LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 25 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Messrs W. Bell and D. Bishell were successful exhibitors of sheep at the Nelson A. and P. Association's. Showlast week. The Awatere County Council invites tenders for maintaining the road from the Limestone Ford to the Saxton Pass Saddle, Upper Awatere. The dates fixed for the tenth National Dairy Show at Palmerston North' are the' 17th to the 20th of June. 1913. A meeting of the Captain-Cook Me--1 morial Committee will be held in the '< Blenheim Court-house to-morrow even- ' ing. , : c [ ; . > > ' * 2 '. ' j r ; $ - 5 • L ; \ c " * 1 1 . , ,

A public meeting will be held in the County Council office at Seddon on Wednesday evening for the purpose of electing a Board of Management for the Seddon Domain.

■It is nearly two years since the local Amateur Dramatic Society staaed "Facing the Music." To-night and to-morrow nighit the Society will perform "Lady Huntworth's Experiment" at His Majesty's Theatre.

A London cablegram reports that the Quinlan Opera Company will open in Melbourne next September, when 1 will be presented Wagner's complete ring-cycle of 23 operas. The company will probably visit New Zealand. Many readers will remember Mrs Waddy's excellent acting in "Facing the Music two years ago. Those who have seen the rehearsals say that as "Caroline Ray ward" in "Lady Huntwortii's Experiment" this lady will eclipse any amateur performance ©ver seen in Blenheim. ,

L The summer excursions to Pieton and the Sounds will commence on i Wednesday, trainsi leaving Blenheim L at 8.35 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. The usual | 10.30 a.m. train to Picton, will not | run. Instead of leayjing Ward at 7.30 > a.m., the morning train will be des- [ patched to Blenheim an hour earlier. In the Public Works Estimates for . the current-year, under the heading iof "Postal and Telegraph," it is stated that the-vote t for a new post ' office in Blenheim is provided for ' under the-general vote. Anxiety is ' expressed in some quarters as to i whether this does not mean that the ■ matter of providing Blenheim with an • up-to-date post office has been shelved. ! ; !

, "New Zealand apples, for quality,' i will easily hold their own. in competition." remarked Mr A. M'Kee, a , Nelson fruitgrower, in the course of t an interview in Wellington on Friday. "It. is not generally known that in , 1904 at Hobart, in 1907 at Brisbane, and this year at Melbourne, New , Zealand apples were awarded pride -jvof place." I The conference of University Pro- ! fessors concluded on Friday night at ' Wellington. An official report will j ! be supplied to the Press next week. | It is announced that Professor Marj shall's motion relating to the altera- \ tion of the Degree course was ruled { out towards the end of the conference, | together with other business, in consequence of the decision that the business should end yesterday.

\ An accident, which might easily have had serious consequences, befell Mij Walter Bussell last Wednesday (says the Kaikoura Star). He, along j with two others, was engaged carting j a clay -and metal mixture, taken from \ a hill near what was known as Gar- i rett's Bridge, for the purpose of form- ' ing a road on his holding, Poranga- } rau, near Clarence Bridge. To ob- | tain the material the party had tunnelled into the hill and, when just j about to retire for lunch on Wednes- j day, the roof collapsed and buried Mr ; Bussell almost up to his neck and < pinned him against the wheel of the ■ dray. His mates were speedily to j his rescue and lost no time in ex- | tracting the unfortunate young man ; from his predicament. Mr Bussell ' was at once brought into Kaikoura for ■ medical aid, when it was found that no bones were broken. Although considerably bruised' about the body and limbs the patient, who is confined to his bed, is hoping to be about again : within a few days. j

A very sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Blenheim at 7.10 a.m. yesterday. The tremor was also felt at Picton.

The oppressive heat continued unabated to-day, and at 9 o'clock this morning the local temperature was 72. which equalised with. Kaipara's record as being the warmest station in the Dominion. Gisborne and NaDier each recorded 70.

The^ fact that the Tenth Regimental Band was playing in Market Square last evening was responsible for the congregation of a large # number of people, who heard a series of sacred selections played in the band's customary capable manner.

It is over ten years since Mr C. J. "W. Griffiths has been before the public in a dramatic entertainment, his last appearance being in "The Magistrate" in 1902. Mr Griffiths has earned a reputation as an actor, aad should be seen to advantage tonight and to-morrow night in "Lady Huntworth's Experiment," as the Rev. Audley Pellenger.

Tennis matches on Saturday aftei> noon resulted as follows:—Rapaura beat Awarua by 146 points ; N Marlborough B beat Ren wick, who were unable to get a full team; Marlborough A forfeited to St. Andrew's. Pietqn, who were to have met Anglican in Blenheim, did not make the trip. The detailed scores of the matches played will appear tomorrow.

