LOCAL & GENERAL HEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL HEWS

At the Magistrate's Court this Homing W. Broadbent (Mr Churchyard) was given judgment by default r<gainst James Wilson for £1 7s (costs only).

The Government has decided (says a Press Association telegram), to renew for next season the guarantee of™ one penny per pound on all fruit exported from New Zealand. The guarantee is limited to 100,000 cases, and is subject to certain conditions.

Twenty-seven competitors took part in «the Kaikoura Gun Club's opening shoot on Saturday. The gun donated by the president (Mr E. A. W. Smith) was won by Mr E. H. Ecclea, with 19 points.

The effort being miade by the Returned Soldiers' Association on Friday next for tho benefit of the Waterier movement will be followed on .Saturday afternoon (August 14th) by a children's party'and plain and fancydress dance in\S'C. Patrick's Hall. A largo number of prizes will be awarded for tlif! <nost effective costumes. Proco-jdirigs will commence at 5 p.m.

Payment of £400 a year to British M.P.'s costs about £280,000 a year.

Be on the favorite and ask for Watson's No. 10.—Advt.

The increase of divorce proceedings in. Melbourne is very great, 811 petitions having been lodged since January of this year.

Good split kip shooter woi-k boots, (tips and too plates, pagged soles, no nails all sizes for men, 26s 6d. —

Hannah's, Blenheim. —Advt,

St. Patrick's School, Masterton, will receive £5000 under the will of tho late Mr J. C McKillop, a former pupil.

A family of six, who could live comfortably in Wales on £2 ISte 6d per week before the war, now require £7 11s Bd, without coal.

"House.viv.es! You'll get your washing out early if .you do it with 'No Rubbing Laundry Help.' " Tho waste in 'olotlies by rubbing ;.s abolished.—Advt.

For the past season the output, of cheese at the Greytown Dairy Factory was over 400 tons. This coming season a 25 per cent, increase, is expected.

Comfortable good wearing chrome leather work boots, tips and toe plates, vivebted soles, aull sizes for mea, 32s 6d\—Hannah's, Blenheim. — Advt.

Tho reading-matter on the inside pages to-day includes Sports and Pastimes, "Rabbit Inspectors," '■'Nik-ate* from tlie Air," "Pillaged Grods," "The Failure of Victory," Commercial News, "Plate Glass Windows," 'A Minister Baited," "The Totato Glut,'' "Price of Sugar,'' 'Pacifists Alarmed," and a quantity of cable news.

The age, quality, and mellowness bf Watson's No. 10 whisky is guaranteed by tlie leading analysts of the world.—Advt.

, Tho Master Builders' Association at Dunedin (reports a Press Association telegram) resolved to do all in its power to assist in building homes for workers by tendering, provided that the Government guarantees a supply of materials"at a fixed price. The ■.Association, is strongly of opinion that the tender ing. system is tlie most satisfactory and cheapest.- It strongly protests against the action of the ■(Government in allowing the Board of Trade to issue permits for the export of m' much New Zealand timber. It also urges the Government- to arrange for a sufficient supply oi: coal for ceme-nt manufacturers.

Prolong tho ,life of the solos of your befits and at th-3 same time avoid c'a-i+ip cold feot by wearing iniibbsi' iscrles. Fuill sots of men's ''Woodmilne" rubber soles and heels., with, screws -.and nails, all ready for fixing. 'Our price 4s 6d. —Hannah's Blenheim.—-Advt. '

The Wellington City Council has adopted a. schedule of improvements for submission to the ratepayers, calling fo:1 loans to tho extent of £1,700,000. They include the extension of the water supply £522,733, paring £120,000, trains" £232,500, now electric station " £380.000, and tunnel £150;000. The Laborites are protesting to the Government against the City Council's proposals to abolish workers'-, concession tram tickets, i'he C'ounci)l explains that it wants to be put in the same position as other tramway authorities,; who a.re not obliged to. issue such tickets,, but it will, after revocation, consider the issue of geaeral, concession tickets available) td; all classes.

We have ,jx >nioe assortment of odd bedroom ware, plain color. These goods are bargains to-day. — Geo. Gibson.—Advt.

The wind-up^ meeting of . the Collie Dog Trials Association was I.eld recently, when the audited balance-sheet, was ■presented and adopted. .-.lt showed a. satisfactory financial state. Tlie total receipts at the. trials wjere £117; and the expenditure was £103. It was announced that a considerable number of donations had been received toward.1? erecting a permanent shod on the trial grounds, and a sub-oommitteu van appointed to procure a suitable building, or have one built in time for the next dog trials. The secretary was authorised to call a meeting of the comniittee ugain at a convenient time in the new year to make arrangements for tlie 1921 trials.

The King's Highway found it "no exaggeration to say that the New Overland 4 will be regarded-by'very large numbers of economically minded motorists as on© of the most interesting exhibits at Olympia. The Qyerland car is an extraordinary example of American design produced to give the finest possible service, and the practical way in which economies of manufacture have been obtained is admirable."—Advt.

