MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17, 17 January 1905, Page 2

MORE OR LESS PERSONAL.

A lady vuiting Wellington last week on busu ess, lost a handkerchief containing £59, including a Bank of Australasia note for £50.

The latest information from Auckland concerning Sir Alfred Cadman, Speaker of the Legislative Council, is tbat he is still in a very critical state.

Mr W. P. Bettany, who was drowned in the Motneka Eiver on Sunday, was, prior to his setting up in business at Motneka, in the employ of a chemist in Blenheim.

Oat of 350 girls employed in a knitting mill in New York State, 200 married last year, and the proprietors are advertising for young women who are not eager to undertake matrimony.

Mr M. J. Bnrke, of Christchurch, owner o£ t&e yacht Privateer, was to leave Lyttelton on Saturday evening on a fortnight's cruise, during which he will call at Wellington and th« Marlborongh Sounds.

The T. B. Taylor testimonial is not doing so well as was expected. The crowd who cheered, etc., on the night of the verdict, aren't good at parting when it comes to the pinch,—Spectator,

Advertise just as a farmer plants corn, not a big sackful at one time in

one place, and then stop, bat a few grains at a place in regular order and

in regular time. Keep it up week after week, month after month, and success will surely come by and bye*

The death is announced from Napier of Mr Patrick Carey, aged seventythree years. The deceafed was a native of County Water ford, Ireland. With his regiment, the 70th, he was through the Indian Mutiny, and subsequently came to New Zealand with the same regiment, serving in the Maori war» He was for some years drill instructor to the East Coast battalion.

Lord Charles Beresford, addressing : a meeting at Gibraltar, declared himself an abstainer from alcohol. Ha said: "I drink no wine, spirit, or beer, not because they do me harm, nob because I think it wrong to drink ; bat simply because I am more ready for any work imposed upon me, day or night; always fresh, always cheery* and in good temper."

The first Premier of New Zealand was a witty and elegant Irishman, James Edward Fitzgerald. On his first election he was subjected to much interruption at the hustings by a butcher, who enjoyed a dual notoriety as a heckler in ocal politics and as owner of the first sausage machine imported into the new settlement. The crowd wearied of his interjections and heckled him in turn. >& f* Leave politic! and go back to your .sausage machine." " If I had the candidate in my sausage "' machine I'd make mincemeat of him," cried the excited butcher. Pitz* gerald, with immovable face, retorted, '♦Is thy servant a dog that thon shouldest do this thing ?" Mr John Tinline, accompanied bf 1 three male representatives of the well* I known Murray family of South AusW j tralia, passed through Kaikonra last • week. The veteran colonist, who is in I his 84th year, is, says the Star, keenly \ active in his interest in affairs gene* • rally. Ib is within a few months of ' being exactly 50 years since (in the company of the late Mr W. Moßae) he paid his first visit to Eaikoura. It waa about the time that he and his brothers : the late Mr Robert Tinlioe, took up ; Fernihirst, which, if we are rightly informed, was attached to Green Hills* Three years afterwards the Tinline partnership over Weld's Hill and Fernihirst was severed, Mr Robert - taking over the latter. [

Mrs Sarah Ann Kells, aged 54, and Mrs Marie Sells, aged 45, two respectably dressed married women, appeared at the Westminster Police Court charged with snowballing a postman* " I could understand a school boy snowballing said the Magistrate, "bot it sounds ridiculous on the part of two apparently respectable ladies, who are between them 100 years old." It wai only done in fun, protested Mrs Kells, amid the laughter of the Court. "We were giving the postman a Christmas greeting with the first snow of the season. "Oh, but then a postman objects to fun like this," said the Magistrate. "I will take your recognisances each in £10 to be of good behaviour for—let me see, yes, I had better say six months, as there may be some more snow."