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Southland Times, Issue 19002, 23 March 1903, Page 2

A number of Southland rowing men left (in Saturday to compete on be-half of tlii'ir dubs in the Waihola regatta, which j.u to bo hold to-day. Tho gathering is one of the most important aquatic events of the year, no less than (>"J crews having entered for the conipotitions. Ausli'iun opinion declares Unit the King of Saxony's reference t<"» Prim ess Loui.se as a woman of strong passions wus cruelly unnecessary Most people who road thr- atrocious nv.\ nifeS-to i\s briefly euhlod must hnvo boon of tlio same opinion, with, peihaps, a charitable, thought, that the Kinglet was scarcely responsible, for what lie snid. The insurances on the portion of l>?schler's hotel. recently destroyed by fiiv, having been paid over, the trustees have decided to restore the building. A contract for so doing has been let to Mr .John Crowther and a start will be made this morning. Mr .las. \V Mail. of the Pukerau .school, has been apprised th.it ho has passed the first sect i. in of the MA. ciogre« The shooting st-uson for the Southland district for native frame 'excepting gre^t Uiwi, morepork. owl, bittom. tui. huia. white heron, crested grebe iui'l blue or mountain duck) opens on Ist April and closes on .Soth .June. both days inclusive. Following are the areas within which frame and native, game may not bo taken or killed : — Uesolut ion island, ofT l>usky Sound : section 27. block 4, Invpreargill Hundred 'Mr Wills' property nt Wnikiwi) ; sections 41 and -t'J, block 7. .Jacobs IJiver Hundred (Messrs Foster and ('alder's properties') : the following bUicTTs of land >»ii the west side of the Oreti river, south of Oporo, namely sections f> to J ">. block 111. Xow Kiver Hundred ; afl that area in Paterson survey district. Stewart Island, being a strip of land 10 chains in width*— ."> chains on each side of J)nck "creek, Paterso»'s Inlet —extending from the mouth of the stream to the western boundary of Paterson survey district, a distance of about a mile and a half. Our (lore correspondent, writes :— The ! preparations for Mr McN'ab's social are being carried out with vigour. It will be something very elaborate for this distiicrt and interest, is very widespread The farmers are bestirring themselves in the matter and air; as enthusiastic, as the townsfolk. A great deal of business in being done nt present in stock, both stores and fat : many thousands being sent to northern buyers Southland can produce sheep in very large quantities but they Mjnii.st go north to be finished oil". In the Dunedin S M Court the case of Cully \. McKegg judgment was given by Mr Cnrew, SM , last week, deciding in fn\ our of the plaintilT. who. whilst lodging at tho Henley Hotel lost part of his bicycle, tho front wheel and other portions being taken" away by an undetectid thief A cluim was thereupon made against the innkeeper, and his Worship ion ml that the Innkeeper accepted custody of the bicycle, with the attonding responsibilities, by orhering his man to remove it from the stable where it was left to tho coach-house. The decision is of importance to hotelkeepers. At a .meeting of the Axemen's Carnival commit tee on Saturday night it was decided .to sell the privileges by auction and to apply for a permit to have a licensed booth on the ground. Tho New Zealand representative of K ('. Atkins and Co, IS. A , forwurdod a cheque for £10, mid it was decidedi to allocate that sum to the championship singlo-handed sawing event. A number of cyclists asked that another rue. be put on the programme, and it wus agreed to add a mile race Invitations will be sent. to inmates of the charitable homes and the hospital to attend the Carnival. So far Hi) entries have boon received for the chopping and sawing events, and l\\o time for secciving further entries in these classes was extended till Saturday next Cold medals will be given for all the championships, and it is predicted that there will be keen rivalry for their possession. " The impression of a. man who has jusl. rushed over a portiion i.f the Midland Kne, ami speaking without elaborate knowledge of it." said ?Ir l.'cdford, M.H.K., to the J'ress ( Chrisi:'jircii ) re- ' \ireaentntii\i\ " i.-j t'nat the line mojhs lo , bo v gigantic blunder The .'fill of tilt' country through which it passes that I saw was nothing but a howling W'lOerne.oy, looking at it from a u.'attcr-ui'-fact, business point, of view. The few miles from Patterson's Creek to Staircase tiully is nothing but a reries of tunnels and culverts. At one pace you emerge from one tunnel, cross a culvert, for the foundations of which tley have had to sink about 30 feet, and enter another tunnel! I should .<ay that country through^ which the lirlu pussufl will never feed it Then the proposed six-mile tunnel will be a -\ cry costly uodertai.fiug I saw tho coal outcrop, and certainly there are indications of very good bituminous coal in largo quanta lies, but it is v,ery questionable whether that will be sutlicieut to make the line pay, 0/ course the difficulty in connection with the I'.ne Is that v '. cry largo amount of money has been sunk in it, and a good deal of the most difficult work has 'been done, — at any rate until the six-mile, tunnel is reached. Candidly speaking, the line appears to me to bo a .blunder, and it is not. within moasifrable distance of being reproductive. If it were being started now 1 could rot imagine sane men undertaking it."

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