LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1900, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Sale cf Wobk.— A salt* cf work is to be held m the Churoh of the Nativity Sunday Sotaool room on the 20th icbK Auction Sale.— A sale of utock and farming implements ig to take place to-morrow at the farm of Mr Jas. Lee?, Lower Wairau. Meeers Green & Co. ore the auctioneers. MktioboliOoioatj.— Captain Edwin wireß aa follows :— " Strcrjg south to eaet and ncith-cast winds, glaeß fail af;er 12 hours from new, tidea inoreaae." The Tbwd.— The Jane number of the musioal journal Triad ib to hand, and ib up to its v ual standard of excellence. Information respecting prize competitions appears m our advertising columns. W. C. T. U.— Mtmbrrß and friends are reminded of tbe monthly meeting whioh will take the form of " An at Home" at tbe residence of Mrs Rose, Kegwortb to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'oloolr. Ab ert-mineed Begsir.— A farther turn of 7b 91 was received laet night at Benwiok during tbe singing of " Tbe Absent-minded Beggar " at tbe Corrick Family entertainment, and has been banded to the Mayor's Fatriotio Fund. Bader-Powbll Memento.— A meeting cf subscribers to this fund will be held at the Club Hotel at 7.30 on Thursday evening to decide what form the memento to be forwarded to Colonel Baden-Powell will take. Famihi Fund.— By tc-day's mail a earn of £56 wbb despatched to the Indian authorities for the relief cf the sufferers by the famine In Inciia. This earn is made up of £30 from the Exbebb fond and £26 from the Mayor's fund. Piotos Voluntebbs. — The newly gszatted corps cf volunteers paraded for tbe first time m tbe Pnblio Hall last evening. There was a good muster, and the offloerd hope shortly to have an efficient chid capable body of men. Th» Dbkbden Bale.— Mr M. J. Brookep, Manager of tbe Dmden Piano Company, will arrive m Blenheim this evening, and will stay a few days to fiaieh tbe great cUaring sale of pianos and organs new being held at tbe temporary depot, Mai ket Street. As Mr Brookes' stay will be neceß-aa-ily a limited one, those wbo wish to interview him should doeo without delay. MifEKiKO Da*. — All accounts m connection with tbe Mafoking Day celebrations have now been settled. Tbe amount cf money previously acknowledged, as m tbe Mayor' b bands, web £20 2s 3d. Furthtr amounts reo.ived are : Miss Elbeck 3', T. Bokford £1 Is, R. McOallum £1, W. Farquhar 4a. eurplua from children's treat,* (Ladysmitb Day) £1 7s 93, refund on cables sent to Generate White and Boiler 15s 4d, total £24 14) 31. The acooanta paid for refreshments and provisions for the children's treat, carting materials, limelight exhibition expenses, coal, fireworks, colored fire, repairs, lanterns and other items amount to £24 Is 91, which leaves m hand a balaooa of 12a 6d whioh has been carried forward to the Peace Demonstration Fond. Cbitoaby..— ln recording tbe death en Baturday evening of Mr W. D. Jenkinp, at the residence of his wife's mother, Mrs AHport, at the early age ?f 38 years, tbe Pioton Press says ;— " Mr Jenkins was widely known, and aa generally retpeoted m tbe district. He wsb of an extremely sympathetic, generous nature— a man wbo wonld do a good turn to any one, tvsn at cost to bimeelt— not the sort of man to feather his own nest very muob, but the last to rob any one e'se's— the sort of man on whom we rusy well hope the Bun will thine brighter m the other world than it did m Ibii. He was for some years a mrmber of Holy Trinity veßtry, and at one tme Churchwarden. He leaves a wife and two young children to mourn bis loss to whom, and to all bis relative?, tbe public sympathy will be heartily extended." Kitchener's mobsb.— Tbe details, hitherto obscure, of the surrender of £ Squadron of Kiioutner's Horse on February 15, when it was oaptured on the Riet River end sent to Pretoria, are made known by the Capetown oowepondent of tbe Standard. It was tbe day of the relief of Kimberley, and tbe Equadron bad been left to guard a farm on tbe Riet River, while General French advanced to the besieged town. Tbe objeot of leaving them on the river waa to hold a well, pending tbe arrival of another column. This, however, never oame, and tbe troopers cf the equadron fcucd themselves beseiged for four days by a body of Boers numbering at least 400. There were but fifty men, bat they pierced loopholes m tbe walls of the farmhouse, and made a desperate stand. tfot tbree days they fought gallantly. All this time they were without food, but on the fourth day they managed to catch a goat, wbioh they quiokly devoured. There was not a blade of grass on tbe neighboring veldt, and all their borses died of starvation. Tbe stench m and about the farmhouse wsb something awful. On tbe fourth day General De Wet sent a meEeage calling on them to Burrendar within ten minuteß Tbe situation was now hopeless. The Boers had two 12-poundera with them ; and the equadron, m the last B'age cf exhaustion^ and Beeing no chanoe of relief, agreed among themselves to surrender. Tbb Tbbathent os Cancbp.— The Vienna correspondent cf the Sydney Morning Herdd writes :— " How chall we cure oanoer ? is a queßtion that has puzzled the world for many a generation. Most physioianß return the answer, it is uncurable. Not so, however, ProfesEor Adamkiewiez, the well-known epecialiet fjr that disease. He positively deolarcß it is imported into the human system from outside, and never to originate m tbe human system, Over-vaooination he believeß to be one cf its causes. As long Bgo as the year 1891 the professor propounded tha theory that oanoer is not congenital, is net due to the malformation of tbe natural oells of the human body, but ib caused by a parasite. Professor Adomkiewid's view has now been aoeepted by many authorities m this department of medicine, and it forms the bsßis of the possibility, firßt pointed out by him, of curing cancer by killing parasites. As soon as Adamkiewif z's theory of tne nature of oancer has triumphed, as no doubt triumph it will, hia method of healing this dreadful disease will be generally adopted, as it already has successfully been adopted m some oases. A SURE CURB FOR CROUP. TWENTY FIVK^YHABS CONSTANT OEK WITHOUT A FAILURE. The first inolinstioa r f oroup is hoarsrnesß, and m a child subject to that disease it mny be taken as a sure sign of the approßoh of an attack. Following this hoarseness is a peculiar rough couglt. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the obild becomes hoarse, or even after the oroupy orugh appear?, it will prevent an attack. It is used m many thousands c f homes m this broad land and never sissapoints tbe anxious mothers. We bavo yet to learn of a single instance m whioh it has not proved effectual. No other prepare, tion oan show such a record— twentyrfive years' constant übb without a failure, For Gale by Q. M, McKay,