LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1911, 21 July 1886, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Commissioner of Telegraphs is prepared to receive tenders for 109,000 insulators. In the R.M. Court this morning the charge of illegal burial will come on for hearing ; five cases of neglecting to register dogs will also be beard. Messrs Litchfield & Son were occupied last evening in removing their stock of drapery into their new premises, which are now almost finished. The new shop has been most handsomely fitted. Mr James Jackson’s whaling crew succeeded in capturing a large whale at Tawaiti on Sunday afternoon. This is the third whale captured by Mr Jackson’s crew this season. Amongst the objects of interest to be exhibited at EwarL’d Hall to-day will be a number of specimens of pumice, etc.,, from Poraneii, and a’so specimens of the volcanic mud, belched out of Mount Tara - wera at the late eruption, There will also be a number of photographs of the disturbed district,

Mr Oxenham has refused £2003 for Cerise and Blue.

It is rumoured that Mr Oxenham, the owner of Cerise and Blue, his presented Colley, her rider, with a chepue for £SOO.

We believe it is intended to try and arrange a foofcial mVch between Blenheim and Picton for next Saturday, the match to take place on the ground.

Mr L. B. Jones, who for some years has managed the Fictou Brewery for Me Williams, has purchased the latter’s interest in the concern.

Business men and others will be glad to hear that on and after Thursday next mails for North and South will close at 7 p.m., alien the steamers are so late that the last train from Blenheim will catch them, instead of 5 p.m. as usual.

A general meeting of the Marlborough Football Club will be held at draper’s Hotel on Friday evening for the trans action of important business. The Committee will meet at the J Criterion Hotel at 7 p.m to-night. -

Ireland, has 32,000 square miles, contains over 5,000,000 of people, the greater proportion of whom depend upon the soil. Four millonacres, cr more than a sixth of the total acreage of the island, arc not cultivated and at present can not be.

M. do Lessops says that the building of the Pyramids, which occupied 30,000 mon ten years, was boys’ play to building the Panama Canal. Ho estimates the power of the machines employed as equal to the labor of 500,000 men.

His Worship the Mayor left fur Wellington last night, in order to givo evidence, as Chairman of the District. Hospital Botrd, in support of the petition of the Boar 1 against the aetiou of the Government. Mr Dodson also returned to Wellington last night. In the R M. Court yesterday morning, Mr Allen, R.M., bad before him a claim, on an immediate judgment summons, brought by W Strickland against H. E. Brown. Mr McNab appeared for the plaintiff. Defendant was ordered to pay the sum of L2 14s 6 1 immediately, or in default suffer 14 days’ imprisonment.

Augur, in the Australasian, after a cursory review of the Melbourne Cup weights, says:—“ I fully expect to see tin winner come from one of those under 6st 101(1, and at s .me future time I will endeavour to select it in half a dozen.'’ “ The Vagabond’’ states that the cheering for the Queen at the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition was started by the Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Moorliouse, and taken up by the colonists around him; also, that the display of of enthusiasm was much stronger amongst the colonists than amongst the Englishmen present.

The crop of apples in Great Britian averages 85,000 tons, valued at LIO per ton; about 12 million gallons of cider are made yearly, The production of cider in France averages 220 million gallons. The orchards of Great Britain cover 180 000 acres; an acre-with 40 good apple trees will produce 1200 gallons of cider. Great Britain imports 900,000 barrels of apples yearly from the United States and Canada.

Ycstcrdiy afternoon, Mr George 11. Frank, counter clerk at the Post Office, was presented with a marble clock, on the eve of his marriage, by Mr Northeroft, the Officer in Charge, on behaW of the officers of the Post and Telegraph Departments. The gift is a handsome and valuable one, and well expresses the esteem in which Mr Frank is held by la's brother officers. Wo, in company with them, wish him happiness.

America has started a new idea. Some worthy citizens of the Groat West propose to found and endow a college for the education of wives for the world. Ladies who wish to reside in Paris, Rome, Milan, London, St. Petersburg even, are to be specially educated in the language, history, costumes, and cookery of the country into which ono intends to try and marry. Certain ladies too, will be specially educated for class marriages—as, for instance, a doctor’s or a lawyers wife. The promoters will not, itissaidgoso far as to supply a wife to the King of the Cannibal Islands or to the Sultan : hut the idea has certainly a touch of humorous novelty about it.

