The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, SEPTEMBER 12, 1899.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3098, 12 September 1899, Page 4

The Bruce Herald. TOKOMAIRIRO, SEPTEMBER 12, 1899.

'■ !l] Thd*' Woolshed Dredge washed up 45 'ounces for the fortnight ending last Friday. iPeßterday this dredge struck a patch of tip- > top wash-, which is running about a grain to .-he bucket.. '. ; ' Mr C. 'Maitlaud, who has been 'siccountarit of the National Bank, Milton, ■ for about* twelvis' months, will shortly be transferred; to ' Wellington, His -successor will be, Mc Weldon. -'■■ Fifty acres of land: on the west side of the main road between the farms occupied by Mr J. Forysth and E. Reid were recently sold by Mrs Wyber to Mr Ri G. Lockhart at £22 per acre. Mr Rawlins, M.H.R. for Tuapeka, will arrive by the express from Dunedin, to-day, and in company with another gentleman will interview the farmers who have property adjoining the Toko, river in connection with the pollution of the river by dredges. As showing the scarcity of houses to let in Milton, we might mention that a Government employee who was recently appointed to a position at the local Railway Station, had to be recalled and a Bingle man appointed to take his place, owing to his inability to get a house to reside in. The apathy of the Miltonian public is rapidly becoming a proverb. At the recent municipal election it was strongly in evidence, and the town clerk had to use up a good deal of his latent energy in getting sufficient candidates to agree to nomination. Some day candidates will decline to be nominated ! This year's wheat season has been a record one for Victoria. According to ehe statistics compiled weekly in the commercial columns of the ' Age,' the deliveries to date this year cover over 3,000,000 bags of whe t, or its equivalent in flour, while the exports during the same period are os'er 2,000,000 bags. These figures have never been equalled in the annals of wheat grow, ing or exporting in Victoria. An old farmer who had been to London wa3 describing to his friends the splendor of the hotel he stayed at. " Everthing was perfect," he said, "with the exception of one thing — they kept the light burning all night in my bedroom, a thing I ain't used to." "Well," said one of them, "why didn't you blow it out?" "Blow it out," said the farmer, " how could I ? The blessed | thing was inside a bottle !" A good many people in Milton are exercised over the erection of a post in the middle of a right-of-way from Union street to M'Donald's shop.. It is stated that the right-of-way has existed for at least twenty years without a post, and that there is no obvious reason why the post should have been planted where it is. It is further alleged that the work has never been authorised at any meeting of the Borough Council. 13y special wire we leavn that the Warden at Lawrence, yesterday, " decided to refuse all dredging applications on the Molyneux below Tuapeka Mouth." Tbis j wire gives the gist of tho Warden's dcci- I sion, and is in consequence of the Ciutha River Board's objections to dredging. Itseems strange to us that the Board could not paddle its fast and furious steamer in the broad waters of the Molyneux, even if a few dredges worked on the river. Mr Edwards, the organiser of the New Zealand Liberal Federation League | was in Milton, yesterday, and arranged to j hold a meeting shortly. We understand that Mr Edwards has received applications from all parts of the electorate urging him to assist the Party in securing the return of a Liberal candidate. MiEdwards believes the seat can be easily won if systematic organisation is adopted throughout the electorate. He is prepared to spend some time in the district if his services are further required. That dimples can be, and are, made to order is an accepted fact, but the manner jn which they are manufactured is not generally known. I have been through the mill myself (says an Knglish paper), so can explain exactly how the fascinating hollow is made. The ari ist placed me in a chair, fixed a small glass tube over the spot which I pointed out to him, applied his lips to the end of the tube, and simply sucked the air out. I felt a flight drawing of the skin, that was all, for, having previously sprayed with cocaine, I could not experience the slightest pain. The piece of skin sucked into the tube was then simply tied lightly with a bit of silk, and after a fresh application of cocaine the little bit was cut off with a sharp knife. The tiny wound waa then dressed and bound up, a silver cone iqyerted wg-9 pimped over it to mark the centre, and the dimple was there. Tnfcoi.eating particulars are to hand ------ * ii.*. 'mregarding the advances made, in m~ .... portant colonial industry of cycle building The Anglo-New Zealand Cycle Company is one of the companies which seems to have tackled the building trade in real earnest and their production, the " Anglo Special," proves that cycles can be built in the Colonies equal to any imported both as to .material used .and external finish. The ; "Anglo , Special ..." has only been on the niarket lor, } two years but the trade, has grown with aucli. strides that the company find difficulty' in coping with theie orders. The advantage of buying this cycle is that .eV.fe'ry .rider can have, a bicycle built absolutely^ to iifc : him, and we are told by : experts. that- it js,ju3t ; as important to have a well fitting bicycle, as a well fitting coat. ■The agents for'the " Aoglo.'.Special " in our ;&stric&'are' Mr ''H.' Rans'onie," of Miltonj an d HMiAj*. "T.-Pbole, -of -Kaitangata, and : botfr rerjorb very «atMfaptory busineßs.

