LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 112, 15 May 1906, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The Nelson _ Rugby Union have appointed a Vigilance Committee to put down obscene language amongst the spectators in the pavilion.

At 9 a.m. to-day the river report was as follows:—"All rivers * f ordable —rising fast." At 10 a.m. the report read, " Wairau and Opawa fords too high for light traffic; still rising."

It will interest many of our readers to know that Mr H. D. Vavasour's Ugbrooke wool, sold in London, last week, realised the high average price of fourteenpence farthing for locks, pieces and fleeces.

We are informed that the annual concert and gift auction in connection with Seddon Presbyterian Church will take place on Friday, June Bth. This event has been postponed to the above date chiefly on account of other functions intervening.

Picton is just now being treated with a plague of rats and mice. One business man destroyed fifty rata last week, and- people have mechanical traps, as well as cats, always going. These probably keep'the number down, but do not altogether exterminate the creatures.

As the names used by the contributor of " Peaceful Picton " in yesterday's paper are calculated to give a wrong impression, we deem it only fair to say that " Picton the Enjoyable " was from another contributor, and that they were not written by the same person."

The following will represent the Tua Marina D.R.C. against the Linkwater D.R.C. in a friendly rifle match at lua Marina on Friday next, the 18th inst., the match to commence at 10 a.m.:—Thos. Davis, J. Law, A. Soper, F VV. Soper, F. Gifford, W. Smith W .Botham, A. McKenzie, J. Neal, R. Gresswell; emergencies, A. E. Wilkins, Cj. Gardiner.

The folloAving will represent the Awatere Football Club in the junior contest with the Moutere at Seddon next Saturday:—Poulter, C. Costello Parker, J. Reynolds, F. Goff, C. Murphy, F. Sclnvass, J. O'Dwyer; Madagen, Honnsoll, Marfoll, E. Lawrence, bnortt, h. Cameron, P. Keating, and J- Conway. Mr F. M. Foster has' kindly allowed the use of one of his paouocks adjoining the township for cuji matches.

c have been asked to bring before the public a suggestion that there be erected in Havelock some kind of memorial to Captain Petersen and the crew oh the Ronga, who were all drowned when the vessel capsized in view of the fact that Captain Petersen was closely identified with this town, having been trading here for sixteen years, and was popular with every section of the community it is fitting that some effort should be made to keep green the memory of a " brave man gone where we all'must i'o."— Pelonis Guardian."

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At the Police Court this morninoJoseph Choak was charged with on or about sth January stealing a carpenter s bit, a compass and a gauge valued at 5s 6d, the property of C J A. Lawrence, of Flaxbourne," by whom ho had been employed. Mr Mills appeared for accused. Evidence was given lor the prosecution by C. J A Lawrence and Constable S'teere, and the accused wont into the box on his own behalf. The Magistrate (Mr T Scott-Smith, S.M.) dismissed the information.

There is nothing to equal Witch's Oil for rheumatism, sciatica > lumbago and all muscular pains. 3 '

H.M.S. Encounter (Captain Henry V. W. Elliott), of the Australasian bquadron, arrived in Picton this morning, and will remain in port for some days. She is a second-class protected ™" ,of 5880 tons displacement, 1/,.jUO horse-power, and carries 11 guns. _ She will be thrown open for public inspection every day of her stay except Friday. Qli Thursday the uoys ol the Navy League art) invited to go aboard, and the ship's boats, which Imvo seating capacity for 300 will 1,0 at the. wharf nfc 1.30 p.m. to convey (lien, to the man-of-war. The general public will also be admitted on that day, and it is probable that a large number will avail themselves of the opportunity of inspecting the war-

A larp part of women's .suffering comes irom headache. No matte? what the cause, the cure is always iound _ m Steams' I leadache Cure winch w tasteless, easy to take, and acts promntjy, ' *

Professor "Willis Moore, chief of the Government Meteorological Department at Washington, announces that it will shortly ho possible to forecast the weather a month ahead, owing to the great advances in the system "and methods of observation. The present forecasts for -J8 hours ahead are based on observations of continental surface conditions and atmosphere, together with certain limited maritime observations transmitted by wireless telegraphy. Great developments of the system of exploration and observation in the upper air to the 10-milo level will he the chief factor in the longer forecasts. By the invention of delicate automatic recording instruments attached to balloons and kites, together with wireless telegraph keys, now knowledge will be obtained of the temperature, moisture, pressure, velocity. heat, absorption, atmosphere, and analysis of sunlight at various altitudes. The arrangements for the longer forecasts are now being completed, and the professor declares that as the system is extended and cooperation is arranged with the transAtlantic and trans-Pacific countries, there is every reason to expect that it will be possible soon to forecast the general weather and character of an entire season, and ultimately to predict the weather for a whole year ahead.

Tussicura, for coughs and colds, has stood the test of time; procurable all chemists and stores. 2

A steamship that could run away from a subway express train, and race over the seas from New York to Q.ueonstown in three days and 18 hours, or there and back in a week, will be an eccomplished fact when the Canard line's turbine vessels Lusitania and Mauritania begin their ocean express traffic next winter, says a New York telegram to the " San Francisco Chronicle." They will bo the longest boats in the world by almost 100 ft. broader than any of the German leviathans, and at the same time possessing the shapely lines of greyhounds like the Lucania. The Lusitania is building on the Clyde and the Mauritania on tho Tyne. They are expected to develop a speed' of 31 statute miles an hour, making it-possible to cover the distance from New York to Queenstown in three days and 18 hours. The new turbine steamers are 770 ft long between perpendiculars, or 800 ft counting the stern overhang. The new Canard twins will carry 300 firstclass, 400 second-class, and about 1000 third-class passengers. The interior furnishings and appointments will be the finest of any ships in the world. All the woodwork will be of mahogany, walnut, and satinwood. There will be a sj7stem of elevators carrying passengers up and down the greater part of the ship's depth of 60ft.

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