LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 February 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

and more rain is earnestly hoped for but it is too early to say that the drought has broken up. The general meeting of the Waimea Amateur Swimming Club will be held in the Appleby School to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. At a prouTbition meeting, held under the auspfces of the Auckland temperance crusaders, a resolution in favour of teaching temperance lessons in the public schools of the Dominion was carried unanimously. Another resolution fii favour of again requesting the City Council to post the ;ity with health posters pointing out the damage done to the public health by the use of intoxicants was carried with but one dissentient. A further resolution in favour of adding colonial or State option to the prohibiton platform, and also bare majority rule on all issues, was also carried, with one objector. It is learnt that Bricklands, the driver of the coach which mot with the accident at the Appleby railway crossing, continues to improve slowly at the Hospital. The inquest on Mrs Tilbury, who was killed in the accident, will be resumed on Wednesday, when the jury will visit the scene of ' the fatality. Three youths named Harry Day, Edward Pollard, and Harold Clements had an unpleasant experience yesterday afternoon. They were out in a half-decked boat, which capsized near the butts. The accident was witnessed by four other youths — Craig, Grooby, Healy, and D. Pollard — who immediately set out for tho scene of the mishap, and rescued Day and Clements, who were clinging to' the bottom of tho upturned boat. Edward Pollard struck out for shore, which he succeeded in reaching after a long swim. Complaints reach us that there is a good deal of petty thieving in the Wood just now. Several gardens have been robbed of fruit and vegetables, and in some cases the loss is severely felt, having to be borne by those who can ill afford it. It is 10 be hoped that it' this sneak-thieving continues those guilty of it will be detected, and taught a lesson. The sneak thief has been at work in the Brook Valley, too. A resident who was absont in Wellington for a few days returned to find his orchard nearly stripped. As demonstrating tho extreme lightness of tho hop crop in the Waimeas this season, owing to tho drought, it is stated that from 12 acres of gardens just picked the totc'.l output is only about 20 bales. Three acres of the same varioty yielded 20 bales last year. A meeting of the combined committee of the Nelson Branch of the Navy League was held last week, there being a good attendance. Mr C. Y. Fell, the President, gave a short but 1 interesting account of a visit he paid to the dockyards while in England. It was reported by the- hon. secretary (Mr H. R. Duncan) that copies of the Navy League Annual, as ordered, had arrived, and would shortly be distributed amongst the schools. It was also reported that three prizes ("The Influence of Sea Power on History," "Mahan's Life of Nelson," and "British Sea Captains of the 17th Century") had Deen obtained, and would be offered for essays on subjects connected with the British Navy. A confidential circular letter was read from the general secretary of the League, indicating the useful work the League is doing in carrying out its policy of watchfulness. A meeting of the Albion Football Club will be held in the Foresters' Hall to-night at 8 o'clock. A medal struck for distribution to the natives of the islands visited by Captain Cook on the second voyage has been added to the Wellington Museum collection. In consequence of the short supply of milk prevailing in all parts, the price of butter in Wellington has advanced in respect of all brands, and'one first-grade -juality from an up-country factory, which is usually sold at a penny a pound less than the locally-branded butters, is now charged for at the same retail price if Is 2d a pound. Messrs Bisley Bros, and Company •.dvertise sales at follows : To-morrow, at Thorpe, 700 fat and store sheep, '& ■attle and 20 Eomney rams; on Wednesday/ at Tapawera, 1250 fat store -heep," 35 mixed cattle, and 20 Romley rams ; on Friday, at Belgrove (Shophard's), at 10.30 a.m. sharp, all live and dead stock, household furniture and effects; on Saturday, at- their rooms, 161 acres at Richmond in the estate of the late W. Sutton; on Saturday, at 10 o'clock, at Longford, on account of Newman Bros., household furniture and effects; at 1.30 p.m., at Lynch's yards, 1000 sheep, cattle, and horses : on Friday, 28th, ram and ewe fair at Richmond yards, with 400 rams, 500 sheep and 300 cattle; on Saturday, 29th, at City Yards, special horse sale of 30 2 and 3-year-old draught and light hack harueßs horses; entries now being received. The Anglo-French Exhibition will attract a number of New Zealanders, but comparatively few will go from Nelson, and the bulk of our people will have to be content with visiting the Great Exhibition of Furniture and Furnishings to be seen at Lock's Emporium. Mr Lock keeps this show up to date, and the list of goods are of almost all styles and variety, made at his factories, or imported direct from English and Colonial makers-^-and comprise suites, easy and occasional chairs, tables, duchess chests and pairs, Italian and other bedsteads, cots, fenders, etc., rattan furniture, lounges, etc., carpets, linos, pile and mohair rugs, couches, bedding, cutlery, crockery, sheetings, towels, tapestries, velvets. Also the following special lines : Earland's and other superior pianos, Carpenter's organs, the Britannia air rifle, easibak lino polisher, Miner and Zealandia ranges, baby jumpers, and go carts, Atlas sewing machines — these and many other goods are sold by Lci-'i at the lowest prices either for oat!: or easy terms. "Go to Lock's" is a household word. It will pay yon to yisft this free exhibition. •