Summary of News

Southland Times, Issue 19265, 1 February 1904, Page 2

Summary of News

— « — . The Liberals have gained the .seat for Ayr by a narrow majprity. The Catholic College for Jroland question is being discussed. Continental .stocks ore. falling in value. Intense excitement hus been created by a fresh outbreak of the cotton gamble. Three more ladies have died from the effects of eating unwholesome oi poi.soned tinned beans. Probably the most lethal explosion of acetylene gas recorded has occurred in France. Considering tho handicap of long journeys by land and sea the N.Z. athletes are doing futrly-well hi the championships. America is thinking of enlarging her navy. It is said that ICamrs are joining the Hottentots who menace Germany. Th N.Z. Government (otherwise Mi Seddon) is again told that ho Should keep his spoon out of tho other people's soup. Things are. not quite so bright in the great Eastern question. Just to see what it was like a Jap. warship ha 3 bcon firing across tho bows of a Russian merchantman. English autjo-mobilists hjojve again paid the penalty of excessive speed. Hotel servants in Sydney, elated with an award of the Arbitration Court, have kicked ovar the traces Federal finance is not coming out , quite so well as last year. ! The Australian Political Labour platform is now huildcd.

The vital statistics of the Invcrcargill registration district for January were us follows :— Mirths, 31 ; deaths, IS ; marriage certificates issued, VI. For the corresponding month of last year the births ■lumbered 52, deaths 10, marriage certificates 13. Elles Koud, from St. Andrew to Newcastle street, is closed for traffic during repairs. The Christian Endeavour (movement has from a .small beginning, grown into a powerful organisation, with v worlil-witfo sphere of active usefulness. It is ono of the strongest Christina agencies of to-day and naturally (he visit of its founder, Ur Clark, to Jnvercargill is being looked forward to with eagerness and interest, ICndeavourists and members of choirs arg combining under Mr J. Hensley to mak« the musical portion of Dr. Clark's mission v kuccpsh. Tho distinguished visitor arrives in Invercargill next week, and will conduct lt mission on the 13th and 14t.h (rom which good results and mutual enjoyment and encouragement are confidently expected. Invercargill will soon be gaining a reputation as Hie home of hairpins In tho last issue of the Gazette there is a notice of the acceptance of provisional specification* from John Hamsay, builder, Invercargill, for an improved hairpin This is the third hairpin invention which hu» tome from Invercargill in recent years. At the Police Court on Saturday a man named Casey, from the Winton district was lined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for usinfc bad language, and £1. or seven days' imprisonment, for assaulting a constable. The conventional widow's wcqds aro rapidly falling into disfavour. The worship of crape uml mourning, and the external signs of grief, grow less and less jvery year— Lady Violet Groville, in The 3raphic Near Kapuka, on Saturday morning, a nan named 11. Gray met with a very ■evero accident. Ho was removing gravel ;rom a cutting, standing in tho back part )f a trolly, when the tip chain loosened, md he was thrown violently to the jround, and 1 sustained a compound fracurc,. between the kn.ee and ankle, tho imb being also badly crushed. Ho Was irought in to the Southland hospital. iad from latest accavntg doing well.

