LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIII, Issue 225, 25 October 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

<* Adding to the Libt, — Mr E. By thell', builder, Maxwall Road (No. 43), and Dr Cleghorn (No. 44), have joined the Tele* phone Exohange. Ocbnty of Mabiborough.— The following pentlemen have been paze^ted Returning Officers for the several ridinzs in the County of Wariborongh:— Awatere RiSing, 8. J. Maoalister; Wairau Riding, O. J. W. (Jriffltha ; Spring C;eek Eifiinp. T. A. Diokens : Omaha Eidiug, J. E. Hodsnn ; Pioton Biding, W. Dick; Pelorus Riding, W. T. Erskine ; Havelook Riding, J. T. Robinson. Alleged Felony. — A boy named William Howard was charged be'ore the Resident Magistrate this morning, with breaking and entering the dweiliog-honse of Francis Jones, in Alfred-street, on Sunday last, a^d committing a felony by stealing therefrom a golclfinoh and cage and a silver penoil case. Sergeant Si-an-lan applied for a remand until Monday, as the police were executing a Bearch warrant, and making enquiries as to other alleged robberies. Mr McNab, who appeared for the accused, applied for bail, bnt the application was opposed by the police and refused. The accused was remanded until Monday at 10 o'elook and was removed to Pictoa gaol this afternoon. Coaching Undeb Difficulties.— Our Efavehck correspond' nt writes :— Clark and Pickering's coach arrived from Nelson yesterday afnernoon (Friday, the 21et) with a coachful of passengers. Mr Piok-r---ing had to cut and dear away no less than ten trees that were fallen from tho late heavy gale in trie Wangamoa, and only one in the Rai Valley. It may well be asked, what are the persons in the Wangamoa doing whose duty it is to keep the read clear? The present instanoe is by no means a solitary one, as cases ae continually occurring when the public conveyance lias to ba stopped to clear away fallen timber in that locality, and one man had to go fioin the Pelorus end of the district inio the Wangamoa, out of hia boundary, to clear away some o£ the debris. Fell into the River. — An accident, which it is feared will result fatally, occurred at about two o'clock to-day to a little two-year old son of Mr J. Burns, storeman at the N. Z. L. and M. Company. The little fellow was plnying on tbe old wharf in Symonds 1 Quiy. opposite his parents' residence, and while pulling the painter of a boat which was tied to the whfuf, he overbalanced hitneelf and fell into the river. Tbe child was observed from the other side by Mr Mitchell, one of the hands at Pickering and Co.'s store, and be immediately ran ro nd, and with a boathook succeeded in getting him out. The usual remedies to restore animation were applied by several gentlemen in attendance, but without muoh apparent effect. The child was then taken home and Dr Cleghorn sent for. At 2.30 tho doctor was doing his best to bring the little fellow round, but it is hardly likely that the boy can recover. [At a quarter past three ive learned that all efforts to restore anima ti on had failed.] Havblook in Arms.— Our Havelock friends are again in armsi This time the cause of offence is not that th« mails caunot reach Havelock, but because the mails are there and the residents oannot get delivery of them. Havelook's only official— Mr Boers— fills the positions of P<s*master, telegraphist, linesman, a r d goodness knows what besides. During the heavy gale of Thursday night last, telegraphic communication was interrupted, and it became Mr Boers' duty as lineman, to travel round and see where the interruption was. His absenoe from Havelock necessitated the slosing of the Post and Telegraph Office, and this has led to another indignation meeting being held in that thriving sown, of which our correspondent sends us the following report : — Mr John Hadfield Smith, sen. (< hairman of the Town Board) occupied the chair, when resolutions were unanimously carried as follows;— Proposed by Mp R. Forrest (of the firm of Brownies and Co), seconded by Dr Drury, •' That in 'he opinion of this meeting, the Postal and Telegraph offices being closed since 10 o'clock on Friday the 21st inst, and the consequent non-delivery of our letters after the mail arrived from Blenheim, is beyond all reasonable retrenchment ; and as the attention of the proper authorities has been frequently called to the serious inconvenience the general pablio have sustained on previous occasions without any remedy being provided, we now consider it gross departmental