INVERCARGILL.

Western Star, Issue 387, 23 October 1880, Page 2

INVERCARGILL.

(PKO« OttU OWS OOURKBPOKDENT.)News has Veen received that the Invercargill Municipal ..oan of £20,000, bearing in?, t.-rost. at 6 per cent.,, has been floated in London at £99 11s fid. This is excellent news. Oik Municipal debentures have bee t pretty steadily increasing- in value during the last few years. If I recollect rightly, le«»: than five years back, our Corporation bonds* bearing 7 por cent., only fetched £BS. I suppose the people in the old country have found* by practical experience, that, we have not yet proved to. be -what Mr Saunders, M.H.R. tells, ns (very foolishly in my opinion) we must soon, become, ropndiators of our state liabilities. Mr Hume’s bowling green, at the back of the Southland Club Hotel was not as well frequented last Saturday ns. might have been ex*, peeled, from the opening afternoon of a new sport, and with splendid weath-r. For a long tim. past several people h ivo been talking about whft 1- - they wi u d do at howling, but I have scuivelv mei with one who had often placed* tio am In the paragraph published in the “ Souuuund Mew* ” on the subject I see some gibberish about '‘era-king egg shells, Ac.,’’ suggested as appropriate scientific language for the howling green ; and I dare say a Caledonian in a state of beer may on some occasion have talked some such nonsense. But I must any that after pi ying bowls with people of ti ethree nations off and on sice® I wis fire years old, I never came across this model language for exports to use. Mr Hume’s bowling green is not. yet in first-class order, but a n>w groan very seldom is. Ik needs rolling and the use of the lawn mower a good many times first. This week, at the close of the proceedings ofthe District Jour',,Mr Macdonald, as the scnicrbarrister present, made a little complimentary speech on the oeca-ion of His Honor Judge Harvey’s retirement from the Bench. Ih*__ Judea replied in suitable, terms. He is one of : the numerous victims of the Government re-. tranohing knife. No one knows how many more officials are to be dispensed with, or cut down in salary. Im fact letters from the seat of Government now are like the Hebrew prophets flying roll, full of curses,, and lamuu tations and woe.”"

Inspector Fox, another of tho victims, mayperhaps have some consideration shown him, on account of the powerful influence brought to hear in his favor. And ho really deserves it. Besides having ten children and thoreforo needing a.docent salary to support his family upon, ha is still in the prime of life, and' therefore quite At for nctivo duty ; and without being an official of extraordinary, talent, ho. has proved himself' a sensible sober-minded,_ judicious officer. The town is very quiet, and ■ there are verv few crimes committed, so that on the principle of payment by results he.deserves some consideration. Tin re was another largo shjnmcnt of oats by the Waimea- which left the Blqff this week for the home country. Between 7noo and 8000 bags were on, hoard 1 , besides other cereals. Southland: is looking up, especially as, the lambing and'shearing seasons aeouiAikelj to nrove good this year. The annual show of the Agricultural and-. Past oral Ass iciation will bo held: as usual on the second Thursday in the month of December, which falls this year on the. 9th, It seems a good p’an to stick as nearly. os possible, to the same time each year, ns. people at a distance can then better make their ayrange-. ments. The number of people who have-up, to tho. present time left Invercargill for Melbourne to see the Exhibition has been by no means, largo. I fancy there will he a little rush when, the holidays begin, just before Christmas, but not much before. It. is not everyone who Gaulish up even £l3 from his pocket to spend on, a pleasur * trip whenever he feels inclined. For all that I have no doubt the Melbourne Show is a very line affair, bettor oven than the Sydney Exhibition last your. Whatfvor else the Melbourne people may want, it is not enterprise. The Lib -cal Reform Association has ajp.

peared ifi a very mean light lately. The President has been sued for 80s' cab hire for carting himself, Sir George Grey, and one or two shining political lights to the gas factory ■where Sir George Q rey displayed his eloquence. The unlucky cabman has been done out of his, fare on a technical point, and Sir George and the President of the Liberal Association hare pot a free ride by adroit scheming. The best of the j"ke is that the President and Ins ■friends maintain that ho did it on principle 1