THE Marlborough Express Published Every Evening. Satubday, January 5, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue XXXI, 5 January 1895, Page 2

THE Marlborough Express Published Every Evening. Satubday, January 5, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Coach.— The Kaikoura ooach oros^d the Awatere at Riobmond Brook this mprning and reached town this afternoon. ( Official. —Mr James M'Kerrow 1 , late Chief Railway Commissioner, who had been appointed Land Purchase Inspector, has assumed the duties of his new offioe ; Population Statistics.— The arrivals during December were 2657 and the departures 1544. The net gain for the year was 2359, as against 10,412 m 1893. ■■ . Postal.— The Okaramio Post Office 'will be m charge of Mr E. Hart for a month, during the absenoe of the Boboolmlstress, who has oharge of the Post Office. Salvation Abm*.— The Army have vaoated their former barracks m Wynen Street, and now hold their meetings m the Good Templars' Hall m Grove Road. ' Religious.— Hia Graoe Arohbishop Redwood arrived m Blenheim by this morning's train. He will preach at St. Mary's tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. Appeal Boabo.— The Katipo (the organ of the telegraphißte) says: "Time Bweeps on, and still the date for the Appeal Board eleotion U not fixed." Journalistic. — The latest numbers of The Wheelman, The Katipo, and the Prohibitionist, are to hand. The last named publication is particularly " spioy." Cape Pallibeb.— Captain Allman, Nautical Advieer to the Government, and Mr Hay, of the Publio Works Department, will next week survey Cape Palliser for a suitable Bite for a lighthouse, whioh the Government deoided to ereot there. Poultry.— Some prize poultry— six Indian game birds— was brought out from England by the Rimutaka, consigned to Mr F. Rogen, of Wellington, the well known poultry fanoier. Pkomotion. — Mr Victor Huddleston, who has oooupied an assistant's position m the local Stook Department for some time past has been promoted to the Inspectorship of Westland. He leaves probably on Monday. Many friends will ba glad to hear of Mr Huddleston's success. Reported Rifling.— Sergt M* jor Soanlan has reoeived intelligence from Mw J. KitrnvT that his Btore. £i- Wafrau Valley has been -eaterea, and some goods taken away, during biaabsenoe m Blenheim during the holidays. No one was left m charge. Constable Sheary started for the locality to-day. The Union Bank. — It is reported that the Union Bank of Australia intends to make a oall of £25 per share, amounting to £800,000, on the shareholders m the Bank of South Australia (m liquidation), being the entire amount of the liability of the latter. Bowling. — Under the auspices of the New Zealand Bowling Association, a bowling tournament will be held at Dunedin this month, beginning on the 14th instant. The ohief events will be the Rink Tournament, the Double-handed Champion Bowling Tournament, and the Single-handed — - i=_ _ Dbill Instbuotob. — Mr Fry, an ex* member of a British infantry regiment, arrived m Wellington by the Rimutaka oa Tuesday, for the purpose of taking up the duties of Instructor to the Rifla Volunteers m New Zealand. A sub-marine mining expert is to come from England, under engagement to the Government, at an early date. A Painful Accident.— Mr A. Gambling, a butoher at Ingle wood, was reoently mounted on a pair of steps doing some* thing to his Bhop front when the steps gave way, and he was thrown againet a hook, whioh entered the fleshy -part of hie arm, and he was suspended m this way until someone came to his assistance and Jif ted him down. Rich Qgabtz.— A find m quartz whioh is oausing a sensation is reported from Mr H. Byrne's olaim on the range at Bald Hill, Otago. The stone, whioh has baen provad for a length of 50ft, is very rioh, 3dwt of loose gold being the average prospeot from a dish of the staff, while the hard stone ia held together with the precious metal. An Expensive Joke. — A resident of Masterton, the Wairarapa Star says, tendered one of the new poßtal notes to a well known publioan m payment for drinks. The publioan thought it was a joke, and with the remark—" All right, my friend, there'll be no more jokes with this one, I assure you," he took the note and burned it m the kitohen fire. He has since had to find the difference between the prioe of the drinks and the value of the note m hard cash, and be does not think the joke at all a merry one. The State Fabm.