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Marlborough Express, Volume XI, Issue 876, 16 December 1876, Page 5

The revival feeling is spreading, but it hasn't yet gone down deep enough to affect arrears on newspaper books. The return mateh — Blenheim Youths Cricket iClub v. Pictou Youths Cricket Club will be played at Picton to-day. Alarming for Volunteers. — Captain Baillie received the following telegram this week from head-quarters :— "Until further orders no snider ammunitiou is to be issued on payn:3nt." It i 3 hardly necessary for us to remind the public that Mr Seymour, M.H.R. will .address his constituents at E wart's Hall at S o'clock this evening. There are. several cases of scarlet fever at Pictou, but fortunately they are of a very mild type. Eight persous are at present dowa with the disease, but thoy are all children with the exception of one, Mrs-Ariuear. A FonsiAii meetiag of the Otnaka Road Board was held at the Literary Institute on Tuesday. No business was done, and the meeting was adjourned till the 19th instant at 2 o'clock. Tuk election of Mayor of Picton Avill tnka place on Thureday next. The only candidates are Messrs A. P. Seymour and Godfrey. The election of Mr Seymour is considered a dead certainty by the people of Picton. The first German vessel that ever came to Marlborough arrived m. Picton on Saturday evening last, m the shape of the brigantine Catharina from Hamburg via Dunedin. |She has been chartered to take a cargo of timber to Lyttelton, whence she will proceed by way of Adelaide to Mauritius. Some time ago it was arranged that a 2onference of school teachers should be held at Wellington during the Christmas holidays. Invitations were sent to the various Teachers' Associations, to attend, but as only two of them accepted, the Conference has. been postponed for a year. At the meeting of the Borough Council on Mouday last it was resolved that a' meeting should be held last night (Friday) if Mr Griffiths did not accept the officer of valuer. He, however, h.ns done so, and therefore there was no necessity for holding the meeting. A sale of work m aid of St. Peter's Paraonago Fund, Havelock, will be held on Boxing Day m the Town Hall, flavelock. Contributions m money or material will be thankfully received by the Treasurer, Mr W. Whitehorn, the Ruv. John Spear, or any member of the Oummitee. Refreshments will be obtainable m tha hall on the day of sale. A tea meeting \vas held m the Wesleyan Chapel, Grove Town, on Wednesday evening. There was a very good attendance, and the , edibles provided by the ladies of the congregation were done full justice to by those present. Tho tea having been disposed of, a public meeting wasi held, and addresses delivered by the Rev, J. S. Rishworth and Messrs Lucas aud Phillips. Several pieces of music were excellently sung by the choir of the Blenheim Cfaapol during the evening. The proceeds amounted to about LS. Mr Seymour, as Chairman of the Education Board, received a telegram on .Thursday" from Mr Leo, who stated that his engagements would not allow him to come over to examino the schoolsjtillaf tar Christmas, and we understand the subject will be dealt with by the Board at its meeting to-day. We have hoard several suggestions as to what' should be done m this matter ; some suggest the appointment of a local examiner, but this we hope will not find favour ; others BUggeat a board of school teachers, but this is worse than the last, and almost impossible ;it is certainly impracticable. Tha enly fair and feasible scheme is to defer the examinations till March. The disadvantage is that the Education Board will not be able to classify the teachers and get the schools fairly m hand as soon as desirable. ■ Mr F. J. Oxley, who has for some yeais occupied the position of book-keeper to Messrs Fell Brothers, merchant*, of this Town, left m the steamer Lyttelton for Wanganui by. way of Wellington on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of accepting au engagement m the Bank of New Zealand at Wanganui. Since Air Oxley came to Blonheim he has made a large number of friends, and by them his departure is sinceroly regretted. Asa cricketer M.r Oxley had few equals m Marlborough, and the members of the Club to which he belonged met at Penney's Hotel on Wednesday evening and presented him with a. bat, as a slight token of their esteem. The presentation was made by W. F. Hull Esq., President of the Club, who on behalf of the company bade Mr Oxley God speed and wished him every success m his new home. Several of his friends accompanied him to the wharf and gave him three parting cheers as the boat steamed away. ,

