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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 37, 14 February 1900, Page 2

Hop-picking is now in full suing throughout ino,t of tho Waimea district " Owing to the alienee of -aillicicut rain the crops are not up to the average. '»t the Victorian hop market the .Melbourne "Argil.-," of Feb. Ist reports: — The market for Victorian hops continues depressed, ami fair sales have been made •>t last seasonS growth at Od to lid. A lino of ton liales has been sold at Id pel lb. The appearance of the liKKI crop has been much improved by the late raius. Picking is expected to commence in the NorthEastern district about the middle of February, aud some good samples are expected from the large gaideus. A shortage is expected. Business in impoited Rents aud Bohemians is dull. As Mr Charles .lordon, of Hope wa.-, cutting wood at llotilt's Vallev near Wakefield, yesterday, he slashed Lis foot rather severely with his axe. Dr Pearless attended to the iujurv. 'lhe Good Templars' picnic at Hanlnshore Island arranged for last evening was postponed on account of the unsuifable weather. A "Gazette " notice states that as swine fever has been discovered at several places widely apart, owners of pigs are particularly requested to immediately notify the Stock Inspectors of anv illness or mortality occurring in their herds. I igs showing the slightest sign of illness or which may have been in contact with infected pigs, should not be removed until the Inspector has investigated the matter. The Stock Act provides a peualty ot not less than £.',, and not more thau £M, for each day that tho above duty is neglected. A penalty with a similar maximum and a iiiinniuun of £2 is also provided for each day%n which infected pigs are driven. In an article recently appearing in the " Pieton Press," and quoted bv the '* Pelorus Guardian" (owned by "Mr .Mills) dissatisfaction- is expressed at the Government's selection ot Mr McGowan for a seat in the Cabinet. It is urged that the chums of Mr C. 11. Mills and one or two other members of the Government* Partv to Cabinet rank are fur superior to those of the member for the Thames. It is understood that a Marlborough deputation ol Mr Mill's supporters went orer to Wellington to interview the Premier to ascertain why Mr Mills was not included in the Ministry, and to seo if an additional Minister could not be appointed, so as to make room for him. The result of the interview has not been made known. Another meeting in connection with the China Inland Mission will ho held in St. John s \\ esleyau Church this evcuimwhen addresses will b 0 given by Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor. Members of St John s Choir are requested to attend. The tirst-class shots of the Nelson Rifles fired for Lieut. Watson's trophy on Monday morning, when Private Oaklev sccured his third win, and the trophy now becomes his own property. The conditions were lu shots at OOOyds, and the three best scores were ■ I'vt. Oakley n Pvt. Whiting ].. "" ,„ Corpl. Johnson ... ... yij . The Nelson deer-shooting reason opens on Saturday next, tho 17th inst, and closes on Ap.il tho Mb. The season in iho M-irbo.ou.h district opens 10-djy ami will close on M rch J J.i.-. Linton, who was ordered mi Monday by JI ,• Howorth, S.M., to lind two sureties ot i:jr, each to keep the peace towards his wife for three months, tailed lo procure the bondsmen. Ho „-.,,, „',. • o.sted and «* taken to the Wellington prison yesterday by Constable AldrhW Cn e.-s the sureties are forthcoming he will have to serve the three mom listeria. Constable AMridgo. of ||.o Nel-on Force the local Inspector of Factories i, „t present absent at Wellington, wh'eie he will compete, a- one of tho selected OH.*', roprosimlaliycs, at tho Championship n.ec ing oi the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, to I*. ], e UI on .SutiirThe Westport School Committee have resolved to support Messrs Best Ir, .t' and Phillips (il 1 retiring mcnitrsTt the election of three members of th • Nelson Education Board. MrMarmaduke Rogers has been selected by the local committee for the position of pupil teacher atthe Cape Foulwind school. To-day is St. Valentine's Dav, but this anniversary now passes almo.-t entirely unnoticed. the practice of sendin- valentines having died out as a general custom. In consequence of Dr Howard Taylor's Missionary meeting to-night there will be no service at All Saints' Church. Owing to the weather the blackberrving picnic of the Haven Road and Brook street schools, which was to have been held to-day at Belgrove, had to be postponed, much to the disappointment of the scholars, who had looked forward to the event with much pleasurable anticipation. The "campaign against the blacks" will come off, however, later on. The chief reason for postponement is that heavy rain has fallen at Belgrove. covering the low-lying land with water, which ha-, -pread ..\er the ground ina .r ro . l( -licet, "wm;; to (he weather a picnic nr-langi-d by .st. John'.- Choir to the Boulder Bank had also to be postponed. Welcome rain tell iu the city yesterday afternoon, last night, and to-day, and there is promise of more. Heavy i-m„ also fell iu the Waiineas, the Wairoa river at Brightwater being high this inonuu.'