neglect." Mr Forrest, in moving the resolution, stated h6 had been put to serious inconvenience, having come up on purpose from Kaiutna to get his letters, and at the time he was speaking the mail, had arrived 21 hours, and no one was in charge to deliver it. Proposed by Mr C. H. MIII3. s-conded by Mr Wm. Brownlee, " That this meeting farther considers the distribution of mails, forwarding telegrams, and receiving ether departmental revenue during all proper offios hours is of vast importance to this large district, and no circumstances have yefc occurred to justify converting such an important central Post and Telegraph Office in a sea-port town like Havelock into a paltry lineman's station." Tho mover stated thatwhonin Wellingtons me four months since he had seen and spoken to Mr Gray and represented the possibility of such a contingency arisiDg as that we were sufferirjg from but as yet no satisfactory result had been attained. Proposed by Mr O. F. Horton, seconded by Mr Congdon, " Tkas ths Chairman be requested to wire a copy c£ the above resolutions tho first chance he has after the ofliee opens to the Postmaster-General, and this meeting hoptß that these, with rt solutions forwarded from a previous meeting, will receive immediate attention." Proposed by Mr Thoinaa Cawte seconded by Mr Reynolds, " That copies of tl;9 above ret solutions 1)0 eeuf. to the menibei? for the Waimea-Picton Electorate requesting him to urge the necosaity for better arrangements beiDg made by the Government to meet the requirements of the district." A unanimoija vote of thanks was given to the Chairman aul the proceedings terminated. Our correspondent add3 :— Mr Boers Poatmaster, Telegraphist; Lineman, Registrar of Births, deaths and marriages arrived iu Havelock at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday the 22ad and the Post and Telegraph Oi]ices were opened at 7 o'clock Owing to thorc being such a number of telegraph messages to away, the mail could not be delivered at the window before 8.15 p.m. just 2'.) hours after its arrival. It arrived at 3.15 p.m. ou Friday the 21st, inst. The questiou may be asked, are Messis Gr»y and Lemon to rule the Postal and Telegraphic Departments, and not a word be raispd. ftgajust them '? Are they the veritable autocrats in power '! and must we, per force, submit aud asynarya word. ? i trow not,

Accident. Yesterday, Sergt. Donovan, while descending Manx's Hill, on hia way from Havelock with Elizabeth Rankin, a prisoner, met with an accident. The horse shied at two Maoris, capsizing the trap with its occupants over the hillside. The trap was broken to pieces, but the occupants escaped without injury. K.M. Coubt.— At the Eesident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr J. Alleu, 8.M., the following cases were heard:— J. L. Adams, v. F. P. Jones, claim £12 10s, verdict for plaintiff with £1 Is costs ; D. H. Pattie v. J. Menco, claim 11s, verdict for plaintiff with costs 6s ; Jno. Beardon v. F. Beamsley, claim £1 Bs, verdict for plaintiff with costs 8s ; A. Cameron v. the Same, claim £6, verdict for amount with costs £1 14s ; Bourke y. the Same, claim £2 2s, verdict for plaintiff with costs £1 9s; Q. Armstrong v. the Same, claim £13, verdict for plaintiff with costs £2 3s ; Sinclair and McCallum v. J. B. Hodson, claim £16 6s, plaintiffs were nonsuited without costs. Education Boards. — The Auckland Bell is rough on Education Boards. This is what the " clapper " says : It is the nonresponsibility of these money-squandering Boards that must compel their supression and happily it is so ; because their favoritism and mismanagement and unfairness will go with it. Indeed it would be difficult to design a system more absolutely sure to lead to. abuse than these Boards. The election of their members must necessarily be simply intrigue, and the private penchant of committees— religious or political —their particular wants of a fence or a cesspit, on the one hand, and the manipulation of them by members of the Board in possession on the other, at once fixed the membership of the Board and the necessity of sops to Cerberus, and the poor taxpayers had to bleed for it all. There is not in all New Zealand any other abuse that in anyway compares with the system of irresponsible Boards of education, and although a hard fight will be made, for them, owing to the various ramifications of the abuse all over the Colony, and the numbers that are interested in their maintenance we confidently believe, and earnestly hope, that, under the necessity for retrenchment, this monstrous abuse is doomed. The Hussars in Camp.