LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 184, 27 July 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tenders. —The Spring Creek River Board invite tenders for raising the bank below the Opawa Bridge. Bankbuptot.— Mr Carl Markmann, tailor, has filed a declaration of insolvency. The first meeting of creditors is to be held on the Bth August, at 3 p.m. Breadmaking.— Mr T. H Hustwick lectured before St John's Literary Association, Wellington, on Tuesday last on " The Soience of Breadmaking." H8 received a hearty vote of thanks. Stock Bai.e. — Mr Branson's sale of stock at Spring Creek, will not be. held this month, the flooded state of the rivers preventing Btock being sent m. Entries are invited for the August sale. Fish. — Here is a chanoe for our local fisherman. Mr Whiting of Picton requires two tons of river eels, and 100 sacks of crayfish. Can they be obtained ? The Policeman and the Dog— The dog is a faithful animal. The Woodville constable was arresting a woman when her prize pup assailed the policeman, who if now on the siok list. Benevolent Aid Society. — This Society, which is doing a very commendable work m assisting needy oases m Blenheim, holds a general meeting on Wednesday next. The business is to eleot officers for the coming year. Meteorological. — Captain Edwin wired at 12.45 p.m. today :— " North-east -to north and west gale with rain, and heavy sea m Straitß after Bixteen hours from now. Ebb tides continue strong ; glass fall again soon." Collision.— Our cables to-day state that the ship Wellington, bound from Picton to London, has been dismasted, through collision, but no particulars of the incident are given. The Stebns. — The big fat women with the squeaky voice, and the thin German Yank with good tricks, but very poor 1 patter 1 have made a big hit m Adelaide. A paradox— a drearier and yet, m its way, a cleverer antartainment never visited the colonies than that of the S teens.— Exchange. Educational. — A conference of school inspectors, to deal with the subject of bringing the inspection and examination of primary and secondary schools under the control of the Education Department, and the issuing of a new oode of instructions to inspectors requiring uniform standard examinations, will be held early m 1894. Mining.— After BinkiDg two shafts the prospsoting party who intended thoroughly testing the Onamaluta Valley as a goldbearing district have relinquished operations, and the work is now at a standstill We understand another party will carry on the work m the Spring. Abi Union.— The Art Union m connection with the Poultry Association is to be drawn at ten o'clook to night. There has been a brisk demand for tickets, very few being now available. The main prizes are valuable ones, and the winner of the first a eulky, oan obtain £15 for the vehicle. This fact should induce investment. Dahoebods GsotJND. — A tourist named E. Herbert, of Melbourne, while looking at the Bights at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, without a guide, suddenly went through the ground up to his knee m soalding water. The skin came off his leg m an instant. He wftß dragged out by two other tourists, and taken to Auckland. The Political Duel.— The Sydney Telegraph, m &n article on the Cadman-Rees political duel, says it has all the absurdity, without the savage piotureequeness, whioh characterises trial by ordeal or combat of feudal times. If the electorates do their duty, it Bays, they will bring forward and elact new candidates. Havelock.— At the R.M. Court, Havelock, on Wednesday, the following cases were heard :— Clifford v. Wm. Robinson, claim £5 2s, judgment for amount, and costs £1 14s ; Scott v. Dowsing, judgment summons, adjourned till August 23rd; Police v. C. Elliott, cruelty to animals, allowing a horse to stand m a dray from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., without any sustenance, m a right-of-way leading to the Maßonio Hotel, fined 10s and costs 11s. Wabdbn's Court.