The Bruce Herald MILTON, MONDAY, JUNE 28th, 1909.

Bruce Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 51, 28 June 1909, Page 2

The Bruce Herald MILTON, MONDAY, JUNE 28th, 1909.

Sale of furnituro at Stewart's Hotel to-morrow (Tuesday ) Stewart's Manchester Houso annua sale starts next Saturday. The Milton Poultry Farm will have exhibits at Gore Fanciers' Show on Friday next. Speight and Co., City Browery, Dunedin, have a notice ro supplies of ales, etc. of interest to residents in ikuco. j£The Army Barracks will bo on 4',h July, and Adjutant Thurkottlc from Dunedin will bo leading on fot the, week end. On Thursday last eight teams turned out to give Mr Lockhart a day's ploughing on his newly acquired farm at Glarksville, and a good day's work was the result.

iVi'Gaviii nod Co.'-t ales at ratos. Scud 0.-.sh with order. Mr J'imos Reid give* an aildrcs3 at the Y.M.C.A. Diluting .Club thia evening,— Sco ftivi. Tho County daymen, Messrs Twccdio ! and Thomson, have finished the new bridges at Graham's Crook and vicinity. Tho Loyal Milton Lodge, M.U.1.0.0.F., will hold in; annual bdl on August, 27th. Mr Albert Good is secretary, and an onorgo;ic committee has been formed. Tho Scott's ditch has entered"' on an* oriioc phase. Wo understand that on Saturday afternoon the bank which was cat down hy tho County officials has been re-built. Tho railway carpenters are erecting an officii for tho floods clerk at the Milton Railway S:ation. Tho office will be attached to tho goods shod, and will bo more commodious and convenient than hitherto.

A local syndicato ha 3 secured tho option over a section containing limestone uear Milburn and proposo pulling down a tramway to convoy tho htno to the station, and will spend some £BOOO or £IO,OOO in putting up limekilns and getting a s.art with tho work.

Mr Robert Wilson—better known aa "Bjbbio h presently in a weak siate of heal -h. Mr D M'Gill as well U3 the Cnua y 'Tierk (Mr Browne), have been \ory kind in seeing that tho old man's v/tnu ,'.ro amended to, and that he wants for i;o,bi'ig. Y/j regret to learn that Mr Win Pa'crson, who 1 :ft Miiton a fow weeks ago in tak>! up a tuition in Dunedin with the Massey-Harria Co., has ron turned io Inn home in Milton for rest find nursing, having lalccn a bad turn of i: iißf.a.

T'.hu-g vvill bo no meeting of the Farmers' Oiub Commit'ee un Thursday. Owing 11 t,he indisposition of the secret u-y (:vir A Cuupbell), who we are giati to hear is getting well again, and the tact iiiiit no very important business is wai'ii'g to transfer., the meeting will be allowed to lapse.

Hickness amongst elderly people of the dis rice i« prevalent at prcsout. Mr li, Grealish, senr , has been laid up for some weeks pisi. and, we are sorry to state, yesterday took a umi tor ihG worse. Mr S. Arcing's health is also in an unsatisfactory state.

Owing to tho inclement weather on Friday night Cooper's Operascopo Co. was not greeted with a good houso. The pictures were a varied collection, and ho ones dealing with war wero of special interest. Tho Company introduced novelties, avid tho entertainment was voted a capital one.

night was a very busy time m the AJiUon"hotels. " Five deep " was 11.1.0 order of Branding in some, It is o ial that sentries from the other party were jjo.iifd uu'. for soma motive not generally known. There was no rowdyism, and very lit' 'e evidence of excessive drinking to ho seen. The unblemished conduct of iho local hotels since Noucvnsc was carried last November speaks w..l> f r the character ol tho hotelkeepers. Staff-Sergt-Mujor Taylor, of Inver-. cargiil, arid well-known in this district to volunteers, died suddenly on Friday la it . He was reading a newspaper at tho lime of his death, and went off as if going to sleep. Ho was accorded a military funeral on Sunday, which was attended by pretty well tho whole of the voluni.eer permanent staff in Otago. Sergt 'Major Catio, from Milton, wont south on Saturday night to represont tho *1 ii Battalion.

At J3urnsido on Wednesday last there was a firmer feeling in the stock market, and this was even more pronounced at Balclutha on Friday, At Addiogton there is a more buoyant feeling also. The price of mutton and lamb at the London end—aays a local well-known sheep grower—does justify the rise, but woo! is a little better, and there is plenty of teed and a lair loc il demand. J..lencn i:, is tha' tho rise may bo said to he justified, but our informant adds that he would be better pleased to see a rise at iha London end. But this may bo on tho way too.

It is reported in Milton that Mr Thos, Hanley, who a few weeks ago got his leg brJc.'n r.t North-east Valley, o*ving to a horse he was riding running away with him and crushing him against a pO:l, will have to get the foot of the injured limb amputated, there being a grave danger of blood poisoning. "Tommy" is a popular member of the Toko Football Ciub, and the sympathy of the footballers goes out to him in his troublo. Some are anxious to show their sympa'hy in practical form, and this suggestion is worthy of tho attention of the committee of the Toko Football Club;

Though no 1 - officially declared, thoro ia every reason for believing that Mrs Mar" garet Hands, widow of the late Thos. Hands, has U?en appointed to tho position of post mistress of the Glenore sub-post office, find that she will take up the position from July Ist. The site of tho officfc will be at tho residence occupied by Mra Stenhouse sinco the Glenore fire six months ago, There wero two applicants lor the position. Though a little premature, wo take this opptunity to congnuulme Mrs ILtnds on ber appointment, which wo feel sure will be looked on as a deserving one by tho Glenore people, Tno need of having a light near the new Volunteer Hall was made painfully obvious to tliosc who attended tho volunteer social on Fiiday evening. The newly opened road—wo cannot, say "formed" —leading to the hall from Manor street is in a very bad state, in the pitch darkness of tho morning young ladies with clumsy assistance from their beaux were trying to disentangle laces anci clothing caught in brushwood thrown in the middle of : ho road; there were flounderings into the gutter, splashings in muddy pool?, and ' iurther entanglements in loose fencing wires, It wa3 like an obitaclo race, and nearly everybody had his or her mishap. Under the trying circumstances the naughty little effemin~ aio imprecations and stronger masouline muttonngs should bo disregarded. But with a probability—or possibility—of the borough having .gas installed by next winter there ia little prospect of any more kerosene lights being put up. Latest development re Scott's ditch.—The County workmen this afternoon again opened tho bank at Scott's ditch*