TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9644, 20 January 1903, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

The s.s. Ventura arrived at San Francisco ou January 19. Gisborne butter shipped at Wellington this season includes 298 boxes by the Turakina, valued at £643, and 136 by the. Gothic, valued at £291. Both these consignments were from the Kia-Ora factory. The cargo taken away from this port by the South African S.S. Company's Devon at the end c-f December comprised shipments to the value of £6379 by Williams and Kettle, and £2932 by the Sheepfarmers' Frozen Meat Company. Dean Hovel I is likely to make a trip to the Old Country for the benefit of his health. The Deau hus been at work m Napier for a quarter of a century, and us Jiis health- has not been satisfactory of late it is thought that a long sea trip will benefit him. Owing to some difficulty m securing Mr Towuley's rooms for to-morrow night the general meeting of the Waiapu Temperance Reform League will be held m the large sample room between Wyllie's Horse Bazaar and the Catholic Church. The Committee desire- as representative <imeeting as possible as the duty will be cast on the meeting of appointing energetic responsible officers. An interesting discussion is expected, so that the Committee may have the minds of members as to the lines of reform to be advocated.

. __ — , The first, cargo of New- ZeaJmid mutton arrived m London cm January 19. 1876. 27 years ago. At a mooting of the Whaiaupoko Road ;Boa.rd this afternoon there were live applications for the position of poundkeeper. jwul Mr A K. Wyllie wa,s appointed. Tin: l'alnierstoh Borough Council has decided to appoint Wednesday as the duv on which, the weekly half-holiday i.s to be observed m that town. John Henry Tait, concert promoter, ins issued a writ at Melbourne against. Nellie Porter Armstrong (professionally known as Madame Melba). Plaintiff claims pay- | nieiit of £23 7s 6d, money due and owing under a contract entered into on or about. November Ist. 1902, between plaintiff and I defendant or her agent, Tiiomas A. l'.Uterson; also a further sum of £200 as damages for breach of such contract. Tait ; is the well-known entrepreneur and adi vaiice agent. j It is not generally known thai measles 'are no longer regarded by the Health Oflicer as a "notifiable disease"— i.e., a disease the existence of wJiich must be immediately reported to the local authority by the. medical man m charge. A circular to the medical profession intimates lha-t, on account ol the great expense, measles have ceased as from the 10th inst, to be a notifiable disease, but doctors are. asked as a matter of public 1 duty to- continue to notify the local Health Officer as heretofore. | Quite an unrehearsed effect occuind !in the theatre m connection with tin j production of "Sherlock Holmes" (says Chrstchurcli Truth). In the scene m tiie second act, where Moriartv attempts to .kill Sherlock Holmes, the* latter having previously witlidnawu tlw cartridges from the revolver on the table, Moriarty attempts to snatch the revolver. Sherlock Holmes, standing with his back to the ta.ble, did not take any notice of the attempt, but an interested auditor m the pit. thinking to warn him, shouted "Look out, governor," amidst a roar of laughter. Good progress continues to be made with work on Christchurch Cathedral, and the transepts are now practically finished. The windows at the north and south ends were completed last week, and the roof requires no further work. The scaffolding inside the transepts is now being taken down from the top. A large cellar has been excavated m the chancel to accommodate the engine and the bellows of the organ when tin; instrument is moved. The flooring m the transepts and chanc-1 will nob be completed until all the stonework of the walls has been, completed - probably m from 12 to 15 months. A cablegram received m Australia a frw days ago stated Lli-it- a railway disaster of 'an unusual character had occurred m the Austrian Alps. The express train from Verona, m Northern ftlaJy, to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, travels on a line which traverses the Brenner Pass m Central Tyrol. At a point on the railway called Gassensuss, where the lire takes an abrupt turn, the catastrophe occurred. A great avalanche, descending from the mountain range with tremendous velocity, completely buried the express train. No further details were to hand, but serious loss of life was assumed. In regard to the strictures passed m certain quartets on the Tourist Department for not more extensively advertising New Zealand's wonderlands m Great Britain, Canada- and elsewhere, it might be interesting to mention that two lady visitors from England were m the local tourist ortice last week, and each assured the Superintendent that the beauties of our tourist resorts and the facilities provided for reaching them were known from one end of London to the other. Mr Donne was able to satisfy your representative tliat the Department had gone to an immense amount of trouble and expense m proclaiming New Zealand's tourist resorts abroad. Advertising on. a big scheme is m progress for still further heralding their attractiveness. — Wellington Correspondent of the Lyttelton Times.