THE Southland Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING Luceo Non Uro. FRIDAY, 5th MAY, 1905. Summary of News

Southland Times, Issue 19552, 5 May 1905, Page 2

THE Southland Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING Luceo Non Uro. FRIDAY, 5th MAY, 1905. Summary of News

Tho alleged national rising in Crete has descended to ruffianism and brigandage. An American (Admiral says that Britain’s big naval gtlns are as good as those of any other navy.

An obscure adulteration of colonial butter in England is reported. Its adds one-fourth to the weight. London papers speak much to the point to the discontented Boers. The Chicago strike has advanced to bloodshed and murder.

An interesting statement is made by a German Professor regarding the use of X rays in cancer.

It is persistently reported that the Chilian and Argentine navies have been sold to Russia. German action re the Marshall Islands is causing some excitement in Sydney. The Russian fleet is said to bp still hanging on to the coast of Annam and laying in stores from the French shore.

Some candid Russian opinions are expressed regarding Linevitch’s chances cs'f being beaten by the Japs China is being- touched" up on the neutrality question and the Japs have grave doubts as to France’s bona fldes in the same connection.

A young man named Halley, while working a drilling-machine in the Mataura paper-mills yesterday, bad his hand drawn, up to a pulley ly the belt. Fortunately he managed with C'!l6 ether hand to put the- machine cut of gear, and saved his arm. The limb m injured, but Dr. Searby is hopeful that there will be no serious consequences.

Bruce Charles Bakunih, son of the Russ revolutionist, who lost £52,000 by gamblin'*. suicided by tying a stone round his neck ’and jumping into the sea at Nice.

The opening of the new Rowan Catho-| lie Basilica on Sunday is an event of . widespread interest and those In Winton and Western districts Five no doubt already noted Ui'o special train arrangetaeiAe lol' their convenience. Trains run Il'om Winton, Nightcaps, and Orcpuki, and return at 4 in tho afternoon.'

Tho '* Crystal Palaeo team to play against the Australians was selected from Grace, McLaren, Fry, Wa 1 nor, Jessu’i>, George Bellnm, < Poidovin, Robson, O’Dell, Broarlcy, Lawton nr.d Sewell'.

At the inquest touching the death of Mr L. 11. Preston', of .Arrowtown, who was killed in a liuggy accident on Crown Terraco Hoad, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding a rider requesting the County Council to have the grade of the road improved.

An old age pensioner named James Roddy died suddenly at Twelve Mile Beach, Wakatipu, on Wednesday last. He had just landed from the steamer.

Mr A. Baineaves being the only candidate for the vacant seat on the Mataura Borough Council was declared elected on Wednesday.

At a social gathering ih Wellington to Mr Kerwin, tramway Ifontracling engim edr, reference was made in proposing tho toast of the Ministry to the High Commissionership. Mr Seddon, in replying, said his friends had gone so far as almost to label his boxes and take.out his ticket for London—they could take the horse to the water, but they could not make him di’ihk. He felt hb could do more good for New Zealand and tho Umpire in New Zealand than away from it, he was not going to leave the. colony.

Tho Australasian magazine “ Life,” presents an excellent number for April. For variety of matter, which is nt. once instructive olid attractive, it would be hard to light on another publication which would surpass this popular journal. British, Continental, American, and Asiatic questions are both written on and illustrated, and one unearths a fund of information, put in a most concise and readable form in its pages. The magazine has achieved great popularity, and has evidently come to stay.

The human remains -found at Gatlins and supposed to.be those of Dr. Schmidt, German scientist, lost there 50 years ago, are iiow declared to be those of Maoris. At Campbelltown yesterday, before Mr S. Nichol, J.P., a first offender was convicted and" discharged for drunkenness. Joseph Sussex was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined 20s, costs 2s, in default 14 days’ imprisonment, for a breach of the peace on the previous evening.

During the year ended 31 st March last the Invercargill ..Corporation gas works manufactured close on 30,000,006 cub. ft. of gas. Of this output, 16,168,600 cub. ft. was used in house lighting through meters, and 6,928,000 cub. ft. in stoves, engines, etc. The balance of 6,000,000 odd feet went in street lighting, at the gasworks, and in leakages, etc. The total quantity was the same as for the previous year. For ordinary lighting fully 2,000,000 extra cub. ft. were Used, and 102 new services were put in during the year.

