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Western Star, Issue 2112, 20 May 1896, Page 2

An Omission— 'ln our notes regarding the visit of Bishop Neville to this district in our last issue an omission of three lines made part of the information read absurdly. It vras made to appear as if the soiree musicals was to follow the service on Tuesday at Orepuki. The two things have no oonneotion. The soiree mnsioale is to take place in Riverton, and the omitted lines read ; “ Parishioners of this part of the district will have an opportunity of meeting the Bishop at the Elizabeth street hall at 8 p m on Wednesday evening. The proceedings will take the form of a soiree mnsioale with refreshments.” We refer readers to advertisement for dates of all meetings during the Bishop's visit. Money to Lend—By an announcement in this issue it will be seen that Mr Jbseph Lyle has money to lend in any anta on the most favorable terms.

Wedding.—A correspondent writes:—A very pleasing ceremony was witnessed at the Catholic Chapel, Invercargill, on the llth, viz. —the marriage of Mr David Reidy, bootmaker South Invercargill, to Miss Bertha Emmeline Stevens, school teacher, Seaward Moss. The bride was attired in a violet velvet gown trimmed with white silk. Her tuelle veil was fastened with a spray of jeejamine, and she carried a bouquet of choice white flowers, the gift of the bridegroom’s sister. The bridesmaid was Miss Minnie Reidy, sister of the bridegroom. She wore a costume of black mohair trimmed with white silk and white silk ribbons. Mr Edmond Reidy was beat man. After the ceremony a sumptuous breakfast was partaken of at the residence of the bridegroom’s mother, where a largely attended and very enjoyable dance was held in the evening. Too Much Law.— Discussing the recent prosecutions under the early closing section of the Shops Act, one man wound up what he called a clinching argument by remarking in his own expressive phraseology, “ Blow me, every third piece of waste paper you pick up on the street is either a new law or an inpector’s notice.”

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The Waimatuku Concert, We have pleasure in directing attention to the concert to take place at Waimatuku on Friday night, and as the proceeds are in aid of the hall fund the attendance should be large. The following Invercargill talent will appear:—Mr and Mrs Blue, Miss Inues, and Messrs Grenfell, McKay, J. Blue and Geddes. The local favorite, Miss Gilchrist, will also sing. The concert will open with an orchestral selection by the Blue family assisted by the leading Invercargill musicians,

Accident —On Friday, as James Newton, son oi Mv W Newton of West Plains, was attempting to slip the belt from the driving wheel of a thrashing mill at Waianiwa, while in motion, hia right arm was caught and terribly crashed. Ho was convoyed to the Invercargill hospital. Put to the Test.-— A writ claiming £IOOO damages has been issued against Mr T. E. Taylor, of Christchurch, on behalf of Captain Popham for statements made on a public platform at Gore regarding Coker’s Hotel, Christchurch. The alleged libel appeared in the Mataura Ensign,

A Remarkable Suicide— -A remarkable suicide is reported from Raglan. A young man of 25 years of age, who had the misfortune to be a remittance man, became melancholic because a remittance he looked for did not arrive. He stood on a barrel, fixed a rope round his neck and round a rafter in a lonely building,and then severed his windpipe with a razor. The barrel fell over, and when found ha had been dead soma time.

Women to the Pore— The Ardgowan estate is evidently about to bo largely settled by women. At the balloting 31 out of 64 sections were disposed of, and in 14 instances women were the successful applicants. So far only five of the successful applicants are from outside the Oamarn district. Scriptural Competition.— The * Referee has been organising a prize competition in appropriate Scriptural texts bearing on topics of the day; Some of the specimens sent in are amusing, and the following may be given as examples : Dr Jamieson’s raid—" Paul waited for them,” —Acts xvn 16. “ And they caught him.” —Matthew xxi 39. ** The Judges shall make diligent inquisition.”— Deuteronomy xix 18. “ There shall be no punishment to thee for this thing.”—Samuel xxviii 10. The Rontgen Photography—- “ Searching all the inward parts.”—Proverbs xx 27. “We look not at the things that are seen, but the things which are not seen.”—2 Corinthians iv 18. A Careless Youth.— A Victorian lad was jumping from a cart with a gun at full cock in his hand, when it exploded. The charge struck a flask of powder the lad carried in his breast pocket, firing the powder. The flesh was blown from the lad’s armpit, making a nasty wound. The powder flask saved the boy’s life by turning off the charge of shot. Osman Digna —Osman Digns, who is causing all the present trouble in the Soudan, was not originally a soldier of fortune, bat the son of a Turkish trader, and starred life in the slave trade. Bankruptcy converted him into a warrior, and he has since nourished dreams of vengeance against the British, whose cruisers spoiled his trade and brought him to beggary. This took place in 1883, in which year he joined the ranks of the Mahdi’s followers just after the massacre of Hicks Pasha’s force He soon became a persona grata to the Mabdi, who made him Emir of the Eastern Soudan. Upon this appointment Osman lost no time in attacking Suakin, and kept np a warfare for yea r s, during which ho was regularly killed about once a month. It was he who out uo Barker Pasha’s force at El Teb, and, though subsequently defeated by General Graham, he was not dismayed. For seven years he continued to harass Suakin, and for a time he settled himself at Tokar, but in 1890 he was driven out of the place by Turkish troops. Thereupon the Khahfca dismissal him and sent him to Adaraman, where he has] since remained.

