LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15, 19 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

At a meeting of " diiiry ©mplbyeee, held in. Wellington oii Weqnesday nighty it was .'decided to" form an industrial" union. •' ... ,*.] Rowing in the semi-final for Ferry?s medals at the Waii-itu .eheds; dii Saturday, J. McDougal and C. Hoult • (osec.) beat J. Thomas airid -Fi Thomas (125e0.) by two. lengths. Feather necklets, 6s lid each, at H. F. Hall's Sale.—Advt. \ In cbnneotioh with the -Sounds excursion on Wednesday, "trains .will leave Blenheim for Pieton ai 8.35 a.m., and 12.30 p.m. The 10.30 a.m. train, will not run. V ... The lonio, which is due at Wel--4) lingtqn from London to-morrow, is ;} bringing 382 immigrants.' Of these «■: 64 are domestics,. 86 are farm- ' laborers, and 232 of the passengers have been nominated by relatives in .'' .the Dominion. I Allover lace blouses, only halfdozen left, 3s 6d- at H. F. Hall's Sale. —Advt. •) # The date for the closing of applica- , tions-for the 43 sections into- which • the_ Hillersden Estate has, been subdivided by' the Govecnment has been : fixed as March'2nd. The ballot will take place on March sth. at Blenheim. * The sections' range in size from 80> acres .upwards.

Aii Aucldand Press Association telegram, states' that Lieutenant Hammond made an initial flight in ■ New : . Zealand's new. aeroplane Britannia on Saturday•! He circled easily above the city, thoroughly testing the machine., and .performing : .sarrie paetty evolutions.

(A plea was made by a man: broaght before the Auckland Police Court on Wednesdayl last that he did not know the.prohibition-order which had been taken out against, him was in force outside the district in which it was made. Mr"Fraaer, S.M., in fining the defendant £1, pointed /but that a prohibition order applied all over New. Zealand.''. , . " '

An. instance* of the difficulties which sometimes arise between teachers aaid school committees was given by the > secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute (Mr H. A. Parkinson, M.A.) at the.annual meeting in ; Auckland. A lady teacher, he said, was recently worried out of the position because she could not agree With the school cleaner, who was the wife of the chairman of theIlocal school committee.

A lady who resides in Waltham Road, Christchurch, furnishes particulars ..of, a despicable action which took place on her premises recently 5 (reports the Lytteltan1 Times). Her children had .five pet pigeon®, kept in a pigeon house without.a lock. When the children went out to feed their pets..1 on,-Friday.-morning they found that th©,,heads had been pulled off the birds. It is thought that some person entered the pigeon house about eleven o'clock the previous night, as the neighbors heard a. noise there at that tdmoi, and that the mischievous act was then committed.

A mean trick was played on a patron of the bar of a Wellington hotel on Wednesday (states The Dominion). The patron was in the fbuirpenny division of the hotel, when a laborer entered and asked to be made the free recipient of, a .pint of beer1. Good-naturedly the potion was provided, and eagerly was it quaffed. The donor went on contentedly draining his glass, and when it had vanished he rose to quit. He turned to" where his thirsty acquaintance j bad been standing. The man was . gone • co, also, was the donor's swag, i The swag was. sold for ss; but the j culprit was brought- to book. j

Russell (74), Gisborne (74), East Cape (73), Napier (72), Wahganui (72), andi' Blenheim (71) were the warmest stations at 9 o'clock this morning. v

"He keeps a lamb's, foot," said a witness in the Wellington Magistrate's Court this week when giving evidence against a man who is now in gaol. The witness explained that a lamb's foot was a sort of sausage of *and kept for hitting drunks over the head with. j

. The first term of the current year at the Marlborough High School will commence on Monday, February 2. The Principal will be in attendance at the school to enrol pupils and interview parents on Friday and Saturday, January 30 and! 31, at hours which, are notified in this issue.

The last leaflet issued by the De-. partment of Agriculture gives evidence of a decided improvement in trade conditions in the Dominion. It states that the. value of exports during the last fortnight of last month was £771,471, as compared with £806,643, in the same period in 1912. The only Marlborough exports, with the values in parentheses, during the period mentioned. are as follows:— Timber, 529,219 sup. feet. (£2308), butter, 162'cwt. (£900).

Many an amateur gardener has had cause to regret his carelessness m handling milk weed. The weed when bruised or cut exudes a liquid which somewhat resembles cow's milk in appearance, but is very poisonous. If one is gardening and allows any of the milk to get into hjs eyes he suffers acute ptiih for a time, and unless relief measures are taken the consequences are apt to be rather serious. Some sufferers have been blinded for hours, and m acute cases the sight has been lost for days. Last week a resident of the Thames, who has a fine garden, was foolish enough to brush away some perspiration from around his eyes after he had been pulling up som© milk weed, and as a result he became quite blind and suffered 'great pain. He was hurried off' to the hospital, where1 the application of lotions gave him relief, but it will be days': before his1 sight will be properly restored.

