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Southland Times, Issue 19728, 31 January 1906, Page 2

(; j van line weather there ■ hould be a attendance at Hu* Qm-n’s Park toda\~ to witness the resuscitation of cycle luring, This exciting sport died a natural (K . ilth j,, this district a year or two ago, but tlie interest taken in cycling events at the various sports indicates that the public appetite for this branch of sport has more than recovered its ohl-lime keenness. The programme for loday bus been skilfully arranged, and ifs attractiveness lias been much enhanced by tlio inclusion of running events. For ill' fvelo racos splonUid entries have been received. including all the Southland riders of note, and competitors from Camara. Taieri. Tinuiru, Roxburgh, Alexundra South, Milton, and Christ-, ( Ijn nil, 1 lie number of the contestants and their quality makes keen finishes a certainty. for the 135 yds. Sheffield there are r.o less than 22 entries, while .six teams will compete in the mile relay race. The f-st exeat starts at 2 p.m., and in order to carry through the hig I ro';i - u.mine the olficials will roquire to keep tilings moving throughout the at-* ieruoon. There will be a quick, succession id iiilervHting races. and spectators should not. find a dull imument during the day. ■fhe three Magistrates who heard the eiapiirv in connection with the Invercargill licensing poll, considered their decision yesterday, and the announcement will lie made in the Court at 10 a.m. tod iy. ' The member for Malaurn will shortly lake his annual holiday. The Standard; says Hint Mr Ale Nab intends making an extended tour of the Commonwealth cities, ami will be absent from the colony about a couple of .months. Goiisehei ry bushes about Wyndham- are a'fected by the pest which has done so much damage in Invercargill this season. Mr A. Laidlaw took .to the Herald office s-.iiiue specimens of grubs .which attach 'heinselvps to the bashes and feed upon the leaves, their home being a cocoon. He is of opinion that their operations account for the denudation of the leaves. 'file Garrison Rand s progmmme this evening will lie : March—Joyce's 71st Regiment < Boyer) ; waltz—Light and Shade (Round) ; selection—Gems of Irish .Melodies (OrU Hume) ; cake walk— Hot Time (Neatl ; selection —Carmelite (Cope) ; Wall/, —Myrinc .(I.aski) ; Fantasia—Bonnie Scotland (Metcalf) ; Quick- 1 step—Quarter Column (Ilunie). The concession made by the Railway Department in issuing week-end tickets from Invercargill to Riverton is not meeting with much appreciation. For the ten weeks Hull these tickets have been issued Hie average is only thirteen passengers. The Riverton people 'should beet ir themselves if they wish to popularise- their district ns a holiday resort. Military Revellers - picnic at Ocean Beach to-day, the outing being intended ns a mack of appreciation of the services of those who assisted to make the Revel so great a success. At meetuig of the I.H.C. Horn! fete committee yesterday it was reported lhatj the project was being enthusiastically pushed along ni.d everything pointed to o successful issue. The committee decided lo add to Hie competitions a four-in-hand team of cyclists (decorated), and children's decorated toy events. The Southland Rifle Club lire a, handicap sweepstake at Grasmere to-day ranges TOO and 600 yards, and the City Guards also hold their final competition for the belt. i

The Telcßtaph Depariment hod tfio request of Wendon settlers lor an extension of the telephone sendee. The crcctipn of Will be commenced shortly. . ■ ■» .

All the heats of the..- 1.R.0. presidents fours have been rowed,,-the results being Hint Huy bent Cameron, Callender beat Moekridgo, .Callender beat Ellis, Macdonald beat Huy. In each case tjtovmdng hits been close and exciting, none of the house being a length gpart at the finish-, mg point, so that the final, at .5-IT) this evening between Callender and jAhcdonnld. should furnish one of the most interesting races yet rowed by the club. On Monday night the Bluff branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation tendered n social to Mr J. P. Roberts, who is leaving the port to join the Tourist Department. There was a large gathering and Mr Roberts was presented with a gold pendant, and Mrs Roberts with a go-d brooch.

Gore school children picnic at Riverton to-day, and several rinks of bowlers will accompany them in order to try conclusions witli the sea-side club.

It is understood (says Mataura Ensign,/ Dial a local resident has secured the base of that portion of the railway reserve at the corner of Main and Medway streets, which was occupied some years a;o by the lire brigade station. It is sail to be tin intention of the lessee to nejt a large two-storeyed brick building to be used tor business premises.

Mr Cl,ns Gray and stall notify that country pupils will be received on Saturday. ami that town students resume loss' ns on Monday.

A young man named Robert Mullen, was thrown oil’ ids bicycle Monday evening, in the vicinity of Bdetidale. Ho was carrying a sickle, and the blade s ruck tlie forefinger of his right hand, and partially severed the bone.

