LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Mr P. B. Desmond, of the local Deeds Office, has received notice of his transfer to Napier.

Ladies' black astrachan and sealette sets, 12s 6d.—H. F. Hall.—Advt.

A social evening is to be held at tho Cjiuircli of tlie Nativity schoolroom tonight under the auspices of the Girls' Friendly Society, to mark tlie opening of the winter meetings.

Ladies' black foxaline necklets from 9s 6d.—H. F. Hall.—Advt. '

Mr David Jones lias b-een selected as tlie candidate to contest the. Ka-ia-poi seat in the inter-&sts of the Reform party.

Ladies' knitted woollen gauntlet gloves. Is lid.—H. F. HplL—.Aclvt.

Mr R, Speight, M.A., M.Sc, of the ach /ng staff of the Christchurch l>oys High School, has been appointed Curator of tho Canterbury Museum.

The Governor has appointed Messrs A. \\. Jackson and T. Pike to be nominated members of the Wai'rau Harbor Board for three year.?, in succession to Messrs W. H. Maoey and G. Houldsworth, whose terms of office expired on the 25th inst.

The Minister for Marine announces thatb Mr W. H. Smith has been appointed a Government representative on the Havelock Harbor Board. The Hon. Mr Bell had been recommended to sign tlie recommendation for Mr Brownlee's appointment to the Board. —Press Association.

According to the law governing Mayoral elections, the deposit of £10 made with the Returning Officer is forfeited by any candidate who fails to secure a number of votes representing not less than, one-eighth of the number recorded for the successful candidate. In the case of the contest tor tlie Blenheim Mayoralty, Mr A Wiffen loses his deposit.

Mr W. H. Maoey leaves Blenheim to-day for Wanganui, where, as the representative of the Marlborough Jx>dge, he will attend the seventh biennial Movable Committee meeting of the Order of Oddfellows. The agenda paper for the conference sets forth a number of important remits including a proposition in the direction of consolidating the funds of the lodges.

Ylslt<)rs to His Majesty's Theatre while the pictures are being screened have been very much annoyed of late by objectionable interjections launched from the pit by persons of unclean mmd. It is extremely difficult to locate the .offenders, and the manage-' ment would be very pleased to have a definite charge laid against tbe'culpi'l, , If anyone is detected there will be no mercy shown.

■ A little prevention is worth a ton of cure. Before going out in cold. «w *^??^f er P, ut a few dr °Ps °^ NAZOIi" on lump sugar and let it dissolve m the mouth. "NAZOL" will fortify you against chills and germs.—Advt.

The construction of the new traffic bridge over the Opawa River at the end of GrOve Road is now being commenced. Several workmen, are already engaged in clearing a.nd prepaong for an early start. When in Wellington yesterday, Mr R. McCallum, M.P., called upon the Public Works Department for the purpose of urging more expedition, and obtained a promise that within four or five weeks from now the work would be in full swing.

For the convenience of those having to attend the Church Mission services to-night and to-morrow mght, . "Quo Vadis" will be shown at a special matinee on Friday afterno6h at 2.30,; Prices as ait night.— Advt. . ,

\A.*le troops are having a very trying time at the Kowai camp owing to the wet weather.. It has been suggested that the camp should be abandoned, but nothing has been definitely decided. On .Tuesday the rain had. stopped, but underfoot the -camp .was. a sea of mud. The men are all wet, and special trains foav^. beeu convey-, ing the sick to Christenufell.' Tie principal medical officer refused to let the'infantry go out on Monday,

We have a fine assortment «* styles in Warner's Eust-proef Corsets, in order that we may accurately and comfortably fit every woman who comes to our counters for a corset. — Marlborough Drapers.—-Advt.

During ia "Pt-ed" public meeting in the Wellington Town Hall on Tuesday evening, Mr Payne, M.P., referred to Mr J... P. Luke^, Mayor of Wellington, as "a wretched little worm" ; Mr P. H. Hipkey ".designated "the Chief "Justice as "an asinine old hypocrite," and Mr R: Semple, referring to the Prime Minister as "the product of the haystack," predicted that the effect of the next election would be to "send him back to hang on. the end of a cow's teat."

The cold weather is making the ladies think of furs, and Kirkcaldies' are catering for them by making a special show for 14 days only. In addition to furs, the firm are showing a new lot of costumes and sports ooats, which they have just received from Horfle.-—Advt.

Mr R. McOallum, M.P., returned tt> Blenheim last night, reaching home a day sooner than 'foe" originally expected. He set out from Ohiristchm*ch with the intention of travelling overland1 to Blenheim, addiressing meetings en route; but he was unable to cross the Conway River—still another reason, by the way. why this danger.ous river should be bridged—and, returning to Christchurch he voyaged to Wellington and was a T>ass©nger by yesterday's steamer for Picton. This is the second^occasion. within, two years on which the itinerary of the Member for Wairau has been frustrated by the state of th© Conway River. Mr McCallum, \yho was a member of the ."flying squadron" formed to address the electors at various centres in the northern portion, of the South Island, reports that his colleagues and himself were everywhere well received, and that he returns with renewed confidence as to the prospects of the Liberal party throughout the districts he has traversed.

