NEWS & NOTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 158, 28 June 1895, Page 1

NEWS & NOTS.

Afc a mucus of fhc Opposition yesterdoy. Captain Kussell was chosen leader. Fifteen members of tba Salvation Army wero arrested afc Oakland, Gal., for violating a new city ordinance which prohibi s street preaching 1 . Attention is drawn to the important sale of stock e«c, to be held at the farm of Mr n. Button, Waikakabo, on Mon. day next. Messrs Horcon & Co. are the auctioneers. The naiional loss by fi-e annually ia the Unled Kingdom is £9,100.000; ia France, £3,200,000; m Germany, £6,100,000; m Kussia, £21,000.000; m Belgium, £500,000: m Scindioavia, £1,000,000; m tha United States, £22,600,000; and m Canada, £1,100,000. The Equimaui treat the skins of animala intended for clothing by first 6craping off bb much fat as possible with a knife, allowing tbe skin to become dry, and then employing the women of the household to chow and suck it ell over, m order to eliminate every vestige of grease from the hide. One Suuday aftorDOon Revivalist Moody, at Fort Worth (U.S.), called on his 8 000 hearers to pray for rain. In the evening be announced to 10.000 heaters that it had rained at several points, an-1 a few minutes later it wag raining torrents, occasioning part of the roof to fall, that meda a panic, by which one person was fatally, aix severely and forty sUghtly hurt ! Duting tbe coarse of hi* spaech m tbe Houbo last week Capt&in Eussell remarked : •' Mr Pirani had stated that during the year ha bai been m Parliament he had learned a great deal — he bad shown, however, tbat ha had a great deal more t> leara by his taking the Governor's Speech us gospel. The first paragraph m the Speech referred to the dißappearacca of fcje unfortunate seals— they had been killed for their shins, the Speech etaleJ, The Government policy was one of skinning — the landholders had been skinned, the laboring classes had been skinned, the firmer s had bseu skinned ; nothing was left ; it was a policy of taxation and bleediop, one oppression after another, obstruction ot industries and injury to everybody and everything. The Speech congratulated the people of Ihe colony upon a year of success, and stated that the depression was ris* ing. It was a year during which the lend tax bad been twice colleced, and were not the pastoral interests lower now fhan ever they had been ? They but was it not admitted that daring the past yeir they, bai none even lower?" "Woomara," m the Australasian re* lafes the following incideut :— At Bairnsiale, or one of the adjacent pro* viucial centres, lives a man who is not popular end who glories m the facr. On a recent wet night his wife woke him up with iho information that a cow was m the star 'en. Out he went, lightly clad, iuto the raging element?, raging himself, and not content with turning the marauder out ho drove her to the loaal pouad, clapping on a stiff claim for damages. Having done this, he rejoiced greatly within himself, went home, returned to bed, and woke next morning with a sharp attack of rheumatism. His sufferings were increased by the fct thit hU own cow was reported missing. After days of agony he recovered suffioiebtly to hobble over to the pound to see what had become of the animal he had impounded. Gentle reader, you can already guess the end of my little story. He had brought on his illness by " impounding his own cow."