LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 106, 3 May 1909, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Sunday night is not the time for boys to yell avid shout in the main streets of the town; some of them seem to think that.it is.

In Wellington on Saturday, Mr Justice Cooper adjudged W. G. Somervillej solicitor, a bankrupt oni a creditor's petition.

Mr Will T. Cronin, representing West's Pictures and Orchestral Band, is in town, making arrangements for the Company's forthcoming seasou at the Town Hall.

The latest example of Tommy Rot! A Wellington contemporary writes:— "The simple, gracious way in which Madame Melba took her gloves off, .sat down at the piano, and sang; her last lovely somg to her own accompaniment, touched every one."

It is understood that the proposal of some of the members to sell the Waiirau Cricket Club's present ground in Erances Street and invest the; proceeds in a larger but cheaper piece of land in another part of ttoe""towai, has been abandoned for the present.

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It is reported by a Christchurch telegram that the Rev. Mr Mayer's Barnardo's Homes mission has been successful in Christchurch. The sum of £300 has already been subscribed for a new girls' hospital at Ilford, and £160 is hoped to be added, so that two Christchurch beds may be endowed.

An industrial agreement between the employers and the General Labourers' Union of Christchurch was signed on Saturday evening, and will be filed to-day. Details of the agreement will not be available till the document is filed for sanction by the Arbitration Court, which will give it the force of an award.

Cheapest in town for ladies' underclothing and hose.—F. W. Smith and Co., opposite Criterion Hotel. *

Industries week in Christchurch is looked upon as having been a signal success (says a Press Association telegram). A large number of people, young and old, visited the factories, which were thrown open for publio inspection, more especially on Saturday, and all that day and evening the streets were thronged with people inspecting the window displays of New Zealand-made goods.

You never have headache< ? How fortunate ! Some of your friends are less lucky, no doubt. Do them a ser-vice—-tell them Steams' Headache Cure stops the pain quickly. Is a box.

The Hon. Mr Hogg completed his country tour yesterday, and leaves for Wellington by the Main Trunk tonight (says a telegram from Auckland). Mr Hogg was much impressed by .the lamentable waste in so much rich native land lying idle, retarding settlement and crippling the finances of local bodies. It was, he said, the duty of the Government, before spending large sums of money with the result of bumping up the values of the lands, to settle as much as possible for settlement.

Back pages to-day contain some interesting articles upon England's danger, in which the opinions of leading men are given upon the subject. There is also a variety of readable extract matter, as well as our usual contribution from our correspondent across the Strait.

In Mr J. Draper's new shop there was on view to-day some prime beef from "Mr H. D. Vavasour's famous herd of shorthorns. Each three-year-old steer turned the scale at 1000 lbs, and the dressed meat is a picture for an epicure. Mr Draper reckons it is the primest beef he has had in his shop this year, and it looks it.

A special meeting of the Mairlborough Shearers' Union; was held in Blenheim on Saturday night. The object of the meeting was to elect delegates to the conference to be held in Christchurch on Empire Day. The various unions throughout the Dominion are to be federated under one controlling body. The general ■meeting of the local branch will be held on the last Saturday in May, so as to give time for the delegates to Chitistchurch to deliver their reports. Messrs Neil Towart and J. Townsend were elected delegates to the conference.

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A Wellington telegram states that a man mained Andrew Gadbaz, who was tried before Mr Justice Chapman at Palmerston North in February last on a charge of ■assaulting Edward Arthur Coley so ias to cause him grievous bodily harm, came up for sentence to-day. The jury had found him guilty of common assault, amd the Judge reserved for the Appeal Court the "question whether the finding amounted to a ■ verdict of guilty. Gadbaz was to-day sentenced to three months' imprisonment, to date from the date of the trial.

Mr F. Kissel, who is 'associated with Captain Heniiah. as joint inventoris of the veiry clever automatic safety ship's course indicator, left last week by the Corinthic for the Old Country. His intention is to bring tihe invention under the notice of the Admiralty, and in that connection Lieutenant Shackleton, of Ant-arctic fame, who saw the invention, and as highly impressed with it, has promised to introduce Mr Rissel to the Admiralty authorities. Most of the local naval experts who ■have seen this invention have> expressed themselves in confident terms about its success.

Mr R. Wallace (Stewart and Company) will arrive in a. few days. His address in future will be "Masonic Hotel," where • all correspondence (should be addressed. *

At a meeting of settlers at Ngaire (Taranaki) on Saturday night, dissatisfaction was expressed at the present system of taxation on farms, and the following resolution was passed: "That this meeting protests against the system of valuing unimproved land, and requests that the unimproved value be reduced by fifty per cent., the improved value to be raised by that amount." It was hoped by the meeting that other districts would support the protest.

Evidently the Rugby footballers of Blenheim are good enoughi without practice—or think so, at any irate— for there was a miserable muster on Saturday for the scratch matcK between .Central and Opawa, and this although 20 Opawa players alone bad b.eeai .requested per medium of the press to turn out. Other place® have started their cup matches already; the local footballers are not even troubling about getting into training. A team tihat took time by the forelock and gathered a little condition and combination before the. season staiited might easily be able to steal a march on its opponent®, and get a lead in the first roundr that would give it the cup. But that isn't likely to happen as far as the Blenheim teams are concerned.

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An amusing .'Professor David istory comes from Sydney. Mrs David (had ■an interesting experience at the Town Hall o<n the evening that her husband was publicly welcomed back. Owing to the crowded condition of the 'hall, the dooms were clojsed soon after 7 o'clock, and when Mrs David aa-aiived some time, about 8 she was politely but firmly refused admittance by the door-keeper. "But I must go in," protested tie lady. "Sorry, madam, but I can't admit you," 'was the uoi-.a-elenting reply. "I am Mrs DavidProfessor David's wife," she explainedl. The janitor turned an unbelievr ing c.ye upon her, amd answered, stall politely—"Very sorry, madam, but you are the eighth lady who has told me the same thing this evening!" a.nd he turined away to attend to newcomers clamouring for admittaince. Mrs David had to laugh, although her predicament was an annoying one. She was eventually rescued aand) con>ducted' into the hall by someone in authority who recognised, her.

The larrikin is becoming altogether too common in Blenheim, and it is time that he was given a lesson that he will remember. It is beyond,a joke for people going home from church on Sunday nights to have to walk on the road in the middle of the town while gane;s of hobbledehoys jnonopolise the footpaths, smoking and spitting and making remarks (some of them only inane and others positively vulgar) about those who pass along. Girls are, of course (provided that no men are with them to protect them) the main object of the "smart" remarks of these emptyheaded youths, but occasionally women are subjected. to their impudence. The police should prevent the footpaths from being blocked by knots of idlers; if they cannot disperse them they should transfer them to what appears to be their proper place—the gutter.