Griffiths and Son held an auction sale of property on Saturday afternoon, when the properties in the estate of the late R. H. Priddle were submitted. Part lot 20 of sections 1 and 3 Omaka, with 20 feet frontage to Wynen . Street, and containing a sample room, was sold to Mr H. V. Browne, the price being £650. The ether two properties offered did not reach the reserve, and were passed in.

The- Nelson Mail says : —On behalf of ait Argentine client, Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have purchased from Mr R. C. Ellis four Romney hogget rams. One of them secured a first prize ait the A. and P. Show, and the other three -.were on exhibition only. The sheep were bred out of Mr Robert Tanner's ewes, and were sired by Short's Record D 57 ram. It is understood that this is the first shipment of sheep to leave Nelson for the Argentine, and it speaks well, both for Nelson and for Mr Ellis, wheiu locally-bred animals are sent such a distance.

"lam a registered dental surgeon," said Harry Howard Walker, when charged at the Sydney Court with vagrancy last week. A physical wreck, he admitted that his condition had been brought about by the too 'free use of morphia, to which he was a slave. He is known as "Morphia Jack," and the police stated that for the past month he had been sleeping in the lavatory at the Central Railway Station. "I am taking less than a quarter of the morphia I was three months ago," said Walker, "and if your Worship will send me to Rookwood I think I will be able to overcome the habit by degrees." The Magistrate said he could not trust to the promises of a morphia victim, an<l sent the man to gaol for three months. "You will, receive attention there," he added. .--■■. . .

Questioned a few days ago in the south, as to the prospects of the Dominion fruit crop this season, Mr W. A. Boucher, Assistant-Director of Orchards, said he had been recently in. the Auckland district and other Darts of the North Island, and also in tho South Island, and lie had ascertained that the peach and plum crops promised, for the most, part,: to be rather light, owing to the unfavorable weather in the early part of the season. Round about the Hastings district, in Hawke's Bay, however, the p^ach crop was represented to bo^ very heavy. Apples and pears' promised to be good throughout New Zealand this season, and the present indications pointed' to a fairly large surplus of apples for export markets.

'An exciting incident, which unfortunately involved the loss of a valuable draught mare, occurred at Kaikoura, on Thursday (states the Star). As Mr E. Hailes' timber waggon, driven by Gi. Wilson, and drawn by six horses, was passing Pyne and Co's office, a runaway horse in one of Wallace's butcher's carts came tearing down from the Manse corner. Whilst tiro runaway was still a considerable distance off the ■. leaders in the waggon caught sight of it, and immediately slewed. So suddenly did they! swerve that the driver could not pos- j sibly control them, and as there .was danger of a nasty accident he jumped and landed safely. The affrighted horses turned the waggon completely round,, within its own length, and in so doing the near horse in the body was impaled on the shaft, which penetTated its stomach, inflicting a_ terrible wound. The horses were quickly released from their harness, and the ; injured mare, whoso protruding en- j trails presented a ghastly _ sight, ex- j pired within a very few minutes. The j cause of the "bolt" was the breaking of the back-band, and the butcher's j horse was severely cut about /the legs • in his mad career. His driver also j had to jump, for fear of a serious col- ; lision, and both he and Wilson were [ fortunate in escaping injury. j

The Anglican- Bishop of Nelson, tie> Right Rev. W. C. Sadlier, informed ! a Christchurch -reporter on Friday that the charge of Gheviot, to which; - Ihe will induct the Rev. A. J. S. [ Seaton on Sunday, has been vacant for some time, but the services had been maintained. Referring to the __ diocese of Nelson, the Bishop remarked!^ that a large amount of reorganisation, required to be done, and many changes were impending consequent on the retirement during the next year or so of several elderly clergymen.

An Auckland telegram states that; a brief bag was found on the steps of the ferry tee on Saturday morning; which contained the dead bodjr of «•■ fully-developed female child with a' tape tied tightly round its neck. The body was wrapped in a portion of a woman's clothing./ and the bag wasrWeighted with a flat-iron. It wa*>: probably left on the steps by the receding tide. Medical examination indicates that,the child never breathed. There is no clue to the mother** ■ identity.

An application made by John.Berryman for a magistrate's "^ certicate in respect to his intention to apply for a license for the Terminus Hotel, Picton, was considered by Mr R. S. Florance, 5.M.,, this morning. Mr Beere, of Wellington, appeared for the applicant. Sergeant Hanson represented the police. Evidence in support'of the application was givenby "Mr and Mrs Berrymani and bj Miss Jean Cummings and Mrs Margaret Holme, who were members of the applicant's staff in the Napier Hotel, Napier, and a number of sworn declarations were put in, the evidenc*being directed mainly by way of reply to certain references in a police report. His Worship granted a certificate. '