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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 404, 28 October 1884, Page 3

■■■ : Major-General Scratchley, who will get £3000 a year r.B Governor of New Guinea, is to leave England to enter upon his duties in fire week's time. . The well known en tire horse Architect has died at Milton. . This owner had gone there ' for him and put him in a loose box for a little time preparatory to starting. Strange to say " the o'd horse reserted his confinement, and appears to have behaved in such a violent manner and inflicted such injuries to himself that next morning he had to be desroyed. , Messrs Dobson and Sons, of Ohristchurch conjection with Mr Bews, have reported 1 exhaustively on . the underground water supply of Invercargill. They state that there • is a subterranean current running almost) ' S. W, and which will lise to within ten feet j of the surface They recommend that ells be sunk and the water pumped up into ■ reservoirs their being reticulated when required. The estimated cost for 10,000 per»ons is £?2,000 in round numbers. It appears that Captain Dudley, of the Mig- • nonette, was, prior to his disastrous voyage,, a resident of Sutton, Surrey, where he carrisd on business as a greengrocer, in partnership with , a man named Smith. His wife is mistress of the giris's department. New ton Bonrd Schools, and although she had a telegram informing j her of her husband's safety, she was not aware '. of the terrible sufferings .he had undergone t until she had read the sad story in the news- | papers. It is said that Captain Dudley hesi- 1 tated considerably before he would accept the charge of the vessel,- but that the terms ofier-ed-T-which were, it is understood^ £100 . down and another £100 on arrival at Sydney —finally tempted him to under take the command. : A somewhat unseemly scene took place in the, Parliamentary library and in the member's lobby at Wellington the other morning. One of the Press Association reporters had occasion to enter the library to takea way a document he had forgotten there the day before. The Hon. Captain Fraser suddenly pounced on the intruder, and in , .violent tones asked him what his busines was and ordered him out. The reporter asked Captain Fraser If he (Captain Fraser) was the House messenger to act as he was doing. ■ Toisinfuriated Captain Fraser so much that he; danced a fling round the bewildered journalist and lifted his foot to kick him. The reporter, escaping the kick, lost his temper and put himself in a boxing, attitude, , and flooded the Captain with a torrent of - high sounding Billinsgate. Suveral members present separated the antagonists, and the . . scene came to an end. It has certainly not raised Captain Fraser in public estimaeion 1 and his unpopularity in the House has. if possible, been, greatly increased. Strictly Bpeaking,,the reporter had no business in the library, but it was out of all piopriety fora -member to take the law iuto his own hands, the custom being for members to notify to a messenger the fact of a stranger being in the lobby, and directing him to warn him out. "Bough ! on. : Corns." — Ask for Well's 'Bough oh. Corns." Warts, bunions., quick relief, permahnt cure. Kempthorne. Prosser 1? : and Co., agents, Christchurch.