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Marlborough Express, Volume XIV, Issue 1095, 8 January 1879, Page 5

/We notice that Guy Fawkes has again hands, this time for L 535. In consequence of the scarcity of grass, milk is raised to 3d in Christchurch. W k understand that there is in course of formation in Wellington a Liberal League, which is to be established on the broadest possible basis. —New Zealander. Our telegrams report a robbery at IST. Edwards and Co.’s officeaat Wellington, of £263 in notes. These were left on the top of a safe by a boy, and no clue exists as to the culprit. It is reported that Mr Duncan, the manager of the Union Bank at Hokitika, has resigned his position in consequence of the Bank Inspector, who is on a visit, calling in a great many advances. / One of the firm of Fergus & Henderson, /the contractors for the Opawa hi idge and railway extension, arrived in Blenheim on Monday, to inspect the site, and arrange preliminaries for the commencement of the work. We jeceived notice by wire on Tuesday that 80 immigrants, ex Fernglen, were to leave Wellington for Blenheim last evening per the Napier. They arrived about 7 this morning, and "everything was in readiness for them at the Depot.

The following tenders for the conveyance of mails in this district during fhe current year have been accepted by the PostmasterGeneral Picton to Havelock, Leary and Smith, LlfiO ; Spring Creek to Kaituna, James 'Davies, L2l ; Havelock to Homewood, Mills Brothers, L6O ; Kaikoura, between Pest Office and vessels, Chas. Haggar, LlO.

Mr Lucas’ many friends will be sorry to learn that his loss is about double the amount of his insurance. It appears that owing to the subdivision of the insurances on Ins policy, he can only claim £250 towards his loss. He has now advanced a shed from the rear of his property. and put in a small shop window, with the intention of resuming business in a day or two.

“ Although we have not got a Cleopatra’s Needle in Blenheim, we have a Pompei’s Pillar, ’’said a jesting friend of ours the other day, pointing to the chimney standing solus near our office, a reminder of the great (ire of 1876, which was decorated trom top to bottom with the announcements of Miss Amy Shenvin and Signor Pompei.

As will be seen from our report, the Blenheim School District was settled yesterday, and includes a considerable area. It extends up Renwick old road as far as and including Messrs Dalziel’s and Litchfield’s farms; up tho new road including Messrs Broughan’s and Holdaway’s ; extends as far as the ranges on the South; to the Opawa river on the North ; and below Blenheim it extends on both sides the Opawa to the sea. We cordially approve of this arrangement.

We ai’e requested by Captain Baillie to correct an error, which appeared in our report of the proceedings at the Board of Education meetiug on the 17th December, in which it is stated that Captain Baillie moved a resolution that the funds of the Board did not allow them to appoint a master at Waiotahi school. Captain Baillie informs us that it was Mr Paul who moved this resolution. We are sorry that the error should have occurred.

understand that the several Insurance agents in Blenheim, met on Monday last, and resolved to recommend to their head offices, that a reward of £3OO should be paid by them to anyone who shall give such evidence as shall lead to the conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the Government Buildings in November, ’7O. Thissum, with the expected Government offer of £2OO, and a free pardon to any accomplice is confidently expected to have the desired effect. v

Mr Sinclair made an application on Tuesday to Mr M‘lntire, the Registrar in Bankruptcy, sitting for the Judge, for the discharge of Samuel Standen, of Mount Pleasant, laborer. The application was unopposed. A short report was read from Mr Griffiths, the Trustee, stating that the bankrupt had complied with the provisions of the Act, and had given up his property. The liabilities in the case were set down at £344 3s 6d, and the assets £282 10s. The discharge, was granted. The increasing area of country which is being brought under crop_ year by year in the various agricultural districts of the colony is causing a steady and growing demand for laborsaving agricultural, implements. The Spring Creek Company have recentty imported another straw-burning steam thresher, with all the latest improvements, and a steam threshing machine has also been landed within the last few days for Mr AtwoorjL. but notwithstanding the increasing importation of agricultural machinery the demand for labor exceeds the supply, and the rate of wages remains the same, with a tendency to rise.

