LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 110, 11 May 1908, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Three Chinese were to-day fined £25 each in * Wellington for selling pakapoo tickets, ■ Capt. Edwin telegraphed at 1 p.m. as follows:—"Northerly moderate to strong winds; tides good: sea considerable; glass fall slowly." , A Press Association telegram from Napier- states that the Hon.'Mr Fowlds,to-day received several private deputations, and visited the hospital and all the local schools. , a.

The Blenheim Sabbath non-ob-servant society held a skating session yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of the wharves, and judging by the accompanying noise, a very successful one.

. When in need of a throat relief get Zymole1 Trokeys. They are the most improved form of medication' for an irritated throat or a tight (bough. A trial will convince you.

There will be a Church Parade of .the local Volunteers at the Church of the Nativity on Empire Day (May 24). It is hoped to have good musters of the Marlborough' Mounted Rifles, Blenheim Rifles, High School Cadets and Garrison Band.

•On otfr ■ second page will be found articles *m "A Father of Penny Journalism," "The Darling Downs." "New Work for Women," "The Awakening of China," "Tragedy in a Court," etc.; and on our seventh page football ■ and commercial . news, an article on the Haytian Republic, and other interesting news.

Letters . have been. received in Nelson from the Bishop or Nelson, and party (Mrs Mules, Miss Mules, and the Rev. J. R. Dart), written at Colombo! AH the party were well and enjoying the voyage, and the intention was expressed of breaking the voyage "at Suez and visiting the Pyramids.

Watch :E. Parker's Cycle Shop, corner Alfred and Market Street, during month of May- Monster-Sale for one month only. Come early, snips won't lagt long *

In" fining several orchardists in the Nelson district for failing to eradicate disease, 'and preventing its spread, the S.M. gaid everyone knew the importance of the fruit industry. Motueka alone last season sent out £52,000 worth.: ifhe industry required to.be guarded <by proper precautions, and it was very unfair to those who took the trouble to : keep down the pests if others did not do so.

The Temuka branch of the Farm Labourers' Union passed a resolution on Friday night directing the attention of the Minister for Labour to the fact that the Farmers' Union was endeavouring to get the Arbitration Act so amended as to exclude farm labourers: from'its benefits. The Union protested against this, and claimed that farm labourers had as good a right as others to an award of the Arbitration Court. • '

. From this morning's weather report it was seen that the weather had moderated and the markings for the sea were smooth throughout, with the ex-, ception of Cape Maria (considerable sea), Hokianga Heads (rough), and Kaipara signal station, (heavy). The reading of the thermometer for Blenheim was 45 degrees, with a falling river: 'The highest reading was at Tiritiri (62 Segrees), and the lowest at Queenstown (39).

The Marlborough Farmers' Cooperative Association held a meeting on Saturday afternoon, when it was decided to go into voluntary liquidation, the liquidators appointed being Messrs F. B. Farmar, D'Arcy Chaytor, and A. C. Pearson (of Ross"and Company, Foxton). One of the largest shareholders was very much dissatisfied with this decision, and declared his intention to move in the Court in the matter of the Association's affairs being placed in the hands of the Official Assignee.

If you can step into a ready-made costume you are saved a world of trouble and anxiety. You see at a glance the style and finish of the dress, you have the chance of trying it on to see if it suits you. There is no risk, no guess-work, and the price is very much lower than what the same dress would cost if made to order. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., have a fine lot of costumes, in all the preferred styles, which they would be pleased to submit on application to theiv agent in Blenheim.

At the Police Court to-day Messrs Smale and Penny, J.P.s, presided. J Walter Blackie, a decrepit old man, j was charged by the police with having insufficient means of support. Constable Bird explained that the man was not able to work, and had lately been discharged from the mental hospital at Nelson. The police had to take him in; the alternative would have been to have sent him adrift on the streets. The Bench dismissed the charge and requested the police to interview the Secretary of the Charitable Aid Board on the old man's behalf.

