THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1884.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1214, 1 April 1884, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1884.

The usual monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. The Picton Foresters will have a picnic and ball on the anniversary of the Lodge, May 24th. Tenders for the erection of new premises for the MAKimoROTOTt Times must be sent in not later than noon to-morrow. The cricket match Picton v. Blenheim, at Picton on Easter Monday, will be played as a winding-up match of the season. The Coal Company’s ship Dodger arrived at the Picton wharf at 3.20 p.m yesterday with between 30 and 40 tons of coal of a fine quality. Mr F. J. Parker, who some years since was teacher at the Grovetown school, has been re-appointed to that position in succession to Mr Ogiivie, who resigned to take up a school at Picton some few weeks since. Mr Granville received to-day an assortment of the finest pears it is possible to obtain, as we have verified by sampling, and there is no doubt lie will have a ready sale for them. Our Havelock correspondent telegraphs : —“The steamer Kennedy arrived here this morning and is comfortably berthed alongside the uew wharf. She takes 30 tons of flax, with other produce, for Wellington to-night.” A sentry, named O’Neale, on guard at the No. 2 Powder Magazine, Woolwich, the other night, saw three men near the magazine, one of whom carried a doublebarrelled gun. He challenged them, whereupon they sprang upon him, and in the scuffle the soldier’s gun was fired and blew off the forefinger of his right hand. Help was speedily afforded, and he was taken to the hospital. Nothing more was seen of his assailants, but the owners of the adjacent land say poachers were about during the night. The death is announced of Mr George Easton, who had a remarkable career as a Temperance reformer. It is computed that during the 30 years Mr Easton was an agent of the Scottish Temperance League he travelled some 200,000 miles and delivered no fewer than 7,800 addresses. His labours were chiefly confined to Scotland, aud bis form was a familiar one in all the towns from Berwick to Wick. He died at Portobello at an advanced age. Mr Hodgson’s report on the recent pupilteachers’examination was read at the Education Board this morning. He stated that ten candidates had presented themselves, five being for admission, one a Ist years’ pupil-teacher, one a 2nd, and three 3rd years’ pupil-teachers. Three of the five candidates pas3.d a satisfactory examination —Mary Linton, Laura Jeffries, and Ethel Harris. The work of the Ist year’s pupil-teacher, Jessie Matthews, was on the whole fairly good. Mary Morrin, the 2nd year’s pupil-teacher, showed marked improvement in the art of teaching, in which she was formerly deficient. The papers of all the three 3rd years’ pupil-teachers— Mary Bary, Gladys Prichard, and Edith Stratford—as well as their method of teaching were so nearly equal and so uniformly good, that he had not attempted the invidious and needless task of estimating their comparative merits. MrHodgson concluded by saying that he had much pleasure in bearing testimony to the thoroughness of the training given by the headmaster oi the Borough Schools, not only to the pupilteachers but also to the candidates for admission. Don’t Die In The House. —“Rough on Rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches and-bugß, flies, ants, insects, moles, jack rabbits, gophers —The N.E. Drug Co.

.Some three months ago the open-hearted people of Picton were taken by storm by a gentleman of good presence and quiet, pleasing manners. He hailed from Fiji, and had arrived in their port with a chartered schooner, which came to load w’ith timber for Levuka. He was everywhere accepted as a weli-to-do Fijian sugar planter, and friends gathered thick and fast around him. As time wore on and his departure for the Isle of Palms approached, his admirers decided to give a farewell dance in his honor, ! and the generous Fijian, in order to ensure it passing oft with uncommon success, volunteered to order the supper and pay auvthing that it might cost over and above the voluntary contributions of his friends. The dance came off in due course and was a most successful affair. It was attended by the upper strata of Picton society and farewell good wishes were showered from all sides. In due course the “ Pirate ” craft set sail, and as gentle zephyrs carried it towards the sunny shores of the Pacific Group a pall of doubt gradually settL d ;■> < • the quiet little Sounds town. Rumor, about tue value of cheques on the branch of New Zealand at Levuka, spread con sternation wide and far, and it soon leaked out that after the subscriptions for the great social gathering had been collected and handed ovor to the parting guest, he had given one of those formal pieces of paper for the amount of its total cost to the hotelkeeper who had officiated as caterer on the occasion. The Fijian planter returned to Wellington recently, and Mr Allan Thompson, the acceptor of a cheque for L3l on Levuka, issued a warrant for his arrest. In accordance with this he was brought over to Pictou by last night’s steamer, and our Picton correspondent then tells the rest of the talc in telegraphing as follows :—At the R.M. Court to-day, Charles Edward Gundry was charged with obtaining L 3 under false pretences from Allan Thompson, who deposed that Mr Gunndry owed L2B for board in December last and asked for L 3, and gave a cheque for L3l on the Bank of New Zealand, Levuka, which was dishonored. Mr J. Conolly agpeared for the complainant, and Mr McNab for the defendant, who was committed for trial, bail being allowed. At the Onchunga Races 1000 persons were present. The affair was conducted on strictly temperance principles; the Licensing Committee refusing an extension of any license. It is stated that the Takapuna Licensing Committee intend to act similarly at the Takapuna Races. The vital statistics for the Wairau for the past month arc—Births 17, deaths 3, marriage 1. Vauity Fair tells the following as a tru story : —Last autumn, among the guests of a certain shooting lodge in Stratherriek there was a young and beautiful Australian lady, with the additional attraction of L 3,000 a year of her own. She moved about a good deal with the shooting parties, and in doing so had frequent opportunities of observing a rather good looking under - kceper of her friends. Observation begat fancy, and fancy begat love, We are told that if there i 6 one thing which distinguishes Australians from both English and Ameticans it is decision of character and promptness of action. So when she realsed her feelings this young lady at once proceeded to business. She proposed ; was, of course, accepted ; and is now married to the lucky gamekeeper. The happy pair are now abont to proceed to Australia. The loss of all his books and papers is as heavy a blow to a literary’ man as the loss of his army to a general, and there is something really tragic in the disaster which overtook the Bishop of Sydney when the Simla went down a few days ago. The loss of his books, indeed, will, we hope, ba covered by insurance; and perhaps the : additional value imparted by old or recant ; associations will in some measure be made ‘up by the thoughtful consideration which has prompted the Dean of Westminster’s letter to the papers, and which is sure to call forth a ready response from Dr. Barry’s numerous friends. But the most generous offices of friendship will be made to replace the Bishop’s manuscripts, including “ a large portion of the accumulated results of a life of laborious and orderly’ study’ and active educational work.”,’ The manuscripts, Dean Bradley says, were of various kinds, and perhaps the saddest thing of all is the loss of the hundreds of old sermons which we do not doubt were among them. Fortunately, however, Dr. Barry has the tongue ol a ready speaker, and perhaps the Church in New South Wales will gain by the Bishop’s loss. The Frequency of Abscondments.—Were the fugitives from justice who chance to be caughtmore snmmarily handled and severely’ dealt with by operation of law, the offences would be far less numerous. So if the pirates, on the high-seas of trade, who steal the semblance of Udolpho Wolfe’s Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, were des patched to prison houses, this incomparable ordial would be less open to larceny.— Socinianisai, Deism, Atheism, and Nihilism are bad, but nothing compared to rheumatism. The former can be endured and cured, but the latter cannot be endured, and is very seldom cured, unless the proper remedies are taken in time. No one need fear rheumatism or any other ism, unless he has scepticism, and even that would have to fly before a few doses of Hitchens Blood Restorer, is now procurable from all chemists and respectable storekeepers in New Zealand. Ask for testimonials.