The Clutha Leader. BALCLUTHA: MARCH 4, 1913.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 4 March 1913, Page 4

The Clutha Leader. BALCLUTHA: MARCH 4, 1913.

The Milton combined picnic at Cattins Kiver on Saturday was attended, there being 650 tickets issuedOr John Kirk, of Canton, will jirwi in the Balclutha Presbyterian Clmrcla Sunday evening next. Our report of social to Mr R. S. Mt--Ken/ie at Puorua on' Friday, our Pubpito correspondence, and leading matte unavoidably crowded out, will apjieai appear next issue.

Nev, Mr Axelsen conductcil tlie raort ing and evening services at the Ell clutha Presbyterian Church on .Sumlir. At each service he gave an iiitercstisjj sketch of his work throughout theJlomi nioii in connection with the social work of the church.

The tonnis match played on Fridi; at the Lovells Plat manse between St':* ling an<l Lovells Flat resulted in a dt real for Stirling by default. The «• turn mateli will be played at an carl' date.—Cornespoudent. The local horticultural society have made (iiuil ami ntremetits for llieautuM show to be held on Thursday and Fridsj. Promises of good support. have bfft given, and in the children's ( lasses fd flowers and vegetables competition will be very keen. Vases and platen will h supplied to exhibitors. His Worshiptki Mayor will open the show at !! p.m. on Thursday.

Owing to pressure of private basine# Councillor Smith was unable to attend Friday's meeting of the (,'lutha Count; Council, and consequently a number of letters from Catlius ratepayers Wt held over. The requirements and applications from Catlins were as usail numerous, and this led to the ehainnu saying: "Jt seems to me it would U better for Councillor Smith to be hert and the rest of us at home.''

At the meeting of Itiverside scttlen yesterday it was carried, on the motion ot Messrs Hall and Dallas, that Mr Malcolm, M.P., be requested to endeavour to have the freezing works siding made a public siding. Mr Malcolm stated that before moving in the matter be would have to consult the freezing to®' pany, but if the company was agreed he would bo glad to do what he couldThere were all the elements of a serious aeeident at the Balelutha railway station on Saturday morning. The Mil' ton picnic train for Catfius liivcr «■ rived a minute or so before the exprs* irom Invercargill, and pulled up on tl< seeond line. Several of the picnicker! at once jumped off to speak to friends on the platform just as the express ciffif round the bend. One la.lv, true to her sex, instantly lost her head, 8"V instead ,of standing back, made a desperate attempt to jump from the r81^ : on to the platform. She suffered ttf inevitable fall, but ready hands grasped? her. it not been for the driver of the express, however, keeping a aW j lookout and promptly applying Westinghouse brake, pulling the tr«i»] up a few yards off, a fatality must haw occurred. i

This district is not overrun witi 'sportß," but it has at least one n ,aD who can be called a real good sport He is Mr A, M. Wylie, Port Molyneux, 8 member of tho Otago Centre of New Zealand Athletic Iluion. On Satf day he attended the Kahuika sports j' order to represent the Centre, and i» the evening walked from Kahuika J* Owaka, a tramp estimated at from 3* to 14 miles, a long wait at llouipip* without a "meal not being very attr* 4 ' t was accompanied by a Clutln re P r ®soiitative, but it was » W of duty, not sport, with him.

ir UeLßckl* n Bros..and Messrs both expect to sawmius working at itahuika the lft ttßr in about nix weeks ' WvLnl 20 men will be employed Leggat and Campbell's mill. 2oT settlers are alive to the conof having a private telephone theft homes, and through the of Mr Patersoh, of the bureau, ™are as well served as residents in M fpfj ere are now ten houses con- , the linej the latest addition John Mercer, u, Malcolm, M.P., is in receipt of a ■MT from the Prime Minister stating W*. js gorr y he cannot include Otago four south this month. The pro- £ to visit Canterbury was made some ? ,S V fIM and owing to the amount of !80 -ess to be overtaken Mr Massev will not be sufficient time to to Clutlia during the recess. V Qootlsir. writing from Puketiro to J'ciutba County Council, asked, inter v.. "Why do the Government have Mbit inspectors going around the coun-, 'tosee that we settlers keep the rab7 a down, and because we keep foxMiiers for the purpose have to pay ss? understood that we were altwo cattle dogs and-fox-terriers." of his letter was not dis•y by the council. A large °f owners of cows are jjjjjg it convenient to use the home jjmtor. Those who do will be in•Sed to know that the well-known Si and Peninsula Milk Supply Com- ' jjg prepared to buy home-separ-cream, ami offer the best market ijfjs for it. The company invites jjjiers and others to write },o them for particulars. : {| ie Clutha County Council meeting on Friday, when dealing with the Bruce fCounty Council's resolution that the ' maintenance of hospitals and charitable aid be paid ° ut of the Consolidated fund and not by local bodies, Councillor ' Gain said that they could not alter the ], ff in the matter, but there was a eeneral feeling that the Government fould take more action than it was doing in regard to preventing the spread 0 f tuberculosis, and that this matter should not be made such a tax on local bofe. He moved that the council support the Bruce County Council's proi posal. This was agreed to.

; Mr Frank Mitchell, painter, has just ■ Smsbcd glazing the large plate glass -windows for Clarke's new buildings, the i total cost of the glass used being just on JISO. Finding the insurance would eost , ver y large amount, Mr Mitchell de--1 tided "to carry the glazing risk himself, ■adit speaks well for the care taken by •lis staff that there was not a single breakage- The case weighed about two tons ami, Being in a high-sided railway track, there was considerable difficulty ■in unloading. It had to be opened, half the contents removed, and the steamer - derrick (which can cope with a ton) requisitioned to do the unloading. There was a high wind blowing while the glass was being handled, and it was all three ; men could do to hold a sheet against it. Speaking at the farewell social at Stirling to him, Mr H. C. Jones touched on the" cow' - ' and its effect on education. He did not wish to offend anyone, and he had no particular person in mind, . but he must say that it was a regrettable fact that some parents looked on their children as factors for capital more to to the duty devolving on them of educating and training their children, la some cases children were made to irork for hours before and after school milking cows, with the result that their strength'was sapped and their intellect (lulled for school work. He felt the cow was very much against the building up of true character in boys and girls. This matter was more pressing in other places than it was in Stirling, but he thought boys should be allowed more freedom than they are.

BaMutlia traffic bridge is a conspicuous structure, but on Sunday night a visiting motorist had some trouble to M it, although there were powerful head lights on his car. First of all he took a run past Duff's corner, and managed to pull up just in time to prevent a mix-up in willows and water. He was directed to 'the bridge and made another effort to get on to it, but this time he again failed to see it, and ran on an exploration of the road past Mr J.Watt's house. On a third attempt he ?ot on to the bridge. The absence of borough lighting on the streets will more likely cause an accident at the weighbridge site than at the traffic bridge, however. Since the new weighbridge has been put at the corner of Douglas and Stuart streets there has been 110 light it night, and anybody not taking fautiou at night could easily drive on to the obstruction there. It might avoid expense if the borough arranged 'ora light at that corner every evening.

W. Guest wishes to notify that his Wit show of the new autumn and winter millinery commences to-day. Ladies sre invited to look over the display.***

Mr J. B. Merrett, of Christchurch,. «s received the returns from an Aucktend poultryman who shipped 500 dozen JBjjs to Vancouver by the Makura in October last. The eggs sold at Is 7fd, 'wing a handsome profit over the PWe he was receiving locally at the time. Vancouver merchants expressed wish that eggs should be shipped in larger quantities, as the market in winter was unlimited.