LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVI, Issue 130, 7 June 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

♦ B.C.R.— The City Rifles parade at the drill shed on Tuesday evening next at 7.30. Cash Boot Shop.— Mr T. Father's cheap sale of boots at the Cash Boot Shop will last for 14 days. * A Word m Season. —Mr W. Carr inserts a characteristic advertisement, to which we direct the attention of our readers. Meteorological.— Captain Edwin reports at 11.53 a.m.: — "Northwest to North and West gale after ten hours from now, with cold winds, and glass will fall again soon. Indications for rain." A Visitor to Onamalutu. — La Grippe has been visitiug Onainalutu, and Mr White has had to suspend operations at hi 3 saw mill while the unwelcome visitor made his stay m the place, for most of the hands were attacked. Drapery Sale. — Messrs Litchfield and Son announce their annnal clearing sale, which has commenced m the Bank shop, next their present fine premises. Heavy reductions m all departments are to be made. Municipal Receipts & Expenditure. — At the Borough Council meeting last night Mr W. Noswortby, the Town Clerk, reported that the receipts since last meeting were £485 5s and expenditure £209 19s 2d. The overdraft of the General Account waa £1767 13s Bd. New Offices. — Messrs Neilson and Leiz, the successful contractors for the erection of the new offices for the Union S.S. Co. atPicton, arrived by the Grafton last night, and will commence work at once. The building is to be completed within six weeks. Ambulance Association. — The members of committee are invited to meet at Mr T. H. Hustwick's shop, at 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening, when the Secretary will be prepared to lay before them a quantity of correspondence. The time and place of the general meeting will immediately after be advertised. Gratifying. — At the meeting of the Awatere Licensing Committee to-day, the officer of police reported that the conduct of the accommodation houses this year was excellent, better m fact than ever before, and the structures had been improved m many ways. Entertainment. — A very successful j entertainment was given on Thursday evening at the Working Men's Club before an audience of about 90 persons. The music, vocal and instrumental, and the literary selections were thoroughly appeciated. These concerts bid fair to be thoroughly successful. Entertainment. — An open meeting, under the auspices of the Rechabites, is to be held on Monday evening at the Good -Templars' Hall, Grove Road, at 7.30. The admission is free and there is to be no collection. The programme comprises songs, recitations, and other efforts, and theßev W. O. Robb and Mr Buiek are (o deliver speeches. An interesting " bill of particulars " forms an inset with to-day's issue of the paper. New Premises. — Messrs B. S. Penney and Co. have shifted their quarters, and now occupy the new building on the further side of Mr Kilpatrick's shop m Alfred- street. The new shop is spacious and cheerful looking, and ia well lighted, and Messrs Penney's considerable stock is exhibited to great advantage. Mr Hughes, the builder, designed and executed a very fine front to the shop, which is quite a feature of the town, and serves to show off the goods to great advantage. Messrs Penny, we notice by advertisement, are selling off a large quantity of valuable, stock at reduced prices. Grovetown Sunday School. — A very pleasant evening was spent at Grovetown last evening m the Sunday School building, where Mr Alfred Rogers gave a delightful lime light exhibition with an 3xplanatory lecture. The views comprised x Westminister Abbey series, views of scenery and buildings m America, the tsle of Wight, etc., and capital represeniations of localities and incidents m the jruptions at Tarawera. These were fully jxplained by the Rev H. Bull, who is icquainted with the district. During the evening a coffee supper was provided by ilesdames Cameron, Cheesman and Cimssyell, and Miss Jackson. The proceeds 64 10s will be devoted to the Sunday School funds. Awatere Licensing Committee. The jommittee met this morning; present Messrs Carter (Cluiirinuu), T. Redwood, md R. H. Smale. The police report on ,he licensed houses was very favourable. Cwo applications for transfers of licenses vere received re the Awatere and the Fordan accommodation houses. The Chairman asked whether it was not a iondition of the liceusc that the hold.r hould look after the fords. SergeantJajor Scanlan said it was so, an A if com>laints over reached him of the fords not leing properly kept, he should report it to he Committee. The applications : Accommodation House licensese (1) Awatere, to JfredAvery; (2; Jordan, to John William r erry, were granted. The Committee then ose.

