NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 232, 4 October 1902, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Dr and Mrs Claridge took their departure from Picton for Wellington on Friday. ;,..

The Havelock School' Committee hay accepted an offer by Mr T. Price to drill the children Once a week.

Mr Arthur Beauchamp returned to his home at Kenepuru this week afterj an enjoyable visit to the Old Country*

It has been decided to consider at the next meeting of the Wairaußoad Board the question of taxing traction engines.

Tke formation of a brass band at Picton is practically assured. The question now is as to whether the band should be a town or a volunteer institution.

Among the items on the Supplementary Estimates are the following:— Wairau Hospital, £400; Waitaria Wharf, £350; Oullensvillo Road, £50 ; Whatamonga-Dieffenback track, £50.

Mounted Constable Price, of Havelock, received this week the following peremptory wire from a resident of Canvastown: — "Cow in the Wakamarina. Come and take it out." Needless to say, the oow was left to its fate.

It is hoped that the Ministers of the Cabinet who will attend the opening of the Blentheim-Seddon railway will honor the Waitohi Rifles' Ball at Pieton on the 10th with their presence.

Invitations are being issued' fop the ceremony in connection with the opening of the Blenheim Seddon railway, and the other arrangements are being carried out by the various Committees with close attention to: detail; It i§ probable that the railway authorities will grant some hundreds! of tickets to the General Committee.

" Outside Stornoway, in the Island of Lewis," writes a correspondent to a London paper, " is a farmer who brings his horse and cart into the town of Stornoway on market days. Whenever he reaches the inn a quart of beer in pewter is placed before his steed, who drinks it leisurely without ever spill,ing a single drop, and no amount ot persuasion will ever induce Mr Horse to 'have another*~a temperate example which might well bfr-follbwed by his masters,"

Out of eight applicants; Mfcs Wil" liamson^as been.appointed Matron <P the^Nolspfl Hospital. .■: Miss 'William" Son, faasi trained at the DujieeUri Hospi* talji was for two. and a-half yeirs matrpn ot the Canterbury« Agricul-* tural College, and in Apnl, 1900~ went to South Africa as nurse/ afterwards proceeding to London on transport duty.

The Christehurch Meat Company has put in hand extensive additions to the Smith field freezing works, which. ; will. have the effect of increasing the capacity cf the works generally from 4000 per day to between 5000 and 6000. The additions will be fully com? psleted by the end of the year. Though there was loss of lambs in the flocks of the Kaikoura County dur-; ing the recent blizzard, the mortality, '■;■ so far as the Star is informed, was not • nearly equal to what was at one time feared would be the case. Farmers' floek\ have escaped lightly, in a comparative sense, though the deaths on the heights are said to give a good round total. Referring to the question of granting £150,000 to the Midland Railway : debenture-holders, a -Parliamentary correspondent says:—A settlement.iot>; this long-standiug dispute will no doubt clear the way to facilitating the raising of New Zealand loans in London, for the bond-holders, at whose head is ' Lord Avebury, are all powerful in many matters connected with finance in the metropolis. Some amusement has been expressed in the English papers at the fact that at Mrs Howie's concert the organist played " God Save the King "as M r Seddon entered thehall. Theniusical contributor of Truth (London) remarks:—The Colonial Premier ls,i no doubt, a very great man ; although we may eventually^opk for the advent i of Macaulay's New. Zealander; Mr Seddon is not yet" ourgracions Kong." The thirteenth annual report of the ' Registrar of Patents states that the,, number of apptications'for patents and registration of trade marks,during the , year amounted to 1511—a number con- ; siderably ih excess of that of any previous year. The total number in 1891' was 818, so that the* business* of the office has almost doubled itself in the ,'i past decade. Local inventions are.' again well to the fore, the number of applications received from residents In w the colony being 058, as against 602 in : l§oo, and 563 in 1899. ■?.-:< : Ttte Bishop of . Mashonalahd has written to the Imperial Tobacco Com- '■'. pany drawing attention to the enormous', possibilities lying dormant in South Africa, from Capetown toßlani tyre, for the cultivation and industrial development of tobacco of all sorts. "I am convinced," says the Bishop," that a if sufficient attention be given to the subject, we have in South Africa the solution of the problem which the Im--< perial Tobacco Trust is now facing with such courage." He suggests that experts should be sent out to report on the possibilities of ?uoh a scheme. At the annual examination, of the Haveloek Suburban School, held on 25th September, the following.passed: Standard VII., Thomas Moore and Freci. Crispin; Standard V., Win. Farnell» , Cora Gre#or, Emily Jones, Elvira ' O'Sullivan, D'Arcy Reader; Standard IV., Arthur Benge, D'Arcy Cozens, Maud Farnell* Annie. Farneil, David r Higgins, Rose Moore, Robert Neu-. man; Standard 111., Leonard.Crispin; Mary Benge, Elsie Farnell, George Jones, Monica Neumann, Mary O'Smliivan; Standard 11., Wm. Brqwrilee/f Robert Brownlee, Ida Higgins, Alex Moore, Cecil Higgins, Ella Nesbit. Leo Neumann. : - A Pain in the Chest is nature's ; warningof a threatened attack of pneumonia. Dampen a piece of flannel i with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind over the seat of pain, and another? on the back between the shoulders.. One application gives relief., Try it, J. Benuing sells it. ; During the past few weeks the Agricultural Department "'has < sent 100,000 vine slips to settlers in Various parts^ of the Colony;. Signbr Bragatp, Government yiticulturist, states that NeW Zealand is-likely to make a name for itself for the quality of its wines; % The climate in most parts of the Colony is well suited for grape culture; and better wine can be made here than * in Australia. ■ A great many hew vineyards are being planted, and he believes in five or six yearjs' time we shall be able to spH table wine* at Is 6d per gallon and make a good profit. s Sever il settlers in the North Island are, he says, making £300 pW acre per year from their vineyards. Samples of New Zealand wines- are to beexhibited by the Agsjicultural Departmental the Auckland A. and P. Showi'sb that '^ the quality may be compared ■with that of the imported article. ■.;: Reynolds' Newspaper (say« the Eytf telton Times) is nothing if not' tasteful and truthful. Listen: — " Bankrupt} Nevr Zealand '*; "Windbag Secldon;:^ whose.free use of public money to'dest patch telegrams overseas about his own bunkum. ;is a notorious scandal"'»■■■'■. " Someone in authority has evidently muzzled the irrepressible Seddon "• " He isnot making half such an ass of himself here as we were all p^eparei ! to expect from his antics abroad"; <» Seddon's New; Zealand is the most ' antagonistic colony of all towards British commerce " ; ««. With colossal impertinence the ex publican Seddon prats about the open door " ; •• Such a man could onJy be tolerated in a country absolutely ignorant of its 6*n affairs, and wholly given up to gambling, athletic contests and drinking in its leisure moments." . c

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