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Clutha Leader, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1514, 2 May 1902, Page 5

Mr Lawrence, contractor, has finished the addition at the rear of the Oddfellows' Hall. It adds decidedly to the appearance and convenience of the building. Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., addressed a crowded meeting at Naseby on Saturday night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence. He received a similar vote at St. Bathans. Kaitangata will send two football teams to Dunedin to-morn-w—a senior one to play Roslyn at the Asylum ground, and a junior to meetSawyer's Bay at Montecillo. Six more animai.* iu S\dnev Zuu. including the Polar bear," have died of plague. Plagued rats continue to be found in many parts of the city and suburbs. The many friends of Dr Smith, who, though able to be about, has not been in very good health for the past week or two, will be pleased to know that he has been much better during the past few days. Mr Martin Rea, of Wairuna, left Clinton on Saturday morning. for a trip to the Home Country, and he expects to be there in time fcr the Coronation celebrations. Mr Ilea visits England, Scotland, and Ireland, and intends to be back in about eight months. The Stock Department has leased one of the suits of offices in the new Oddfellows' Hall. The office of Mr J. L. Bruce, Stock Inspector, and the headquarters of the Stock! Department for this district are therefore now transferred to the new offices. We learn that Mr Bruce is highly pleased with the convenience and location of the new offices. " Ladies' night "at the Harvey Memorial Rooms on Wednesday evening was a distinct success, between 40 and 50 ladies and gentlemen were present. The rooms were brilliantly lighted, and the general arrangements met with universal commendation. Cards, ping pong, shooting, and music were indulged in, and helped to pass away a most, enjoyable evening. Refreshments were served shortly after hah-past 10 o'clock, and after this the room was cleared and one or two dances were indulged in, the, " evening " terminal- j ing about midnight. The next ladies' night is being eagerly looked * forward to. At a meeting of the Farmers* Union of Stirling on Tuesday evening, the president gave nonce of motion as follows :—" That the dilifereut branches of the Farmers' Union of New Zealand approach the Government and ask them to pass legislation to enable producers of the Colony to reap the lull advantage of what they produce, by the State undertaking the grading and disposal oi such produce ; and that the powers of the Advances to Settlers Board be extended so that the Board may make advances on produce in transit to the markets of the world at 4£ per cent." Mr Carew gave judgment on Wednesday in the case Sir John M'Kenzie's trustees against Fraser M'Kenzie, ciaim of £6O 5s for passage money and money lent. His Worship held there was no evidence that the £42 paid for passage money was intended as a loan, the probability being that it was intended by Sir John as a gift to defendant, his nephew. As to the £lO money lent defendant admitted the loan, but had proved making disbursements on Sir John's behalf to the amount of £2. Judg- 1 meat was therefore given for £8 ; costs of court, 10s; professional costs, 265. The Supreme Court, Dunedin, was engaged on Tuesday with the case Thomas Brydone v. Robert Lee, a claim to be declared trustee, on behalf of the defendant, of 656 shares in the New Zealand Coal and Oil Co, and that the defendant be ordered to pay plaintiff £SOO. Lee was in England in connection with the sale of the old Kaitangata Railway and Coal Co. and the flotation of the new company. Brydone, who was a director of the old company, was also in England in October, 1898, and it is claimed that he applied in his own name, but at defendant's request and on his (defendant's) behalf, for five £IOO shares in the syndicate, defendant promising, according to plaintiff, that on his return to the colony he would take over the shares and repay the plaintiff. The company was floated, and defendant had allotted to him 130 £1 shares for every £IOO share he held. He denied that he requested the plaintiff to apply for or take up shares on his behalf. He had urounfed that, on his return to the Colony, if plaintiff did not wish to keep the shares he (defendant), if requested, would sell them ; or Jailing a sale, would take them himself, and he had not been requested to sell the shares. It was said there was no suggestion of bad faith ; it was simply a question of two gentlemen differing as to the arrangement which had been made. Judgment was reserved.

It iB reported that orders have been sent to New Zealand for 10,000 birds 'per month lor shipment to South Africa, alone. One Sydney firm has contracted to supply 20,000 head of poultry to ihe Cape every month, and is surprised to find thdt he will be unable to 511 the whole order in New Zealand. The Government poultry experts complain of the quality oi the birds forvacded. They are large enough, but have not been property fattened, ami aie therefore not suitable for export. For that reason half the pouluy sent to the depots has had to be rejected.. The lady traveller—a keen, energetic, business woman —of the " Tracker " brand of Eucalyptus was in Balclutha yesterday fixing up agencies and arranging advertising for this new brand ol Eucalyptus. There are many species- of the eucalyptus tree. The "Tracker" brand is distilled from a specially fineflavoured leaf of superior medicinal value. Growing as it does in the high regions of Central Australia, in almost inaccessible situations, away from ordinary civilisation, it is - col- j lected by the native blacks. Eucalyptus is now used in India as a specific for the Bubonic plague, and in England for almost all the ills that flesh is heir to, especially influenza ; whilst in these colonies and all over the world its medicinal value is highly appreciated. *i On Tuesday last Mr Robert Stew-1 art, Balclutha, was admitted a so-j licitor of the Supreme Court by His Honor Mr Justice Williams. The full number of 20 civilians, which the Harvey Memorial' Hall Committee decided to accept as members at half a guinea have now been all duly proposed-, and most of them balloted for and duly elected. The rooms are a very popular resort, and are well patronised. The committee have just made provision lor a small library in connection with the hall. Two farewell functions take place this evening. The members of the Clutha and Matau A. and P. Society present an address to their president, Mr J. C. Bishop, on the eve of his trip to the Old Country, at" the Criterion Hotel; and the members of the Dog Club entertain Mr A. Scott at a farewell supper at the Crown Hotel, and make him a presentation on the occasion of his departure from the district. Our Owaka Correspondent writes . The funeral of the late Mrs James M'lntyre took place on Wednesday. A large number of relatives and friends followed the remains to tbeir last resting place in the Owaka cemetery. The Rev. Mr Currie, of Balclutha, conducted the services, ill M'lntyre and family have the heartfelt sympathy of all in this theii hour of trial and sorrow. The lease for 14 years of the Balcmtha Borough Reserve of 1000 acres at Tuapeka West was eiposed Lj public auction at Lawrence yesterday, the lease falling to Messrs Bulfin Bros, at £ll3 a-yeai.