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Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 2956, 29 April 1898, Page 2

A " harvest home," on lines similar to tbat held about tbis time last winter, i.. on (lit for next month, Wheat in Melbourne is firmly held at 4-i 31 to 4* 5 J j Sydney 4* to 4i 2d Adelaide 4.3 6d to 4s Sd. The following appears ia a small provincial paper:— "The bridegroom's present to the bride was a handsome diamond brooch, besides many other beautiful things in catglass. Inspector Goyen paid a visit to the looal high sohool on Wednesday morning and ia the afternoon attended St Joseph's school, while yesterday he was engaged at the former. A correspondent of the ' Wanganui Ohroniole ' declares that in the Wanganui Hospital, where the eight hours system is supposed to prevail, delicately nurtured girls and women are sometimes on duty 18 hours ont of the 24. It is not generally know that when in Victoria Lord Ranfurly was engaged on fenoing contracts. He delightß now to tell the story of how he dug post holes when the thermometer stood at 108 degrees in the shade. Acting as Governor at £5000 a year in the shade of the gubernatorial mansion in Wellington must be less exhausting ! Preparations for the busy season in the lime and cement trade Ib now being made by the Milburn Lime and Cement Co. at their kilns at Milburn. A new kiln was " fired " for the first time last week, and re pairs are being effected in one of the others There are five kilns at work, whioh turn out at present somewhere about 110 tons of lime a week, and when the whole six are burning tbe management expects to pretty we)) beep tap with the demand.

It is now stated that it is clear that neither America nor Fpain iB prepared for war. Decisive operations are therefore likely to be delayed. " The human race is divided into two classes," said Oliver Wendell Holmeß, '• those wbo go ahead and do something, and those who Bit and inquire, why wasn't it done tbe other way ? " The price of kerosene locally and elsewhere has gon * up oy leaps and bounds during the last few days owing to the war soare. As an Amerioan vessel with 10,000 oases of kerosene is to arrive shortly it is diffioult to see how the price can avoid going downwards by loaps and bounds to Its normal coodition. We learn on the best authority that Mr Hawkins, S.M., ia about to be transferred from hia present district to Central Otago, taking the place of Mr M'Carthy, S.M., there. The latter gentleman will be transferred to the Milton- GoreLawrenoe magisterial district, vice Mr j Hawkins. Messrs Maclean and Co., held their usual fortnightly oale at Coombe's yards on Tuesday. The entry was low and attendance good ; farmers baing more disposed to do businecs, sales were affected at the following rates : Two-tooth Bheep to 8b 6d. lambs to ss, rams to 13j 6d, oows to 32s Gd. Jones (who has a fancy for game fowls) ; " Did a man bring a game bird ber Q for me to-day, Bridget ?" Cook: " Ther c was a oook left here but I thought it was for dinner, to I cut off his head and trussed bim for dinner." Jones:" Graat Soott, woman ! that was an exhibition black-red game oook that ooßt me five guineas." The mission meeting in White's Hall on Monday evening was fairly attended, and Mr Miodonald give an interesting account of mission work in the Penang Straits Settlements. His objeot Ib, if possible, to aeoure lady workers for tho inlands, to labor among the natives and visit the female population, as, unlike the conditions in which females in our colony participate, that Bex ia not free to attend places of worship or other public functions. In giving judgment the other day in a case at Wanganui, Jadge Kettle thought it some-vh&t unfair to the looal established traders, who lived permanently in the town and spent thoir incomes there, that the people should be allowed to open temporary shops, hold cheap sales, and then go off with the tnotiuy in their pockets However that was a matter for the business members of the o>m<nui-i--y to take up. Probably, if a subutantial license fee was imposed on uvery Itinerant trader who visited the town, it would, to a certain extent, protect the established trader from euoh oompetition. Reports of the agricultural conditions in Northern Otago districts state that settlers are very hardly pressed to secure food for their stock and that in many cases they are only too glad to give their animals away to prevent them from dying of starvation. Instances of this state of affairs are innumerable, but that of one settler who drove six of his beasts to a neigbor and found on his arrival that they would be worse off than with him, and eventually had to sh ot them, Ib a very hard oase indeed, though probably not so unique, as hardly a blade of grass oan be seen for miles around. Another cycling race, somewhat on the linea of the previous one, but over a different course, ia to be held shortly, and promises to bring out several local riders new to fame. About a dozan are expected to face the starter on Wednesday afternoon next, and it has beea decided to race a oouple of times round tbe Fairfax blook ; doubtless most of our readers will remembe r the raoe over that road some three year ago. Although several have signified their intention to start, all cyclists in the district who " have a quid conceit of themselves " on the racing track, should mike a poiut of taking part and proving their " scorching " powers. Entries wdl be received up till Saturday night by Mr R. Marryatt, and the handicaps will be declared In Tuesday'a issue of the Herald, A fight was going on between a B turdy-lookiog lad and a very aogry Cbinain a street in Wellington, and the latter apparently recognised in the boy ono of amall band who had stolen some vegetables the night previously, and he endeavored to hold on to him until he could get a policeman. John gesticulated loudly, and charged the boy with all manner of thiDgn while the 1»d screamed and fought energetically. A woman who happened to be passing put down her bundles and went to the assistance of the yonngater. There was A tough struggle between the three, and eventually Bhe got the lad free and told him to olear, " Are you his mother ?" asked one of the crowd afterwards. " No, I don't know him," she replied " but I couldn't stand seeing him beaten by a Chow; he is a white boy, though he be a thief. Subscribers to the Milton Telephone Bureau will be glad to bear tbat the Department is obtaining a number of the lateat up-to-date telephones. This is, no doubt, a Btep in the right direction, but oomplete satisfaction will not be given here until the Department sees its way to lay a new wire between Miiton and Dunedin, The endless worry and delay now caused to subscribers, by the wire being so often engaged by Balclutha, Kaitangata, and other Btationa, makeß the telephoneservioeone of very questionable utility. But if a new wire waa provided this Btate of things would be done away with, the cost would soon be recouped to the Department, and the number of subscribers would largely increase. It would be interesting to learn what revenue Ib annually derived from the telephone Bervice at Balclutha, Kaitangata, Milton, and intermediate stations ; considering the very high rates charged by the Department it mast be very considerable infjesd,

