INVERCARGILL JOTTINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 243, 3 April 1883, Page 2

INVERCARGILL JOTTINGS.

I j FflOM OUJR OWN CORKtisrONDEW.' ' | In the beginning of the week we felt ourselves'to be one of the great military powers, bjut now we ara fallen from our high .estate and are,pMittle r importance in the councils of nations. But the^ remembrance of/ our glory still lingers among us and must find a place in my weekly history and portraiture of thia city. It I)|s transpired that, in the nature of

thitog^i'nveroargill should won the Band.opnteßt. Nearly ev.efy.b Of dy is acritio and agiidg^of the judge. *Vl coiftess I^ept toiSlbaln'atoie'Jour boys wiD,;|nd i;;tfear our, boys' went to win and Dot. ipj meet|fpemen Worthy of, thoir steel. ;ifthey^had.-nof been 'sure b'f a yin they woiild uoh Vhave^ agreed to the /winning band's taking two thirds of thepocejde. Ye% I fear they had some , con tempt for their opponents, and that'd lad armour in auy contest. ' 'If you had gbito mas yducam'j out, !> paid an-;olq oreacher to a v>>uuc oue who ha I fcfcrufcted jnto a pulpit, Lilel and litnped^o .t a^ain — "If you had gone in a i you came out, you \might have come;qut as youi w.ont ip/' ; - 5 ; ; Our visifcois bibaved very well. The Navals, were the, favor. t s and tbey;d id. their beat to keep up the reputation of ' Jack asKore,' though there is a tuipicion- abroad that ma'.y. of .thein.couki'iit keep,, np bis , re - putation j.fl>at. r They are " never tick at sea i — hardly, ever." Bj f at as it may they loved/a jok3 and gba'd it. Like '," Tom the Fiper'a Bon," they stole a pig and chased it down 1 the street ; they drove cabs' at' i nil gallop up and down the main thoroughfare j, they .ejected; ;.the,.';ri-.vneri 0 of .yansi jloadedf them ; from the tailboard to the winkerß and had erjoyable ;ri(|es ; they .stole all tne rsausages, black- paddings, ,&;.,. from » butcher's shop and then carried them , in ; pr o- ;- cefsion with due pomp. These are the j beginnings of our maritime glory. Hereule s strangled snakes in his"ciadlf. Oar worthy Mayor seems determined to make his periods offioa memorAble 'by the inception ofa water supply aaheme. I fear he will not succeed within tha year,but the agitation he is starting it no doubt destined to r become louder tfnijl ? loader aiitilf;QppoJßi|;i<)nl hides ita^diminwtie^ffeSa. WibKia 'tge'next ! five years Invercargill certainly must have a good water supply. • AsMaESey,. ofr,Dunedin ; fame, is to be tried by twelve impartial.ln-r vercargillite?, weskall haveachance o^learn ing how to manage a water works loan. I see you are going in for abolishing poverty I wish you, Major, who, ,jou ..say is a. practical man would experiment on me. If you don't I'll have to offer myself to " M. W, Green. His scheme is the best, for he says so, and ht's got a consciencef/you know ; >but as youVe espousel the Major's jl give him the first chance. Green's Bcheme is a dead secret and is not to, be, published till ..it becomes ,law. a^_/. i y \J^' S ; T C/4,, J j v -„t : -_ . Mr John Q-urr, of Oentral School notoriety hasacoeptcd an agency in the Government Insurance Department, thab being; a "less anxious way of life.",' > , ■• „ .-'■•«: March 31, 1883.