A Nett Ilwjminant—Gas companies all the world over should be shaking in their shoes ’A discovery, which, it is presumed, will make a great stir in the scientific world is to be one of the attractions of the Swiss National Exhibition, which opens at Geneva his month. The discovery is “acetylene,” and this, we are informed, is a gas produced hy “ depressing and compressing the atmosphere down to 4lsdeg below zero.” Under this barbarous treatment the atmosphere succumbs into a liquid, which, in honour of of the discoverer, is called Liquid Pictet. When this mentamorphosed atmosphere is allowed to expand, it becomes a gas with, it is claimed, “ thirty times the illuminating power of coal gas, measure for measure/’ The coat of producing this new illuminant is aopnximately the same as that of coal gas, so acetylene can be supplied at one-thirtieth tho price of the common or coal variety. It sannds too good to be trao. Experience of the Truck Act—Mr Henry Fielder, of Wellington, who recently gained some experience of the working of the Truck Act, is somewhat sarcastic in announcing it. Alter explaining that many of his customers are so poor that if they furnish their homes at all they can only do so on the time payment system, he proceeds •" Among people helped in that way were fire of H. F.’s ow i workmen. One of them who furnished his house at a cost of £l4 (to H F, not himself), agreed to pay the debt off at the rate of 8s per week. After working a few weeks he took a holiday, and said “ he did not believe in working a dead horse off.” He was persuaded to start work again, and soon took another holiday ; and as he was about to go for a voyage, H F endeavoured to compel payment in the S.M. Court. The court had to administer the law as the Seddon Government had made it, and this iniquitous Truck Act not only gave the debtor the furniture, but ordered H P to return all the money paid under the hire system. This new way of paying debts induced four other workmen who had furnished their homes on a similar plan to drop their tools, and send lawyers’ notices to refund the moneys paid, and wages for every day they were kept out of them. H F has much pleasure in informing his patrons and the general public that he has become acquainted with the bearings of clause 7 of the Truck Act at the ridiculously low figure of £72, and he trusts that other manufacturers will obtain their education on more favorable terms.”

General Booth’s Record.— -During his seven months tour round the world, just completed, General Booth travelled close on 38.000 miles, the journeys occupied 2,562 hours, and of that time 690 hours were spent at nights in the train. He delivered 800 addresses, and the whole attendance of the meetings be addressed was estimated at more than 283,000 people—people of divers tongues and colors. Club. Oh arte rs„— Ministers, says the Wellington Post, have decided that, pending legislation placing clubs under control, no new charters shall be granted. This reply is to be sent in answer to the application for a charter made by th® Feilding Club, Fair Exchange—A Sydney burglar burgled a suburban residence the other day and annexed £lO worth of goods and chattels, but “ while engaged in maturing his felonious little plans,” as Mr Gilbert expresses it, he dropped a roll of notes worth £2OO, which the householder promptly popped in the bank. Fair exchange is no robbery. New Cargo Steamer. —Progress is being made with the new steamer which is being built by Mesrss Harland and Wolff at Belfast. As a matter of fact, she is to be a White Star steamer, and will virtually take the place of the Doric in the running to and from Now Zealand, but she will be strictly a cargo boat, carrying only third class passengers, or, perhaps, a few in the second class—no first class. She will bo a twin-screw steamer of great size, with a capacity for 90.000 frozen sheep and 10,000 bales of wool. She will be much larger than either the Tokomaru or the Aotes, and is expected to be ready for the season of 1897. Ik is not yet known what her exact tonnage will be, probably 7000, and her name has not yet been decided upon. Arrest or Armenians. Two hundred Armenians have been arrested at "Constantinople within the last few days by order of the Snltan, who fears the existence of a plot on his life.

