GORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26.1883,

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 224, 26 January 1883, Page 2

Mataura Ensign GORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26. 1883.

• Tenders are called for the ereotion of a Roman Catholic Church at Wyndbam. A settler named Archibald Douglas,] alleges that he has discovered diamonds near Auckland. We are glad to hear that Miss Robs, of the Gore School, has passed the pupil teachers' < examination. Mr William Russell, of Ryal Bußh, has been appointed superintendent collector of agricultural statistics for the Southland district, The Southland Frozen Meat Co., it is understood, will shortly comm«nce aotive operations. Applications are invited for the office of secretary and treasurer to the oompany. Startling disclosures are said to have been mada relative to the plots o£ assassins in Dublin. The life of Mr W. E. IForster is said to have been attempted no less than three times. Move arrests have been made. Mrs Scott, a ' Frisco dress , reformer, gives . publio notice to all whom it mt»y concern that she iatends to " wear trouseffs in public," and she asks for police proteoli on in case the itreet crowds insult her.

TWfHlob. W. Bolleston. Minister for Lands' acoompanied by the Surveyor General armed at Waikaia on Monday nsght. They inspected some of the land comprised in the education endowment on Tuesday and then rode through Bun 193 aen rout* for Tapanui and Lawrence. Tenders are called for in this issue by the. Southland Education Board for the Erection' of a schoolhouse and teacher's residence at Wai&aka. A new sohoolhouse is also to be erected ad Portroso and alterations and a dditions made to the master's residence. Nelson, always to the fore in educational matters, has set other plaoes in the Colony a good example. At the statutory meeting of householders on Monday night it was resolved that evening schools for youths who had left school Bhould be provided. A black-hearted scoundrel entered Sir James Prendergast'a stables, Wellington, on Monday night and deliberately cut the tongue out of hifl favorite pony. There is no clue to the perpetrator. If he ever be discovered it would not be too severe a punishment to serve him as he treated a poor, dumb, unoffending animal. In consequence of the claim of Prince Jerome Bonaparte to the title of Emperor of France and the action of the Government in demanding the expulsion of the Bonapartiet familie s from tbat country a political panic has occurred at Paris. Princess Eugene has arrived, and challenges expulsion. Leahy's Hall, Wyndham, has been appointed a place where vaccination is to be performed j the third Monday in March and the third Monday in August from 1 to 2 p.m. are the days and hours for the performance ; and on the fourth Monday between 1 and 2 p.nv in the same months Dr Stookwell will be present to inspect the progress Bf vaccination. The Hon. Ivoßligh's team havebeatea the Australians by an innings and 27 runs. The scores were— Englishmen, 294 ; Australians, 114 and 153. Bates did the execution in bowling amongst the Englishmen, taking seven out of the ten wickets in each innings. At Monday's meeting of the Presbyterian Synod of Oiago nnd Southland at Tunedin grants were sanctioned for churohes at Riversdale and Fortrose and Mr Henry gave notice that he would move for a grant for building a church at Wyndham. This motion has since been made and lost. It never rains but it pours. First the Catholics of this difstrict determined upon having a spiritual adviser all to themselves ; then the Presbyterians, with that cautiousness for whioh they are famed, be^an to take steps to ascertain the, feeling of members and adherents with reference to the placing of a minister here. Not to be behind the Episcopalians are also endeavoring to arrange for monthly visits from a rev. gentleman now stationed near Invercargill } and now we observe that the Wealeyan Conference has created a "Gore and Tapanui Circuit," to which it has assigned the Eev. J. N. Buttle, Thig iB only the "first draft" of stations' however, and is subject to alteration before the Conference rises. The proceedings at the unoffioial declaration of the Peninsula poll on Monday evening seem to have been of a particularly sultry character, Atone stage in his speech Mr Larnach said— l had no ordinary opposition here.— (A Voice : " Who paid for the cabs ?") K«nnel up, you curs! kennel up! I have too much.r egard foyjtfe|i-in telli gent, honest, • and Jcare^pn^joC^^ (interruption)— -and the hobtings of a moßt damnable lot of curs. I am not afraid to meet men, but it is those wretched individuals who demoralise a great nation by their vile acts.-— (Cries of "Donnelly." We understand that the tender of Messrs Darling and Forest, of Winton, bas been accepted f or',the[ereotion of a two-story wooden hotel at Riversdale for Mr J. Bennett, We are glad to hear that there is every probability of the necessary amount being raised to induce the Rev. J. Hobbs, of Gladstone to conduct monthly services at the Gore Episcopalian Church. The Dunedin • Star ' states that there is no truth in the report that Renny, the levanting Mataura farmer, has been arrested in Melbourne for bigamy. The police are unable to find any proof of the alleged second marriage. Under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act the totals applied for by the Southland County Council for each riding are as follows : Wallacetown, £2,586 19s ; Winton, £6077 4s Id ; Waihopai, £3046 13s ; Awarua, £5,7(H 2s ; Oreti. £6058 12s j Gore, £17,828 8s; Waikaia, £1583 6s j Wyndham, £4524 Fortrose, £4062 6s. J The Bey. A, H. Stobq, of the First Church, Invercargill, preached in the Knapdale diatriot on Sunday last : bis discourses were much appreciated. We learn that Mr Wright has accepted a practically unanimous call to the Ohatton and Knapdale district, so that locality is at last possessed of a resident minister, I The Otama School Committee have decided upon a site for their school on the corner of Mr A. Stewart's paddock jso that, the vexed question being settled, we may reasonably expect soon to see the erection of a school building. The tender has been accepted, and Mr B, Baxter has made an offer to cart the necessary timber from Stoney Creek to the ground. The nomination of candidates to fill three vacancies on the Gordon Town Board occasioned by the resignations of Messrs Smaill, Young and Brown took place yesterday at noon, when the Returning Officer (Mr Tuson) intimated that there were four aspirants for office namely, Messrs Smaill, Mac Gibbon, Ballantine and Mansford. The poll will take place on Friday next. Theoonstable stationed at Wyndham received information that a house had been burned down near Murdoch's old sawmill, and that nothing had been seen of the occupant a Mrs Sinden. A search was made amomt the debrit, but no remains found. The woman afterwards emerged, from the itnuh into which she had wandered after the house had been destroyed. The fire w*« caused accidentally. Nothing whatever was saved There was no insurance, and Mrs Sinden's loss is estimated at £100. \ /We have had an opportunity of inspecting the plans prepared by Mr F. W. Burwejl, of inveVcargS, for Mr J. E. Grants hotel on tho municipal reserve opposite the Gore Railway Station" It is to haw a comparatively plain front to the main road of no less than 85ft. and its depth is to be 50ft. The building iriU be a two-story one, concrete foundation and brick superstructure, and the roof will be_ a pavilion one. The immense bizo of the etriicture,will more than balance any plainness there may be. On the ground floor there will be all necessary bar accommodation, a dining room 15ft. x 21ft6in, billiard room 18ft x 82ft, andlord's parlor and bedroom, kitchen, pan* try cellar &o. There will also be two shops suitable for any ordinary business, atid^sthey wiirbe of good dimensions (12 x -32tt) an£ well fitted up, we do not anticipate that Mfc Grant will experience much if any 'difficulty ih securing tenants. A broad -welh designed Btairoafce leads to -the first floor/-' on Which there 1 are several private parlors and a magjnificent suite of fifteen bedrooms, tegether with bathroom,, housemaids' closets, ,• and all other necessaries. The hotel ;will be the largest in any country district in Otago or Southland, and the successful tenderer will be bound under a heavy penalty to complete its erection by June,, Tenders are elsewhere advertised for : these close on Thursday next, and soon thereafter we may expeot to see the building commenced.

