DISTRICT & GENERAL

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 795, 22 June 1893, Page 2

DISTRICT & GENERAL

4 At Danevirke Police Court yesterday, before M. Henderson, Esq., J.P., a man named Carter, charged with being drunk on the railway platform, was fined 8s and costs, with the usual alternative. While playing football at Tahoraite Mr H. White met with an unfortunats accident, his leg beinp broken in two places. He is under the car« of Dr Macallan, but from the serious nature of bis injuries it will be a considerable time oefore he recovers. The epidemic of measles has reached Danevirke, and a vary large number number of young folk are down with this distressing complaint. The school was closed yesterday, as the attendance had fallen to 90, owing to the epidemic, which had also incapacitated one of the teachers. Mr A. Milne, of Woodville, is the successful tenderer for erecting the Danevirke schoolmaster's residence. Mr E. E. Prior left Danevirke by yesterday afternoon's train, and a number of townspeople gathered at the station to sea him off. . Ha ' proceeds to Tolago Bay, where we believe he intends to take up farming pursuits. The Good Samaritan Company played to a good house at Danevirke on Tuesday evening, but the attendance last evening was not so large. The performance caused considerable amusement, and on the whole was very laughable, the comic element being to the fnnt. A baby show was to have been held last evening, but there was only one entry, Mrs Tripp's little one, which was awarded a cruet as a prize. The Company's 1 purpose is to advertise medicine, which is sold during the entertainment. The Norsewood Gospel Temperance Union held its usual fortnightly meeting on Tuesday evening. A little business was gone through, and a fair programme was given. Mrs Redward gave a song, Miss King an amusing reading, a skit on socialism, and addresses were given by Messrs Frederickson and Masters. It was decided, as Eov Mr Morloy istospeak in Norsewood on the night on which the next meeting fell, to let the meeting lapse. The next evening will be devoted to sketches of Scripture characters. We hear that recently there have been some new arrivals in Norsewood and Ormondville— the measles. The drain at the ' Crown ' corner, Noraewood, to which attention was called at last meeting of the Road Board, has now been thoroughly attended to. At Wellington on Tuesday Captain Baldwin was found not guilty of the charge of setting fire to a house known as ' Trenden Hall ' at the Lower Hutt on the 24th May. The R.M. said that the actions of Captain Baldwin both before (and subsequent to his leaving the building on the afternoon of the day that it was destroyed were those of an innocent man, as no attempt was made to hide his identity.