Bible Text Book.—As showing how little interest is taken in the Bible Text boobs for schools, a gentleman told the Dunedin Budget that be has sought a copy in every bookseller’s shop in Dunedin, but cannot get one. There have not been half a dozen inquirisa for it. He questions very much if half the clergymen who are making a noise about the book have ever looked into it.

Chakitablb Aid— The chairman of the Dunedin Board thinks charitable aid is assuming too gigantic proportions, and suggests that a sufficient quantity of good, first class agricultural land should be set aside in connection with our industrial schools for the purpose of growing small fruit, vegetables, and other produce, the neces ary labour to be found in the ranks of those who are now in receipt of chaiity. This would not only occupy their time, but give them a taste for honest labor, and help, it not altogether provide, means whereby the country would be relieved of - some of its burdens, render the poor independent, and imbue a proper spirit into their children. One thing to my mind is certain : the country cannot and will not long continue to carry the burden it now bears. ' Many who now contribute to charitable aid rates are as poor as numbers who are the recipients of relief (Hear), And lam forced—-almost against my own will—to the conclusion that nothing will do but to return to the voluntary system for outdoor relief. I believe whore they have reverted to this system in the Old Country it has been found to produce the beat results in spite of its drawbacks. Were the system again adopted in this colony I feel aura that many of those who are now living wholly or partially on charitable aid would be forced to exert themselves to earn a living for themselves and their children.

The Aedgowan Ballot. —A correspondent writing to a contemporary says : - While the Government is to be congratulated on the success of this purchase, as indicated by the large number of applications, it is to be hoped that lona fide intending settlers who wish to comply with the Land Act will not be swamped in the balloting by dependent members of other applicants’ families. As each applicant makes a sworn declaration -in effect “ that the land is required for his own sole use, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person,” it is obvious that this family bdllotting is an evasion of the Act, which the responsible officers should see to. That “C” List— Mr M’Nab, member for Mataura, was asked at his Edendale meeting the other evening for information concerning the “ C ” account of the Colonial Bank. What was it all about?—Mr M’Nab,: I can’t say; but I know this—neither you nor I will ever see it.—(Loud laughter.) " Rabbit Market— The market is still but scantily supplied with the better class of skins, the paucity being probably due to the unsettled weather expir. enoed lately. There is no change in prices this week, except the advance in proportion to the improvement in the fur, good early winters being worth lOd to lid. Released —The Napier Telegraph gives cunency to the report that the murderer Somerville, who shot down a man named Herbert in the streets of M asterton some 20 months ago, and was ordered to bo confined in an asylum during Her Majesty’s pleasure, the jury having found him to oe insane, has been released, put on board a ship bound for another country, ad in addition been given the wherewithal! “ to make another start.”

New Zealand Mutton— An English country paper remarks that New Zealand mutton is sold to the local board cf guardians for workhouse consumption at per lb, while ihe same is sold to the general public It adds: “If New Zealand mutton was al ways sold at such it would still find ready sale among many thousands of purchasers to whom money is the first object, but it will not be bought by those who prefer English meat and are willing to pay for it.” Deep Sea Diving.— The question of reaching the Cattenhun with the apparatus imported Jfor the purpose has been solved. The diver has discovered the tank containing the treasure, and only awaits a •* slant ” ot we ther to make an effort to raise it. The vessel lies at a depth of about 26 fathoms. A ease parallel to the Oatterthnn is found in the recovery of £90,000 worth of specie from the steamer Aiphonso, wrecked at Grand Canary in 1885, The vessel was 26| fathoms from the surface. A Fine op £Bo.—At Milton William Moir was fined £BO or four months’ imprisonment for sly grog-selling at Bdc'ntha. Defendant bad thrice previously been convicted ' Mr Hawkins, S.M., severely lectured the witnesses, saying he disbelieved their testimony.

