The Invercargill Times TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1863.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 88, 8 September 1863, Page 2

The Invercargill Times TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1863.

We have to congratulate His Honor the Superintendent upon the fact that the Province of Southland is, up to the present, perfectly free from Pleuropneumonia. Whether stopping the supplies of cattle from the neighboring colonies has had any thing to do with this very desirahle state of things, is quite another question; but unless a little further information on the subject be placed at our disposal, we should be inclined to say it had not. We may at the same time congratulate the inhabitants of the Province generally upon the fact that- the retail pnVe of meat has risen very considerably within the last few days, and we are safe in adding that, had the restrictions never been put in force, the rise would not have taken place. Our readers, as they digest their matutinal beef steaks, which cost the moderate sum of eighteenpence per pound, can look forward with confidence to the time when the butchers will find it necessary to charge two shillings. We have had the pleasure of inspecting a list of prices furnished by a local '•' Knight of the cleaver/ by which we find that " prime cuts'' can be obtained for one shilling and three pence per pound. Let us eat and be thankful for the "prime cut with which his Honor has supplied us, or if beef be found too expensive let us fall back on the wethers of the Province, and bear in mind the praise worth v example of the man, who, when his interior organisation refused a dinner of boiled mutton, made answer thus to his rebellious stomach, "Oh ! you wont eat boiled mutton wont you ? Well, you shall have nothing but boiled mutton for a month.'' Or better still, let us become vegetarians, and say with an ancient writer, " Better is ;i dinner of herbs where Jove j'h, than n mailed ox and hatred therewith." And yet while we arc preaching patience to our runtluru wo arc compelled to admit that the caac is vry \u\vd.