NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 15 April 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

At the Volunteer encampment Lieut, Ed. Parker, of the Blenheim Rifles, passed the practical portion of his lieutenancy examination.

A match between the Havelock Cricket Club and a Pelorus Sound eleven was decided at Kenepnru on Saturday last in favor of Haveloek, the scores being Kenepuru 38, Havelock 93.

/ A visitor to Blenheim assures us that great interest is taken in the southern districts in tho question of acquiring the Flaxbourno testate for close settlement. He says that many people are holding oil from the offers of other properties with a view to securing sections on Flaxbourno.

Catabrh is. Always the Result of a neglected cold. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will not cure catarrh, but will cure the cold and so prevent that disagreeable malady. This remedy not only relieves the local irritation of the throat and lungs, but removes the causes of the diseased condition. It leaves the system in a natural and healthy condition. It alwas oures and cures quickly, J, Banning sells it.

Until recently yisitora to the Thamesside villages of Clifton Hampden could witness each evening a somewhat curious scene (.-*ays the County Gentleman). On the raft by the bridge house a pan of oats u.«.ed to bo placed, aDd an old. horse, descending into the shallow wat. r, would eat out of the pan as if it were a plate on a table. On the raft, by the side of the pan, fox-terrier, cracking and swallowing the oata with apparent enjoyment. The dog, ifc seemed, was strangely attached to the horsa, spending the whole day with him, and never taking the slightest notice of mankind, lie appeared to eat the oats as a kind of a sociable manifestation.

The Imperial authorities have offered the gunboat Sparrow to the New Zealand Government, which has accepted the offer. The N.Z. Times says that the vessel is to be equipped as a training ship, the Government being strongly of opinion that more should be done in the way of enabling New Zealand boys to follow a seafaring life. Speaking at Waimate on this subject, Mr Seddon said that he intended to ask the Imperial Government to grant the use of the Lizard also, so that each island could have its own training ship. Boys who, through no fault of their own, were at present sent to industrial schools, would be placed on training ships. Thence they would be drafted to drill ships, and finally would form part of a great . Australasian naval reserve.

The Argus records with regret tho death of the Rev. J. Marriott Watson, which occurred on March 29th, at St. Mary's Vicarage, Preston. "He had been much indisposed for some time, but during the last fortnight he rallied considerably, and was able to resume his parochial duties. On Sunday morn* ing he preached at St. Mary's, Preston, with unusual vigor and effect, and at the close of the service began to pronounce the Benediction, * The peace of God which passoth all understanding keep your hearts and.minds——' The congregation were waiting for the concluding words, when they fouad that the incumbent bad fallen prose before the altar. He was unconscious, and was at once carried to the vicarage adjoining the church, where he died, at already stated, in his 61st year." The deceased was a brother of the late Rer. H. C. M. Watson, of St. John's, Christohurch.

Sportsmen who complain of the doarfch of stags in the Wairarapa, might with advantage make ah excursion to the Rimutaka for pigs, states the Leader. The monarch of the mountain is quite a notorious anirr.al, and has been named by hunters who have striven vainly, at the risk of their lives for his scalp, "Siberian Jack." His itinerary extends from the Canoo Spur, near Pigeon Bash, to Point Siberia—a distance of about seven miles. The boar will bail m> cattle and men, and on one occasion he made a bold attempt to stick up a Fell engine, which was laboriously ascending the mountain. " Jack " was cast down a gully two hundred feet in depth, leaving behind him on the bloodstained cowcatcher a slab of his hide. Since then tfee pig has carefully kept away from the railway line. His chief delicacies are goats and young lambs. He appears to bear a charmed life from the &un, and can do a fast mile on any spur in the Ritnutaka.

For Children's Hacking Cough at nigbt take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d and 2s 6d.

Even now, with our improved appliances, gold worth thousands of pounds i> stilt being lose a:;d discharged as before, reports Mr R. M. Aitken, in tbe New Zealand Mines Record. In many cases, those working at quartz mines and mills are ignoraot of the improved methods of treatment, or how to practically apply them : while, in some cases, people engaged in miring operations do not apparently care how much they lose so long as a good profit is made. There is now no excuse for not saving the tailings, as, with the aid of elevator wheels, they can be simply and inexpensively raised and run tof any suitable place for stacking. The methods of gold-saving-, though being rapidly improved on in some mills, are still far from perfect, and there are very few mills in the colony whoso tailings will not pay well to stack.

An interesting action for damages is just now before the Genoa courts, by which a photographer named Ricci is being sued by Signorina Ida de Frate for £3000 damages. Some time ago the lady, who is exceedingly beautiful, had her photograph taken by Ricci in the ordinary way, and the portrait was such an artistic one that Ricci decided to avail himself of the craze for picture postcards by publishing the photograph in this form. Thousands of the cards were sold in all parts of the country, and Ricci is said to have reaped a handsome profit. On account of thi publicity given to the lady in this way, Signorina Frate's affiaaced husband broke off his engagement and refused to marry her. Hence the action for damages against the photographer, who, however, maintains that it was with the lady's consent that the cards were circulated.

No Opium in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.—Many cough cures contain opinm. The effect of this drug is to diminish secretion of the mucus, and the relief afforded is only temporary. As soon as the effect of the opium passes off, the malady returns in a more severe form. The system is also weakened and rendered more susceptible to cold. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy does not contain opium ie any form. It affords relief and leaves the system in a healthy condition. Ifc always cures and cures quickly. J. Benning sells it.

AN HISTORIC FIGURE-HEAD. Mr E. H. Lukins, of Nelson, has presented to the Canterbury Museum an interesting Maori relic. It 5a tho figurehead of a canoe that was used by the great northern warrior Rauparaha, in some of his famous raids to the south. Mr Lukins states that about fifteen years ago he went for a cruise in Croixellea Harbour, and his yacht went; ashore at Whaugaraeeßay. The party sought shelter with some Maoris, and ho met an old chief named Renata, who belonged to Rauparaha's tribe, and came from Mana Island. The old man stated that he had known the canoe from his boyhood, and that its name was Ruapuke, and that it was one of those used in the descent on Kaiapoi, the figure-head being carried on that historical voyage. Mr Lukins also states that the figure head was connected with the m\Jss<iereat Wairau. The canoe itself when ho saw Ronata and obtained the "relic, was lying in tho scrub, half rotten. It had a beam measuring six feet, and was about 60 feet long.