Cruelty at Kaikouba. — We have received two letters on this subject from wellknown residents at Kaikoura, both anonymous, and very similar in sentiment, both grossly libellous and both selecting a person by name and ; accusing "him of offences against the law. "Kaikoura” says he does so as it is only fair to Mr Goodall to give some reply to ’a "foul slander,” "an old Kaikourian” says he writes because he believes we are "an Englishman and love fair play.” As it is quite impossible to publish-the letters without mutilation, we have cut out all nan es, and publish the remainder of the letters in another column. When the Kaikoura people again get A,-nftWfU)ape|c of their own in their midst thev_will be able_±a ventilate and rectify air this kind of thing more readily. For ourselves we remember the adage about self-preservation, &o.

' Jrara New Zealand Gazelle of 3rd JanArary says :—His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Hartley-IVTeTniko. Esq., J.P., to be Registrar Supreme Court, from the Ist January, vice S. L. Muller, Esq., resigned; Sheriff for the District of Marlborough, from the Ist January, vice 0. Goulter, Esq., J.P., resigned; a Resident Magistrate for the District of Blenheim, with jurisdiction to £IOO, from the Ist January, vice S. L. Muller, Esq., J.P., resigned ; and Chairman of the Licensing Courts for the Districts of Wairau and Town of Blenhim, vice S. L. Muller, Esq., J.P.,> Jff is stated, as a carious fact, that although Chinamen reside and do laundry work in the districts affected by the yellow fever, not one of them has been caught by the disease. This is a poser for the doctors. About 11 o’clock on Saturday morning Mr C. H. M'Elwain, of Ingestre street, died rather suddenly. An hour previously deceased was suddenly taken ill, and Dr Kestovon was sent for. When he arrived ho found deceased in a high state of fever. He prescribed for Mr M'Elwain, and then went home. Soon after a sou of the deceased called Dr Kesteven again, but when they reoched the house, the man was dead. An inquest will he held at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago deceased was committed for trial on a charge of arson, and it is stated that since then has been drinking freely. —New Zealander. At Kopua, Napier, on January 4, a boy seven years old, named Small, fell into a well 36 feet deep, in which theie was four feet of water. He was in ten minutes before being rescued, and though every possible means were used to restore life he was not resuscitated., The Christchurch City Council Water Supply Committee ordered from Mr J. Anderson, of the Canterbury Foundry, a cylinder 25 feet long, 3 feet diameter, and three-quarters of an inch thick, to sink in the island of the Waimakariri, for testing the scheme of Mr White’s water supply. There are heavy calls now being made in Napier under the Swamp Nuisance Act, 1875. Thus, notices are given to the owners of property, of which the following will serve as an example : —“To John Sangster M’Farlane, Esq., Merchant Auckland, or other owner of town section No. 217, of the town of Napier. Notice is hereby given under and by virtue of the Napier Swamp Nuisance Act, 1875, and the Napier Swamp Nuisance Centinuance Act, 1877. that unless the sum of £172 10s 13d, being the actual cost of filling in and reclaiming your land, being town section No. 217, on the plan of the town of Napier, situate in the Napier town swamp, together with interest on the said sum from the day of the date hereof, at the rate of £6 per centum per annum, be paid to the said Corporation on or before the first day of July, 1876, the said land will under and by virtue of the provisions of the said Act, he sold to defray the cost of such filling in and reclamation as aforesaid. Dated this 24th day of December, 1878. M. N. Bower, Town Clerk.” Down on the Parsons.—We perceive that an association of parsons has been formed at Auckland for the purpose of checking the attainment of political power by Catholics. The move we have no doubt has been stirred by the success of the Rev. Father Henneberry’s mission in the city referred to. A Catholic people attending zealously to the ordinances of their creed has been more than the preachers of the gospel of haired have been able to stomach, and all their bile is in commotion. Still it is very clear what they can do to advance the object of their undertaking. Let them say what they will, their influence over the public is null and void ; the word of a parson is most commonly a matter to be laughed at, and, although they may for a time utilise the no-popery cry, it can but produce a nine deys’ wonder, and then an end of it. Of all our enemies we despise the parsons most; their abuse of us is a matter of coarse, and without it they could not earn their salt. Agar i they could not prevent Catholics from being united, and in union lies our strength. All . they could say and do from this to doom’s day could not militate against the one strong point of Catholics—the block vote. No one supposes, not even these men themselves, that they can rob Catholics of the franchise, and until that he i done, we may laugh at them, if we consider it I worth while.— N.Z. Tablet.