It does not necessarily follow (says an Australian exchange) that because the Russians have voyaged so lar their ships will be difficult to handle —their bottoms being so foul. Not so long since a British warship did a continuous voyage of 5(1,000 miles, and steamed up channel at the rata of Over 14 knots an hour, three and a-half years after starting in commission. Tlio vessel in question was the Dido. Her commission began in May 1898, when she went to Los Palmas. Immediately on Her return she was sent to the Mediterranean. In December, 1899, without being overhauled, she took Lord Kitchener from Malta to Gibraltar at a speed of 18 knots to join lord .Roberts on ills way to the Cape, At less than a day’s notice she left for Hongkong, and did the 10,000 miles nt ’<>) knots. After taking part in tile Chinese incident, she went to Weihniwei, whence she ultimately relumed to Engle,nd, and was paid eft at ChatWam, after the longest continuous voyage ever made by a modern warship. (The Dido’s activity would keep betclean ; it is loitering about ports and lying at anchor that fouls a ship.)

A new motor-bus, lias made its first appearance in Christchurch. It was imported by Mr A. G. Thompson, proprietor of the motor-bus which was in Invercargill last year. The new Ims is twice the size of the old one. It has 24 horse-power, its speed is fourteen miles an hour, and it is licensed to carry 30 passengers. Its mechanism and motor is from Scotland ; the body. fixings and other v. odwork have been made in Christchurch. The seats are on Hie tip system, and are furnished with springs. A feature of the vehicle is the use of twin tyres, which make a saving in wear, and prevent side slip. Mr 'Thompson intends to put it on a permanent route in one of the suburbs. He estimates that a route three miles long, including the return trip, will lie covered in half an hour, or thirty-live minutes, counting all stoppages. Mr Thompson’s first bus, running from Cathedral Square to the station, lias carried GO,OOP passengers in nine months.

The N.Z. Railway Department is at times “ flnnicking ” in its methods to the verge of puerility and crassness. During the past summer an arrangement has existed by which passengers from the West Coast were conveyed by.rail to Otira o'n Saturday night, were brought on by coach to Springfield station, Canterbury, on Sunday, and thence, next morning, could continue their journey hy rail in time to catch the first express from Christchurch at Rolleston Junction and so reach Dunedin,, or' even Invercargill, on the same day. This was a-very great convenience, if even i>, 'as not largely availed of, for, to leave Creymo'uth at 6 p m. of Saturday and arrive in (say) Invercargill at 11.5 p.m. on Monday, was an accomplishment for which the coaching and railway services might take much credit. Last Sunday •several unsuspecting persons who had urgent business in' tlhis end of the island left Otira for Springfield by coach, only to find on arrival there that day, being Ist May, Piro train time had been altered 40 minutes for the winter months, and that they could not reach Rolleston Junction in time to catch the first south express. One, win ike p’esence in Dunedin that day might mean the loss or gain of much money, secured the only bike to lie got. and, starting from Springfield before dawn and a a thick mist, rode to Rolleston (30 miles away) in time to catch the express, leaving a consideraiiiy-damaged machine at the station for return Li? its owner. Arcther, whose destination was Invercargill, ’had to dangle his heels at Rollesion till the second express came along, mil i (ached this town on Tuesday, three bouts too late for the function for which be had made the long cold journey e'er ‘'the backbone " of the island. Surely that coach should not have run. or rhei’•■f.ring-’ field train should have been '' t. -l'l >’P ” for that day.

Provision is being made in the forthcoming French Budget for tho extinction of tlie pensions conferred by Napoleon on his generals and marshals a century ago. Berthier, Massena, Ney, Bernadotte,' Grouchy, Lannes, and Oudinot are among the historic figures of the Napoleonic epoch whose descendants have drawn pensions for 1.00 years, and are now to A e bought out at 15 years’ purchase. The reform will mean the saving of about 1,000,000 francs a year. A similar step in Britain would deprive the descendants of Lord Rodney, Earl Nelson and the Duke of Schomberg of their perpetual pensions, amounting to £77'00 per atyium. Those conferred on Lords Napier,; Hardinge, Gough, Seaton and Keane cense at the death ,of the present peers, ami will relieve the Exchequer of an nnnuiil sum of £ll.OOO. The Iron Duke’s £4OOO a year ended at the demise of ffe ,a,e Duke of Wellington. But the biggest pension in the world is the £1.9, settled by Charles 11. on his natural fon, the Duke of Richmond, and still punctually paid to his heirs, as it has been these 200 years. z

