NEWS & NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 105, 8 May 1896, Page 1

NEWS & NOTES.

* — , — . H' avy ruir.s nod fi loded rivers still ci.tini^ om ih, w, R . c a .t t and there liae Ic'^i j.<. coinuiunio tion with the c unhy foj seven day p. It is iifenUd t) bol.l tbo annual m eiing or t'.o Mnrlbtrough i'loughing Apsociatitn at the latter end of next week. Arrangement* will then be made for tho forthcoming contests. Mr 0, H. Burton, of the Postal Department, left for Auckland yesterday on n month's leave of absence. Mr Bu ton's family will accompany him on his return. Atu meeting of (he Duoodio Presby. tery yeaterday. it was resolved to help m every possible way the association formed to secure religious instruction m the State schools. Mr Biss, the New Zealand delegate to tbo Australaßiau Rowing Conference, left for Sydney by the Mararoa yesterdny afternoon. He will use every en. deavor^to have ntxt ye*r'«i intercolonial contests rowed m New Z3aland. Negotiators have been completed by wbioh Mr James Penney, the worthy host of tho Marlborough Hotel, enters tho Masonic Hotel. He takes possossion at tbo beginning of Juns. We wish him every success, of which he deserves a full measure. Mrs Toit, we hear, m - tends to tnter a hotel m tho North Isiand. She will havo the best wishes of m.-u.y friends. Mr Frank Paine met with a nns^y nouidenfc on WednesdHy which will incapacitate.him from work for some time to come. He was engaged during the morning m paperhaugiug a room m Mrs Carey s boarding-house, Maxwell Boad, when the scsff 1 ling on which ha and an assistant were standing slipped and toppbd over. Mr Paine and the assistant were precipitated to the floor. The latter eeoaped uuliurt, but the former received a painful injury to h : s foot, a heavy plank falling on top of it, The nature of tho injury is yet uncer* tain, but it is severe. AtWoodville lust week Mi9B Khutze, mistroas of the Herefauoga School, was chirgrd wilh assaulting a sohoolboy named Louis "Roberts, by " spanking " him. Tha evidence showed that the " spanking " was done with the bare hend, and Mr Stanford dismissed the case, allowing defendant solicitor's fee und costs, on the ground that the punishment was not excessive, and thib defendant did well to. giva tho boy a good whipping when he refused to obey hor. Ooeof the r&ults of the photographio discovery by Dr Roafgan is that.a letter c.n be photographed through its envelope and the contents read with as much tase as though the seal had beeu broken. The experiment hat been sue • cessfu'ly made by sever*! ru.'inbcra of tbe stuff of the Gtulois. General George P, Williams, the fou:;d"r of J^pin's peewit financial system, and for five yoars the fiaanoitl adviser of the Mikado's G>varnmenr, has sailed from San Franoisg) for J*pm as the agent of tbe Cramps of Philidel.phia 'o get eontraots for ro:ne of Japan's new warships. Miss McK^dz'.o, of Haodon, is a young ladyof nerve, as isehown by the fact that a couple of days ago, she crossed the wire over tho Rangitikei River, to aud from Mr MoGrrr-gor's mill, on which all the timber is brought over, The wire is about a qu irter of a mile long, and is nearly 300 ft above the river, on! the niocle of conveyance was by a single plank swung by pullies en tho wiro, and worked by au engine with an end v less wire. As the lady loft the mill, tied on with ropa and ohuio, she wai loudly cheered. The four victims of the awful railway fatality which occurred near Adelaide on a reoent Sundiy night were young labouring men who had been out oou's* ing. Quite 100 ynrds from the place ot tbe accident the remains of the osrt, which was smashed iut? matohwood, were discovered. It is stated by tbiir relatives that (he unfortunate fellows left home on Sunday afteruocD. They did not say whore they were going, but on pievioui occasions they hal gone out coursing 'accompanied by the some two dogs. The only survivor of the fearful catastrophe wai a kaugaroo dog, which it is believed was running behind the cart. They crossed tho line just as a train was due, the oonscqueuce being that tho engine dashed ioto the trap killing nil four. At the^ same crosstab Mr Cowan, a member of the Housa of Assembly, and Mr Bullimore, electrician, were killed three or four yearß ago. The drawing for 18 sections of the Kauieka Estate, Hastings, recently ac« quirtd by the Government, took pVoe yesterday. Tbe Commissioner of Crown Lauds explained that 361 applications had been received, but this did not represent the total number, as tn^ny »p plioants put m for several eeotions. la one instance there were moo applicants of one name and seven of another, these two families representing 110 of the total number. The imports iulp New Zealand duiing the Maroh quarter were £1,712,528, against £1,755,672 m If 95. Tbe exports were £4,827,032 ngdiust £:3,564,f40. The principal increases were m wool, fi\ z m meat, wheat, oats, butter and gold. Wool shows £2,829, 294 rtgfti&Bt £2,100,fi03. W. A. McGcire, a well-known citizen of McKay, Ohio, is of the opinion that there 18 nothing as good for obildren troubled with ooliß or croup as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He has used it m his family for eiveral years with the best results, and always keeps a bottle of it m bis house. After having la grippe ha was himself troubled with a severe cough. He used other remedies without benefit, and then ooncluded to try the children's medioine, and to hie delight it soon effected a per* mnnent cure. For Bale by F. Shaw, Medical Hall, Blenheim, Memoranda and Billheads atl Wellington prices at the Expjjhbs offioe. AU orders promptly executed.