A new idea is being introduced into the colony just now. Portraits the size of postage stamps are taken at 83 per 100, or 500 for 15s 6d, and they are said to be excellent portraits. A letter received at the last meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labor Council was on the subject of ' sweating ' in tha shirt-makihg trade in that city. According to the writer ootton.and under-shirts were being sublet for 2s 6d per dozen', Crimean shirts, for 33, and crimson .gussets for. 33 6d per dozen. The writer stated that she had beeD working at these prices, and could not earn enough to keep her ib food, let alone, clothing, and she had had to give it up. Mass will be celebrated at Ormondville on Sunday next at 10 o'clock. The New South Wales Treasurer' referring to the decrease of £120,000 in the revenue during May, says that the month was the most disastrous the colony has experienced. It seems odd to read of the marriage of a person who fought at Waterloo, yet such an occurrence is chronicled as bavins taken place recently at Dalkeifh, , when John Clark, ninety-five years .of age, entered into the 'bonds of matrimony ' for a fourth time. His bride, Agnes Hughes or Young, is sixty-five. For a long time Clark had been employed by the Midlothian Road Trustees, from whom he enjoys a pension. At Waterloo he acted as fa commissary. His father was a farmer, and after his death Clark went to ,reside at Cpcklerow, Millerhill^ The bld : man is hale and hearty,' and even now talks of wishing employment from the Dalkeith Town Commissioners'or a kindred body. • Miss Millicent Fawcett, the Queen of Bluestockings, has adopted the profession of electrical engineer. If she succeeds, says Women, she will have dona more to assert the equality of men and women than all the bifurcated stump orators in the kingdom. ' If I had not been brought up a dean ' (says Dr Hole, of Rochester;, there are three other avocations I should liked to have followed— master of a pack of hounds, head gardener in a large nursery, or a bookseller. I think the last is the best of the three.' In his weekly lecture on ' Biology,' at the Auckland University College, Professor Thomas gave an interesting account of a recent examination of a Bank of New Zealand £1 note through the lantern. He first showed a photograph of the note, remarking it was chiefly characterised by its soiled condition. Next he threw on the sheet a view of numerous bacteria obtained from it. There were some ten or twelve different varieties, among them figuring vety plainly the yeast plant, which was regarded as suggestive of the idea that at least one of the sometime possessors of the note had been a frequenter of public houses, or at least a lover of beer, or to be more charitable, perhaps only a baker. Then there was present a bacterium responsible for decayed testb. Evidently some people count their notes with the help of the mouth. Altogether the exhibit was a most interesting one, and demonstrated very clearly . how „ readily paper money may become a means of propagating disease.— Otapo Daily Times. - A peculiar clause in a ; will came before the Court in Chambers yesterday. This was devising certain property to the Old Men's Home at Asbbiirton en the condition that the Government paid the subsidy of £l for £1 towards the Institution far ever. The peculiarity, of course,, is in the last two words, as there could not possibly be a guarantee of payment for ever. The day may come—Utopian as it rrmy sound-f-when we shall, do without Governments. — Christchurch Press. The N.Z. Times states that it is proposed that after the formal opening of Parliament this afternoon both Houses shall adjourn out of respect to the memory of the late Premier until Tuesday, when the Address-in-Reply will be taken. In the Upper House the Address-in-Eeply will ■ be moved by the Hon Mr McGregor (Otago), and seconded by the Hon Mr Jennings (Auckland). In the Lower House the Address-in-Reply will be moved by Mr A. D. Willis, M.H.R. for Wanganui, and seconded by one of the Labour members. After the debate has been disposed of the Colonial Treasurer will bring down his Financial Statement. Most of the members of the House have arrived in Wellington. Notice is given that traffic will be stopped on the road between Norsewood and Kopua from June 26 to July 3, as rspairs are being made to the Manawatu bridge. Ministers have resolved to admit one of the Upper House members to the Executive without portfolio, in order to assist the Colonial Secretary (Sir P. A. Buckley) in the conduct of Government business in the Council. The appointment has not yet been made. Tuesday was the 56th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throve. A well-dressed young man, says the Manawatu Times of Monday, mistook the Bank of New Zealand for an hotel last evening; He knocked at the s\de door, and when it was opened, walked straight in and ordered a drink. He was considerably astonished when his mistake was pointed out, and ho left after offering an apology. Following are the Waipawa District Hospital returns for the week ending June 17th :— Patients in Hospital, males 20, females 4 ; received during the week, males 5, females 2 ; discharged, males 6 ; died, males 1. A man named Welch met .with a serious accident while bush-felling in the Weber district on the 17th inst., the limb of a tree falling on his head and knocking in a. portion of the skull. The extent of the injury is not yet known, but it is feared that the brain will be affected. The Norsewood Town Hall has been bought by the Salvation Army, and it will not be long before they have the 'yellow, red. and blue' Hying in full style over the barracks. The Makotuku Library Committee met on Monday evening to select new books from the proposal book. Eighty had been jotted down, and seventy-four out of these were chosen, with a few standard works as well. Tlie Cadman-Rees libel case still occupies the atteation of the Supreme Court. On Tuesday evidence was given by Messrs C. Crombie, E. A. Haggen, J. H. Clayton, W. L. ißees, H. Baker, W. F. Knight, and A. L. D. Fraser. Yesterday's sitting was taken up by the hearing of the evidence of W. Rose. Referring to tne manner in which the case is being conducted, the Telegraph says :— An ordinary spectator dropping into the Supreme Court for a brief period would not think that a political libel cast was being decided, but that it was a legal' duel ot a bitter character between Mr Rees and sir Robert Stout. The Wellington sanitation loan, of £165,000, at 4£ per cent, with-a minimum of 99, was subscribed? nearly twice over. Tenders at #99 5s get fifty per cent.

Service is to bo held at tho Dane« virke Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning by a rev. gentleman from the South Island, who is st present on a visit to the district. We ara informed that the Rev Mr McGee is on his way from New South Wales to take permanent charge of the church work here, and is expected to arrive at Danevirke in two -or three weeks ; time.; Mr McGed was at one time ia charge of 'the' Presbyterian Church at , Masterton, whence hejvent toJSydney, but the climate tfiere His" not been , benficial'to his healtbarsndriie has , found it necessary to'-retufn ?to this colony. Mr Bierre has fowl wheat for sale cheap. We (Times) understand that a meeting of members of the Governi ment party is to be held within the ; next day or two. Mr W. W. 'Carlile, of Wcodville, intends standing for the Waipawa seat. The annual prize distribution at Maharahara school took place on Friday, when th» Chairman of Committee, Mr Tansey, made the distribution. ' "

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