THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1884.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1403, 14 November 1884, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1884.

Ward and Budge hold a stock sale tomorrow afternoon at Springlands, The usual monthly pay-night meeting of the Building Society will be held on Friday evening next. Messrs Purkiss and Nosworthy will hold an auction sale of cattle and pigs at their sale yards to-morrow. The settling night meeting in connection with the Friendly Societies’ Anniversary Fete, will be held this evening. Mr Henderson's nomination paper, as a candidate for the Mayoralty, has been handed to the Returning Officer, and the deposit of LlO. MrDouslin will meet the ratepayers of the Lower Wairua Rivers Board in Ewart’s Hall on Twesday eveniug next to reply to Mr Redwood. A full meeting of the members of the Choral Society will be held on Monday evening next where important business will be brought up for consideration. After the meeting there will be a musical practice. Mr Harding, the G.W.O.T of thel.O.G.T as already announced, will lecture in the Good Templar’s Hall this evening, upon ‘‘The Destruction of Food in the Manufacture of Intoxicating Drink.” The chair will bo taken by Mr George Henderson.

The committee of (lie RacingCluh visited the course this morning with a view to deciding upon a new lineef road to the course and a training gallop. Nothing was definitely decided, hut ic is probable a decision will be come to early next week. At the Picton mayoral nomination on Friday last Mr A. P. Seymour and Mr A T. Thompson were the candidates proposed for the office that will become vacant on the retirement of the present Mayor, Mr J. A. R. Greensill. Both of the candidates (says the Picton Press) have held the office before, so that whichever one is chosen by the burgesses will be conversant with the duties. The choice of candidates lias led to a little stir in the lowo, and we hear of committees being o ganised and other ac- ■ lion being taken to secure the return of the respective earn! dates.

Referring to the WillliamT will case, the N.Z. Times says the question suggests itself —How would the case stand if, after all, the second will—that of 1877, in favor of Mrs Baicbridge—were brought to light ? The moral of the whole story appears to be thata man should, in tcstameutaiy matters, place himself unreservedly in the hands of his lawyer. The cholera epidemic continues on the inincrease in Paris, according to our latest advices. Although in its principal parts a model of sanitary arrangements, with its unrivalled water supply and drainage system, the great city offers every facility where the masses live for the spread of a disease such as that which Ins now apparently established itself tin re for some little time to come.

A curious case of trance is under medical observation at the Val de Grace Hospital in Paris. A young corporal named Boissy, belonging to the Kocroi garrison, recently went to Paris. He went to sleep about two o’clock one day, and did not wake till six days afterwards. Every means were used to rouse him from his unconscious condition, but all in vain,

A telegram from Paris reports that General Gordon was shot and killed whilst proceeding from Khartoum to Berber. The report is discredited at Berber. The report is discredited at Cairo, and although we are not either in Cairo or Loudon, we have no hesitation in discrediting the report as well, from some slight knowledge as to how French Journalists attempt to succeed in the sensationalism which American pa; e: .1 indulge in with more skill and greater success. If any French newspaper received news that was true it would have reached some one or other of the English dailies hours before.

In reference to a local which appeared yesterday announcing the establishment of a branch of the New Zealand Clothing Factory in our locality, we learn that Messrs Litchfield and Son have completed arrangements with Mr Hallcnstein, which will place the agency hitherto held by the firm on the same footing as tiio branches of the Clothing Factory. This will give Messrs Litchfield and Son a much larger stock for the public to select from, in addition to various other advantages. The business will still continue to be cairied on in Messrs Litchfield and Son’s premises, but arrangements will shortly be made for the opening of a separate shop for the branch,

An “ English Mother,” on September 19, wrote to the Pall Mall Gazette with reference to the proposed subscription for the survivors of the Mignonette, to ask why no one has thiought of starting a fund to erect a tablet in memory of their victim :—lt is our well founded boast (she says) that an Englishman knows how to die bravely. Miners have been known to eat off their own arms (not each otliei’s) when they have been bricked up ; and many a time our British soldiers have died of privation—died nobly, and together; but in their direst straits they have not killed and torn out the heart of a comrade in order “ to live for their wives and children.” Why is an exception made in the case of sailors alone ?

