LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1947, 31 August 1886, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Art Union.—The drawing for -Mr Griffitho’ Art Union has been postponed until Monday next. This postpomaeot has been'necessary, ws understand, owing to the delay met with in the receipt of the books of tickets, , .i i The. Weather. —Captain Is4win telegraphed at 3.49 p.in. yesterday—lndications of bad weather;approaching, within 12 hours from now, between north and west and south-west. Glass further fall. • ; ;ii - ;

PUTTING THEM Down.— At the Gore Police Court recently Mr Befellß.M. Sued ths Lieutenant of the local Salvation, let’s band LI and costs, for breaking 'the municipal by-law by blowing n, cornet in the street. ‘

SEsarii White.— Thie. officer left here for Wellington ,cn Saturday i|i charge of the- Ilian Daniels, who. was committed by Mr‘ 'Alien, "R.M., to the _ Wellington Lunatic AsyiuuiO DuringUergt .WhiteA topjwi'ary absence 'Constable. Fitzpatricn ,v’)U he ill charge of the Ibcslpoheo*station.,

- ,1- —TL’C severs! parties engaged |m ;V2*ispp* in,,- the JJaiiadS-v.be.r-e had. a fiFUv good-'airwWl-.KC -'O3 . ifci-i!,.' tv/ r - more ,-vrhalw were- taken, making is. t of coven this eea*->n. A haul ot Sv« whales.ia considered a. very fpi- Average scaeoa v a work. On. the aoejte of ijuautily therefore,: our local whalers have r«wou to congratulate,thotnselvee. .11..R5 seine r/hai disappointing, to-add that the przco ol whale oil has feJieo considerably Due year, owing to American importation Ol an inferior character .«r mJm*.rn

Wat:'Tusks —The Canterbury Press • : tv ! lift* ilto following telegram from Loml'.m .dated -in 23.-d ;n was re chived iu Christchurch on Tuesday : “The wheat market is advancing every day. Insurance o’ffiees are coutemplating charging war risks.

INDECENT LANGUAGE,—At tbs 'K.M. Court tomorrow- (Wednesufty) morning Thomas Elsmore, of Grovetown, will bs called on to answer an information sv/ pn, against him by James Andrill, of tha Commercial Hotel,that ho did, on the 18 m day of August last, in an open bar of the said hotel,uie certain indecent language. Civil Service Reform. —The Evening Post says:—“lt is rumored, although the authority is doubtful, that the Hon.W H.Reynolds having no portfolio to engage his attention, will devote a considerable portion of the recess to an attempt to reorganise the civil service so as to effect substantial retrenchment. Colonial Blotting Paper —A sample of the first blotting paper manufactured in "New Zealand reaches us from Messrs Fergusson and Mitchell's Woodhaugh mills. The paper is white in colour, and when first handled appears to be rather bard and harsh, but a practical test shows that it is in every other respect equal to the imported article. The Schoolmaster. —At Dunedin, the other evening, Sir Robert Stout said : Education, like other things, is progressing and the time is rapidly coming when the schoolmaster will be looked upon", as the most important factor in our civilisation. He will take a position second to no other professional man. We hear of the press. It is a powerful institution, but compared with the sohoolmaster it will stand on a lower platform. Disorderly Conduct.— At the R.M. Court to.morrrow morning “ Dan ” o’Bnen will be called upon to face_ the music on a charge of disorderly conduct, preferred by Constable Sherry. The .offence, alleged to have been committed is -that accused invaded the bachelor premises of some telegraphists in Charles Street, and refused to leave until pressed to do so by the police. f , Popular .Entertainments. _ — The committee in connection with the series of popular entertainments now being held in aid of the Institute, met last night and, arranged an excellent programme for Wednesday week. It was suggested that the series should be wound up with a social gathering. The idea met with .general approval, but nothing was ue finitely decided in the matter. A Lone Voyager.—' The Evening Post has been shown a curiosity */> the shape of a deadEoglisb swallow tvbiclrhiiil been captured on board the ship Wanganui during her receui .voyage from England. The bird alighted ‘ou the rigging about a fortnight after the vessel deft Eug’Li.d and when Bhe was over 200 mile 3 from land. After being caught it was repeatedly liberated, but would not fly away. It was at length taken into the second officer’s cabin, where efforts were made to keep it alive, but it died soon after its capture.

Sir John Hall.— lt is currently rumoured that at the dinner of Opposition members just before the close of the session it was announced confidently that Sir John Hall was abpufc to return to resume the leadership of tho party, and that this news was received with immense applause and a complimentary toast. Doubts are now expressed, however, whether this anticipation is likely to be realised.

