The Herald. ALEXANDRA, THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1903

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 392, 12 November 1903, Page 4

The Herald. ALEXANDRA, THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1903

Miss Sutherland, dressmaker, of Matakanui, inserts a card in this issue. Bain fell throughout the district on Monday, since when the weather has been beautifully fine. The Alexandra School will be examined by Inspectors Goyen and Bossence on Tuesday next, 17th inst. A dance will be held in the Springvale Schoolhouse this evening, the proceeds being in aid of the Springvale Bridge Fuud,

Mr J Stmes, auctioneer, holds an important auction sale of property, &c, on Saturday, 21st inst. See advt. in this issue. The Mayor of Alexandra requests the business people and citizens to observe a holiday on Friday, 20th November, (Ophir Show Day). The annual meeting of the Alexandra Caledonian Society will be held in the Bendigo Hotel, on Thursday evening, I9th inst. A full attendance is requested. A LOCAL young lady ate half a wedding cake and then trie-1 to dream of her future husband Now she says she would rather die than marry the man she saw in that dream.

It is understood that the Euapehu brought for the- different banks doing business in the colony silver and bronze coins of the total value of about £70,000. The last importation of a similar character was in April,'l9oo. Anothek example of the necessity that exists in this district for the services of a veterinary surgeon came under our notice last week, when a valuable horse belonging to Mr J MArihur succumbed to an attack of inflammation. Had skilful aid been available the animal's life would in all probability have been saved. A SAD drowning fatality occurred at Cromwell on Monday last, when David Nicholson, an employee on the Rise and Shine dredge, was drowned. It appears that while the boat was going ashore Nicholson dived overboard to have a swim; and must have taken cramp, for he shortly afterwards sank am 5 was never seen again. Deceased leaves a widow and one child. The first locally-grown strawberries of the season were obtained a few days ago. At the masonic banquet on Tuesday night, among other delicacies, an apparently, unlimited supply of this luscious fruit was in evidence, and the visitors expressed their astonishment that such fine-flavoured, and withal large-sized berries could be grown in this district thus early in the season. The fruit was obtained from Mr W Noble's orchard. A little cough will take you off When you the least expect it, If you don't try to make it fly, But happen to neglect it. For coughs increase, and never cease, When once their footing's sure, Yet at the start they all depart With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. The estimated population of the colony at the end of September, excluding Maoris and Pacific Islanders, was 434,817 males and 388.671 females, or a total of 823,488. The quarter's increase by births was 5464, and by arrivals 5356. The loss by deaths was 2274. and by departures 3890. The net increase for the quarter was 4656. The Maori population, according to the 19ul census, was 43,143, and that of the Pacific Islands 18,302,

The Health Department has taken up the question of dirty bank notes as a medium of disseminating disease. The banks have agreed to destroy such notes. It is, of course, not the fault of the banks that the notes are so dirty, bub other people who handle them.

The Convent Bazaar Committee notify that tbey offer a prize of £1 for the bestdressed doll, and a similar prize for the best-made pinafore; all articles entered for the competition to become the property of the Committee. In connection with these competitions, we have been requested to state that the judges will be ladies outside the Committee, and that "no member of the the latter will be connected with the work of judging. The bazaar is to be held on December 17tb, 18th and 19th.

During the past few hot days a brisk business has been done locally in lemonade, herb beer and other alleged innocuous brands of fizzy drinks, stocks moving off rapidly, to the satisfaction of the sellers ani thirsty buyers. It is also reported that a fair business is now being done by certain Dunedin grocers, in the sale of groceries, accompanied by potent fluids that cheer and inebriate ; while the « barrels of beer ' and ••bottles of beer" syndicates do much to assuage the drought of thirsty souls all over the electorate of Bruce,—-" Bruce Herald." A leading commercial man in Christchurch has sent to the " Lyttleton Times " a letter he received from a manufacturer in Ravensburn (Wurttemberg) as an example of the methods by which the Germans push their trade. The letter-paper is headed with illustrations of the writer's factories and offices, with the descriptions all printed in English and the letter itself is admirably typed in excellent English from beginning to end. The letter, which offers to send desoriptive catalogues of any class of goods that amy be required by recipient, does not contain a single word of German except the name of the town from which it is addressed and the signature of the writer. It bears all the appearance of having been issued by a first class London house, Abthub Coningham, described as a wellknown ex-Australian cricketer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Westport on Wednesday on charges of theft and false pretences. He had been canvassing a medical book for an Auckland firm, and had wrongfully converted money received to his own use, and had also sent the firm bogus orders for the work. Con ingham appealed to be admitted to probation on account of his wife and three children, and the magistrate said he would reconsider his decision, Goningbam in the meantime to remain under sentence Coningham, it will be remembered, was the petitioner in the notorious Coningham divorce case in Sydney, two years ago, in which Dean O'Haran was cited as co-respondent. During the proceedings both the petitioner and his wife showed in anything but a favourable light,