LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 71, 25 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

A large drapery firm in London has put up" a notice in large type asking customers to come in future with clean hands. .

Invercargill prison labour ig* being utilised for market gardening. Among the season's crop were a tonr and. a quarter of green peas.

The noted English dock workers' organiser and labour agitator, Mr Benjamin Tillett, has been in ill-health for some time, and has been reduced,to distressed circumstances.

An old woman, charged at the Auckland Police Court on Friday with vagrancy, had 155 previous convictions against her,-and-was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.

A Wellington telegram states that the Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) has cabled to Dr. Findlay as follows:—"I am deeply grieved at Mr W. Gray's death. Such a valuable officer will be difficult to replace." Sir Joseph also sent condolences to the bereaved family.

Adjutant Marshall, of the Salvation Army, has arrangements well in hand in connection with the harvest festival, which is to commence on Good Friday. The hall is being tastefully decorated, and a large display of produce, goods, work, etc., is promised. There will also be "jumble" and refreshment stalls. The meetings will be continued until Tuesday, April 2nd.

Speaking at the-meeting of the A. and P. Committee on Saturday on' the question of the sheep tax, Mr Vavasour said the Stock Department had been for years coining money out of the sheep owners—£2o,ooo per annum —without giving anything in return for it. Horses and cattle were not taxed. Mr Neville said it was as iniquitous to tax sheep as to tax every bushel of wheat.

Our Opening Sale—lnfants' millinery, in wool hoods, silk hoods, silk hats, from Is lid to 6s 6d.—H. F Hall. *

Arrangements for the Wairau Regatta, to be held on the big river on Easter Monday, are well forward. Accommodation for visiting oarsmen will be of the best, and ample provision is being made for the housing of boats prior to the regatta. It is expected that crews representing Blenheim, Picton, Nelson, Star, and Petone Clubs will compete. The entries close on Wednesday night.

By notification in the Gazette, the purpose of portion of a reserve, containing' 14 acres, situated in Block X. Clifford Bay Survey District, and irontmg the Awatere River, is changed. The Agricultural Department is granted the use of the land for stockresting purposes, in return (presumably) for giving up the Seddon town block that is to be offered in small sections for ballot shortly.

Mr J. G. Draper, who has had charge of the Marlborough Court at the Christchurch Exhibition writes as follows to the proprietor of The Express under date 22nd inst.:—Dear Sir,—l write to thank you for your courtesy in sending copies of your paper to this Court. They are eagerly sought for and appreciated by Marlborough visitors and others, and inter alia when occasion offers I do not neglect to point ©ut the evidence of the growing importance and prosperity of Blenheim, in the tact that it is able to support an eightpage daily Wishing you every iuccess, and thanking you again

Our Opening Sale—The travelling public. A splendid lot of dress hampers from is 9d to 3s 6d; portmanteaux An important business change waa Mr AteTfiS egOtll tel lS mi a. Wiffen, who has during the la<?+ few years worked up a large business under the style of the Otago MaS XL +? Marlborongh Farmers' CoX'^ IVe + Asso«iatio^- Possessing a eii b ? S? n? Nyny lnteret* in the recently M?W-ff ed Co-operative Association, Mi Wiften has agreed to become its rr-, ™\ ile the P^miseTnex the Royal Hotel will be retained for the purposes of the Association's renJl°l+T VOVtn] S fe siness» splendid wtT h T a, nd I °ftces on Leeds Q«ay S^inn « h.T dqUaVterS Of the Assoeiauon. Besides purchasing, or finding a market for, every kind of produce and retailing to the .shareholders Iff" 61"? 1 Pubhc. every article required ontne farm or in the household, the Association mil conduct weekly sheep! and il V } hOJ" SB ! al6S ' and act as stock and station agents m the fullest sense or cue teri;i.

Our Opemiig Sale—Ladies' watered moire underskirts, in sky blue, cardmal, navy, black, etc., from 4s 6d, 7s 6d, 9s 61, i2. s Gel each.—H. F. Hall •

Mr A. Wiffen states that he has definitely decided that he will neither be a candidate for the Mayoralty next month nor for a seat upon the Council.

There is money in flax. A Manawatn farmer has 40 acres of it, from which he expects to make £800 every three^ years in royalties, besides grazing the land with sheep.

According to statistics recently compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture, cotton-seed wmch was thrown away as useless 25 years ago has a commercial value today of nearly £10,000,000 a year.

The parish clerk and sexton of Stanford llivers, Essex, Mr J. Woolmore, completed sixty years' service on January 31st. Re and his father, whom he. succeeded, have dug the graves of all the parishioners who died durinothe last 100 years.

_ lie-valuations of the Awatere and VVairau road district properties, as from 31st March instant, are authorised by Gazette notification. Thus the rates for 1907-8 in these districts will be levied upon the new valuations.

A curious error occurred ~in the leading article on Saturday, "it was stated that the natives in " Auckland " must number far less than the population of the VVairau Plain between Hen wick and the sea. The word quoted should have read " Hawke's Bay."

