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Southland Times, Issue 1145, 21 April 1869, Page 2

Ecclesiastical. — We understand His Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch w?U pay a visit to Invercargill shortly, when he will hold confirmation services. Town Election. — In onr other columns w''l. be found a report Of yesterday's proceedings at the nomination of candidates for the vacant town seat at the Council table, lnree cand'dates, it will be seen, are now before the public, and the electors must decide tlvs day which of. them shall be returned. The poll opens at 9 o'clock, at the Cor 't House, and closes at for-. jPentistbt. — We observe that Mr Armstrong, dentist, has returned from a prolonged professional visit to the West Coast, and resumed practice in Tay-Btreet, next to Mr Clerk'se, chemist. Bachelder's Diobama. — It will be seen from our advertising columns that this highly spoken of Diorama will arrive at Invercargill in the course of the next, few days, aOd will be publicly exhibited in the Theatre Royal on Monday evening next, and following night 9. The scenes represented on the canvas are the most important and striking ones of the late American war, the thriving incidents of which are said to be very forcibly pourtrayed. No doubt the performance wi'l be vei/ largely patronized during its short stay. Melancholy Stjictoe. — A most determined and lamentable case of this nature occiirred at Riverton on Monday afternoon. Mr W. I. Bridges, a gentleman well known in Invercargi", but who lately removed to Riverton to commence business there, on that afternoon put ari end at once to Ms life and eai chly troubles by his own hand. Deceased was always considered of a hot, excitable temperament, and it appears that 1 recently' some unsatisfactory business transactions so increased his natural irratability as to drive him to the rash act. The means used are said to have been a heavily charged gun, so effectively aimed that death must have been nearly instantaneous. The fact that a wife and family are left, add deeper gloom to the tragedy. The Duke's V-sit. —We observe from Dimodin papers that during the visit of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, to Dunedin, he is likely to become the occupant of the residence of the late John Jones, Esq., Miss Jones and the trustees having, in accordance with deceased's intention, placed the spacious and elegant mansion of Fernh ;i l at the disposal of the authoilties for that purpose. Weights and Measures. — A Generai (government Gazette' intimates that Sergeant Major Chapman has been appointed Inspector of Weights and Measures. This is a very necessary offica, and the present officer w "11, no doubt,. faithful '.y carry out the object for which he is appointed: A periodical inspection 6f all weights and measures, and their regular adjustment to a uniform standard, is as necessary and beneficial for the honest trader, as for the protection of the public. Cases of w llful infring - ment of the law can scarcely be too severely punished, and ought uot to be overlookd. Stewabt's Island. -*- Buckley and party, (3) who have been at work on Stewart's Island ■ now for about twelve months, paid a short visit to Invercargill recently, and returned again to . tho scene of their labors -at Smoky Beach, taking with them a supply of provisions for 6 months. They say they have at least six months wort before them at not less than £3 or £4 per man per week. Another party, Longuet and* Brown, have also been over to the Bluff for a six months supply of stores, and have gone back to their workings at Ruggedy Beach, where they say they can make about £4> per week each for that length of time* This is encouraging, and ' should induce others to try their fortune on the | island. I

Resident Ma.gistba.te's Court. — At this Court on Monday 19th inst., a notorious pest, known, as " Mother O'Brien," the keeper of a disreputable den, was brought up under the Vagrancy Act... and sentenced to ten dayd imprisonment. .^As she had frequently been before tho court pfe**d6iislyyjshe wis cautioned that on hdr re-appearance id that; position she would get six nionths, and "that thi" corrective dose would be repeated at every recuv.'enco of complaint. 3?HE TAsISIA.NI£N"SUB^.&:BIJS*E CABLE.r v ?he 4 Herald^ df the 13th Apri\ says:— "the steamship Investigator, with the submarine cable which is to be laid down between Flinders and Tamar Heads, arrived yesterday *n Hobson's Bay. The cable, which is about 225 miles in length, was stowed away in an iron tank placed amidships. The tank has been kept filled vi ith sea- water, and tho cable has been so placed that the deep sea portion lies at the bottctol, and. the shore ends at the surface. So soon as she had coaled, the operations for laying the cable will be commenced. The whole proceedings w''l ba superintended by the electrician, Mr Fisher, and Mr Stanley, R.N., will lend any assistance necessary in the Pharos." Chinamen foe Otago. — We learn from a contempory, that a ship had arrived in Melbourne with 250 Chinamen for Otago. Quabtz Reef. — A discovery of a moßt important character to parties engaged in quartz-mining has been made at the Pleasant Creek diggings, Victoria, where a payable horizontal, or flat reef has been found 350 feet below a reef formerly worked at a depth of 560 feet. Thi3 discovery is expected to give a fresh impetus to quartz-mining.