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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 159, 27 February 1903, Page 3

We are pleased to note that Hugh Lewis, a pupil from the local High School is mentioned as having passed the Junior Civil Service Examination. This is a very creditable performance considering that Hugh has been in attendance for only nine months. The staff can be congratulated on the success of the first year's woi k : a Board's scholarship and a Maori scholarship having been gained, and a pass gained in the Junior Civil Service.

The Rev. Walter L. Salter, of Wellington, is at present on a visit to this district. He will pi each in the Wesleyan church on Sunday evening, We understand that although there is a glut in the fruit market at Wellington excellent prices are being obtained both at Christchurch and Dunedin.

With reference to the proposed visit to the caves at the summit of the Ri-waka-Takaka hills, which it is proposed to make next Sunday, Mr Thomas Pattie, the owner of the property, wishes to state that he has no wish to deprive persons of the pleasure of visitingthe caves, but is very anxious t.h*rf tfieir natural beauties shall not be destroyed, and that unless empty-headed idiotic p ople refrain from destroying the picturesque stalactites and stalagmites he will bo compelled to stop the traffic to the .caves. Such a decision would be cause for regret and we trust, therefore, the destructive instinct will be checked in future.

An announcement of some importance to the public of Motueka and adjacent districts is inserted by Mr P. G. MofFatt, of the Motueka Cash Stores.

We give a final reminder of the public meeting to be held in the Band Hall to-morrow evening, for the purpose of establishing a racing club, election of officers, and the appointment of a committee to draw up programme.

The annual meeting of the Motueka Mounted Ritles will be held in the Church of England schoolroom tomorrow evening.

The Rev. W. Wills is at present in Dunedin whither he has gone to attend the Methodist conference. Mr C. J. Deck, dental surgeon notifies that he will pay a visit to Motueka on Monday next, and mav be consulted, as usual at Mrs Rum hold's, High street. Mr Deck's skill in his profession is well known to the public of this and neighboring districts. Dr Noble Adams has been elected Captain of the Takaka Mounted Rifles. It is notified in our advertising 6olumns that the Motueka and Takaka Mounted Rifles will parade in Motueka next Wednesday at 2 p.m. for inspection by Major General Babington, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces. As it is necessary to have full parades fines ranging from ,£5 to £\ will be inflicted those who absent themselves.

It is notified in our advertising columns that Mr W. C. Gilbert, dentist, of Nelson, will visit Motueka, profe>sionally, about the 12th of March. We are asked to state that regular visits will be paid if sufficient inducement offers.

Three years ago tomorrow Ladysmith was relieved. What a time New Zealanders did have when the news came 1 The Motueka School Committee will hold its monthly meeting on Monday evening. As there is no business to be transacted, there will be no meeting of the Motueka Licensing Committee next week. Before the next sitting a new committee will have been elected. ■ _ At a meeting of the Nelson Education Board, held at Westport last Monday, the tender of Mr A. Miller was accepted for the erection of a school at Ro'jky river, Pangatotara. The committee reported on the difference between the receipt and expenditure in the secondary schools : W T estport receipts £282, expenses L 257, leaving L 25 to be allocated as follows : LI 210 s to Mr Gifford, L 7 10s to Mr Neve and L 5 to Miss McElwee. Motueka : a credit balance of L 77, allocated as follows . Mr Wilkes L 25, Mr Harris LIS, Miss Hughes L 7. The Board decided to increase -Mr Wilkes to L 175 a year from Ist January last. Reef ton school showed a credit balance -:>f L 6 *>s 6d.

A four-ton boat, the Tilikum, m which Captain Voss is voyaging round the world, has arrived in the New River estuary from Hobart, after a tempestuous passage of twelve days. The little craft, .vhich set out from Victoria, British Columbia, in 1901, has sailed 12,300 miles on her journey. All the silver and copper money coined in India on and after January 1 will bear His Majesty's likeness and the inscription, "Edward VII., King and Emperor." The other evening eight members of the Christchusch Cathedral Bellringing Society rang a true and complete peal of "Bob triples," 5040 changes in 2h. 58m. This is ths first peal in the method made in the colonies. A savage outrage by the Yaqui Indians is leperted from north west Mexico. They captured a white man, tied 'him down to a log, and, it spite of piteous cries for ineicy, cut his feet off with a saw.

There are 187 males and 14 females in His Majesty's prison at Auckland. While cleaning the windows of the London and South Western Bank at Crick le wood, Harry Watson, aged fifty two, fell a distance of sixty feet, and was instantly killed. It is stated by the Hawke's Bav Herald that with the rejection of the Napier Borough Council's loan proposals, and the prospects of a replenishing of the corporation coffers thus shattered, the Council finds itself very haid up indeed. No Money is available for any work at all, and there is every probability that very shortly someiot the labour staff will be dispensed with. To be condemned to death by a man and afterwards sit down to dinner with him is an experience that has fallen to the lot of few men. Dr Jameson, C.B, can boast of it. Recently "Dr Jim" was being entertained at Salisbury, Rhodesia, and at dinner his next neighbour was His Honor C. Kotze, late Chief Justice of the Boer Republic, who at the time of the famous raid condemned Dr Jameson to death. Mr W. Muir, of Tuturau, has lost a valuable horse under peculiar circumstances, says the Wyndham paper. One of his sons had driven the animal with a load to the barn, when it trampled on the blade end of a long handled shovel. The implement tilting up, the point of the handle penetrated the horse's abdomen fully a foot. In less than 10 minutes the horse was dead.