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Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12015, 16 August 1907, Page 2

The annual meeting of shareholders in the Nelson Co-operative Dairy Company will be held at tht Rechabite Hall, Brightwater, to morrow afternoon at two o'clock. A display of physical culture will be given by the pupils of the Cabragh House School to-morrow evening, which ladies are cordially ir vited to attend. Members cf the old Horticultural Society are requested to meet at the Chamber of Commerce rooms this evening to consider a proposal tc hand over all assets to any new Society that may be formed. The Wakatu (ladies) Hockey Club team, which is touring the Marlborough district, played a match against Marlborough on Wednesday, and were defeated by two goals to nil. Yesterday they played a team from the High School, which resulted in a draw, both sides scoring two goals each. Misses Whitwell and St. John scored for the Wakatus. To-day the Wakfftus play a match at Picton. Owing to tbo influenza epidemic the Wakatus wore unable to get a strong team away. The following are the handicaps for the fourtb round of the monthly medal matches to be played at the golf links to-morrow. A Division (13 holes) : Wood, Cock, and Foil, scr; Burnes, 2; Jackson and Rowley, 3; Coote 4. B Division (15 holes) : Broad and Price, scr. ; Cock, Sharp and Kingswell, 5; Mackintosh, 6; Hair, Squires and BiggWither, 7; De Tourettes and Dodson, 8; Pollock, Dalziel, Jackson, and Devenish, 12; Bunny, 14; Gully, A West Coast correspondent states : — Knight and party, proprietors of the Golden Arch claim at Boatmans. who have been engaged in development work lately, struck the main reef on Saturday, and gold shows freely in the stone. The Consolidated Company is now getting the machinery carted to the Blackwater inine. There are fifty-one fishing boats belonging to the Bay of Islands, which employ 164 men. According to an Auckland paper, close on 500 passengers have proceeded to the South Sea Islands so far this season. The memorial fund to commemorate the work of the Rev. R. Coffey, late vicar of St. Mark's, Wellington, closed at £450. Weasels are attacking young lambs in the Ellesmere district, and one farmer has lost several lambs in that way. An order has been filed by a Judge of Probate of Hennepin County, declaring Jos. Swick, a lar 6 e property owner, of Minneapolis, too old to marry, and, as a result, the- proposed marriage ceremony between that individual and his intended " fiancee, Mrs Fuller, of St. Paul, will have to be indefinitely postponed. The groom that was to have been is eighty-two years 0- asre.

Two Pennsylvanian lovers at points a mile apart, established communication by tapping on the railway lines with coupling; pins according to pre-arranged signals. Just then there had been several attempts to wreck passing trains. The detectives were on the alert, pounced on the young man and handcuffed him. A mile away they found the girl with her ear to the rail waiting for the message, and they avrested her" also. Then the niystery was explained. When speaking of Fashions and Materials for up-to-date Clothes, customers should call and see what we have to oifer. Wo follow fashions closely for ladies and gents. — Harford & Daly, Tra-falgar-street. A Nelsonian.— The following paragraph is taken froni a contemporary: — " A Universal Provider. — ' Lock's ' is a name to conjure with in the Nelson district, and the huge emporium in which his business is conducted is qaite one of the sights of the city visitors first make for. In this issue Mr Lock has an attractive advertisement wherein are epitomised several of the leading features of this extensive business. Mr Lock claims that he has one of the largest stocks of any | house in the colony, and for value he canj not possibly be surpassed. He furnishes ! everything to make the home happy and comf ortablej Among his numerous agencies is the Britannia Air Rifle, a wonderful English invention." We can only add that there is not the shadow of doubt that at Lock's you get the best choice, easiest terms, and entire satisfaction, and " Go to Lock's" is a household word. The Tempebatujie. — At| three o'clock this miming the thermometer outside this ofLe^. registered 45 degrees. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods Great Peppermint Cure, ls 6d and 2s 6d Messrs E. McPherson and Co^ Ltd., report having sold Mr Henry Parfceß' farm at 88 Valley, Wakefield, to Mr Wm, Biggs, of Stanley Brook; Messrs Bisley Bros, and 00. notify that on Friday, 30th, at Tadmor, under instructions from Mr E. Thomassen, who has sold his farm they wil sell the whole of his live and dead stock, household furniture and effects. To-morroWj at their atiotion rooms Hardy street, at 12 noon, Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. will sell on account of one acre of freehold land in Brook street, on behalf of Mt Geo. Bomfortb.