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Mataura Ensign, Volume VI, Issue 285, 31 August 1883, Page 2

The Rev. Lindsay Mackie, of Dunedin, is seriously ill. The Legislative Council have thrown out the Affirmations and Declarations Bill by 19 toH. Milton is to enjoy the lnxury oijx post man. Although the spring is yet young, lambing has commenced and is becoming general. It is to be hoped the weather will keep mild, otherwise there will be little grass for some time far the ewes. The road from Mataura to Otaria is still in a very bad condition about three miles from the former place, albeit the contractor, Mr Hoffman, has done a little towards rendering it safe for horsemen and pedestrians. Much remains to be done, however, and should an accident occur, the County Council may fiud itself mulcted in hsavy damages for the laches of its contractor. The New Zealand Agricultural Company intend to present a cup for crucial competitienatthe next show at ( : - ■<• We are not informed to what object th» prize will be devoted, but no doubt f::H particulars will be to hand soon, as we understand the cup may be expected at an early rfate. We understand the Southland County Council contemplate early this spring widening the iK?.ir» road through Gordon, forming the footpailiS s^d doiug other very necessary work. \Y"ba!iieg... it will be done by day Jabiv'Ci' *-.-:-SdE^*e'*ra e noi r prepai'Bd to say. s^-illS^ 3 " '^B^'"''» ? " : "" ;s * s ~~~p ■- - ■ - S^^^P rV 4-^wwt'.Pl i o making. isS*ow being gfturueS out in considerable quantities at the Mataura Mills. f " ; We are glad to hear that shares in. the Southland.Fimen Meat Company have all been applied for, and we hare no doubt that, under proper management, the concern will be very successful. We publish in another column the prospectus of the new company just started in Dunedin, called the Otago Meat Freezing and Produce Company, with shares of £5 each, and would earnestly recommend this project to the attention and support of the farming community in our district. A long and acrimonious discussion has been carried on in tha Dunedin papers between the promoters of the new concern and the authorities of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company. To us it seems that no good — excupting for the information elicited— can come of these recriminations It may be that shareholders in the new company will not: get an immediate and direct return for their investment, but there can be no shadow of doubt that the whole movement ia of immense value to the colony, and every farmer and stockowner must profit by it ultimately, From this point of view it should receive all encouragement. At Wednesday*! meeting of the Otago Land Board several settlers at Waikaka and Chatton petitioned the Board that the township reserve in" block XI, Chatton district be subdivided into small areas for working men. Referred to Hanger Hughan to report as to size of sections and position for survey as a village settlement.— Meisrs Gillies, Street and Hislop, for Robert Lees, applied that section 47, block IV, Tuturau, be opened for perpetual leasing. Matter referred to ranger. —The Board wrote, in reply to a letter from Mr Connell, and fixed the capital value of sections as follows :— Sections 2 and 3, block XIII, Chatton, 40s per acr« ; 25, block V, Glenkenich, 50s per acre.— Messrs Connell and Moodie, on behalf of James White, applied to purchase, under deferred-payment ■lease, section 3, block 11, Qtanja district. Granted, — It wa« decided to issue a license for the following deferred-payment land :- Joel Faulks, section 10, block XXV, East | (j ore# _The Receiver of Gold Revenue wrote valuing the improvements on section. 26, block I, Waikaia district (to be offered shortly) at £10 or £12. Approved. Benefactors.—" When a board of eminent physjef an 3 and chemists announced the $§coyepjr tfra£ by ponjtynjng somb wellknown --*««blO fBW<s|.gs * mftsjfc wpnderf ul medjeine vi,u.. '" ~^«k Wfi»J4 PSF c j?» c fr ft wide was produced, Hu. "* *^ Fme#es range of disease that most all 0.. * **• could be dispensed with, many were sceptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by all as benefactors." Read. Hollomay's Ointimut and Pills. — Sure relief. — The weak and enervated suffer severely from nervous affections, when storms or electric disturbances agitate the atmosphere. Neuralgia, gouty pangs, and flying pains, very distressing to a delicate system, may be readily f removed by rubbjng this Ointment upon the affected part, after it has been fomented with . warm water. The Pills, taken occasionally in the doses prescribed by the instructions, keep the digestion in order, excite a free flow of healthy bile, and replenish th« impoverished blood with those richer constituents which result from thoroughly asssimilated food — in the absence of which it is difficult to maintain existence. Holloway'i Ointment and Pills are infallible remedies.

