The Bruce Herald TOKOMAIRIRO,APRIL 26,1898.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 2955, 26 April 1898, Page 2

The Bruce Herald TOKOMAIRIRO,APRIL 26,1898.

I Football and cycling news will be ound on our first p»ge. Flour and wheat show signs of hardening iv Sydney, and aro alroady advanced 5b to 10s per too. The ' Wyndham Herald ' hears that Mr James tSpratc, of Mataura Island, ha d had a yield of 110 bushels to the acre. Lawson and party, who have been engaged for tome months iv driving the tunnal in the Canada reef, are, it is Baid, now getting into likely looking gold bearing country. After a marriage ceremony at Hunterville lately, it was discovered that the marriage licence had been over-looked. The neoessary document was obtained and the ceremony performed over again. At present Mr Gibb/s place at the Milton Kailway Stttion is bsing filled by Mr Scott, of Danedin, while the former gen" tleman is enjoying his annual recreation. We understand that Mr Gibb will be absent for about a fortnight. The silting of the Bruce Assessment Court, adjourned from Monday, the 18th, will be held to-day, when the < echdon of Mr Oarew, S.M., on Mr James Smithobjection wili be delivered. Tne valuation of Messrs Begg Broe. will aleo be assessed at this bitting and the Borough assessments will be taken. The Court Bits at 10 30. According to a Canterbury man who bas travelled the whole length of this province, onr turnip orop oannot be compared to that of Canterbury, but wo would recommend him to look at several fields of turnips t i be seen about Southbridge. They will,!]we are sure, be hard to beat, although not above the averago orop in Tokomairiro. The prizes that come to Milton ticket-holders in the various arc unions which have been iv evidence lately are, like the proveibial winged spirits' visits to thiß mundane sphere, few and far between. It is {leasing, therefor, to hear of the luck of Mies N. M'Gregor, of Miltou, in securing fifteenth prize in one of them of a gold watch and chain, valnedat ten guineas. The ' Press ' (Canterbury ) last week contained a oouple of photographs of the receu'. visit of the Premier and the Hon. Jobn M'Keczie to Glenore. The pictures do credit to the handiwork of Mr Joseph Bremner, of Miltoa, who, as we have previously mentioned, proceeded to tbe dredgiog operations with tbe Ministerial party ; he succeeded in scouring one scene showing Mr Mercer's dredge and another at Mr Nelson's, where the Premier and others are apparently deeply interested in inspecting a dish of the preoious metal. Quite a large gathering witnessed the local Salvation Army's open air meeting on Saturday night. The occasion waß the beginning of their harvest festival, and the particular attraction was the singing and violin playing of OaptaiD Lenoie, from Kaitangata, while tho " testifying " of the several members of the oorps together with the singing was listened to with manliest interest. Services will be continued during the week and Captain Matbew is confident of achieving big results. Mr James Adam, of Bon Accord, on Friday laat, w„ tne viotim of uq unfortunate aocideat while driving home with Mrs Adam that afternoon. When nearing Mr A. Allison's homestead, his horse foil, and Mr Adam was thrown violently to the ground ; tor unately, however, he managed to brea.\ the fall to a oertaiu extent by ;ouching the horse. Mrs Adam, was not, strange to Bay, even pitched out, and at once atteuded to Mr Adam, who on the arrival of Dr Sutherland was fonud to have been considerably bruited, but is now progressing towards recovery. The horse was not injured, but both shafts of tbe gig were snapped In the smash-up. A house at the Milton Railway station, occupied by some of the traffic employees, was entered ou Sunday night, and tbe contents of boxes, portmanteaux, and cupboard pitched about. There ate two rooms in the dwelling, but that tenanted by Messrs Gibson aud M'Leod was the one pounced upon. Besides making off with a clock, the marauders ate all the cake and j^m trey oould lay their hands on, and the bread and meat that oould not be eaten waß ■feuffed respectiv. ly into the beds. The affair was treated at first aa a practical joke, but when the clock and eatables were missed.S it waß thought advisable to inform the police, and Constable Macßae now haß the matter in hand. Thus an exchange: The Gordon Highlanders and Black Watoh, aod the other Scotoh regiments, have in their ranks as many Cockneys as they have Scotsmen. These Cockneys do not make bad soldiers. On the contrary, when the anaemic denizen of Walworth Road has bsen licked into shape, and filled with a sufficiency of the Queen's rations, he iB quite a presentable Boldier. And when, of an evening, the veterans of a battalion sit round and become reminiscent, no one listens more attentively than the Sassenaoh. In their devotion to the kilt Brown from Barmondsey and Robinson from Rotherhithe are staunch aB steel, wearing the tartan with a pride and swagger that would do credit to the gayeßt Gordon of them all. One regiment contains representatives not only of the four British seotions of the Empire, bat members of suoh divers races as Jews, Germans, Frenob, and genuine Yankees from 'way down-easfc, AU these men are'good soldiers.

Mr J. P. ML Eraser has been appointed Crown prosecutor. Virtue is it <<wn reward — sometimes. Beport hath it that for a section in Milton of less than half an aore something 'ike £110 has been paid rooently. At the morning services on Sunday the Rev. Mr Chisholm referred in eulogistic termß, to the many services rendered to the Presbyterian Church, Milton, by the late Mr J ib. Gray. Notwithstanding the advance in price and demand for farm land, the well known " Kineaß " did not find a purohaaer at the npiet on Tneßday last at the N.Z. L. and M A. Co.'s sale. At the Kelso Bailway Station laat week, the iocai S ation Master and his assistants had a very bmy aad animated time of it, assisting farmers in loading and oonsigniDg their grain en. route for Dunedin. Considerably more than hnlf of which is passing through tbe hands of Messrß Nimmo and Blair, seed merchants, Dunedin. The arrangements for the installation of M. W. Bro R J. Seddon as Grand Mastor of the New Zealand Constitution are now complete, and it is said the oeremony promises to be one of tbe most brilliant o f the kind ever held in New Zealand. It will take plaoe in the Choral Hall, Christohurch and the bauquot in Social Hall opposite. The horse stabbing mania seems to be spreading all over tbe oolony. The latest case reported to us (N.Z. Times') occurred at Greytown. Oa Wednesday night two draught animals belonging to Mr Harry Morris, carrier, of that towo, were stabbed f each in the fore log, by some person whos* identity is not at present known. The horses were grazing during the night on the publio streets, and if what we hear is correot, com plaints have been made from time to time concerning animals ciusing annoyance to residents by getting into gardens and trampling tbem down. Inquiries are being made by the police. We believe this is the thirty-eighth case reported in the oolony during the last 18 months. Some little excitement was oc. casioned yesterday morning shortly after nine o'olook, by the runaway of a couple of horses and a dray. The horses and dray, which belonged to Mr Johnstone, of North Branch, were left in oharge of his son down by M 'Gills Mill, and while the boy was looking after the leader something started the horse and he bolted, knocking the lad down. Tbe dray aotually passed over the boy, the wheels miraculously missing bim as they went on. The lad was t»k*n in to Mr W. Moore's shop, but oeyomi a few bruiee a be was none tbe worse for his mishap. The horses and dray careered right up Union street as hard as they oould go and negotiated Ajax street corner safely on their way home, when they were stopped by Mr J. Murtßgh near the Pottery.