Volunteer Bah— -The annual ball in con nection •with the local volunteers taken place on Monday evening next. A strong committee have been appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and the ’9S ball should be a great success. At a meeting of the committee held on Monday evening last the tender of Mr G. Green was accepted for catering, as was also that of Mr Jos Green for the music. Sergt Cuff and Yols Forsyth and Lockett will be M’s.O. Tickets, to ad'mit gent and two ladies for the modest sum of 6s, may be obtained from all members of committee. \

Shocking Accident —A shocking accident occurred at Hastings. Peter Jarvis, aged 16 years, who for some time past had carried mails for Mr J N Williams, of Frimley, was riding back to that place after procuring letters from the evening mail, when he came into collision with a cart belonging to Mr Roaoho and driven by a boy named Gibles. Jarvis was thrown to the ground, and the cart passed over him, but, though terribly injured, he was able to oall out and implore the other boy to come to bis assistance; but the latter, who received a great fright, drove on with all haste. Then Jijvis was able.to crawl to his own home,' which was not very far distant. On medical aid arriving the doctor found that Jarvis was completely disembowelled and injured beyond alt hope of recovery.

The Kiwarra Murder.— -In our last issue it was reported that a man named Harewood or TruJgeon bad confessed to the Sydney Police to a murder in the Wairarapa District. Sydney papers say he might have killed Hawkins at Kiwarra, for whose death Chemis is now undergoing sentence. The Police now say if Tradgeon’a story is correct he would have been a boy of fifteen at the time of the Hawkins murder. The police lay little stress on the confession, which they believe is merely for the purpose of gaining notoriety. Mrs Hawkins knows of no one named Hereford or' Trndgeon having been in her husband’s employ. Mrs Chemis knows no one named Trndgeon or Hereford working for Hawkins, but says a boy in his employ had stated to Chemis his intention of doing for Hawkins when he became a man on account of illtreatment.

Service—A spsoial service was held in the Salvatios Army barracks on Sunday evening in connection with the death of the late Mrs Wm Boniface. The hall was filled, and the sendee was very impressive, touching reference being made to the many good traits in the character of the deceased. The principal speakers were Capt Sands and Lieut Lambert. The former, after reading the 23rd Psalm, delivered an address based on the words recorded in Psalm 102, 11th verse : “ My days are like a shadow that deolineth; and I am withered like grass.” Many soldiers also bore testimony to the worth of the late Mrs Boniface. Art Union—We would draw attention to Mr Froggatt’s art union, the drawing in which comes off in Invercargill shortly. We recently inspected the pictures, and noticed several of superior excellence; notably La Hixe, the original of which is by Messonnier, and was exhibited at the Dunedin Exhibition. The tickets are one shilling each, and may be obtained at this office.

Who Pays the Pipbe F—Ministers are now peregrinating the country delivering electioneering speeches. Who pays the expenses, the ministers or the country ? If the latter, then travelling allowances are being devoted to purposes surely not contemplated by Parliament ? Expenses should only be paid when on business, and it is no business of a government to carry on a political warfare in the constituencies. Their duty is administration. Of governments, as of men, it might be said, “ By their fruits ye shall know them.” ’

Passed Away.—Justice Sir Patrick Buckley and the Hoa Dr Pollen, M L O f are both dead,

Cronp is a terror to young mothers. To post them concerning the first symptoms, and treatment is the object of this item. The first indication of croup is hoarseness. In a child who is subject to croup it may bo taken as a sure sign of the approach of an attack. Following this hoarseness is a peculiar, rough eongh. If Chamberlain’s Cough remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse or even after the rough cough has appeared it w ill prevent the attack It has never been known to fail. For sale oy 0 F A Whiteford, Chemist, Riverton.

Henry Wilson, the postmaster at Welshrou, Florida,, says he cured a ease of diarrhoea so long standing in six hours, with one small bottle of Otumberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. What a pleasant sur prise that must have been to the auffrer Such cases are not unusual with this remedy in many instances only one or two doses are required to give permanent relief. It can always be depended upon. When reduced with water it is pleasant to take. For sale by C P A Whiteford, Chemist, Riverton. Accidents —Mr 0 H fuson, cordial mana faoturer, fell off a bioycle some time ago, dislocating hia shoulder, and he has been unable to do any work since—Mr W Stuck, aon of Mr J R Stuck, Otaitai Bush, while working a chaff-cutter, got the tip taken ofimjafe, of his fingers. WITHOUT VIGOUR ' ' Digestion, Secretion, and every duty of the physical organism;is imperfectly performed. Wolfe’s Schnapps restores viguor.