The Marlborough Express. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 126, 19 May 1893, Page 2

The Marlborough Express. Published Every Evening. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1898. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Weather. — Captain Edwin wired at 1.38 p.m :— North-east to north and west gale with rain after 16 hours from now, and class fall. Maxwell BBir6E.-r-The following tenders have been received) for- culvert under Maxwell Bridge:— Malcolm £84 15a 03 (acoeptad)* Daikes i £BT2iod. Pa^soNii..--Last night's Press , sajs that Mr Fitzgerald, late of Te Aroha, has arrived m Hunteryille,- where be is to take Mr Holmes' place asßesidenfc Engineer, whilst the latter is engaged m exploring for an improved route for a portion of the North Island Trunk Railway. . Appointment. — Lieut.-Col. Baillie, who has resigned the appointment a'B commanding officer of the Marlborough district has been appointed Honorary Colonel on the Unattached List of New Zealand Volunteers. '.■'■. . .f - : ' " .;' !_.;':- " Shipping. — Tha general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company wire's from Christchurch to tha local agent as follows : — '• Raahine sailed from Rio oh the 17th inst. Meat m good condition. She beat the ShBW, Savill and Albion Coy's r.s. Tainui by one day.". An Extb& Attkaoxion.-- The opera "Patience" should to-night attract a large house at Ewart'a Hull, but the maungetnent have provided an additional attraction m the shape of a eolo by Mr Russel!, the Tasmanian flautist, who has a great reputation as one of the leading flute players m the Australasian coloaiea. Polulbd'b Piohio.— To-day Mr, Pollard took out almost the whole, of his company for a pionib, starting from Penny's Marlborough Hotel. The juveniles seemed to •njey tha fun, and- looked forward With pleasure to the outing, which was to extend a? far as the Dashwopd Pass. -' SasA? Ail. of us.— The Napier Evening News writes as follows: — "We have seenj! Mr Isitt'a so-called explanation of his attack upon the dying, Preraior, but we cannot accept it. He does not withdraw the statement he made about the late Premier. Until he does that we shall see to it that all true men, whether Liberals or not. visit him with their displeasure. If the women -of New Zealand can find no better champion ; if it is to surrender the great bulk of our women into the hands of fanatics, that the franchise is to be conferred, then better a thousand times that they should not obtain it."- ( . ' i , . - ;; ■ ..■'.. A Serious Charge. — At Nelson yesterday S. J. Beeves was committed for trial for having made certain false statements m the statement of receipts and expenses filed m the District Court, of Nelson on the 24th day of April; 1893, said statement being one which he was directed by the Mining Company's Act to make, to wit, that he had paid away the sum of £125 2s 73 on acoount of the Extended- Wakatn Gold Mining Company, when m truth and m fact he had not done so. Going Out With the Tide. — An exchange - says:— The old Anglo- Saxon theory that people near the- coast seldom die until tho tide; is well on the ebb, was again illustrated by the . death of the late John Ballanca. On the afternoon of the day he died, tho tide m Wellington began to ebb at about 2.30, and waa rapidly running down at 6.19 when hs quietly passed away. The sama theory held good in* the deaths of the late Duke of, Clarence. and Lord Tennyson. Nhlson Coach. — Owing to an aocident to-day by the breaking o£ a wheel at Wangamoa, the Nelson coach will not arrive here till midnight. The. Postal authorities have received confirmatory information, and desire to notify those expecting correspondence* Oar Nelson correspondent wired at 2 p,m '::— " TUe Blenheim coach which left town, thie morning, met with a slight accident when at the top of tha Wsngamoa saddle. Mr H. Newman, the driver, noticed something wrong with one of the back wheels, and finding it imprudent to go on, came back to Nelson for a fresh ooaoh, whioh left town about noon, consequently the ooaoh will arrive m Blenheim four or five hours later. The Factories Act. — At the Supreme Court, Auckland, on Thursday, the appeal case of Hubert Fergusson, Inspector of Factories, v. John Van Breda, was argued; The appeal was from a deoision by Dr Giles, R.M., m the Auckland Police Court, and was brought to obtain his Honour's deoision as to the' construction of sections 9, 10, 12, and 13 of the Factories Aot, 1890, to determine whether annual registration is or is not required. His Honour dismissed the appeal, statipg that the respondent had paid all he was liable to pay, thus upholding Dr Giles' decision that it is not necessary to re-register every year. Rbvsjnoe Betobnb. — With the help of the Colonial revenue returns for March, gazetted for the first-time on record, the New Zealand Times has drawn up a tabulated statement of revenue for the year. The ordinary ravenue shows £1,219,535, as against tha estimate of £4,047,800. This is £173.735, better than the estimate, aDd £138,750 above the previous year's income. The expenditure was £4,154,120 whioh with the difference added to the surplus of £165,573, brought forward from last year gives a gross surplus of £511,288, from thiß deduct £200,000 transferred to the Public Werks Fund, and £28,502, deficienoy m the Land Fund, leaving a net surplus for the year of £282,73 G. The estimate for the Land Revenue was £O'J,OOO, but the actual receipts amounted to £110,355, The only department of ordinary revenue which doe 3 not exceed the estimate for the year ia the territorial, m which there is a deficienoy of £4.700. The surplus m each section of the ordinary revenue for the year are roughly stated as: — Customs £67,000, stamps £36,000, railways £34,000, Land and Income Tax £15,000, registration £3000, miscellaneous £4,700, beer duty £13,000,

