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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 356, 5 March 1903, Page 4

The licensing elections take place on Wednesday, March 25th. Messes Stewart Dawson and Co., insert a new advertisement in this issue. Dr M' Arthur, S.M., has declared the Newtown local option poll void. Mr J J O'Kane, dentist, may be consulted at Ophir on Saturday, 7th March. The Court sits at Clyde on Saturday, and at Alexandra on Monday and Tuesday next Mr R Sheprabd, of Matakanui, advertises that he has thirty good working ferrets for sale. The Alexandra Brass Band will play in the Recreation Reserve on Sunday afternoon next, commencing at 3 p.m. A young man named Daniel Weatherall was accidently drowned at Roxburgh, last Sunday, whilst bathing. He leaves a wife and one child. The reality of the Australian drought is. summed up in Mr John See's expressed opinion, that " the calamity is worse than the Boer war." Legve proceedings are to be taken agains* Messrs Bosanquet and Dowson, of the English cricketers, for fishing in the Wangamoawithout a license. • The cricket match between the Englishmen and the New Zealand representative team was concluded at Christchurch on Monday, the Englishmen winning by seven wickets. Bx advertisement in this issue, the Vincent County Council invite tenders for contracts —viz., cutting on Alexandra-Tuapeka road, and widening the road at Bruee's Hill and at Muttontown Gully, The following will represent Alexandra in the cricket match against Cromwell to be played at Cromwell on Saturday :—Messrs Burnsicle, Churchill, King, WKing, Crombie, Daniels, Cairns, Watts, Shanahan, Campbell, Kitto. Mr Andrew Wood, an old and respected resident of the district, dropped dead on the Alexandra bridge on Friday last. He was seen to fall by MrG Watts, who immediately summoned Dr Gregg, but life was found to be extinct. The cause of death was failure of the heart's action. An inquest was deemed unnecessary. Deceased was 74 years of age. The temains were interred in the Alexandra Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, the Itev. J . Mackie tfSciating afcWiegtave,

The " Orepuki Advocate " has changed hands, the new proprietors being Messrs W J Lyons and Co., of Invercargill. We understand that Mr Malcolm Macdonald, barrister and solicitor of this town, has disposed of his practice to Mr Bartholomew. Mr Bartholomew, who arrived in Alexandra last week, assumes charge of the business on April Ist. CABLE advice from England states that Mr W W Samson, now on the Wellington Supreme Court staff, has passed his final examination as barrister. Mr Samson is an old Alexandra boy, and is a son of Mr James Samson, the well-known auctioneer of Dunedin, who was formerly in business in Alexandra, and for man y years worthily occupied the position of Mayor of this town. The many friends of Mr James Samson will learn with much pleasure of his son's success in his chosen profession. THE dead body of the unfortunate girl, Sarah M'C4regor, who disappeared from Bannockburn on Feb. 15th, was fouud at the Perseverance Co.'s old c urrcnt-wheel'dredge in the Molyneux on Tuesday afternoon. The body was first seen by Mr J Robinson, who reported the matter to Constable Dale. The latter, assisted by Mr Pcpplewell and the crew of the Chicago dredge, got the body ashore and had it taken to Clyde, where an inquest was held. When found, the body was quite nude, and in an advanced state of decomposition.