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Southland Times, Issue 19102, 20 July 1903, Page 2

During the past week' there were admitted to the Southland Hospital <i male and <i female patients ; discharged 4 males and 2 females ; remaining, '2'V males and 13 females : .lied, I'aul Rogers, 510 years. The visiting trustees 'for this week are Messrs John McQueen and U. Allen. The secretary acknowledges a donation of £3 7s from Mr W,

Th» attention of performing members is dir«et«d to the Musical Union's advort.'jemont in this Issue.

.Our Mossburn correspondent informs U6 that, 10 inches of snow fell on Tuesday, 10th inst., and very little has melted yet, as it has been' freezing day and night since the snow fell. Stock are beginning to" suffer.

At Arrowtown on Thursday night the thermometer fell to 8 degrees below zero, Fahr., or" 40 degrees of host.

Before leaving for Clyde on Saturday, Nurse Thomson was presented by the hospital staff with a travelling rug and fur muff as a recognition' of the goodfellowship that had existed between her and the other members.

The Welsbach Company promise? to shortly put an Indestructible incandescent onantle on the market. If they .can do that they will secure many more buyers.

Middlesex County had up to 12th June won every match they had played, Yorkshire had been beaten by Somerset, Sussex and Middlesex, the latter winning by nine wickets, Hearno taking 10 Yorks- wickets for 114 runs. Paul Kodgers, aged about 30, and married, died in the • o-rt« *«1 on Saturday night from injuries received earlj in the day. Deceased was a settler al Tisbury, and shortly before 10 o'clock was destroying a stump on his section, in the vicinity of his house. Ho :.nsort« ed a charge of gelignite, and fired tho fuse, retiring behind vie bouse for shelter, lie had evidently put his hej\d round the cornor to see the explosion and was struck by a flying lump of wood, which fractured his skull. Ilia wife found him insensible shortly afterwards, and Dr Cantrell, who was sent for, advised his removal to the hospital where death suporv.jnod. 'V>i inquest will be held this morning.

A traveller who was somewhat behind in the running for the refreshment room at a northern station, succeeded in elbowing his way to the counter just in time to and nothing left but buns. He took two. " Eightpenee," said the proprietor. " Fourpenc© each for stale buns?" gasped the hungry traveller. " That's our prk*e<.'' There was no time to haggle. The 'man paid up a»d 11 ew for his seat. A few mornings afterwards the caterer received by post a heavy package insufficiently stamped. There was a- shilling to pay. Inside, on the top of a box full of damp a and. was a note : " Don't you think fourpence is rather a high price for buns- ?"

Mr Paterson's lecture to agricultural students was fairly well attended on .Saturday morning. At a meeting of the Executive Committee who arranged the lectures, it was decided to charge 5b lor each' course of lectures, instead of issuing tickets for both courses. Tho reason tor the alteration is tnat some who wished to attend are not inclined to Lake up both anatomy and chemistry, and they will thus bo able to make their choice at a very moderate fee. The single lectures will stilt be available — one shilling ouch.

In tho 13 years between 1888 and 1901 there was a diminution of 758 a unen of British Dirth employ-id «>i l'ritish ships,- .. while tho foreign sailors were more numerous by 12..184. In the same time the number of Lascars employed rose Irom 18.427 to 37,431. A commission lately sitting on tbe subject says this is not so alarming as it looks. The fact is that British snipping trade is increasing faster than the population, and she must employ loreigners or go without, the trade.

The New Plymouth Harbour Board purposes to borrow about £150,000, spread over six years, so as to give accommodation for ocean liners.

A letter received from Mr It. \V. Jones by the last mall states that on his arrival in London he was met by Mr Oeorgo Hailey, who was on the eve of his departure for New Zealand, with the intention of settling in Wellington. When he wrote Mr Jones had been only two days in England, but had secured the satisfactory assurance that < nothing resembling his pneumatic knife cleaner had becri patented, so that there woulu be no dirticulty in securing his rights, although the process would occupy two months., Mr Jones haß sent us. tne programme of the Grand Farewell Concert held on the spar deck of the K.AI.S. Vrontea. The motto is "As friends we met, aa friends we part." The programme was printed in orthodox style on board the steamer. Mr Jones appears as president of the committee-, and also took part in the overture.

