LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 245, 22 December 1887, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Excursion. —The steamer Neptune is advertised to run an excursion to ■Wellington, leaving here on Saturday at midnight, and returning again at daybreak on Wednesday, J.p js intended, however, to tranship the excursionists on hoard the Maori outside the bar, so that greater comfort may be afforded to passengers. Struck Out.— Early this morning we received the following extraordinary telegram from our special Parliament; • correspondent at Wellington !f in com* mittee on the Loan Bill to-night My O’Callaghan moved that the item in the schedule for the Awatere extension L9OOO be struck out. This was carried by 35 to 31 votes.” Marlborough R.C. —At a committee meeting of the Marlborough Racing Club held last night, Mr J E. Green, a member of the committee, tendered his resignation owing to pressure of private business, and Mr R. M'Artncy was elected in his place. Our Boys.—The Nelson Evening Mail contains an account of the late examinations in connection with Nelson College, and from it we notice that young Rutherford. of Havelock, carried off the .Stafford Scholarship, and also the Ist Classical. In mathematics B. Pasley, of Blenheim, secured a prize, and Carter, of Blenheim, got an extra prize for division A, and also a prize for French. The first prize for English and French was carried off by Rutherford, of Havelock. In the athletic sports for the cup, Carter secured second place with 37 points, against An- , Abe wm'cr), 51). drews , >• ... P r , -Tha bllQ)Y' Caledonian Gatiila no.—.. - • - ing handicaps have been declared t>y Messrs 11. S. Simmons, J. Hay, and F. Watson, handicappers 100yds ; Poole scratch, Gaukrodger 3yds, Wright and Strickland Byds, Barry and Fairhall 9yds, Siofert 10yds. 440yds : Poole and Gaukrodger scratch, Wright 12yds, Strickland 14yds, Barry and Fairhall 10yds, Siofert 20yds. 220yds : Boole scratch, Gaukrodger syds, Wright 10yds, Strickland 12yds, Barry and Fairhall 14yds, Siofert 15yds. Mile Race : Carmine, .Jo Ewart, and "V\ oolley scratch, Beauchamp 40yds, Blackbee 60yds, Woods 75vds, Barry, Buick, Watson 80yds, Hoyle and Hudson 90vds.

Holiday Trains. The special timetable of the Pieton train will be found in our advertising columns.

SijKLiiTirxA Spouts.—At a meeting of the Krtituna Sports Committ c. field yesterday, it was decided to start' the racepunctually at 10 o’clock. Air J. Lambert was appointed judge. The Comni'tiee passed a vote of thanks to Air Head for his donation of a cup to he given to the winner of the two mile walking match. Bicycling.—The Nelson Mail of the •20th says:-Mr Marshall who recently completed a tour to Christchurch and back on his bicycle, taking a different route each way, started off this morning for Blenheim, via the llai Valley, on the same conveyance. Pie will go across from Blenheim to Wellington by steamer and intends then to make a bicycle journey in the North Island some *IOO miles in length. A Mixtuiie.—The Palmerston Times states that a nondescript animal, captured near Dunback, has been on view. It has a ferret-looking head and a symmetri-cally-shaped body, with a long tail, resembling in appearance the Australian opossum. The animal has a beautiful coat of fur. The general belief is that it is a cross between a ferret and a rabbit. Hennessy’s Pole. —Blenheim will prob ably in a few days bo able to boast of having the largest barber’s pole in the world. Mr Henuessy, with his usual keen perccptivenesa in the way of catching the eye of the public, is going to ask leave from the Telegraph Department to paint the telegraph pole outside his new premises in Market Square red white and blue from the bottom to the top, having as a finial a bunch of ribbons. Mr Pleunessy shifted into his now premises yesterday, where the tonsorial art and the retailing of the fragrant weed will be carried on in all branches. Tiie Same to You.—We have received from the offices of the Postmaster-Genc-ral’s Department a very neatly printed circular wishing us a A terry Clnistinus and a Happy New Year. The circular contains the following statistical information concerning the Post and lelograph Depai tinents for the year ISBG : Staff employed, 20-11 ; number of letters posted, 18,188,144 ; number of letters delivered, 10j590,448; number of newspapers posted, 6,84*1,838; number of newspapers delivered, 6,479,200; number of books posted, 1,710,718; number of books delivered, 4,7*17,941 ; number of letters registered, 135,604 ; number of post-cards posted, 741,611: number of telegrams transmitted, 1,836,266 ; number of miles of telegraph line, 4,546 ; number of miles of wire, 13,998; number of telephone exchanges, 13 ; number of telephone subscribers, 2,042 ; total miles travelled by mail conveyances, 3,698,97 lj amount of money orders issued, £547,655 2-s 9d, amount of money orders paid, £471,185 7s; amount of postal notes issued, £34,980 6s 9d ; amount of Savings Bankdeposits, .01,248,405 Os _ lid; amount standing to credit of depositors, £1,615,979 9s Od ; revenue, £306,460 Pis 7d expenditure, £292,292 13s 8d ; surplus, £14,167 19s lid. . . A 1 Alasonic.— The annual meeting for the installation of the Worshipful Master and Officers of Lodge Waitohi No 2030 E.C. took place at Picton last Friday, the following visiting brethren being present . Lodge Unanimity—W. M. Bro. 0. J, Griffiths, P.Al’s, Bros. J. P. Lucas, T. A. Dickens ; JAY., Bro. Trevor; J.D., Bro. A. B. Litchfield ; Bros. K. Kilpatrick, and W. Alurray. Lodge Wairau—Bro. AV. S. Falconer, I’.M. Bros. Kelly, of Lodge Ponsonby, S.C., Auckland, and Bro. Young, No. 639, Pacific, S.C., vvero also present, Bro. Fisk having been installed in the usual Alasonic Ancient fornp the folio wing brethren were installed as officers for the ensuing year:—Bro J. Alurray, S.W., Bro T. Philpotts, J.AV. : Bro 0. Godfrey, S.D.: Bro E. Pethorick. J.D. ; P.AI. Bro T. Younger, Treasurer (reelected) ; Bro J. Coutts, Secretary ; Bro A, Card, 1.G., (re-elected) ; Bro W. James (proxy for Bro A. Bartlett) Tyler (re-elected). A hall was held at night at which about 45 couples wore present a large number being from Blenheim. The regalia and jewels of office worn by tho brethren, (especially by Bros Trevor, Griffiths and others, the former having no less than eighteen masonic jewels and other decorations), combined with the dresses worn by the ladies hud a very pretty effect. An Elopement.— Tho European Alail says ; —N.S.W. colonists will sympathise with Sir Daniel and Lady Cooper in their present trouble. Five years ago Florence Eva contracted a runaway marriage with Air Trevanion. As ip the ease of many elopements, -Gove’s young dream was not of long duration, and after squandering her fortune, being guilty of adultery and cast off by his father, this young scapegrace has just been sentenced by the Court to six weeks’ hard labor, without tho option of a tine, for two violent assaults on his wife, which Air George Lewis, the well-known solicitor, who conducted tho prosecution, described as part of a system of persecution and cruelty. The defence set up was that Mr Trevanion ir as greatly exasperated by finding his wife in a guest’s bedroom, but he did not insinuate that any indiscretion ] m d taken place. A suit is pending in the Divorce Court here for a dissolution of tho marriage, on tho ground of Afr Ire? van ion's oruolty and ncjultory) and, ruigc the assault caso was tried, feir James Hnnnen, on the application of Air Indorwick, Q.C., has given the custody of tlio three children of the marriage, who are of tender age, to Airs Trevanion, the understanding 5 being that they shall be kept at tho house of her father and mother.

