The Southern Cross PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, Sept. 15. General News.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 25, 15 September 1894, Page 8

The Southern Cross PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Invercargill, Saturday, Sept. 15. General News.

Close on a dozen ladies, it is understood, will take part in the opening run of the Invercargill Cycling Club. >

Members of the Murihiku Tent, I: O. B. s are elsewhere invited to meet at the Temperance Hall at 6 p.m. on Sunday, en route to the Strathearn Primitive Methodist Church, where the Rev. Mr Woollass will preach the annual sermon—Subject, “ Who is my neighbour ?”

The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Aorangi arrives at the Bluff on Monday week to clear the Southland Frozen Meat Company’s works for the season and to take in general cargo. The Aorangi will be the first of the company’s steamers built for the direct mail service to visit the port. She will take about 30,000 carcases from the Bluff. The election of three councillors for the Borough of Campbelltown took place on Thursday, the successful candidates being David McDougall, Thomas Gilroy, ahd R. F. Dawson, The late Comte de Paris, who succumbed to cancer, left his relatives £4,000,000.

Anyone who wants to imitate Robinson Crusoe will have an opportunity to do so on the 21st November, when the Auckland and Campbell Islands will be leased at Invercargill.

The Bluff Sailors’ Rest will be ready for occupation about the middle of October* Mr M, Hutton has been appointed care* taker.

The Irish Nationalists in America contemplate a resumption of a policy of disturbance in Ireland.

Australian officials report favourably oil' Australian frozen meat, and recommend that larger quantities should be imported. Further developments in other directions may also be expected., a steamer having left Melbourne with a cargo of Colonial products, including frozen mealj, for Madras and Calcutta.

Failing |to obtain a suitable site on the municipal reserves or leaseholds, the SwimmingBaths Committee are seeking to secure one elsewhere, the intention being to erect baths by private enterprise. The meat thawed by Nelson Bros’ new process has been sold at. an advance of lid. per lb on the prices obtained for ordinary frozen meat. Mr Simpson, an expert, says that in the event of it being possible to extend the process and treat frozen meat on a large scale Queensland will lead in prices. Since July 2000 bales of merino wool have been sold at from a halfpenny to a penny per lb rise in prices, chiefly 'for America* The prospects of the ensuing sales are good. Several Mermens me trying their hand at proselytising the people of Gore. They provide Sankey’s hymn books and make no collection —in itself a big draw in these days. The number of cattle in Great Britain has decreased by 400,000 and sheep by 1,500,000 as compared with the year 1893Miss Leila Adair, the balloonist, made an ascent the other day at Dunedin. Five hundred people paid for the privilege of seeing her risk her life, but thousands lined the hillsides and enjoyed the spectacle for nothing. This in spite of a stringent letter from the lady re the partiality of Dunedinitcs for a free show. The encouraging results which have attended the working of the Golden Site Mine at Wilsons River have given an incentive to further developments on the field. At the Golden Site Mine crushing is carried on during the whole 24 hours in three shifts. In another column tenders are invited for the sinking of a shaft at this mine, and also for putting in a drive at the Hesperides , Claim.

The following facts show that there are still a few people about who have strong confidence in the future of Southland. Mr I„ W. Raymond reports having sold privately during the past fortnight the Ocean View homestead block, and also lot 9 of the same estate, comprising 586 acres, for L 2.730 to Mr A. Coster ; Mr McDonald’s farm at Mokoreta to Mr C. McKelvie for L 60 0; Mr Coster’s Mataura Island property to Mr Heath for L 1560, and Mr Heath’s Otara farm to Mr Agnew for L7OO. Exciting scenes have taken place in the Queensland House of Representatives in connection with the Peace Preservation Bill introduced to cope with the shearing difficulty. Seven members who opposed the measure were suspended; ihe closure was afterwards applied, when the whole Opposition filed out out in a body amidst cheers from the public galleries.

From the Taieri Advocate we learn that three large estates in Otago will shortly be placed in the market. •

The Hellers’ “ Rosicrucian ” seances don’t appear to /pan out” well. For example, alter their entertainment in Mosgiel one mother wrote to a son who was said to be living in Hoick Square, Montreal, and discovered that there was no such square of that name. Another lady resident of Mosgiel forwarded a letter to Goto rial street, Port Glasgow, Scotland, and has just received the letter from the dead letter office with an intimation that, though the letter has been through several Glasgow postmen’s hands, the addresee could not be found.

A scheme is on foot for the amalgamation of the Bank of New Zealand and the Colonial Bank. The matter is before the Cabinet, and will be discussed in Parliament next week.

Early on Sunday morning a robber or robbers entered the [house of Mr James, Dunedin, passed through three rooms, secured Mr James’ trousers, took from the pockets the keys of the Jockey Club’s offices, went off to the latter and helped themselves 'to cash and cheques amounting to nearly £SOO.