The meeting re the nomination of a J.P. at Wyndham, on Wednesday last, lapsed owing to the unavoidable absence of several prominent residents. The framework of tho Gore Athenreum is now in position. Mr Henderson expects to finish the building within a week. The ordinary monthly meeting of the J Mataura Town Board, which wag to have | been held on Wednesday, was postponed until | (his evening. The Waimea Plains Railway Co.'s engine •rot off the line at Gore on Tuesday afte noon hrough some mistaka as to the points. The only loss or inconvenience caused was the detention of the tr.sin for half an hour or so. There was no other interruption of the traffic. With reference to a second school at Otaria, we understand that the matter has now been formally put before the Southland Education Board. Probably at its next meeting the Board will request its inspector to vi>it the locality and report, and if he speaks favorably we may thereafter expect to hear that a school district has been defined, a committee elected, and * teachor appointed. On Sunday evening * stack containing about 500 bushels of oats was destroyed by fire on the property at Otaria lately owned by j-'rJ. S. Anderson, but now belonging to the Otago and Southland. Investment Company. It is supposed that the fire may pessibly have been originated by the phosphorised grain wbich was on the ground in small heaps close to the atack. The theory is gaining ground that to the same cause may be attributed some, at least, of those mysterious woolshed and other' fires which kave recently «ccurred. The Lower House got through a good deal of business last Tuesday evening. The Land Act Amendment Bill waa'. finally possed through ; the Leaseholders' Qualification Bill passed its second reading ; the Counties Act Amendment Bill wat passed through, a proposal to make chairmen of councils elected by the ratepayers being lost, after a close division ; and several other bills were advanced a stage. Amongst them was the Adulteration Prevention Act Amendment Bill, to which a clause was added in Committee rendering it imperative for bread to be stamped by the seller. . A meeting of the committee of the Wyndham Ploughing Match Association was held on Friday evening last. There were present —Messrs Cushnie (president), A. Kidd, and Lumsden. The annual report of the doings of the past year was adopted. It disclosed a most satisfactory state of affairs. The cash in hand, balance to carry forward, amounts to £3 16s, and there are unccllected subscriptions to the amount of £3 3s to come in. Besides this there is an old balance on hand from the previous year of M 12a, which will be added to the sum i» hand. When it is considered that this result has been arrived at with an expenditure of about £7 more in prizes than on the previous year, and that there are two cups valued at £10 10s each in course of competition it will be aeen the Association ia in a flourishing state. Much of the credit is clue to the secretary, Mr A. Kidd. <We ourselves, from experience; can endorse the encomiums paid him at the r I meeting on Friday evening. (■Jife c . " vVOnt *? t^ ie cx P cnßC am * trouble of * ImdM&M """DC*^ 4 *! t^OiiutouUn ord^r ; j&SKxfrt Wx thquest" on the. body (li the uh- • {laminate man Hendenou, killed last night wcr;k. He, in aocordauca with our instructions, telegraphed the evidence through , for publication last Tuesday morning. He . was seen at an early hour next day tearing : his hair and generally conducting himself in . a manner likely to provoke a breach of the r peace, because " that operator " at Clinton , had made him say for " merely grazed the t arm" "nearly grazed the spine," and for , " two pints of clots and serum " made the message read " three pints of shot," or prob- . ably about 241bs. of lead. The operator is still alive. i The Gore Literary and Debating Club held l its weekly session on Wednesday evening, ■ when there was a fair attendance. On this ; occasion ladies were excused from attendance, i the object being to give bashful young members of the society every opportunity to air • their eloquence on the interesting subject '' selected for consideration— Agricultural and ' Pastoral Interests v. the Mining Industry- • Messrs Hosking and Buttle championed the I latter, and Messrs Symes and Douglas the * former ; and the debate that followed was '■> throughout remarkably well maintained. Ac its close a vote was taken, when ten members of the society voted in favor of the position taken up by Messrs Ilosking and Buttle aud five on the opposite side. The next meeting ' will be occupied with <( Impromptu Speak- \ )~ Generally now-a-days people favor the * merging of Road Boards in tho counties. . Not so, however, some residents of Charlton. . who waited upon Mr Mac Gibbon, at Mataura, , the other day, and asked his good offices in procuring for them the formation of the terrace road from Gore to their residences : and the bridging of the Charlton Creek. Mr Mac Gibbon pointed out that the county's , complaint was want qf funds, and although it was making every effort to prooure money for this road he could make no definite promises. He suggested that they should consider the desirableness of resuscitating a portion of the old Oreti Road District, taking over the Waimumu subdivision of the Lind- , hurst Road Board and embracing all the country adjacent to Gore and stretching ! towards Mandeville or Riversdale. Of course this would mean the imposition of another rate, but the peturn Tfould come jn the ahnpe of improved road ways. The members of the deputation seemed to be favorably impressed with Mr MacGibbon'a idea, and after thankjng him for his courtesy withdrew. Ac^m'ta]. story, and one which has the me.rit of fyefng atjsolutefy tpe. is. going the F9ft Q 4§ 9 f 1 } 1 4 Y^&nt Bqut^e,r.n ~<.a ft^ fegentty- raj^d fo tlje Gfuuiember Wu, • 11 -*«Uii}B gf & erue} vernment side was made v. *• ~* hoax by some Opposition wags. A tin o*. the American vermin destroying preparation known as " Rough jn Rats " was packed in paper, sealed, and addressed to the gentleman. As it was marked " urgent," the messenger took it with all speed to its owner, The verdant member got alarmed at the mysterious-looking parcel, and the idea that it might be a dynamite plot to blow him up ; flashed across his mind. He accordingly sent for the sergeant-at-arms, and handed it to that gentleman, stating his suspicions at the same time. Thesergeant-at-arms despatched a constable with the package to be examined at tho barracks, and as the gentleman in blue who was charged with the mission is a ra\r recruit, he got a little scared, and marched down the quay holding the article at arm's length. When the parcel was opened at the barracks the joke was discovered.

