The Bruce Herald TOKOMAIRIRO, APRIL 30, 1897.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2849, 30 April 1897, Page 2

The Bruce Herald TOKOMAIRIRO, APRIL 30, 1897.

Leader and other matter crushed out this issue, A woman at Eketahuna has been creating some excitement by threatening to bhoot the hotelkeepers there for keeping her husband out late at night. Mr Goyen, one of the Education Board's Inspectors , made surprise visit to the Tokomalriro Distriot High School on Wednesday. By an advertisement in another oolumn it will be seen that a meeting is called for Wednesday night of all interested in the formation of a debating club in Milton. The convener has been to considerable trouble in working up the matter and as a result has secured the names of forty persons who have signified their intention of becoming members. The idea of the promoters is that it shall not be oonduoted aa a parliamentry union but as a genuine debating sooiety. It is to be heped that the movement will receive the Bnoonngemant It deserves, and that a itrpng society will be started, (a oar midgt. '

The Lawrence footballers are going in for a great deal of practice now ia anticipation of a match with the Milton Olub at an early date. To prevent the skin from discoloring after a bruise, take a little dry starch or arrowroot, merely moisten it with cold water, and place it immediately on the in-< jured part. Some speculation is now taking place ia the purohasa of land in and about Milton. Amongst several transactions lately we hear that five acres on the Fairfax road were sold by Mr Soanlan for £40 per acre. The bar at the mouth of the Tokomairiro River has again formed and a conßOquent submersion of the land on tbe lower reaches of the rivor bus tuken place. Ad attempt to remove tha bar on Wednesdaywas unßucoeßßful and will be renewed tit on early date. A great number of our farmers are vow engaged carting and spreading lime on their land. The benefits derived from this nourishment are every year becoming more marked, and nowhere are its effects more evident than on some of the farms in the Tokomairiro plain. At the meeting of the Milton Brass Band on Tuesday evening several new playing members were balloted in, It is understood that the Band is soon to be led by a drum-major, and it has in view a reoruit of somewhat stalwart dimensions to fill this important position. An Auckland baker is manufacturing a weddiug cake for the marriage of the King of Tonga. The King, when a prince at the Auokland College and Grammar School, formed a friendship for the baker, Vlr Buohanan, and has now given him the order for his wedding oake, whioh is to stand sft high and weigh nearly a quarter of a ton. The Bible readings conducted this week by Messrs Blair and Trimble in Mr White's Hall, Eden street, inorease in numbers nightly. The Evangelists give their closing Gospel addresses on Sunday evening, and prooeed next week to Queens land to oommenoe text work for the winter season. We learn that the committee appointed to canvass Dunedin for prizes for the Tokomairiro Farmers' Club's Winter Show haß me 4 ; with every buccess, and prizes of the value of £26 have been promised. It would be well for farmers to bear in mind that eeveral classes are devoted to field turnips, so that any particularly good specimens may be preserved. In the town of Gischiga, in Siberia, the Provincial Governor, Sosnin, has for some time past been quite trad. One of his favorite amusements is to order the arrest of a number of respectable townsmen, load them with chains, and eend them to prison for an indefinite period. Another pastime of the Governor's is to threaten to hang his junior officers. Tho lunatic Governor, however, has at last been removed from his post and oonveyod to an asylum. A good number of farmers from the Tokomairiro and Clutha Districts j aurneyed to Weßt Taieri on Tuesday to attend the clearing sale of stook aud farming implements on Mr William Thomson's farm, Momona, which has recently been sold to the Government for cutting up. The weather was excellent, and the attendance very large, almost all the lots offered going under brisk competition, Sarah Bernhardt is an acute business woman as well as a great actress She has set up a millinery establishment in new York, and put a couple of oharming yourjg Parisian women into it, The " drawlDg " features of tbe new establishment are these : It will bear Mine. Sarah's name, It will display bats of Mme. Sarah's own choosing. And it will be supervised and given the proper air of distinction by Mme. Sarah'e own niece, The latest record reign proposal is that of a citizen of Montreal. He Buggeats that all the Queen's subjeots, wherever they are, at high noon on celebration day should take off their hats and Bing "God Save the Queen," and all organs and bands of music should also join in playing it. Thus, from Victoria, in Australia, round the world to Victoria, in British Columbia, there would flow for twenty-four hours a oeaselesa song of praise, one meridian taking it up as another dropped it, It is reported that the fruit crop of Miliura (Vie.) is estimated to be worth £60,000 this year, and the Fruit Trust will superintend the marketing of nearly the whole of the output. The chief items in the estimate are the ooming citrus crop, £10,000 ; 650 tons of raisins, valued £24,267 ; 260 tonß of pulped fruit, valued at £2600 ; and 103 tons of dried apricots, valued at £5678. The year's wine production is valued at £5000. Messrs Blaney, White Smith, and Co. started their American Riding Gallery last night. When in Kaitangata this well-known steam merry-go-round was orowded on every occasion, After once riding on the maohine, both old^and young were bo fascinated that they took to tbe amusement like a duck takes to the water. The merry-go-round is by driven a ssteam engine, and the enjoyment of those who ride is increased by the latest up-to-date musical tunes played by the best trumpet organ in the colony. Among the minor attractions in connection with the merry-go-round are a powerful electric battery, a spirometer, shooting gallery, and weight lifting maohine.

