NEWS AND NOTES

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 2 March 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A direct shipment of winter dnpery goods from Home is being marked off by Mr H. V. Browne at tho New Shop.

Blenheim is promised a visit from the Williamson Dramatic Company, one of whoso plays is " Sherlock Holmes," and early dates have been booked. Williamson's Opera Company made a lasting impression in Blenheim, and the visit of the dramatic combina tion bearing the same namo will be anticipated with pleasure.

A cable from Suva says that a meet ing • waß held there on Saturday of delegates from various districts to dis cuss the elective element in the Legislative Council in place of nominative members. It was decided that a depu tation await the Governor on Monday and submit a proposition.

The Australasian squadron arrived at Auckland at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday. The warships are the flagship Royal Arthur, the Ringafooma, Wallaroo, Phoobe, Karakatta, Archer, Lizard and Sparrow. Vice-Admiral Fanshawe was welcomed by the Mayor and Chairman of the Harbor Board.

Some wonderful crops have been produced on the Wairau Plain this season. Among the most notable returns is a yield of 94 bushels of barley per acre by Mr Duncan McCallum, of the Old Renwick Road, off ten acres ; and an average of 84 bushels of wheat secured by Mr James Murray, Spring Creek, off a paddock of five acres.

Local shootists who intend to be present at the New Zealand Rifle Association's meeting at Trentbam, which opens on Thursday, are Vols. Harding and Gooke, and Sergt. O'Sullivan, of the Blenheim Rifles; Major D'Arey Cbaytor, Maryborough Mounted Rifles; Messrs Cuthbertson, W. Both am, and J. Law, of the Tua Marina Rifle Club. Messrs T. Batty and A. Batty have engagements as markers.

In the New Plymouth Police Conrt on Saturday morning two farmers were fined £5 and costs for neglecting to clear blackberry off their land, and one of them an additional £1 and costs for neglecting to clear ragwort. Magistrate Stanford spoke strongly of the obligations of landowners to comply with the Noxious Weeds Act, and said that when notice was served by the Inspector farmers mast pat on a gang of men to clear the land. Nothing else wonld satisfy him.

The Marlborough Rifle Association's annual shooting for the Government grant of £50 passed off on Saturday very successfully in fine, though tricky, -weather. Some fine shooting was done, and the prize money was well distributed between the different corps and clubs. Vol. Harding carried off the biggest money, bub Major D'Arey Chaytor had the honor of winning two out of the three matches. Our detailed report is crowded out of to-day's issue.

In accordance with a suggestion made at the last annual meeting of the New Zealand Dairy Association a conference of Canterbury and North Otago members of |he Association was held at Lyttelton on Saturday. The conference was largely attended, says a telegram ; and it was decided that the Government should at, once equip a proper experimental station for our experts to carry on their investigations in the interests of producers; and 11 That this meeting confirm the reso lutions passed at the meeting of Bluff members, and express the opinion that the inspection of milk should come under the Dairy Commissioner's Department." - "YOU WANT IT"—So do we. You want your washing to look well; we like to see it so; we wish, you wish, and everybody wishes, and wished it all along, that Empire Com pany's Royal Blue had been discovered long ago. ~