TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

As a result of a canvass of Timaru for a No-license "fighting fund," Mr G. H, Nicholls has already been guaranteed £370. At the Farmers' Union meeting "this /•afternoon. Mr Field said that country considered the Government got sufjicient revenue out of the telephone service "without charging them threepence a message, j. ney. liad to pay the bureau to connect them witn the exchange.— On the motion of Mr A. J." Cameron,, second-" ed by Mr W. W. Smith, it was decided to draw the Government's attention to the fact that. ' ragwort and Californian thistle was spreading on tho -flats here. A shocking fatal accident occurred at Kaikoura on Sunday morning. Mary Sweeney, aged 14, was driving a milk cart to the factory, when the horse shied, and she was thrown, out on top of her head. The crown' of the skull waß lifted clean off; exposing the brain. Tho wheel passed over the girl's forshcad, and death was almost instantaneous. This was the last day her father intended to send milk to the factory.'-'' The following have booked passages per s.s. Tarawera to-morrow evening : For Napier: Misses Beatson, Humphries, Peoples, Mesdames Goodman, Ludwig and child, Messrs Hold-worth (2), Galbmith, Sandtman- . Cramp, Ross. A. F. Kennedy, Troup, Williamson, Walker, Williams, \Hutcheson, Ludwig,. William-' son, Colebourne, Tingey, Martin, Somerville, Anderson, Duncan, Griffin, HH' ; For Wellington : Colonel and Mrs 'Poster, Messrs Sheppard, and Faulkner. Reference was made at the Gisboine Farmers' Union meeting this afternoon to Mr R. M. Birrell's impending departure for the Old. Countiy. The Cliairman . (Mr W. D. Lysnar) said Mr Bhrell had done good work as a member of the Union, and Mr .0. J. Parker referred to the valuable services Mr Birrell had. rendered m connection with the Fanners' Union Club. It was decided to tender a valedictory* social to Mr Birrell, to be. held on Wednesday evening next. Mr Jumes Pettie, who is taking ojiet the Ti- Karaka hotel, is -transferring to tins district a portion of his well-known Christchurch tvbttmg stud. . The s.s. Waikare tliis morning brought up a valuable brood marc, Lilian D., also a most promising foul from the same by Rothschild, ■_ and the trotting stallion Sweet Patch, by George .M. Patclien, out of Creole, by Pinole Patclien (imported from America). Sweet Patch won two races recently at Christchurch, and has been described as one of the most handsome animals m the colony. ..' Owing to the departure of the Miowera from Wellington with.; the outward Suez mail having been delayed by fog until 5.20 last Saturday morning, she failed to connect with the mail "train 'from Sydney 1 for Melbourne on Tuesday. The Acting-Postmaster' General had mado arrangements for a special train from Syd- : ney to Melbourne m the event of the steamor arriving sufficiently early to enable tho special to reach Melbourne m time to catch, the mail steamer. This, however, could not be made use of, Tlie mails will- be about six days late arriving m London. A pleaftant surprise was sprung upon Mr F. Moeller, licensee of the Masonic hotel, Napier, last Tuesday afternoon, when a number of representative gentlemen assembled for the purpose of making him v presentation of a handsome silver bowl, mounted on an ebony stand, and suitably inscribed, as a birtliday present. Mr John McVay presided, and spoke m the highest terms of Mr Moeller's kindness and geniality, and said it gave him tiie greatest pleaspn-e lo wish him many happy returns of the day and lifelong pros, perity. Mr Moeller was a man who undoubtedly deserved success, yet he was one of those few men whose life was above mere money-making. In acts of kindness it was impossible to surpass him , and if it were possible then it was only by one person — his wife. He (Mr McVay) hoped the gift, would be accepted as a testimony of the good feeling wliich existed between the recipient and the donors, not on account of its intrinsic value, but as a token of the esteem iv which he was held.