down the throat. Christmas and New Year Card Room. — Our annual display is now arranged, and wo are ready for the seasons trade. Each year we have gone one better ; the vari ous stands are loaded with exquisite specimens from publishers in England, France, Germany, etc., who in these special lines are at the top of the tree. A moat attractive and novel series are tho "New Boxed Cards,"' dainty creations in plush, velvet and artistic workmanship. Even if not an intending buyer we invite a visit, as when once scon we kjiow what the result will be. — LUjMvrai* and Co., Esk street. Glasgow' Corporation collects about seven tons of waste paper, the most troublesome form of rubbish, each week, and by selling it makes a net proiit of about £K2 per annum. Loud Industry.— There is on view in Mr Alfred Dene's shop, Tay street, a handsome sideboard which is well worthy of inspection. It is in red pino, with three bevelled mirrors, and all the panels are stained walnut and nicely carved and gold lined, making a splendidly finished piece of furniture. Visitors to town during the next few days will see by a visit to Mr Dowe's shop tnat it is scarcely worth going to Dunedin for furnishings when such articles can be manufactured so satisfactorily locally. No professional of note — be he actor, singer, or conjurer — passes through Constantinople without an invitation from the Sultan. He always pays for those performances in Bank of England notes. One of the most marvellous machines human ingenuity ever planned is the linotype. All the operator has to do is to keep pegging away at a set of keys like those of an ordinary typewriter. Every tap releases and drops the mould of a letter, a pimotuation mark or a space. When enough of the moulds of letters, dots and dashes have been dropped to form a lino, a jet of molten metal is squirted in and a lino of type is the result* The operator taps away without intermission, the machine goes on at its work, tanking up lines of moulds, pouring metal in them, putting each mould back into its own bin and trimming th« rough edges of the lino of typo and putting it in its place in the growing column. It is this intelligent compound of wheels and levers which renders possible standard books well printed and bound in cloth at sixpence per volume with which Thomson and Beattio are astonishing the reading public. "Relief of Invercargill. " Bells ! Bells ! ! Bells :! ! Ring out tho good tidinga to the residents of luvercargill and suburbs whose relief will be grateful and comforting when they know that our grocers are stocking the celebrated •' Beix " Tea. "Only one quality — the Boat. Coupons in every tin. Intending purchasers of bicycles should certainly suo tho 1900 " Sterlings" before deciding on any other. Chain, chainloss, and frei) wheels — Morrow, Bassett and Co, JJunedin, Christchuich and Ashburton, sole ageing,

Some idea of the enormous extent to which pocket-picking flourishes may bo had from the fact that in London alone over 100,000 men, women, and children exist on what they can relieve other people of. In the heart of George Vandorbilt's estate in America is a plot owned by an old negro, , who lives there and refuses to soil. He says he has been bothered all his life by bad neighbours, and now that he has a good ono he will not move. i Punch's advice to those about to marry "Don't." Likewise we advise: Don't be put off with imitations of SENIOR'S Linoleum Reviver, which makes floorcloth and urniture look like now. All grocers, at Ono Shilling per large bottlo. Dr Parker, the famous congregational ist j preacher of the London City Temple, has announced his intention of retiring next year. Dr Parker is 70 years old, and he lias Uptn inconsolable since the death of his third wife last year. Scene in Dbe Strket. — Two ladies meeting.—lst lady •. " You do look pleused. A\ here have you been ? " 2nd lady : " Why, I have just been up to Miss Stone's Magic Cave, feasting my eyes on the pretty toys there. Kverything is just lovely, and so cheap too ; but whom do you think I met there but Denis, Katie and the children. It would do your heart good to sec those girls with their beautiful dolls and tea sets, and the boys with their bats, balls and boats. Talk about boats, why the Theresa Ward is nothing to them. I hear the Governor will have his own carriage and pair when up country. I wouldn't wonder but what he has been to the Magic Cave, where you get toy cabs, mail coaches, pony carts, or a carriage and pair, and I don't see why the Hon. J. (I. need bother about a site for the new workshops when trains and engines can be got n-ady-made at the Magic Cave, I can tell you I am well pleased with my purl chases, anil so will yon be if you go there, and think of all that you can save by buying your toys at the Magic Caro." General Gatacre's first 23 years of military service were passed in the 77th foot, now known as the* Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex. * It was one of the most famous fighting corps in the British Army, and is commonly called the "Die-Hards." PYN'TiH < F HE<V At VKUTI3EMENTB. W H s>andre' t has a 120 aero farm fi 'o miles fr m town for sal ■ Peter Welder, aro 1; i «":, invi'es tenders for ths erec ion of a refidenco at O ir<» The -ouhlatid Board of Education invite tenders for a number of works Tenders are invited for the erection of a new jetty at Q'teenstown y. J Ouramlng has a section In Tweed Street, cI.WB to Olyde Btreet, (or sale All claims nguinst the late John McTretror to bo rendered in duplicate to Jamoj Harvey, solicitor W B Sca-dreu hai a 337 aero farm at. r inward Downß to cmp Wanted at once a. boy to milk cows and nuke himself crencrnlly useful U.ifton. W. odend, and Bluff Athletic Society - Certain entries olose on Saturday Wanted to borrow £1000 fir five years on freehold property W B a'candreU baa a 3000 acre run wllliin 30 In lea from Invercfrrgill for tale Log; — '"our Wanted a birtriaid The -Invi rcargill ity Band'u grand picnic at Gorge Road on Boxing Day Real bargains in a variety of goods at Ekenstcen's salvage Sale, Don eueet Visitors b»fore going home are requested to oall at Ekensteen'a Bluff Public Sohool— School break up on Friday evening: Wirth's Circus and Menngerie -Matinee performance thiii afternoon and usual performance in the evening ______________