HAVELOCK.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 89, 14 April 1908, Page 8

HAVELOCK.

[from our correspondent.] v Monday, Casualties in connection with pighunting have not been lately much in evidence, and I am sorry therefore to say that Mr D. Wells, jun., has met with an accident due to the slipping of a knife when cutting up, a good specimen. Dr Williams stitched up the wound, which was in the calf of the leg.

With regard to the unfortunate loss of life on the Eunice, the body has not been recovjered in spite of the most diligent search of Constable King. This is hardly to be wondered at, considering the great force of the tide, especially in the lower parts of the Sound.

Mr W. C. Smith has gone to Blenheim to attend the teachers' lectures.

' Negotiations for, a Red Funnel boat to convey the Volunteers to Nelson have terminated satisfactorily, and the Blenheim Rifles leave here by the 8 p.m. train on Thursday. The Pateena, leaving Picton at about 10 p.m., will be the transport.

It is stated to be probable that the purchaser of a block of property in High Street east,-having found, that his boundary is in the middle of the street, will take legal action to recover his land from the Corporation.

Mr A. H. Light, .representing the Wellington Piano Company, is at present in Blenheim, making arrangements for the establishment of a local branch. Premises, formerly known as " Iremonger's Hall," at the rear of Mr \V. A. Sowman's shop, have been secured, and will be stocked with a fine selection of high-class pianos by leading1 English and Continental makers. .■;■.-.-.

Blenheim was one of a very few cloudy places at 9: o'clock this morning. However, rain was falling at Clyde and Queenstown, in the south. The barometer readings throughout New Zealand were uniformly "high, and the temperature ranged from 72 degrees at Tiritiri (in the north) to 49 degrees at Queenstcwn. Light breezes prevailed, and the sea was everywhere smooth.

On the, occasion of his visit to Blenheim in a. few weeks the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Marine, will go on to Havelock (says The Guardian). He will be accompanied by the Hon. C. H. Mills, who wishes the Minister ,to see for himself how necessary are! the harbour improvemen!;s bhe Havelock Harbour Board are agitating for.

' In the advertising columns appears a full programme of-the elocutionary recital by Mr E. C. Quartly and pupils, to be held at Wesley Hall tomorrow night. Mr Quartly- will recite the Easter poem from Longfellow's " Tales at a Wayside Inn," entitled "Robert of Sicily." Several other recitals will be given by some of Mr Quartly's pupils. with these are items by Mr Len Sawt?ll (mimicry), Mr F. Bull (whistling), Mr Jack Bowman {Scotch humour), Messrs Bryant and Cooke (songs). Miss L. Jellyman will assist Miss Hurford with a pianoforte duet, and Mr A. D. Vannini will render a pianoforte selection of his own composition, entitled "Niagara." This novel and. interest-ing entertainment will no doubt attract a large gathering. , '

In the April School Journal for Standards I and II appears a Captain Cook chapter of especial interest in connection with the national memorial movement recently started in Marlborough. The article is illustrated with a reproduction-of an engraving of Ship Cove, showing Maori war canoes pulled up on the narrow beach and natives standing on shore An editorial note says that the view is a miniature of an engraving in the possession of MrJ. A.Turnbull, of Wellington, the well-known Captain Cook enthusiast. The original view was coloured by Mr Webster, of Cook's ship.