LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 28, 11 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Returns of Land. —The Land and In-come-tax Dsbartment gixe notice that returns of land must be furnished not later than Ist May.

Havelock Dairy Go. —This Company paid out £441 7s rod for March supply, etc., the ferns being as follow; —Milk /37s 17s. wages /35 15s od,' sundries /31 15s 5 d - The Company will pay xa per lb lor butter-fat supplied during April, less the usual twelfth.

Harbour Board Election.—Nominations close on Thursday, 20th April, 1 for three vacancies on the Havelock Harbour Board. The retiring members are Messrs Taylor, Crispin, and Bnckman, who will, we understand, offer themselves for re-election.

Big Wages for Carpenters.— Writing to a friend at Palmerston, Mr J. T Stobart, a former resident of Wellington, who is now at Salisbury, Rhodesia, states that he is. earning £7 10s per week He says there is plenty of work in Rhodesia for carpenters who are willing to work and understand their trade, wages there being very high.

Pelorus Road Board.— The' monthly meeting of this Board will be held to morrow (Wednesday). This will be the last meeting of the present Board, and early in May an election will beheld in thePelorus, Kaituna, and Mahakipawa subdivisions, as one member from each of those districts retires by effluxion of time.

Estates of Deceased Persons.—Following are particulars of Marlborough estates dealt with last month by the Public Trustee .—William Avery, £9,018 ; John Mills, £6,229 ; Mary A. Wilkins, £3,409: Felix B. Ward, £1,854; Alexander W. Ingles, £1,656; George North. £1,271; Thomas Hoare, £1,269! Jf ranees Scrint, £923 ; David Hallihan, £609 ; Sarah Pilkington, £513. Easter Sports. —Very good acceptances have been received for the Havelock Easter sports, which will take place next Monday. Judging by reports from the training quarters of some of the competitors the big events will be very keenly contested, and some fast times will probably be registered. The ground is being put in order, and everything that will conduce to a successful gathering is being attended to.

Post Office Notice.— The following hours will be observed at the local P.oat Office during Easter. —Good Friday will be observed ala Sunday. Saturday, ordinary hours (9 a.m. till 5 p.m.L Easter Monday, 9 a.m. till 10 a.m.; open in aU branches except Money Order and Savings Bank. Mails usually closing on Fridays will be closed Thursday night, 13th April, 8 o’clock.' On Monday, 17th April, all mails for theday will be closed at 9 a.m. <

To Surprise London —One of the sights to be provided visitors to London for the Coronation festivities is an exhibition of colonial sheep-shearing. A team of the crack shearers of the Commonwealth are to be taken Home, and w.ll give daily exhibitions. Their work will surprise the farmer of the Northern Hemisphere, and besides being a “sight” should prove a capital advertisement for Austrilia and New Zealand Why not a team of axemen? An exhibition by the champion men of this country and Tasmania would prove even more attractive than the shearing display Telephonic Facilities.— There has just been constructed at the local Post Office a sound-proof telephone room which will be much appreciated by the public who have occasion to use the telephone. Messages will now be strictly private, a fact that will no doubt increase the volume of business. In this connection a Canvastown correspondent, who has noted the improvements at Havelock, writes to ask when the present “dog-kennel” that does duty as a Post Office at Canvastown is to be replaced by the new office promised by the Hon. R. McKenzie a few years ago. It is certainly surprising that the Department do not build a suiteble office at Canvastown, for the business there certainly warrants it. Cottage Hospital Committee.— Messrs Taylor, chairman,,Smith, Elliott, and Price and Rev. E. H. Pain were present at the monthly meeting of this committee. Dr Williams’ report showed that during March two patients had been admitted and four discharged. The chairman’s action in having a track made,instead of steps, to the front of the hospital was approved. It was resolved to procure some comfortable chairs for the hospital. Cordial thanks were recorded to the Picton. Band for giving a performance at Te Mehla in aid of the hospital funds ; to the Havelock concert party for substantial donations; and to Mr Frank Pope, sen., for having repaired, at his own expense, the broken fence on the hospital frontage. Accounts amounting to £lO 73 were recommended for payment. Messrs Price and Smith were appointed a visiting committee for April. A Spring Creek Joke.— During the hearing of the Bridge Commission at Blenheim the town was crowded with representatives of the eleven local bodies cited to contribute to the cost of the bridge, and a good deal of friendly badinage took place between them. The members of the Spring Creek Board, by reason of their opposition to the proposed allocation in face of their citation of the local bodies to pay for the cost of the Ferry Bridge, were the objects of special chaffing, and some bucolic humourist gained fame by recounting a story illustrating the “ canniness ” of residents of that wealthy suburb. He stated that when a Spring Creek farmer went" to Blenheim he_ left his horse at a blacksmith's shop instead of taking it to a stable, where a fee is charged for a stall. In addition to taking his own lunch, the farmer takes a feed for hia horse ; and in a box he carries a young rooster, which is tethered close to the horse’s head and trained to pick up all the feed the horse spills. In this way there is no loss, and the bird is fattened ; and when the bird is fit for the table another rooster is substituted until he, too, is fit to pay toll to the Spring Creek system of economy. And this is the alleged explanation of why there are so many wealthy men at Spring Creek, Teddy came home late from school, Gave a horrid sneeze, Had a tickling in his throat, Soon began to wheeze. Mother took his temperature. Put him straight to bed, Gave him Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, “ Bosker stuff!” said Ted.

Death of a Pioneer,— A Nelson correspondent writes : —Another of the very few remaining settlers who arrived at Nelson in 1842 passed away on Sunday at Wakefield. The deceased, Mr Thomas Kinzett, had p ssed his 84th year, having been born at Locksley, Warwickshire, on i6ih November, 1525. Deceased Lad some experience on the Victorian goldfields, having been at Ballarat. He afterwards for a time resided at Richmond, but tor about forty years had had his homo at'Wakefield. Out of a large family four sons and four daughters survive him.

Church Services, —Methodist services on Easter Sunday will be as follow: Okaramid n. Suburban 230. Havelock 7; the sacrament of the Lord’s supper will be administered at the-close of the servide; Flat Creek 7, Mr C. J. Peaple.—Anglican services wilt be held at St. Peter’s, Havlock. at II a.m. and 7 p.m on Good Friday, and on Easter Sunday services will be conducted at Havelock 11 a.m., Holy Communion, and 7 p.m., Canvastown ■ 2.30. Carluke 7. Parents are reminded that Sunday School is conducted at St. Peter’s every Sunday at 2 30-

An Auckland Scandal.— lf a divorce; case that is at pres ;nt on the tapis comes to matur ty there is likely to be much spicy material for plenty of tongue-wagging over the teacups. It is the husband’s petition, and the co-respondent is said to be a certain priest who, up - till a comparatively short time ago. was stationed in Auckland, and was also extremely popular. The husband alleges that he has discovered an incriminating letter written by the priest to his wife, and intends to produce it in court. But even without the letter the case promises to be quite sensational enough for even the most inveterate afternoon tea gossip. ‘ Tis a wicked world we live in, to be sure.— Observer,