LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXV, Issue 282, 12 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

» METEOROiiOGicAii.--Captam Edwin wired at 1.15 p.m.:— "N. to W- and S.W. gale and rain, glass further fall. School. — Cape Foulwind, not Cloudy Bay, is the locale of the sohool to which Mr Murray is appointed. Fell's Whabf. — The Union S.S. Company have bought the property known as Fell's Wharf. Public Ball. — A public ball will be held m Landsdowne wool shed on Boxing night. Excellent music and an M.C. are engaged and the price of tickets is 3s, ladies being admitted free, Insurance. — Mr Thomas Watson, District Agent for the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society inserts a notice respecting the Company, which intending insurers will do well to read. Blaymires v. Ewing. — This formidable case re-opened to-day before a special jury. In addition to the plans, charts and diagrams that were exhibited at the former hearing, there were to-day produced a number of photos of the locality. Special JcROBS.-r-This morning before the opening of the case Blaymires v. Ewing His Honor discharged waiting special jurors till 10 o'clock on Monday morning, as no further special jury cases would be taken until then. Caledonian Privileges. — The publican's booth m connection with the forthcoming meeting has been sold privately to Mrs Tait for £10, and the refreshment booth to Mr Wilkins for £4. Obituary. — A Dunedin telegram states that Mr Robert Campbell, M.L.C., died shortly after 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning, having never recovered from the illness with which he was taken m Wellington during the session. He was 46 years of age. A Bitteb SABCASM.^rThe following telegram from Auckland WIH pr.oba.bly disagree with the Railway Commissioners : The railway stationmaster at Ngaruawahia, Mr Pringle, has been committed to the Lunatic Asylum. He .is sane on all other points except railway management, and it is asserted that his mind has been unhinged by his endeavors to understand the regulations. Property-tax. — Those persons who are lucky enough to be entitled to pay this tax, and nave not already paid it, had better do so at once, as to-morrow is the last day of grace allowed, and with the excep-r tion of the "second instalments," all taxes unpaid from that date will be subjected to an extra rate of ten per cent. Marlborough Exhibits. *— Mr Fitzgerald, of the Public Works Department, is to-day sending off to the D/Unedin Exhibition sevorftl naodels oi oanoes, constructed, by hjrn§elf • We have already, described them, and have only to add that they will certainly not be the least meritorious exhibits, Their fine lines and exquisite finish are quite remarkable. Havelock Town Board. — This Board met on Monday December 9th. Present Messrs Dorreen, Perry, and Scott. Mr Scott was appointed Chairman. Permission was grauted to Mr Perry to erect a verandah m front of his shop h\ Lueknow street, eubjeot tp \he usu^l conditions. Accounts a^ountin" to d 866 IGb 6d, were passed for payment and the Board adjourned. MarlborotjctH. Racing C^ur,— -A meeting of thd committee was held last evening/present: Messrs W. Pollard (President), G. B. Richardson, H. Dodson, M.H.R., H. H. Dodson, J. H. Redwood, Dr Cleghorn, and the Secretary. It was resolved that the Kaikoura and Mahakipawa Racing Clubs mu,st adhere to rule 24, whioJt do"f>B not admit qf a fee being charged,. T-ho gecrata.ry .was instructed to notify them accordingly that the programme could r^othe adopted until this was done. Pevmissiqn was given the Hussar Sports. Committee to run three, races q,t %{'*' meeting on B;o$Ing Day under the new j:ules. .phe meeting then adjourned. Cottage Hospital. — Our Havelook correspondent writes : The necessity that exists for a cottage hospital m Havelock has been frequently pointed out, as a great number of serious aooidents have Qcoured m the district during the past six months. Possibly tho following figures may tend to elucidate the subject : Revenue received from tha Pelorus Road Board and paid into the Picton Hospital per annum, £70 12s 6d ; from goldtields, £71 13s 4d • £142 5s 10d; Subscriptions and payments estimated at per annum, £60 ; for cottage hospital, £202 5s 103 ; Government subsidy £ for .£, £202 ; £404 5s lOd. The ipcjonyenience and expense attendant on sending patients from the Pelorus Sound, Pfllorus Valley, and WafcaniflHUa. are

Mahakipawa Diggings.— The Venture Claim got 87 ounceß out of a pot. hole on Tuesday the 10th insfc. The Wairarapa so, far this week got 770 ounces,, and Lyford and patty 53 ounces. Several other claims have had big finds, and this week's yield will far more than double any previous weeks- return; . The gold buyer was telegraphed for to-day.—Have-lock"Correspondent./ ... : \ .." Christmas Exhibition _ and Fete.— Preparations for the opening at 3 o'clock are going on apace m the Drill Shed, and we can assure our readers that they will this evening behold such a collection as it rarely falls to the lot of young colonists to Bee. Conspicuous among the exhibits are the splendid photos and engravings sent . by the Bishop of Nelson. Of these the finest are the photo-gravures, taken from terra-cotta models. They are simply peerless. And a number of exhibits are shown by residents who have inherited from their ancestors curios, heirlooms, &o. For example, Eev. Ti S. Grace shows a Sikh saddle, adorned heavily with Indian gold. Dr Muller shows a plaster model of S. Augustine's chair m Canterbury Cathedral; a 'conveyance' of the time of Henry VIII., which' curiously shews how little legal documentary work has advanced; a snuff box of Queen Anne's time, and other interesting relics too ' numerous to particularise. Mr Kingsley (Secretary to the Bishop) exhibits a really splendid collection m the natural history and geological departments, conspicuous among them being a huge butterfly caught m Nelson, . These, however, are but the fore runners of a numerous collection, and we feel sure the exhibition will be eagerly visited to-night. Mrs Draper has undertaken the management of the Kefreshment Stall, and that is a sufficient guarantee of excellence. The barque " Novelty" is now fully .rigged, and her standing rigging is bright and black. Among the attractions is a Maypole dance by little girls. ■•".•". TiiE Fisks.— The Auckland Star of the 4th instant says : — Mr McAdoo, lately one of the members of the well-known Fisk Jubilee Singers Company, now m Australia, was one of the through passengers from Sydney to San Francisco, by the mail steamer Alameda, which left here yesterday for the Calif ornian metropolis. Mr McAdoo has severed his connection with the Jubilee Singers, and intends following the musical profession m the States. The rest of the troop, it is said, are about toleave Melbourne for a tour m India. •- , Deaf Forty Years. — The description [ of a simple remedy, by which a complete cure of deafness and noises m the head of 40 years' standing has just been effected, will be sent free to any one who applies to J. H, Nicholson, 175 William street, Melbourne. 1718