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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 346, 25 December 1902, Page 4

Another 15s per ton has been added to the price of flour by the Auckland North* em Roller Mills. j The next English and European mail via 'Frisco will close at the Alexandra post office on Saturday next, at 9 p.m. Mr Coohlan, the well-known New South Wales statistidian, is in the colony inquir. ing into the Working of our Pension Act. The bakers of Alexandra notify that the price of bread will be raised, to 9d per 41b loaf on and after Monday, '22 nd December. To-dat (Christmas Day) the local postoffice will observe a close holiday. Tomorrow (Boxing Day) the office will be open from 9 a m to 10 a.m. Owing to the rather serious illness of his wife. Mr Barrie Marschel has been obliged to abandon his proposed visit to the goldfields during the holidays. It is said that Messrs Strange and Co., the celebrated drapers, of Ohristchnrch, have purchased for £IO,OOO the Somerset Hotel premises at Asbburten, which, on acconnt of the No-lieense-vote, would have been closed in June. Tee commisioners who are foveatigating the mysterious disease known aslbe sleeping sickness in Uganda report that 70,000 natives died in four years, and tfcSi 15,000 are still suffering. The disease is incurable, and increasing in virulence, The privileges in connection with the Alexandra Caledonian Society's New Year Sperts were sold by auction on Saturday last, and brought record prices The publican's booth was sold to Mr F. Gay for i £ll 6s; and the fruit stall to Mr B. Dawson I for £5 2s 6d. •

A BBRious accident -in, reported from Kumara. A young man, Frederick Richards, 18 years of age, while handling a pea rifle, accidently shot his mother (Mrs W. T. Richards) in the back, the ball passing throngh the abdomen. Mrs Richards succumbed to her injuries. A great number of the residents of this district have gone afield to spend the holidays. A correspondent informs us that on Tuesday, and again yesterday, the ciowd s,t the Ida Valley railway station before the train started for Dunedin was something similar to what one usually sees in a city. IT is understood (says the "Oamaru Hail") that at a meeting held last week the hotelfceepers of Oamaru came to a decision that if any of their number infringed the law in regard to selling liquor en Sunday, er during illegal hours, or by supplying to-treated-persons, he should pay a finaef £so.' •*,••;

I A Mabtbotok surgeon, who was called is during the early part of last week to attend a young lady suffering Very seriously from pains in the leg and foot, discovered the cause—viz.; a needle, an inch and a-quarter long,—which was quite black when removed, and which must have been in the patient's body for several years, aad had eventually worked its way down to the foot. The front wheels of the leading engine of the express %• Chrlstchurch were thrown off the rails north of Sawyer's Bay, on Saturday. No damage was done, bat the matter has the appearance of a deliberate attempt to wreck the train by placing swo stones on the rails. Bad the train gone off the line.it would hate been precipitated down a bank, and a terrible disaster would have occurred. A vamily living at Manaia (near Hawera) were recently scared out of their wits by an unearthly noise under the floor. So alarmed were they that they abandoned their dwelling and slept at a neighbors. In the morning investigation showed the cause to be a cat with its bead fast in a lobster tin In its struggle to free itself the unfortunate feline was constantly bumpiag the flooring above, whence the alarming manifestation. A WIRE rope used tor hoisting bricks to a building in course of erection in Victoria street, Wellington, came in contract with the electric light wire the other morning, with the result that the horse which was used to do the work, collapsed uader the shock. Not knowing the cause, several workmen rushed to lift the animal, but as soon as they touched it they were knocked sprawling. None were seriouslyjhurt, though bruised and suffering from the shock. Says the Wellington correspondent of the "EveningStar"{ During the past three weeks your representative has run across several Dunedinites, who have apparently been driven out of their own city owing to the slump in the gold dredging industry At one time they were more or less connected with mining companies, which all have passed into oblivion. Host of the Dunedinites referred to are energetically invading the Government Buildings dailv in the hope of some quill-driving billet springing up.

Borne Dew mixed metapbars. This one from America. "Will yoa burl the comer stone of Irish independence to the English wolves thirsting for it* blood T The follow, •re vouched for as recent Heuseef Commons specimens: "By taking this cenrse the Government will be opening the door to the thin edge of the wedge." •• A quanel is so imminent that it requires only a spark to let slip the dogs of war." "Itis no use for the hon member to shake his head in the teeth ef his own words." •• We are drifting into the African desert without rudder and with' out compass." Stsw are being take* by *• easterns Department to counteraot the deception practised by the manufacturers of cigars, designed to intimate well-known brands, and then sent to this colony After the 31st of May next the Department will brand each box passed through bond with the words " Made in Germany," or sich other country as may be the place of origin. The date has been set so far orward to enable the manufacturers to become acquainted with the new rule, and anticipate it by themselves branding their boxes {aside and out with the prescribed legend. Thh enquiry into the Mataura petition for the annulment of the Licensing poll was commenced on Wednesday, and was on Thursday adjourned to January 19th. Messrs Hosting, Neave and Hanlon are appearing for the petitioners, while Mr Adams was allowed to be presentee vrnMuz curiae. Other representatives of the NoLicenee party, including Mr IbM, also attended to watch the proceedings in the interest of their following. The evidence called in the main supported the allegations contained in the petition, but Mr Adams will be given an opportuity of cress-examln-, ing witnesses and calling rebutting evidetooe.

A sasiDßN? er Maaterton has an exceed* tag cunning device constructed at his residence to' order to frighten tea birds away froaa bis garden. With she aid of a weter*wh«el an object representing a cat is I made to climb a wire automatically and descend. The contrivance baa proved most! effective. Ms H. E. 88ACKIACX, the founder of tbo' well-known firm of J1..8. Snscklock and Co, Ltd., committed suicide by haagtag him* self in an outhouse at his residence at Sooth Dunedin, on Wednesday of last week, Be--1 ceased, who was 65 yean of age, had •offered from melancholia and insomnia of late. The management of the business of the firm recently had been caarled on by hia son, and though deceased bad no business worries, the efforts of his family to arc-BBC bis spirits were unavailing, and, weighed down by depression, he evidently I committed the rash act. The verdict of the jury at the inquest was to the same effect. One of the crew of the Zealandla, on arrival in Sydney (says the "Australian Star") wasasked whether it was true that an Austrian was killed by an oar, "That ia not so," was the man's reply. "He had two life-belts on, and one of the Elingamite's crew went up to him and said 'Here, take one of those off.' The foreigner replied,'No saves.' The man then told him that there were two children close by without life»belts, and he would have to take one off, at least. Ha again replied,' No savee,' and, picking up a pieco of wood, he said, 'l'll make you savee, then.' and ho laid him out, and taking the belts off him put them round the children, both of whom were saved. That is the truth of the whole thing. We saved the man who did it, and he is now in Auckland.'* To " Tattersall," there's many a man Who ewes his bank account, And they who lowly life began Climbed quickly up the mount. We trust that those who charm of gold To perils may allure. Such as neglect of cough or eold. Take Wood's Great Peppermint Cure.