LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 163, 8 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The iSpruce trees in the Queen's Gardens have not been doing well for the past two or three years, a blight having attacked them. In recent months the blight has played havoc with the, trees, which, are evidently doomed. A fine specimen near the Bridge street fence is going off rapidly, the whole of the centre from the base almost to the top of the tree being practically dead. Oilier parts of the Dominion report a similar experience in regard to'the Spruce.

Attention is called to the advertisement of a social and competition to be held in tlie Shelbourne street Schoolroonfe on Wednesday next, > July 10th, at p.m. It is in aid of the Baby Clothirig Fundi for the children of British soldiers and sailors. Mrs W. Rogers will be glad to receive donations and contributions of garments for this fund, which is urgently in need of support.

A few sample pairs of high grade Swiss and Guipuro Curtains. which city shops sell at two to three guineas per pair, are offering at our sale aTT 12s 6d to 16s *

Entries are invited for competitions (as advertised) to be held on Italian Red Cross Day. i There \vill_ be a meeting of the executive committee at the City Council Chambers to-morrow evening at 7.30.

Millinery, Millinery. Positive clearance at McKays' Sale. Ready-to-wears 2s 114; . Trimmed Hats 10s 6d upwards.*

(One of the surprises of the war lias been the enormous military consumption of timber, and "the scarcity of shipping for ite transportation. The reconstruction committee advises Britain to plant 1,770,000 acres and assist individuals and private bodies to slanit all they can. Britons are just awaking to the fact that from _a national or private point of view,, forestry is one of the best possible investments'. Plant your "waste lands -in pinus' insignis, the premier-,, timber tree.' Further particulars, KifVgsjand, Apfleby.*

0 Children's Hats and Coats, reduced' for qui-clc sale- before stocktaking. S e these smart styles at low prices at .McKays' Winter Sale.*

Jtipple Cloth--;. Pink and Write, -T4 drinb.es wid-e> fox .'drsssiiig- gowus, 4s lid yard at. • Sale. *

A former Nelsonian, now in Wellington, in a letter which has been shown ns. mentions, in connection with the rough weather at sea last week, that an announcement- was made in a Wellington paper that "the Nn'kau and Mararoa were the only steamers to leave last night. The former reached! Nekon at 5.30 a.m., average time, but so far the Mararoa is not reported' as reaching Lyttelton." But what the writer of the letter is quito proud of is a conversation he heard in a barber's shop, in which tho jMikau's performances were bein» discussed. "Shrt must be a mar* lle "Blime!'' exclaimed aiioth^r: "It is not oiiee only, but this goes on all the time—jredr in and year out Why; sHe . is. oiiisijifiSd &s & big boat Yoii resld in ithte papter'S: 'Nci bbats. left last ni£ht-, the only I «ejjri,rtures being the Athenic, Monowai, and Nikau.' " "I felt very proud of the little Nikau occupying such pride of place even in barbers' gossip," coml meats the ex-Nelsonian.

On Saturday night a special meeting of the General 'Committee of the Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral .Association was held for the purpose of electing delegates to meet the delegates from the Nelson Jockey Clttb and the Nelson Trotting Club iii regard to rentals in connection With the grandstand rebuilding proposals; Messrs Walter Thorn (president), E. W. Win (vice-president), W. R. May (treasurer), A: P: Allpcfrt, John. Hagell dnd W; D; Tfetftnesfe were Appointed. A conference of the delegittds Of the three bodies was subsequently held, btit no agreement was arrived at-, A special joint general meeting of the Jockey and Trotting Clubs will be held On Thursday afternoon to further consider the matter: __

atleiititm of members cf the. Nelson Jockey 'CHib and the Nelson Trotting is directed to an advertisement calling a joint general meeting for next Thursday afternoon, _ when the important matter of rentals in connection with the grandstand rebuilding proposals at Richmond l Pi.rk w.ll come up for further Consideration.

Mr A- Gould advertises the following auction sales: —Thursday next, at 1 p.m.. clearing sale at 'Hope on account Wilkinson and Hogg. Mr Allen "Webby, and other clients; Saturday next, at noon, at rooms, Hardy-st-., freehold property ini t.he estafce of 1 bomas Cawthron, deceased; Monday next, at 1 p.m., clearing sale at Bainiham, on account Mr R. A. Lammas. Ladies' Cloth Gaiters, almost unprocurable. few pairs only 8s 6d ; Black Silk Gloves, worth 5s- 6d for Is lid. — McKays' Sale.*