The boating season will be opened tomorrow afternoon at half-past two o’clock with a procession of boats, in which at least 16 boats will take part. The procession will start from Fell Bros, and Co.’s wharf and proceed down the river for a short distance, returning at 3 p.m. To enliven the proceedings a band will probably be in attendance, and some races will take place between the iour oars. Dr Porter will act as marshal on the occasion, assisted by the Deputy Captain of the Town Rowing Club, Mr Clouston, and the Captain of the Telegraph Club, Air Gudgeon. The affair promises to be most successful, and we trust the weather will be one factor in its favor.

Our Kaikoura contemporary has the following :—After a lapse of about 15 years service as one of Her Majesty’s mailmen (Mr 11. Lovell) is about to bo replaced by Thau Mr Lovell there .snot, ivithin our expcpience, a better mail carrier in the Colony. He has discharged his duty with the greatest fidelity, carrying out Ilia contracts in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. It would surprise those who have not given the matter a thought to know that Sir Lovell has travelled a hearty two hundred thousand miles during the time he has conveyed the mails, a distance few would imagine lie has travesed. We are pleased to learn that steps have been initiated to give Mr Lovell a public testimonial in recognition of his services, a reward he richly deserves. The lead taken by Kaikoura will doubtless be followed all aloug the line to, and inclusive of, Blenheim.’’ We feel sure many persona in Blenheim will join in the proposed testimonial.

The Colonist of yesterday morning says : —Very considerable improvements have taken place in Blenheim of late, a large number of fine buildings have been erected and business has been satisfactory. The new Criterion Hotel, which contains over fifty rooms, and was opened some six or eight months ago, has been found inadequate for the business doing, and an addition, providing 23 more rooms i? about to be erected, A fine hall has just been built by the Oddfellows, and was opened on Monday last, and the Salvation Army are about erecting barracks capable of seating seveu hundred persons. To make way for additional settlement, several of the large runs adjoining the township and in the direction of the Awatere are about to be cut up into small farm blocks, and as the railway extension will give the occupiers easy access toj Blenheim and a shipping port, there is but little doubt but a large increase in the number of settlers of the district will soon take place. The latest sign of progress of which we have heard is the contemplated establishment of a morning paper in Blenheim.

Referring to the annexation fever, the Pall Mall Gazette says “ What a scramble it is 1 England and Russia began the game, France struck in, and now Germany is in full cry. The contagion of annexation is spreading everywhere. Europe is partitioning the world. Every Power is grasping with both hands hands after fresh territory. The area unappropriated is diminishing daily, and if the j ace is not slackened there will soon be not a single black or brown man in the whole wide world who will not be the subject of oue or other of the European Powers. All colored men seem to be regarded as fair game. The white man is dividing up the planet. It is a strange and startling process, but it has become so familiar as to cease to attract attention. All round the continent of the dark skins Europeans are hoisting flags and proclaming annexations with the feverish haste of gold miners who have suddenly struck a vein of the precious metal, and establish ‘claims’ by the simple process of sticking in posts bearing their names. It i 3 a wholesale sequestration of the world, based upon the principle that no one has a right to any rule or sovereignity in either hemisphere but men of European birth or origin. The Chosen People did not appropriate the Promised Land with more perfect assuran’o of a right to dispossess the Canaanites t i-in tliat shown by the white men ip the p'uinkr raid rou id the world,” j

Information respecting the whereabouts and occupations of the undermentioned persons is wanted by the Secretary of the General Post Office:--Regas Constantine Pinn; Arthur Mandy, of London, arrived in the colony per s.s. loaic in March, 1884; and Henry B. Follett, aliss John Clark,

