NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12463, 12 February 1909, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

-•■•. . ♦ ■ — Tenders are invited for supplies for the Nelson Mental Hospital. Messrs -Levien and Rollet advertise their usual weekly sale, to be held at their rooms at 2.30 to-day, instead of Saturday. Particulars are also advertised of the household furniture and effects of Dr. Duff, who is leaving Nelson, and of a sale of property at Wakefield. a The caterpillar has madeits appearance in crops growing in a restricted area in the Oamaru district. Fortunately the crops are ready for cutting and the visitation is not expected to have a direful effect. The following will represent the Defence Rifle Club in a match against the Stoke Rifles.* at' Richmond on Saturday next :— Catley, Holland, Milroy, Milner, Sherwood, Gledhill, W. Kenning, and Burch. A practice will also be held on the Club's range; The: following' will represent, theKamura- Club in tho senior championship cricket match against Brightwater at the Park to-morrow, play to start at ten o'clock- . sharp : — Fairey, Johnston, Kinzett, Mead, Page, -Pike, Robson. Smith, Coleman, Treweek, and Bensemann; emergencies, Watney and Battersby. . The cottage hospital opened at Kaitangata by Mr J. H. Walker, Chairman of the Dunedin Hospital Board, contains six beds, and.is designed to meet cases of. accident. The local Borough Council gave the site, and local subscriptions by the Hospital Board completed and furnished the building, which was opened free of debt. The residents also guaranteed £10Q for the first: year, and £50 for five subsequent years, towards the maintenance of a competent nurse. At the Dunedin Police Court Alexander Stewart McKenzie, alias Forbes Wight, alias Alfred Bradley, alias Burgess, pleaded guilty to charges of liaving, at Auckland,, in January 1908, . obtained £3 from Mr Dacre by means of false pretences, and from Mr Perkins one perambulator valued at £I. - lhe ..accused, who is now serving a sentence of six months for forgeries and theft, - was sentenced to three months on the first, charge, and one month on the second, to be con- ' current with the sentence now being served. The monthly selection of new books for the Library has been received, and arc ready for circulation. They comprise the following : — "Sister Anno," Marie Albanesi; "Love's Magic," Mrs Baillie "Reynolds; "Patricia Baring," Winifred James; "In Wolfe's Clothing," Charles Garvice; "The Other Sara " Curtis Yorke; "The Waters of Jordan," Horace A. Vachell; "The Stormy Petrel," L. T Meade; "Gay Lawless," Helen •'. Mathers ; "The Hermit and the Wild Woman." Edith Wharton; "From Pekin to Mandalay," R. F: Johnston ; "Queen Victoria's Letters, Vol. 2," "Lord Kolvjn," Andrew Gray; "The-Physi-cal Phenomena of Spiritualism," Hereward Carrington. "The Dominion," "Aucklaud Herald," and "Otago Daily Times" have been added to the newspaper room. The next meeting of the Land Board will'be held at Westport on March 16th,- and continued at Reefton on March 22nd. Four rinks of the Nelson Bowling Club will leave for Blenheim by the Penguin this morning. A match will be played with Blenheim to-morrow afternoon, and with Picton on Monday afternoon, the bowlers returning that evening -.to Nelson. The players met last evening, : and rinks were picked as follows, to play Blenheim: Swiney (s) , Rutherford, . Jacka, Senn ; ' E. Trask (s), Dickson,' Harkness, de Castro ; Mansford (s), Hourisell, Heyward, Philligs; Littleiohn (s), Baigent, Levien, Crawford. In playing PictonyNos. 3 and the skips, as above placed, will change places. Mr Baigent was elected captain and Mr Littlejohn manager of the party. Mr William Coleman returns thanks for his election for the third time as a member of the Harbour Board. Mr W. N. Franklyn also returns thanks to the electors "who recorded their votes in his favour. , - Engagement Rings, made from New Zealand gold in our own workrooms (if wished,' to your own design).— Brown and Kerr. Manufacturing Jewellers.* The , Tempeyature.— At three o'clock fhis morning the thermometer outside this office registerej 52 degrees, a .Best Summer Drinks :~Kops English Ale and Stout, non alcc-holic, nnd- Kpp's Concentrated Ginger Beer." All Storekeepers.* . FOR APPLES AND PEARS,— The ravages of Codlin Moth can be avoided by the cheap and simple process of spraying thoroughly with Swift's Arsenate of Lead. See that you .obtain "Swift's." , Ladies I Why pay a price for a slop costume when you can get a first-class cut costume and materials for a little more, at Harford and Daly's, Trafalgar Street. The Victory _ Cutter is made from whole milk cream, the cream being reduced in temperature by the latest _and most up-to-date scientific appliances. The public are-guar-anteed that this butter is free from . all germs, is sweet and wholesome and can be -had at the' same price as other brands'.* . ..■''.. The Harbour Board . elections were exceedingly tame. Some, think the works are a big success, and only require the " finishing touches," whilst others think the tioard has made a poor show for their five years'; dredging and ; expendituie o ( .£70,000. . Not. being engineers, /we do lot wish to express an opinion on.the' matter. _But we aro pleased to be able to give an unqualified opinion regarding Lock's: great Furnishing Emporjum, that it is at all timed the cheapest and best place to furnish' at. .Lock's value is un- : snrpassedi'. his stouk -is .the -largest and • most up-to-date, and, by purchasing at Lock's Emporium you ' can be'M.inred: of getting satisfaction.' These" are the reasons why Lcok - does the bulk, 'Of the. farniture trade.* a : y