NEWS AND NOTES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 215, 8 September 1905, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Mr Herbert Price, of the Rai, who last week sustained a severe cut to the hand whilst bnshfeliing, is at present in Blenheim for surgical treatment.

The Garrison Baad rendered a programme in Alfred Street, in connection with Mr Allan's drapery display, iv a manner which indicated tho excellent effect; of their recent assiduous practice.

Mr Yon Stunner, lineman in connection with the local postal telegraph 'Apartment, has received notice of his transfer to Eeefton, and leaves on Fri« omy. Ho will be succeeded by Mr B. JVCunniffe, of Beef ton..

We learn that a commencement has bsen made by the contractors with the erection of the Sedtdon public hall. The opening day is provisionally fixed for October 25th, the Premier having consented to bo present.

In connection with a New Plymouth Bankruptcy Court case E^gar Watt, laud agent, has served Me George Govett, solicitor for tte bankrupt, and Mr George, a creditor in the estate, with writs claiming £5000 damages in each case for alleged slander.

Another accident, the res nit of a slip of an axe in bushfelling, occurred in the Pelorus on Monday. The victim was taken to the Picton Hospital, which be reached about five, after eight and a half hours' travel. He was fairly exhausted on arrival. It was found necessary to put several stitches in the wound. The patient is, however, progressing satisfactorily.

The Christchurch Drainage Board has adopted a motion authorising the promotion of a bill in Parliament to authorise the board to borrow £IQO,COO for extension of the sewage system 4&rongh Greater Christohurch. The boar3%^SSLieitior stated that Sir Joseph Ward had inToMtd^Sffil^ati JfJ-he Standing Orders were eompiiedwitlT the bill would have the, support of the Government.

At a meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at. Ohristchurch, the inspector reported a caae of horrible cruelty. A youth had placed a cat in a box covered with wire netting and had speared the animal several times with the sharp end of a file. The cat's screams brought several neighbors to the spot, and in the excitemeat the cat escaped, and was not discovered till two days afterwards, when it was found to be suffering terrible wounds. The inspector stated that an information had been laid against the offender.

*• A soap bubble," said Dr Evans, at Canterbury College, " presents during the shore span of its life, all the colors to be obtained by interference. And," be continued, "perhaps it does not differ much from human beings. In its infaocy.it is white. As it arrives at youth the colors become pronounced, whilst when it reaches manhood—l ought, rather, I think, to say womanhood—it displays all the gay tones of changing fashion. Then, as it advances in age the tones fade to a more sombre i?rey until, at last, shrouded in black, it dies." •

The* best soiling books at Home last csonth were: — " Maid Margaret of Gilloway," by S. B. Crockett; " The House of Memlees," by A. Marshall; " Who Giveth "tbis Woman," by Wta. Lq Qaeux ; " The Marriage of William Ashb," by Mrs Humphrey Ward; " Hearts of Wales," hj Allen Raine; "Sandy, ' by Alice Heg%n Rice; 11 Fond Adventures," by Maurice Howlott; " Empire of the East," by Rennet Burleigh ; " Canada as it Is," by J. Foster Frase* ; " The Coming Power," by M. J. MeOarthy; "The Simple LiSe," by C. Wagner; "The Bill," by H, A. VachelL

The Royal Humane Society, has received an application for an award on behalf of. W, Brooko, chief officer of the Star of Australia. On February 4th the Sta? of Australia was lying in Napier roadstead discharging or receiving cargo from the Woka. . Tlie veessls were moored together, and a heavy sea was running at the time. Me 0. Daan, a resident of Napier, was on board the big liner at the time, sod in endeavouring to board the Weka fell into the water Mr Brooke climbed down a rope ladder and managed to drag the man on deck. Ab eye-witness states that Mr Brooke several times narrowly escaped being crushed to death between the vessels,,

A white bag which feeds exclusively on grass has made its appearance in the Wellington district Oa one property noti more than 20 miles from the city the insect is stated to have destroyed every particle of grass, and the owner Las had to send bis sheep away to feed in another part of the district which the bug has not yet in?s,d<;d. The Agricultural Depaetment states that the bug is a psst wellknown in many parts of the Colony, la some districts it appears in large nnmbers one yea and next year it is hardly seen. It has a particular affection for the roots o? strawberry plants, and in the Canterbury district especially growers have suffered considerable loss through its depredations. The injection of carbon bi-sulphide into the ground is said to be an effectual means of exterminating the bug, but on account of the cost the process can ouly be profitably applied to small areas.

A wedding that created considerable interest was solemnised by the vicar, ab St. Peter's Havelock, on Wednesday lasfc, when Miss Clara Borek, youngest daughter of Mr L. Borcfr;. Maori Bay, Pelorus Sound, espoused Mr .Arthur Herd, youngest son of the late Mr David Herd, New Renwick Road, Blenheim. The bride, who was given away by bar father, was attired in a bridal costume of white silk trimmed with silk insertion and chiffon, and wore a veil and spray or orange blossom. She was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Mary iSoper, her niece, and Miss Margaret Jane Murdoch, niece of tho bridegroom, who wore dreases of white nuns' veiling with aashes of blue silk, and picture hats of white fancy straw trimmed with chiffon, Mr John Herd suppurted tlte bridegroom. After the ceremony the wedding party and a large number of gnests were entertained by the bride's parents at the Maaoric Hotel, where an elaborate and tasteful afternoon tea •had been prepared by Mr and Mrs W. Pickering, and at which tho felicity of Mr. and Mrs Herd wa3 proposed by the vicsr and responded to by the brldogroota, The cewly-wsddod pair left for thoir home on tho New Rcnwiok Road, amongst (;h« • cheers of their friends and wall-wishers.