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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1037, 24 May 1902, Page 3

The following dredging returns are reported :—Shcddon's Freehold IDo/, lOdwt for the week. The American millionaires or some of them—seem very anxious to show the world that they do not know what to do with their money. An American paper states that J. H. Carstairs, F. T. Chandler, Samuel P. Kotan, Thomas .lellries, and Wullial K. Elliott, " baby members " of the Kettle Club, drew their cheques for '.JOOdols apiece to pay for a dinner which they gave recently to the Kettle Club. The dinner cost 1500dols. There were 38 plates. It took place at Sherry's, New York, and the members were taken in a private car, all at the expense of the " babies." The diners sat in an enormous black kettle in the middle of the room and rested on logs as on a lire. It is a pity (adds the ' Daily News ') that Mr Carnegie, who is doing so much for education in this country, cannot educate some of his fellow-millionaires in the right use of wealth. His "gospel" does not appear to be much appreciated by Americans, to whom it was addressed. Speaking at a meeting of the Johnsonville (North Island) branch of the Farmers' Union on Thursday, Mr Glass said the Union intended to support candidates for Parliament who would further the interests of the producer, irrespective of party politics. A Maori youth charged at the Napier Supreme Court with horse-stealing, ag-d lii, hud been convicted six times previously. The horse was stolen from accused's foster father. Sir J. Wind received yesterday the following cable from the Premier, dated Pretoria, May %. 22 : —Visited the hospitals at Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, and Klerksdorp. The New Zealand patients aie all doing well. Went along the front sixty miles, and visited the V Eighth Contingent, just in from General lan . Hamilton's drive. Convey our best wishes to New Zealand. General Hamilton addressed the column and praised highly the services of the New Zc.ilnnders, saying he did not want better men under him. He also praised their capacity for digging trenches—by these maiks the New Zealanders would be known. I visited the tcene of the railway disaster to the Eighth. It was marvellous that so few were killed.

There is no necessity to go to South Africa tu tind " absent-minded beggars," or to allow the members of the sterner sex to entirely appropriate that unenviable title, as instanced by the conduct of a young lady. She left a " littl.i thing " behind her in a perambulator, and entered a shop in the centre of the town. On the completion of her business, she walked oil with what she thought was her pram, and and did not discover her mistake till she had traversed about half the town, when she found that she had taken an empty pram in mistake for her cvn. —'Dannevirke Press.' The Otago Acclimatisation Society Insu night rescinded a resolution passed at the last meeting to withdraw from ihe marine hatchery project. Mr F. K. Chapman stated that he had spoken to the Hon. Hall-Jones, who informed him that the Government in- * tended to give the society and the Otago " Institute representation on tho board of management; all that the Government insisted on being a preponderence of representation. It was therefore decided to stand by the original motion and contribute to the expense of the hatcheiy. The ranger reported that disease had again appeared among the stock salmon, and it was decided tu liberate the tMi in Clutha. Salmon have been reared for 20 years, ami last year was the first occasion on which any malady had appeared. With reference to a communication from the Tourist Department as to the introduction of big game, it was decided to adhere to the arrangement to contribute £IOO for the introduction of moose, wapiti, and mountain sheep. The society will not contribute towards the introduction of ducks. •' Purse lost in Gore. J Dog lost. -* Notice of dividend in Central Waimumu Dredging Co. inserted. A Piece of Flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound to the affected parts, is better than any plaster for lame back or pains in the side or chest. Chambeilain's Pain Balm is a liniment that has no superior. One application gives relief. Try it. G. E. - Wiiartox, Chemist, Gore, sells it.