The newly formed Mataura Bowling Club play their first inter-club match today, when a Northern! team will pay them a visit.

A local case ,of litigation, in which some hundreds of pounds are involved, it, likely to engage the attention of the Magistrate at Invercargill in the near future. —Wyivdhum Farmer.

An interesting case was investigated by I lie Government apiarist in town on Tuesday. The hive in question had been transferred from a candle-box some time previously, and although carefully nursed,the number of bees dwindled noticeably. The day before Mr Hopkins inspected the hive a swarm issued from it. Left in the hive were a few handfuls of .bees and a good deal of drone brood, evidently iaid ‘by a worker-bee. From this one would conclude that the hive had been ([uecnlcss for some time, as that is the only condition under which a worker ever commences to lay eggs, which pnoduce* merely useless drones. The departure e)f the bees might, be another evidence of epieenlessness. the bees having taken themselves of in sheer desperation. But yesterday the absconders were discovered ,n the customary cluster, bearing every indication of nn ordinary swarm led by aqm en- Here is an apparent contradiction, and Air Hopkins's interpretation of the farts on his return to town will lie interesting. Yesterday the expert journeyed to the Wyndham district. He i-i expected to return to-night, and will probably go on tei Queenstown towards the end of the Week.

The British mails which left Invercargill an the 20th December, via Melbourne and Brindisi, arrived in London on 261b

A poll was taken list week on a proposal to borrow £50,000 to living the t'liiistclunch drainage works up to requirements. Of some 7SOO possible votes on‘y 660 were polled and as there was cumulative voting the figures do not even represent the number of persons who tooh Ihe trouble to ncord votes. The proposal was lost, there not being a throe-fifths majority. The work proposed to be done is urgent us. from the flat character of the country, the sewage lias to be pumpid and tin- city has outgrown the capabilities of the engines and sewers since the original scheme was completed a (.mirier of a century ago.

'Our Matanra correspondent reports that Mr Tims. Culling, who has been seriously ill in Dum-diii. is improving in health and will shortly take a recuperative trip to the North Island.

The meeting ol the South Invercargill borough Council on .Monday evening was attended hy the Mayor (Mr W. J. Per-l-ins), Councillors brown, Cushcn, Martin, Lyons, Hilton, Mason, Holloway, Peace ami Coaling Messrs Tothill and Wat son hit imated that two roads in Ellesland has been dedicated to the borough.—L. Miithesou asked the Council to cancel his lease of the gravel reserve in Seaward bush, it was decided to inform him that when he carries out the necessary improvements the Council will consider the application.—The dog tax was fixed at 7s (id.—The Council recorded a vote of thanks to the Town Clerk for his services in connection wdth ttie raising of the lonn of £7500. It was resolved to carry out all works under the loan by day labour, instead of under the contract system. —Accounts amounting to £329 (in id were passed for payment. We (Star) hear that the Riverton Harbour board are to bo asked to call for an enquiry into the stranding of the i Rose Cusey, which, hy the way, will soon ho out of dock Spain to resume her running. In the recent Civil Sir-ice examinations the Invercargill candidates gained the following posi lons in the list arranged in orler of merit for the colony "• —Robert Kennedy, Ist for the colony ; l.enoru Jan • Frayne. 20th ; Carl August lb reiulsen. 28lh ; Cecil James Hurley, -Ibth ; Irene Gladys Raymond, i’Bth ; Tcrtia becima Donald CuC.ie Meek, 78th; beuti-iee l.ily McKullar. 81sl ; Arthur Bolton Speight, 81th ; Ernest Winsloe George. B.SIII ; Alfred George Kerr, 132 nd: Thomas Oakley William Urchuer. 144 Hi; Elizabeth Isabel! i Sulmond, 17lst ; Maggie Young, 188 th ; Arthur .1 amo.s Kcaucy, I'Joth ; .lames Quin 221 si ; George Douglas Cochrane, SHOth ; Christina Isabella Garnison, 213 rd ; Marian Katherine Unveil. 2r>3id ; Frederick Henderson Joyce, 235111 - , ( liarles John Fisher. 29.3 th; George Francis lnder, 310 th ; Euphemia Miriam Stephens, 318 th ; Wall ace Watson King, 321st; and Alfred Ernest Reynolds, 334 th.

The driver and guard who were adjudged to have been the cause of the railway collision at Matamau, Hawke’s Bay, during the holiday season, have, been discharged from the railway service. Their instruction was to remain at Mntamuu station till another train passed, but this they apparently forgot and, passing on, the trains came into collision in a cutting on n sharp curve.

Although it is looking a considerable distance ahead, wo understand that as soon as the boundaries of the now electorate, to which Southland on a population basis is entitled, are announced, (.'ore will supply a Ministerial candidate in the person of a gentleman well known in local government affairs.—Ensign.

