NEWS IN BRIEF. BIRTH MARRIAGE IN MEMORIAL

Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 124, 27 May 1898, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BIRTH

MARRIAGE

IN MEMORIAL

« INTERPKOVINCIAL. During a case heard in the Napier Magistrate's Court on Monday last, Sergeant Mitchell referred to the ease with which young men of good position obtained admittance to hotels after 11 p.m., and announced his intention of calling them as witnesses in future cases to prove how the hotel-keepers broke their agreement about .observing prohibited hours. The Mataura freezing works were blocked for some time last week. The rabbits came in in such large quantities that there was little room left lor mutton, and the butchers have not had much work for some weeks past. An order was received in Nelson last week on behalf of a Dunedin firm asking for 50 tons of potatoes, to be delivered at the local wharf, the price being very satisfactory. It it* understood the supply is wanted for Australia. At Gore List week a local dealer realised the top price of the season for lambs, securing 8s Od for a fine lot. Numerous mutton-biruing parties have returned to luvercargill from the rookeries on the outlying islands, and report a very good season. Another batch of unemployed will shortly be despatched to work on the Napier-Wairoa road. There are now about 50 men employed on the road. The Campbell-Ehrenfried brewery in Queen-street, Auckland, is now supplied with 20,000 gallons oi" water per day drawn from au artesian well on its own premi>es. The Auckland City Council and llarbour Board are still at loggerheads over the Freeman's Bay sewer. Both bodies are willing to pay half the cost of constructing the sewer, but neither is willing to take the work in hand. Great difficult}" is being experienced in most parts just now to get farmers to part with their stocks of .wheat, there being a strong feeling that prices must go up. Mr. H. B. Cook, of Auckland, has applied to the West Coa*.t Warden for a coal lease of 1200 acres, north of the "Westport Coal Company's lease. The amount of capital proposed to be invested is £75,000. The application will be heard at the Warden's Court on 21st June. It is understood that to give access to the field a line of railway following the Koranui spur, and other extensive works, will be necessary. ' The Clutha Free Press says that potatoes are likely to be scarce and dear in that locality during the winter, and that saL-s have already been effected at £7 per ton. The same paper reports that on luchclutha the potato crop has been practically a failure this season, and that the wheat crop has turned «but none too well, having got nipped with the frost in a great many cases. It is reported in Balclutha on what is said to be the very best authority that Mr. Thos. Mackenzie, ex -M.11.1t., will, in a few months' time, sever his connection with the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association, for which he has been acting as London representative, and return to this country. The Free Press states that Mr. Mackenzie's reason for taking this step is that the climate of London does not agree with him. Whether from trapping or other means, there is a considerable diminution in the number of rabbits in the North Otago district. Last year's Hawkes Bay flood has not been without beneficial effect. Although the deposits of silt, which were ,in hard cakes, were difficult to plough, those who persevered have had 'exceptionally good crops of barley. During the coming season it is probable that a very large area will be put down in barley. Feed in the Forty-mile Bush is rather scarce. In some places the ground is bare, and the frosts now being experienced are likely to prevent the grass gaining any considerable growth. Although very many of the settlers have disposed of considerable numbers of their sheep, they are still stocked to the full carrying capacity of their holdings. Keen business has been done with potatoes in Hastings during the last few days, several large stocks changing hands. It appears probable that there will be a still further rise in prices. Potatoes are selling at 10s a sack at Paeroa, Auckland district, while as much as 14s is being paid at Waihi for them. The natives are selling them at from 8s to 10s a sack. Onions are selling at 12s per c^wt, pumpkins and melons 5s per owt, maize 3s (3d per bushel, and fowl wheat 4s Gd per bushel. A syndicate is being formed to dredge for gold in the Grey lliver, above the Brunner Gorge. One of the first orders against a sub-debtor under the Workmen's Wages Act was made in the Dunedin Magistrate's Court on Monday last. The order was to attach moneys owing to the judgment debtor (a contractor) by the Otago syndicate (the sub-debtor) in respect of a contract for bushfelliug.

i The motion for a ■mandamus to compel the District Land Registrar to issue a certificate of title to Sir Waller Uuller iv respect of 11 acres of block 14, Ilorowhenua, purchased by him, andin tho name of tho late Major Kemp for the balance of the block, will come on for argument in the Supreme Court next Monday. The purpose for which the mandamus is sought is to enable registration on such new certificate of the dealings with the land, which the Supreme Court has declared to be valid. I

Taylor.— On 27th Muy, at 242 a, Willis-street, tho wife of A. E. Taylor, of a daughter.

Grant— Duummond.— On 'Sivd May, at Knox Church, Lower Hutt, by the Key. Andrew Gray, Eonuld Muir, son of the late Thomas Muir Grant, Esq., London, to Aj^ues, daughter of George Drunnnond, Esq., of Rivorsdule, Stokes's Valley.

Blundkll. — 111 loving and affectionate memory of Thomas Henry Blundell, who deported this life i on 27th May, 1894. M'Donald.— lu fond and loving memory of Elizabeth, the boloved wife of Donald Duncan M'Donald, of Mitch ell to wu, who departed this life on 27th May, 1896, nged 38 years ; deeply regretted. We miss tlieo from our home, We miss thee from thy place ; A shadow o'er our life is enst ; We miss the sunshine of thy face. We miss thy kind nnd willing hand, Thy fond and earnest caro ; , ©ur homo is dark without thee ; Wo miss theo everywhere.