The railway revenue returns for the period ending June ,26th appeal- in the Gazette. For the 12 weeks of that period the revenue was £1,502,----133, and the expenditure £1,099,722. A comparison with last year's figures revealsi a rise of £104,100 in revenue and £277,000 in expenditure. As usual, the detailed traffic returns show that the strength of the North Island lines is in the passenger traffic. Of the £276,779 received on the North Island main lines and branches, £120,390 came from passenger fares, or 43 per cent. On tlie South Island main lines and branches only 35 per cent, of the revenue came from this source. Less than half the North Island revenue came from "goods" ; in this island the proportion was nearly 60 per cent. This (comments the Christchurch Press) is a fact that must be borne in mind when tlie Aucklanders are busy with their comparative statistics/

Why not have the best—demand Watson's No. 10.—Advt,

The result of the Sections in connection with the Wellington Education Board was announced on Wednesday. In the Wellington City Urban Area the retiring members were Messrs R. A Wright, M.P., and J P. Shand. Mr Wright, who was not a nominee of the School Committees' Association, hearted the poll with 82. Mr A. .J. White, secretary of tho association, displaces Mr Shand, polling 50. Thrre were four cither candidates. There were two candidates for the vacancy in the Wnirarapa Ward of the rural area. Vho retiring member, IVIr T. Moss, was re-elected by a majority of eight votes, defeating Mr W T. Grundy. Another election is necessary in the Wairarapa Ward to fill the/extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr A. W. Hogg.' No election is necessary in three wards. Mr E. P. Rishworth was re-elected unopposed as representative of tlie HuttPotone Urban Area, Mr W. H. Field, for the Hutt-Horowhenua Ward of the rural area, and Mr E. H. Penny for the Marlborongh Ward o<" the rural area.

Peaches were on sale in Par:s at the end of May last at £1 each.

A pure white sparrow was seen in Masterton a few days ago.

Watson's No.. 10 is a little dearer than most whiskys, but is worth the money.—Advt.

Great building activity is going on in Hamilton at present, and it is announced that over 200 residences are in course of erection.

Indian and jute rugs are still our password. Wo carry a large range 6i these goods in all colqrs and sizes. —

Geo. Gibson.—-Advt

The operations of the workmen on tho new State Fire Insurance buildings on Lambton Quay draw quite large audiences throughout each day to witness the lofty electrical crane swinging the cumbersome iron girders into place.

Motor-car painting, for style, qualitl, and finish; estimates free. — Wintringham and Mitchell.—Advt.

A commercial traveller gives a terrible account of the intense cold in Sweden: "In Haparanda, the day before I left, I attended a performance at the theatre. It was a tragedy. Everybody wept, but it was so cold that the tears of the spectators in the gallery fell as hailstones among the occupants of the stalls.

A shortage of explosives is being felt throughout the whole Dominion, supplies from South Africa, which readily came to hand in the past, being now curtailed through, difficulty in keeping up the supply.

One of the funniest income tax returns was that of a man who scrawled across the Schedule I> form: "Got no income; average for the last three years £300 per annum; but the man from whom I borrowed the money is now dead."

Tlie subject of clergymen's stipends was referred to in Auckland by the Anglican Bishop of Nelson, Dr W. C. Sadlier, who said that at. present no clergyman in his diocese was receiving less than £200 a year. This year the minimum would be raised to £250, and later it would probably be increased to £300. The clergy were also entitled to a substantial pension on retirement.

The finest FLUID MAGNESIA is SHARLANiyS. More freshly made than imported kinds. . Guaran+<3ed highest strength and purest quality. —Advt.

The nation has reverted to 2d letters—a method of taxation which will raise a really surprising amount of revenue, states the London Daily Mail. The postage figures of big London firms, for instance, are astonishing. One wholesale company buys £125,000 worth of stamps in a year, and one of the big stores estimates that the extra £d per letter will mean an increase of £25,000 m its annual expenditure on stamps. Incidentally, we have become a great letter-writing nation. When Queen Victoria ascended the throne the ■•yearly average- number of letters delivered to each person in; the United Kingdom was three, but in 1914 this had increased to. seventyfour. And there has, of course, been a further remarkable increase during the war.

For bronchial coughs take Woods 7 Great Peppermint Cure—ls 9d, 2s 9d. —Advt. -

A. seismio disturbance of peculiar force''-and intensity struck Duhedm early on Saturday morning (says the Otago Daily Times), and, strangely enough, its effects appear to have boon confined to the districts affected by . the medical fraternity. Ihe meteorological phenomenon dislodged the brass plates from the gates of the residences of a number of leading city medicos,, although in every case they were well screwed, and carried them to a distant quarter of the city, whore they were subsequently . discovered. Most, remarkable of all, the plate of one leading surgeon was found attached to the Morgue. Amongst, other vagaries, the plate of a well-known ladies' college was _exchanged for that of a public institution in Fortli-street, whilst so violently did the tewwst rage that the gates of Knqi College were removed from their hinges. Students of the weather incline to the belief that the disturbances had its origin in the conditions prevailing in and around the Art Gallery on Friday night, where the annual dinner of the medical faculty was in .■■ progress, ■ and where the moon at least was at the full. Later in the clay the doctors hfid a busy time pic-king up their plates and screwing them on again.

They last for years. "UNIQUE" HOT WATER BOTTLES have heavily vulcanised seams and patent stopper. Cannot burst or Tack. On sale everywhere and branded on nec^ of bot,t.U),_Advt,