SOUTHLAND.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 45, 3 October 1863, Page 6

SOUTHLAND.

A rather sad case of invalid destitution, occurring the other day at the Bluff, has come to our ears from that quarter. One Robert Ruthven, who arrived by the Storm Cloud in December, was brought over to Campbelltown from the Island of Ruapeka in a destitute state, and suffering from a severe rupture. Upon information being received, the police of the district went at once to see the unfortunate man at the Eagle Hotel, whither he had been conveyed, and did the good Samaritan in his regard. A doctor was called in, who found that an operation was necessary, but owing to the absence of surgical appliances, it could not be performed. The medical man recommended that the sufferer he removed.to Invercargill, which was accordingly done. — Invercargill Times.

iuvercargill will soon be well stocked with evening amusements. Already there are halls where the public may " revel lato o' nights," and cultivate a taste for hornpipes and cavendish; but these being to a certain extent the haunt of roystering bachelors, are of a stamp that ladies at any rate would not care to affect. We are glad to be able to announce that there is in contemplation a bona fide Theatre, where will be produced the legitimate drama, and whither the most respectable classes may resort. A small but complete theatre in the orthodox horse-shoe form, is about to be erected between the Provincial Hotel and the Mechanics' Institute, under the auspices of Mr. Puettelkow. Upon its completion a good company will be engaged, and no trouble or expense will be spared in catering for the histrionic tastes of the town. —lbid.

A full length skeleton was discovered the other day on the banks of the Oreti. It must have lain there many years, for the bones at the extremities were crumbled away, and the whole frame was figuratively as light as a feather. It is supposed to be the skeleton of a Maori, but in the absence of Professor Owen it has not been definitely determined.— lbid. Nothing has yet been done towards altering the course of the Puni Creek, which continues to " drag its slow length along" in unpicturesque curves. Now that it is reported by the Town Board Engineer to be "stopping the way" of improvement in the necessary drainage of " our village," we may expect to see immediate steps taken to make it more like a canal, and less like a nuisance. If we mistake not there has been for some past an amount placed to its " credit" which may as well be applied at once as lying at the " current rate of interest."— Southland News.

Some of our readers may have noticed an advertisement which appeared lately in the Colonial papers, notifying to parties named Brentani, that a sum of money had been left them "at home." One of the claimants has turned up in the person of " Charley," who will be remembered by u Old Identities" as at one time waiter at the "Royal." Since the opening of the Wakatip diggings he has been in business there as a butcher, and, we believe, realised handsomely ; he is now intending to " clear out," and wond his way to his Lombard birthplace, on the Lake of Como.— lbid.