— A sitting of the Warden's Court was held &t Havelock on Wednesday. An application for protection for three months by the Wakamarina Gorge Goldmining Company, m consequence of the wet season, was granted. Mr W. T, Erakine appeared for the Company. An application for constructing a water race at Quail's Terrace was granted, Bubjeot to existing rights. A Floating Corpse. — Captain Abbott, of the barque Eillarney, whioh arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Thursday last, stated that on the let inst, the vessel being then one day out, he passed a corpse floating on the ocean. The corpse, which appeared to be olad m a white shirt, bad one of the hands placed at the back of the bead, but as the barque was goiDg at the rate of about seven knots at the time, no attempt was made to pick the body up. Accident. —The Manawatu Standard regrets to learn that the recent aocident to Mr Blundell, Sheep Inspector, by whioh he hurt bis leg at the Feilding saleyards, has proved to be a very serious dislocation of the knee, and it wiil be some weeks before he is fit to resume his duties. In the meantime Mr Hull, from Wsnganui, with assistance from some of the other inspectors, will attend to the departmental work required m the district. Thb •'Tote. 11 — It is not intended to abandon the State tax of 1$ per cent collected on all totalieator investments, but should the retention of this gambling machine be determined on by Parliament, steps will be taken by the Government to prevent the clubs licenced to use the machine charging the publio a commission of 10 per cent. Thft extra charge consequent on the imposition of the Government tax has been the main cause of the cry for the repeal of the totftlisator. Wesleyan Sunday School. — An important meeting of teachers was held on Monday avening, when arrangements were made for tbe annual August festival. It is hcpad that as a result sufficient funds will be left m hand to complete the internal decoration of the school building. Considerable progress was reported m connection with tha intended Industrial Exhibition. The soholars are beginning to take a lively interest, and promises of help and exhibits are coming m from friends m various parts of the colony Arrangements for lighting tbe Bobofil and grounds with powerful electric light are almost completed. /FootbkLl. — Final arrangements are being made for the matches with tbe Wellington Club on Arbor Day and the day following. Tbe visitors are second for the cup m Wellington this year, and some good play is confidently expected. In view of the forthcoming junior football matoh with Nelson a trial matoh will be played on No. 2 ground on Saturday. The selection committee met last evening and picked probable and possible teams. The following are the names :— Probables : E. Ball, Clinch, W. and P. O'Dwyer, Bartletfc, Driscoll. Day, Blick, Nesbitt, Wright, Gilbert, D. Morrio, Woolley, J. Neale, C. and G. Carter, Cooper, MoNab, Sinclair and Barclay; Possibles: Empson, Redwood, Parson?, Sutton, Blaike and Smith (Waitobi), A. Carter, Humphries, C. Cress. McCallum, A. and J. O'Dwyer, Fitzgerald, W. Smith, McCanway, J. Morrison, Maxted, Withey, Petberick, Witchell. The former will play m the Awarua colors, and the latter m mixed jerseys. Brosnan v. Hillhan and Allen.— This case came on m the Resident Magistrate's Court at Blenheim before J. Allen R.M., on Friday the 28th April last and on the 19th May the Resident Magistrate dismissed the case upon tbe ground that he had no jurisdiction to give judgment herein, as the question of title to land had been raised. Mr McCallum, who appeared for tbe plaintiff, being dissatisfied with tbe decision, applied to His Honor, Mr Justice Richmond, at the last sitting of the Supreme Court m Blenheim, for a mandamus to compel the Resident Magistrate to hear and determine the action for the recovery of a sum of money alleged to be due for rent of premises at Renwioktown. together with a small sum due for rates. After hearing counsel for both parties, and reading the papers filed m Court m this case, His Honor reserved judgment for further consideration, and to-day the Registrar by His^ Honor's instructions read m Court, the written judgment herein, whereby judgment is given for defendant with costs £10 10a exclusive of disbursements. The full text of the judgment will appear m our next issue.

