THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1883.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume V, Issue 836, 27 January 1883, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1883.

Two police informations and seven civil cases will occupy the attention of the Resident Magistrate on Monday. Messrs Mason and Yallance’s Turquoise has been scratched for all his engagements at the ensuing Wanganui meeting. A man named Rolley, working at Redwood Bros., Spring Creek, was thrown from his liorse yesterday and dislocated his shoulder.

At a meeting of the Rcnwick and Waihopai Cricket Clubs, it was agreed to challenge the Blenheim Star Club. Fifteen players were selected to practice, from which the eleven wiil he finally selected.

Measles are very prevalent in Rcnwick, and the attendance at the local school has been seriously diminished in consequence. The number on the roll is 110, and the attendance only 40. Our informant states that there are over fifty cases in Rcnwick. It is reported from Kaikoura that a native named Ratima, living at Mangamanu, eight miles from Kaikonrn, murdered his wife yesterday, The deed is generally attributed to jealousy, as the Maori referred to had a row with another native about his wife a short time ago. At the Warden’s Court. Havelock, last Thursday the applications of Mills and Jones for protection, and Nelson and Crichton fot an extended area, were granted. An application from C. Nelson, for an extension of water-race, was objected to, but the objection was set aside and the application granted. The application of W. E. Dive for a gold-mining lease was adjourned. Mr Horton, one of the candidates for the North Ward, Ims written a letter to the Returning Officer, demanding to be declared elected a candidate without troubling the electors to record their votes. Fortunately for the burgesses, the Returning Officer is not of the same opinion as Mr Horton and our contemporary, so the electors will have to decide for themselves who they will have for their representative. Tlio matter will, we understand, come before the Court at some future date, when “ both ” sides of the case will be told. The following business was transacted at the Havelock R.M. Court last Thursday:— Police v. Hewitt, prosecution, under the Cruelty to Animals Act; fined LI acd LI 4s costs. Mills Estate v. Patterson, claim L2 4s 5d ; judgmeut for amount claimed with 19s costs. Mills Estate v. Campbell, claim L 4 0s 3d; judgment for amount claimed and 7s costs. Mills Estate v. Maxted, claim 12s lid ; judgment for amount claimed and 10s cost 3. Mills Estate v. Einnister, claim LI 7s 7d ; judgment for amount claimed and LI Is costs.

Our Havelock correspondent writes The head dam at the Gorge claim, Wakamarina, is now completed, and is a very substantial structure ; the pumping gear is now being set up and the engine will immediately be got across the river to its proper site for working. The course of the river through the new cutting has been considerably widened by floods, so that any surplus water that may arise at any future fresh or flood can be easily carried off without overflowing the dam. Should there be a continuation of the present dry weather the pumps will be at work in about a fortnight, after which the Directors intend to have a complete supervision. The length of the claim now held is one thousand feet.”

Says a Wanganui paper: —The other evening a “ young man raw from the country ” entered one of the leading hotels in town, and finding the hall abundantly hung with pictures asked the landlord, who is well-known as a bit of a wag, “Is this a public house?” “No,” replied the landlord, it’s a photographic studio.” “Ob, then I beg your pardon,” said the visitor, and went for the door. The gco l-natured laudlord doubtless called him back, and provided for him all the more liberally, taking into consideration the little joke ho had provided at the expense of his guest.

The following gentlemen have been elected as a School Committee for Tort Underwood for the ensuing year :—Messrs G. Baldick, Thos. Dairen, Joseph Flood, James Flood, Jerome Flood, and J. PI. Spencer. Some German, Swiss, and .Russian Socialists are said to have leased an old castle near Winterthur, in Switzerland, which is to be fitted up as a printing and publishing establishment for the dissemination of Socialist literature.

In an article on Sir Arthur Gordon’s despatches on native affairs, the Auckland Herald calls our late Governor a “measureless liar,” and declines to call him a gentleman, so refers to him as “that official.”

Mr Kenny, the new member for Eunis, is the youngest member of the House of Commons. He is only 21 years of age. Mr T. A. Dickson, another Irish member, is 23. The youngest English representative is the Hon. Robert Spencer, who is 25, Mr Fort and Mr Brodrick being his seniors by a year.

She said she wanted a ticket to Wyand'otte and return, and the pale, gentlemanly agent, with the dark moustache, asked, as he took up the pasteboard, “ Single “ It ain’t any of your business as I know,'’ she. responded, tartly. “I might have been married a dozen times if I’d like providin’ for some poor shiftless wreck of a man !”

At Linton recently a child three years of age obtained access to a homieopathic medicine-chest, and, child-Uke, began to taste its contents. He had swallowed five bottles of the medicine, including one of aconite and one of belladonna, and had got successfully through half a bottle of mix vomica before he was discovered. The allopathic doctor called in said that if he had swallowed the whole contents of the chest he would not have been one penny the worse.

