LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 286, 9 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

' The Spring Creek Road Board has * decided to spend £30 on the purchase * I of birds' eggs and heads. «• " j The Government gives 'notice thai '! seven sections in the Nelson district; ': \ comprising about 10,000 acres, known L as-the Lake-Settlement, are open fOl » selection on renewable lease. "THE TURKS are teetotallers." * Yes, and so are ithe Japs, and om [ brave Indian troops. —Advt. Every day the bell of the Eton Col- > lege Chapel Ms tolled for a quarter bi - an hour for Ejtonians killed in th< 3 war, a list of■ ■whom has been affixec - to tho chapel doors. 1 Mrs v Pollard, of Tunbridge Wells 1 who has five sons in the Army anc - three in the' Navy, has received a 3 ' message of congratulation from th< ?' King. \ A\Tiei-e shall we get our revenue: 1 Same as ye get it now; out of tht 1 pockets of the only it won'l 1 o cost'us £4 to collect £I.—^Advt. 1 A special meeting of the Blenheim Borough Council was held.on Mondaj j night for the purpose of confirming the special order providing for tih< j raising, of £3200 for the acquisitioi r of the Waterlea ParkI A six-tooth wether recently shori 1 at Claa-ence Bridge by Mr S. P. Askii , cut 22^lbs of wool, and two other! 7 shorn at the same time, one, a wethei . hoggeit, cut 221bs, and the other, £ b ewe hogget, cut 16£lbs. » The Russians are gladly sacrificing - £93,000,000, a year for the sake o: 5 National efficiency.—Advk A boy named James Andrew pul tup & fine record at ithe Nelson College sports on Saturday, winning the half mile in 2min. lOisece,, and th« mih I in 4min. Slsecs. These' times ar< - records for the College, and in eyerj 1 way remarkable performances. c At Rotorua jesterday, in a cas< F' Jh. Baxter v. Dr. Scott Watson, i * claim for £2 2s, fee for administering sn anaesthetic, Mr Dyer, S.M.. " gave ijudgment for the plaintiff, or '■ the grounds that the defendant en- * gaged the plaintiff, and it w&s th« custom for the operating surgeon t< x pay the ans&sthetio fee. The track of the defeated drman« t was strewn with beer-bottles!—Advt, *■ Fo-rty-ifcwo men are now employed - on tlie Kaikoiira-Parnassus roac - worlos, And a number are expecteti 5 to arntre shortly from South for thf ' works. The Kaikoura Star is reliably j. informed that the Kaikoura-Par-I nassus mail seyrice is to be run with - motor-car* in ike early p&rt of next ' year. } Kirkcaldie aad Stains, Ltd., are 1 now showing at their Blenheim J agency an assortment of their new ' season's goods, including costumes, ! one-piece dresses (in fancy voiles, muslins, and Jap crepes), new 1 millinery and blouses, toother with a full range of cut ssmples of ne* drfS9 materials, including fancr voilm, muslins, Jap crepes, etc, etc.—Advt. Every stable should contain a tin of "TAN-GU" Best for all leather. Polishes, soften',?, preserves. Apply thinly.—Adrt.