LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 June 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Owing to the state of the weather the golf matches arranged for this afternoon have been postponed for a week. A important meeting of the Committeo of the Nelson Poultry Association will be held this evening at 7.30. •\ meeting of the No-License League will be held in the Baptist School on Monday evening. It is notified that books of ait union tickets in connection with the Nelson Poultry Association annual art union will be obtainable this evening at Messrs Boon's and Savage and Sons shops. Cold wet weather has prevailed for the last 'three days, heavy rain falling again this morning. There has also been a heavy fall of snow in the vicinity of the city, the Fringe being covered this forenoon, and furnishing a fine spectacle. Press Association wires received this morning record heavy falls of snow at Christchurch and Dunedin. At Christchurch the snow lay an inch deep last night, and to-day there is blight sunshine. A municipal library and municipal trams were mooted by Cr. Field last evening. He knew it was premature to talk about such things then, but the time must come when the ratepayers would h.'.vo to decida whether they wouid not run trams for themselves or whether a library should not be municipalised. Cr. Franklyn also spoke hopefully cf a tram or 'bus service, remarking that Nelson, to become popular, must give ready and cheap means of transit to the suburbs. On Wednesday night a six-roomed house at Pangatotara, owned and occupied by Mr L. Winter was destroyed by fire. The insurances, which were in the New Zealand Office, were £100 on the house and £150 on tha contents. To-morrow afternoon the Citizens' Band will give an open air concert in the Botanical Gardens. The proceeds of a silver coin collection to be taken at the gates will be handed to Mr W. J. Bray, whose house was recently destroyed by fire. The Band items will be interspersed with magnophone selections. W r riting to Nelson friends, the Rev. W. S. Lucas, Vicar of All Saints, and Mrs Lucas, who are at present on a holiday visit to the Old Country, state that they have booked their return passages to New Zealand by the s.s. Ruapehu, which leaves London on Aug. Bth, and is due in Wellington ou Sept. 25th. At the time of writing Mr and Mrs Lucas were about to pay a round of visits to friends in Lincolnshire, Hampshire, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. Messrs Savage and Son, it is learnt, are the successful tenderers for painting ond other work at the Nelson Mental Hospital. In connection with the jubilee of the Church of England, special services will be held to-morrow in the Cathedral and All Saints' churches. There will be special Psalms, hymns, and prayers, and Eermons bearing cn the jubilee will be preached. Thc Bishop of Nelson will preach at All Saints' in the morning and the Cathedral in the cvenig. Cr. Bisley (at last night's meeting of the Council) : "We are paying £154 a month to our men and street contractors. Are we getting value for our money? , I think we should have a report showing what is being done." The Mayor assured Cr. Bisley that the Council was getting value for its money. A* close watch was tieing kept, and things were found satisfactory. During a discussion at the City Council meeting last evening, the Mayor remarked that he believed he had planted more trees in Nelson than anj**, other man. The matter came up on the authority of the Works Committee j for a tree in Victory Square to be cut down. Crs. Field and Franklyn took strong exception to the destruction of trees. The Mayor, while anxious to hava trees, observed that they must not be allowed to interfere with health. The "Sweated Industries Exhibit," which attracted so much attention at the Christchurch Exhibition, is to be sent to Nelson by the Labour Department. The date of the arrive! here is uncertain, as the "exhibit" has been promised for other places, which will take precedence of Nelson. The City Council last night appointed Crs. Grace and Field to sign the testimonial to Mr Henderson, late City Surveyor, and to affix the seal of the Corporation thereto. Tho matter of the testimonial was brought forward by the Mayor, who referred to the iron work for Normanby Bridge, but did not move anything. The motion to complete the testimonial was carried nem. con. Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. will hold their usual weekly auction sale at the Railway Yards, Richmond, on Wednesday .next, when they will offer 1200 sheep, consisting of 2GO fat wethers, 100 wether lambs, and store wethers, 500 ewes, 4 and 6-tooth and 260 8-tooth ewes ; also 15 head fat cattle, and 15 forward stores.