A serious accident befel a lad named Henry Paterson at FortrobO last week. It appears that he was engaged sledging firewood to his home when the hor.^e bolted, and by gome unaccountable means Pacerson got under the sledge. The result was that one of his legs was torn open at the calf. Dr Stockwell attended the sufferer, who is now progressing favorably. James, John, and Alexander Roy, the lads implicated in tbe recant fatality on the rail-way-line, were formally brought before Mr Pilling, J.P., at Clinton on Wednesday. The matter having been thoroughly investigated by the Coroner and a jury, and no further evidence being to hand, Inspector Weldon withdrew the charges entered agirinst the, prisoner John Roy. The latter was therefore set at liberty, and James and Alexander stand committed on the Coroner's warrant to take their trial for manslaughter at the next sessions of the Supreme Court. Both were admitted to, bail immediately after the iuquest. The doctor of the steamship Duke of West- | minster, wlrieh has jnst arrived at Brisbane 1 from London, is suffering from smallpox, and the vessel, which is bringing immigrants to the colony, has been ordered into quarantine. The proposal for the honorarium to legisla. tors has now been brought down. The amount stands at 200 guineas to M.H.R.'s and 100 guineas to M.L.C.'s, being a reduction of one-half in the case of the latter. The Legislative Council has thrown out Mr Steward's School Committees Election Bill on the casting vote of the Speaker. Replying to Major Harris in tke House on Wednesday, Major Atkin on said that whether an additional Minister was appointed or no* during the recess, arrangements would be made for placing the agricultural interest under special Ministerial supervision by the creation of an Agricultural Department. What a little pressure can do was brought out at the meeting oE the Southland Waste Laud Board yesterday, Incidentally , it was mentioned that the result of a recent circular to deferred payment settlers in arrears was th« payment into the exchequer during | the month of about £3000. A special aud ordinary meeting of the Presbytery of Southland was held in Invercargill on Wednesday, the Rev. J. Ferguson, Moderator, presiding. The special business was consideration of a petition from Lower Mataura, and hearing parties there-anent. This occupied so much time that other important business was postponed till the next meeting, the first week in October. ' The Southland Land Board met yesterday. James Kennedy applied for leave to live off his deferred payment section in Oteramika, owing to ill-health. He had lived on it three years, and all conditions were complied with. It appeared he had only other three months to put in, and leave for that time was granted. — H. Cameron, Mataura, applied for permission to fence across the chain reserve on the bank o£ the Wainmmu, he offering to put in a turn stile. The Board concluded it had lie authority in the case. — John Spratt applied to purchase 14 acres,' more or less in the Oteramika Hundred. The area appeared to be an island on the Mataura, and the application was held over for a report from the Ranger. During the fresh in the Mataura last week two accidents occurred. While crossing the rivfcr at Storiey Creek some cattle driven by Robert Shanks, in the employ of Messrs Boult and Co., butchers, Mandeville, were washed down stream. Mr Shanks followed them for a short distance, but ultimately his horse get beyond its depth, and owing to the current parted company with its rider, who,unable to swim, was washed to the western bank, the horse turning tail and landing at the opposite side. The cattle did not fare so well, however, and were washed down the river for about half a mile, one of them being drowned and the balance only pulled to land by rope 8. kc. On the same day Mr Horrell was cross- i ing the river with a three horse team at the mouth of the Waimea : the body horse was drowned, but Mr Horrell and the other two succeeded after some exertion in making their way through the river* It has been found that the service of the goods train hitherto running between Edendale and Wyndhain in connection with the main line is insufficient to meet the wants of the latter town and district. It is now announced by circular that a train wili be despatched from Invercargill forj Wyndham especially at 11.45 a.m. The train will be for the present merely for goods, and will arrive at Wyndham at 3.10 p.m,, departing thence at 3.30 p.m.