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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10629, 5 December 1910, Page 3

A meeting of the Waitaki High School Board of Governors was held this morning, when there present: Messrs Million (chairman), liuokley, and Brown. The minutes of the last meeting wore read and adopted; outward correspondence approved and inward read. Matters of a routine nature were dealt with. Salaries and accounts amounting to £37 It's lid were passed for payment. A special passenger train passed through Oainaru last evening convoying a number of the Southern members ol Parliament to their homes. Our Waimatc correspondent writes: — Mr J. W. Brabyn, assistant to the Hev. A. S. Morrison, of Knox Church, has been compelled to resign Ins position owing to ill-health, and the Session and Managers decided to place on record their appreciation of his valuable .services and sympathy with him in Ins illness. Mr'F. J. Rule,' a- student who has been doing satisfactory work in the Cashmere and Dunsandel districts, was appointed to the vacancy.—The Highland Pipe Band has decided.to rim a bazaar in aid of a building fund for the erection of a. band-room. The brass band is collecting for a, similar object. The Knox Church people are collecting for a Bible-class hall, and the Memorial Committee is still in the field with its public subscriptions, so that the generous subscribers cannot complain ol want of attention at the present time. Under the direction of Mr A. Hamilton. Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, a further attempt is being made to find, huias. The Christchurch Press says that Mr John Stevens, of Bulls,' has organised, and despatched an expedition of natives, under Mr A, B. Cameron, for the purpose of making a search along the western slopes of the Ruahine Range. The party left Greatford on Monday morning, and is now encamped near the head-waters ot the Kawhatau River, in the forest near the foothills of the mountain. It is intended that operations shall continue for several weeks unless some huias be sooner discovered. Should the natives succeed in locating tho birds a second expedition will be sent about the month of May for the purpose of capturing several' pairs, which will be liberated in the Government sanctuary at the Little Barrier Island. A native expert, Wheriko Poni, who has had considerable experience in the capture of huias, has been employed. A nine months' old Christchurch baby had a bad time the other day (says the Press). The father, who had been given charge of the child, left it for a time to go on with some job in his workshop. On returning to see how baby was faring, he discovered to his horror that a. ferret he kept locked up in a cage had managed to escape, and was attacking the child fiercely, the latter's face being badly torn and lacerated and covered with blood. A doctor's services had to be requisitioned, and that ferret is not likely to have-a second chance of attacking that baby. The Gazette notifies that allotment la, part of section N0."60, block VII., Moeraki survey district, has been temporarily reserved as a site for a public school.

The note in the Supplementary Estimates for the rehabilitation of Government House, Auckland, may be viewed as a tribute : to the unexampled' importunity of Mr Glover and his Auckland: associates. In Bellamy's there is. a sideboard which lends quite a niedisßval aspect to the refreshment room. It is of the old-fashioned veneered variety, and over the sacrilegious conversion of this pretentious article to common purposes Mr Glover has wept when, drinking his ginger-ale. Other articles of out-of-date rubbishy furniture from Uie dismantled vice-regal house in bhe Queen City also found sanctuary in'the new Government House, in Wellington. Their appearance, when they were being unpacked, after undergoing the rough usage of transport, was pitiful. Painted furniture is never exactly faßci/iating, but when the smears of the artist's brush arc inartistically scratched

and rubbed,,;it,looks as though it had been in the. wars and common beyond description. Aucklanders may congratulate themselves that the Government removed to Wellington the rubbish which had for.ages accumulated in the Governor's residence in their city, for they will now- get brand-new furniture. But the Government .should not

have yielded to Auckland persistency. If there is need for a special Governor's residence in Auckland thero is equnl need for one in each of tho southern cities.

A sitting of tho Juvenile Court was held this morning, when throo small boys were charged with throwing stones to'tho damage of property. They all admitted tho ofTenco, and, after a good lecture from tho Bench, were discharged with a caution.

The Fire Brigade was called out yesterday afternoon, smoke issuing from one of the-store-roonis of tho Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Co. causing an alarm to be raised. The Brigndo turned out with commendable promptitude, and found that the floor of tho storeroom had caught fire. Tho outbreak was quickly suppressed with tho small hoso in the building, tho damage dono being merely to the floor, tho windows, which, were cracked, and a pieco of machinery in tho room. Tho cause of tho outbreak is unknown,' Beforo Mr R. Milligan, J.P. (ActingCoroner), and a jury comprising Messrs Pinch, T. Williamson, M'Dowoll, Collis, J. P. Cagney, and Herbert, this afternoon, an iiiquest was held touching the death of Samuel Holmes, who died suddenly on Saturday afternoon. Deceased, who lived with his daughter, Mrs Eihmett, of Thames street, was 84 years of age, and up to the timo of his death had been in apparently good health. After medical ovidenco had

been given by Drs Douglas and M'Adam, tho jury found that death was duo'to heart failure. A largo crowd assembled in tho Drill Hall last evening when Mr M'Donald, in conjunction with Major Perry, screened a number of sacred pictures. "The