[Reader, did you ever try to patent an invention P If you have, you know all about the doubts and difficulties that beset your path ere you were satisfied that you had done everything necessary to protect your rights. Mr W. R. Haselden, barrister, Wellington,, has done inventors and would-be patentees good service by the preparation of a pamphlet giving in a concise and easily-followed form all the essential particulars. It costs shilling, and its possession may save mental worry equal to twenty times that amount. The Government Railway Bill has been read a second time. The lines are to be under State control; the present Commissioners to go at the end of their term; and the administration will be carried on by a Minister with expert assistance.

The local option system may be applied to -weeds. In a letter to the County Council yesterday Mr McNab, M.H.R., stated that if the Noxious Weeds Bill was brought forward again he would favour local option so far as defining weeds is concerned. According to the County inspector of slaughterhouses, Mr J. Brown, over 100 sheep are sometimes sold weekly in Invercargill apart from the butchers’ shops, and sometimes they are very inferior and unfit for human ‘consumption. News of an old friend. Mr A. IT. Lithgow and the band of which he is conductor (the St. Joseph’s) lately gave a concert in the Launceston Academy of Music, and we note that the local papers speak very highly of his Cornet Solos. 11 is reported that Mr Lithgow may take part in the coming contest with his former comrades of the Garrison Band; At a meeting of the Trustees of St. Paul’s Wesleyan Church, held on Thursday evening, the tender of Mr J. C. Howie for the erection of a parsonage on the North Road, on the site of the former one, was accepted, the amount being £4B1 —the building to be of wood. Ten tenders were received for the work, those for brick being considered too high. An excellent programme has been arranged for the concert which is to be given in the Strathearn Primitive Methodist Chmch on Monday night next. A number of selected pieces will be given by the choir, who will be. assisted by several friends. Solos are to be rendered by the Misses Geddes, Organ and Nicholas, and Mrs Anderson ; also Messrs Grenfell, Service and Hensley. Recitations and readings will be given by the Rev. W. 0. Woodward and Mr W. Godfrey. Light refreshments will be Landed round in the interval. The charge for admission is one shilling, and the concert commences at 7.30 p. m. Three horses* on the Waimea Plains have succumbed to the ravages of the hot fly. Two cases which recently occurred in Auckland strikingly illustrate the advantages of membership in a friendly society. A member of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows died after an illness of 21 years. During that time he received in sick pay £746, while his relatives will get a funeral donation of £25, or a total of £771 —this return for subscriptions amounting to . between £SO and £6O. A meeting of farmers’ delegates, held in Invercargill on Saturday last, declared against the proposed increase in auctioneers’ commission on stock sales from 2| to 3f per cent. Several firms notified that they would continue to sell at the lower rate. The meeting also resolved to ask the Government to withdraw the duty of 15 per cent, on binder twine, imposed by a former Cabinet. Pour very handsome models, the preparation of which must have involved the expenditure of a good deal of time and skill on the part of their author, Mr N. Mcßobie, plumber, are on view at the shop of Mr D. Ross, photographer, Tay street. They represent the five-masted ship La Prance, the Gowan Burd, a four-master, the Deveron, and the Eagle, of Bristol.

Preaching at Benalla on that decidedly large order, “The Duty of Human Life,” a "Wesleyan minister named Hoban referred to the death of Tom Corrigan. “ This man’s decease,” he said, “ was not only the cause of deep regret in sporting circles, hut in all sections of society, among right-thinking people. And why ? Not because of his skilled and fearless horsemanship, nor his repeatedly brilliant successes on the turf, but rather because of his unimpeachable integrity and whole-soule/1 devotion to the cause of right and the service of others. He was truly (to express it in a colonial way) f a white man,’ And when it was remembered that by the sacrifices of principle he had it in his power to amass an immense fortune in a comparatively short time, such a life was fairly entitled to our admiration, whether it be lived on the turf or in the church.” I (John Peerybingle in the Melbourne Times of 25th August) §hould like to meet _ this reverend, and evidently large-minded minister Such sentiments, I say it with all due respect, are not often expressed by men of his cloth. I should like—also with due respect —* to shake hands over a friendly pipe with him. And again, and with all respect, I shomd like Jto share with him that pint, or, rather, quart, of malt liquor, with cheers wi#out necessarily inebriating. Such men, with such opinions, are as welcome in this hard world of ours as the “ shadow of a great rock in a weary land.” A very sad accident occurred on Saturday last about 3 p.m., on McCallum and Co.’s sawmill tramway line The engine was bringing logs from Seaward Bush, and when rounding a curve the front wheels left the rails, and the locomotive turned over in a swampy piece of ground about 4ft below. The fireman, James S. Young, a youth of 15 ■years, and son of Mr Young, storekeeper, Appleby, was thrown under the engine, and being caught across the loins between a stump and the boiler, was killed almost instantly. B. Biordan, the driver, was unhurt. Two boys who were standing on the tender escaped without injury. Dyexnu, up to Date. Your Clothes scoured, dyed, repaired, pressed, by practical men on the premises. Pounds may be saved by consulting GEO. BOSS & CO., opposite the Supreme Court, Tay street, where they have commenced business as above. A long experience gained in New Zealand, Melbourne, and London gives them every confidence in asking your support.— Advt.

Must be a “ boomer!” A settler at the Waiau has*on his section a pine tree, the circumference of which stretched the tape to 27ft. It is high in proportion.