LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 107, 11 May 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Meteorological.— Captain Edwin wired , at 1.15 p.m. as follows :— " Froßt to-night. Indications for very low tides." An Advance.— We hear from one of the directors that the price of milk has been advanced one half-penny by tbe Eaikoura " Cheese Factory. The rate now paid to 1 suppliers is threepence three farthings per gallon,

Meeting. — A general meeting of the Marlborough Football Club will be held at the Boyal Hotel to-morrow evening at 8 pm. Tosscck Bubnino.— J. B, Sell's tender has been accepted at la^psr acre, for burning 300 aores of tussock at Flaxbourne. A. and P. Association.— Applications are invited for the office of secretary to tbe Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Thf Weather.— The barometer at 9 a.m. to-day stood a. 30 65-, higher, we are informed, than it has been m Blenheim for two years past. The Bbunnbb Fund.— Tbe Catholics of Blenheim oolleoted the cum of £15 10a m aid of the Brunner Belief Fund, and this amount was paid into tbe Bank of New Zealand to the credit of the fund to-day. Banking. — Tenders for banking, oloeing with the Secretary at noon on Wednesday next, are required by the Lower Wairau Biver Board. The work will be shown at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Assembly,— Monsieur Aujaid purposes holding an assembly at iSwart's Hall on Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock. The new lanoers will be taught, and a feature of the gathering will be an exhibition of skirt dancing by one of Monsieur's pupils. Awateeeßoad Board.— The Awatere Boad Board hold the monthly meeting to-morrow. The meeting will also be a special one for the transacting of formal business regarding tbe raising of the loan m connection with the erection of the Awatere bridge. Besionatioh. — Mr Douglas Dob3on has resigned his position as secretary of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He has filled the post for tbe last two years, and has been a most able officer. He has given up tbe office beoause he finds he oannot devote that time to tbe canvassing and working-up m connection with the annual show which, the importance of tho fixture demands. The TbansVaai. Prisonebs. — "Uitlander," writing m the Melbourne Argus recently, gave a list of the Transvaal prisoners and a short history of eaoh, from which it appears they are all most wealthy and influential. He winds up by saying :— lt would b 9 j rather an under*- estimation than an overGBtimation to say that six of the accused alone (Messrs Lionel Phillips, S, B. Joel, G. Farrar, H. B. Marshall, H. J. King, and Colonel Bhodes) represent m Afrioa considerably over fifty millions of capital." A Notabus MARKeiiiN.— Edward Boss, who, at 19 years old, won the fitßt Qaeen's Prize for rifle-shooting, died at North Berwick on Maroh 2nd at the age of 55. He was tha fourth son of tbe still more distinguished Bhot, Horatio Boss, of Bossie Caatle, and when a boy was bo expert m the use of the bow and arrow that he could easily bring down a pigeon on the wing. Mr Boss was a man of splendid physique, 6ft 4in. m height. lofiaenza pullad down his strength, and he never recovered from the effeotß of being run over by a cab m London a year ago. The Truck Act.— Seotion 7 of the Truck Act, under the provisions of which a Wellington journeyman reoently got " to windward" of his master, reads as follows:— (1) No employer Bhall have or be entitled to maintain any action In any Court against any workman for or m respeot of any goods sold, delivered, or supplied to any such workman by any such employer whilst m bis employment or as on aoopunt of his wages or for or m respeot of any goods sold, delivered, or supplied to such workman at any shop, storehouse, or premises kept by or belonging to suoh employer or m the profits of which suoh employer Bhall have any share or interest. (2) Nor shall the employer of a workman or any agent of such employer or any person supplying goods to the workman under any order or direction of suoh employer, or agent, be entitled to maintain any action m any court for or m reepeot of any goods supplied by such employer, or agent, or under suoh order or direction as the case may be : provided that nothing m this seotion Bhall apply to any exceptions expressly provided for by this Aot. A Narrow Escape. — Aooording to tbe Otago Daily Timeß, a man named Bernard Cunningham, a tanner, living by himself at Green Island m a three-roomed brick