NEWS & NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 30 July 1895, Page 1

NEWS & NOTES.

+ Mr J. W. Kothwill hns oi -posed of [ his business in Bridgo s'reer, Nelson, to Mr T. Bull, late of Bienluini. Vict'm hns been scratched for all engagements at tbe C.J.C. Grand National Meetiog. The bou'ids meet ut the kenne's. Upper Kpring Creek, on Wednesday next at 12.30 p.m. This will be the last ' meet ' of the season. The Eav. Father Brown, of Roes, when riding rtuud the three mile bluff the other clay, was washed out to sea, and was rescued in an insensible con* dition. A Wesley an niiesiou was comaiencad in Nelsoa on Sunday iu St. John's Church. It will last for ten days, and will ba couducted by tho Revs. Bon*?, Fee, and Marshal!. Tbe f i»uds of Mr E. H. Donkin, who was injured by rke trsm iiccidant, iu Nelpon some months ag.>, wiil be pleased to learn tint he is aeaiu about »ad at work. His ankb i* still a little weak, but with oare it is iiope-1 that it will be as well us ever agci:i. The Wairurapt Rugby Uoiou ba3 d< elded to eond o football tsam to Canterbury, pJaying against the fc'outh Canterbury* team, at Tiiuaro, on the 21st August, and against tho Christchurch representative fe«m on August 25th. No mention i* made of refiuni g the visit paid by the MatlbDrcu^h team last year. Information has been received ia Christcburch to tho eff ;ct tb.it the New South Wales Cricket Association has decided to send a rep. tcum to New Zpaland tli3 year. This will be the fi.et official visit of on Australian cricket to the colony, that which visited U3 lest year having been picked and conducted by Mr Davis, a New South Wales cricket enthusiast. From our iutest files we notice that at Auckland aud Nnpier the sohool committees have decided to ei quire into the system and quantity of home {work given to tae children. It is advanced in the fitst plsce tint the teacher's time is unnecessarily taken up iu revising these lefssns, and ia tbe second p'uee that their effects 19 injurious. The costs of the Dean Commission in Sydney will be, say £2,500. The yearly salary of tha judge who has caused this expense to the province ia £2.600. A young maa named Edward Alfred Triggs wub playiog Yo..fcb«ll »t Ryde, Sydney, ncabtiy, wheu be was ituck on the j iw by tho arm -stump of a oneaimed pl-tyu 1 , the result being a fracture. The local Court- room is fa c t gaming a spleodid teputati in as a frfez : ng clamber. 1b.3 feuiperuturo yesterday was most ur comfortably frigid. Why are there fire-plece-s in tbe room if they are never to^ be used '? Th.3 Blenheim Rowing Club have placed in tbe hands of Mr Norton, of Wellington, an order for two light pleasure boat?, to be built in time for tho opaiing of nxt season. They will ba acceptable additions to tho present fleet. Between the hours of 11 and 12 on Saturday night, four weU- known residents might have bo3u observed playing matbles wiih mandarins in front of a ftniterer's shop in town. It was an interesting eight. A man in Bathurst, for whom a sub« BCiipt ; on was raicel to buy him a wooden leg. was charged at thfc Sydney Custom Housa £2 (is 8i as duty. He appealed for a rebate, but whs informed that no itfuad is allowed oa wooden legs. The Kuinara Times states that a West Coast Anglican pardon ou stepping into churcb en a wet night recently found not a eoul present. He went home in high dudgeon, 9nd mouotiuej a box in the porlcur delivered his oratijn to a drowsy wife. William Morris, tb9 poer, rejoices in the possessioa of a prodigious memory, Given a fair start ou any s.°utence iu Dickeu'a works, he will complete that sentence with very little deviation from textual accuracy. Were every copy of " Pickwick Papers" destroyed to-day, William Morris could wiite tbe book almost word for word a3 it now stands. In London, the other day, Mr B. Mtitthews, aged 72, aud Mis? Mary Bright, aged 86, were marrie-1. It w<is explained that the happy bridegroom had been courting the bride for upwards of 25 years, but their maiviag was delayed because they could not ngree ou tbe question what religious persuasion the children should be brought up iu. When the Court had commenced busin?ss yesterday, it was found that the furniture of the Courthouse wss covered with dust, which had aocidently escaped the notice of tho caretaker. The bands of tbe counsel got very black from comiug ia contact with the table, and one legal gentleman was fain to confess 1 hat he did not come out of the case with such clem hands as when he started— speaking in a purely literal smse, of course. An old Native named RanieiaPu'au* hinu, oged 95, died at Waipiwa on Sunday las L . Tbe deceased was a native of the Waihato aud carao to Hawke'a Bay about 30 years ago. He was present at the signing of the Treaty of Wnitaugi and had a vivid recollection of the oveut. He whs appointed a Maori magistrate 50 ye us ago aud for scmo i'uve be ltbour<>d as a Catholic misbiouary among *t his own race. There ia good reason for tho popularity of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Davis & Buzard, of West Monterey, Clarion Co., Pa., eay : " It has cured people that our physioian3 could do nothing for. We persuaded them to tiy a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and they now recommend it with the rest of us." For eale by F. Sam, Medical Hall Blenheim.