The Southern Cross PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, June 9. General News

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 10, 9 June 1894, Page 8

The Southern Cross PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, June 9. General News

There is no alteration to report in the labour market this week. The band coftest is to be held in Invercargill during the second week in October. We must ask the forbearance of correspondents, whose contributions will re' ceive early attention. In 18G3 oats were selling at 13s 6d per bushel in Invercargill. So states Mr A. Kinross in the course of an interesting article in another column. The business of the Government Insurance Department iu Invercargill is now conducted in the Public Buildings, while their late offices in Esk street have been taken possession of by the Southland Frozen Meat Go. Certain alterations in the time-table of the Invercargill - Lumsden train service are announced by the Railway Department. The Southland Education Board insert notifications to householders in certain districts which failed to elect school committees. One of our oldest settlers, Mr J. Bain, of Bainfield. Waikiwi, died on Thursday at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Invercargill will be visited by two ladies next week who have won a high position in the musicial world—Madame Vere-Sapio, prima donna, and Madame Camilla Urso, the great violinist. They appear with a concert company iu the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday evenings. Madame Sapio is described as the greatest singer who has visited the colonies, while Madame Urso holds her audiences spell-bound by her exgulsite violin solos. One one occasion recently she was recalled six times. Signor Sapio, the famous conductor and composer, and Herr Shereck, pianist, are also members of the company. The Annual Demonstration of the United Friendly Societies takes place on Wednesday evening, opening with a procession through the main streets. Daring its coarse a number of fireworks will be let off. The other items are a concert iu the Theatre Royal—for which an exceedingly attractive programme has been prepared—and a ball in Zealandia Hall. All the arrangements are complete, and fine weather only is wanted to make the affair an out-and-out success. The Hon. Vincent Pyke, the well-known journalist, pioneer, and parliamentarian, is dead. He made his mark in public life both in Victoria and New Zealand, and the place of the genial and witty V. P. will not be easily filled.

The Rev. J. Ferguson of Invercargill has received a call to St. Stephen’s Church . Sydney. The June sittings of the Supreme Court' open at Invercargill on Tuesday. Our Dipton correspondent sends the following notes : —Mr Joseph Campbell held a clearing sale of his farm and implements recently. The land brought £5 an acre, but the day being wet, bidding for the stock and: implements was rather slow. —Mr W. Y. Millar is busy straightening up the Dipton bridge. This will be a great improvement, and if the County Council will now give it a couple of coats of tar, the structure will last five or six years longer than it otherwise would.—A start has been made with the erection of the dairy factory. The Invercargill licensing committeedecided on Monday last to close seven hotels—Prince of Wales, Supreme Court, Golden Fleece, Strathearn, Union, Mitson’s and Stag’s Head. They subsequently agreed to hear evidence and counsel, and on Thursday last adjourned to Monday, 18th inst. There is at present on view in MessrsWalter Guthrie and Co.’s window a painting which has attracted considerable attention. It is from the brush of Mrs A. K. Moseley, a lady recently aiyived in the colony, who intends making Invercargill her home. MrsMoseley has opened rooms over Wesney’s,. where she intends holding art classes. Tuition in figure, landscape, and flower painting from nature only, and figure painting,, from life if required, will be rendered to beginners and others, Mrs Moseley is experienced in portrait painting and intends devoting special attention to that branch of the art. The following is an extract from theDetroit Free Press which refers to the samelady : —-“Detroit’s colony of artists has received a valuable addition in the person and abilities of Mrs Arthur K. Moseley, who has much skill and fine taste in the use of both, pencil and brush. Mrs Moseley studied her art in Europe, and was for a considerable time employed as an artist on the staff of an illustrated dramatic and society paper inGlasgow. She paints well in oil and watercolours, and her best productions are in the way of figure painting, in which she shows strength, freedom, and fine taste.”

“ John Bull” writes from the country:— I noticed in your paper of June 2nd a letter from H. Vickery, of Clifton, on the subject of slaughter-yards, and expressing an opinion of how diseased meat can be prevented from getting into general consumption. To those who are in authority these’opinions, to my mind, are worth their weight in gold, inasmuch as they are given for their use, and I think they ought to take advantage of them because they are so thoi'oughly practical and plain. “The butchers like to sell good meat,” and it is evident H. Tickery does, and he is to be commended for endeavouring to have the public supplied with nothing but a first-class article. The project of beet-sugar manufacture is occupying the attention of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and from full and reliable information it would appear that no more profitable farming can be carried out in the colony. It has been shown (says the coorespondent of the Taieri Advocate) that fifty acres of fair—not the best —land can be made to produce £7OO per annum, and the importation of susrar, a large one indeed, from outside be practically stopped, as New Zealand could supply herself. . Hundreds of agricultural and other workers would be employed, and the vast sums sent out of the colony for this commodity spent in increasing the health, wealth, and comfort of the people in it. The wretched weather we have been having of late is the chief topic of conversation among the people, both town and country. The next is the merits of the New Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine, which is admitted to be the best of all sewing machines for general family use. E. W. Jones, agent. Eepairs a specialty. Agent for the renowned Stak Cycles, the best value for the money in New Zealand. Send for catalogue. —Acvt.