What to one person is merely an "idea" is to another a valuable invention. Why not turn that invention, of your's into moneq? It may be a simple one—the simpler the better ! Anyway, write for our booklet, "Advice to Inventors." — Hem*y Hughes, Ltd., 157, Featherston Street, Wellington.—Advt.

_ As Mr T. Adair was driving into i' >ikoura on i^londay morning from [ h-. \dalee lie noticed a. strange-look-ing- inanimate object lying in the kelp on the beach, abouifc midway between i the two tunnels (reports the Star). On investigation he found it to be a peculiar visitor from the deep, quite dead. It is about fourteen feet long, with a proper fish body of consider-, able girjfch, biit the peculiarity is in! tho head, which is. the regular shape oi the head of an. ordinary seal. It 1 also has on each side of the body a .arnre fluke or fin, about twenty inches long. "YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK" except when you see MartelFs Blue and Silver label; then you're SURE : or it. —Advt.

A butcher while riding on a bicycle to the station at Potsdam on a recent Sunday with a supply of sausages for l aiser was crested and fined by the Court for declaring that the Imperial cook should give his Sunday orders m good time. Apparently it is safer, in Germany, to be a sausage than a human being, unless one is a military officer or a court official.

Another dairy factory is talked of in the Raikoura district, landholders on the southern side of tihe Kowhai River being the proprietors. The ■success of. the Kaikoura factory (established well on towards twenty years .ago), and of that at Hapukii (some six years in existence), encourages the "over-the-river" men to engage in dairying, it is asserted, rather than confine their operations to sheep farming, though that pursuit pays well just now.

Last Thursday, at Mr L. Everett's orchard at Urmikuri, Mr A. Harrison, export packer in the employ of Messrs E. Buxton and Co., Ltd., wrapped and packed fer export two hundred and twenty-five cases of apples in nine hours and forty-five iminutes. Mr Everett, who supplied the Nelson Colonist with the information, personally watched and timed the performance, whidh puts the last record of two hundred cases in twelve hours completely in the shade. The apples were all Rymers. Mr. Harrison finished fifty-nine cases m the first two hours, which for a spurt is enormous, and for an exhibition Avrapped and packied his last case m one minute thirty seconds.

In the course of tihe entertaining; speech he made from the Market .Place rotunda last night, Mr A Wiffen, who : ,was last on the polling list but not least in the courtesy of returning thanks to the electors described one of his experiences as a candidate in amusing, terms. He -was dmong_ into town one morning when near Mr Corry's residence, in Maxwell Road, an elderly lady on : the tootpath attracted his notice by waving tihe umbrella which she was holding aloft to protect her from the rain. lh& pony drawing his trap—being, like himself, not as young as it used to be—was soon pulled up, and the lady lost no time in getting'on to speaking terms. Having ascertained that he was Mr Wiffen, and that he was fully resolved to fght the ejection out to a finish, she cordially told him that she would sooner vote for the devil than for him, and that, moreover, she would use her utmost endeavors to induce everyone else to do th© same thing. "It looks," said Mr Wiffen "as if she has quite succeeded. However, if the best man available in Blenheim had not been selected' for the Mayoral chair, it was not because the electors had not been given the necessary material. (Laughter). ' ' ■■ •

Headaches are most frequently caused by eyestrain. Consult Coote and Sandstein, ophthalmic opticians, 348, Lambton Quay (opposite Bank of New Zealand), Wellington, who will give you a thorough examination. Eighteen years' English and* Colonial experience. 'London certificates. Consultation free. No/fee: Visits will be made to Blenheim every quarter. Dates will be advertised teter,—Advt.

'Ah a, boxing ma<toh in Bendigo (Victoria) the spectators were treated to an extra item wthich had. not.been provided for by the management. During the progress of the contest, which was evenly fought, an individual in tile crowd was continually expressing his opinion regarding the fight. Eventually, the referee, Ser-geant-Major O'Connor, administered a well-timed rebuke to the interjeetor, and intimated that he would be prepared to "argue" matters with'him later. After the bout was over the referee turned to the'interrupter, a man named Butters, a local fighting man, who accepted the challenge to come on to the platform. The "argument" lasted only two <rounds, when Butters was completely routed. The crowd applauded the sergeant-major vociferously. .-'.-.

"Cheap money," said the business man, "Cheap food," the laborer said; "Cheap beer," sung out old Dusty Dan, What matters, .beef or bread? ''That's very well," observed the sage, But you'll agree, I'm sure, Cheap health is gained from youth to age With Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt. 16