LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 101, 1 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The recount in the Nelson Mayoral election.increases the majority of the i retiring Mayor (Mi- Lock) from 3 to 5. ' ;

Applications for shares in the j Blenheim Co-operative Dairy Factory'! Company close next Wednesday. \ Forms and particulars are obtainable j from Mr James Rae at Hill and Bar- J ton's office, Wynen Street. i

After the heavy rain of last night the morning broke fine and clear, and ! other centres generally report fair weather. With the exception of Cape Palliser and Greymouth, where it was reported rough, the sea was smooth at adl stations. Cape Maria held pride of place in the thermome-' trical readings with 62, Blenheim recording 50.

The balance-sheet of the Wanganui Beautifying Society's recent carnival indicates that the Queen of the Catrnival election brought in (by sale of votes, and admission tickets to the function in connection therewith) a sum of £1375. The expenses of this event were £125, so £1250 was netted |by the.item. Other carnival receipts brought the total up to £2379 5s 7d. After paying all expenses, the committee has handed to the Beautifying. Society a sum of £1524 for the continuation of its work.

Brigadier Hoare, of the Salvation Army, in the course of a statement in connection with a young people's campaign which is to be conducted tfarouglibut the Dominion from May 16 to May 25, points out that last year, during a similar effort, no fewer than 254 young people were registered at the mercy seat, and 156 'children added to the class registers. The campaign will be under the control of

the chief secretary-, who is inchargo of the Array's operations in New Zealand, during the absence of Commissioner Richards in London.

At last Ivaikoura is to have a bowling green, "the long-felt want" being now practically assured. A large ana representative meeting was held last week to consider the question of forming a club, and, judging by. the enthusiasm that was displayed >and tlhe number who have signified their intention of joining, or otherwise assisting tlhe club, there seems little doubt Kaikoura will have its own green "in the very near future. No doubt Blenheim devotees of* the game will welcome the advent of the new club, with the exchange of visits which it promises.. , '-... • .

4t the sitting of the Magistrate's Court tliis*morning .judgment by default was given by Mr F. 08. Loughnan, S.M., in the following cases:— Cooke and Sons v. J. O'Donoghue, £12 6s lid, Ayith £1 7s 6d costs; McKenzie Canryirig Company On liqiiida-

tion) v. H. Buliff, £1 2s 6d, with 5s costs; Furness Brothers v. A. Patchett, £12 4s Bd, with £1 10s 6d costs. In the judgment summons case F._Nosworthy v. T. W. Steel. £11 2s 5<3, evidence was given by the creditor, and an order was made providing for payment of the debt in two instalments.

Referring to the result of the Wellington Mayoral election, the Ne*v Zealand Times says :—The demonstration of the weakness of the extreme Labor vote in the city is not new; and that it does not progress beyond a negligible figure is for obvious reasons not surprising. The numbers polled by Mr Glover—4337—in a city with 40,787 names on the electoral roll amount to a fraction under oneninth of the whole. As these include certainly every voter available on that side, the' numbers tell their tale conclusively. The crushing defeat ought to be a lesson to the extreme party for the general election.

The nine-months-old son of Mrs F. S. Wilcocks, a widow, residing at the residence of Mr W. H. Price, of Seafield Road, Asliburtion, met his death on Tuesday morning in a peculiar manner. -.At ten o'clock the mother put her baby to sleep in a go-cart, a<hd tied his clothes .to the back of the perambulator- with tape., so thatr he could not fall out in her absence, and left him. in the kitchen. She then, ill company with Mr Price, drove to Tinwald, and returned home in about an hour. ,She found the child suspended between the go-cart and the floor by the tape. She immediately took him to Asliburton- and consultsd a doctor, who pronounced life extinct. The baby apparently fell over the side of the go-cart, and was held in such a position by tlhe tape as to caxise death.

; In) the Blenheim district last month 22 births were registered, 16 of these i having taken place outside of the ,• borough. Four deaths and three ; marriages were placed on record.

i The rainfall in Blenheim during the? ! month of Ajjril amounted to 1.61 . inches, distributed over 14 days. At j Ward 1.07 in. fell on seven days, the : largest daily record being .34in. oil I the 26th.

I The export leaflet for the period ! from the 16th to the 31st of March j shows that the output of the ports of i Blenheim and Picton consisted of 35 j tons of hemp valued at £901, and 5 tons of tow valued at £57.

The shooting season for native and imported game opened last night. Several gunsmen went out, amd it is' reported that they met with sub- ' stantial success, good bags of ducks being secured.

The finest display of chrysanthemums ever seen in Blenheim is promised at the Horticultural Society's show, which opens in the Town Hall on Monday. Schedules are now available, and entries close to-morrow night. A runaway liortso attached to a baker's cart careered along High Street at mid-day, and"" the track through town being fortunately clear, iv negotiated Market Place and ' Wynen Street without accident, and was finally brought to a standstill in Redwood Street.

