LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 193, 12 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Coming Elections. —Wo are in a position to state that the writs will be issued on the 26th of this month, and tho polling will take place on the 21st of September.

To the Point. —The Thames people have a plain-spoken Mayor. In the report of a recent Borough Council meeting we came across the following “ gem The Mayor : Surely, Cr M‘Andrew, you have a little common sense left. Cr M‘Andrew : Well, I think I have. The Mayor: Then for God’s sake exercise it, and don’t talk such nonsense. Supreme Court.—' The civil cases at the coming sessions of tho Supremo Court will he very interesting. First and foremost there is the divorce’ suit, Lucas v Lucas and Radd. The co-respondent does not appear, and we presume he admits the soft impeachment. Then there is an action brought by a barmaid named Wilson against Mr T. H. Harly, to recover £2OO damages for wrongful dismissal and slanderous imputations upon her character. Another action of a singular character is that brought by the creditors in the estate of the late John Murphy, in order to set aside an imaginary deed of settlement made by deceased in favor of his wife. Messrs Douslin and Dan Murphy are the trustees, and they are defendants in the action. Mr Justice Richmond will also have before him two appeal cases from the R.M. Court. The actions are Roskruge v Parker, and Robinson v Henderson. Mr Hendhrson at Fairhall. Mr Henderson addressed the electors at Fairhall schoolroom last evening. The room was well filled, and Mr Francis Hammond occupied tho chair. In his opening remarks Mr Henderson noticed a false impression which some persons had as to tho effect that he had opposed Mr Dodson but once, and that was for the Mayoralty, and lie heat him. Mr Henderson then went fully into his political programme, and was listenad to with marked attention, and frequently applause. Some of the usual questions were asked and answered, after which he made his usual statement, declining any vote of thanks or confidence, leaving their decision to the ballot, when he thought he would have their support. A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the meeting to a close. Sour stomach, sick headache, and dizziness, American Co.’s Hop Bitters cures with a few doses. See. i

Serious Charge. —ln tho R.M. Court yesterday morning a young man named William Turnbull was charged with assaulting a girl of 15, named Ellen Holdawav, at the Dillon’s Point Road, on the 4th ‘inst., with intent to commit a rape. Sergeant White said that the accused was . arrested at the Jordan river and brought down to town only last night. He would therefore ask for a remand for a few days. He would put the girl in the box to identify the accused. His Worship suggested that it was desirable to get on with the case as far as possible, as the Supreme | Court Sittings were so close at hand. Ellen Holdaway, daughter of Mr James Holdaway, farmer, was then called. She identified the accused as the man who assaulted her. His Worship remanded the accused until 10 o’clock on Saturday morning. Tho accused is very respectably connected, and is a nephew of Mr Turnbull, the late member for Timaru. Concert. —The Wesleyan Choir held a concert in the school-room at Renwick on Wednesday night. The audience was not very large, but very appreciative. The programme consisted of various songs, glees, quartettes, and choruses, all of which were excellently rendered. ' Mrs A. J. Litchfield’s sacred song; “Remember thy Creator,” was received with great favor. Miss Clouston’s song “ The three old maids of Lee,” was sung with really good execution, and was deservedly encored. ■ Mr Tissiman carried the house by storm with “ The Lost Child,” and “ The Union Jack of Old England,” being uproariously enoored for both. But the best singing of the evening was certainly the glees so beautifully rendered by Messrs Crump, Pike, Morcom, and Green. Before tho close of the concert, the Rev Mr Crump proposed a vote of thanks to the School Committee for the use of the school, and to Mr Tissiman for the use of his piano. The Rev Mr Young also proposed a vote of thanks to the performeis, which was most heartily carried. [Communicated.] Warning to Tigiit-lacers.—A single woman, 25 years of age, living at 109, Glouoestcr-strect, Regent’s Park, died suddenly one Sunday evening lately as [ she was leaving Park Chapel. At the inquest the house surgeon of tho northwest London Hospital, who had examined tho body, said deceased was a woman who laced very tightly. In fact she could hardly breathe, and the lungs not being allowed free play, a blood vessel had burst, producing syncope. Verdict accordingly. Just before the Jubilee.—A shocking fatality occurred on June 21 at about three o’clock in Westminster Abbey. Whilst the laborers were engaged in fixing the scaffolding inside tho Abbey, one of the men slipped and fell on to some iron railings underneath the scaffolding. Iho spikes of the railings pierced his body in several places; and when the man was found ho was fastened to the spites. He was immediately conveyed to tho Westminster Hospital, and died at seven o’clock. The man, whose name is unknown, is about 30 years of ago. He had tramped from Manchester to London, and had takon shelter in tho Strand Union at Edmonton, but afterwards had obtained work in tho Abbey. Trying Both Sexes. —A Boston philanthropist and student of human nature bought a dozen cheap umbrellas, liad a nickel plate inserted in each handle, on which were his address and the request that the umbrella be returned, and on the first rainy day went out on tho street and handed one to each umbrellaless woman that he met. All wore returned within a week but one, and in place of that came a note saying that it had been stolen, and the writer would pay for it. The next rainy day he handed tho umbrellas to twelve unprotected moil. Ho never saw but ono of them again, and that was brought in by a friend, who said he had stolen it at a church festival. A Veteran Warrior. —A few days ago a cable message was rccived announcing the daath of Colonel Smith, described as a “ New Zealand warrior.” The name is not altogetheran unusual one, and warriors have been plentiful in this Colony, so wo were in doubt as to the identity of the deceased colonel. A northern contemporary, however, says .that LieutenantColonel William Smith will be remembered as being in command of a detachment of Royal Artillery in the campaign in the Waikato in 1864, and who was present at the attack of tho Gate Pah, where his guns were reported by Sir Duncan Cameron as having been of great service. Ho was present with various forces in pursuit of the enemy and watching the fords of the Gogra, and in the Trans-Gogra campaign, including several small affairs on the Raptee and the frontier of Nepaul.