From and after the 18th instant the following will be the rates of postage on correspondence for United Kingdom, Ac., marked “via Suez” or “via Brindisi,” viz.—On letters, one shilling per each half ounce or fraction of half ounce ; on all book packets and samples, 3d Tor every 2oz, or fraction of 2oz ; and on all newspapers 2d each. The postage must be fully prepaid for these routes, and if not so prepaid the correspondence will be detained and forwarded hy first despatch either by way of San Francisco or by direct steamer. Mr Quarterman East has taken a furnished house in Hampshire for the Tichborne Claimant on his release from Dartmoor. It is not deemed advisable to make the exact spot public. The Claimant will at once take up his abode there on his release from prisoD. Duriug the imprisonment of their father Mr East has taken upon himself the responsibility of maintaining and educating the Claimant’s two daughters. The young girls have had all the advantages enjoyed by the children of their protector; and the elder will upon her father’s release go to live with him and keep house. In order that the Claimant may not, at any rate for some time to come, be worried with pecuniary matters, Mr East purposes making him an ample weekly allowance, and will further place a considerable sum of money in his hands on the day of his release Although the Claimant will be entitled to his liberty on October 24, it is by no means certain that he will be released on that day. It is understood that it is his desire to be left alone with his family, at least for a time, and there is absolutely no truth whatever in the various rumors that are afloat as to his future plans and projected movements.

There was a very large gathering in the family chapel at Ugbrooke Park, Devon, on Sept. 24, to witness the marriage of Viscount Fielding with the Hon. Oecilia Clifford, daughter of the late, and sister of the present Lord Clifford, and the Hon. William Clifford, of Vernon. The bride’s uncle, the Hon. and Right Rev. Bishop Clifford, assisted by the Rev. Bernard Vaughan, officiated at the ceremony, which was followed by the nuptial mass. The bride, who was given away by her brother, wore a magnificent dreas of white satin, with a long train, embroidered with pearH, and a tulle veil, which completely enveloped her, with the customary wreath of orange blossoms. Her ornaments were diamonds and pearls. The bridesmaids were the llou. Emma Clifford, sister to the bride, and Miss Emily Clifford, her cousin ; the Ladies Clare, Winifride, Agnes, and Emily Feilding, sisters to the bridegroom ; and Miss Maud Berkeley, his cousin. At the breakfast there were about 90 guests, including the Eirl and Countess of Denbigh, Lady Clifford, and Lord Clifford. The bride and bridegroom left in the afternoon for Rotherwas, Herefordshire, kindly lent by Mrs Bodenham. No more popular victory on the turf has ever been won so far as this district is concerned than that of Black Rose in the Derby yesterday. The result, which was made known from our office some ten minutes or more, thauks to our private arrangements, before the Press Association sent us the news, excited the utmost enthusiasm. The extraordinary sanguine belief Mr 11. Redwood had in his horse, was more than fully justified. Black Rose has borne off the blue ribbon of the New Zealand Turf. How little his victory was expected by those on the couree may be instanced by quoting that Black Rose stood lowest in the betting just prior to the commencement of the race and that the inside totalisator, on which most of the knowing ones speculate, gave a divideud of L2O 10s to those who backed our local horse. We are further pleased to hear that Mr Henry Redwood has pocketed over L2OOO over the event, If Black Rose is fortunate to pull off the Cup to-day —and we hope he is—not only will Mr Redwood win further large sums but a large amount of foreign capital will find its way into the safe keeping of several of our sporting men. The Shipping Gazette, on the 19th inst. devoted a leader to the frozen meat trade, in the course of which it remarked : “ There is no country in the world which can beat New Zealand for cattle raising. Some exporters 6cnt home at first an unsuitable article, but they quickly discovered their mistake, and the article is improving, we are told, at every shipment. Any quantity of first-class meat can be sent from the colony. The average price in New Zealand of prime joints i 3 6d per pound ; and if the Colonial Government were to subsidise the trade for two or three years, there could be no doubt that it would hare an enormous effect upon the price of meat here and upon the future prosperity of the colony, The New Zealand Government would be doing a wise thing by encouraging shipowners to afford the widest facilities for developing a great trade in frozen meat with England.” Apropos of this, Fairplay, another shipping journal, observes:—“As it happens that under present circumstances the existing facilities are at least equal to the existing supplies of meat, and as, moreover, it is generally understood that the carriage of meat is a paying business, it does not seem clear why the Colonial Government should go out of its way and tax it 3 subjects for the purpose of making a profitable branch of a particular trade more profitable still.”