The amount of Customs revenue collected at the ports of Wairau and Picton last month was £1156 18s 10d, as compared with £1077 0s 6d foiApril of last year. The beer duty [ amounted to £110, compared with £100 collected for the same month ' of last year. . ;

Messrs C. G-. Teschemaker-Shute and W. Adams have been re-elected without opposition as members of the Wainau Road Boaa'd, representing the Wai'hopai and Wairau valley districts respectively. An election for a representative of the Faii-hall. district, for which Messrs D. Bishell and Henry Hammond have been nominated, will take place on Thursday next. Everybody should see the Horticultural Show on Monday next. It promises to be an eye-opener.—Advt. ,Messrs W. H. Macey and G. Houldsworth, who have been succeeded by Messrs A. W. Jackson and Tv^Pike as the representatives of the ■Government on the Wairau Harbor Board, had been members of the Board since its inception seven years ago,, enjoying their tenure by virtue of periodical re-appointments. In that 'capacity they have rendered good service to the' public interest, helping to build up the fortunes of the Board in the. face of many difficulties, and their work is well deserving of a wordjof appreciation. Mr Macey was chairman of the Board for a term of two yeai-s. ~,. ■. ;.,

Intending exhibitors are reminded that entries for jthe Horticultural Society's Shbw close to-morrow night. i Schedules from Messrs Gibbons, W. Smale, iand the secretary.—Advt. ' A" quiet but very pretty wedding took place in. St. Patrick's Church, ' Kilbirnie, on Saturday, April 2oth, between Miss Mabel Clare Bourke, \ youngest daughter of 'Mr James Bourke, and Mr Osborne Bernard 1 Hiekman, of Wolverhampton, Engi land. His Grace Archbishop o'Shea, ■ assisted by the Venerable Archdeacon 5 Devoy, performed the ceremony, and I celebrated the' Nuptial Mass. The church was very prettily decorated for the occasion by the Sisters of Mercy. Tho bride, was given away by her , father. Mr Jack Bourke, of Blen- , heim, acted as best man, and the bridesmaids were Misses Alice and \ Eileen O'Shea, nieces of the bride.

Wild excitement prevailed at a wed- . ding at Bluff a week or so ago when r ■ the minister mixed things somewhat. . | He filled up the certificate. by marryl ing the bride to the best man and \ i putting the bridegroom down as a , \ witness, the mistake was disj covei^ed the feelings of the bridegroom | can be imagined. Was he married or I had the best man won the fair maid? 1 f Fortunately, the mistake was rectified ' S before the clergyman left by the Mel- ' bourne boat, or things might have '. become serious.

i A North Canterbury farmer, who lis himself an ardent- supporter of ! Ulster in her fight against Home j Rule, has just received from a rela- , : tive living in the disturbed province ;\ a leter in which the writer expresses ,; a very poor opinion of Sir Edward i Carson's "volunteers." "In Ulster I they have commenced to drill for civil : war," runs one paragraph, "but it is : really laughable to see the sort of \ people who have joined the yolun- ■ teers. ; There are some who, if you : took a stick and shook it ait them, : would run."

' 'There is a widespread belief/* writes Mr A. H. Cockayne in theJournal of Agriculture, "that pinua»radiata or insignis is a great soil-ex-< hauster, and that ground once occupied by this tiree becomes very infers tile, flic supposition appears to be due largely to the fact that in dense! plantations of this tree there is practically no undergrowth. Again, the-pino-rootis extend over a considerablearea, and plants growing in close contact to the root system of the pine are; generally stunted and do not thrive.. In practice, however, it is found thati when the pine-tirees are cut down and removed the soil is admirably suited! for the growing of all kinds of crops. The ground, of course, has to be istumped to permit the use of the plough. During a recent visit to the Otekaike Special School for Boys I 1 was greatly impressed with tihe fertility of soil that for thirty-five yea<rs had earned a pinus radiata plantation. ' -

A taxi-cab driver who had "judgment by default" given against 'him in the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch this week (says the Press) made application to have the case reinstated on the ground that he was waiting in the other Court, usually:, used for criminal cases, broken byJaws, etc. When asked by Mr Bishop, S.M., wiliy he did not read his summons, he said he could neither; read nor write. "You were born in New Zealand?" queried the Magistrate. "Yes," replied' t<he man,. "How old are you?" was the next question, and the man said he was thirty. The Magistrate: And we spend goodness knows how many? thousands a, year on education, and! you can neither read nor write? It7aextraordinary! Where did you go to school? The man: I didn'tt go to school. The Magistrate: Where dicf you ilive? The. man: At Kirwee. The Magistrate: Why didn't you goto school? 'The man: It ' was ''■.my" father's fault. The Magistrate: I wouldn't have believed it possible ink these days. My adviceyto you is to* go tio a night school, eveii now. i Itis a dreadful thing for a young maaii to go through life in these" days without being able to: read or write. The case was reinstated, and an adjournment made.

In am interesting i address on t&'e subject of marriage before the Congregational Union in 'Sydneyf lasts week1, the Rev. Dr Roseby dealt with: the economic aspect. "Marriage," he said, "is largely «n economic questions So surely as social and economic conditions impose -an."undue and1 unwholesoone check tfh marriage, tending to its undue "delay or ©yen forbidding it, except under ' conditions of squalor and misery, so surely, shall wo find an intensifying of bur social evil and a deepening moral degradation. Let it be that marriage shall be reasonably possible for the early manhood of our country. ' Th© statistics that record the moral conditions of a country are as insistent as the voice of nature and as the testimony of 'the Book. 'It is" not good (morally good) that man should be alone.'" \