Coal was first used 'atr' Newcestle-on-Tyne about 1230. Some fifty years later it became -an article of ? trade- f between that place and London. Ifc was '^generally considered injurious to healthy . and-sc^regarded aa public nuisance. Dredging booms in agriculturaLdistricts seem born to be punctured e'er they have become properly -inflated. Tokomairiro and Waikaka hive evidenced this fact up-to-date. As •Will' be seen elsewhere ; Balclutha was iadded; to; the .list yesterday. A meeting of the Queenstown Polling Distriot Branch of the Wakatipu Electoral District Branch '"' of the '^Liberal Federation of New Zealand;. was held .on Saturday. It was unanimously resolved to support the candidature- of Mr James Kelly of Riversdale. A requisition is being signed throughout the electorate, asking, Mr Kelly to stand. A thing curious but "true occurred on Saturday. It was possible then to write the date with four nines ~9/9/99y and. what is still more curious is thatthe same thing will not occur again tillehe hundred years have passed. Not one in a million, who wrote it on Saturday will ever do it again, unless the effect of universal prohibition will • be ' to lengthen man's days considerably—- yea,- to their prior span of 120. years; and oyer. Qtuen safbel It was an All England team against a looal twenty-two, and in the ranks of the former were Lohraalin and Ahel. A' Kind of country fair was being held on.a portion of the ground ab the- same time,: and shying at cocoanuts waS, : as Usual/ one- of the attractions. When' rh^' last mah 'of the twenty-two went in ; only, a. very, fesv- .runs were required to win, and the localailooked like getting them. At last" <>ne 'of th6< BStsmen with a big stroke sept' the ball rfgh^up to the cocoanut stall, where Lehmann was fielding. He wasted no time in looking -Jfor the ball, but picked up a small 1 ; cocoa-gut and despatched it to the fvicketkeepar, who instantly knocked off the bails with it and , ran one of the batsmen out. .He very wisely put the cocoanut in his pocket" as soon as he had done it, and only he and Lohmann knew .the secret of how the match was won. On July 23rd during a thunderstorm forty persons, who were' leatiing against a wire railing at Charlettehburg Circle track, were struck by lightning, and three were killed and twenty were severely injured. About 10,000 persons' weref; in attendance at the races, when a violent thunder-storm swept over the, town. Lightning struck the flagstaff and many colored flames ran down the guy rods, giving it the appearance of a fairy Maypole. From the guy rods the lightning passed into the spectators stand where a horrible scene took place. Two women and -a man in one of the stands were killed outright, the bodies being horribly burned by ithe electric fluid, while the flames played oyer the bodies until they were burned to a cfisp. A tremendous panic followed, as almost everyone in the stands near the Maypole was temporarily prostrated, and it was thought for a time that all were killed. Besides those killed and seriously hurt, twenty-five persons were slightly injured during the panic. Our Taieri Beach correspondent writes : — lt is with deep regret that I here announce the death of Mr David Hughan, one of our oldest settlers. Mr Hughan has been in rather a poor state of health for some time past, but kept at his usual work until about a month ago, when he was taken very ill. I believe heart disease was the trouble. Mr Hughan suffered a good deal lately and had repeatedly very bad attacks of the heart, and one of those attacks waa the end of one of the finest men in the district. Mr Hughan was an elder in our * church aud very highly esteemed by all. I think I can safely say that he was beloved by one and all. Mr Hughan had such a kind, homely, frank turn that he endeared himself to all who came in contact with him. I The funeral took place on Sunday, and I i think it was the largest funeral I have ever seen here. The funeral procession stopped in front of the church and bhe coffin was takon into the church, where the Rev. Mr Somerville preached a most appropriate and impressive sermon on the solemn occasion. The ohurch was crowded. After the service we wended our way to the cemetery, to -gay our last tribute of respect to our departed friend.