The Southern Cross. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, June 24. General News

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 13, 24 June 1893, Page 8

The Southern Cross. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, June 24. General News

TheU.S.S. Co.VTalune is due at the Bluff from Melbourne on Monday. A mail for Prescvation Inlet closes at one p.m. on Thursday next. Mails for the United Kingdom and Australia close at Invercargill at 10.15 a.m. to-day. Te Whiti, tlie Maori prophet, has fallen on evil days. An order has been issued for his arrest under the Bankruptcy Act. The forty-eighth anniversary of Premier Seddon’s birthday and the opening of Parliament fell on the same day—Thursday last. Another contribution, dealing with Mr W. H. Mathiesou’s experiences en route to Britain, will be given next week. The first sovereign and half sovereign of the new gold coinage, both of handsome design, were struck by the Governor in the Melbourne mint on the 21st. Young New- Zealand to the front. Mr Gerald Kcanaway, of this colony, heads the list of the Law Tripos at Cambridge Univex*sity. The Gore Rifles opened their winter practice with Morris tubes on Tuesday, when a match was fired—married versus single, 10 a-side, i*esulting in a win for the benedicts by 7 points. “ Hoist with their own petard.” Two Anarchists, while engaged placing a dynamite bomb in the garden of cx-Premier Canovas, in Madrid, were killed owing to its pi’cmatui'e explosion. The return match, Awarua v. Star (second) will be played at the Bluff on Wednesday next, and should the fixture be adhered to in its entirety the local men will give a good accouftt of themselves. It is stated that the father and brother of a girl alleged to have been taken away to Oamaru fell upon the “ American salesman ” at the railway station, Dunedin, the other day, and administered a severe castigation. The members of the Invercargill Choral Union give a concert in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening. Their past performances are such as to warrant the expectation that the programmewill be thoroughly enjoyable. The Standard says that several of the Ministers, believing it hopeless to attempt to pass the Home Rule Bill this session, are advising the Premier to postpone it, and to pass some other measures in the Government programme. Rumour has it that a Labour candidate will be brought out for Awarua against the Colonial Treasurer at the next election. It is understood that Mr T. Crawley, well-known in connection with the local Trades and Labour Union, is referred to. Mr H. T. Turner, Stock Inspector, in a notice in another column, informs landowners in the Southland rabbit district that poisoning will begin on Monday, 3rd July. In order to secure the best possible results he asks that simultaneous and continuous action be taken, and names the depots at which phosphorised grain can be secured. We are (writes our Bluff correspondent) experiencing beautiful weather at present, and the various vessels at the wharf are making the most of it. The fine ship, “ Indian Empire,” under charter to the J. G. Ward Farmers’ Association, is making g*od progress with her loading, and if the present weather holds she should be ready for sea in the course of a few days. A girl named Barton, aged six years, has been burned t* death at Warkworth, Auckland, while helping her brother to destroy rubbish ; Mrs. Porett, wife of a Hawera settler, wZile suffering from softening of the brain, took a dose of rough on rats, and died from the effects ; and F. White and J. Quinn have been drowned at Rcefton while crossing the river to see to the safety of a d.edgc. The Bluff Primitive Methodist Choir purpose repeating the Cantata “ Queen Esther,” on Sunday night, after Church service. No charge will be made for admission but a collection will be taken up in aid of the Choir Funds. The members acquitted themselves creditably in their previous rendering of this Cantata, and those who were not present on that occasion should not miss this opportunity of judging their excellence. The Invercargill Borough Council, which voted £250 towards the chimes for the post office clock, has decided at the instance of Cr. Roche, to take steps to learn if provision has l*Bn made for a bell in addition to the chimes. The motion was carried, CrMcEwan, w'ho seconded it, remarking that if he had known the tower was to be so low, he would not have favoured a grant towards the chimes. The clock would not be a town one, as it could only be seen in Dee street from the Albion Hotel.

The City Band shop will be open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. to-day, and those who havenot yet inspected the Art Union prizes ave cordially invited to do so. The tickets are going off rapidly, and all who wish to try their luck can secure them at the shop for one shilling each. A string band will be in attendance in the evening. It is the intention of the Band to give a concert at the Bluff on Wednesday, sth July, particulars of which will be notified in due course.

It appears that Mr Worthington, of Temple, of Truth fame, once held a license to solemnise marriages, but, owing to failure to comply with some formalities it has not been renewed, a fact which has caused considerable inconvenience to the students. They waited on the Minister of Education at Christchurch recently, and after hearing them he said he would lay the matter before the Department, but would not promise that a license would be issued. He added that they had their remedy under the Marriage Act.

Improvement is the order of the day in Invercargill. Messrs Walter Guthrie and Co., who recently transformed the premises at the corner of Spey and Dee street (eastern side) into a series of elegantly arranged showrooms for the display of some of their lines in saddlery, furniture, chinaware, etc., are now adding a massive verandah, beneath which pedestrians can view at their leisure, in wet or shine, the contents of the well-filled windows. Another corner, that of Dee and Esk street west, has undergone a great change for the better, consequent on the extensive alterations carried out in his establishment by Mr McGruer, draper, who has made the building much more worthy of its position than it formerly was. Then Host Deschler, of the well-known hotel, has had another building added to his house, providing a number of bedrooms and two apartments for commercial travellers. The hotel now contains fifty rooms in all.

“Are things what they seem, or is vision* about ? ” One may well be excused the question on learning the upshot of the case of Mary Brown v. Janies Brown. Some mouths ago the plaintiff claimed the defendant as her husband. He indignantly denied thesoft impeachment, and his lawyer, in his cross-examination, hinted that she suffered from hallucinations. Mrs Brown was defeated on that occasion, but, securing further evidence of - her marriage, returned to the charge, and this time succeeded, the order of the Court including a sentence of three months’ imprisonment. Against the finding of the lower court Brown appealed, but without avail, but the Judge suggested an application to the Magistrate to sec if the order could be varied so far as the imprisonment was concerned. The parties duly appeared before the Magistrate on Wednesday, when Brown’s lawyer intimated that his client was willing to live with the woman as his wife and to treat her well, providing that he was released from the sentence of three months’ imprisonment. He was not in a position to immediately start housekeeping, but wonld pay her os a week until he made the necessary arrangements for them to live together. It was intimated that Mrs Brown was quite agreeable to the arrangement. His Worship said that under all the circumstances, he was satisfied that, if the parties complied with the terms of the arrangement mentioned, the most desirable conclusion would be arrived at.—lt was decided that Brown pay towards the cost of the appeal L 25 in cash and L 25 on a bill; that lie be released from the sentence of three months’ imprisonment, and pay 5s per week from the Ist June until such time as he is prepared to take his wife to his home.