The gold export returns fthe ~imrter ended 31st December last for the various districts were us follows :—Auckland, 68,3950z, valued at £274,364 ; Nelson, 5020z, valued at £2009 ; West Coast,, 18,67X0z, valued at £74,465 ; Otago. 37,7L8iiz, valued at £159.950 total, 125,2890z, valued at £591.788- The amounts Infng the total entered for exportation up to 31st December. 1995, up to 17,14G,6270z, valued at £07,230,584. The principal districts contributing to this total were ; Otago. £25,369,315 ; West Coast. £20,432,079 ; and Auckland, £13.791,308. In the Otago district the Southland County is the second richest in gold production. Vincent County is the richest, producing £53,453. The figures for Southland are 10,G230z, valued at £41,812.

Municipal employes arc sparing no efforts to make their outing on Wednesday 14th a gala day. They intend to arrange a noad race to Branxhoßne, while the Cycling Club lend additional interest by holding a billy run to the same rendezvous.

Grasß-cuttinj) is now*proceedin'# throughout the Western, district. ’ There appears to bo n fairly, largo area under crop this season, and some of It promises good .yields. ■

For the year ended 31st December, 1905, the principal ports of the colony collected Customs and excise duties to the following amounts 1 :—Wellington, £681,493 ; Auckland, £663.917 Duuediu £41fi,360 ) Christchurc - ’, £383,644 : Napier; £84,896; Invercargill, £81,191. ; Wanganui, £71,638 ; Nelsojj/ £10,.,26 ; Timaru, £85,698.

The special order made by the Council of the Borough of South Invercargill levying a speci.nl rate the construction of public works, has been gazetted.

On 3st January, 190(5, the National Bunk had £22 11s 2d, in sums varying J from £1 10s Id to £8 14s 4d, waiting claim by the owners. The Bank of New j Zealand hold £O2 t*->s I'd ol unclaimed | money on behalf of seven owners, the i amounts at credit varying 'from Is 8d to £43 12s 6d. The Union Bonk held j £(?0 Is 2d of unclaimed rroiny on Ue’.iaU j of eight owners, the separate sums ranging from 10s Cd to £3O IPs. j The business of the principal post and telegraph offices of the colony is shown 1 by the return of revenue for the quarter ended 31st December last. The principal collections of post and telegraph rt were as follows: Wellington, £40.009 ; Auckland, £30,437.; Christchurch. £23,163 ; Dunedin, £18,904 ; Wanganui. £13.220 ; .Napier, £10,635 ; Invci cat gill, £8245 ; and Timaru, £6555. . Formers ! Do know that the J Alpha-Lnval Cream Separator has beaten the World, nod is now on sale at Mason, Struthcm Co.. Ltd., Toy street {oppos tc Court House). Terms arranged. Mrltr for Catalogue. WANTED fNOWN.—Trice and Bulleid have their Annual Cheap Sale now <yi, and for Reliable Hoods Price and Bnll'C have earned a distinctly enviable reim tation throughout • Southland. l«e'er before in the history of the Bon M« rch Stores has there been such unique variety of sale bargains to oler. To-l >y end to-morrow (Saturday) every .hv.m.'-.ment should be crowded with huycia. ?<• a that can possibly shop in the rmrnir.g should do so for their own contort. Dr Crossland says that every man and woman whose liver and stomach are out of order must .take his special inscription, 89878, known as Noxol, if they wish to know what good health is. This rented/ is a-sure thing for constipation, indigest.on, liven and stomach complain s. 2s, at chemists and stores. Gi?t a h'dtl to-day. SYNOPSIS Of NEW ADVERTISE. WSLNTS . Montgomery's Pictures in Zcalundia Hall to-night. Wanted, a competent che.’SO-maker. Tenders additions to trorc post office. Wanted, a lady help for the country. Annual meeting of Southland 1 iw.cn Meat Co. on 10th February. To let, room in National Dank building —I, W. Raymond and Co. Good tenant wants house of six rooms. Special sale of new potatoes and Teviot fruit to-morrow—Todd and Co. Large sale of furniture to-morrow— Todd and Co. Alemhcrs Court Star of South requested to attend funeral of late Bro. Holland For safe, hew six-roomed itouse near Water Tower—lV. B. Scandretl. Wanted to borrow £l5O. Wanted to hire an invalid's chair. To let for a term, 8-rootued house—R. .1. Gumming. R. Trist Searell inserts a notice to intending pupils. Dairy cow for sale—J. A. Mitchell ami Co. J ewis’s great clearance sale starts tomorrow. Jam jars, preserve hollies, cheap at Goidm Brown's, C. Rout and Co. have! a HM.t acre farm for lease.