LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 21 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting in. connection with the Nelson. Cribbage Association will be .held towhon tih.3 fixtures for playing for th© Harford Shield will be drawn.

At the mon'thly meeting cf the Council of the Nelson Accliimiiis'iiition Society last evening it was decided to obtaiTi ■iCO.CCO trout ova from the Government hatcheries andl from the Dunedin Society, to be looal.l yreared' and distributed in local rivers.

A Bastings telegram published yesterday sta.ted that a married woman manied Alice. Overend had died wihile assisting her daughter with the wasliing. It is learnt that the. deceased' was fca-merfy a Miss Nesbitfc, of Nedscxn, and, tthe eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thos. iNeslbitlt. She leaves a large number of relatives in iSeilson.

A -press message from Wellington states that Bishop Wains', who is shortly to be succeeded 'by the Rev. T. H. Wprott a.> Bishco c-f Wellington-, left by the s.s. Arawajfor London accompanied by Mll9 WaJlis'. AJar.ge number of D-s-oplo were on the wharf to see them oif last night ,awd Bishop Wallis was presented with a cheque for £260 subscribed by the church people of the diocese.

The estate of the late Mr. John Clark, grazier, Boggabri, says a Sydney press cable; lias been sworn at over £197,000. Oajptain 'Clark, private secretary to Lord Islington, is one of the executors. The whole estate has been left to the widow and children..

The -tender of the Willsras and Field Hardware Company for hardJw.are supplies has been acoqpted 'by thd Waimea County Council for the current year.'

The pGills' to fix the statutory closing day under the Shops and- Offices ,Act and the statutory half-holiday for factories under the Factories Act .w-ill be taken on Wednesday next at the same time as the municipal and Harbour Board) elections. The factories poll is to determine whether the weekly half-holiday in. factories shall be on the same day as the statutory closing d'ay for shops in 'the city.

In the Supreme Court at W-ellingitott on the 13th inpt., on the application of Mr. E. B. Moore, Sir Robert Stout „ granted probate of the will of Robea-t Allan, deceased, to Gertrude Emily Allan-, tihe ex'eoutrix named in- the will.

'The old familiar question, "What is a gentleman?" is raised onoe .again, by Mr. ivlarriatt Watson, who gives us on-e defi. nition to eitand. with Carlylye's favourite, " 'How do you know he was a gentleman?' 'He kept a gig-'" Hiere is the new discovery, ' >«cll, she ougilifc to be a lady; her father was' an Army surgeon." Sometihiiiig more sat-isfac-toj-y, yet not satnafyiin.g, is a more serious definition, "A., geint'iemaii is ano who is equal to any situation.' As to which, Mr. Marriott Wat-son complains that it "might have been said of Napoleon, who was obviously no .gentleman." We agree- with the censure but not with the argument. Naipoleoin, historically, was unequal to more than, one situation. But that is a detail. A man might well be a .gentleimaai., and yet quite unequal to the situation of Robinson Crusoe.

Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. advertiseparticulars of the following stock sales: —Tuesday next, Motueka yards. l''ri day next, Tapawera yards.

Mr. Gould will sell to-morrow ait his room® freehold property in ttsmaustreet on account of Mr. ohas. Lamlb.

Judges, doctors, lawyers', fanners anj.i health-seekers are ainong thoses- Who have acquired land at the Moaitare for a/pple giro wing. The Bronte Estate is now in the market, and a start was made last Thursday to make sales of the *eetiions, and six sections, Nos. 1, 3, 11, 12, 14, and 15, have bean sold i.n six d'ays. The purchasers are of the right stamp, aind some of them, intend to go in for extensive planting this season. The vendors have made a sulbstiantial start, and' have let contracts for clearing off the scrub, ploughing and planting 23 acres this season. Persons desirous of inspecting Bronte can .reach the property in one hour by either motor launch or motor car, and the owners have nuade arrangements to take likely purchasers to the Estate and shiow them over the property free of cost....

Members- of the Cathedral ihoi.r aro ii- -tiifit'il . tli'ab there wl-11 bo no practice tliis evening.

The- Richmond Brass J>anid will p'la.y at Wakefield to-morrow evening.

An appropriation in connection with the Terminating Building .Society wilt be drawn by ballot this evening. Dolega'ti-js of the Wakatu I'ribbagc Assncia-liYn are notified tlicit tiie inccting ea'ilod' for 10-niglii in c'oll- - wifiii the season's (i>:lures ha« been jins'ipoiied unl'il alTer five holiday iruis'tiim has bi' t >ii. decided. The meeting wiill therefore be held to-night vv'i-'ek.

A history of the Big Dam in ■connection with the local water supply, showing its con ?tr notion, failure, and coat. and 1 reviewing the agitr.-'ion of eicrht. years, will be published: in 'to-mor-row's issue of the "Mail." It should serve as a guide and 1 a reminder to the municipal electors at the forthcoming poll, a'nd also when the referendum with riY.ia.rd to proposed repairs is taken.

In a. repci't 11,00 m measles, in. certain schools in St. Panvras in 1909 the medical officer of health of the borough (Dr. J. F. J. Sykes) points out. that the mortality of the disease amongst children over eight years of age is- ncit r-o----rious, but that it is serious among these under five years. He considers that nothing short cf the permanent exclusion from school of children, under five years old at least will? help to reduce the mortality.

