LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 26, 31 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The final for the Durrant medals

was rowed at the Blenheim Rowing Club's sheds last night, E. Wanden and W. Dew gaining an easy victory over Hackworth and T. Mitchell.

Fuller Bros., the Seddon. storekeepers, will commence their halfyearly sale to-morrow week. For one month their stock of drapery, clothing, fancy goods, and hardware will be soldl at greatly reduced prices. A plebiscite of the members of the B Company, 12th Regiment, was taken last night on the most suitable time for daylight parades, the majority voting in favor of early morning parades. Send your boots and shoes to Copp and Knight's up-to-date repairing : factory. Best material, expert workj men, quick service.—Advt. j The email coastal eteamer Storm, ■ which arrived at Lyttelton on Tuesday night, was nearly thirty-seven hours on the passage from Picton, having; been steaming nearly thirty . hours against the gale. : The French say: "Who often changes, suffers." That is why people who have once tried Martell's Brandy don't change.—Advt. A shearer just returned from the , Upper Awatere reports that shearing has been completed, and that the . clips were heavier and of better quality than in former years. Hardly a sheep was lost during the trying weather of last winter. Don't lose interest. Renewed1 energy in every dose of Steams' Wine of Cod Liver Extract. Increase your vitality and make your work take on an added interest.—Advt. • The prevalence of high winds was an unpleasant factor in to-day's weather. About 9 o'clock, the sky was ominously overcast, and a slight shower of rain fell, but thereafter the sun reigned supreme. The temperature at 9 o'clock was 60, Napier (76) being the warmest station. You'll be happy though married if your wife uses TAN-OL. It's the ideal polish for linoleums and furniture.— Advt. * It is reported that many of the early crops of Algerian" oats in .North Canterbury have - suffered severely from the heavy nor'-west gales that have prevailed lately. Some fields that promised heavy Yields have been almost stripped of gram, and will barely pay for ingTwo Guineas for four lines of poetry! Read Tonking's Linseed Emulsion intimation every Saturday amongst news items.—Advt. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Hospital Bazaar held last evening, final arrangements were made in connection with the dancing and tableaux to be staged at the Bazaar. A well-known and noted professional lady has been engaged and the public will be treated to something quite new and fascinating in the way of dances, which have always been one of the principal attractions at local bazaars. The Ladies' Committee have matters well m hand with regard to the different stalls, and in this respect alone the Bazaar promises to be a great success. . "A contented! mind is a continual feast. You get both when you drink I Martell's Brandy.—Advt. • j "This, strike is of national import- i ance," said Mr T. M. Wilford. M.P 1 addressing the slaughtermen at! Petone the other night. "Don't think j it is local;-don't think it only pertains to you people immediately con •' oerned.- Every single person is ; directly or indirectly concerned. The problem of labor is never going to be solved by Act of Parliament. As a ; matter' of fact, it is never going to be > solved in otir time. As to solving it j absolutely—4hat is impossible. If we ! were all. equal to-morrow, which of us would drive the dust-cart?" "That ' question could be quite simply answered, Mr Wilford," said one of his audience. "It might be simply answered, but could it be effectively answered? 1 don't think it could." . "Yes; Air ;could," was the reply of the ] optimistic economist, "read the books of Karl Marx." ; Kirkcaldie's famous half-yearly sale will start on Wednesday, 29th January. The firm are issuing a complete inset of bargains offered, which will be circulated through the post and our local paper. All orders left with their local agent will be exejuted and delivered in Blenheim at i Wellington prices.—Advt.

Mr R. McCaJlum, M.P., and his two sons left to-day on an overland tour to Murchison via Tophouse. The total quantity of gold entered ror duty for exportation as having been won in the county of Marlborough during the year 1912 was 439 ounces, of the value of £1643. 30 dozen ladies' and children's hats, 5s to 12s 6d, at Smith's sale. All one price, 2s 6d.—Advt. A Dunedin telegram states that pillaging has been so bad on the last three or four Home boats that local merchants have started to insure against loss in that direction. * Tl^? v" T- R- Richards will leave ror Wellington to-morrow to attend the Methodist Conference, which opens on Wednesday. The Examination Committee, of which Mr Richards is a member, sits on Tuesday morning. For any cold in young or old— lonkmg s Linseed Emulsion. Chemists and stores.—Advt. It is understood that a number of persons interested in the bee-keeping industry have sent forward an application to the Agricultural Department to send an expert across to inspect the hives in the Blenheim ; district. • ! Mr and Mrs R. D. Martin, of (rrove Road, have had the misfortune to lose by death their second and ' 3!£. fant, <$ ild ' a Sirl 14 months of age. I ihe child succumbed last night Do | an illness which extended over about j a week. j Neglected colds kill countless i women and children every winter i Tonking's Linseed Emulsion is a ■ sovereign and immediate cure. Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d.—Advt. The Union Company has definitely decided to use the Mararoa for an I excursion to be run from Wellington ito Ship Cove on February 11 in j connection with the ceremony of un- | veiling the Gantain Cook monument. I The steamer will leave Wellington at j eight o'clock in the morning. j The Defence Department have ; decided that the mountain guns j which they imported last year are , obsolete* as there is now a gun available of approximately eeveu years later design. They are accordingly sending back the guns that D Battery (Wellington) has used for a year, and hope soon to import a more

