LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 135, 11 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

MbtioboliOGlOaii.— Captain Edwin wires as follows :— " Frost to-right. Glbeb rise ; poor tidee." A Qoagmibb.— A gentleman wbo has travelled over ever; part of the Marlborcngb province, who bad oooasion last weik to make a journey to the Top Valley, informs na that he found the road m a dreadful state, nothing more nor less than a qargmire, m faot. Lud Sals.— Attention ie called to an alteration m the advertisement ol Mr Wineor Boper'i land rale. Liberal terms of* sale will be'offsred, and a large proportion of the purchase money mty remain on mortguge if desired. The terms and ootditionß of sale msy be inspected at the cffiaes of Messrs Olctulon and Co, Ltd. on and after to-morrow. LißsntL Fdppobt,— At a meeting of (be newly formed Amnri Mounted Rifles, Mr P. Lance offered a 20 guinea cup; and Mr A. Rutherford £50 per annum for five years, also a quick-firing battery to (he value o( £1000 or £1500; and Messrs D. Rather* tni, T. Chapman, W. Macfwlane, and D* Macfarlane, £50 eaoh. DiKQBBOua Paetimb.— One of the amusements of 80036 of the Nelson boya ib the dangefOQß praotioe of rolling Btones from the cliffs overhanging the Books Boad down open trapß and oyolists paseiog below. A complaint reached the Mail effioe the other day that a cyciiste who was riding by narrowly eeoaped being struok, Ely Qbogi SfLLiKO.— An 6xoha r ge aeya that m the absence of licensed houßeß, the grog which finds its way to the country beyond Mangaweks on the Mangaweka northern trunk line ieeaid to be amrzirg. Strong tea oannot be made without " a stick" m i>, and every other hollow log is Bmuggery, Even the informers find the place a hot cp . One detective has been soundly horse- whipped by a muscular lady, and there are threats made that the next one that can be caught will be effectively baptised m the Hautapa, Validioiobt.— Mr Allan H. Thompson, who reoently resigned the position cf rcanager cf Mr R. 0. female's Mt. Patriarch fl.xmili, was the other day the reoipient of a very handsome memento of his connexion with thai firm. A valuable marble dock, suitably engraved, was subsoribid for and donated by those with whem Mr Thorrpson had been so long associated, testifying to the esteem m whioh the departing manager had been held by both employer and fellowworkmen. Mr Thompson his been m the employ of the firm referred to, at Tua Marina and Mt. Patriarch, f)r some 12 y<ars, end great regret wbb expresEed at the severance of the oonneotion. An Ehterpbisiko Fbench Jocbsalist.— News by the San Francisco mail states (hat the French Presß and publio are indignant because a Frenob journalist, a epeo : al correspondent of the Paris journal I c Matin, Bent to St. Helena to visit the historic prison of Napoleon and investigate the treatment of CroDje and other Boer prisoners, was not allowed to land. The Governor of the island sent him a note aboar 3 his ship expressing bis regret, but ordering bim to proceed with the ship to Capetown. M. Deloaise, Foreign Minister, Bent an amioable protest to the British Government. Jo t Lahdxd.— A fine lot of Ladies' Ta lor-made Costumes, m tweed and cloth, including the new blue and khaki shades. Special designs m Military Braided Coats j All to be told at very reasonable rate?, Inspection eolioited. A grand assortment of the latest designs m Blou c Evening Hilka.— FhaliX&Hat, London House, Blenheim. A Stibbi a Spkich.— The Rev. Dr. Bevan, of Melbourne, when speaking at the celebration there on the announcement of the relief of Mafeking, was particularly elo quent. It is not only, he said, that we are thankful tor the relief of Euffering, we are thankful because it has shown to us the endurance cf our raoe. We belong to man; tribes, and eometimes engage m pleasant, and even unpleasant, oontroverey aa to whiob is best — Englishmen, Irishmen, or Scotchmen. If I venture to call the raoe Caledonian I only please one seotion of it. If I cay it is Welsh I have not the slightest doubt I am giving you yonr proper name. But there are some faots m hißtory that mßy be against me. If I cay Irish I shall not be far wrong — so far as the United States are concerned— and if English, then Bootob, Welsh and Irish will be down on me, We want another name— 11 British," perhaps, but that is hardly wide enough. When I say British I mean you, you, every one of you ; just one raoe, welded together on many a fiild, bound together m that mighty Empire to which we belong. Wherever we are we are one against the enemy— one m the foundation of a greav people, one to-day m our tbanktulneEß for the relief of Mafeking. You will hear sometimes said that as a raoe we are becoming effete. Effete, genie men 1 Where is the other nation to-day that could put an army of 200,000 men m the field, transport them BCOO milee*, and supply them with every neoessary, every munition of war? Not upon the f loe of this earth. Where is there a raoe that oan better the enduranoo we have shown at Ladysmilh and at Mafeking. The raoe is stronger than ever ; I venture to say that if the aoenes are to be repeated over and over again, if you only put the same raoe into the same plaoeß, they will do the Eame again and endure with the same oourape as before. Wade's Worm Figs, the wonderful Worm Worriers, never fail for adults or children. Price, Is. CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM CUBES OTHERS WHY NOT YOU ? My wife has been using Chamberlain's Pain Balm, with good result?, for a lame shoulder that has pained her continually for nine years. We have tried all kinds of medioines and dootora without receiving any benefit from any of them. One day we saw an advertisement of this medicine, and thought of tryirjg it, whioh we did with the best of satisfaction, She h s used only one bottle, and her shoulder ib almost well — Adouh L. Milmtx, N.H, For eale by Q. Mi MqKa? '

MiKisa m Alaska,— Another rioh mining disiriot has been found m Alaska (saya the New York correspondent of the Melbourne Argup, writing on 13th Apri ), and come of thoFe wbo were abcu; to desert the Elondyke for the marvellous diggings at Cape Nome will bo diverted to thnse cewly found deposits, which are at the headwaters of the Kojuktk river, a little above the Arolio oiro'e, and about midway between Cape Nome and Daweon. There were enly (wo or three hundred miners en the Eoyukuk six weeks Ego, butitiß said that five thousand o n have paying olaims there. The diggings are 900 miles from the punt where the Eoyukuk empties into the Yukon. As it is very difficult to carry rupplies"to ibem, the attractions of Cupa Nome will prevent a great inoreaße of the number of claimBetkers m these remote gulches this year. A conservative estimate of the jield cf this spring's dear up m the Elondjke ie 20,000 OOOdol., acd careful observers pro diot an average of not lobb than this for 50 years to com?. The known gold-bearing area near Cpe Nome is being enlarged steadily by new dieooveries. All sorts of craft are being pressed into the servioe on the Pacific Coast to meot the demand for transportation, and by and by we shall hear cf seme shipwrecks on the poorlychartered route to the golden beaohee.