LOOKING BACK

Western Star, 18 October 1938, Page 2

LOOKING BACK

OCTOBER,. 1887.

(From the flies of tin 'Wesiwn Sttt').

Parliament opens to-morrow. AH the Southland members are on the wing for

Wellington. On Monday night a Russian Finn was murdered at the Little River hotel. He was found stabbed/on the verandah.

Two other Finns are in custody on suspicion, as' they were drinking with nim shortly before. Admissions to the Wallace hospital for the mouth were as follows:—7 males 3 females; discharges—3 males, 4 females; remaining at end of month —9 mates, 8 females. Two hundred and sixty bags of Queensland sugar have been sold at auction at 12s 6d per cwt. landed. > The Marquis of Normandy 'sails jfyr Sydney on October 29. \. The Jockey Club at York have warn l ed the Marquis of Ailesbury and Johnny Taylor, his trainor, off the turf lor life> owing to the suspicious running of the horse Everett in the Harewood Plate. The Times considers that the Marquis should be excluded from the House of Lords.

Mr F. P. O'Reilly last evening " received a telegram from his agent jn Dunedini that a Ballarat syndicate, wh 0 have a patent for saving gold, were willing to erect machinery to work his sludge claim and Lake George water scheme in consideration of receiving a half interest in same, and that a representative of the.firm was on his way to inspect the venture. McCallum and Co.'s sawmill, East lnvercargill, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. ' The loss is .estimated at £2OOO, which, was uncovered by insurance.

At a.' meeting of the Acclimatisation Society at Invercargjll on Monday it was resolved to request the Wallace County Council to grant a site of 20. acres of the gravel reserve near * Moss, bum for fish hatching purposes. The Inspector reported as, follows at the monthly meeting of the Education Board: Examination results—Fhttt.'s Bush (Fraser) 80.4, Otautau (A. Wylie) 78.6, Wairio (W. Maoalister) .87 .7, Nightcaps (J. S. Andrews) 78.6, Scott's Gap (Henry Birss). 98, -Limectone Plains (John Mcßae)7o.9, Gropers Bush (A. iHglis) 83.5,'. Heddori Bush (S. 8e11)'44.3,- Thornbury : - {W, Gilchrist) 84.7.

A demonstration attended by several thousand workmen .was held in Hyde Park, London, to protest against' tbo' system of sugar bounties. The Union s.s. Tekapo is about to start for Calcutta with a' cargo of New Zealand horses. /Mr G. G. Stead; of Canterbury, has got together 215 horses of a stamp suitable for the Indian

market, and it is expected that a 'profitable trade in this line qf produce will be opened up with our Empire ia the East., ■ -' ■ . -

A man, named William Fisher, 'a' labourer engaged in the erection'of, the " new St. John's Church, Invercargilf, fe,ll from a scaffold to the floor, and ' died of injuries. ' A public meeting of farmers and - otheis interested in the erection of sale yards at.Wairio will bo held at Wairio"

on Saturday. ' „• j A party of four miners—Messrs Cooper, Buchanan,. Wood and another' returned to Riverton oh, Thursday last after an absence of five months, during • the whole' of which, with, the exception of a fortnight, .they were engaged in prospecting in. Preservation Inlet. They are the right stamp of men for a pros-. pecting tour, and although they did not meet with much success they obtained sufficient gold t 0 hiduce.them to return.

and pay fo r six supplies. Two of the party spent a 'fortnight prospecting on Coal Island, at 'the entrance of the Inlet, but failed to find any trace of gold. They state that fish and game are plentiful.