It seems something of an error to e>ay that the gentleman has been- produced by a society of peace a.nd. quiet. Surely no gentleman could be more completely a gentleman- than a knight of the age of cb.valry. whc»e character was evolved out of the cor/innal storm- and! stre;-<T of combat. 'A.state of war has many woes, but it breed's,gentlemen, who viekl in. nothing to- the heroes of the piping .time® of peace,-. After all* in, the f'uture, as hi the'present, as in past, the important man, the rnian with power, is the man who can persuade other men that he is worth admiring and worth obeying. / And in the future, as in the past, men are more Holy ,tb find chivalry worth admiration thian the notions of a .bounder.

There arc', you know, .new-loid' eggs and breakfast eggs, fresh eggs and goed eitggs, and eoc-kfing eggs- and egg's. In the same way we are now assuredi that thsre are many kinds of, te>e.th. As, for example, the- milk .tooth, the p-cOTWUiient to'oth, the wisdom.. tooth, the sound teoili, and a.t ; last the toolth. pur et silmipl.e. It is, unhappily; the mere tooth for w'hiiah all descriptive adjectiviEc are inadequate fircm which we most of u-s suffer. The co-mir.pn teeth of dubious quality.

It is understood, that in the dis/bribution of young trout.. ; for..the season 't<he Nelson Acclimatisation Society.will continue to stock the. !Ma,ita,i. But the fis-h will be put in above .Broad Fbrd, so as to avoid Eitodkiing'the closed pairt of tllie river wiit-lvin.- the' Richardson'estate. A proportion wjll lalso be' put. in 'below tihe cart bridge ,-, but' is is. feared, tihat most of them; mig%.'fi)nd tlieir way'.iiVJo the portions of tho river rendered (practically unavailable to an-glers.

The prevalence of "poaching" throughout the di&'triet was referred to ait the monthly meeting of tihe Council of the Nelson- Acclimatisation Society last evening. Some of the members advqaated the appointment of a permanent paid ranger, equipped with a motor bicycle, and others held that ithere sihould be more effective co-opera tiion from the police -under the 'pow.eirs conferred upon them by the Fisheries Conservation Act and She Animals' lJrotection Act with their amendments. It waa pointed out that the wages of an adequately paid permanent fcrar.gex would absorb half of the Society's reve r nue, or more, thus crippling acclimatisation and administration. Ultiimately it was agreed to bring the .question oi' the better prevention of poaching before the annual meeting, it 'being suggested that an active and tactful ranger emiployed every .Saturday and Sunday with a motor .bicydle should be- aible to keep the practice in- check.

After some melancholy reflections a lit/bis natural history wiiil be sootihing. Try it. The- shark is a creature for wlhlich hitherto ycu can have felt lifctle affection.-' Its habits have discouraged sy mipathy. But a recent lecturer has made a statenuenifc which ought to -give the shark a .new and honoured place in ths hearts of all good'women. " ,if our shank, with all his faults, is a' good fatlher. As for the little peccadilloes commonly charged to them, this' is the sufficient explanation : "The shark is a most estimable character. . . . He eats' men, yet, but not because- he likes men.. Only because tliey happen to be there. . . He is a loving parent-, and establishes life-long friendships."

Mr Harold Nickols, of Seamore-place, Mayfair, and Sandford House, Yorkshire, ha® given £IO,OOO to the Lord Mayor of Leeds' Fund for the General Infirmary in memory of King Edward VII. The donor, who is one of the merchant princes of the North of England, is well known for his generous benefactions to the citv of Leeds.

Why do you sleep ? You may have vainly supposed that it is because vou are tired. Hear a more profound ex--1 pla.nation. "We sleep chiefly because c.f the natural rhythm of sleepiness whic'h has been, acquired in thousamds of years by the rotation of the earth, as night follows day." That is most impressive, but it seems there is a good deal moro to it than, this. One sage professor --suggests that "there may be a faculty of sleep, anc* that primitive man, Like the animals, had' tho power of goiiii~i to sleep when he willed to do so." i>om.e people not particularly primitive still retain) this eiivia.ble power. There is not much, doubt that if one tcok pains to cultivate it and led a lifo with sufficient open-air exercise it could ' be readily acquired. The causes,, of sleeo. accordim» to science, sieerni to bo infinitely numerous.. There are chemical causes, and heaven knows how many moro, till ona begins to wonder how thoro can ever be such a thing as insomnia. But the most powerful cause of aill ,wo suspect, in. spite of all the discoveries, is the ability to feel in peace and comfort. To be able, whether automatically or bv a. deliberate effort of will, to banish all your anxieties as soon as you lay vour head on the pillow is the specific' -But, un.fcrf.uinia.teJy, that is a power wibich neither poppy nor nor any of the material suggestion::, of science can confer upon you. For thin and falling hair consult MRS. GAW; also treatment for dandruff, facial massage, hairdrestiLng shampooing, manicuring, hair dyeing, etc., etc.; every Jescription of hairwork, combings, mounted 2s 6d per ounc*. —Tatton'a Buildings (upstairs),' Trafalgar-street.* It is not generally known that the at Glenduan, Wakapnaka, is privately owned property. the few remaining sections are sold' fhij favourite picnic resort will be closed to except those who own sections. Te-n sections each about i-acre can be purrhased for £SO a section, on v»ry ea°y terms, £2 10s deposit and £2 10s every six month for nine years. Further particular* can be obtained from H. M. Field, or Alfred Gould, auctioneer, hardystreet, *