ToiiACCjQ Gnowixn tn Great Brita.x.— There cannot'he any pretence (says a wellinformed correspondent) that the experiment of growing tohaceo in Great Biitain has not had a fair trial this year. The crop has hcon grown, or attempted to he °TOwn, as far north as Elgin, as far south as Cornwall, at Boston in the east, and at Cardiff in the west. Forty-five growers made the statutory declaration of Their intention to grow tobacco required by the Inland Iteveuuo Department, about twenty acres being the total area of the plots, as compared with five acres last year. The season has been far moic favorable to the maturing of the o_op than can be expected generally, so that if tobacco of good cpiality can be produced in this country, it should be forthcoming when the present growth has been cgion. Last year’s experiments cannot be said to have been brilliantly successful. According to the report of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, tobacco was grown by '24 persons in foi| Teen counties, and attained maturity in 2U instances. In only six cases, however, was the produce good enough for duty to be paid on it, that of the other fourteen growers being destroyed. The aggregate produce of the successful growers was 232 lb-, on which the duty was charged, although it appears to have been paid m, oi ;v 8-1 lb, amounting to IT 4 when the ha lance-sheet tor >esf,-7 was made up. On the very liberal 1 VV “'bn *)!« tobacco is worth Is a ussum, ‘ pound in excess o. . to the six successful growers wm ... 12s altogether, or less than £2 each, probably not a tenth part of the expembture. At this rate agricultural depression will be greatly relieved by tobacco growing. No doubt allowance must be made fora first attempt; but by this time growers had had ample opportunities of learning their new business, and if there should be anything like a repititiou of last year's failure, the Revenue oflicials can scarcely be asked to undertake for a third time the great amount of extra work which the experiments have put upon them.

Ti.::i>ki:-3 Wanted. -To anybody desirous of becoming tbe lessen of a really guod fiirm tile our being offered by Mr A. Ca-ey is .v-af by every eonsider.it ion. The farm consists of 70 acres of the best farming and irraximr laud in the district.,’ and is situat-d on tie- N --s K nwiok U .ad, having a sj.l. i. i d ore!, a .1 in full o a ri»,an fad llic 1.1..1 u-ui a* - .i.iis.ieds to bo found on a well appointed farm. Mr Casey will give a milk walk in with the bargain, which in itself is worth something considerable every mouth. The tenders close on the 2Sth inst., and possession will be given in the first week in January, ISSB.

Holloway’s Pills. —Indigestion and Liver Complaints.—The digestion cannot be long or seriously disordered without the derangement being perceptible on tlio count3nance. These Pills prevent both unpleasant consequences ; they improve the appetite, and with the increase of desire for food, they augment the powers of digestion and assimilation in the stomach. Holloway’s Pills deal most satisfactorily with deranged or diseased conditions of the many organs engaged in extracting nourishment for our bodies from our various diets—as the liver, stomach and bowels, over all of which they exorcise the most salutary control. By resorting at; an early stage of this malady to those purifying and laxative Pille, ‘the dyspeptic is speedily restored to health and strength, and his sallowness gradually vanishes.

No More Hard Times.— If you wil 1 stop spending so much ou fine clothes, rich food and style, buy good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing; get more real and substantial things of life every way, and especially stop the foolish habit of employing expensive quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure remedy, Dr Soule’s American Hop Bitters ; that cures always at a trifling cost, and you will see good times and ha ve good health’ “ Chronicle.”