improve;! weapon, to be kept. Baxter's Pills—pills that cure Anti-neuralgic cure all classes of neu-

The mules are

ralgia, and Compound Quinine cure indigestion and all its accompanying ills. They never fail. Is 6d box at chemists and stores. Look for the

silver coating.—Advt. If there is on© thing that the New Zealand farmer takes some pride in it is his wool clip, and anything that . tends to increase its quality or productiveness is quickly taken advantage of. Messrs Bourke, Wilson, andl Co., the well-known wool and [ sheep buyers, have had placed in their hands for sale one of the best sheep-farmers' frienda in Lawes' sheep dips, and draw attention to their advertisement on page 8. Next time you drink ginger ale, give it a name. Call for CAMROC DRY GINGER ALE, guaranteed to be made from an original Belfast formula. No artificial aids to make ,' it palatable-yjust the finest ginger root and purified water. All hotels andl stores.—Advt. An. Aiiekland telegram gives '• an explanation of the finding of a ship's buoy and hatch on the West Coast, the buoy bearing the name "Ulinia-. roa" and "Laira." The Huddart Parker Company purchased the Laira for a hulk, and probably the barque's buoys were removed to the steamer. Presumably the buoy and hatch belonged to the Ulimaroa and were washed overboard during the heavy weather in the Tasman SeU on the last voyage from Sydney to Wellington. Nine out of ten gouty and rheumatic subjects do not know that their health has been seriously undermined by an excess of uric acid in the blood. There is but one certain cure, and that is RHETJMO—it. removes the uric acid from the blood, and seldom fails, even in stubborn cases of rheumatism, gout, lumbago, and (sciatica, bold by all chemists and stores, 2s 6d and 4s 6d a bottle.—Advt. A Dargaville telegram says that on Tuesday morning a lifebuoy was picked up at the mouth of Mahuta Gorge branded "T. 6.5. Ulimaroa, Melbourne," and on the other side of the buoy something like "Liara, Auckland. Two chains away was also found a hatch, about 8 feet long by 21 inches wide, branded "Vhuditl." Both buoy and hatch were in good condition and wore ovidently cast up by the. same tide. They 'were not there the previous evening. A remarkable discovery was made a few days ago by a young man who was making inquiries as to the best motor-bicycle on the market. Passing W. H West's up-to-date Massey depot he espied in the window a compact motor-bicycle—the paragon of mechanical perfection. He bought one, and he was so pleased with the make—the New Hudson—that he recommends all others in search of one of the best machines to see W. If West, who is the sole local agent for the New Hudson.—Advt. A case of some importance to the travelling public, v/as heard in the Auckland Police Court the other day when a licensed carter was summoned | for bein^ late in the execution, of a contract. A lady visitor arrived at , the- Auckland railway station in the | oarly afternoon, and entrusted her -luggage to a carrier with license No Jl on his hat. The luggage failed to turn up until the next day. Meanwhile inquiries were made for No. 11 and it was then found that defendant had no right to be bearing that num- ! ber. as it was the number of his last • year's license and not of his present one. Defendant's excuse for his unpunctuality was that he had had an accident to the tyres of his vehicle, but Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., said that for the 6 ake of the public, carters nuist carry out their work punctually. Defendant had to pay a penalty of 20s and costs. "NAZOL" taken on some lumps of sugar and allowed to slowly dissolve in the mouth will promptly cure a cold in tho throat or chest. For colds in the head it is advisable in addition to Uvse a Naaol Inhaler and inhale through the nostrils as directed. No cold can withstand this treatment— it must succumb.—Advt. Start the day right I Polish your shoes with TAN-OL, the popular shine for tan footwear, leather goods, and furniture. In tins: liquid Is paste 6d.—Advt. ' A bad cold is one of the worst of bad things. It may cost much money to cure; but it costs much more in time and impaired vitality. If you want to be well rid of a cold soon get a bottle of "NAZOL." It never fails Price. Is 6d.—Advt.