house, had a narrow escape from being burnt to death recently. He went to bed at seven o'clock, leaving a lighted candle on a table near his bed, and half an hour later five lads named Baird, Barnes, Nel« son, Bitohie, and M'Lean respectively, notioed that the window curtain was m a bI6Z9. They immediately broke m the door and, finding Cunningham asleep on the bed, dragged him out. The pillow on which Cunningham's head had been lying was burning, the bedding was on fire, and the Bleeve of the shirt that Cunningham was wearing was also beginning to burn. But for the promptness of the lads named, it will be reoognised that Cunningham would almost certainly have perished. An Intebbupxed Elopement,— Mrs Amy Holt eloped from Warragul with Mr Edwin Wyllie, but the pair were subsequently arrested on a charge of horse-stealing, preferred against them by the deceived husband, Charles Holt. It seems that Wyllie made the acquaintance of the Holts during a Bomewhat protracted visit to Warragul, and friendship for the family gradually developed into a more tender feeling for Mrs Holt, The result of this ill-advised passion was that the couple decided to fly together, and they safely reaohed Melbourne, where tbey took up their abode m a cottage at South Melbourne. Holt alleges that a horse belonging to him was taken away by his wife and sold by Wyllie, and he oommunioated his wrongs to the police, with tbo result that a warrant was issued, and the couple were arrested by Deteotive Hawkins. Old Pens. — Joseph Gillott, a member of the well-known firm of makers of steel pane, is now m this country (says the Detroit Free Press) and has been giving a tip about the use of pens. He says a steel pen will last for months with oareful use, but the important thing is: "If your pen gets soratoby and doesn't writs well, don't cast it aside for a new one. That is folly. The pen is not worn out, but simply tired. Give it a rest for a day or two ; then hold it m a gaslight for pern haps fifteen seconds, not longer, and re« sume your writing. If you are not pleasantly Barprised at the results, I'll set myself down as a poor prophet." "Everything combs to him who waits " might have been true at the time it was written, but now-a-days nothing oomes to anyone unless it is sought for, and that pretty persistently too. The battle is now to the strong and the raoe to the swift — competition has made it so. It therefore behoves everyone who has anything to sell to choose tbe strongest representative to sell it. The Empire Tea Company have chosen well and wisely, for they plainly state that their strongest and best representative is the public press. By firmly adhering to this opinion they hav9 made known far and wide the incomparable excellenoies of their oelebrated blends ot tea, and have increased their sales from tbe outset a hundred fold. Blank Beoeiet Fosua m books of 50 and 100, always m stook, and to be had at a very cheap rate at tbe fftmss Qffioe.

Police Force —A writer ia tho New Zea land Times has been haviDg a tilt at the Wellington police, and commenting on the correspondence, the Times cays ; — Cur police force certainly needs a stirring up, and, as the Eeoond letter deals chiefly with this force, it is appropriate to give it here, although it may enoroach on my limited space. Tho writer cays ; — " The numerous robberies that have taken plsce m Wellington of late, and tbo inability of the police to obtain any trace of the tbisves or of the j stolen property, convinces me that we have m our.midst an experienced reoeiver of stolen goods, who chips the plunder to some other port." This correspondent recommends as a cure for this evil the reorganisation of the police foroe. old men, he thinks, should be pensioned off, and active intelligent young men put m their places. " I had recently," he says, " occasion to go to the Resident Magistrate's Court, and was surprised to see bo many white-headed old policemen conneoted with the police foroe —men who, when the olook strikes 10, are sure to be m the arms of Morpheus if they possibly can." Eecently a friend of my correspondent walked from Molesworth street to Constable Btreet, Newlown, at halfpast two o'olock m the morning and never saw the face or uniform of a policeman. These letters show a serious state of Bff airs, and somebody ought to maka a thorough investigation and do something to purify our public streets. WOLFE 8 SOHNA.PPS, Pleasant, wholesome, pure, is the medicine of all others adapted for the mariner and land traveller. Buy bottles intact.