LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 179, 31 July 1907, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Capt. Edwin wired at 1 p.m. as follows :—'' Moderate to strong northerly winds; glass fall; tides good; sea moderate."

The annual conference of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers' Association will be held in Wellington on the Bth August.

Mr A. West has recently sold his Bolton Run leasehold, in the Lower Awatere, to Mr Willis for £2100, including stock.

Messrs Griffiths and Son report having satisfactorily sold Mr S. E. Greville-Smith's house and furniture at auction yesterday afternoon. The house property fetched £370.

A Press Association telegram from Christchurch' states "that the last few days.have been more or less damp, and the rain will.,do a great deal of good to farms andpastures.;. To-day bright sunshine was experienced.

Arrangements are being pushed forward for establishing a botanical observatory in the hill country of Canterbury, in accordance with the suggestions made some time ago by Dr. Cockayne.

In addition to the gentlemen mentioned in yesterday's issue, Mr James Bruce, specialist in agriculture to the Marlborough, Nelson, Westlahd, and Grey Education Boards has been invited to take part in , the' Agricultural Conference proceedings at Wellington.

Government discount stamps would seem to be falling off in popularity, only £700 worth having been sold and £673 worth redeemed in the June quarter, as1' against £900 worth sold and £800 worth redeemed (luring the June quarter of last year.

The annual meeting of the Marlborough Chamber, of Commerce, convened by advertisement and circular, lapsed yesterday for want of a quorum —seven members. The only members who attended were Messrs Thos. Horton (Chairman), Jno. Reid, B. Clbuston, and F. B. Farmar.

A movement is on foot in Christchurch (says a Press Association telegram) to establish a crematorium. At a meeting last night of the Physical Culture Society, a motion was carried urging the City Council to move forward quickly iti arranging a public meeting to consider the proposal.

Operations against the fruit-fly have been suspended in the Hastings district, and it is stated that there is every reason to believe that the pest has. been exterminated. The Department, however, has- instructed the officials to make a rigorous inspection in November, when the conditions are favourable to the reappearance of the

The Western Star relates a sensa-,i tional mishap to a traction engine. Mi\j B. Reid, of Orepuki, last week was driving his traction engine from the Waiau to Orepuki. On nearing Forde's road he was endeavouring to .steer his engine clear of some ruts when the machine toppled over a 15----feet bank, and landed on her nbse, with the back wheels in the air. Strange to say, neither the engine nor > the driver was damaged.

Mr W...A. Sowrnan; who is visiting the Marton and Hastings Shows this week, telegraphs his winnings at the former as follows:—Plymouth Rocks, two firsts, two seconds, and two thirds, also champion and special • Black Orpingtons, three firsts, two seconds, and one ■third/- also two specials; Silver Wyandot^es, two firsts and one second, also two specials. In pigeons, Mr Sowman secured three, firsts, five- seconds, and a special in Homers. ,'

At March 31, 1882, there were 116 telephone connections in New Zealand, and the balance of revenue over working expenses was £207 16s. At March 31 last the number of connections was. 17,403, and the balance of revenue over working expenses was £14,587 14s 7d. The total cost ■of the Wellington1 Exchange was .£15,578 15s Id: of Auckland, - £5808 14s 9d; Christchurch, £5619 5s 7d; and-Dunedin, £5643 Is

Tor a wager of £25 that he would write a paragraph that would be copied into 20 per cent of the New Zealand newspapers, a Hansard reporter about 30 years ago wrote the following:— "Mdll.%de la Ramee, who is.' Ouida,' the well-known novelist; is now on her way to New Zealand to marry an equally well-known Canterbury squatter." Seventy-five per cent-of the papers copied it without question, and the newspapei- man earned £1 a word over it. '

There is nothing to equal Witch s Oil for rheumatism, sciatica, lum bago, and all muscular pains. '

The second entertainment given in the Town Hall by Perry's Biorama Company last night was well attended. There 'was an entire' change of programme, and every number, spectacular or auricular, was received with applause. Amongst the scenic pictures, views of Vienna held the chief place • and the " chase " films did not fail to provoke roars of laughter. The Brady sisters again charmed with" their singing, and the juggling of the Rextons was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience. There is a prospect of the company returning to Blenheim in November.

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

Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., announced at New Plymouth recently that he intended to make it a rule to allow' interest only at the rate of 6 per cent when claimed in civil proceedings. His Worship said there was nothing in the Magistrate's Court Act or in the rules made under it to guide him, so he depended on the decision of the Appeal Court concerning a case in 1901. Mr Wright complained that this was an alteration which would seriously affect the relation between parties to promissory note dealings locally.

A Zymole Trokey is a pleasant thing to dissolve in your mouth. It stops coughing, relieves hoarseness, and is a good throat antiseptic. *

The Maoris in this country, says the laranaki News, have steadfastly declined to take delivery of ratecards posted to them. When one of these demands arrived there was never a man known by the name of the addressee, and the ratecards never reached their destination. But an envelope with a big blue cross, denoting registration, is always eagerly looked tor, and seized with the greatest avidity. The other day a batch of these landed at a post office down the coast, and there was no difficulty in disposing of them. When opened they were found to contain demands for payment of rates! Mr Ellis, the county "clerk, had scored.

Why spend money at llotorua and other thermal springs when R.HEUMO wilL quickly cure you of rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago. Chemists and stores, 2s Gd and 4s Bd.