We take the following telegrams relating io the cricket match between the All England Eleven and the Sydney team from late exchanges, the Press Agency having neglected to send them to us :— Sydney Dec; ( f.— The Sydney team m their second innings are not vet out ; eight wickets are down for 100. Fifteen thousand spectators present. Sydney's chances are good for a win— Dec. 10.— TJie stumps were drawn at six, eleven of the Sydney team beinw out for 123, of which Evans made 38.— 11 th.— Sydney won the cricket -natch by three run 9 and two wickets to spare. j The election of a gentleman to act as I Mayor of Blenheim for the ensuing year will take place on Wednesday next. The only candidates are Cr. Fell and Mr -Litch field. Iv connection with this matter we may sbite that every person residing m the Borough whose name •is on the Education Jiato roll, or on the list of voters of the West Ward used m the re3e-.it election is entitled to vote. Those whose names are not on either of those lists, but who can produ«e the notices lately sent to them that they were liable to pay rate 3, will also be allowed to, vote. /^Uount? Elkctioss.-Iu Kaikoura Couufcy at the nomination for the Kohui Riding on Thursday last, Mr W. k Sniith of Luclstone,°a:)d Mr Henry Parsons, miller, were proposed without opposition, and will therefore be'elected ; at Town of Kaikoura on tha same day Messr3 H. A. Ingles, F. A. Tenney, and Flint were proposed, and the poll will be held on Friday 22nd Dec. To-day the nominations must,, be delivered before noon- to the returning officers for the following Ridings :— Spring Creek, Wairau (Fairhall Scheol), Havelock, Picton, Omaka (Renwick Public Hall), and on Monday for Aivatere> Mr Seymour being the only caudidate proposed for Pelorus on Thursday at Havolock has been elected. Mr Ward will come forward for Wairan m conjunction with Mr Hodson, and Mr W. Adams will also be nominated. For Spring Creek Mr George Dodson will bft a candidate. Mr Western will probably be elected for Picton, and for Clarence, Messrs A. Ingles, Keene, and Bnllen. It will be well for the ratepayers to bear m mind that the electioas are for two years. . A. tga. meeting was held m the School Room m connection with the Holy Trinity Church, Spring Cretk, on Thursday evening last. The tea, which was provided by Messrs Mills and Squire, havihg been done'ample justice to, a service of sung was held m the Church. There. was a good attendance, but more persons would have been preseut if the weather had not been so un propitious. The president, the Yen. Archdeacon Butt, declared an address to those who were present, m which he expressed great satisfaction at seeing so many friend 3 .there. He pointed out that such meetings were good things inasmuch as they brought people together and were conducive to good feeliug. ' He congratulated the district on the establishment of a churcli there, and this, he said, showed that; . while they were attending to their temporal*' concerns they were not forgetting that they had highor duties to perform. The Rev. Mr Ronaldsou, of Picton, spoke m the same strain. Mr Squire read the financial report, which showed that the whole amount received by the Church during the year was L 52. The proceeds of the tea meeting and collection amounted to nearly Ll2. Borough Schools.— The examination of those boys at th^Borough schools who expressed themselves as desirous of appointments m the Survey Department, was held on Monday and Tuesday last. Mr F^ll was appointed by the Committee to assist the Master. Mr Mac'klin, m hi 3 report to the school committee, expressed his thanks for the very able assistance rendered by Mr Fell. He says, " the examiner is no believer m the exploded notion that either a written or an oral examination singly is a just test of astudeut'scapabilitieo. Wherevar intelligence was required to comprehend the subject fully he used both methods. "The effects of this were very apparent m the examination on Euclid." The results oui of a possible 205 points stand as follows : — Edward J. Robinson, age 12 yean and 8 months, 197 marks ; R. W. Farmar, age 15 years s-ud two months 185 marks; John H. Ecnersou, age 13 years and 10 months, 183 marks ; A. F.|B. Clark, age 15 years and 3 months,. 1 181 marks; and E. D. Dobson 12 years and 11 months, 72 marks. The subjects of examination were — writing, copying a map, Practice, Decimals, Vulgar Fractions, Square and Cube Root, Mensuration of Plane Surfaces, and First Book of Euclid. We learn that Mr Fell i 3 very much pleased with the attainments of the boys, particularly m Arithmetic and Mensuration, and is of opinion that the time has come for Mr Macklin to receive more teaching power, so that he might be able to devote more of his time to those about leaving school, or who are preparing for such situations as surveying, where sound mathematical knowledge is necessary. At eleven o'clock last night, jusb as this paper was going to press, a man waiked into the office and asked us t© take an advertisement from him. We, of course, refused, becauso the insertion of that one advertisement would have caused no end of trouble. But he persisted, and spoke so touchingly