Way of the Cross" was a picture depicting the persecution of the Christians in Rome, and "Tho Fall of Babylon" was also an interesting production. Several sacred songs and "duets were rendered during tho evening, and sacred music

was played by a full orchestra. Mr M'Donald intends showing sacred pictures regularly* A disastrous lire that will to a largo extent disorganiso tho business lifo of flic township of Morvon occurred at 8

o'clock yesterday morning. At that hour an outbreak was discovered in tho drapery department of Mr Middlebrook's general store, and it was not long beforo tho whole building was enveloped in flames. Spreading northward tho firo attacked a largo grain shed adjoining Mr Middlebroolc's, and afterwards Messrs Blair Bros', establishment. In connection with tho latter were a butchery and baker's shop; besides which tho building in addition to affording family accommodation, was used as a. board ing-houso. All were completely destroyed. Nothing could be done to save the stock con-

tained in -tho business promises; but willing hands assisted in saving a good deal of the furniture, both from Mr Middlebrook's and Messrs Blair Bros.' "Hitch your waggon to a star."— Emerson. "Hitch your waggon to a lie."—Dr Kindlay's amendment. These are the expository lines which appear beneath tho cartoon in Saturday's New Zealand Times which formed the basis of Mr Massey's writ claiming £2OOO for libel. The. cartoon shows an individual labelled "Their idea of a politician" hitching to a waggon an ass named "Ananias." The waggon is laden with parcels marked "Startling Revelations," "Expense," "Defamation," "Private Calumny," "Dead Men's Characters," "Pamphlets Free," "Tammany," "Electrifying Apparatus Patent," and "Mud." On top of tho load is a woman in a sunbonnet labelled "Scandal-mongering." Tho waggon is labelled "Wo aro tho party," and the brake on it is labelled "Delay." At the Court this morning, before Messrs G. Brownlee and J. Cagney, Justices of tho Peace, James Hollow was convicted and fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk on the North Road yesterday while in charge of a horse and trap. John Bain, for riding a bicycle on Thames street without o, light, was fined Is and costs.

Tlio popularity of M'Douald's Pictures was again proved 011 Saturday evening, when a crowded house greeted tins screening of im excellent programme of moving pictures. The chief attractions of the evening wore tho views of the nice for tho Now Zealand Cup and the revolution in Portugal. The Cup picture was an excellent producion. giving views of Cathedral Squaro (Christchinch) on tho morning of tho race, the crowds on the cour.se, totalisator, and two very clear views or the met.'. Views of Lisbon during tho revolution wero shown very clearly, and atached to the series was a picturo giving views of tho visit to England of ox-King Manuel. "Buffalo-hunting in Indo-China" was a soonic as well as a sporting film, and another good scenic was "The Islands of tho Venetian Lagoons." "Lovo of Chrysanthemum" was an excellently prepared Japanese drama, the quaint scenery, drosses, and customs being wonderfully pourtrayed. "A Knot in the Plot" and "The Lover's Stratagem" were other subjects of humor and interest. Mr M'Donald has had the back half of tho balcony raised so that tho pictures can bo seen from any part without interference. Tho management promises a complete change for to-morrow and Saturday evenings. Does your head feel as though it might split? Can't think straight—nothing relieves it? Stearns' Headache Cure will put you right—imxnodiato relief. 16

Mr .T. Swindloy, Surgeon Dentist, will visit Kurow on Thursday Next, Bth inst., and may bo consulted at Spiers' Hotel. " 636

Often, from apparently no caußO whatever, one becomes run down, unable to sleep or eat, and' suffers with nervous headaches, rolaxod throats, etc. Now, what you want to restore you to perfect vigor once more, to make you oat and sleep, and realise that life's worth living, is Marshall's Fospherine, that wonderful Tonic and Nerve Nourisber. Try it to-day—ls, Is 6d and 2s 6d bottlo at all chemists, but be sure it's Marshall's, for none other will give tho same rosults. "Although I ain an enthusiastic Australian," said Mr Anderson at the Civil Ambulance Corps meeting in Sydney, ' 'I do think there is one failing Australians have, and that is going to tho Government for anything they want." He rejoiced that their institution had never succumbed to tho Australian fail-

ing. "At one timo wo got down very low, and it was put to us that we had only to ask tho Government for help to get it. Wo unanimously resisted that, and 1 think we were wise. Wo will

never be in the position of not knowing what to do when a Government withdraws its aid, because wo will never have had. it.—(Applause.) We need a motor-car arabulanco, and, well, that is an opportunity for some enterprising person to give it."