LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

>r A meeting of the Ladies' and the General Committees in connection with the — forthcoming Battery bazaar was held last evening. The various reports received indicate that matters are wet forward, and that everything P'»»' s u fn a successful function. ■3 A general meeting of the Nelsor Hockey Club Wednesday afte''" 0 , o,'0 ,' D team will be held in the Camera Club s Rooms on Monday next at 8 p.m. The Harmonic Society proposes to give the first of its concerts for the year thu — day fortnight, when Coleridge Taylor £ fine work, "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast," will be rendered. A full attendance is requested for the remaining r practices. The Citizens' Band will give a concerl : in the Botanical Gardens next Sunda) afternoon, gd The fact that houses in which con rs, sumptives have lived harbour thi germs of the dread disease, and there of oy increase the risk o'l contagion ii others in the building, has been con — clusively established. The practice ii dealing with such buildings, when thej are of comparatively modern construe tion, has been to thoroughly fumigati 0 f them, and thus destroy the bacilli te With old buildings, however, a mon thorough preventive has to be adopted md this is found ill the destruction o such infected places by fire. At Wai matuku the other day (says the "South i land Times") an old seven-roomed housi was thus destroyed. Several cases o consumption had occurred there, anc the owner acceded to the request of thi Health Officer to sacrifice it to tin : flames. I What is conceived to be an alarming state of matters has disclosed itself ii the West Coast sounds (says the "South land Times") Ferrets during the pas year have been making rapid progres: throughout the eastern parts of thi ia '' system, and are known to have got a: iat f al . j,, their maraudings as Northport te ' the middle reach of Chalky. Thosi ec ' acquanited with the geography of t)i n 8 place will perceive that they are nov !n - within measurable distance of Resolu tion Island — the native birds' sanctu ho try. To get there, they must havi e " bridged over these "running waters,' °j and there is nothing to hinder then ed continuing the "bridging process" right '" E on to Dusky. This should be seen t< "* at once, otherwise we may waken up tc ed find that our bird preservation enter ICC prise has met with "short shrift." in. "" On Thursday next at 1.30 p.m., at the s !' Temperance Boarding Houso, Bridge-st. ; a j Mr Lock will sell furniture and effects 01 on .account of Mr Bell, ne ™ Af, lc-ndid chance for speculators oi ■y pf races desirous of securing a fin- "• residential property is offered on Sstur- " lay ne.v-. when Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. wi') submit to publi« auction the ; well-known property off Manuka-gtreet, of it present occupied by Mr F. HimiHun.* or Ask your grocer for Victory butter— 1( j ne of the best and purest butters made g £ the colony. — Advt. oue ' =