The first of the Nelson Row iu.tr ( "lull's heats for the Sclandoro' Pours was rowed last evening-. The winning crew were Tomlinson (stroke), Childs (:!), C Hamilton (2), and Richards (bow). 'Wash bourne's crew also competed. The race wa.s wun by a length aud a half. Two heats will be rowed this evening. -M the Magistrate's Court at Brightwater to-day, before Air Lightband, .I.P. J. Price, .senr., John O'lJiien, 0. Uaigent,. and 11. Curriii, were chained with committing a breach of the peace by fightin<* in the public road at Wakefield on Saturday, 2,th ult. Sergeant Mackay couducted the ease on behalf of the "Police. It appeared from the evidence that in the course of a discussiou on the war one of the defendants called anotlier a " Boer " and that this led to the disturbance. After hearing the evidence of a number of witnesses the Bench fined each defendant Ids with costs. At a sitting of the Old Age Pensions Court to-day, 33 pensions were reviewed for the second year by Mr Howarth. S.M. The Rev. U. W. York, vicar of Trinity Church, ("roymouth, was married ou Wednesday last at Greymonth to Miss Lilian Petrie, eldest daughter of Mr Joseph Petrie, editor of the Grevmouth " Star. ' The ceremony was performed by the liishop of Nelson, assisted by the Rev V. P. Kendall, of Kangiora. and brother-in-law of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids were Misses Marion and Doris Petrie. Kura Duncan, D. Goldsworthv and (i lady s Harper. Mr York was attended by his brother, the Rev. Herbert York, vicar of Dennistou and IVaimangaroa, whilst Messrs Huddlestone and Mabin were groomsmen. There were a number of visiting clergymen— Rgf. J. P. Kempthorne (Nelson), "E. AYhitehouse (Kumara), J. R. Dart aud A. AV. C. Staee (Reefton), tt*. C. Wood (Hokitika), and Wong (Chinese missionary). The newly married couple will spend their honeymoon in Australia. The officers ofthe steamship Glenorgle declare that a Chinese stoker, who dfed aboard the vessel within a few hours after she reached port at San Francisco, succumbed to fright because ho was put through two rigid examinations by the quarantine officers of the port. The Chinese had been suffering from beri-heri for several days before the Glenogle reached port, but was improving. The ship's surgeon attended hiin, and vouched for the nature of the complaint. The quarantine doctors, however, put him through some sovere physical tests, and their uniform and grave faces so terrified him that after their departure he broke into a cold perspiration, and a few hours after was dead. According to th? •' Taranaki Herald," Ihe pilferer pursued his unlawful and despicab'e calling with much assiduity at tho Siratford firo. In ODe instance a man was seen to qmtely sit down alongside a bundle of hats of the ■•hard-hitttr" cl si, and try a nnmberon until hegtono to tit him. Rut Nemesis followed in his foolstep in tbe yersja ef a youthful cadet tb one of the Government ollicep, who quitely reminded tha puiloirerthat he hal loft behind his origin. I head coverin , an article thut had seen uin h stirtiic. The m>n, finding that his enterprise was not encomagel, dropped hii illgmteu goods, and s 010 away into the darkness. In anotlier inrtinc-J a man calmly tried on a pair of boots, and succeeded in getting away undisturbed. During the work of salvage at this lire, a chemist carefully packed all his valuable chemicals and bottl s in br>xe?, wh ch were {:in»eily taken out ty those assisting to rescue propeity and timplicd indiscritnina : ely ou the Bide of the road. It is said that when tin's new- chum fanner tried to shear his pig there was a great cry but little wool. So it is with some business firms, who when they find a real live energetic man selling his goods at little more thau half of their oldfashioned prices, they make a great cry and announce clearing sales to work otf old stock. Mr Lock has no need to do this, for tho prices lie sells at every day are lower than their spasmodic clearing sales. Lock keeps n j old stock, but the largest and most u;>-to-date display of furniture in Xelson, he runs his business on fair and square lines at small expense, aud gives the public splendid value all the year round ; and thus the name of Lock has become a household word. - Advt. TIIOL'BLESOMK TO THK ARMY. During the civil war, as well as in our late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one of tho most tronblesomo diseases the army had to contend with. It many instances it became chronic and t'.e old soldiers still snll'er from it. Mr David Taylor, of AVmd Ridge, Greene Co., Pa., is one of these. lle uses Chamberlain's Colic, (Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and says he never found anything that would' give him such quick relief It is for sale" bv Robert Snodgrass, Hardv-street, Jselson."