Our Wei ington correspondent wired last night :—“ Mr Himlia brjuglit up this afternoon the report of the Joint Committee on Standing Orders relative to the Wairau G is Bill, and moved that it be agreed to. He pointed out that the Committee had recommended that the Standing Orders should be dispensed with, as it had been shown that it was impossible for the promoters of the Bill to eomply with the Sandhi; Orders. The report was agreed to, and the Bill was cillcd on, Mr Hislop, member for Oamaru, responded to the call, and moved that the Bill be re id a first time. This was also agreed to. It appears that the local member has d diued to take charge of the Bill in consequence of the Borough Council’s opposition to it Mr Hislop Ins, therefore, takei the Bill up, and has promised to see it through.” Last night the members of the Institute Committee and a few frie ids were occupied until a late hour in arranging the exhibits for the conversazione which is to be opened in Ewart’s Hall at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The exhibition is a grand one, and would really be a credit to a mncli larger town, both for the number and variety of exhibits. There arc to bo collections of coins, birJs’ eggs, insects, Maori weapons, geological specimens of all sorts ; an electric clock, watches so old that they havenjt a tick left in them ; engravings, oleographs, oil and water color paintings, microscopes,graphoseopes, stereoscopes, etc., etc.—in short a co’lectiou of all the curios, specimens, au.l scientific instruments that could be obtained for miles round. Mr Rogers will shew his limelight views each night, and th«rc will be plenty of music. The subcommittee. , Mosssrs Winter, Robinson, and Silmon have done their work thoroughly, and deserve more than a passing word of praise. Admission to the exhibition will bs one shilling, and season tickets, half a crown each, may be. obtained from any member of the subcommittee, of Mr Simmons, the Secretary, or at the door of the Hall, The annual meeting of the members and congregation of the Church of the Nativity was held last night iu the Sunday Schoolroom in connection with the Church. About forty ladies and gentlemen were present. The report and balance sheet of the past year brought up by the vestry were adopted. The balance-sheet show 3 a considerable increase in the offertories for tne past year, which is chiefly attributed to the envelope sys eiu, which is a means of contribution now adopted by a large proper ion of the congregation. A ballot took place for six Vestrymen for the ensuing year, resulting in the election of Messrs Marple, McKenzie, Dart, Birch, Ferguson, an! Rogers, Mr L. Allen was selected as People’s Warden. The selection of Minister’s Warden was postponed for the time being. In notioing the improved condition of the Church a 3 a whole, the outgoing Wardens and Vestrymen bore testimony to the untiring efforts of their incumbent, the liev. T. S. Grace, during the past and first year that he has been in the district, and expressed a hope that he would Lava the sympathy and co-operation of all his Vestrymen and Wardens as well as the whole of h : s parishioners.

He was a Dutch barber on a coroner’s jury, and,ftftcr sitting quietly for an hour luring the inquest, arose, peered into the face of the corpse, and then, turning to the of the jury, arid, *‘Moin Gctt, dot mon ish dead!”

A Fieuch physician asserts tl fct he has discovered a soporific whose effects can be exactly limited to the time required. This will, he say V enable travellers to sleep comfortably and confidently during a journey. He measures his doses by miles. Thus you can take a fifty mile do3e before starting on a railway journey, and open your eyes pleasantly refreshed at your proper station.

We are glad to announce to our friends at Picton and all along the line that tho Railway Manager Ins courteously consented to issue return ticket at Bingle fares by the afternoon and evening trains on Thursday, and to delay the night train from Blenheim until 10 o’clock. This will enab’e everybody to visit the Conversazione, which opens this afternoon at 2 o’clock, and this evening at 7 o’clock ard will open also at the same hours on Thursday and Friday. Many of tho residents of the Wairau will be sorry to hear of the death of Mrs Emma Storey, aged 38. wife of Mr George Storey, which took p : ace on board the steamer two days after she left Auckland for England. Exhaustion after childbirth was the cause of death. The infant, a boy, survived, and is well and healthy. Mrs Storey was liked by all who knew her, and great sympathy will be folt for the husband and children. She was a sister of Messrs James and Samuel Gane.

An examination of tho map of the Uni tod States will show a strip of land sever 1 millions of acres in extent, marked “public land,” lying between the States of Kansas and Colorado and Texas. This strip of country was left out in the original survey’, and it is not included in any State or tcnitorial jurisdiction. Neither is it reached by United States law. It is wholly without a judicial authority, and is consequently, the abode of the very worst classes in the country. Cattle thieves and criminals of all kinds resort to it as a refuge, and lately cattlemen have partly taken possession of it to evade the action of the President excluding them from the Indian Territory. There they have established their ranches without molestation.

Mr Justice Grantham in a recent libel suit laid down a new ruling. The defeated Radical candidate for Rotlicrhitho prosecuted the ,f Courier, ” tho Consorvtivo organ of Mauches’cr, for publishing the report of a conservative orator’s speech, in which Dr. Baukhursl was charged with denying tho whole groundwork of Cliristain faith and doctrine. The defence was that the report was privileged because the speech was of public importance In summing up, Mr Jus’icc Grantham said “The jury would remember that they wore not dealing with the publicationof a newspaper in the days when there was ample time to carefully scrutinise every line that appeared in it. It could not be said that publication of thef nil report of the speech could do harm, because it had enabled Dr. Bankhurst to know exactly what had been sail, and gave him an opportunity of denying it if lie had thought lit to do so.” Dr Stanton’s Youthful Vigor Pills for Lost Manhood, Impotence and Nervous Debility. lUs, snt by mail. Dr Stanton, 80xU62 G. P. O Sydney N.S.W A. DVT.

Free By Post, or six penny stamps a Medical Treatise, by that eminent French Hospital Physician and Parisian Specially Dr Rabonski. showing suffersrs how they may cure themselves of Nervms Debility, Lost Maohovl, etc., etc., witho it consulting a medical man. A 1 Irssi Parisian, P.O. Box 766, Sy Iney. *• A b ion to all desiring ‘ self-cure. ” —Medical Review.—Advt

Our annual Cash Clearing Sale, prior to stock-taking, commences Saturday, July 3, and will bo continued during the present month. Great reductions in Millinery, Jackets, Dolmans Ladies’ and Children's Ulsters, Wool Goods, Dress Materials, &c. On all,other goods not specially marked a discount of 3s in the £ will be allowed for cash. A lot of remnants and samples at very large reduction An early inspection solicited.