LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting of the committee of the Nelson Trotting Club was held yesterday afternoon, the president (Mr H. Baigent) in the chair. The programme for the annual race meeting to be held in_ February next was drawn up for submission to the New Zealand Trotting Association. Eight races have been provided, and £SOO will be given in stakes. Two races have been allotted' to distract ■horses, and in the other events limits have been tightened up. It was decided to handicap by yards instead of seconds.

In connection with the recent heavy landslide at Otira, whereby a resident lost his life, a memorial in the shape of a cross has been erected by the friends of the deceased to mark the spot, says the Westport Times. A general clearance of residents in the vicinity is being made, and homes are now being removed to the railway side of the main road.'

In addition to the- long list published in. Tuesday's issue, post-cards from soldiers at the front returning thanks for gifts -sent through the Mail Tobacco Fund have been received for the following.:—Miss Richmond, Miss MaidaDoidge, A. Sutherland, Mrs W. Simpson.

A public garden party on behalf of the Red 'Cross Funds will be given by Mesdames Styche and Green. at the Brook Lawn Tennis Club's grounds on Saturday, 25tlr inst., at 3 o'clock.

At a meeting of the executive of, the Southland Farmers' Union last w-eek it ; Was decid'ed that the secretary be instructed to ascertain if a stock inspector had power to enter any property to inspect sheep, says t.ie Mat-aura Ensign.

lA young man named Thomas Reilly, who recently, arrived in New Zealand with his mother, was assisting his uncle .(Mr John Earnshaw)-. to muster cattle at, Tanekaka, W'hangarei, on Monday, when he fell off' his horse into a- flooded creek and was ... \ ■

Reporting on the health of the New Zealand Garrison in Samoa,. under date W)th November, Colonel Logan, Administrator, states: "Health of troops good, no hospital cases."

There will be on exhibition at the, Show at Richmond Park next week most of the . prize sheep from the Marlborough Show, which were purchased by. Mr F. W. Fairey ,of Nelson, and will beexhibited by him at the Nelson Show. Mr, Fairey, who judged the sheep classes at Blenheim, states that the fat lambswere a particularly fine lot, and furnished strong competition, there; being 16.en- : tries_in,one class. Mr Fairey also judged at the recent Show at Gisborne.

The.Suva correspondent of the Auckland* Herald' states that the exports of; .bananas from Fiji for .the ' month. pf.j October were dß,<Bis bunches for N:ewJ Zealand and 108,664 for ■■ Australia, a total of 147,480. A s the Atua is missing a trip from and to Sydney owing to the coal, strike, the banana-growers wilt ne heavy losers, as this is the time of' year when they look! for their highest, profits on account of the absence of fruit; in New Zealand and Australia,* 1

'At the last meeting of the.Senate,; of the .Sydney University; a communication was received from an official' source stating 'that the young Australian medical men had won golden opinions from their commanding'officers in the Royal Army Medical Corps. It was stated that ever;; commanding officer under whom they had served reported in the most* laudatory terms of their work, and that they bad, without exception, proved themselves extremely good and capable, not only at their professional work, but by their adaptability and willingness to go wherever ordered without demur. Commanding officers repeatedly asked to have more of them sent to their units.

Members of the Loyal Nelson Lodge. 1.0.0. F., M.XT., all Oddfellows connected; with the Lodge as contributors, etc., and the public generally, are notified in our advertising columns l that Mr J, Heath,' of Kawai-streeti has been appointed to act. as Permanent Secretary during the absence of Mr W.L. Hessel-; tine with the New Zealand. Expedition-, ary Force. - All communications are to be forwarded to the acting-secretary's private address.

Messrs Gotha.iui (chairman) and Lock of the Nelspnv Education Boai'd at Westport yesterday -visited' the Technical, Primary and High Schools. At 'X. o'clock Mr Lock addressed the children when 7£o were .present. 'REv Lock: speak* at the soldiers' . send -off to-night. The Minister of Education arrives hero -next week. —Special corresteondent. . '

Mr E. R. -Duncan, hon. secretary of ihe Nelson branch pf the Navy League, has received the following letter, from the Meneral' Secretary .:—''l am directed by the "Navy League Overseas Relief Funds Committee to acknowledge with Jeep gratitude the receipt of £IOB ,16.r 5d as a contribution towards the. relief }f dependents of officers and men who have lost their: lives in action at sea "luring the -war. 'Will you. be so kinr 1 is.' to convey to your Committee and generous donors to this, fund the* sincere thanks of the Navy League for iheir splendid services to the ■ widows ind orphans of our gallant .sailors who have given Tip their hves in th e defence ~>i the Empire."

The following extracts are from, abetter received by Mr Win. Rogers,' from : v chief mate of one of the Alienor steamers, who is now at the front. (The extracts were published yesterday, but r.he omission of .a line destroyed the sense of the last sentence) :—"The 'Huns hav't got me yet, but I've had several .narrow squeaks. At present w<s are in one of the hottest corners of France, so it is to he expected that casualties will occur more or less. Everyone speaks very highly of the New Zealand boys, -especially "the infantry. 'Firework' displays won't be in it after this, and the sound of guns and* shell bursts have almost taken the place of the sound of water with me. We havn't seen: the papers much lately, so do hot knowhow things are going on the other fronts; but as far as this sector is concerned, the end is in sight, though perhaps we need a pair of glasses to see it; still, it's there all the same." Attention is called to the new Railway timetable. Nelson section, commencing from December Ist. Bonuses on shareholders' purchases for the past half-year will be posted early netx. -week.—CD. G.y Bridge-st.* ; Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., have received cable advice fi-om their London office stating that the November wool sales closed very firm.at about 10 per cent advance on the opening prices. Bonuses on" shareholders' purchases for the past hali-vear will be posted early iext" week.—C.D.C.,. Bridge-st. ' .