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Southland Times, Issue 1717, 21 March 1873, Page 2

Under the circumstances it may be necessary to state that during the continuance of Mr Cuthbertßon's candidature for the representation of Invercargill in the House of .Representatives that gentleman retires from the editorial management of the Southland Times. It will be ob9arvod from a late telegram that the Gladstone Ministry had been defeated on the Irish Church Bill by 287 to 284. Mr Gladstone had demanded an adjournment. An inquest was held on Wednesday in Brennan's Hotei, Gore, on the body of a man named James Edgar, who was found dead in his bed in the hotel on Tuesday morning, 18th inst. A. Mucdonald, Esq., J.P., presided as Acting - Coroner. A post-mortem examination had been made by Dr M'Clure, who stated that the cause of death indicated by the appearances was pulmonary apoplexy. The jury brought in a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. The deceased is understood to have been a widower, over middle age, and it is stated that he leaves a grown up Bon and daughter. The body was interred on Mr Brennau's property, Dr M'Clura reading the Church of England burial service. Another fatal accident occurred on Wednesday, 19th inst. A man named Thomas Young wai engaged, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, ii company with another named Alfred Birchall, sawing a red pine tree in the bush near Messrs Lockhart Brothers' sawmills. As the tree fell it struck a branch of birch, bringing it down. The branch fell with great violence on Young's forehead, felling him to the ground. He was stunned by ihe blow, and never recovered consciousness. Dr Grigor was summoned, and visited him without delay, but the skull was fractured in several places, and from the first it was evident thst there was no hope of his recovery. On intelligence of the accident being received in town, Mr Convers humanely despatched a special train to the spot, and brought the wounded man to the hospital, the train stopping on the line at the back of the building. (We have previously suggested that a path from the railway and a gite in the hospital fence for the admission of patients brought by train would often say-? mnuh time an i suffering . The unfortunate mm died at 4 p m. on tha same day. An inquest was held yesterday, by Dr Monckton, coroner, Mr Shields bring foremin o? the jury, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased was a single man, a;ed 33, a native of Kent, England, and was sober and steady, and an experienced bushman. A man named Alexander M'Eay, who witnessed the accident, corroborated the evidence given by Birchall at the inquest. Besides the Leicester sheep mentioned in »ur last issue as purchased by Mesirs Gillies and Street for their stud fljck at Awaraoko, near Oatnaru, eleven very fine ewes, bred by Mr Robert Hamilton, of R >zelle, were shipped by the Albion for the same destination. The Awainoko flock enjoys a high reputation in o>imaru, come of the original stock, both rams and ewes, having been selected by an experienced judge, Mr James Archibald, of Glengelt, Liuder, from the flocks of the most celebrated breeders in Scotland, the Marquiß of Tweeddale, Messrß James and Thomas Clarke of Oldhamstocks Mains, Mr William Purves of Burnfoot, and Mr George Torrance of Sisterpath. Mr Archibald h one of the moßt extensive sheep farmers in Scotland, and j a constant exhibitor and prize-taker at all the celebrated shows, and through hiß influence Messrs Gillies and Street were enabled to lecure stook of a class which those who are acquainted with the sheep market at home know to be extremely difficult to be procured at any price. For obtaining ewes for a flock of this his;h charao er Messrs Gilließ and Street could not have come to a better district in New Zealand than Southland, which stands second to none for long-wools. Our local breeders will have howov>t to look to their laurels, as others in tke north are fast treading on their heeh. With a continuance of the care and -judgment which they have hitherto shown, however, we have no doubt Southland will be able to maintain the lead, which it now undoubtedly has taken, in this particular class of stock. Mr B. Short, of Sydney, delivered a lecture in the Presbyteriau Church on Tuesday evening in aid of the funds of the Ladies' Benevoleut Ssciety. The subject of the lecture was Mr Short'i tr<iveU and experiences. A sum of £16 was collected. An adjourned session of the Licensing Court for the Invercarjjill District was held on Tuesday, ISth in?t., Messrs M'Culloch and Cuthbertson on the bench. The adjourned application oi Julius Seehof for a license for the Caledonian Hotel was refused, the house being unfurnished.. Nicholas Johnson obtained permission to have hi 3 license transferred from his present house to the new building in Esk-street-At the meeting of the Waste Land Board on Tuesday, 18th inbt., the following applications were granted : — Richard James, 130 acres, Aparima hundred ; John, David, and James Spence, 800 acres, Taringatura district, run 149 ; John, David, and James Sponoe, 4200 acres, Taringatura district, runs 159 aad 181. H. R. Cassels obtained a sawintil license to cut over 660 acres in the Lougwood Bush, being four yeara' work for a fourteen horse-power engine. The Treasurer to the Hospital Committee requests us to acknowledge his receipt of £3 14a 7d, from Mr C. Cowan, being his subscription and collection on the station on behalf of the Hospital. At the meeting of the Municipal Council last night there were present Councillors Ross, Tapper, -Good wi Hie, Jaggers, Lumiden, Pratt, and Garth waite (in the chair). The following tenders were accepted : — Formation and drainage of Conon street, William Lindsay, £271 12s ;

metalling Kelvin-street from Tay to Ksk-street, John Lucaß, £44> It was resolved not to accept toncterß for gravelling until the Publio Works Committee had consulted with the Burveyor and reported as to the best source of gravel supply, and that the engineer's attention be drawn to the slow progress 'made with the Tav -at re- 1 contract, the insufficiency of the lamps. an<i the necessity of mikina the north side of Tuy-street passable for winter. It was resolretl to submit thi? remuining portions of the Towa Belt for lease to public competition on fhurs l;iy, 3ri April. The engineer was requested, to make a further report on the Tay— strset drain, with a view to a. more economical construction than those yet proposed. The Council adjournel shortly after ten o'clock. We received by the last Sa"z mail a copy of the monthly summary of the London-Colonial News, prepared for the Australian cotani?s, and published by Messrs Richards, Whi'o & Co. The London— Colonial News is a paper of sorno year*' ! standing, but the summary under notice it v new I venture in connection therewith. The prospectus I states i — " The object of the proprietors is to supply a summary of English news to the Australian colonies at a lower rate than any now sent from England. Thirty years' experience in other colonies in newspaper proprietorship gives some qualification for the work now entered upon, and some sort of guarantee that it will be conducted to a suoeessful issus." From a telegram in a Dunedin oaper we learn that Mr Mo nekton has leased the Auckland Islands. The Auckland Archery Club presented Lady Bowen with a silver shield. Experiments made by the Wellington Gas Cimpany with the Malvern Hills (Canterbu-y) coal have resulted in 14,000 feet per ton beina obtained, with an illuminating power, on leaving the purifiers, equal to 24 candles. It is reported that a new seam has been found, at the Malvern Hills, cropping out at the end of the present seam. Messrs H. S. Fish, jun., and 0. S. "Reeves have announced themselves as candidates for the seat in the Provincial Council rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr E. B. Cargill. "It is reported from Napier that a new petroleum spring has been discovered near Waiapu, East Cape, by a native while searching forhorseß. The oil 19 said to exist in greut abuadanoe. A sample has been sent to Dr Hector.