NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 121, 25 May 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Commissioner Tunbridgo- and his family havo booked passages for Londoa by the new Orient liner Oreta, which sails from Sydney on the 4th July.

The small-pox scare at Lyfctelton has had ono inevitable result—it has set the people of C'nristchureh discussing the vaccination question in the correspondence columns of tho newspapers.

It is proposed to give the Rev, F. A. Macdonald, special deputation from the British and Foreign Bible Society, a social welcome on Wednesday afternoon next in Wesley Hail, to euablo sympathisers to mate his acquaintance. A rifle match between teams from the Blenheim Rifles and the recentlygazetted Okarainio Defence Rifle Club will probably be arranged for the Prince of Wales' Birthday (June 3rd). It is understood the latter corps will enter a team for the Challenge Shield series of matches this year. The membership of the new Club is practically identical with that of tho old Knituua Rifles Club. A visitor to Blenheim is tho lion. Mrs G. F. Richardson, of Wellington, who catuo hero a few weeks ago in connection with the illness of her son, and is staying at tho Masonic Hotel. While awaiting his recovery Mrs Richardson, whoso name as an artist needs no introduction, has been committing some of our local scenery to canvas, her views including tho Massacre Hill. Mrs Richardson expresses herself as delighted with tho Wai ran scenery, which, she says is highly attractive to tho artist's eye. A Lame Shoui.deu is usually caused by rheumatism of the muscles, and may be cured by tho use of Chamberlain's Pain lJaltn. The liniment is unequalled as a soothing lotion. Ouo application gives relief. Try J. Bouuingsells it. At. the Presbyterian Church last evening tho Rev. W. O. Kobb gave a synopsis of the proceedings at tho roeent Conference in Christchurch of tho New Zealand branch of the World's Students' Christian Federation, at which 310 dele-sates were present, including 160 students from the Uni- I versities and Colleges of the Colony. The gathering was held in the C.mterbury College Hall on May 2nd and 3rd. "ARE YOU THE LAUNDRY MAID?" If you are, don't forget that to turn out finished work you must I have Empire Company's Royal Blue,

Experiments which have lately bet n made have satisfied the Police Department that it would be too expensive to adopt an electric torch in sub.stitsiticii for the old bull's-eye lantern used by the police when on night duty.

The issue of summonses to tno 40 odd rotaiiera of Blenheim who committed a misdemeanour in closing their premises on St. George's Day is the cause of much merriment in town. It is said that the "defendants " intend to organise a single file procession, to be headed by a brass band, on the way to the Court on Wednesday morning !

There are some blighted hope 3 (says the Southland Times) in the matter of grain yields around Gore this year. One man bought 700 sacks to hold his crop, and did "hot use half of them. There is still grain to cut, and stocks bedot the fields in every direction. Sunday is indeed a dies non with the farmer just now.

An American millionaire disinherited his daughter because sl)8 persisted in marrying a poor artist. After the father's death the will showed that he had not even left his daughter the proverbial shilling. The daughter contested the will in the New York Supreme Court, and has been awarded £800,000 from her father's estate.

Edison has patented a storage battery which weighs but a few pounds and yet will hold, on the thousands of surfaces inside it, sufficient electricity to drive a motor car several thousands of mile 3. It will only occupy a few inches of room, aSd by ranging several of them together it will be possible to drivo even so ponderous an affair as an. electric tram car.

There is repor'od to be some feeling in Nelson against the retirement of the Collector of Customs, Mr Wilson Heaps. Mr Heaps joined the service in 1864 and became Collector at Nelson in 1881. For some years past he lias acted as warden and Stipendiary Magistrate, and generally occupied an important administrative position.

The Christchurch Meat Company has | decided to make a new departure in. the export of meat to the Old Country. On the 2Sth instant it will send a ship- I ment of 14,000 carcases of lambs and \ between 3000 and 40G0 carcases of \ mutton direct to Cardiff. Mr Gilbert 1 Anderson, managing director of tho I company, told a Lyttelton Times re- \ presentative tbat Cardiff commands I some of the best districts in England ; as within a radius of thirty or forty / mi^es there is a population of about / 2,500,000 persons, and that the idea f was to send shipments to Liverpool, \ Hull, and possibly Leith as well. '

The sheep market atHomebush (Sydney) on tho ldfch iust., was again an extremely dear one for all descriptions. The quality of the sheep showed a great improvement on tho previous sale days, and higher values were reached. Aline of 35 very heavy crossbred wethers made no less than 34s 3d per head, and crossbred ewes made up to 25s 3d. Merino wethers also brought some high prices, the best obtained being 26s for a line of 35, while many other sales were m?>do in the neighborhood of a pound and over. Merino owes, in some instances, made up to 17s. The sales were good right through, the prices being mostly weil up in the teens, and taking the sale generally values were the highest reached since last, year's record. The market closed very strong. The good grass following the rains has caused a great demand for store theep, hence the rise.

Gone ! Vanished ! Absolutely Cured ! Tho old man's cough is gone. For years he was a sufferer from asthma. Now he is quite cured. Bock's balsam cured him. It has cured ofcbers; has cured thousands. Bock's Balsam cures Bronchitis in all its stages. Old standing cou ; c?)js, ordinary colds, cracked hands, etc. Vr'ue !/(*> at D. R. Nevison, local agent.—Advt.

In reply to a deputation from the Auckland Board of Education on the question of building grants, the Premier said lie was aware of the large amount of building tb-at had to be done, and ho promised to communicate at once with the Minister of Education and to lay the statements of the deputation before him. At the same timo ho would remind the Auckland Board that it had already received a very lar^o share of the vote fo? school buildings, and that in other districts, nota'ly Taranaki, settlement was also extending, and the Education Board there was in as bad a condition as the Auckland Board. Any appropriation beyond tho limit of the vote would have to be brought before Parliament. Mr Seddon went on to assure the deputation that he bad the welfare of education at heart, and especially the interests of technical education, which he was anxious to promote by every means in his power.

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