MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 225, 1 October 1901, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

I [XfKOMD FKtSS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 30. At» meeting el the Executive Committee of the --v- forthcoming Brass Band contest, the foilowing prizes were fixed i —Test selection. Ist prize £100 and medals 2nd £50, 3 rd, &b\ 4th, £15, sth £10. Marching oontest, lour prizes, £20, £15. £10, and £5. The usual prizes he gived for solos, trios, and quartet teg. ' • The firft a*e 9f a bra 9b of tfce Ha. *ohinery Act wim heard to-day. whe* « ma» holding a second clasaceriiitcate waa fined 5s and coste, for driving an engine for which a first class certificate *as I necessary. His emyloyer was fine<J rf^.

? DUNEDIN, Sept. 30. : r«£ Ifi acknowledgment ot the valuable ant ;;■ MjESSSSdiedto the oity b] i; C^nTCßiiholm during bis 16 months n ii MrChisholm was to-daj i "-^SSSSffwtei*^massive silver tea am L '-C_ffifceh'iS*eufor a portrait of Mr Lhis i; Tbe money wa \ v^^j^ito^p^oeubsoripticn in a fe» '■is^ioJ'' This Day. V V»flto ahireholdera in the deinnot Ota > i i .CbmpaW^bave decided >o -ue the direc D^t_3S _OTwl&ed maladministration. i y^tyy^Y AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. < r paasentere by the Sonbmot ' Wii tie R«» James Graham Patterson the weß-faiown Presbyterian Missionary ■, ; ..During :^e papt forty years he has nsitec s;«e|^«^6oimtry6nthe faoe >ot^ iaxQL "firmtterson comes from J Bwt land by *ay of Sfl*ria and Austraha,and to.day he leaves for tho South. r< p^ s^ig^W^iMtSTONN.,^hl^Day- . :7 ' : TOe Abraham and Wffliams stock and **«Tafflsf*SE«»- to^y incorporated {TaSmi'ed Liabaity^Company w th a Srital. -Cf Je60,000. Two-tkrds of the nSH<fflip*ny wiU rnn on c< Jf? era!t,ve E^^Al^ge number of amaU farmers aie contributing tbe capital.

The scawity of feed has necessitated f ;i«iodlrSiea fcr i^ t ,"g™^£ jiuiiitii lijWtut fiinjn the "North Otago Ttow? 9 ) r"1lh some places condensed milk in oonaidet&le quatttitieß haa been used.