The Dannoyirke, Magistrate, Mr S. E. McCarthy, was occupied last Thursday hearing two charges against seven youths. Two were charged with theft arid the others with receiving property, which they knew had been stolen,.. Charles David Emerson and Gordon Gillespie, employed by Driimmonil/Hodder, and. Co., hardwaremeri, admitted... stealing articles from the-stock; In statements made to the police accused said that they had' been asked by one of the other accused, who had started1 a "bach," to get articles for him, and they had done so. The principal of the prosecuting firm asked for leniency for both boys. Ho stated that much had been stolen, from stock which was not included ■ in. the charges. The boys were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence • when called npr>n. In the cases of receiving, Percy Stanley Prebble and Linden Harold Frost were fined £5 each, or one month; and R. W. McCarthy Wrtatt a"nd Allan Hugh- Toomer were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

A bright little lad, obviously an English importation—judging from his correct manner and appreciation of his surroundings, quite apart from the dialect whicli told whence he had come—was (says the Gisborne Times) an interesting witnor-s during the hearing of v case at court/ on Friday. It was distinctly refreshing to hear a piping voice remember its "Yes, sir," whenever an elder was addressed, but the lad's shrewdness, sense of what was right, and alertness were the appealing features. "Why," counsel asked, "did you tell plaintiff that, you would not swear that "defendant hit her?" "Just because defendant did not hit her, sir, that was all," was the lad's answer. Then he showed thaif not only old heads have learned the ■"'alne .of a game of bluff. "Yes, I rushed off when she told me to bring a policeman," he said. "And did you get one?" the Magistrate asked. "Oh, no," responded the wide-awakfc. little chap, "I didn't go for one. I didn't intend to—l knew thati Mrs did not want a police--man, but wanted m© just to 'go for one.'" From what occurred, too, it: would seem that the .fear of an officer.! had the desired effect on the little ; disturbance which .• was in, question/ ;

In connection wiiih- the Westland jubilee celebrations the following^ story is recounted:—On one occasion the Warden, Dr. Giles, was holding a court -at the Lyell. He had with him a well-known man named Jack Temperley, Who acted in the capacity of policeman and clerk of court. A prisoner, a big German, was brought before, the Court charged with disorderly conduct. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said: "Twenty-four, hours' imprisonment." The orderly interjected: "But, your Worship ." "Twentyfour hours' imprisonment," repeated the Warden. "Is there any more business?" "No," replied Temperley. When the Court was cleared it was explained to Dr. Giles that there ' was no gaol in the town. The Warden replied that the best arrangement possible must be made. Being a man of resource, Temperley hit oh the Idea of chaining the prisoner to a log or fallen tree, and the offender was Jeff; for some time in that position, bull on returning some time after to see how his prisoner was .getting 'on,'-the1 astonished1 constable found, that the powerful German had walked off witti the log—-he had stolen the gaol. '

Professional athletes who are wellknown locally participated promihentt!ly in the New Zealand championship | meeting held at Auckland last week. On the opening day, G. Kinsey (6£ yards) won the second heat in the Sheffield Handicap of 120 yards, which carries a first prize of £45, and T. J. O'Oallaghan, who won the St. Patrick's Grand Handicap at the local Hibernian sports' last' year, won "the | third, Jbeat off 3£ yards. •'• In the '220 yajda New Zealand championship, ' O'Callaghan led for the greater pars of the distance, but faltering n'e&r^the finish' he was oatight - by Trenibalth, and' a dead heat resulted in 22 2-5 set. —a record for the event.' In th« Elliott Hundred (ten yards limit) Kinsey (2 yards) won the first heat, and O'Cailaghan (owe ' 4yd.) ' was second in the third heat. On- ,the second day of the' meeting, Kinsey (6£yds) was .again first in the first heat of the Sheffieldl Handicap of 120 yards" (semi-final), , and O'Oallaghan was unplaced in tne Second heat. The final of the Elliott Hundred resulted as follows: R. A. Oleland (4yds) 1, H. C. Burns (4*yds) 2, G. Kinsey (2yds) 3. In the 220 yards handicap-E.mJ. Donelly (10yds) and F. Strickland (13 yds) won the second and third heals respectively: Strickland (siyds) yraa second in "the third heat of the 75y)3shaiidicap, Donelly (7£yds) won the j fourth heat,- and Strickland won tibe | semi-final. The three mile cjcling handicap resulted" as follows: F. Welid (75yds) 1, A. Bonis (225 yds) 2, J. Adlam. (100 yds) 3.1 - There' were twenty starters. The finals of the running < events were decided on Satiumday, but the results have not yet come to hand. .— *-