NEWS AND NOTES

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 188, 15 August 1902, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Letters from South Africa state that Edward Rees, a Gisborne solicitor, has been admitted to the bar at Pretoria.

The 'Frisco mail arrived by the train last night and was promptly sorted by the officials of the Post Office.

According to the report of the Addingfcon stock sale?, which appears in another column, very high prices for sheep, cattle and pigs are ruling in the South.

A young woman named Maggie Kinealy was found dead in her room at the Locomotive Hotel, Orange, New South Wales, kept by her father. The cause of death was apparently suffocation by fumes of charcoal, which was burning in a brasier to warm the room, which h;id no chimney.

Invitations are being issued for a banquet to be tendered to the tractionengine " brigade," which did such yeoman service in connection with the Blenheim Coronation celebrations. The re-union, which is being managed by a committee representing the local bodies and leading residents, will be held on. next Tuesday evening in the Club Hotel.

Last Sunday week Mrs J. Roberts, wife of a labourer, was burnt to death at Hillston, New South Wales. The unfortunate woman, who was subject to fits, was engaged preparing dinner, ,and it is surmised thab she bad a seizure and fell into tha fire, beiDg burnt to death before discovered.

The season is advancing very rapidly on the plain (says the North Otago Times), and the farmers are taking advantage of the fine weather to push along with ploughing and sowing. The •winter wheat is showing a good even braird, being nearly 2in through the ground, tinging the paddocks with a bright green.

The intelligence of people may lie guaged by asking them to make a circle on paper with a pencil and noting in which direction the hand is moved. The good students in a mathematical, class draw circles from left to right. The inferiority of the softer sex, as well as the male dunces, is shown by their drawing from right to left. Asylum patients do tho same.

The methods of the Education Department came in for much severe handling in connection with Mr Ell's proposal, carried by 21 to 19, that the Minister of Education should have a seat in the popular chamber. Mr Ell said it was absurd to see the Minister (Hon. C. H. Mills) acting for the Minister for Education 5 running to and iro on the floor of the House to get information from a Departmental officer.

Pneumonia is Dangerous. — The time to cure it is when it is merely a " bad cold." Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is highly recommended by the leading physicians for this malady. It always cures and cures quickly, J. Benning sells it.

A man named James Farnham, 26, a lahflres^res.iding at Hamilton Park, Newcastle^ltfesv- Sooth W»l©3, was found on Sunday night week close to^.: the loop line, near the locomotiyeT sheds at Hamiltou,jwith his right fqofc and arm severed, and Tils lrTghtThTgE~"fractured in two places. He had also sustained severe scalp wounds. He is supposed to have been run over by the Brisbane mail train.

A son of Mr H. Lamberton, farmer near Euroa, Victoria, 17, died from the effects of blood-poisoning on July 25th. On the previous Sunday the lad, who was apparently in the best of health, happened to scratch a pimple upon his face. Alarming symptoms shortly afterwards developed, and the sufferer was removed to Euroa for treatment, but he gradually became worse, the whole of the head and upper part of the body, being affected in a terrible manner. .

Funny things happen sometimes (writes a Melbourne girl in London to the Australasian). The Duchess of Devonshire invited about 100 colonial visitors to her garden party, but by mistake the date put on the card was a day later than it should have been, with the result that the visitors arrived to find the Duchess entertaining the "Duke of York's Orphan School." Explanations followed, and the situation was saved by Mrs Herbert Chamberlain, who took charge of tbe party, and showed them the treasures the house contains.

Chamberlain's Pain Balm has an enviable reputation as a cure for rheumatism. Abundant testimony is at hand to show its wonderful efficacy in curing this painful and treacherous ailment. Fain Balm is a liniment and is unequalled as a speedy cure for sprains, bruises, burns and scalds. One application gives relief. Try it. J. Benning sells it.

A Chinese named On Sin was found dead in his garden at Creswick, Victoria, on 24th July, shot through the head. A gun was found lying near the deceased. A youth named Arnold Egglestone, 17 years of age, surrendered himself to the Ballarat police. He said he was walking in the direction of the garden, and when he was getting through the fence the gun he was carrying was accidentally discharged, and the pellets lodged in Sin's head. Ho further stated that it was quite au accident.

At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, Edward Moore, who gave his age as 75 years, was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. He has spent more than 45 years of his life in gaol. His career of crime commenced in Victoria in the early fifties, when for highway robbery he was sentenced to ten years on the roads. This was followed up by a sentence of seven years, and. later by one of eight years for robbery under.arms. He then went to New South Wales, and has practically lived in the gaols, Housebreaking was his chief industry.

At Wingham, New South Wales, recently, David Spence, a young man of 27, who had been disappointed in love, left a note at his lodgings, stating that he would not be seen alive again. A search party went out, and discovered him lying near a log, apparently asleep. On their approach he reached for his rifle, which was lying beside him, and the party fled. Immediately afterwards a rifle report was heard, and Spence was subsequently found dead, with a bullet wound above the right ear, in his head. Deceased's relatives are said to reside in Brisbane.