LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 23 January 1907, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday birr .T£7JtJ£: '. claim for £75 13s lOd due under a promissory note, with £4 10s 6d costs. Mr Hayes appeared for the plaintiffs. On Sunday week the Garrison Band will eive a concert in the Botanical Keserver when the test selections and quick step in connection with the Exhibition contest, will bo played. The Band has been hard at work for some time past in preparation for the contest, and Herr Lemmer, the conductor, is well pleased with the manner in which the Band is rendering the test pieces. Of late the practices have been held in the Schpof pf Music, and the change of practice room has been advantageous. The Nelson Band will be gffsatly strengthened by the addition to its ranks of Messrs McMasters and Rose, two well-known cornet players. Mr and Mrs George Wastney, of Wakapuaka, have just returned from an extended tour of Japan, Europe, and America. They have been warmly welcomed homo by their friends. To-morrow evening the- Citizens' J Band will give a concert in the Botanical Reserve, when should the weather conditions be favourable, a large attendance may be anticipated. In addjtion to selections by the Band, there will lie rnag/iophqij selections, Mi 1 F. N. Jonos, "jiiw,, intending to have his instrument on the groumf. The Government of Fiji is making a strong bid for the settler, and, as a beginning .invites applications for the lease of an arpa of 70,000 acres in the south-weat cornet of Vanua L.avuIt is understood that it is the Intention of the New Zealand Government to exhibit on a considerable §cale at the Irish International. Exhibition, which is to take place next year. The erection of tho monument in the Square, Palmorston, to tho Maori warrior, 'fu Weti T? Awa Awa, is now boing pushed on rapidly. Tj(O statue itself will be placed in position shortly, the base being now practically completed. A ladies' bowlliM clut> w<i» sno^ns' j fully formed in Palmerntoit North |hb(. week. It is understood (sayo t||o Palmerston "Times") that only two similar clubs have hitherto existed in the colony — viz. thu Newmarki't Club (Auckland), and. the Kplburno Club (Wellington), . While attending sowe pleuf,r^ lyjrjjg at the Eclipse South mine, Wtlßt- A[|S.tralia, a man named John Hoey failed to attend to necessary precautions, and wag instantly killed. This is the second accideiit of » §M}?T fiaturo on this mine. ' The Rev. E. G. Gange, F.R.A.S-, fln« of the best known Baptist minister! In England, is at present touring Australasia-. Mr Gange w»» for many years minister of the Broadmead Church (Bristol), one of the most noted churches in the annuls of English nonconformity. A Waimate Plains landowner, who has j'.'st purchased at £25 per acre, was offered £300 on his bargain just after he had bought. The offer was refused. A" fiei/^ fd 600 fP ws seems a big one to. milk ■njgW k %d ft'^'M, but a farmer n«>r Majiaja feas Wtf^llriug Aiijs number ithis semm. Jfe .wonts' JJJe j place on the shares plan. A Brisdane visitor, who has been touring almost every part of New Zealand within the past six months, was ! interviewed in Wellington a day or two ago, and ftfi.dj,ef.p great possibilities for the ' North of A«4«Sfl4 &s £ /;;uit producing "country. Mo qjmafe £s' ieu.er suited for tho industry, affiFKiS ' pie Queenslander, and with plppflf Mi*!}tion, he says, an immense and ftighjy lucrative trade will be developed. He ventures the statement that there is evory prospect at a large number of Australian fruitgrowers settling iji fjjjjt part of the colony before long. . ft might be interesting to atato (says the Auckland "Herald") that an Italian resident of the> city has private information to the effect that a dozen of his countrymen, who are expert fruitgrower^ are thinking of making their futurja &ome /// H>P North of Ancldans. ' •'■■-. When dponktng ai> Hie unveiling of the Seddon Memorial th^'otn^r Mr W. Symes, member for Paten, ctmttia some amusement by saying that ho saw before him all the youth and beauty of Cheviot, whilst beside him stood an eligible bachelor in the person of the Minister of Lands. "You girls," said the frivolous member, "should hook him while he's here. Don't let him escape. We can't get him in the backbJoftks pi Taranaki, or we'd never let him com* #£y'#jngle. If only you can succeed in appropriating' tyft, i£!hevitrt, will g.9 ahead by Jeaps an^ i/banty" ' M "

At the Brighfwater : 'Magistrate's Court this morning a large number, of old age pensions were dealt with, and a. number of civil cases were set down for healing. In the action W. H. Phillips, of The Sherry, against W. Thomas, of the same place, the plaintiff claimed £5 damages for loss of sheep caused by worrying by dogs owned by defendant. After hearing the evidence the Magistrate gave judgment for plaintiff for £3, and costs £1 12s. Mr Magininty appeared for plaintiff and Mr Fell, Jan., for defendant. There were still several cases to be disposed of, and the Court was left sitting. We have to acknowledge a Christmas greeting card from the Mayor of Shrewsbury (Eng.) (Cr. Thos. Cosbctt, well-known in connection with the implement trade, and formerly a regular visitor to Nelson) arid Mrs Corbett. We heartily reciprocate the good wishes therein contained. Messrs Pitt and Moore, in another 'olurnn, announce a number of properties in the city and district which they ha\ c t > dii-pose of. Another heat wave seems on the way. Though the weather is not so oppressive and " muggy " as it was before the "cold snap," the thermometer this afternoon registered 7J in an airy roo:n, and the sun temperature was 100 to 108 at 3 o'clock, with a breeze tempering the heat. Mr Lock reports n very large, atlendancs at the sale of Mr McKee Wright's library, and keen bidding for many lines. The balarce of the books will be sold this evening at 7'3!J. Tomorrow, at 130, at the residence, ( ollege Hill, Mr Lock will sell the furniture and effectß belonging to Mr Wright, including suite in Velvet, American organ, Cutler roll top desk, etc. On Monday next, at 2 p.m., at Shakspca c Walk, furniture and effects in the estate of D Kirkwcod, deceased. Of the total area of the earth less than one-sixth has been as yet accurately surveyed, and of this small fraction of the globe Europe accounts for the greater part. Nearly 4,000,000 square miles of the British Empire are still unmapped, in addition to such immense areas as Canada, Australia, and India; but, according to the last report of the Indian Survey Committee, the completion of the one-inch topographical map of all India only awaits a survey of the Eajputana Desert. The Indian survey has also accomplished no less than 58,000 square miles in Thibet and 6000 in South Arabia. In South Afiica the Rhodesian survey is being actively carried on, only three stations now remaining south of the Zambesi not fully connected with the main triangulation. Much of the work of the Indian survey has only been made possible by the unselfish devottton of native members of the staff, a typical instance of which is that of Sheikh Mohiudin, who died of thirst in the Seistan (Persian) Desert, his native assistant — who, on his officer's death, had taken the plane-sheets from the board and wound them round his body — being found insensible in a distant pool of water. For the past five years 11 French officers and 28 soldiers "of the Servjea Geographique do l^Armee have been engaged in measuring the great arc of Peru, and many of them succumbed to the terrible privations to which they were exposed in the wilds of the Cordillera. From Africa (where British survey officers are slowly creeping northward from Rhodesia and southward from Egypt) come similar records of hardships endured, and, indeed, whereever the theodolite is following the- ex plorer. Cleans^ the system from &1J !mpirities, making good i;rh blood by Wr-ng Dr Ensor't Tamer Juice, obtainable at G. F, Bingstco.