of the loss he might sustain if it did not go m, that at last we pave way and stopped the machine. The advertisement readjthus :— " Lost, a Dingbat. The finder will receive L 5 on leaving the same at the Express Office." We thought for some timfe over that advertisement, but couldn't remember what a dingbat was. At about 12 o'clock the proprietor came down to the office to see the paper worked off. He began poking round among the advertisements, and presently he espied tho one alluded to. He didn't like to say that he didn't know what a dingbat was, so he casually observed, " I s«e there's a fellow advertising for a dingbat." Wo merely, observed, "Yes." After a few moments' silonce he said, " By the way, what's a dingbat?" "Ah, that'a just it," said we, "what is a dingbat?" Then} it transpired that nobody m the office knew what a dingbat was, and?all tho dictionaries 'at hand were looked into, but m vain. Presently Constable O'Sullivan, who was on night duty, strolled m, and after a few preliminary remarks about the weather, the

state of his health, &c, we a sled'- jucid«ntally whether he had seen a, str>y dingbat.' "A what ?" "A dingbat." It was quite clear that l>e didn't know, for he ejaculated, •' i dingdio'd," and . immediately walked off. We tnVd va ious other peo|)le afb^r that, bub though u-me .of them actually knew what a. dingbat was, several of them hazarded conjectures. One man said- he believed " dingbat" was the Maori for a dead- rat, and another said he knew what a "bat" wa3, bub hu eouldu'b account for- the prefix "ding." In short we cannot undertake to' publish mysterious advertisements like that, aud-if the advertiser will call at our oltice this morning he shall have his advertisement and his shilling returned to him. At the saint* time our curiosity has been aroused, and if anybody will inform us what a dingbat really is we shall feel much relieved. . . ' • A new industry has 'been started by a Mr Georgo Bayd m Auckland, namely, the manufacture of earthenware drain pipes, &o. He has fonvorded to us a sheet showing his designs aud the prices of the various kinds of pipss. Breach of Niji.so.v Scab Act. — At Waiau, ou 17th November, before C. Whitefoord, Esq., R.M., Wiilianr Langley ' Fowler, of Stanley Vale, was summoned on the information of Robert Charles Pasley, Scab Inspector, for being the owner of 4600 sheep infected • with scab, for which he did not hold a license. Defendant admitted the offence, but pleaded that the c:uiS3 of his not renewing his license, to hold scabby sheep arose from the absence of the Inspector frarn the district, and the difficulties he had to encounter through the snow -in mustering his sheep. Fined £50 and -costs. — Colonitt. Th 15 witnesses for the defence-- m. the case of Henry' Aid riflgo, charged with larceny, are, according to Mr Barton, increasing with astonishing rapidity. That geutlemau informed the Bench oa Friday, m a friondly way, after the adjournment had been agreed upon, that he was a sort of legal bee who was gathering fresh witnesses every hour. How soothing to. the Justices such an aiiuonnceinenb must have been,for at the lowest estimato— that is supposing tha learned gentleman to gather one witness anhour — he will have accumulated by Saturday next about 192 of them ; and we "understand that there is already a good stock on liana.- 'Under these circumstances it i 3 no*-, so difficult to comprehend the fears go'leniuly. expressed by Mr Barton once on Friday, that the case would probably occupy twenty years, unless they got along quicker than at the moment of hid speaking they were getting along.— -Wellington Times. Effect of the iikcmnt WEATrrmt os the KrAiA.UA. GoLBJ?rELDS.— In the present dearth of' water n't. the new rush it may easily be imagined with what delight a shower of rain is hailed. The Kurnara . Times says -.—The weather, however uncomfortable it may have been for pedestrians and prospectors, has been highly favorable within the last few days for the operations of slnicing parties. and those tunfeglSt which are on gold. A3 it has enabled them to a large supply of water for washing purposes. In the neighborhood of the zig-zag all the parties on the edge of the creek .are as busy as p ssible, while operations are baing carried on round the side of the terraco. All the dams on the lead are now full to overflowing, while a number of small dams have been constructed for cradling purposes. . The professional reputation of a respectable physician or chemist is at stake when either undertakes to pronounce upon the efficacy or purity of a popular remedy. Thousands of .eminent physicians and analysts have publicly concurred m declaring that for purity and invigorating properties, the medical stimulout best entitled to public confidence is Udoi/PHO Wolfb's Schiedam Abomatic Schnapps. . It is the remedy jmr excellence for kidney disease, indigestion, and debility. — [-Advt.]