On Saturday night the police paid a surprise visit to one of the leading hotels of Blenheim. As a result, proceedings towards the prosecution of the licensee for trading after hours, and of four prominent townsmen for pemg on licensed premises after hours, are pending.

The importation of fruit- and trees affected with pear scab is prohibited. A. regulation has also been brought in force prohibiting the importation of pear, apple or quince trees from North America unless accompanied by a certificate that the trees come from a district free from pear blight.

It was stated at an inquest on January 26th at Colchester on Mrs itloss, a widow, who earned her living as a tailoress, that she was heard working her sewing-machine until 3 a.m. on the previous morning. She was found dead at the machine the following day.

Taking advantage of the strong "fresh" in the Wairau River, Captain Eckford and party went down and opened the channel through the Boulder vßank on Saturday. Word was received late on Saturday night that a stream was running through the direct cut at the rate of eight knots per hour. It is now stated the stream has, with the subsidence of the flood, been reduced to a trickle.

On February 25 two cyclists, A Warren and R. Lennie, left Perth on cycle ride across the Australian contipent, finishing at Sydney. Lennie said he had done some long cycle journeys on the goldfields, and did not hesitate to undertake the present one although he admitted it would be most trying. Warren is an ex-Syd-ney resident, and Lennie comes from New Zealand.

/ Why feel so dull and lifeless when rt's your liver that's out of order. Take Tamer Juice. 5

A resident of Otahuhu (Auckland) has obtained protection for an invention which is likely to be of interest to those who employ large numbers of sewing-machines in factories, etc. The object of the invention is to do away with the constant changing of the bobbins, thereby saving time and wear and tear on the machine. The reel, which is a prominent feature of the invention, carries about 2000 yards, whereas the bobbin in common use will only carry 45 to 50 yards; and the inventor claims that his reel will car insufficient cotton for the work done in six or seven days. In ordinary circumstances the bobbin has to be changed eight or nine times per day so that the time lost in this operation is saved by the use of the new appliance. L

Our Opening Sale—Wings, wings for new hats are all the rage, in all colours, from Is to Is lid.—H. F Hall *

The Department of Agriculture for Ireland holds what are known as surprise butter competitions, liiese competitions have been held during the past three years The method adopted is to send a telegram lor exhibits, which must be forwarded on the day upon which the telegram is received. The competitors may receive a telegram on any day during uhe season, and must, therefore, give constant attention to the product in order to keep it up to the mark. The nutter judged is ordinary commercial << i fcer > not wllat is so often called show butter " —a specially prepared product, from selected milk or cream, ripened and churned under exceptional conditions.

Headaches and dizziness quickly dispelled by taking Dr Ensor's Tamer Juice; obtainable all chemists and

The North Otago Times is responsible for the following:—" The record potato of this season was grown by Mr D. Boland, of Papakaio. It is an Up-to-Date, and weighs 3lb lloz. The peculiarity of the growth of Mr Boland's potato crop is that when nohcense was carried in the Oamaru district he made use of the unsold beer in his hotel as a soak for his seed potatoes and seed wheat. The product was the largest crop of potatoes and the finest yield of wheat on the Papakaio Plain The mixture for the potatoes, we believe, was a shandy-gaff the beer being mixed with lemonade' soda water, etc. Whatever may be said about beer as an invigorator of the human body, it is evidently a tiptop fertiliser for potatoes and wheat always^assuming that it was the beer and not good cultivation that gave Mr Boland such fine yields. It is not, however, part of the process that the individual who sows the wheat and plants the potato should steep himself in the liquid."

Our Opening Sale—A scarce line: lartan ribbons, from Is to Is 6d yard cheap ; and 6-inch suede.—H. F. Hall.*

Henare Karaka, otherwise known as Te Ahiwaru, a respected member of the Ngatiwhakaue tribe, passed | away a few days ago at Ohinenmtu. He was a splendid type of the old stamp of Maori, whose word was as good as his bond right up to the last (says .the Auckland Herald). His lather, Wharetistu, was noted for the fact thatjie walked all the way to the ! Bay of Islands to ask "Archdeacon I Henry Williams to send a missionary to the Rotorua district.- In response to that request the Rev. Mr Chapman was sent there, and established the first Christian mission station in that district, at Te Kgae, in 1831. Henare Karaka had been ;; regular coir>nmnicant of the Anglican Church for ";t----ycars. Imagine someone ripping your back open with a red hot pitchfork—that's lumbago. ISo reason to endure the

The new Collohuasi Copper Mine in Valparaiso has just been sold to a London syndicate for £1,500,000. The mine was floated a little while since with a capital of-£40,000, and as far as can be seen it is one of the most valuable in the world, because of the great richness of the ore. There is tremendous development in copper mining in Chili and Bolivia just now, and in the course of a year or so theexport will pjobably be doubled.

At the Native Land Commission on Saturday morning (says a Wanganui telegram) a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on the members and urged that some means be devised for collecting rates on native lands, giving instances of local bodies having large amounts on their books and being unable to collect them. The Chief Justice said that the remedy appeared to be in the natives being encouraged to farm their lands, as they could not be expected to pay rates on lands yielding no profit.

