LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 41, 18 February 1907, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

A telegram from Christchurch this morning states that welcome rain was falling. ■ '

One hundred and twenty /agricultural and pastoral runs iri thes Westland district, varying in area from 1000 acres up' to 45,000 acres, are about to be classified.

The last Gazette notifies that Constable Denis Carmody has been appointed Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Counties of Sounds and Marlboroiigh and the Boroughs of Picton and Blenheim.

The Hon. Mr Carroll had a conference with the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce on Saturday regarding the opening-up of a traffic road to Lake Waikaremoana to connect with Rotorua. The Minister promised careful consideration of the matter.

The Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. R. McNab) has arranged a policy whereby young bulls, by Home sires oue of tested dairy cows, will be supplied to farmers.- The herds will be kept at the ; ,Werar.oa Experimental Farm. Z

Owing to tlse southern lines being interfered with .on Saturday night by a thunderstorm,, accompanied by lightning, no results'of the Championship Regatta {,or Band Contest other than those which appeared in the afternoon's Ex'p-itESS came to hand until this morning.

At "the;- Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr Scott Smith, S.M., George. E. Allan was charged, on the information of J. Penney, with obtaining £8 under false pretences by using a valueless cheque. He was also charged, on the information of Mr Bary, with forging and uttering a cheque drawn by Donald McKaisuk on the Bank of New Zealand. He was remanded for eight days.

At the time of the last census the number of public libraries, mechanics' and other institutes in the Colony was returned as 313, with 22,770 members, and possessing 567,841 books. The Registrar-General points out, however, that the returns are incomplete as regards the smaller public libraries. The number of libraries which received the Government subsidy for 1906 was 430.

A meeting was held in St. Patrick's Hall last evening to arrange for a presentation to the Rev. Father Fay, on the occasion of his visit to the Old Country. It was decided that the presentation take the form o£ a purse of sovereigns, to be given at a social to be hel<£ next Thursday week. An influential committee was elected to arrange details, with Mr Perrin as secretary.

The Journal of the Department of Labour, dated 6th February, has the following,:..!-* Blenheim. — Building trades: Very busy in all branches, and no carpenters, bricklayers, or painters unemployed. Engineering trade: Quiet, but full time being worked. Clothing trade (factories): 1 airly busy; no unemployed. Retail trade (general): Reported very good, t nskilled labour: Harvesting has been in full swing during the month, and there are no men who really want work out of employment.

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In a leading article on the subject of Mr Studholme's proposal for the establishment of a Chair of Home Economics at Canterbury College, the Otago Times says:—lt is truly a difficult and alarming problem. The fact remains that domestic science in most of its elementary branches at least ought to be taught in the house, and the tendency that encourages parents to disregard their responsibilities more and more can be criticised with a deal of reason. The question arises, would those who as a class are most in need of instruction be influenced to any extent through the medium of a Chair of Domestic Science?

ti Wednesday's Timaru Herald says:— The dry season appears to have destroyed a considerable number of oaks in the railway plantations between Washdyke and Arowhenua. Their foliage is reddened in some cases as if by the frosts of winter. The larch has made little foliage this summer, and it is now become yellow and sickly-look-ing. A few chains of oak plantation have been destroyed by fire, but the drought has done more damage among the oaks. It is a pity that so many promising saplings have suffered so fatally. The'other varieties of timber trees appear to have borne the trial successfully."

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Bishop Julius, speaking at the welcome to delegates in connection with the Women's Christian Temperance Union's Conference at Christchurch on Wednesday, told a good anecdote against himself. When he made*his first temperance speech in England, over thirty years ago, the Bishop said, he was very tall, and very thin, and very nervous. He began by saying that he had been a total abstainer for two years, and an old lady in the audience observed audibly " Eh, poor dear and he looks like it, too." '

Larrikinism is becoming rather pronounced in the streets of Blenheim of an evening. On Saturday night, in what appears to be a spirit of wantonness, a number of shop blinds were ripped and torn in a most destructive manner. Mr Carr is one of the chief sufferers, but he says he is getting quite accustomed to it. He attributes it to shop-assistants, who, he believes, resort to this means of revenge whenever an expected holiday ls denied them. Other sufferers were Mr lies, whose blind, valued at about £3, was ripped from top to bottom, and Messrs Smale and Hay. One tradesman said he would willingly give five guineas for information which would lead to the conviction of the culprits.

