NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 157, 8 July 1902, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

One 0° the B!enheitn footballers ergaged in the match played at Pictcn on Saturday is suffering from a broken rib.

At a mooting of the Committee held last night the date of the Volunteer Ball was fixed aa Wednesday, the 30fcti of July.

Owing to alteration in railway time* table for the 9fch inst. intending passo.igers for Wellington should note that the 3 p.m. train is the connecting train for the Penguin.

Dr I>omare, Government Sanitary Commissioner, is at present engaged in an inspection of the Waikawa Pah, near Picton, and will visit the Wairau Pah to-day.

The day for the Maori demonstration which is to take place in Blenheim th'g week, as an expression of joy on tie recovez y of the Kin*?, has not yet been, flxed. The natives have promised to communicate with Mr W. G. Baillie on the subject today.

The only disturbing factor at the Maori gathering at Waikawa was the ye jerable " prophet " who introduced the subject of religion into the discussion on the question whether the Councils Act should be adopted. His action in placing his flag above the New Zea-. land Ensign at the gateway of the compound also caused some excitement, indignant natives compelling hitn to lower his colours. The suppression of the " prophet" was complete.

In.reference to the recent importations of American flour to Auckland, it is stated -by the importers there that another shipment will arrive by the Sonoma, which is due about the 22nd of this month, but this is likely to be the last shipment, owing to the American market having advanced so much during the last two months. Later yhipmonts are in executiou of orders booked before the advance in the American and London markets.

The population of the new Wairau electorate is 10,027. The new constituencies number 34 for each Island, with 38 seats, making 76 seats for the colony. Members generally have been so much upset by the revolutionary character of the changes in their districts made by the Representation Commissioners (says a Parliamentary correspondent) that they are talking of nothing else, and it is no wonder that they could not work up any interest in the Address-in Reply debate.

Truly the Maori has advanced. On Sunday the Hon. James Carroll and a number of othei1 prominent visitors to the Waikawa "korero" were invited to the house of the leading Maori resident there and entertained in surrouudings the refinement of which would have given grace to the most cultured European society. The tasselled serviette rings were unique designs in native flax. The part singing of the Maoris on Sunday at the native gathering was very musical.

Worm undermines Children's constitutions. Use Wade's Worm Figs, Is boxes.

Seddonistn continues to bo a preyalent cult in London, says a London correspondent. The Westminster Gazette has another lively Carruthers Gould cartoon, in which Mr Seddon was the principal figure. It represented your Premier just arrived at the front, early la the morning:, in strictly correct military hat, which was queerly associated with diggers' high boots, and a huge Maori mat worn as a cloak. He has " knocked at the door " of a tent, and Lord Kitchener ha'a just popped out his head—the rest of his person doubtless being in night array—and is exclaiming, " Good heavens I It's Seddon !! ! " The likeness is capital, and the general eflecfc quite killingly funny. In his left hand the New Zest,' land Premier is holding a"leg of mutton.

Wade s Worm FiGs—the Wonderful Worm Worriers —are a safe and sure remedy, in Is boxes; sold everywhere.

A resident of Christchurch who has returned from a visit to Australia says that New Zealanders can hardly realise the abomination and desolation that has been brought about by the drought which is devastating large tracts of. country in the Commonwealth. For many years past, the planters in Queensland have talked about carrying out schemes of irrigation, but as a wet season has come along opportunely, they have, put off the work. In the presence of the . great drought, they say they will delay no longer, but will inaugurate a thorough system as soon as possible. "It the Angel Gabriel promised us twenty years of rainy seasons," one manager said, "we would irrigate all the same,"

Wade's Worm Figs—the Wonderful Worm Worriers —are always effective. Is boxes everywhere.

A returned trooper of the Seventh. Contingent has complained to the Auckland Herald of the theft at Wellington of curios and other articles brought by himself and comrades from South Africa. His story is to the effect that after the return of their kits frorri the quarantine station at Somes' Island to the Wellington wharf the men found that the whole of them had been opened and ransacked. Some were tin boxes, and in these cases the locks had been wrenched off. Some were portmanteaus —good ones —strapped and locked, and these in some instances had been ripped open with knives and ransacked, and practically everything they had collected; their curios, etc., were stolen. The informant alone had, he states, £15 worth, and all were taken. He had Kruger coins, stamps, table covers, over £5 worth of feathers, etc. Every mortal thing in the way of curios belonging to the men, to the value of hhndred3 of pounds, was gone. The troopers made complaints to the De« fence Department, and were told an enquiry would be held, and instructed to send in a list of the missing articles.