NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 142, 20 June 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

An ©ffice will be open at the Hastings racecourse on Wednesday and Thursday, 24th and 25th instant, the hours being 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ■'•"''Professor Rutherford, of the McGill Univordfcy, Montreal, one of the most distinguished alumni of the New Zealand University, and an eld Maryborough boy, has been elected a Fellow of fche Royal Society, in recognition of his services in the domain of physical science. His investigations and dis-cove-ies on the subject of radio:ic!.i ifcy have earned him world-wide reputation. - ThTnfon. C. H. Mills will visit Havelock on the 24th inst. in connection with the ceremony of opening the waterworks, etc. He will return to Wellington on Wednesday night, and leave on Thursday irorning for Hawke's Bay, where he has to attend to some valuation matters. The establishmentcf a thrice-weekly mail service between Blenheim and Kaikoura is being eagerly asked for, says the Kaikoura Star. Blenheim people are taking up the question, and, of course, all along the road everybody is crying out for such a service.

Aba meeting of rhe North Canterbury branch ot the Farmers' Union Mr Leadley stated that he had made a careful comparison of the waces paid to firm laborers and to industrial workers, and had found a heavy balance in favor of farm workers.

The ambulance lecture to have been delivend last evening to the Blenheim R i flea did not take place owing to Surgeon-Captain Redman being unavoidably detained in Picton at the last minuto. Lieut. Baillie filled the breach by giving a lecture on "Scouting," quoting extensively from MajorGeneral Baden-Powells book on the subject. The next ambulance lecture will take place on Friday, 3rd July.

A French post office clerk has evolved a simple apparatus for dispensing with the postage stamp and enabling anyone to get bis letter franked after office hours. The apparatus can be affixed to any pillarbox ; a coin is dropped into the slot, the corner ot the letter is inserted, and the machine stamps the envelope with, the amount paid. All yon have to do is to drop the letter into the pillar-box for collection.

A general meeting of the CulverdenWaiau Railway Extension League was held last Saturday at Waiau. Officers were elected, and Mr W. O. Richards 'was appointed to" canvass the StagSpey, the Kaikonra, and Hundalee districts. Great interest is taken in the railway extension from Culverden to Waiau (says the Lyttelton Times), as it would not only be a convenience to the settlers on the Lyndon Estate and an inducement to intending settlers on Highfleld, bub also a means of shortening the coach jourDey to Kai« koura. Travellers would be able to reach Kaikoura from Christchurch in one day, instead of taking two as at present.

The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press says : — "It is understood that the mission of Mr James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Company to England is in connection with the building and purchase of several new steamers to replace these recently sold, and to keep the company's service np to the public requirements. His mission is understood also to be partly in connection with the extension of the Vancouver mail service recently arranged with the Government of the Commonwealth. Of the new steamers to be built one will be a fast vessel fop the Melbourne Launceston service. A vessel capable of maintaining a speed of eighteen knots will be provided for this improved service. The Commonwealth Government is granting the Union Company a subsidy. I under* stand it is also intended to build an upto date steamer for the Fiji-New Zealand trade. This vessel will take the place of the Moura, which now occupies the trade temporarily. The Manakau, a fine vessel which is now building at Home, is a sister ship to the favorite Moeraki, and when she arrives in the Colony the company will be in a position to place the Mararoa along with the Kotemahana in the Wellington Lyttelton service. It is understood that one of the new vessels will in all probability be a turbine steamer."

The Unlucky Boy is always getting his fingers burnt, his hand cut or his shoulder sprained. His parents should keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Fain Balm in the honse. This is a liniment of superior merit. One application, gives relief. Try it. J. Benningsslls it. -

When the Duchess of Marlboroagh's father, Mr William K. Vanderbilt, was divorced by his wife eight years ago, at New York,.the Court registered, an order that; he was not to marry again during his wife's lifetime. This un usual condition has now, however, been cancelled upon Mr Vanderbilt giving proof of good conduct since the divorce, and he is shortly (says a London correspondent) to take advantage of his regained liberty by marrying a Mrs Lewis Morris Rutherford, an American lady of [ osition, who is a widow for the second time. It is expected that the wedding will take place within the next few weeks at the United States Embassy in London. Mr Vanderbilt ia 54, and Mrs Rutherford nearly 40. [Oar cable messages have stated that Mr Vanderbilt and Mrs Rutherford were married quietly in London on April 20, only six persons, including the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, being present. Subsequently the Bishop of London, Dr Ingram, who holds very strong views regardio the remarriage of divorced persons, 'a addressing the Diocesan Conference, stigmatised the action of the clergyman who officiated at the wedding as a grave scandal, by which the diocese was dishonored.]

It will not do to fool 'with a bad cold. No one can tell "what the end will be. Pneumonia, catarrh, chronic bronchitis and consumption invariably result from a neglected cold. As a medicine for the cure of colds, coughs, and influenza, nothing can compare with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It always cures and cures quickly, J. Benning sells

The cost to France of the policy of. suppressing the religious orders has been roughly computed by the Gaulois. The official figures allow £1,080,----040 for the construction of 2257 new schools, £190,000 for fitting the schools up, and £328,128 per annum for the stipends of the new teachers. In addition to this there are said to be about 250,000 aged or invalided persons subsisting on religious charity. Their support may be reckoned at about £20 per annum each—a total of £5,000,000, and, whether the State or their relatives support them, they cannot be left to starve. Adding up, we find the country involved in a capital outlay of £1,270,040 and an annual outlay of £5,328,128, without counting anything foe the depreciation of school buildings.

Messrs A. F. Hamilton, son of the late Mr Frank PJarnilton, and H. G. Grace, son of Archdeacon Gr^ce, of Blenheim, both officer* of the Nelson College Cadet co* ps, have received word from the War Ollice that they have passed the literary part of the examination for a commission in the Imperial Army The examination papers were those set for candidates for admission to Sandhurst. If equally successful in the military part of the examination in September next they will be entitled to a commission in the Army.