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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 3, Issue 91, 6 December 1892, Page 2

Christmas with its time-honoured festivities will -soon be round- otide more, and all the young folk are no doubt looking kgerly forward for a Christmas box 6v New Year's gift. So that tbjEQLshall not be disappointed Mr Frank Grady, watchmaker and jewel? ler, of Wellington, announces in our columns tha%lke can supply the festive requisites adyjjbttum, and, having .once or twice visited his shop and seen his beautiful stock—why! well, we believe him.

Messrs Nelson Bros. & C 0.,. the enterprising "meat-freezing firm, are making steady headway both in Marlborough and Nelson, and are looked upon as business men who have "come to stay." Mr McNaughton, their representative, who travels round the country purchasing stock, has just come from Collingwood, Motuekay and Waimeas, where he baa been buying up all the fat sheep and has managed to secure a few thousand, but we learn they are not in quite such a forward condition this year, and owing to so much wet weather in winter a good many fleeces are matted.

' Schoolmasters seldom receive all the credit due to them for the time and attention devoted to improving our rising generation, and it is with great pleasure we note that Mr Regan, f who is in charge of the Cullensville school, i 3 gradually converting a piece of ground aronnd the building that was, with its blackened stumps, the picture of desolufcion, into a nice flower garden; thus giving his scholars their first lesson in horticulture, and to increase their interest" they have individual rights in plants which greatly encourage them to persevere in such object lessons. We commend his example to others.

Excitement must be introduced now-a-days into every line of business to make it a success, but if there J& one particular branch which needg no puffing it is photography, because, you have only to see for yourselves what is being done at Tyree's celebrated studio here and be perfectly amazed with the life-like pictures they are taking, in fact, so perfect is the resemblance that some little ones are now satisfied to cuddle the likeness of mamma instead of being Guddled by her. Complaints reach us from Belgrove that the sawmillers who are cutting sleepers for the Railway Department are now being subjected to a most unusual rigid inspection, and all the timber with any shakes, knots, or. cracks are rejected, which means nearly 90 per cent, thrown out. Of course, we all know that to keep to the strict lefctor of the specification the inspector may be ri<,tyt in doinj sq ? but all practical men know that birch does not grow without some of these imperfections, and there should always be a reasonable give-and-take with the Department. **•'.

At the" Monetary Conference at Brussels, Mr Rofchchild proposed that the European 5 powers should combine to purchaiii yearly, for;five years, five millions pounds worth of silver at par not exceeding 8s 7d per oz; and that in the event of the price rising higher purchases should instantly cease. The scheme has been referred to a Gommitfcee. The Portuguese delegates have been instructed to act with.the English - representatives. The : Conference has adjottco'ed until Friday.' The latest development of popular Institutions in America has taken the somewhat startling form of a police machine gun. This interesting contrivance is, as one might expect, the invention of that eminent destroyer of life and property, Mr Gatling. Its official name js «Police Pattern Model, 1892." It is very light, easily handled, and so quick in discharge that it will fire eight hundred shots a minute, and disperse a mob and materially decrease it in numbers at a range of from a mile to a mile and a half. It is intended to be fired from a waggon or the roofs and windows of houses, and it is warranted to clear a sfteeFih" quTckei f ftime than apything leiathun/.ah earthquake. It is to be dedicated "to MY Andrew Carnegie, and christened-','she Triumphant Democrat."

The Americans do not do things by halves, if we mav judge from the fact that Sir Walter' in Ireland is to be taken Jown and recreated at the Chicago World's Fair, together with the yew tree under which Sir Walter is said to have smoked his first pipe in Ireland.

It will be noticed that at the regatta meeting on Saturday night, the place for holding the regatta was changed from Moitapu to Havelock. There may be good reasons for the alteration but it is a pity that Havelock was not decided on in the first place, as it may affect the arrangements being made in the Sounds for holding a regatta at Hopaii The programmes for the Pelorus races have been circulated, from which it will be seen that the prize for the Cap is fixed at £45, and £3O for the Pelorus Stakes. The nominations for the Handicap Hurdle Race, Havelock Cup, and Pelorus Stakes, close on •SaturdayY December 17. For variety and novelty in toys, | ornaments, cards, books, and all kinds of fancy, goods, it would be difficult to find a better selection than is now to be seen'at Mr V. C. Venimore's. . For anything like an idea of what ha has it* stock we. refer our reader's to his advertisement in another column, but we would advise all who wish to make suitable presents for inothers, fathers, sweethearts, and friends, to pay Mr Venimore's shop a visit. To atttempt to describe all the varied articles focuse, amusement, and ornament, would be as difficult as ,was the ca»s§ with, the stuttering man who vainly tried to direct a passenger to a certain street, and who finished up with an exclamation that the person could find the street quicker than he could, tell him. So we would advise our readers to go and see for themselves, as nothing will be charged for admission.

The R. M. S. Alameda is reported to have made the passage from Sydney to Auckland in 9 days 18 minutes (?).

. The Custom's revenue shows a surplus of £15,000 on the eight months. The man Thomas who. ; .wa?Larrßsted a,t Wellington on suspicion pf assaulting Mr Kirkbride was remanded. The clue which led to.hia arrest.was.the hammer he left behind.

The Supreme Court opened at Nelson yesterday, and again there is no criminal business to be dealt with. Nelson is a pretty town, a healthy bwn, and there are no criminals. What a glorious place to live in. A young man named Albert Thomas, a French polisher by trade, has been arrested in Wellington on suspicion of biing the person who made an assault 04 Mr Kirkbride the other day.

The Pelorus Road Board and Havelock Town Board meet to-morrow. There is also a meeting of the Marllorough Education Board to-day at Blenheim. - -The death -k announced at Blenheim of Mr W. H. Hyde, an old settler of that, district, where he has resided for the last thirty-five years. The action brought,'against Mr T tnraas Carter by Mr E. Haase for £6OO in connection with the fatal fhx-inill accident ocQupieiJ the Supreme Gourt three days, at Blenheim, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £2OO. In the Supreme Court at Auckland, the chemist, William Powell, charged with using instruments upon Fairley Jane Lucy Clarke, stewardess, to procure miscarriage, was found guilty and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.

Forty cross-bred ewes with lambs are advertised for sale in this issue.

In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly a motion has been carried in favour of introducing a Bill to abolish barmaids and permitting hotels to have only one bar. In the Supreme Court at Wellington a verdict of manslaughter was returned against Finley for shooting a sailor recently in the Empire City, the particulars of which were recorded some time ago.