The Board of Governors of tho Southland High Schools has considered the applications lor the vacancy in the teaching staff of tho Boys' School, and Mr J. S, McOrath, Kerahills, has been appointed to the position. Mr McGrath is well known in Invercargill. In tho Marist Brothers' School he waa exceedingly popular, and among tho boys in the aphoro j of athletics he was a great favourite. It ' was chiefly through his enthusiasm that the St. Josephs School becauio prominent In football and gyinnußtics, and the Board has no doubt been influenced in making the selection by Mr McGrath's success in the playfield. He is of the most geaial nature, and will soon win the goodwill and affection of his now scholars. Much of tlio intestinal trouble, including appendicitis, which wo hear so much of nowadays, is, I feol convinced, due to tho increased amount of frozen, food which is now sold, and which is frequently eaten in a stale, more or less, of decomposition.--" Medicus," in Pall Mall Gazette. My pot aversion ie Tho Girl of the Period. Indecorous, flighty, vulgar in her speech, and unbecoming in manners, she is engaged in emulating manhood — for no other purpose than entrapping it. — " Mrs Grundy," in Public Opinion. With tho death of Herbert Spencer there has passed away tho last of the great thinkers whose writing shod lustro on the Victorian Ago. 'Darwin. Ruskin, Carlyle. Mill. Martineau, Spencer — tho century before us will he rich indeed if it produces the like of these ; and to those acquainted with the facts it is little short of marvellous that Spencer should have outlived them all— -Westminster Gazette. For many years past British comxnorcial magnates have been working less and less and taking large overdrafts in tho holiday season. If you toll tho Britisher that this may bo all right for his homo trade, but that it does not suit other customers, he replies that what is good enough for Englishmen is good enough for foreigners. — Gil Bias, Paris. As Illustrating the Internal unrest in Russia it may be mentioned that a number of towns, including Baku in tho East and Vitebsk, in the West, are now in the state known as enforced protection, which is practically equivalent to martial law. The Baku Municipal Council recently received a proposal to strengthen the police by 100 men. Tho Jews are .being constantly intimidated by the pctico with threats of massacre. In KieO and other towns the government has issued orders forbidding the assemblage of crowds in tho streets. The Governor of Kharkoff has ordered owners and managers cf factories to take special care to prevent the appearance among their workmen of disseminators of dangerous doctrines calculated to disturb tho peace. The reference is, of course, to the democratic and socialistic doctrines with which the muss of the Russian nation is being surely impregnated The symptoms of serious discontcnit in the public life of llussiu become pvery year more noticeable and ominous In the Inst issue of the Gazette there appears notice of acceptance of co»'iipl*'iij specifications in regard to applications for letters patent from H L Lockerbie, Kast Invercargill for an improved means for hanging sashes, doors, and the ■ t K»t- . frcm James I'urdie, Dunedin, for an iniprovod wave-motor, a device for utilising the restless energy of the sea waves ; from Henry Allen. Darguville. for an improved Venetian blind, the idea being to construct the. blind in tureo sections, each operating independently of the sluts tn the other sections ; from William and Alexander Koss (late of Invercnrgill), Napier, for a combined flax-combing and washing machine Provisional .specifications have been accepted from Samuel Pepniston. Avenal. for an improved ;ipparntus for dipping sheep. At the meeting of the Liberal and Labour Association of Southland t>n Saturday, the President (Mr T. O'Byrnc) stated that during a tour through the Western District lately he had added 200 names to iho membership. Arrangements were in course of completion for the banquet to the Premier, for which tickets wert 1 selling well Tho evening was devoted to v discussion on preferential Irude, Mr M. Gilfedder leading off in favour with an address, in which he contended that British commerce had not, during the past 30 years, advanced in the same ratio as that of protective countries. He submitted that while preferential trade nt Home might have the effect of raising the price of breadstuds, such a rise would bo only temporary, until the colonies could supply sufficient to meet Hoiinp requirements. There was n fair umount of discussion pro and con, ami a resolution atlinning the. principle was carried, Mr Giliedder being thanked for his address. On 13th inst. the Association will discuss the Chinese labour in South Africa question Some time ago (says tho Western Star) a resident of this district, charmed with the glowing advertisement in a Melbourne print of an ullegt'd medico's wonderful cures wrote for a supply, which duly cnnie to hand, nt v cost of £7. Having occasion to visit Melbourne, ho thought he would call on the Kent lonian who had such a great reputation— in an advertisement. He did so, with the result that ho found him non-existent, and thut v dispensing establishment wan being rup by a woman in the nuiine of a mythical medico. — That was a mild fraud. In a city in Britain there is- a building of the tlutiron or gusset type, having frontages tcthree streets and entrances from each. In the centre of this triangle a clever scoui'drel secured a room which had a passage and door leading from each street. Tlioroom, again, was partitioned into three. and dupes were advised to consult, say. Dr. Cureall. West street. Professor Grub, South street, und Tho Grout Specialist, North street. In this spider's webb the rogue did the " lightning change " business very profitably with tho assistuncu of a boy or two. who would say Cureall was out or ongagod. while Grubb or t'other fellow was fleecing a lamb or a fool beyond tho partition. The Murihiku Tent of Hechabites' bal-ance-sheet shows tho position of tho accounts to be as follows .—Sick fund uccount, £2130 V»s Dd ; contingent account, £43 10s id ; funeral fund and trust account, £10. Those amounts are invested thus :— On mortgage, £2075 ; in bank, £.105 9s Id ; on trust (funeral account), £10. During the past five years the funds of tho. Teuty have, increased .by £707. The amount disbursed for sick pay during the past year was £139 13s 4d, distributed among 18 members. Tho membership now is :— Full benefit, 11? ; honorary, 14. The oflicors for tho present term are :— C.R., Bro. W. Ashley ; I>.H., Bro. S. D. I'earce ; treasurer, Bro. W. Sirang ; secretary, Bro. J. Heij.sloy ; Lovito, Bro. Wallace ; writirfg steward, Bro. Cooper. PC H. Bro. .J. L,. Lennio was the recipient of a handsomely-framed cerlilicaU'. Tn making the prosortlation, Bro Stewart bore testimony to tho able manner in which Bro. Lennio had eorducted tho business during his term ol office. Bro Kissell was presented with a gold emblem in recognition of his services with the Juvenilo Tent, und was renppointed superintendent.

Every community has been benefited by the introduction of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy into this country. There is scarcely a neighbourhood but that some one can be found whose life has been saved by its use. It is the best-known medicine for all forms of stomach and bowel troubles. It nover falls to give immediate relief, and can always be depended upon. For sale by Macalister and Co., chemists, Dee 6treet. Information has been received in Wellington that two or three mining experts are on their way from Home to report to some London capitalists upon tho extent of tho deposits of limestone, iron ore, coal, etc., in certain parts of the Auckland district. |