Two, cases of scarlet fever were reported in Southland during April—one at Winton and the other, at Kennington. Five cases of typhoid wore reported fit Gore, and one death followed;’ The- other patients are recovering. Three deaths from consumption were notified, and live new cases were reported. One case pf diphtheria was 1 reported from Drummohd,

Fine feathers do not always make fine birds—particularly whim .thb birds are required fol' the table, This is a homely truth , which Mr Hart, the Victorian poultry expert* emphasises in a report to the Secretary lor Agriculture. During a recent month,' out of 5000 head of fpwls submitted' for export, only 2729 were accepted as fit for shipment.. The chief cause of the rejection was poorness in condition. “ Many poultry men,”- says MiHart in his report, have yet to realise that purchasers abroad demand something more than bones for their money, and that a good coat of feathers is not sufficient to ensure the birds being passed for export. More condition is required. ’’ Fortunately this want is not found to the same extent with ducks, aild cons’eijuently rejections ate rare. News received in Sydney from the Gertiian Archipelago states that the ■ whole of the planters of German New Guinea nnd New Britain of every nationality have signed an agreement binding themselves to ship their products by the Nordeutscher Lloyd steamers tt> Australia. The agreement operates from October Ist for five yOafs, and practically means the extinction of Australian vessels trading to these groups.

Attention is directed by Messrs W. Lewis Company, Dee street, to an important cash deal in Ladies’ Winter Jackets and Ready-to-wear Costumes recently effected by the Firm's Buyers in London. The stock which .comprises in all over 600 Fashionable Garments arrived ex s.s. Corinthic and Turakina, and are now offered at less than ordinary London prices.—lt is fully anticipated that there will bo a rush for the Bargains, which are to be sold for Cash only,, while none will be allowed on approbation.—This special sale commences to-day and will be continued throughout next week.—W. Lewis and Company, Importers, Deo street.

The Governors of New South Wales have always been nieii of Which the British people may bo proud, men of intelligence and valoi', The people of Southland appreciate Baxter’s popular choice Rava Tea ; 101 b tin for 13s 9d, or Is Gd per lb. Try it. You cannot enjoy life if you are troubled with Indigestion or Constipation. But there is no Occasion to suffer from such : Dr. Crossland’s great prescription Noxol is constantly curing these troubles ; 2s bottles at all patent medicine vendors.

Notice to the Public. If you require a first-class Fur in all the Latest Shapes, see our big window display this day, an ante the Cash Price.—Price and Bulleid.

The contents of one bottle of Noxol restored two of my friends to health writes J. Bredbury Buller. If you suffer from Indigestion, Constipation or Liver .disorders it will restore you in the same way. Dr. Crossland's Noxol is a genuine remedy. 2s bottles at chemists and stores.

SYNOPSIS Of WAVY AOvERTISE'

MENUS List of new books at Wesney Bros.’ Notice to person who took package from Lumsden railway station, Mrs Grossmann may be consulted in Invercargill till end of May. Lost, small gold broJch —reward. For sale, cheap, 4956 acres Mat aura district—E. R. Roberts, Tay street. Lost, two-bar gold brooch—reward. For sale; bakery business in Invercargill—CaiSwell and Co. Notice of application for publican's license—A. Plank.

Handy knickknacks cheap at Wesney Bros.’

Lost, at the Fair, several bangles, brooches,'■'gems, etc. Wanted, a good sawyer—N. A. Ntiderer Monthly meeting Lodge Southern Cross to-night. — For sale, dairy farm at Otatari— Carswpll amt Co.-Six-roomed house, East Invercargill, for £2Bs—Carswell aod Co. Particulars of J. A. Mitchell and Co.’s Saturday sale.

To let, family dwelling at Waikiwi —W. B. Scandrett.

Lindsay and Co. for Ririme young roasting pork.

Solemn opening of new St. Mary's 11. C Church on Sunday.

Mjadam.-Elvino, physiognomist and ciairvoyant., announces the conclusion of Invercargill season.