The Marlborough Express Published Every Evening. Tuesday, July 80, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 30 July 1895, Page 2

The Marlborough Express Published Every Evening. Tuesday, July 80, 1895. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

+ Sals. — To-morrow at 1 p.m. Messrs Green and Go. will ofior for sale by audion at the Grovetown Hotel furniture and household effeots. Chobal Society.— Members are reminded of the usual weekly praotioe, whioh will take plaoe at the Presbyterian school-room this evening. Tariff Reform.— Ministers have met in Cabinet on several occasions Binoe Friday last, the report of the Tariff CommiEßion and the question of Tariff Reform being the chief matters under consideration. H.A.C.B S.— Members of the H.A.C B.S. are reminded that the summoned meeting to consider notices of motion of an important nature takes plaoe to night at the sobool-room at 7.30 p.m. aud a full attendaooe is urgently requested. The Confession of Mubdbb.— The Auokland police expeot to receive information with referenoe to tbe supposed Nottingham tragedy, with the commission of whioh Samuel Evison now stands obarged on his confession, by tbe next San Francisco mail, arriving on August 15. Particulars of the confession of Evison were forwarded to the Nottingham police authorities on May 18 last. Catholic Social. — A large number attended tbe final meeting of the Oatholio Social Committee last evening, when a good programme was drawn up. The lad.6S have been working very energetically, and judging from the success of all previous sooials will be amply rewarded for their trouble. As announoed, Vannini'e String Band will be in evidenoe for tbe oooasion. Dancing starts at 8 sharp. Presentation.— -Mr C. H. Ralph, agency olerk of the Government Insurance Department of Blenheim, who was recently married to a Wellington lady, was presented by his fellow officers at Wellington with a handsome marble dock bb a mark ot good will. The presentation was made in the bead office sooial hall by Mr Robertson, tbe distriot manager, who referred to Mr JBalph'a long oonneotion with the Department and the great esteem in whioh he was held, and wished him and his bride long life aud happiness. Mr Ralph suitably returned thanks, after which hearty oheers were given for the bride and bridegroom, Mr and Mrs Ralph have arrived in Blenheim from their honeymoon, whioh was spent in tbe North Island. Annual Soibee.— We need scarcely remind our readers of the annual tea end entertainment to be given by the Church of tbe Nativity Sunday Sohool to-morrow, 31st inst. Tbe children, assisted by teachers and friends, have been practising most assiduously for weeks past at a servioe of song entitled "Pilgrim's Progress," an adaptation from John Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress," with great success, and deserve every encouragement. Tbe service will be illustrated by lantern elides, tbe piotures being exceedingly good ; and an additional attraction will be that tbe mueio and words will also be thrown upon the sheet, tbis having proved a great euooess in Nelson when the service was produced there. Tea will be on the tables from 4.30 till 6 p.m. Further information is obtainable from our advertising columns. Thb Babbit Fsst.— The Oamaru Mail says :— lt is said tbe rabbits are aot nearly so plentiful, or rather they are very soaroe, in tbis distrust now. Three local sports went out a day or two Binoe, and, although they got all they saw, only brought in seven. They say that where they used to find the rodentß by hundreds, and even thousands, - Eoaroely one is to be Been now. Thiß ¥i oertainly good news, for not long since it was said they were over-running tbe whole of the Oamaru distriot. Tbe Minister of Lands and bis Rabbit and Stook Department may surely lay olaim to a little credit for this state of things. Civil Case.— The S.M., Mr J. Allen, delivered judgment this morning in the Havelook case Ross v. Wilson, an aotion to reoover the sum of £20. Tbe particu* lars of tbe oase are that the plaintiff agreed to purchase a farm at Havelook from the defendant for £1200, and paid a deposit of £20. Subsequently tbe plaintiff found be oould not carry out the purobase and informed tbe defendant, who afterwards sold the property to Mr Forrest for the same amount as that at whioh tbe plaintiff had agreed to buy. The plaintiff now Bued for tbe reoovery of the deposit. His Worship reviewed the evidenoe, and quoted from English authorities bearing on tbe question ; concluding his judgment as follows : — " In the case now under consideration I take it as proved or admitted : That the £20 was paid as a deposit on acoount of tbe purchase money ; that