That Awkwabd Euros.— The breeze ib tbe Eouse oq Tuesday (sajs tbe Post), m which the Premier was charged with falsifying the records of the House m tbe oaae of ths Public Works Statement of la-t year, oarae before ths Publio Accounts Committee m the shape of a motion that tbe Premier be examined. The motion was opposed on the gronnd that the Committee could not deal with the matter unless it wat referred to it by the House, and the motion was lost on the casting-vote of the Chairman. The faots are briefly that the matter came about m this way : — In the preparations of a Public Works State" ment, the Department first does the work, supplying the figures and acoounts, and various paragraphs elucidating them, and giving the Departmental views as to various works. The Minister-in-charge next supplies the political paragraphs, and copies of the Statement so prepared are supplied to each member of the Cabinet, who m his turn analyses hia copy, making marginal notes of hiß views. The whole are then considered m Cabinet, and the final Statement, usually ready at the last moment, is a joint production. Last year the final revision of the Statement was ready at about 5 o'clook, and the ink waa still wet when the oopieß were taken to the House at 7.30 p.m. The figures respecting the amount expended m public works for the year were correctly given m one portion of the Statement, but a group of figures given m another portion appeared to show a gradual tapering off m the public works expenditure, tbe item for the Ballanoe Administration being the lowest gf all. On the strength of this there was a glowing paragraph as to the reduction of expenditure by the Ministry. Unfortunately, there had been a clerical error of about £90,000 m the figures given, the expenditure being understated m this particular plaoe by that sum, and instead of being lower than m previous years, it should have been higher. Mr Richardson noticed this, sad called attention to it. The Minister says ha was asleep, and didn't hear the correction, and the motion to go into Committee of Supply was carried without bis replying. Next morning the Undor- Secretary for Publio Works corrected the figures before further issue was made from the Printing Offies, without altering the rest of th« paragraph, which ho considered he was not entitled to do, and without informing the Minister. Pabasitbs op Firm Ahimals. — In the course of a lecture recently delivered before the members of the Auckland Agricultural Society on " Internal parasites of farm animals," Professor Thomas strongly condemned ths praotioe of allowing dogs on a farm to devour the raw offal of animals killed on tbe premises, which was a very common practice m New Zealand. Such a practice tended more than anything «lse to keep on a stock of bydatids m the place. He mentioned a recorded cage m Germany, where an owner of sheep lost every year about 20 per cent of his sheep from bladderworm m the brain, while he allowed his dogs to eat the raw offal about ths place including the sheep's heads. Whsn the dogs were prevented from consuming this offal until it had been thoroughly cooked, the mortality from " gid" among ihe sheep dropped immediately to only one or two per cent. The inferenoe, of course, was that ths germs passed through the dogs and being cast on to the grass, etc., they were taken into the sheep's stomach while feeding upon the herbage. Ths End is at Hand. — Before we finish the season, we have to inform the publio of Blenheim and the neighborhood that we have just received the following too late for us to hold over, we will therefore let the whole go at a quarter the original coat. The line of dress goods which we offer is the largest stock we have ever bought, and we have no hesitation m saying that for quality and design there has never been anything to compare with them m this colony. Although the stock is large, we know very well that the price at whioh we will Hell will soon clear it, and further, wr will guarantee to paralyse tbe dress trade m this town for some time to come. The dresses consist of the following : — 1,200 yards double width Meltons, all the leading shades, at 9d per yard, 4s 6d the dress, worth at least 12s 6d. 3,000 yards of new all wool dress repp, double width, to clear at Is 6d per yard, worth at least 33 lid. 1,000 yards beautiful silk and wool mixture, the very latest, will be cleared at 18 6d This line is being sold elsewhere m Blenheim at 43 6d. Ladies' 503 fur edge cloaks for 19s Gd, at R. Allan's.— Advt. T. Smale has received instructions to sell the balance of the stock of the late J. Godfrey, consisting of grocery, drapery, ironmongery, fancy goods, etc, amounting from a needle to an anohor. These goods must be Bold and no reasonable offer will be refused, at the shop adjoining his old stand next to Litchfieid's sale.— Advt. Opportunity is Golden.— People are always wanting something for a obange, therefore why not try Uncle Sam's Bollsd Oats, whioh are unrivalled as a breakfast luxury, being most nutritious and not heating the blood as m the case of oatmeal. Recommended for invalids. Sold every* where m 21b packets. Tbe New Zealand Clothing Faotory have eucaessfally run the Wertheim Sewing Maohine sinoa starting here. Customers are pleased with the machine, and satisfied with the firm with whom they have done business; and especially m buying a sewing maohine customers want to know they are doing business with a steady firm who are not likely to be here to-day and away to-morrow. So try the New Zealand Clothing Faotory for a good sewing maohine. Energy will do almost anything, but it cannot exist if the blood is impure and moves sluggishly m the veins. There is nothing so good foi cleansing tbe blood and imparting energy to the system as Ayee's Sarsaparilla.