The Council of the New * Zealand Amateur Athletic Association had before it last Thursday a letter which spoke of some curious articles offered as trophies for amateur races held by a sports promoting Association in Auckland. The writer of the letter, a competitor in the races, complained that some of the prizes were not trophies, and could not be received by amateurs Members of the Council had no dimculty in agreeing with the writer on that point, for the articles he quoted as having been offered as trophies included a set of teeth and a lady's hat.

At a meeting of the Otago Education Board on Thursday a letter wasread from the headmaster of the Mosgiel School suggesting that dairy instruction to girls should form part of the course in connection with technical instruction. The writer said h& would undertake to qualify himself to teach dairying in six months. The chairman of the Board (Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R.) said he doubted very much whether even farmers' daughterscould be induced to go to such a class, as factories were to a great extent sup! ersedmg the old-fashioned dairy. He thought, however, that more attention might be given to the matter of domestic cooking. The Board did not accede to the proposal.

,nS gh ] 1 C°^ h ' C°U 2h l Don* eougn ; take Tussicura ; stops tho Uckle at once. ' ' *

A Wellington telegram says that the late Mr Gray was regarded as the doyen of the Civil Service, which he entered on February 1, 1864. When he became Secretary to" the Postal Department on May 1, 1874, the letters received and posted in the colony numbered nine millions per annum: now they reach seventy millions. The staff then comprised 735; it is now 3209 w*! *«?«-' mot. including telegraphs, was £60 530; last year it was £445,310 or with telegraphs £743,090. Mr fcrray served under eighteen Post-master-Generals the first being Sir SX n&h V™™™l? to hisioinmg the Civil Service he was for a short time on the staff of the Taranaki News, and afterwards on the Nelson tJolonist.

No matter how long you have suffered from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago, RHEUMO will cure you All chemists and stores stock it. Price zs 6d and 4s 6d.

A peculiar feature of the working, of the cropping conditions under the Government's land policy was brought under the notice of the Minister lor Lands during his visit to the Feildinedistrict llie cropping regulations r^ quire that half the area of a section snail be put down m permanent pasture. One man went in for an orchard, and was very successful with fifteen acres laid down in fruit trees Me is anxious to extend the orchard by utilising other parts of his land for tins purpose, but has received notice that he cannot do this, and that half ot his property must be kept in permanent pasture; so, instead of being able to take advantage of the bette? market that- is offering for fruit, he is obliged to use it as grazing land only. ffv, I*l1*1^ 6? ls en^ging the attentionor the Minister, with a view to making: an amendment in the law to meet such cases.

When you feel the first twinge of rheumatism gout, sciatica, or lumbago send for a bottle of RHEUMO, It will quickly cure you. All stores and chemists sell it at 2s 6d and 4s 6d A positive and lasting cure.

Under the will of the late Miss Selina Julia Hancock, of Dunedin (saysthe Otago Daily Times), the New Zealand Alliance "for the suppression of the liquor traffic " benefits to the extent of £o and the United Kingdom Alliance, which has a similar object, to the extent of £10. The residue or" the estate is to be divided equally between the trustees of Muller's Orphan House, Ashley Downs, Bristol, to he applied to the Girls' Orphan House there, and the trustees of Barnardo's Homes London to be applied to the Girls Cottage Homes, Ilford, Essex, llie deceased lady's literary works are given upon trust to two local min£ fcL r»'JS? V, Toceeds which may accrue to be applied to some orphanage or home for destitute little girls

riie foundation of lifelong ill-health may be laid for young girls by failure to keep their strength and health im to normal. Steams' Wine is best for them because it is a true tonic.

A statement m the last issue of the Labour Journal to the effect that the building trades were good in all branches, "especially plastering," raised a protest from the Wellington irades Council, which passed a resolution objecting to such " misleading statements." The justification for this was based on the Council's contention that "the plastering trade was far from busy; in fact, it was slack." On Saturday a Post reporter called on three of the leading plasterers, all of whom have big contracts in hand at present. Mr A. H. Fullford of Fullford and Smith, declared that the trade was not slack. Certainly it was r-ct exceptionally busy i- . - especially good, but there was nothing to complain about. He had at the prefoat time twenty-five men employed on the National Bank buildino- M r able men m Wellington." Mr Folev t act foi the petering work in Na-tn-M, ns. w + bi; ildl «S. v-ns brief and Sr, cP?ll^ asked for his opinion. <T don't think there is a firstclass plasterer in Wellington out of wonr. i, tnero are any such men. wo want some of them."

.Vhon autumn ypprnr? it i~ ihe seasou to look for now and -.;■: ■ : - clothing. Kirkealdio and Stains, Ltd.. are sho^-,ns_at thoir .n<ronfy liere new costunios, rurs. etc.. U-v the new season, and would advise their Marlborcuo-h customer- to vo-Ve an early selection.*"*