THE Marlborough Express Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume XIX, Issue 165, 28 July 1883, Page 2

THE Marlborough Express Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1883. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

i The, Legusi^tive. CquNoir,.. — "|ln the.! . Legislative Council last night; the Hon. ; ■ Mr Pharazyn's motion for the cessation of ! : the payment of. (any honorarium to mem- : bers of the Council was lost, only six '■■ members voting for it and 26 against. R.M. Comer.— Two bye-law informations and about sixteen civil oases are set down for hearing m the R.M. Court on"; Monday morning. : ■ ■ : • j Asphalting.— Mr. J. W. Blackburn inti-j : mates that he is prepared to execute orders • for asphalting. ' i Judge Manning-.— A private oable hasj been received m Auckland, stating that! Judge Manning died on the 24th of Jnly. ! The Agent-General is sending the remains to New Zealand. Frozen Meat.— The Dunedin Befrige- ! rating Company have reoeived cable advice ' from London, dated i July 26, stating that' the Fena tan ton's cargo of frozen meat! netted £12,600, an average of 6Jd per lb. ! Wesleyan Ohuboh.— Mrs Hannah Hall ] and Mr James Cotton, evangelists m con- j ■neotion with the Society ol Friends, will . preaoh m the Wesleyan Church, Blenheim, i to-morrow, morning and evening. ; . Oaths m Coubt.— ln the House l»3t ! night, an amendment moved by Mr Mason m favor of abolishing oaths m courts of: justice altogether was carried on a division by 44 to 24. Local Option. —In the ' Legislative Connoil on Friday, Mr Barnicoat presented a petition signed by 57 inhabitants of Blenheim, m favor of the Local Option' Extension Bill. . : ; BacinoClub.— At the meeting of the Marlborongh Racing Club last evening, ■; Messrs Horton, Girling, Biley, and T. Redwood being present, Mr J. L. Adams was appointed the'sucoesaor of Mr Charles Elliott as secretary of the olub. The emolument attaching to the positipn is £25 per annum. We are sure the appointment of Mr Adams will be generally approved by the members of the olub. Appointment. —A Nelson telegram contains the information that Mr H. 0. S. Baddeley, who for a great number of years has been m tho position of Clerk of the Beach, and has been stationed m Nelson ten years, has been appointed Resident Magistrate at Ashburton. He proceeds to enter on his new duties at once, Sudden- Death.— At the inquest on the- body of Mr Robert Hall, whose sudden death was announced yesterday, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. This was the fourth inquest held this year. Last year there were nine inquests of one kind and another. Mr' Hall's funeral will \ take place at one o'clock to-morrow afternoon) at the Tun Marina Cemetery. The doceased was 56 years of age. An Old Identity— The death is annpunoed from Nelson, of Richard Barnes, aged 78. He came put with the expedition to Nelson, and was wounded at the Wairau massacre. Triennial Parliaments. — In the Hoase last; night Ministers stated that they had no intention of trying to' repeal ; the Triennial Parliament Aot this session. < This would almost imply that they might [attempt its repeal either next or some subsequent session. Catholic Petitions.— Between the ; 19 tb ultimo and the 24th inst, no fewer than 50 petition 1 ) against; the Education 'Act have been presented to Parliament 'from Roman Catholics m various parts of New Zealand. The petitions bear an aggregate number of 5095 signatures. ! Goldwelds Discoveries.— With reference to the question of offering rewards for new goldfield discoveries, we understand Mr Sheehan will table a motion to the effect that a sum of L 2.000 for eaoh islnnd shall be placed on the Supplementary Estimates for the discovery of payable goldfields. : Juvenile H.A.C.B. Society.— At a meeting of the committee held last evening appointed to make the necessary arrangements m connection with a juvenile branch of the local H.A.C.B. Society, rules were drawn up which will be submitted to the parent society at its next meeting. It is expected the branch will be permanently established within the next throe months.

