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Marlborough Express, Volume XI, Issue 831, 12 July 1876, Page 3

The Flaxbourne Post Office bas been closed, but a bag is made up for the station. It is rumored tbat Mr Barley man's successor m the Blenheim Customs Department, is Mr Paisley, at present officer m charge at Greymouth. Dr Carr writes to say he intends paying Blenheim another visit shortly. He is at present at Nelson where he is having crowded , nightly. Wk understand that His Honor Mr Justice Johnston has informed Mrßarleyman that he has satisfactorily passed his tiual examination m Law. Ewart's Hall. — On Friday evening last. Mr Weis,«i gave the first of a series of popular readings, at $ wart's jjall.' Owing probably to the unusually cold .w ; eather the attendance was but t^in. ]$r Weiss is an easy and effective reader, and the selections included m bis programme wer« suph;as deserved a larger audience. The members of the Borough Council met this morning m accordance with a resolution passed at last meeting, to examine the proposed footpath m Maxwell Road, and the re.serve for a main drain. The members examined the whele of the works on" that road. Their decision will be embodied m a report at the next meeting of the Council. Another instalment of the immigrants per Camperdown arrived per Lyttelton fro.m Nelson, making a total of 105^ out of 202 statute ;adults which Bailed for Marlborough.— They continue to go off gradually, but there still remain ,atthe depot 10 married farm laborers, 31 single do, 2 ploughmen, 2 blacksmiths, 2 millers, 2 plasterers, 1 bootmaker, and B. single women. Hercules returned to his stable from Ohristchurch on Sunday last. 891116 of our .horsey friends were descanting m, terms, of adimiration on his good looks. One euthusiastic admirer went too close to him m the sfeall, whereupon Herqules. sought to. improve the opportunity of making his acquaintance, but luckily missed his mark. A person- met another m the Market Place this forenoon, and by w.ay of opening a conversation he pointed to a group standing at .a little distance, and remarked " What a lot of new churns there is .standing there." The group consisted of the Mayor aud the whole of the Borough Council, who were examining the Maxwell I^pXd as 'n. committee ! Query — Which was the new chum ? At a megtingof the Wellington Friendly Societies, held last evening m the Oddfellows' Hall, it was decided to telegraph to ; the Friendly Societies m all the other principal New Zea- ; land towna, suggesting the advisability of post- j poning the proposed, new bill until next session | .of tf arlUment, , m consequence of the numerous amendments found necessary — Post.

A deputation iroru the Spring Creek district waited on the Govcr- ment to-day r.s&ing for assistance towards metalling the instill- voad from the Opawa to the. 'Perry'; 'also forrrS«afc» :mco to the Education Board and. Rivers l/oatd. The reply of the Government was to thi? .effect that it waa not m a position to promise any assistance until it was seen what revenue theywould have daring the, current quarter. A. reply would be sent by letter. An unfoitjiuate^sinner came to trouble yesterday at the Jjesi.lent Magistrate/a i Court. Hugh Traverse, described as a bushriian frcm Tasmania, was charged before W;. F. Hull, Esq., J.P., by Constable O'Sullivan, with being drunk and disorderly. He pleaded guilty, and was fined 5s with Is 6d costs. He was then further charged with using obscene language, to -which he pleaded not guilty, but the offence being proved, he was fined £5 or.in de|aujt to ,b,e codqlnitted to Pictpn gaol for one mouth. Mr Angus M'Lauchlan met with a singular accident on Saturday morning. Having risen to call his servant he was lying down again when he struck his head against the bed and put out both jaws. Drs. Home and Cleghorh were close at hand, and came to his assistance, but it was not without extreme difficulty that they succeeded m getting the jaws replaced, ayain after trying Apr two hours. Mr ia now all right again and able to appreciate the jests of his friends as usual. Omaka. County. — On Saturday a rueetiug of ratepayers m the Opawa district was held m the Council Chamber, Blenheim, when Air Tissiman.took the chair as Returning Olficer. Having stated the object.of the meeting he liud a copy of the accounts for the year on the table. Mr D> J. Eraser proposed Mr