INVERCARGILL JOTTINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 249, 24 April 1883, Page 2

INVERCARGILL JOTTINGS.

■■■ iice for^soo and pledged himself not : tostart again here fer' seven years. > I beiievelthat' lie didn't get the £500, but couldn't, on that account,! start again. ; But {when his successor filed, obstacles were' removed. Jhe estate* wantedj to make him pay Bometning; whether he did or not I don't know. One thing is certain that he starts on nothing but his good name,f or the practice ia t[uite gone to thin air. I think that we want a little-pre-vention as well as cure, a little fore--thought instead of doctors. The rooms where dressmakers, are, huddled ; to-;, ge ther are hot-beds of disease.* k & ir Is won't go to healthy and well paid seivice. But they will learn dressmaking if they: ge. nothing and find themselves. They are crowded at the rate of a dozen in a room with scarcely air enough for two. After a while appetite' fails, they get to wear a corpse-like hue, they walk home more and more slowly andthen breakdown suddenly in consumption, ; poverty of^blopdj and, the Lord knows what. I have, heard of several .cases from one room in this town, of the, above, programme s being, duly gone through. I aay it is time the law stepped in to protect human life ; "; for the life is moro than meat and the body than raiment." Our, friend, Mr 4 .|Qurr is, as I saics driving the insurance business.,, ""* Mr Hawson has the agency for Southland and he gave Mr G. the country. Mr G., however, began operations in town and Mr H. objects. As)ropos the late of the Central School, I may say that since an article, from the ' Schoolmaster ' ( was republished in tlie 'Times' many people have begun to think that young Gurr was unjustly treated. It appears that the • - Inspector ; has , no business , than I have to enter a school, and shift classes from room to room and tne like. In fact it is not certain that Mr Gammoll is npt liable to be fined 40s for his heroic conduct in the 'Model Boom.' When V I. was once doing a coastal trip in a'stearaer a fellow fell overboard as we were steaming up a certain harbor. The deck was pretty crowded, and I had particularly noticed two sisters who were like twin turtle-doves. When the man went over the younger one was like to faint, but was speedily brought to by the elder after this fashion : •' Never mind dear, don't get excited; it'll be something to write about, you see; and besides perhapa they'll get the poor fellow up again." Now I'm in the same fix as the elder miss. I want something to write about. We are making no history, and it must be made before it can be written, Will nobody hang himselfj shoot somebody, burn a street, rob a bank, or kick up a row in a church ? If you know anybody who wants to start in any of these lines, pray send him this way and give me a chance. April 20, 1883. J ■