R.M. Court.—At the R.M. Court yestorday morning Edmund O’Shaugnessy was ordered to pay a fine of five shillings or iu default submit to imprisonment for “ take it out.” the case of F. Adams v. twenty-four hours on a charge of drunkennoss, Edmund elected to R. Gragg, the claim being tor Ll2 2s fid for a sausage machine, was again entered into. The plaintiff ivas non-auiled, each party to pay his own coals. In the following cases judgftumis were entered up, by default, for the plaintiffs :--Jo e;;b Soott v. F. Penny, Lolls 2da.ds.ia costs ; G. W. Riley v.D, Munro, 15s an I 11 g costs ; M. O’Sullivan v. Charles Redwood, L 63 3s sd, and L2 17s costs and L 3 3s solicitor’s fee. A Lusus Nature —The Foxton Her aid states that one of Mr Larkworthy’a ewes at Moutea has tombed a most ex-traordinary-looking creature. The lusun natural died soon after birth, and waa of the sheep species in all but the brad, which' resembled in shape that of a bull terrier. It was, however’, provided with but one eye, set exactly in the centre of the head, giving the animal a most fierce and unsheeplike expression. Mr Larkworthy intends to have the head pre served, pot for expprtatiop, fcuj/ as q curiosity not again to be seen in a lifetime,

“ The Masher”.— James Mitchell; the man accused of the Freeman jewellery robbery, waa indicted among other names under the one of “ The Masher.” How he obtained this euphonious appella tion is not clear, as he has nothing of the masher in his appearance. The magistrate did not know, why a-uyonp should be indicted 1 auder such a' title ;• it was scarcely an alias. Mr Jellicoa observed that anyone might be called l< The Masher ” . even Inspector Browne, (Laughter,) ML Ward ell replied tjiat it would be a stretch of the imagination to conceive anything of the masher in that officer.

IT ohdeniklui’s Brother — ‘’Augur” iu the'Australasian says:—Those who hare seen the Hon W.Robinson’s two-year-old brother to Nordenfeldt state tuat ho is oho of the grandest colts ever bred in New Zealand. Since he was broken in he has grown and furnished in. ; a marvellous manner. His owner has expressed an inter-'' tioij to revisit us during the coming season :■, ’ •---tz ... ■ «;At,ovious in some and it he snouiu prove ..... oi’.tli6 great races Austi*alianß will be glad to congratulate him.—This would appear to confute those who say Mr Robinson does not intend to send, anything to Australia this season. . . , Wise Sailors.—The Evening Post, in commending the action of Capt. Meade, of the Wanaka, iu keeping out to sea, the other day, says We remember a fearful D ight in Wellington many years ago, when the affents of a steamer , were most anxious to send her to sea. It was really important that she should go if possible, but the captain declared that it would be really unsafe to leave the pos t until'-day-light, Her oaescngers were ail aboard, and at last, close on to - midnight, two cr the company's directors and the-manager wont down to the wharf and ordered Cantain —— to go ant. : His reply was characteristic, “ Gentlemen, you cau of course order me to leave the wharf,' but as goon as I do so I am responsible for the narety of the ship and the liveo of tiicae m: board, ilf you send me .away 3 shall .anchor, in the first, safe spot until I 000-sjdt!r.iS.s»i«it© sjdt!r.iS.s»i«it© go, to. sea.'• -y'&s-s wm ■>» goc-d as bin word, a-.id tbs directors.bad. .‘•ho-focs «83K to cpprmitvta • his DSna-L-i.. and manly '■•conduct. i- many-, yosusi v-;o aloes ? ibis iaeidc--t took pi&c? ; -and .Uaptain — ic still .one- of the moat popular jcommandera on-toe po&Bi, u>;d f>m vtver ha.fc. an. accident. This is the spirit which should actuate every sea captain.' Hisifirst responsibility, when. aHoat, is. for the-lately of the, ship ana tfacae aboard of it. '..Mereconsideration m .owners -possible .Joe* r-r profiS should always bs secondary to thoss"o£ safety 01 the Hvss of those eontided to bis cere.

Havklogk Items,—Our coerrspocdent writes On Thursday we had the heaviest hailstorm witne,«ed here during the whole winter; it lusted about two hours and concluded with a fa'l ol .snow which left the surrounding ten'Pope quite a picture to admire. The pure.sp t'less white, being so different to the usual green foliage the eye is accustomed to, seemed with many to revive plea-ant memories of the dear old Home, whtrrv anch Beenes test for days instead of h'ursq During the night the snow: again fed m such large flakes that it laid an inch thieii —lt is pleasing to note that E. Reynolds B. A., Cambridge, of the Middle Tempo , who is a brother of Mr J. H. Reynolds, the schoolmaster here, was duly admit ted a barrister before the Lord Chief Justice of England on the Bth of July last.