Writing- with reference to i)io circular issued by the Government prohibiting public servants from asking M.'3.J1.K.~ to give them a friendly lift, ihe Mataura Knsign says : " The weight of the millstone of lavouritism w*uv ilie Uo\ernmont has hung about it* own iteck iis now beginning to make itself telt, and consequently there is a desire on the part of the Administration to rid itsel/ of the chafing, galling incubus.. For years t.he wonderment of those not admitted to the counsels of the faithful has been excited in the endeavour to conjecture how long the finances of the colony and the temper of the pooj>le would stand the strain of v oolicy oi pitch-forking into othcQ every jackanapes who chose to mako good Ms claim for having loyally and loudly supported the cause of the Liberal party. Billets already in. existence have beon crammed three deep with vois j>;>aoU;B M t:mo servers, and when the supply of available positions gave out new departments and now billets were created to cope with the ever-incmising demand from sycophants for reward of some kiDd, however mean or lowly. Bat the end of it all is in sight. The Government through sheer stress of circumstances has come to recognise that ' in pandering to the cupidity of humanity it has let loose upon itself a raging torrent of hungry billet-hunters, the volii.ue of which must necessarily go on .increasing until it is swallowed up in the Hood of iniquity and corruption.

During the present weather a splendid opportunity is aJlorded for the systematic destruction of small Ijirds (writes a correspondent to tho Press, Christchurch). Kvidence of wha-t may be dono is forthcoming from the fact that over 700 birds were destroyed in one day ou a farm in Springfield. The means used were poison umt shot. A word or two on the latter method may not b© uninterming. The shot used is JNo. 10, much preferable to what is known as "dust shot," while the amount ol powder is a trifle more, vhaa half that usually found in a cartridge. A trail composed of oatsheaf should be laid loi a distance of IX yards, and just a foot wide. Ureat care should bo taken that the trail is on a perfectly level surface, and that ua stray neatly of oats* are outside the 12in limit. The t,rail should be laid in such a place. that the gunner be concealed begincl a fence or something} similar, within 126 yards of Ittio near end of the trail. B © should . tiro from tho kneeling pbsition at the middle of, and in lino with, the trail. ' »A fow results are interesting. Teh shotssecured 400 birds. The greatest number that fell to a single shot was G'6.

• One of our local poultry fanciers (says the Clutha Leader) got somewhat of a surprise the other day." Soiuo wc«k or two o#o there arrived to his order- a whit© Wyandotte cockerel and a pair of pullets, in' fuliiMnent to an order ho gave about live- months ago to the representative of a certain Poultry Company, and which were to be imported from America. Tho birds gave e^ery satisfaction, and were a source of much admiuatiou and congratulation. This happy state continued till the oud of last wee- I',1 ', wJien ho invited a well-known fancier from another district who was pusMny through and had an hour to spine, to see the ne^Y arrivals. This gentleman aunost immediately recognised one of the pullets as one he had himself recently sold, and another as one thut tooK third prize at the recent Tinraru show. Of the cockerel, more anon perhaps. Tho discovery was rather a ruda shock to our local fancier, who is now busy investigating. The birds cost him £10 10s.

A good story comes fro.m tt locality— well, sny, somewhere on fchis side of VhAslaftd.s. A gay young Lothario, who lound that the object * of his devoted attentions had suddenly " grown cold and indifferent, wus very much affected thereby ; so much, indeed, that ho quite went o|f his food and cow Id not sleep at nights. He wrote a pathetic ..note to' his quondam lady love, in which: he expressed his intention of drowning himself in a streaim near by, and pushed it under .the door of the house where she lived. (He made off in the direction of the stream in question, but forgetting that ft barb-wiro fenco impeded hia course, and ~the night being dark he stumbled across it a^id fell on a stono on the other side, cutting his head somewhat and rendering himself insensible. In this condition ho was found by a neighbour, his fatto be&meuii'ed. in blood. As there is said to be n. slight change for the^hetter in the feeling toward him of the object of his alYectto.'ia, further developments are not anticipated. — Clutha Leader.

Thomson and Beattie, Limited, make a vary >p«cial offer in made-to-ord«r dresses. A neat and useful drees, complete for 3<9a, and a coat and/skirt for ■455. These pnices are for the garments complete irt every way, and finished in them usual first-class style, trimming excepted, but trimming will also be offered- at specially low prices. That the market is crowded with, inferior tools of the samo stylo aH the Excelsior Horse Hoe and Cultivator makes it necessary for us to draw attention to the fact that the Excelsior is made from first-class, high-grade material only- Price 1 , with lulling attachment complete, £3 lOs. Evory fanner should be provided with (.his ini,»;ement. —Morrow, Bassett and v'o., importers. " One of our boys is rathor delicate and subject to contracting croup and colds very easily," says John Congden, Hnvelockt, N.Z. "We have- experimented with many kinds of cough mixtures, but have bad such splendid results from using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy that we now use it exclusively. - We have never had a case that it did not cure promptly and effectively. Undoubtedly it is the best cough remedy in the market." Only Is 6d per bottle. Sold by Macalister and Co.