v Obituary,— Wo regret to loirn the c doath at Nelson, at the advanced ago ot I 74,. of Mrs Hewitt, wife of Mr John t Hewitt, ono of the oldest settlers m t this part of the Island. Mrs Hewitt and c her husband arrived m this colony over c forty years ago, and resided m the im- i mediate vicinity of Nelson for a short a period. Mi Hewitt then undertook the v management of Mr Duppa's atation m I Wairan, Jwhere he remained for a long 1 series of years. Returning to Nelson 1 for a year or two, he'paid a visit 1 with Mrs Hewitt to the land of ( of hiß birth. Hejcame back to the colony I ia 1858, and forjtwenty-two yeara was a i settler m the distriot. On Good Friday, i two yeara ago, they went to Nelson, : where they have lived ever since. Mrs ' Hewitt has been a great sufferer of late, | but her death will be greatly regretted I by her many friends m. this neighbor- 1 hood. * 1 Drownino of Captain Webb.— The ' Post of Friday -last says :— People who live by feats of daring too frequently ' prove over venturesome at last, and die ' by them as well. This, it will be remembered,' was the fate of the iamons liontamer who was m the habit of putting his head m the lion's mouth— and put it there onoe too often. It will be seen from : our cable messages that another melancholy instance of the danger of tempting death by rash, not to say foolhardy, feats, ■ has been afforded by the drowning of lOsptaih ('W&bV the '. famdas Swimmer, '■. while attempting to cross ,tha Niagara River below the 1 iallsH Captain Webb was a man of splendid phjsique, who o^inepromiuenfily- juta-publiq' notice joi IB7if by his feat of swimming across, the' Eti/jlish' tlhah'nel 1 ,; ; from ' Dover 1 to' Calais 1 (224 miles), m J23J hoars, on the 23rd and! 24th August ip. that year; The feathadi been accomplished; two or three months beforo by ' Captain Boyfon, m his life-: saying* dress, and this seems to have in-j spired Webb with the desire to perform it : without the ; aid. of any extraneous! appliances., : Great interest was taken m: the "affair, the . intrepid adventurer ' being] accompanied by a small craft containing! newspapor correspondents', Who sent offj from time to time to their respective; papers pigeon messages recording the, progress whioh was jjeing made. The i spot where Captain Webb met his death is probably the uiual : crossing-place for boats, about 200 or 300 yards below the] falls, where the river is about 1200 yards broad. Tho current seems to tike a divei below the surface nearer the falls, and at the o'rosj'ing-place referred to therwater is! pretty placid , usually' affording no riiffi- \ oulty to the passage of boats. Fiom this! fact it may be that Captain Webb argued! — fallacioußly as the event has proved — ! that an expert swimmer would also have no great danger to encounter., Deceased was'quite : infthe prime' of life, 'and, as the man who proved practically that an Eogliahmauecmld far eclipse any. ; swimming feat ever recorded m ancient or! modern times, the news of bis loss' will be received with widespread regret.' -f [Latter *■ oablegram^ , published tp-dav; statetliatCaptairi Webb had been wagered, ten thousand dollars that he would be; .unable tq swim thropgh, the whirlpools of; fyiagara. The, plaoky captain passod sue-; 'eessfully the Brat rapid,' but was unfortunately caught m one of tho whirlpools! land drowned.]!\ i■' : ? >V' iT« ■ •• ' :- - i ' Obitoabi.