SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 49, 6 December 1900, Page 18

SOUTHLAND NEWS NOTES.

(From our own correspondent.) The Rev. Father Coffey of Dunedin visited Gore last week, and on Sunday last officiated at St. Patrick's Church. I am informed that Dr. De Latour, the well known Tapanui medico, has disposed of his practice and contemplates leaving the district at no distant date.

Trooper James Fahey, of the first contingent, who has been invalided home, and who met with a great reception on arrival, has accepted a position on the staff of the Massey-Harns company, Southland branch. '

The H0n . .1. G. Ward, Postmaster-General, informs me that he hopes to open the new post and telegraph offices at Gore in June next, before the opening of the Parliamentary session. Fishing without a license has evidently become of common occurrence despite the heavy fines inflicted on conviction. During the past week several offenders were before the court in various parts of Southland, but were mulcted only in nominal sums. A new courthouse is to be erected at Gore in the course of a few months. The site to be built upon is the Government reserve at the corner of Main and Medway streets and is the place originally intended for all the public buildings, railway premises, of course, excepted.

The Mataura Valley section of the Southland Volunteers will be represented at the Commonwealth celebrations by Trooper Con. Maloney of Gore. It speaks volumes for ' Con'a ' popularity that he should be selected from the large number of eligible men for such an auspicious occaßion.

The first prize for an essay on • The effects of the colonies' action in the South African war,' which was given in connection with the exhibition in Christchurch, has come to Southland, the winner being Mr. J. C. Thomson, editor of the Western Star, Riverton.

A trial of the Southland Implement Company's new disc ridger was given on Friday on Mrs. M. J . Cook's property at Dunalister, near Wyndham. Great interest was taken therein by agriculturalists who were present from all parts of Southland. The work done was pronounced to be of first class quality despite many drawbacks. *