The annual meeting of ;the Council of the New Zealand Boxing Association was held in, Christchurch on Friday evening. The Canterbury Association nominated Sir Joseph Ward as patron; the Hon. H. F. Wigram, M.L.C., as president, and Mr W. G. Atack as secretary," and these were elected. The old council, consisting of Messrs J. F. Grierson, C. T. Ashman, C. J. Cooper, J. R. Evans, F. W. Johnston, A. R. Kirk, and J. R. Olliver, were re-elected. Mr A. Dickson was re-elected hon. auditor. The Northern Boxing Association wrote asking the council if it could see its way to establish secondary school championships on the, lines adopted in English secondary schools. It was decided to communicate with the various centres in regard to the'matter. The Manawatu Association were affiliated As the Canterbury centre was the only applicant for the New Zealand Championships, it was decided to award the championship to it. Disqualifications forwarded by the Canterbury and Wellington centres were endorsed. A letter was received from J. Fitzsimmons, . applying for reininstatement as an amateur. He stated that he had broken his amateur status only once, and that was at Palmerston North, < where he boxed for ;a pui'se. It was decided to grant the reinstatement.

The coaling of the American Fleet at Auckland is going to be a task of Some/considerable magnitude, and some people already are beginning to wonder (says the N.Z. Times) _ how it is going to be effected/ especially in view of the reported shortage of coal. The fleet will probably require from fifteen to twenty thousand tons of coal all at ones if all the vessels are to be supplied at Auckland. This would mean, in. the opinion of one authority in Wellington, that practcially every collier in the Dominion would have to be kept going for: some time beforehand in conveying poal up to Auckland, where it could be stored in readiness. But as they were being run now as hard as possible to cope with the ordinary demand, he failed to see how things would be managed. One way to make the operation "a little less protracted and to ensure the coal being forthcoming would be for some of the vessels to coal at Wellington.

How often one finds a most imperfect piano in what would otherwise be a well-appointed home. So. frequently, jtodv that piano is quite past restoration. Money spent on it w.ould be money wasted. Get it up to tune—it drops back. Give it tone or touch— neither last. Imagine the thoughts of your guests who are asked to play upon or listen to such a discouraging instrument. Not only that, but you don't do justice to the talent of even your own family. Get; another piano at once. 'Communicate Teith Mr J. M. Brooks, North Island manager, in Wellington, of, the - Dresden Piano Company, .Ltd.- His, firm will allow full value for the old piano, and equip you with , a new one—a really fine instrument, sensitive, responsive, triumphantly superior in every single respect. You can get it on time-pay-ment/too, If you wish—simply 20s, or so, each month, until this really fine piano has become your very own.

Winter "mud" stories are already commencing up north. The Maiigaweka Settler has the following ;:— Stated that up Waioura way recently a settler was picking his way across a swampy pfece of road ,when he saw ; the bowl of a pipe sticking out of the mud. He seized it, but it would not come out. On realeasing his hold to get a fresh grip of the pipe he was startled to hear a voice from the slimy depths say, "Don't take that, it's the only thing I've got left to breathe through." '

A great singer was persuaded to sing at a village concert not long ago. He sang splendidly " The Village Blacksmith," and was about to give an encore when he felt a man trigging at his coat-tails. "Better sing that owd song over again, mister. I 'appen to be the chap you've been singin' about. I'm the village blacksmith. I reckon it would only be fair to me if you was to sing it all Over again—and you might put in a verse saying as 'ow I lets out bicycles!"

The Taihape Daily Times representative, on approaching one of his agents at a town not a hundred miles from Horopito, asked how the papers were selling, and was greeted with the reply. "Hie. Aright. There'sh a' here Hie." Evidently there is still plenty of whisky in the King Country.

A man, alleged to be in a state of intoxication, fell through one of the front windows of a shop in Manchester, Street, .Feilding, recently (says The Star). The proprietor, who is a genial Scotchman, might have had the man arrested; but, instead, he sent for a cab and had him taken home.

It is stated that flies: will not remain in a room in which mignonette is growing- If so, here is a simple remedy for what is often an intolerable nuisance.