General News.
Headers are reminded that our band contest prize competition closes at noon on Thursday. Band contest next week—judge arrives oa. Monday, and the musicians on Tuesday. A petition against the proposed toll-bar at the Waihopai is in circulation in the Waikiwi and West Plains districts. The St. Clair and Juvenile football teams had a match on Wednesday, the latter winning by six points to three. The final match, is to be played on the 17th inst. The Hallway Department announce arrangements in connection with the band contest. Mr A. F. Lithgow, “ our champicn cornet player,” arrived from Tasmania yesterday, and had his first rehearsal with his old comrades of the Garrison Band last night. Recent cable messages indicate the existence of friction between France and Britain in connection with Madagascar, where France has virtually established a protectorate, and where a section of the native population has rebelled.
There cannot (we quote from the market report of the N. Z. L. and M. A. Co. for September) be more than 10,000 sacks of wheat stored in Southland on growers’ account, the bulk of which is held for 3s per bushel, but while heavy stocks of quality superior to the Southland cereal are held in Victoria for export at considerably lower prices little can be done here.)
At the last performance of Mendelssohn’s “ Elijah ”by the Invercargill Choral Union, Mr J. Prouse, of Wellington, the well-known baritone, sang the music of the Prophet. The oratorio is to be given again about December, and all who had the pleasure of listening to Mr Prouse’s faithful interpretation, will be pleased to know that his services, have again been secured by the Union for the same work.
As everybody is talking about bands just now, it may be mentioned that the number of brass bands in the United Kingdom exceeds 40,000, Yorkshire alone possessing 800. New Zealand has 94, and nine or ten of these will be heard in Invercargill next week.
There was a very large attendance at the last meeting of the Juvenile Lodge established a few months ago in connection with the Shamrock, Rose, and Thistle and St. George Lodges of Oddfellows, M. U., the attraction being the first of a series of elocutionary competitions. On this occasion recitations form«d the programme. Four prizes were given and these were awarded by the judges (Bros. J. S. Goldie and J. Ward), to Masters Brass, Galbraith, Mcßobie, and Springford, in the order given.
Mr A. W. Nicol. who recently quitted the service of the Southland Times Company, to devote himself to the shorthand and tylpe writing business, opens classes in the CentraChambers, Dee street, on Monday evening. Mr Nicol, who has already had some experience as a teacher of the “ winged art,” is an enthusiastic disciple of the veteran Pitman, and is, moreover, an exceedingly neat and fluent writer of his admirable system of phonography. At once painstaking and thoroughly efficient, he is just the one to bring students on well, and we wish him every success in the career upon which he has entered.
The Kaikorai (Dunedin) band during their visit to Invercargill will be located at Mr F. Uewit’s Union Temperance Hotel ; the Dunedin Navals at Deschler’s ; the Oamaru Navals at Mrs Lawson’s, Spey street; the Timaru Garrison at Mr Whitaker’s Empire Hotel; and the Sydenham band at Henderson’s Temperance Hotel. Our musical visitors will be met at the railway station by the Mayor and will march to the rotunda, where an address of welcome will be delivered. One of the bands the Sydenham is coming by steamer, leaving Lyttelton to-day. Publicity was recently given to the fact that two members of Oddfellows Lodges in the Auckland district had drawn in sick pay sums of over LSOO and L7OU each. These cases were cited as examples of some of the advantages conferred by friendly societies, and we have now to add that an equally striking instance is to be found in connection with the oldest branch of the Manchester Unity in Southland, viz., the Shamrock, Eose, and Thistle Lodge, one of whose members, a sufferer for over twenty years from a chronic ailment, has drawn the sum of L 515 in sick allowance.
As far back as the time of Moses rushes were utilised for basket-making, and at the present day they are extensively used in making basketware in Germany. A direct consignment of German rush baskets has just been opened up by Mr R. C. Millar, Dee street, and we understand are the first of the kind imported here. They are very tough, and a variety of patterns are worked into the various kinds, which are suitable for schoolbags, picnic baskets, and music portfolios, while one shape seems admirably adapted for a cyclist’s satchel. The rushes are prepared by a special process to preserve the fibre and at the same time give them a nice clean colour.
W. Lewis & Co. have opened up the most exhaustive stock of spring and summer goods they have ever offered to the people of Southland. Every Department crowded with bargains. Visitors, by calling, will saver money. —Advt.
A very successful meeting in connection ■with the opening of a Juvenile Reohabite Tent was held in the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening. Mr G- Challis (superintendent of the newly-formed Tent) presided, and 30 lads, whose ages ranged from nine to 15 years, presented themselves for initiation. After this ceremony was gone through, the following officers were elected Chiet Ruler, Arthur Palmer; Deputy Euler, David Wesney; Secretary, Thomas Ennis; Treasurer, Arthur Nicholas; Writing Steward, Thomas Froggatt; Money Steward, John Godfrey ; Guardian, Arthur Challis ; Levite, Percy Palmer; C. E- Supporters, Alex. Strang and B. Challis; D. E. Supporters, David Small and Stanley Pearce,
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 28, 6 October 1894, Page 8
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956General News. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 28, 6 October 1894, Page 8
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