— Oar cablegrams contain/the information of ; the death at the age of; 82; years, of General,. Sir yj. Fenwick Williams, the famous defender of Ears,, and' one of the most notable of the long list of *■ English military heroes. General Wil-, Hams was born m 1800, and having en-; tered the Royal 'Artillery was engaged m, wqrk p! a-special oharacter in.Tnrkey. On the'otttofeak of the Crimean War he was appointed British Commissioner with the: Turkish! Army m Asia Minor. In the following year the Russian' general Moura-! vieff invested Kara, which was held only ! by a, small gairison, over whom General' Williams ' assumed commancl. For over, four months the gallant officer foiled every-' attempt of the Ruaaians to take the city. On the 29th September, as the masses of Russian soldiers swarmed np the heights of Ears, General Williams went ou^to meet, them, and was able to win a vio^ryjwhiqlr gave.hiM World-Wide fame. Gen. Williams and his, brave comrades,! amongst whom was the Hungarian, the late Gen. Kmety," did all tbst men could: do m defence of Ears, holding out sternly' on the scantiest hope. Gen. Muravieff summoned the garrison to surrender, November 14, and Gen. Williams, after holding a counoil of officers, sent a flag of truce to demand a suspension of hostilities. ' This medium failed through unforeseen difficulties, and Gen, Williams having demanded an interview with Gen. Mouravieff, accepted terms of capitula- . tion. Gen, , Williams, on being restored to liberty, returned to England, and was rewarded with ,a ; baronetcy, a, pension of Ll;000 a year for life, the rank of X.0,8., the Turkish Order of tho Medjidie, with the .rank of "Muahir,". the honorary degree of D.C.L. at Oxford, and ; the freedom of ; the City of London. He was returned member m the Liberal interest for Calme, m July, 1856, and again at the general election m March, 1857, and retired m 1859. He was appointed to the command at Woolwich, and proceeded ia 1859 to assume the oommahd of the troops m Canada, which post he held for some time. In Augußt, 1870, he was appointed Governor-General of Gibraltar m place of Lieut-Gen. Sir R. Airey. He resigned that post m November, 1875, and m October, 1877, he retired from the army. A Terrible Story of Inhumanity. — A shocking story of " man's inhumauity to man," was unfolded at aa inquest held by the West Bromwich Coroner the other day, on the bodies of two young children who had met with an agoniiing death by falling into a heap of burning ciodera, It seems that a cinder bank, composed of the live refuse from neighboring works, had been newly formed m the vicinity of the Union Furnaces, Smethwick, and about this bank the obildren of the neighborhood were m tho. habit of clustering, m order to pick up stray pieces of coal and coke for the use of their parents. On the day m question the two deceased, a boy and girl, aged respectively 11 and 13, were on the smouldering Black Country volcano, m company with three others, engaged m their filial but perilous task, when the bank suddenly gave way, and precipitated two little girls named Hadley and Evans into the glowing crater beneath. Benjamin Hadley, a child of 11, and brother of the firstnamed girl, went valiantly to the assistance of bia sister and her companion, but m trying to extricate them he fell m himself, and shared their fate. Ultimately an elder brother named Joseph succeeded, at considerable personal risk, m getting all three persons out of the furnace, but not until they had sustained terrible injuries. Will it be credited thai during the whole time this heartrending tragedy waa, being enacted, with its ebb and flow of hope and fear, its incidents of disaster and heroism, a strong mm, who had been instrumental m forming the fatal mound, stood looking on within a few yards of the spot, and refused not only to stretch a hand to the burning children, but even to render them the slightest assistance when he saw them writhing m agony after their extrication from the cinder heap ? According to his view the children weretrespassera ; he had repeatedly ordered them away, and though he does not say so m so many worda, he evidently, thought when he saw them suddenly disappear m the' treacherous binder heap they were rightly served.