Drunkenness.— At the R.M. Court this morning, before Mr John Allen R.M., Michael Hennessey was charged with drunkenness. As it was the fourth offence within six months, and defendant was a ] prohibited person, and was similarly charged on June 2, His Worship ordered him to go to gaol without hard labour, for 14 days. Wairau Road Board. — The ordinary monthly meeting of this Board was held yesterday ; present : Messrs Carter (Chairman), Watts, and Storey. Mr Joseph Ward was elected chairman for the current year. It was resolved, "That this Board agrees with the Kaikoura County Council's letter of the 28th May with respect to the abolition of tolls but does not consider it is advisable to take any steps with respect to making the maintenance of roads and bridges a direct charge on the general Government funds. The Inspector was instructed to report upon the works referred to by Mr Teschemaker m his letters of the 23rd and 25th May. Resolved that the offer of Messrs Barton- and Sons to metal 34 chains of road m the Narrows be accepted. It was agreed that the principal cutting m the Meadow Bank land be widened to the satisfaction of the Inspector before the contractor was paid ; also that the southern end of Murphy's Cross Road be metalled; that it is the intention of the Board to make a rate of | of a penny m the £, such rate to become due and payable on the 14th July. Acounts amouuting to £102 16s 2d having been passed for payment the Board rose. The Monastery op Chartreuse. — 1 j cable message calls attention to-day to the grand Chartreuse Monastery, and one or two items of information about the instituiion may be interesting to our readers. In the 11th century St Bruno built a number of hermitages m a desert place near Grenoble, m France. His followers led peculiarly, ascetic lives, and were called Carthusians, after Chartreuse, the name of their establishments. In addition to the usual rigours of monastic j life, eternal silence, solitude, mechanical work, and the copying of M.S. were imposed upon the members of the Order, whioh grew rapidly. By last century the O. der had 172 monasteries, of which 75 were m France. It was a branch of the Order that settled m England m the 12 h century, an d* afterwards built the wellknown Charterhouse m London m the 14th century, which subsequently became a famous school. The wealth of the Order was very great, and it was at the original institution that the well-known and unequalled liqueur of the same name was made. A Novel Hospital Fund.— During May last the enterprising proprietors of Tit Bits, an English paper well known all over the world, offered to donate the munificent sum of £10,000 to the hospitals at Home if the circulation of their publication reached half a million copies per week for the year 1889. Although the offer had a decidedly enlivening effect on the large circulation, yet unfortunately for the institutions interested, it was not brought up to the requisite number. Nevertheless, the proprietors noting that the total number of copies sold extra, assumedly m consequence of the hospital scheme, amounted to 536,536, generously decided to pay that number of pence to the hospitals, by which subscribers will see that their efforts to aid a charitable cause have been most successful. The sum so donated, viz, £2235 11s 4d, is now being distributed. "The Way of the World."— The London correspondent of the Dunedin Star says : — " Talking of Trischler naturally suggests Benzon, whose book, even at 2s, hangs fire sadly. I notice, by the way, the process of kicking the Juggins now he's down is being very thoroughly carried out. The smug Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who clamored for Benzon's patronage whilst he had money, now, forsooth, turn him out. He was gazetted March 7. Poor Juggins m the cold " stone jug," So sneered at, and so petted. So young, so sad, so rich, so poor, So gay— gazetted. It's all right, of course. Still I think the Yeomanry would have shown better taste to let the poor fellow resign." Holloway's Pills. — Changes of temperature aud weather frequently upset persons who are most careful of their health, and particular m their diet. These corrective, purifying, and gentle aperient Pills, are the best remedy for all defective action of the digestive organs. They aug, mentthe appetite, strengthen the stomachcorrect billiousness, and carry off all that is noxious from the system. Holloway's Pills are composed of rare balsams, unmixed with baser matter, and on thar account are peculiarly well adapted fos the young, delicate, and aged. As thie peerless medicine has gained fame m thy past, so will it preserve it m the future b,t its renovating and invigorating qualities and the impossibility of its doing harm.