NEWS & NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 239, 12 October 1896, Page 1

NEWS & NOTES.

The session is not rxpected to close till FiiJay text, Mr Buick's You-g Men' 9 Committee Hierrquea cd to meet at the W.O.T.U. rooms this evening at 7. 30. Tbe Awnttre Road Board meot this morninp-, and tha Hospital and Oharitable AiJ Boird this afternoon. ' Tbo Hibernian Baud gave tbe residents of Eenwicktown a tieat yesterday afternoon m the form of »n open-air concert. An excellent programme of sacred music waß rendered. Two young men have been arrested m Melbourne on-a charge of driving a vehicle furiously on the Brighton Baaoh road w/th the evident intention of clear* ing it of cyolists. At Hobart a man remed Walksr, or Wulblate, pleaded guilty to hoaxing shearers bj advertising that shearers were wanted m the Emrina (New South Wales), aod pocketing the de« posits of the applicants. He was sentence! to six months imprisonment. A politician of tbe nuodiodl order Larangued quite a erpwd m front of this effioe ou Saturday afternoon. It was his opiuion that laboring men should not go to Parliament because they do not possess a sufficient amount ot brain. Eough on the Labor Party iv the. House ! Tbe Wairau Tennis Clut^ made their , inauguration on Saturday, the season bsing opened m a successful manner at the grounds m Walter Btreet. Tbe weather being 'fine,' the event attracted a numerous attendance of ladies and gentlemen, who spent a pleasant afternoon* Mr R. McCallum, m the ab*enoe '' of Mr As D. Wilson, (President), made tbe inaugural address, which was m a felicitous vein. A number of gtmes were playeJ by members of the Club, and refreshments were liberally dispensed. Th.c 01 ub has made a cwditabla and encouraging beginning, and judging by the iuferest that is taken m its progress, it has every reason to expect a prosperous future. Tha new swimming bath for women at the Rotorua Sanatorium is 25ft by 50fr, with a depth of water of 3ft 6in at tha bottom of the steps, increasing to 4fc at the opposite end ; its oip-ioity is about 25,000 gallons. . A constant stream of water flows through it, co as to keep the temperature at from 96 to 98 degrees, which is tbo one reoon> ■ mended as the most suitable for an exercise bath. By the inauguration of this new bath Rotorua is now capable of giving 1500 immereiou baths of one hour eecU daily, which is more than any European establishment oan do. A horse belonging to Mr H, 8. 'Haiimusaen, of Ihurana Vallej , near , Maurieeville, got into a big hole tha other day, from which it oould net ex. tricbti itself. The owner started ta woik to cut a track to enable lhe animal to get out, but had procaeded only a short distance whan the whole side of the hill came down and smothered the torse. Scins pecple are born lucky, and a v'sltoic to the Napier raoea, a wellknown Wellington commercial traveller, is one of fhem. By an accident be was given a ticket on LotiOD, which paid the handsome dividend of £25 11s m the Octobtr Handicap. He was holding forth on the folly of backing horses about half an hour after tbe raoa to a friend, and was about to throw the tickets away,, when his friend pointed out that he had nothing "to growl about," as he had got a ticket on Lotiou, The delighted O.T. had another look, found it was so, and put op a new record m reaching the machine, and securing that dividend, — Herald.* Writes lhe Mining Standard:— ''Even our-^esjimißts admit that wo may expeot a further boom before the holidays, and during the last day or two several heavy purchases hate been made with a view of holding for the prophesied rise m prioes, and a brisk business has been done at tho Thames and at Coromandel, It is a pleasure to note that the rapid flotation of n*w properties has fallen off to a very great extent, and development is .' propor* tiodately increasiog, Mouey is still coming m from England and abroad, but it is being put to the more sensible purpose of development, and beneficial results are accruing- as a natural oonsequenoe," Should Mr William McKmley become President of the United States, he will be the fourth President of Scottish origin. The' others whoso paternal ancestors came from Boot land were Monroe— tbe author of the famous doctrinp, Grant and Ruth&rford iliyes. Four Presidents have been of, BootchIrish origin— descendants of Scotsmen settled m Noith Ireland — viz , Arthur, Buchanan, Polk, and Jackson. One President was of Welsh os'iact^" — • Jefferson ; and one of Dutoh ancestry— Van Buren. Of the twenty-fcur Presidents from Washington t) Cleveland, fifteen were of English origin. For some time past (says the Dane* din Stir) there has been a strong feeling of desire atuODg our evangelical churohes for soire visible* token of their real bonds of union. A proposal by the Dunedih Ministers' Association for a uuifced oonvention p covering four days, met with cordial response from twenty, four of cur city and suburban churches ; but when dates and details were considered it appeared that it was too late m the season to undertake so large a gathering. At the monthly meeting of the Ministers' Association, therefore, held last Monday, it was decided to hold the meetirjgs ovtr until next year.