George Houlctswprth, the late member, and Dr Home seconded the motion. No other person being proposed the Chairman declared Mr Houldsworth elected, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings, which ouly lasted a few minutes. Leahy's Breach. t^. A deputation from the Board of River Conservators for the Lower Wairau consisting of Messrs A. J. Litcbfield, C. Redwood, and J. Dalziel, had an interview with the Provincial Executive on Monday last to solicit the assistance of the tioverninent m carrying out the work at Leary's Breach. The deputation was informed that His Honor, would be communicated with upon the snbjeet and if possible aid would he given. The deputrtion having acknowledged the courtsey of their reception then withdrew. We are informed that the Blenheim Rifle Volunteers are making great progress with i their drill, and the attendance is very good for Blenheim. The new SnyJer rifles are expected during the present week. Last evening the Captain informed the company that m future the roll would be called at 8 o'clock sharp at each parade. An- invitation was received from the Renwick Volunteers for a ball to take place at Renwick on July 19. Those Volunteers who intend availing themselves of the invitation are to give m their names to Sergeant Dobb before Friday next. We were informed the other day by a resident m the Spring Creek district — who wag expressing his decided approval of the. course recently adopted of introducing the. Cattle Trespass Act as regards the roads m that locality — that he was proceeding homewards one dark i night when he was brought, up by finding. that j he had walked literally between the horns of a cow which had laid down to chew the cud of reflection m the middle of the road ! Our informant did not* tell us what ensued on the disi covery of his position. Picton County. — The following is an abstract of the published accounts for the year : — Income — Balance from last year 14s 10d, Rates collected (1875) £16, do. current year £147, Loan from Education Board £5 17s, Grant from General Government (1875) £83, do. .£lO2. Total £354 13s 3d. Expenditure— Sundry "old " accounts £230 17s sd, Refund to Education Board £16 18a 3d, assessor £1 5, returning officer 10s. collector 21s, A. T. Card .£lB 13s 11<1, stamps and cheques 9s Id, balance m hand £70 33 7d. Assets— Rates for current year unpaid £8 2s 3d. There does not appear tp he anything, for works during the current year. Picton County Education Board. — the following is an abstract of the published accounts for the year just ended: — Receipts: Blaauce from last year £4 12s 9J, Provincial' Government Grant for Waitohi school LIOO, licenses £70, rent of reserves £10, rates collected £4:1 18s 7d, refund from Road Board £16 18s 3d. Total £243 8s 7d. Expenditure— Waitohi School building £91 6s 2d, loan to Road Board £5 17s, Tua Marina school £29 14s 6d, Waitohi do. £35 10s, fencing £1, cartage 355, insurance 47a. 3,d, delivering and collecting school , papers £4, A. T. Card £4 5s 9d, stamps and cheques 7s Id, balance m hand £67 6s lOd. Assets, current rates unpaid 23s BJd, rents of , reserves £5. Mr C. Elliott. -^-.Tlie following appeared m the Colonist on July,, 6. : — An inquest was held last evening at the residence of, Jtihn Symons, Esq. at the Port, touching^ideath of t,he late .Mr Cf Elliott. Dr Bopr m Qieabaence.ol DrSquires'j. acted as coroner, . and Mr .j. C(sirrard was foreman/ -Mr J. .Symons deposed to M^r Elliott calling upon him shortly, af'er 7 p'olqck yesterday morning, that their interview lasted so.he two or. three minutes' and then Mr - Elliott' departed. In about four tninuteß 'afterwards a servant informed him' that someone was lying upon the gravel walk m front of the house, and he at once weut to see who it was, and found Mr Elliott, quite dead, l Dr Scaly deposed to seeing the body of Mr Elliott. On arriving ha found him quite dead. There were no marks of violence. He learnt from Dr Williams that deceased had had two slight attacks of paralysis m time past. Mr Elliott was about 65 years of age, and his heart was very feebl«. He considered the Jcause of death was rupture of a ves,sel on the brain, together with disease of the heart. The jury returned a verdict that Mr Elliott died from disease of the heart. Mb. Zeuhan, jeweller, has opened a Stock of splendid goods, for a few day* onjy, at Mr Carter's old shop, opposite Ewarfs Hotel*