NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 168, 17 July 1903, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Wairau Trotting Club antioi pate that the.meeting held on Wednesday will prove to bo a financial success.

Sir W. J. Steward's Marriage Re striction Removal Bill is intended to legalise marriage with a deceased's wife's niece or a deceased husband's nephew. The Bill in its operation is to be retrospective as well as prospective.

Gold-mining at Tdp Valley did not suffer so much from the recont wet weather as was originally fcupposed. The Alpine dredge,: was displaced by the rush of water, the main steam pipe buvatiDg at a critical moment-, but it is expected to be at work again in a few jdays. Gold was being obtained on this claim, and the prospects were good. The other dredge, the one puton the ground by the Pride of Marlborough Company, is to start work next -week or thereabouts., " There are now 22 men engaged in various capacities on the Jubilee quartz-mining claim, and there is quite a little township at Top Valley.

Some concern wa3 caused yesterday by the discovery on the Eenwick side of the Wairau river of a sulky with a dead horse attached. The animal, which was found sotno distance below the ford, had been drowned, and fears were entertained that the occupants of the trap had met the same fate. A search was made, aud ifc was not till some hours afterwards that the facts of the case were ascertained. Two young men had left Mr Barton's place the previous evening with the sulky, and came to grief in the river, which had been in flood, and the fording of which requires very careful attention at the present time. They succeeded in regaining the northern bank, but the horse and trap were washed down the stream. The travellers walked back to Mr Barton's place, staying there for the night, and, communication with Kenwicktown being a matter of some time, a considerable interval elapsed before the circumstances of their mishap became known.

" So far as I uuderstand the uioat shop scheme," said Mr McLachlan in the House, " the object of it is to supply tbo people at Horme with cheap meat. Well, I think it would bo more advisablo for tho Government to start at once in the cities of New Zealand and give cheap meat to tho people here." The Premier : " Hear, hear ; they want it very, badly."

The Assets Board properties, says the Hon. O. H. Mills, will cutne out very much better than was anticipated, and instead of there being a very heavy loss the B*nk will he able to realise upon thorn a very much larger sum than wan expected. The Board has dono its duty in a proper businesslike way and carried on tbo work as good business men would do, and he thought the result would be most satisfactory to the colony.

Gone! Vanished ! Absolutely Cured I The old mau's cough is gone. For year.3 he was a sufferer from asthma. Now he is quite cured. Bock's balsam cured him. Jt has cured ot> ers; baa cured thousands. Bock's Balsam cores

Bronchitis in all its stages. Old

standing coughs, ordinary colds, cracked hand 3, etc. Price 1/6 at D # R. Nevison, local agent,—Advt.

At the meeting of the Land Board on Tuesday, the Pelorus Fisheries and Supply Company applied for a aufflcient area adjacent to the foreshore of the road reserve in Fovsyth Bay, Block XIII, Orieri, to enable them to erect their buildings. They also desired to acquire the freehold. The application was agreed to, as was a transfer of the land, comprising five acres, from J. N. Harvey, the present lessee.

Tho Marlborough Acclimatisation Society put in an objection at) this week's meeting of the Land Board to the application of J. Green Geld for a temporary occupation license with an annual rent of £1 over the vacant piece of Crown land in Block in., Clifford Bay Survey District, and also to a similar application from Messrs Baldick and Aldridge. The Society stated that it wished to have the land reserved, as a sanctuary for the preservation of game. It was resolved to recommend, the Society's proposal to the approval of the Government. In another ,comrounication the Acclimatisation Society applied to have pastoral run No. 49 reserved for acclimatisation purposes and vested in the Society on the expiration of the present- lease on March Ist, 1905, with a view to reserving tho Big Lagoon as a perpetual sanctuary for the protection of-native game. The Board resolved to recommend the application to the Government.