— Thus the Prohibitionists—We have just reoeived a letter from a Mr Skorrett, solicitor, of Wellington breathing out threatening and slaughter against us for the statement that some men and women on the State Farm had baen degraded by drink. To our surprise, be mentions two individuals, of whom we never heard, who consider themselves aggrieved. Our paragraph was written m the belief that the State Farm was a term applicable to a smaller district run upon similar lines to the Cheviot. It is too lato for as to make enquiries before we go to press ; but, if we find that " the Farm" means only some small group of families who are justly aggrieved, we will gladly make the amende Jwnorahle m our next issue. The Flood. — Particulars aa to the damage done by the reoent flood are heard on all sides. Several of the best orops m the district have been totally destroyed, and the losses include a good number of live Btook. One unfortunate farmer is said to have lost both his orops and stook m toto. Luckily, the Lower Wairau River Board has not, we understand, suffered to any great extent, their banks and other works not necessitating any expensive repairs. The water did not visit Mr W. B. Parker's grain store ia Sinolair Street, there being some 2ft Gin to spare ; nor the store of Mr W. E. Clouston on the northern side of High Street, it having been raised lately to meet suoh a case. Messrs Houldsworth Bros.' grocery store and Mr Augustus' hair« dressing Bhop m Market-street South also escaped enoroaohment. Chbistjiab PaESENTe.— Equal to 103 m £. Colonial portmanteaux 11s 0d each, cheap at 17s 6d. Bedford oord for boys' Buits, 10id, never sold under Is 9d. Childrens' sun hats and bonnets Is lid each, worth 3s 6*. Wide laoe 4}d, j^d, 6d a yard, for the neck, osnal price lQjd. Men's silk oashmere BhirtMflfMr' jj.ujg.Bilk oollars, 6s lid, well worth 12s?j03i|Ttbn'8 regatta shirts 2s lid, usual prioo 49gd. l A beautiful lot of China washingßilk^A^ies 1 bjgusea, 10£ d a yard, aever^^^H|^^3d^^^^

Bobough Council. — The usual monthly meeting of the Borough Oounoil takes place next Friday evening, having been postponed on aooount of the holidays. Personal. —Mr B. H. Keys, the capable and courteous officer m oharge of the looal Telegraph Department, haß been granted a month's leave of absence. Shooting Fatality. — The following are the particulars of the shooting fatality whioh took place at Hillmorton, Christohurch, the other day, when a little boy named Geoffrey Hand, aged one year and nine months, was shot m the side of the head, by his uncle, George H*nd, aged eleven years and killed instantly. The gun belonged to Mr John Hand, father of the deceased, and was left m a corner m his bedroom. It had been kept m the bedroom for six months, and Hand states that it was loaded but not capped. After Hand left the house it is supposed tb<at his young brother George went into the bedroom, and finding the gun went out on to the road and began playing with it. The two boys were playing together and the gun went off when the younger boy was only about eleven yards away from his unole. The shot entered the side of the unfortunate ohild'd head and death was almost instantaneous. A Twelve Years' Sleep,— A Frenchwoman, Margaret Bouyenval, who fell into a state of catalepsy on May 25th, 1882, is said to be still alive and asleep. Her parents refuse to allow her to be transferred to the Salpetrie're. The story would be coarcely oreditabla if not attested by medical auth ority. Margaret Bouyenval was delivered of a male ohild, whioh died two days after its birth. Suspicion was aroused, and a magistrate, aocompanied by two gendarmes, visited the cottage of the Bouyenvals at Thenelles, a village near St Quentin. The girl's fright was bo great that she had a terrible fit of hysteria, followed by cataleptio coma, m whioh condition, notwithstanding the efforts of doctors and eleotrioians, she has remained for more than twelve years. On several ocoasions she has moaned audibly. She is fed on milk and peptone, and removed onoa a day from one bed to another. A Noxzoua Weed.