the oontraot was not broken through any default on the part of the vendor, who was apparently always ready and willing to fulfil bis part of tbs oontraot; that the vendor failed to find tbe balance of the purchase money, and that he in February upon those grounds resoinded the oontraot, and therefore he has no lawful olaim to have the deposit ot £20 refunded. Judgment is for defendant. No order for costs." Mining Operations, —Mr Ziman, a capitalist of Johannesburg, has applied to the Government for the sole right to prospect six areas of oountry between tbe Marana and Matatitaki in tbe Nelson distriot. He is willing to deposit £500 with tbe Government as a surety for going on with tbe work and guarantees to expend in two years £10 per aore in prospering the areas mentioned, whioh means an expenditure of about £40,000. The Hon. Mr Oadman proposes to introduce an amending measure to enoourage mining operations on a large eoale. A Queer Incident.— A peouliar inoident oocurred at Gwayas last week (says tbe Egmont Settler.) A pnre-bred polled Angus bull was missing. Searoh was made in every direction fcut no signs were found Four days afterwards a man quite acciden» tally happened to pass a small wbare, and hearing sounds within be opened tbe door, when to bis astonishment, out walked tbe bull, none tbe worse, but very hungry and thirsty. The bull appeared to have closed tbe door, whioh opened inwards, and was unable to open it again. He waa a valuable animal, and but for a obanoe he would have been starved to death. Many Btubborn and aggravating oases of rheumatism that were believed to be incurable and accepted as life legaoiea, have yielded to Chamberlain's Pain Balm, muob to the surprise and gratification of the sufferers. One application will relieve the pain and suffering and its continued use sTr^V^SJ™ 1 oure - For aale by F. Shaw, MeJioal Hall, Blenheim.

The Liva Cattle Tbadb.— ln oonneotion with the live cattle shipping business, whioh has atlraoted so much attention lately, an interesting statistical return has boen received by a Sydney firm from the owners of an established line of cattle steamships in the Old Country. The return is given specially with the object of showing to what a email fraction has been reduoed the loss of oattle from all causes at sea. Taking the 13 oattle seasons from the year 1882 to 1894, there were 98,521 ostde shippad by tbis line of vessels from American ports to the United Kingdom, and of that number 638 head were lost, equivalent to a mortality rate of # 64, or three-fifths of 1 per cent of the total number oarried. In the single season last year, from Virginia to Liverpool (January to April), 2670 oattle were shipped and five head were lost, or under one-fifth of 1 per cent. From Montreal to London in 1894 (May to Deoember) this line oarried 9323 cattle, 24,124 sheep, and 513 horses. The mortality on these was 11 cattle, 190 sheep, and one horse, equivalent to a mortality rate of -11 or one-ninth of 1 per cent on the oattle, 78 or three- fourths of 1 per cent on Bheep, '10 or one-fifth of 1 per cent on horses. Betting ob Wagering — Mr Hatohison has introduce! the "Restraint of Incitement to Betting or Wagering Bill." It is very stringent in its conditions. Any person who for profit sends or cauees to be sent, to any other person any circular, advertise* ment, letter, telegram, or other document whioh may reasonably be ioif lied to iovite the person reoeiving it to make any bet or wager, or take any share or interest in such a transaction, will, under this Act, be liable to three months' imprisonment or a fine of £100, Likewise, any pereon applying by similar means for information or advioe as to any race, fight, game, or sport, with the objeot of wagering or betting thereon. The publication of tips, betting odds or advioe as to betting or wagering upon a oontin« gency is also provided against by imprison* ment not to exoeed one month, or a fine not ezoeeding £20. Stake and depositholders aleo come within the ratga of the Aot. Blondin.