LATE LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 February 1908, Page 3

LATE LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

I - A. sitting of the Magistrate's Court at **; "Brightwater was held to-day before Messrs Lightband and Kidson, J's.P.yFines were'inpicta'd in the following informations for breaches of the county by-laws, of Is, and costs £1 10s jn each case :— D. Stevens, Arthur Baigent, Harry "Brooks, Frederick Fairhall, for riding bicycles without lights jit- Wakefield on the night of. 14th De: cembe'r ; - W. L. Avery and 1?. -Harrison, for ; driving .without ligEts' at Spring Grpye and Wakefield respectively, on the same date. Mr Johansen (Adams and Harley), appeared for the Waimea .County.' Council, and Mr Gordon Hunter, ranger, gave evidence. Prohibition orders were granted against two resident's, at their own request, -and a number of pension cases were also dealt with. y-y -"-.'. , •-. TEVNelson Socialist Party held an open-air. meeting last night, and it was fairly .well attended. The speakers, .Comrades Hulbert and Whitaker, who dealt" particularly with the attitude of the churches towards Socialism, were given a. -patient hearing, and the discussion which "followed showed that, the eloquence .of the Socialist speakers was lioI iot -wasted. Meanwhile the numbers, of members of the local branch is steadUy growing. :... ; .MryHallam, fruit inspector in the Department of Agriculture, is now on an ! official- visif lo Nelson, enforcing the -prbvisionsof the Orchards and Gardens Pests Act, and in the interests of fruit j growing .generally he has been instruct- j ed-, to take vigorous action with regard j to the inspection and condemnation of jjifected- fruit and orchards. Already he has. condemned over 30 cases of fruit, atrthe' wharves and elsewhere, and I yesterday he condemned "two cases of I 'apples which were being taken to the Jam Tactory, owing to the presence of codlin moth and scale. Mr Hallam desires to contradict a rumour that he j will pass 6 per oent of codlin moth in- I fected 1 apples provided the remainder ' '•ih. a-'*case'-tffe in" good condition.* *•■- Ite is- j only where it is evident that orchard- j ists are doing their best to cope with insect pests that some concessions may 1 be made. Mr Hallan*Twill be in the dis- i trict for some days. j

An extraordinary general meeting -of: the guarantors and shareholders of the Nelson Co-operative Dairy Co. will be held at the Rechabite Hall, Bfightwater, on Wednesday next, at 2.30 p.m. A meeting of the Directory will be held at the Company's office at noon on the same day. •The monthly meeting of the Orange Lodgo will bo held to-morrow. ; The final for the Nelson Rowing Club's.pairs was rowed la t evening between Lawrence and-Hair, and McCabe and Ingram. The race was an^exditihg one, and provided the best-finish' seen for some time. The bpat<;: got away well together, and a 'ding-dong contest ensued, there, not being -a difference of more than half a length during any part of the race, which ended in Lawrence passing the; /post about three feet ahead of McCabe. The boats were "coxed" byVLes. Morrison and Bay Everett, .ana excellent courses were steered. .The next race will be rowed in about .aVmonth's time in the clinker fours, for which the crews are now training. : Messrs, Bisley Bros, will hold the following sales:-rOn Saturday, at 10 o'clock, at Longford, on account of Newman Bros., household furniture effects; at. 1.30 p.m., at Lynch's sheep, cattle, and horses;; also, property at Richmond, in the estate of the'late William Sutton. On 19th inst., on account of the mortgagee, residential property at Stoke, known" •••: Annesbrook. 12 acres, with frontages to two roads; on 22nd inst., 32 acres at Fern Plat, Murchison, in the estate of the late Mr B. Kingdon; 28th inst.,,ram and ewe fair at Richmond yards; on Saturday, 29th, at City yards;, special sale of draught and light hack-harness horses, entries' now; being received. The sale of live stocky, etc., at Belgrove has been postponed, from to-morrow till" Thursday, the 20th inst. '■-■' v / —