— The lot of & Hussar is not altogether a " happy one " as the members of the Marlborough troop are just now experiencing. Heavy gales of wind, and a cold drenching rain, are not i wanted to render life under canvas tolerable. But this is the sort of weather which has so far been experienced at the Kiverlands encampment. The weather was so bad last night that the troop had to leave their tents, and take cover under the grand stand, or, properly speaking, the canteen. This morning, however, the weather is bright and clear, and it is to bo hoped that it will continue so until the end of the week, at any rate. In the arrangement of the camp due regard appears to have been paid, as far as possible, to the comfort of the men. There are two rows of tents, ten in number, pitched near tho grand stand, and these are furnished with necessary camp equipments ; some of the inen have real luxuries in the shape of iron bedsteads, others have wooden ones, while the majority prefer to adopt the real camp practice, and toss down at night on oleau straw. Yesterday the troop turned out for stable duty at 5 a.m., and for mounted parade at 5-30, when they were exercised by Lieuts. Collett and Hutchison, Capt. Dodson aferwards putting them through squadron drill. Breakfast was taken at 7*30, and at 9-30 instructions in position was given by Staff-Sergt-Major Lucas ; tent pegging was then practised till dinnertime, 12.30. At 2 p.m, the troop underwent instruction in sword exercise and pursuing praotioe, at the hands of Sergt-Major Lucas, Sergt. Chaytor drilling the recruits. At the conclusion of this parade, football was indulged in till 4 p.m. when the horses were prepared for the parade at 5 p.m. Tea was served at 4.30., and at 5 o'clock a mounted parade, at which 36 were present I was held, Sergt-Major Lucas putting the troop through in full movement till 7 o'clock when they were disbanded, and the horsos turned out. Major Webb visited the camp yesterday, and expressed himself highly pleased with the arrangements. Capt. Coleman arrived from Wellington last night and will probably visit the camp to-day. Shearers on Strike. — There were the other day about 500 shearers in one town in South Australia out on strike, and 300 on two stations in New South Wales ; they intend holding out against the sheepowners. Tho most of the stations in both colonies are shearing under Union men. French Annexation'. — It has been announced in London that in consequence of the recent persecution in Tonga, the French haxe yielded to the entreaties of the Marist Fathers and Queen Lavelua, and taken Wallis Island under their protection. The sole importance of Wallis Island consists in the fact that it lies midway between Samoa and Fiji. There are also rumors that further annexations in the Western Pacific are not improbable. Frozen Meat. — A London correspondent writing by the last Frisco mail says : —The sopply of frozen mutton continues enormously in excess of the demand, and, with the Eiver Plate County system coming into force shortly, New Zealand importers and agents are almost in despair. At the present moment there must be over 100,000 New Zealand carcases stored. The current rate is 3£d per lb, though iii a few instances last week 4d was realised. The best all-round frozen mutton in the market at present comes from Sydney. The New Zealand carcases have not been up to mark lately, but they are still far superior to P*iver Plate meat. Current rates:— Sydney mutton, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; New Zealand do, 2s 4d to 2s 8d; New Zealand lamb, 3s to 3s (sd ; River Plate, 2s 4d to 2s sd ; Scotch, 4s to 4s 8d ; English, 3s 8d to 4s Gd ; Dutch, 3s 2d to 4s. An Illustrated Journal. — Wo have received the October number of the New Zealand edition of the Illustrated Australian News. The journal supplies the place of the defunct New Zealand Illustrated News lately published in Dunedio The issue to hand contains a well executed view of Euapeha ; and in addition there are sketches of the Mararoa in quarantine at Port Philip Heads, an Artist's Smoke Night, Kinking, Building a Pier of the Prince's Bridge by the aid of the eleotric light, sketches in Samoa, and several other viewa of interest. The News is weii supplied with reading matter, printed on fine paper, and altogether is well worth the sixpence aaked for it. 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