An interesting letter from our Otaria I correspondent is held over. He states that the.Qfcaria C: C. play the Arfchurton C. C. to' mdrrbwi' •■•"" ' '""- ' An extensive bußh fire has done considerable damage in the Seaward Bush during the past few days. From ten t« twenty chains of Messrs MoCallutn and Cos. tramway line have been 'destroyed. - .' i We learn that the following tenders were , re ceived fer painting the Lumsden bridge j — Contract accented— Allan McKay (Wyndham), in white lead paint, £194 ; in hematite £167. Declined— M. Imba (In ver car gill), i £179 or £174; A. Manziee, £293 or £272 } ] A. Springford, £380 or £237 ;J. H. Cheßter j £499 or £330. , The Dunedin Star contains the following ( paragraph:— "On dit, that the sequel of the Peninsula election proceedings waß that a welMknown M.H.R.. and a leading member of the successful candidate's committee,allowed their political feelings to so far overmaster them as to endeavour to settle their differences by a resort to physical force. Rumor adds that the Opposition cause again suffered material damage, which will very likely prevent its champion putting in an appearance in publio for a day or two." A fishy proceeding, truly. At yesterday's meeting of the Southland Landßoard,ui thecase of John Dickson, holder of deferred payment section 605 in the Hokonui district, who had fallen into arrears the Eanger reported favourably as to the manner in which the licensee had carried out the other conditions of the Act, and recommended that his case should be dealt with after a report had been submitted as to other Bettlers in a similar position, A decision was postponed**