A new method of labelling bales of flax and putting on the graders' marks is being introduced by the Agricultural Department. Flaxmillers will be required to insert in the" middle of every bale a tag made of tin, stamped with their, own brand, and connected by means of a piece of stout wire with a leather tag, similarly stamped, on? the outside of: the bale. The grader will impress his mark on this, and it will then be practically impossible to exchange the marks, a practice which is temptingly easy with the present system of graders'' tags made of parchment, and tied to the outside of the bale with string. The new device is to be compulsory, from September Ist, and, in the meantime, specimens will be on view at all the offices of the Department, and in the care of all stock inspectors throughout the colony.

Kirkcaldie and Stains' end of season sale starts on Wednesday, 31st July. Our representative, Mr Perrin, is now taking orders for sale goods, which will be delivered in Blenheim at Wellington prices for cash on delivery. *

" If our Auckland friends are not more careful they will wake up one of these fine mornings to find that the Government has taken them at their word and made only ' a fair and just allocation' of moneys to their province for railways and other public works. Then they will be sorry for themselves," remarks the Lyttelton Times. " Auckland exports one lamb for every twenty-five sent from Canterbury, or for every nine or ten sent from Wellington, and less than onethird per cent, of the mutton sent from the whole of the colony, and yet it talks as if it were the very centre of the trade. Self-advertisement is counted in these days an admirable thing, and in a little while Canterbury is to have an Advancement Association to attend to this.part of its business, but we could wisn that our friends in sounding their own trumpet would not be quite so anxious to drown the music of their neighbours."

You can do a suffering friend a kindly service by saying " Steams' Headache Cure will quickly cure that headache." A trial will convince you if you have noifc used it yourself. *

A recent issue of the Bulletin had the following: —James Mills, of the Union Steamship Company, recently knighted, started life in the office of John Jones and Co., Dunedin. A romantic firm was that of Jones and Co. John Jones was the third son of Thomas Jones, one of the early settlers of N.S. Wales, and was born in Sydney in 1809. Early in life he entered into, commercial speculation, and was" part-owner of several whalers. In 1839, he bought an extensive property from the Maoris at Waikouaiti, and' in the ' following year induced thirteen families to leave N.S. Wales and settle in Maoriland. He was the first Otago settler in Maoriland. He continued to live in Dunedin until his death in 1869. In 1830 he was married in Sydney to Miss Sarah Sizemore. Before the settlement at Otago by the Scotch immigrants, John Jones was known <»s " .King" Jones; he owned almost every thing in what Jivas- afterwards Dunedin,* and his word was law. ] He founded the Harbour Steam Navigation Company, which was the precursor of the Union Steamship Co.

The Wellington and Wairarapa Motor Company, Ltd., being large wholesale traders, are show.ingthe best display of cycle accessories in Blenheim at their local branch, next Town Hall.*

Great hopes are expressed concerning the possibility of commencing a remunerative industry in connection with the kaolin of pottery clay deposits at New Plymouth, and there is a 'Strong possibility of a company being floated to work the same. It is understood that the deposits are easy of access, and enough has already been done to show that they are extensive; the white clayi has never been bottomed, and the yellow clay is in a : seam.3ft^ deep. N Kaolin forms an important ingredient in the manufacture of porcelain, and is often known as china clay. Large quantities are raised in Cornwall, where it is frequently termed " Cornish c|ay. ;> Kaolin is almost invariably a produce of the alteration of felspaT, and is therefore always found in association with felspathic rocks, usually granite. A good deal of apparatus is required to treat the clay, and if a company is formed to exploit the present deposits it will require to have a large capital in order to set up the necessary machinery.

Mountain King Asthma Powder never fails to give relief in old and chronic cases. If suffaring give it a 'rial at once. 4

"You call this a mineral spring?" said the Yankee visitor deprecatingly. "Yes, sir," said the Te Aroha hotel proprietor; "it is a mineral spring; it's got any quantity of iron in it." ''Well," returned the Yankee, "you want to see the mineral springs at the place where I live away out in Dakota. Why, sir, we never need to shoe our horses out there. We just make them put their feet in the water for half an hour, and the shoes grow on their feet right away, the water is so full of iron."

RHEUMO has permanently cured thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago. It will cure you. All stores, 2s 6d and 4s 6d. Give it a trial.

Cheerful stories about the non-pay-ment of rates on native lands were multiplied by the Taranaki representatives at the Counties' Conference at Wellington recently. One of them, the chairman of the Taranaki County, told the Native Minister that on 7000 acres of native land lying chiefly between New Plymouth and Okehu, the Council last year collected 15s 6d in rates. This year it had collected nothing. The Egmont Council should derive £422 from native lands within its borders, but it has only been able to recover £106, of which £60 was paid by the Public Trustee, and only £46 by the natives. '

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

The inhabitants of Motherwell, Lanarkshire, which is undermined by coal and iron fields,were alarmed by a number of serious subsidences. A large two-storey building in Wellington street was rent from top to bottom. Ihe occupants rushed into the streets m the wildest alarm. Buildings in other parts of the town sank about six inches, and the gas pipes are torn and twisted, involving considerable danger from escaping gas. The damage is spread over an extensive area, and hundreds of buildings present a hanging and dangerous aspect. Many of them were new.

Woman's advice to woman—lf troubled -vith constipation, headache, h^er or kidney ailiuonts. take Tamer J jo.

mother told the magistrate at Willosdcti. England, that .she had thrashed her-.son ■ soundly and treated him, in fact, with every kindness.