The oldest New Zealand-born whit, man i& 77 yoara of age, but there are t* white women who olaim to be older^ou 78 and tbe other 79. We are pleased to see that A] r j) | Gordon ia able to be oat again after U | long confinement to his room as the resale 1 an accident ho mot with several weekß ago Ladybirds liberated by the Depart. ment of Agriculture in the Hutt V&|| ft have done much to reduce the cottom cushion scale which waa affecting tj,. orchards there. Thus the ' Clutha County Gazette 1- —" In every town wherever a paper fa printed, there are always two or three dm who imagine they can ran it better th», the proprietor, but a brief analysis go eife prove that they do not possess suffi c j eill intelligence to ran a hog faotory." Some of the pupils attending tb Kaikoura school, eaya the ' Waipawa Milh recently presented a petition to the chi] r man of the school committee, asking h| s " to keep the school in a football all % year round, if you do not mind, as it «H] entice the ohildren to attend more regain The prayer of the petitioners has j,^ granted, and everybody is happy in oon* quenoe. Messrs Love and party, who han lately started to open up the coal rt on Mr W. .Noble's property, at the Fon| fioationa down the Tokomairlro River, an about to build a pout to hold twelve torn. to bring their ooal up to as far aa Falcone^ farm. The punt will be worked by a pot, table engine, and the coal, which is of v exceptionally good quality, will be cartej into Milton from Mr Falconer's. Bather a novelty in sbeep-stealiuf was practised in Gore the other night, at, the ' Mataura Ensign,' Mr John Turnbtl had a number of two-tooth Leicester ran grazing on the show grounds, and the oth* day discovered that one of them had bt« Btolen, the thief leaving in its place an di oull ram, showing that he was not so fa steeped in iniquity as to take a mu\ property, and not give him something b way of compensation. Our readers will regret to hearij the death at Balfour on Saturday of ]| Anguß Colquhoun Kay, eldest son of ft late Mr Andrew Kay, of Tokomairlro. H Kay was driving a load of timber when to horses bolted, and holding on to li reins he was thrown down and the who of the dray passed overhiir, death reeultfy Mr Kay was well-known in this district vi was married to a daughter of Mr Geor; Lindsay of Birkenshaw. During a recent speech in Welling tbe Minister for Lands Baid : "If anyot wanted to hear any more about Bushy P w he waa prepared to give him a letter to hi sons' solicitors, and they could see tj whole of the deeds." Mr G. ilutchuci M.H.R., wrote yesterday asking forauft ority to peruse them. The Minister replH that they had been forwarded that day t his son at Bushy Park, and added "G south and ask him in person to allow yn a perusal of the deeds. My son is a tru bied Highlander, and has all the oharacto istics of his race. I have not the slighto doubt that he would give you a warm His land recaption, Buoh as his forefathers wtt in the habit of giving to Sassenachs vi Lowland loons."