At the City School Committee's meeting in Auckland a free fight ensued as to the eligibility of a female oandidate for a seat. The chairman ruled that ehe had no right— then the agony oommenoed. The caretaker was busy next day washing out the stains of pools of blood on tha floor of the hall. Our Glenore correspondent writes aB nnder : Nearly all the Glenore farmers have got threßhing over, tbe mills having been at Messrs Maley, Cmierons, Tulle oh, aod PuJmoi'a farms. The returns were exoellen; ia both quantity and quality in every case. The buckets and ladder for the Stirling Dredgo, at Glenore, (bought from the Otago Harbor Board), have arrived, they are much larger than the buckets of the other dredges. By the death of Mr James Gray a vacancy on the directorate of the Bruoe Woollen Company ib caused, and aocording to the articles of association the directors can appoint a, successor. We are informed, however, thae there ia a probability of a mooting of the shareholders being oalled at an early date, Jand that other Important business, besides the appointment of a direotor, will most likely eventuate. Owing to beiag much impressed with the literary excellence of the Rev. Mr Chisholm'a '• Fifty leara no mention was made in our review laat issue of the pictorial portion of the work. The publishers, Messrs Wilkie and Co., deserve great credit for the artlstlo manner in whio < they have jllustrated the book ; some of the pioturea being gomß in their way. Rarely, if ever, have we seen better work of the kind doce ln this colony. The much-talked* of football match Woollen Mill v Pottery has been arranged for to-morrow afternoon, play commencing at 2-30. on the Recreation Ground. Tbe following will represent the Mill; Full-back T. Leaven ; three-quarters, Beaaley, Oarrutbers, and Moyeß ; halves, G. H. Scholefield, and Lockhart ; forwards, Calvey, Gibson, Jamieson, Murray, Kirby, Walker, Gordon, Foster, and Gregg. The Pottery team will be picked on tbe ground. A dreadful accident happened in Sandon Small Farm Block to Mrß W. J. B. Smith (writes the ' Rangitikei Advocate's ' corraspoudent). Woile covering up the fire to go out she took a fit and fell into the fire. Her clothes caught and burnt her terribly, leaving scarcely any flesh on her baok, hip, and arm. When ehe came to and stood up the remains of her clothes fell off, but with a nerve not known to many she threw on another dress and took her two little ohildren and walked a mile r und to her mother-in-law's, where medioal aid was obtained. The funeral of the late Mr James Gray took plaoe on Wednesday afternoon last, and was the largest ever seen in Milton. As showing tbe great respect in whioh the deceased was held we may say that the attendance of mourners waa between six and seven hundred persons. The cortege was nearly half-a-mile in length, and comprised forty traps ani about the same number of horsemen, and a very large number of people on foot. All the leading men of the district were present, as well aa a number from Dunedin. The coffin, ere it was lowered into tbe grave, was oovered with a large number of beautiful floral wreaths; one especially, sent by the employees of the Bruoe Woollen Co., of whioh the deoeased waa a direotor, being very handsome indeed. The Rev. Jas. Chlsbolm conducted the Bervice at the grave.