PRESS PICKINGS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume VI, Issue 257, 22 May 1883, Page 4

PRESS PICKINGS.

Despite electricity, the 1 Economist' tells us there has been a marked improvement in sales of gas through the year. ' ' Already a candidate is mentioned for • Mr Rutherford's seat. It is likely Mr J Henry Clark.chairman of Bruce County Council and member of the Otago Land Board, will receive a requisition to \ stand. '*>• •'> H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord "Wolseley have left London ' for Moscow to attend the coronation of the Czar on Sunday, 27th inst. A petition -will be forthwith lodged against the election of Mr Edward Shaw, if or Inangahua. Four grounds are alleged ; two of which are statutory and fatal to his election. The trade in rabbitskins carried on with England has progressed a decided step in the establishment of a " rabbitskin exchange " in Dunedin, where these skins are thoroughly sorted and classified before shipment. Mr E. It. Bradstiaw is the originator of the movement, it having hitherto been the practice to ship the skins Home indiscriminately. , : The : 3STorth, Otagp Agricultural and „ Pastoral Association l?aye resolyed to request the Government to take steps to prevent the , introduction of stock < ' diseases to the. colony, by imposing j quarantin§i«arjcangejieats m i or -at-leasfc ... ~ r . two months. At the Christchurch. Hospital, the corner of a rabbit's eye nan been transferred to a man's eye. . . , s IVom Hobarfc we learn that the two i youths, O^den and Sutherland, who . were committed for trial for the atrocious murders in the Epping forest district, have been found guilty and sentenced to death. •>-. The ; Canterbury Education: Board has granted the use of class rooms for A reli^ibiis teaching, from 11#6 to 12, * and 3.30 to 4 o'clock. One,, member stated that at Bangiora religious in- ■..■ struction was. given for the last halfhour in the morning by teachers who volunteered, the children not being dismissed till religious instruction was finished. Mr Purves, the eminent counsel of Melbourne, says that football "is the slowest and most dismal of things which it is possible to witness, with the solitary exception of a ploughing match. 1 ' As showing the destructiveness of tte wild ferret, says the MamoTojagh. ' Daily Time*,' we may mention, that Mr G-ridley residing near the Vernon Bun, informed us last Saturday that ' after losing , twenty-one chickens, he was somewhat puzzled to find out who the thief was. He naturally _ suspected the rats and laid traps accordingly for the rodents, but without avail. The chickens disappeared one after the other, Wtil the twenty -first had gone/ Mr Gridley naturally felt exasperated, j and as a l.ast resource he baited the raY | trap with half a dead chicken,; when on the following morning, he found that a ferret had got imprisoned in the trap. The; champion bushel o£ Adelaide wheat j weighed 661bs 15oz. Good enough ! It is more, not better, bushels the Adelaide people want. Autumn calves rarely get the size that spring calves do, because they cannot haye so much milk, but by using little milk, and that skimmed, after the ; ' second week, they will do very well on hay tea and boiled linseed cake gruel, to which some milk; is , added.. -They. must be gradually accustomed to this diet, but will thrive upon it and make excellent veal at six or eight weeks old. A man named John Butcher died at the I>unedin hospital on Saturday from j injuries,, he received.,, about, a week jigo by falling into a, barrel of carbolic acid. . lie, was a, shepherd employed at Cottesbrook station, StrathTaierii where the accident befel him. Daniel Curley, the. aecbna\,.of^the ...".. Phoenix Park assassins, has-been executed at London. There^was an immense crowd of people 1 outside the-., goal, and much sympathy was expresse'iil with the murderer. Mr'E. E. W, Twopenny, the late editor of the ,phristchurch Telegraph, has been appointed to the editorship f of the Otago Daily: Times, and assumes office in September. ; : Wind and weather permitting, the, Opawa was to sail yesterday. after-,. ... noon from the Bl^ufE to London with a cargo; of frozen meat, the first from Southland. Amongsttne cargo are 10p0 dozen oysters, frozen and -shipped a.sj an experiment, - ! There is trouble inZululand ajjajn. An attack was made on Sunday, week by Cetawayo upon o ban .one of the Zuluphiefs, who : refused .to acknow> : ledgei the re-inßtatement of the king. Cetawayo was repulsed, but with what loss is not known, ' Isse the Qove people, the Napiefr shareholders of the Colonial' Bank are very much. incensed at ; tHe continual , ~ changes made of managers in the . local branch. . The bank has been establisjhed there eight' years, during which time there have been seven managers.. . The shareholders ■ see no . necessity |or these ohanges, and are. convinced that the interests >of the bank' have suffered in consequence of ' the removal of Mr Drake, who left on. Saturday.', Strong , " xepresentsipnß7 will be made <to the (directory. : !! ;