“Auger” writes It is asserted that the owner of Commotion was challenged to meet Guesswork, in order that the two horses might fight their Champion battle o’er again. Mr Pearson prefers public races to matches, and therefore I presume that there is no probability of the two great guns meeting except in the Town Plate at Flemingtou. But what a fillip would be given to the Victorian Club meeting if Sir Thomas Elder and the Hon. W. Pearson could bo iuduccd to match their colts to run a three-mile match for a cool “thou” a-sidc, at Flemingtou, on Saturday next. Such a contest would be worth going a thousand miles to sec ; but it cannot be, and that is the pity on’t. Mr Vavasour sent from Blenheim (says the Taranaki Budget) by the s.s. Wanaka, which arrived here on Sunday, a pair of black swans as a donation to the Recreation Grounds, but unfortunately one of the swans died on the passage. The other swan has been placed in the ornamental water. We believe it is the intention of the intention of the Board to endeavor to procure a number of swans from Auckland. The Board and the public will feel grateful to Mr Vavasour, who is an old Taranaki settler, for his kindness in sending the swans, and it is to be regretted that both birds did not arrive in safety. The Board, however will probably be able to procure swans in a short time, which will add to the attractiveness of the lake.

A very singular application of an old and well-known law of colours has just been applied to diamonds, and almost immediately after the bare scientific experiment had been published, rascality had turned the fact to its profit, and cheated several diamond merchants thereby. It consists simply in applying the law of complementary colours to the well-known yellow diamonds of the Cape. If these are placed in a solution of the colour complementary to yellow, viz., rlold, .they appear to cotne out white ; washing, however, and even a short space of time without washing, restores their natural yellow colour. But it was in the brief interval that the rogues made their hit.

A gentleman on a walking tour through Staffordshire passed the other day the village of Sandon, the seat of the Earl of Harrowby. Being footsore, he was glad to be picked up by a local gardener who was driving along the road. The gentleman, anxious to make himself agreeable to the driver, chatted with him about recent events, and at length said, “Well, they’ve caught old Avabi at last, and got him safe in prison.” The man dropped his reins, and, with tears in his eyes, said, “Do you mean to tell me that they’ve taken Lord Harrowby to prison at his time of life ? him such a good landlord too ! No, I won’t believe it!”

The Straits Times tells the following story of personal bravery:—“Mr Fernandez, curator to the Rallies Museum, was informed that a large python or boa, measuring 22ft. in length, presented by 11.11. the Maharajah of Johore, had escaped from his cage. The reptile was found coiled up behind a heavy cupboard. He attacked this enormous boa, and after a most exexciting struggle, suceeded in overcoming him- even though his legs were at one time encircled in the boa’s fatal coils—and holding the reptile firmly by the throat, despatching him instantly by throwing a bottle of carbolic acid down his throat.” The Manawatu Herald states that Messrs Sewell and Donaldson’s flaxmill was destroyed by fire at nooli on Saturday last, Nothing is known of the origin of the fire beyond the fact that it broke out near the scutcher, and spread with great rapidity, the dry flax, tow, and other inflammable stuff helping its progress considerably. The engine, a portable one, was saved with difficulty, although a little damaged. All the buildings were destroyed, and the fire spread along the dry flax on the hill, burning a large quantity. About 15 tons of flax in the various stages of manufacture were destroyed. The insurance (including L3OO on the engine) amounts to nearly L 709, an 1 the loss sustained by the firm will he considerable. Mr Sewell, one of the partners, was away in Wellington at the time of the occurrence, and arrived home by the Jane Douglas on Sunday. It is intended to take steps for the prompt re-erection of the buildings as soon as the question of insurance has been settled. Dr B. W. Richardson writes:—" Hitherto I have written as if the advantage of tricycle riding were confined to the male sex. I would not like this to be the impression gleaned from my papers. On the contray, I am cf opinion that no oxeroise for women has ever been discovered that is to them so really useful. Young and middleaged ladies can learn to ride the tricycle with the greatest facility, and they become excellently skilful. One young lady, who is very dear to me, can beat me both in pace and in distance, and in a tour we made of several miles on a beautiful country road, we have enjoyed ourselves as much os when we ride out together ou horseback, while we have a better exercise. I shall rejoice to see the time when the this exercise shall be as popular amongst girls and women as teunis and the dance, for the moro fully the physical life of our womenkind is developed, the better for men as well a 3 j women.” ?■ I

Neither Sir Garnet Wolseley nor Sir Beauchamp Seymour has a son to keep alive the peerage each has won. The Admiral is unmarried, and Sir Garnet has only a daughter. Terrific bush fires have been ranging in the Manawatu, as well as in the \Yairarapa. The heat in some of the townships is intense, and the smoke stifling. In the Manchester Block the house of Mr G. West, together with all the contents, lias been destroyed, and fences have succumbed all over the district.

While a hack race was being run at the Foxton races, a drunken fellow rode across the course and came into collision with Glorious, one of the animals contesting the event. The latter was badly hurt about the shoulder, and the other horse was killed outright. Both ridei’3 escaped without much damage.

The work of freezing a cargo of meat for the ship Lady Jocelyn (says the Post) is proceeding very successfully. Although it is only a woek since the operations commenced, 1000 carcasses of sheep and 60 quarters of beef have already been prepared, and the entire shipment will be completed in three weeks from date. The work of freezing is being personally superintended by Mr Wright, the indefatigable secretary, who informs us that the machinery on board the vessel is acting in a satisfactory manner. Those who desire to witness the process of refrigeration can do so any morning before half-past 5 o’clock, after which hour the ship will be closed to visitors. A cheering cordial for the despondent, and the only stimulant which can be safely introduced into the sick-room or used for hospital purposes is the celebrated Wolfe’s Schnapps, the purest spirit in the world.— Advt.

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