— Blondio, the daring tightrope walker and performer, who made such a sensation in the fifties, when he danoed aoroEs Niagara Falls on his spideMhread bridge, is still living, and is now over seventy years of age. He lives on his own estate, at Niagara House, South Ealing, near London, and is riob. This latter state* ment is not eurprieing when we remember that be rarely made less than five hundred dollars a day while performing. His veal name is Jean Franoois Gravelet, and he was born near Calais in 1824. His nickname he derived from his father, who was called "Blondin" on aocount of the colour of his hair. He was a rope-walker almost from his birth. When enly eight he gave an exhibition before the King of Italy at Turin. His sensational performance at the Niagara Falls more than 30 years made him famous throughout the world. Protection Run Mad. —The Argus investigated the finanoial hißtory of a Melbourne hat manufacturing company, and finds that in teven and a-half years, on a paid-up capital of £23,297, they have written off machinery and buildings £11,558, paid dividends £16.662, placed to a fire assuranoe fund £1000, and oarried forward £205 ; in all £29,425. That is, the com pany have repaid the whole of their capital and made £6,128 in addition, and they still go on merrily making 10 per cent., besides importing new machinery. They have done tbis and can do this by the aid of the high tariff and the payment of wages much lower than rule in the same business in London. An Important Petition.— A petition has been presented from Messrs Gilraore, Younghnabandand Co, Brown, Barret and Co., A. H. Nathan, and L. D. Nathan and Co., asking for an extra import duty of 2d per lb on all packets and boxes of tea nnder 201b in weight. The petitioners point out that nnlesa this is done all the New Zealand tea merchants will have their teas packed in Ceylon, India and China, and that thousands of pounds now spent yearly in the employment of labour will be sent to foreign oountries. Natubally Feozbn Habes.— Mr Tonkin, who is freezing bares for export to London, showed the Timaru Herald on Wednesday a sort of curiosity in the shape of a naturally frozen one, a sample of a consignment received, by train from Fairlie. The bares are, most of them, snared one day and sent down next day or the day after, and in the meantime the frosty nights of Fairlie convert them into frozen bares. They are not absolutely hard all through, but bb a whole each comes down as stiff as a piece of wood. Eev. L. M. Isnr.— Letters reoeived on the 20th report the arrival of Rev. Leonard Isitt in London on June 12th, after a voyage that was a prolonged pleasure trip, with good company and fine weather. Reporters from the London Methodist papers interviewed Mr Isitt on temperanoe matters on the day of bis arrival. Cheap Cutlery.— Another lot of that famous cutlery that took Blenheim by storm. Pure white metal teaspoons, 2d eaoh ; desert spoons 6d eaoh ; table spoons and forks 7£d each. Christopher Johnson's solid niokel silver desert forks lOJd, table forks Is 3d, white riveted table knives Is eaoh. Children's pure woo) black ribbed Cashmere hose, double kneeß, all sizes 1b a pair, usual price 2s 6d. Tbis line will make your teeth water.— R. Allan, Market Street. " Making Both Ends Meet" is rather a difficult task in life with many, but the ex* pense of good cooking is reduoed to a minimun by using the Sun Baking Powdeb, purer and oheaper than most others. Give it a trial. Pbofe9Sob Liebeg says: -"We ehall never know how men were first directed to the use of Coffee, but we may consider the artiole so remarkable for its aotion on the brain and the substance of the organs of motion as an element of food for organs yet unknown, who are destined to convert the blood into nervous substances and thus reoruit the energy of the moving and thinking faoultiee." If you wish to benefit yourBelt you oould not do better than drink Cbease's A. I. Coffee. Sold everywhere in 1 and 2 lb. tins. For it is the best. Watebpboof*.— Do you want a new waterproof overooat ? Then go to the New Zealand Clothing Faotory; not any fear of getting old stook, or a coat " perished " by being imported, as they make up all their own waterproofs, and oan safely reoommend them. There is no danger of tbe garment ooming to pieoes, as the coats are sewn throughout. Try tbe New Zealand Clothing Faotory. " Thb World Went Very Well Then " is the title adopted by Mr Walter Besant for one of his novels. Many people besides the famous English writer imagine our vaunted progress is a mistake, and that the world went better before the days of railways and eleotrio telegraph. Young people nowadays are apt to despite the things whioh were formerly thought to be good ; but, happily, in a few essential things we profit by the experience and advioe of our fathers. In eioknees we tarn gratefully, as they did, to Holloway's Pills and Ointment, knowing that no new-fangled methods oan ever take the plaoe of remedies which have stood tbe teßt of half-a-oentury. OabiiTON Gornwem., foreman of the Gazette, Middletowo, N.J. believes that Chamberlaina's Cough Remedy should be in every home. He used it for a cold and it effected a speedy oure. He says : "It is indeed a grand remedy, I oan reoommend to all. I have also seen it used for whooping cough, with the best results." For said by F. Shaw, Medioal Hall Blenheim.