1 The Rev. Mk.'Grben's Pbwtices And his Pbofessions.— Commenting on the Rev Mr Green's abortive attempt to close

drapers' shops by Act o£ PiuOinment, the r Port Chalmera paper says :— " We well re- ■ member when Mr Green was engaged m the sale of speokled neokties and paper collars, that his shop m Dnnedin was kept open from eight o'clook m the morning to nine o'clock m the evening daring five days a week, and that the shutters were not put up till the town clock had chimed to the birth of the Sabbath morning. When diallengea with conduct so inconsistent with his eight hours' principles, the member for I Danedin East replied that as others ia George-street kept open till a late hour, he found it necessary to do so also to earn a living. The |hon. gentleman has now retired from the thorny paths of buaiuess, and has entered upon the more pleasant ways of professional politics and jobpreaching. His first legislative act after the change is to introduce a measure cutting at tho roots of the great business principle of competition, giving to a trade combination the sanction of law, and oppressing the diligent and persevering poor for the benetit of the easy-going rioh." Enterprise. —An onterprising carpenter m the Rangitikei distriot was sent for by a man who was so ill that he believed himself to be "shuffling off this mortal ooil." The sick man gave him instructions with regard to* the funeral arrangements, and insisted, we believe .(says the Advocate) on being "measured." Whether this was so or not, the facts remains that tbe eick man was "measured," and the enterprising carpenter at once proceeded home and actually mule the coffin. Tbe sick mm is now getting: better, and there/is e^ery probability chat the coffin wilt remain on the maker's hands aip " deadstock)" ,- , Light AFriii'Sixfy YEAJtji' Dakkse^ — An old negro, woman m Pennyalaania, who was born blind, has. recently receivedcher, .sight r by; the removal of the: cataract." When' the "bandage Was first removed, the patient started violently, and cried out as if with fear, and for a moment she waSi quite. nervous from the effects of the' shock. ' For the first time m her life she looked upon the earth. The first thing she noticed ' Was a little flock of sparrows, Ip relating her experience \ to, , \%\ reporter,; I , she ■■ aaid. that she thought they were teacups, although, strange to say, a few moments afterwards she readily distinguished a watch whioh was shown her. It is supposed" that this recognition .was owing -to the fact .that' fetie heard its tioking." The blaze from' a lamp exoitedthe most lively surprise m her mind. She had no idea what it was, and when it was lirofight.near her,, wanted to 'pick, it up. ' When night appf o'aolied upon the ' day, when she first used her eyes, she was m a fright, fearing that she was losing the sight whioh she had, so wonderfully .found after sixty years ofdarkne'ss*; '• ■ '■ •■> _THE"CoRBEcr Way,— Mr John Morley STaStejirbn priniiig %he JroKl;M*-Qo9.""; "witK a' small '4gt' m his inera'bi'r"6f Vbl-j taire. It W49 a ipetty, affectation, whiohj was well hit off by |a reviewer m a London weekly, who referred to the, author throughout his notice of -the oook as "mr i^hnmor^y,-' ( ,;. : y ., frM | T(i thegcHool of C — r^'.Abuaeenrffire, one'day a dull boy was making his way to the master for tha third time with ab| nrithrneticaj. qaesti.iD., The teaoher, a 1 little" annoyed exclaimed, ' Come,' come, John, what's th^ matter now ',' r 'Icanna get ma Iqnp3tin/ richt,' ; iafy ' !the boy. ; Wat's wrouir .with it.tbi^ time !' I've' gotton anoti teen pence 1 ; '6*ver muckle.' 1 ' Never min,'i3aid a smart boy m a loud whisper, (vvith a planceat the master), ' keep it tae yeraef Jock.' 1 ' "*' . '' ! A ' Stabtlin^ Fact. —It is an acknowledged fact that' J. J. Wtnsley's Cash Boot Mart has already earned the name of ''the oheapeat shop m town," and as he has lately received another importation of the best styles and qualities m boots and shoos, he can now offer tbe people of Blenheim some rare bargains, A trial solicited. Small profits and quick returns. Alfred Street (next to Omakai Bridge).— Advt. „ , 692; "A Wisk Dbaoon.— " Deacon Wilder, I want yon to tell me how you kept your-; self and. family; so well the past season,, when all the rest of us have been sick so much, and have had the doctors running to.utf so •' often. "" Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters; m time, and kept my family well, and, saved large doctor's bills. Four shilling's worth of it kept us all. well .and able to} work all the time; and I 'will warrant it has coat you and most of the neighbors: £10 to £100 apiece to keep sick the same, time. I fancy you'll take my medicine' hereafter." See.