— Thus the Manawatu Btandard:— We have had our attention direoted lately to the danger pastures are being subjeoted to m this distriot by the enoroaohment of a weed known popularly as the dog daisy. It spreads rapidly once it gets a hold and kills almoat every other sort of vegetation, while sheep will pot have anything to do with it. In » twenty-aore paddook on the Oroua Downs a {armer put 1600 sheep reoently for the purpose of forcing them to eat down the pest, but at the end of several weeks not a single plant had bean touohed, so that there is not th.9 s.'/ghtast prospeot of eradicating "ft by natural methods, and nothing short of grubbing the plant completely out will free the pastures from it. In some part? of tha distriot the daisy ia very thiok, bui it has not generally spread to any great extent, and we trust some immediate steps will ba taken to prevent the further growth of what appaarß to be a menaoe to the welfare of those who use their holdings for grazing purpoßep. Happened m a Chuboh. —A terrible panio reoently occurred at the oonseoration of a new village ohuroh m Ostroviansk. A lamp hanging on the inoonostasis, the large soreen whioh separates the high altar from tha body of the churoh, exploded, and the dress of a woman sitting near oaught fire. She screamed with fright, and there was an immediate panio. The whole congregation rushed for the doors, whioh became coai- . platfllr_blooked with the_atr^ggllng- jaopia. When the olergy were at length able to restore oalm, and the pressure was relieved, the bodies of five dead children and three women were taken out of the throng, and also twenty-seven persons who bad esoaped with their lives, but were terribly injured. Eighteen of these died while they were being taken to the infirmary. Exploration.— Tha special correspondent of the Waimea Plains Review with Hamer's exploring party, at the head ot Chalky Inlet, states that Gillies, one of the party, olimbed to the top of a peak 3000 ft high, and got a splendid view of the country. He saw that there were more than the three lakes mentioned by Hamer. A fine waterfall with a dear descent of 500 ft was seenPerhaps the moat important of his observations was the disoovery of a large open traot of fine tussocky oountry, portions of whioh, he says, were perfectly fit for the plough. The land m question formed a kind of undulating plain situated 50ft above, but, nevertheless, approximating to an arm of the sea. His impression is that this is a most important discovery for the Lands Department. The surrounding hills are described as lightly bushed, and would make excellent g rasing oountry. He describes the surrounding scenery as a panorama of unsurpassed beauty. The weather, unfortunately, set m bad, and he was not able to oomplete bis observation?. Tall Scoring.— Talking of scoring (says " Bohemian " m the Cbristohuroh Press), the sharpest work I have heard of for a long time was the performance of our Boy a' High Sohool Eleven the other day. They went down from here to Oamaru the day after the breaking up. Next morning, direotly after breakfast, they played a cricket mat oh against the Oamaru High School. There were three innings played out. The Ghristohuroh boys beat the Oamaru boys by one innings and one hundred and fifty runs. They were entertained at a jolly good spread afterwards, and drove to Oamaru station m time to catch the express back to Christohuroh on the same day. History does not relate at what hour those boys breakfasted. Just Opened, a line of Men's Blue Serge Suits (not Foxes') for 303, at the New Zealand ClothiDg Faotory.— Advt. A thoboughly wholesome and invigorating stimulant, Dawson's Perfection Three Diamond Whisky. Purchase by the bottle and so seoure the genuine artiole. Histobv Repeated.— Thousands of people saw Charles I. beheaded m 1643. But m all that orowd there waa but one man who knew why the blood spurted from the dis« severed arteries m the Monarch's neck. That was Dr Harvey, the King's Phyßician. He had announced the circulation of the blood, and m doing bo Btarted a tremendous soandal. People called him a foal, meddler, a madman. What a lucky thing it was that the Puritans ohopped off the King's head instead of Harvey's. A King more or less doesn't matter, but a thinker more or less does. Thank meroy its safer now to tell new truths than it was 250 years ago. That is why we are not afraid to Bay Crease's Al Coffee is the very beßt procurable. To Newspaper Advertisers : Advertising Blocks from MoKee & Gamble, New Zealand Press Agency, Wellington.