General News

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 1, 31 March 1893, Page 9

General News

It is given to few papers to be able to effect reforms before their lirst issue. One of the number is the Soutiiekx Cross. The other local weekly papers, hitherto sold at. sixpence per copy, have been reduced to threepence. Ho reason is given for the change, but readers will have no difficulty in snpjffying one. Subscribers to the journals in question can now supplement them with the Southekx Ckoss, and st ill have twopence to the good, as compared with what they have been paying for a great many years. VYc extend a cordial welcome to tliese latest additions to the ranks of cheap journalism. ' We had hoped to got our first number met without the need for excuses, but the way in which advertisements and items of news have rolled in during the last few days lias compelled us to go to press mi mss a number of articles, while some of those published, notably Gove and Matanra, have been greatly curtailed. AYe trust correspondents at, these and other places will accept our apologies. The arrangements made for future issues will prevent another block of the kind, and enable ns to effect considerable improvements in other respects.

IxCT.rDED in the first batch of correspondence that reached this o(Ree, were three, letters addressed respectively to the editor, reporter, and publisher. Visions of orders for printing or advertisements floated, before the mind of the recipient, but ho was soon undeceived. Each letter contained a leaflet setting forth the virtues of a veil-known cure for drunkenness! The shooting season opens on Saturday. If report speaks truly, there is rare work for the guns on some of our rivers. Oni Otautau correspondent telegraphs that Mr Harwell, of Ringway, had three stacks of wheat burned down on Wednesday. Origin of fire unknown. Tun local prison gang arc doing good work about the Southland Hospital grounds. They arc now engaged in asphalting' the footpaths. Mr T. W. Wallace, who is retiring from the management of Messrs alter Quthric and Co.’s business, was entertained by the employes of the firm in Ihe Albion Hotel on Wednesday night. ITo was the recipient of uwell deserved presentation, in which Mrs Wallace was also remembered.

The murderers of the late Mr D. Mackcllar have been sentenced to 20 years penal servitude. Their property lias been confiscated, and part of it goes to the relations of the deceased.

Tun second reading of the Home Rule Rill will be moved in the Ihmsc of Commons on Thursday next.

Tub ketch Gratitude has gone to Colac Bay to trike si party of mutton birders to Stewart Island. She will sail from thence to the Mucquarrie islands to pick up Mr Hatch and party. Tilaxks to the vigilance of Sergt. Macdonell and Detective Maddern three strangers, evidently adepts in the art of living by their wits, have been sent to gaol for a few months. A fourth, alarmed by the fate of his companions, left for parts unknown, leaving Ids luggage behind him. The belongings of the company included some peculiar items —among them several sets of disguises, one being a clergyman’s outfit. At the recent conference in 'Wellington the Pioneer Podge of Oddfellows (A.C.), Invercargill, was represented by Bros, A. J. Pauldn ancf J. M. Aitkcn. The former now occupies the position of Grand li crald in the Executive. Mn A. McKenzie goes on the war-path shortly as clog registrar and ranger for several ridings in Southland County. Tits coming election is causing some stir in the or! 1 1, but locally very little is heard ab-.-ut it. It seems to be settled that .Sir Kobevf Stout and Mr G. E. Kiehardson are to contest Mat-aura. This will be_ the fight of the campaign. Por Invercargill it is whispered that Mr Kelly will have an opponent in a member of the local bar. A Luxrnx baker who haul been keeping a boy of I t working from 11 o'clock one night till S o'clock the next has been fined £5 and costs. Tiie bakehouse slave received lOd a week and board and lodging. Tlasteu Monday diversions include a si looting match at, the Bluff between the employes in Messrs Ward and W addel’s grain stores, and a regatta at the same place ; a race meeting at liivorton, at which some good sport is promised; and the gathering of the Hibernian (Society at Coro. I>: the sketch contributed by jus Worship the Mavor, given in another column, the word “basket’’ lias been erroneously printed instead of “ bucket.” Owin'WiS of unregistered dogs in the borough of Invercargill arc to be proceeded against it: liic fee is not paid by 21st April. llorsi '.or.DivUS will bo rccpiired to elect school committees on 21th April. A highly successful representation of _ the Kindorspiel, “Dan the Is'ewsboy,” was given in the Theatre Koval on Thursday night by the pupils of the South (School. lx the (Supremo Court, Dunedin, on VV ednesclav last, in fore His ilouour Mr Justice Ward, Mary Ellen Capil, wife of \\ . Capil, of Caroline, Southland, sued S. Aitehison, of 1 icriot, for £l7O damages in connection with an alleged breach of agreement relating to the lease of a farm. Under the Statute of brands His Honour decided a gainst the plaintiff as to BlbO, and gave a verdict in her favour for £2O with costs on the lowest scale.

It is reported that there is some likelihood of Mr Tennant’s property at II cd cl on Bush, adjoining Mr Hamilton’s, being thrown open for selection in small farms. Moke swaggers have been seen this year in the Matanra and Wyndham districts than have been noticed in those parts for a long time past. Tke borough of Gladstone is now in possession of a neat town hall. It "was designed by Messrs McKenzie and Gilbertson, and built by Messrs Lockhart Bros. The site was granted some years age by the late Mr J. T. Thomson. All the suburban boroughs are now provided with official meeting - places.