W.C.T. U.— At tho publio meeting to-be addressed by -Miss KM m Wesley Hall jon Monday evening next, Mr' T. L. Buiok, M.H.R., will preside, and on! the subjeot of "Women's Franchise" Messrs T. Watson, W. Sinclair and others, m addition to ths lady herself, will speak. A collection m aid of the W.C.T.U. funds will bo taken up. Bank of New South Wales. — The Manager of the local branch of the Bank of New. South Wales has handed to .uajpr. P<rt>; liofttion "their last report "arid balance sh"eef t including the Chairman's remarks at the half . yearly mesting. These m another oolunin. It is gratifying to findC from them that amid the financial topsyturvydom and ruin now reigning _m ( Australia, this old established institution can pursue the even tenor of its way. Complimentary. — Thus our Pioton contemporary : For the eapeoial benefit of Mr Inspector Smith and those membars of the Education Board who are "death on the regulations," we make the following extract from the report of a reoent meeting of the Taranaki Education. Board :— Mieses Mary Cross and J. HoHardy tendered their resignations as pupil teaohers m the Opunake school. It was resolved, on the motion of Mr Wade, seconded by Miss Heywood — That the resignation be accepted, and that the necessary steps be taken to appoint two pupil teachers or an assistant." Messrs Parker, Hutcheson, and Carter will please note that there is at least one Education Board m the Colony, which pays some slight attention to the wishes of School Committees, and. the members of which allow themselves to be guided by the dictates of common sense. The above extract showß that the Taranaki Board numbers a. woman among its members. We have several old ones on our Marlborough Board, but for ordinary intelligence they cannot hold a candle to tha Taranaki lady, g Will they copy her good example ? : We j doubt it. ; i Football.— The following are the teams seleoted to play m Saturday's Cup matphes: — Seniors: — Marlborough v. Wairau at Blenheim. Marlborough: Clark, Pasley, Carey, Robinson, Carter, Prebble, Dgdson (21, Bax, Gillespie, Greenfield, Lipscombe, Bird, Gillon, Fulton. Wairau: Horton, -Litchiield, Redwood, Williams, Bsillie, Bliok, Knight, Miliington, Ballactine, Wanden, Ching, Allen, Griffiths, Tetley, Rowe. Union v. Waitohi at Picton. Unions: Molver, Shaw, Greig, Simson, Brown, Cribb, Waterhouee, O'Sullivan, H. Clouston, Lura; raas, Griffiths, Stratford, Fulton, Carey, Farmar. Waitohi : Pugh (4), Baillie (2), Campbell, Marshall, Greensill (2), Nickless, Card, Blake, France, Howard. Juniors :- Marlborough v. Union on No 2. Marlborough : Carter (3), Nesbitt (2), Ball (3), Day, Clare, Humphries, Wright, Driscoll, Bartlett, Gilbert ; emergencies, Smith (2), Strange. Union : Brace, Dumble, Dawea, MoCusker, Carroll, Curtis, Ormsby, Beid, Mitchell, Ball, Parkei> Hodson H., Home, McKay, Dixon ; emergencies, MoLane 1 , Munoaßtar," Farmar, Jack*son.™ Wairau v. Awarua at Spring Creek. Wairau : Redwood, Patchett, Jelly man, Broughan, Mills, Batty, Sinclair, Adams, Sohwass (2), Allen, Chittendßn, Sowman, Scott, Tindill, emergencies, Litchfield, Knight, Thompson. Awarua: O'Dwyer (4), Blake, Morrin ; (2), Withy, Masted, Woolloy, Parsons, J. Neal, Sutton, McConway, F. Neal : emergencies, Morrin, Powick; - ; . Tbotjt. — This Cromwell Argus is responsible for the following:— ' The Nevis river, wehenr, is so full of trout that they can and are being speared easily. The young fish aro to be seen by the million almost, so that if a little fishing is indulged m without a license, and m hardly the orthodox manner, it is not likely to do so much harm as if the larger fish were left to. feed on the small fry — not that we advocate illicit fishing, but merely m extenuation. Out of evil good sometimes comes.,' • A Neat Retort.— ln the Nineteenth' Century for March, a lecture on Jewish: wit and humor is published — which was recently .delivered at the London Institution by the ' Chief Rabbi. Here is one of the anecdotes narrated : —At a festive banquet, representatives of the Protestant, Cathoho, and Jewish clergy had been invited, and were engaged m pleasant converse. The Rabbi, faithful to the dietary precepts of his religion, partook of only a few of the dishes. An appetigiug joint of roast pork was sot on the table. The Catholic priest turned to hia neighbour and asked, .' When will the time corrio that I may Have tha privilege of serving you with a slice of this delicious meat? 'When I have the gratification of assisting at your reverences wedding,' the Rabbi rejoined with a oourteous bow." ■ Not to Know is Not to Hays, but once having used Son Baking Powder you will never be without; it; for it ib the beat m the market, both for purity and ; pri6e. Sold everywhere r >