The view of the Government concerning the Seddon memorial monument was expressed by the Minister tor Education (Hon. George Fowlds) on Friday. "Each centre," said Mr fowlds, " seems to have taken up the movement in its own way, and the idea of the Government is that it is best to leave each locality to decide on the special form which the memorial shall take in its district. . A good many of the centres have moved in the direction of technical schools and colleges, like Christchurch and Auckland, for example, and of course they will draw statutory subsidies from the Government for those objects." This expression of view from a Cabinet Minister seems to indicate a relaxing of the earlier tendency toward nationalising the movement. . : ; :

The British Medical Journal relates the following story:—Dr. ——, of Baltimore, was awakened one stormy night recently by a man who declared the doctor's services were wanted three' miles put in the country. Just before the doctor called up the stable for his horse, the visitor asked what the charge would be. "Three dollars," was the reply. When the house containing the supposed patient was reached, the man alighted first, and handing the doctor three dollars, remarked: " You needn't come iii, doctor. You see, it is this way: No hackman would drive me out for less than six dollars, and it occurred to me that your horse might need exercise.'' The tale has more than one bitter moral. The doctor is expected to be at the back and call of everyone at any hour of the day or night; he is also expected to accept a fee which an ordinary workman would decline without thanks.

The inquest on the death of Mrs George Wilkins was held at Spring Creek at 2 p.m. on Saturday, before Mr Scott; Smith, Coroner. Sergt.Major Mason represented the police. The deceased, who was 74 years of age, had been suffering for a considerable time from neuralgia and pains in the head. She and her husband, a very old man, lived in a house by themselves. About 10 o'clock on Friday morning Mr Wilkins went over to his neighbouring grand-daughter's, leaving his wife in bed. The grandson, Mr F. Stagg, was catching a horse in a field at the back of 3 the house, and noticed his grandmother come out in her.night-dress and stand by a little footbridge near the creek. She then looked about and ran.down by some rushes towards some willows. Ho thought her^ conduct strange, and rody across and .made a search, but. could- find no trace of her. He imKicdiatsly gave the alarm, and a further search was made without discovering her, 1 lie police were then communicated with-, and Constable Carmody went out without delay and continued the search Avith others. The body Avas found about three miles down, the stream, where it had been carried by the current. The grandson testified that his grandmother had often complained of her ailments, and said she would rather be dead than suffer so continuously.—The jury returned an open verdict of "Found drowned."

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"Of the entire wealth of the nation, one per cent, of the population owns to-day practically 99 per cent." With this startling statement from the mouth of Mr Henry L. Call, the Congress of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened recently at Columbia University. Mr Call's appeal for a Socialist solution of the economical problems of the United States comes at a moment when the attention of the public is concentrated on the enormously increased cost of living. According to statistics published by Bradstreet, the price of food, clothing, and building material m New York has risen 20 per cent, in the past year. Everywhere complaints S?®n iird oi tlie pinch of Prosperity, skilled labourers are now earning from £8 to £12 per week, and in almost every department of activity increased wages, usually 10 per cent., are announced for the New Year. It seems, however, to be the general consensus of opinion that these increases, generous as they are, are inadequate to compensate tor the unprecedented growth in tne cost or living.'

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An interesting discovery has been made by the- welUcnown Heidelberg scientist, Professor Klaatsch, who il now pursuing anthropological studies in Australia. Writing in the Koelner Zeitung, the professor says that while examining some Australasian natives arrested for lulling a white man in Port Arthur, he found that one of the men had feet and hands of exactly the same shape and appearance as those of monkeys. The natives, on his inquiries stated that in tne hitherto unexplored regions between the rivers iJaly and Victoria numerous people have simila han<Js and and l oth P__ wise bear a strong resemblance to large monkeys. This .is the first time that S™v ? h. aracte»stics have been discovered in a human being. Professor Klaatsch is now starting for the region where these natives are to be found in order to verify t _ e above s ? a \ ™™ t

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