THE COLONIST. Published Every Mornings. Monday. March 29. 1909. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12500, 29 March 1909, Page 2

THE COLONIST. Published Every Mornings. Monday. March 29. 1909. NEWS OF THE DAY.

■'.' The gas supply early on Saturday morning was very inadequate, and it was with difficulty that sufficient power was obtained to print" off our issue -of "that morning. . We were unable to fet into communication with the City Ingineer to ascertain the cause of the deficiency, but we know that ours was riot an isolated case, nor has it been such on former occasions. Users of the town gas for motive power have suffered so much inconvenience, not to say loss, through irregularity in supr ply, that^he matter has become sonous, and the City Council should take it.into consideration, as no doubt representations will-4>e made tp that body by thosei affected*. The continuation of Mr Lock's description of his tour will appear tomorrow. " The following horses have arrived at ' Riohmond to take part in the Nelson Jockey Club's race meeting,- which commences next Thursday : — Lawn Rose, Curator, Glen Spring; Pharmaceutical, Glen, Gold Bird, Bridesmaid, King Try, Ora Pinsent, Golden Gate, . Maud, Allerton, King John, •Glen Tui. Lucretius, Bracken, Viircq, Balmy Breeze, Purukau, Gaelic, Glenidol, and. others. . . . -- At the Magistrate's Court on_Sat ? .urday morning, a young woman named Mabel Lee, the wite of a Chmamaii, who was arrested the previous day, was brought before Mr 'T. W-. Bradshaw, J.P., charged with receiving certain goods, knowing them: to have been stolen, and remanded until to-morrow. Mr A. T. Maginnity. appeared for accused. 'Bail was allowed, accused in £25, and one-surety of the same amount. ~ „ The final match for the - senior cricket championship .Was played. . at .Trafalgar Park on Saturday between the Kamura and- Brightwater teams, and resulted in a win for the latter. The full scores" will. -appear to-morrow. A f our-jroar-old son of Mr and Mrs Ernest. McGowan, of Wharereki, died some\yhat suddenly on Saturday last (states our Collingwood contemporary). " After inspection -of the body. '•Dr Fisher was able to giva a certificate that death resulted from-over-fathess, and no inquest was held. The child was abnormally fat, and had contracted some, infantile - ailment, which ended fatally 'in a.. very short time. ■■-.- '.■' ;.,. Waitapu presented a busy appearance last week (says tho "News", as in . addition te the; usual traders— the steamers Lady Barkly and Wai-roa-rth'e; s.s. Alexander has made three trips, for the purpose of taking sheep to the Nelson Freezing Works.;; She took 1000 away on Monday and the same number on Tuesday and Wednesday i About 600 of this : lot came from ColEug wood. Mr Williams, who . represents the Freezing-Com-pany,, says, that the lambs, etc., from Takaka compare, very favourably with those from other places. . A sensation was caused .at the Wai-tapu-wharf oil Monday evening on the arrival of the s.s. Wairoa from - Collingwood (says ;the "Argus"). A married lady resident of Takaka was waiting there for a passenger with a gooU." handy-sized .horsewhip, which she proceeded to use vigorously on the person of a gentleman well known- in both districts, who" had 'been on a can--vassing tour of the local districts, during the. preceding week or two.' There wore no- half measures about' the manner- in which the lady -set about the vindication of her reputation, and the proceedings provided a very lively interlude for a largo crowd of interested spectators. - I tried the hair idea on a noted (so. she r says) psvehometrist (says a writer in the "Kew'Zealand Times"); Carefully producing' it from an envelope, "Can you. tell me, madame," I faltered, "what is the matter_ with mj'[ friend. He is unable to move or speak." Madame, of course, placed, tho lock of my dear friend's hair on . her forehead, lay down on the couch.' drew a deep: breath, and went to. sleep. It couldn't have rested her much, because she rose again in about three minutes. During her sleep she started violently, as if in pain,, and twisted a bit, and groaned. She told: me that my friend was so old a man that she feared he would not recover. She had seen him, and found him to be a tall man. The internal tumour from which he suffered might perhaps be surgically treated, but she was sorry to believe that he would probably dieany way. While she was examining my poor frond's tumour, she had..alsotakon the opportunty to make a complete internal examination, and found that the livor was a good deal cbri--t L,ps:od, and that sensility had --de-'' 'ri-ccj iho usefulness of the heart. I d'opped a silent tear, paid five shil!.r.::, t'tanked madame. and departed. Ar.d the goatskin rug from which. I tcjok the lock of hair -will never know! ■At a recent sitting of. the. Magistrate's Court at Waikouaiti, . Mr T. Hutchison* S.M., made some scathing comments (states a contemporary) . on the facts disclosed in' an applica- 7 tiohfor a renewal of an- old age pension. It appeared that tho pensioner derived an income under his mother's" will of £120 a year, but for years it had been received by a firm of lawyers; who managed the estate for him and rendered ' an account to him three years ago, showing ho owed them £285. His statement was to the effect that in twelve years the solicitor had received £1400, and yet had brought him in debt. The 1 Magis-. trate criticised, the bill of costs filed, by the solicitors in a severe manner, but said that it "was no part of his functions to pronounce upon others : op to state his conclusions in the mati ter," but he observed "that it was a strange situation that 1 a man has ;tej come upon tho State for supportrjn his old ago while a firm of solicitors is battening upon the provision made for him for that purpose by his ■relatives." , ; - In the Thames district there is; at i present a revival of the agitation; against the dumping of battery tailings into 4he river. An average of 50,000 tens of tailings now find their way into the river every month,: Causing navigation to become increasingly 4 difficult, and floods to be more frequent: - There is/in many quarters a .-desire for legislation in faro.ur of the mining companies being compelled^to dump their tailings upon the flat lands instead of into the river. ;..