NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12749, 22 March 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., granted a prohibition order against a local resident for twelve months. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paparoa, which is to take the first shipment of apples from this district, has been detained at Waitara, and will not reach Nelson from Pieton until Thursday morning. An excursion will be made to Motueka next Saturday by the Nelson Provincial Scottish Society, the members of which will give a concert there in the evening. The JBrindisi mail despatched from Wellington on, the 11th. February arrived at London on the night of the 18th ins*. It is stated by the correspondent of the Auckland "Herald" that a party of prospectors have discovered gold near Manurewa, which is only fifteen miles from Auckland. It is understood that a private company has been formed to further exploit the find. The Anchor Company wish to draw attention to the alteration in the time-table of the s.s. Koi. The steamer leaves Motueka for Nelson on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in place of Thursday at 9 a.m. The alteration is necessary on account of the Koi being required to tow the s.s. Paparoa. A special advertisement regarding the Easter running of the s.s. Koi to and from Motueka appears in, another column. The supporters of Mr Piper ? who will be a candidate for re-election at the forthcoming Mayoral election, are invited to meet at the Co-operative rooms this evening. . - I* is notified by -the Nelson Hetailers' Association that premises will be closed from Thursday' night until Tuesday- morning for the Easter holidays. The offices of solicitors practising in Nelson will also be closed during the same period. Up to £61 per head was paid recently for draught horses in the Itiverina district of New South Wales. At the clearing sale at Young in the same State £32 was paid for a draught yearling colt and £41 for a two-year-old draught gelding. The tender of Mr R. W. Bond, of New Plymouth, for the erection of the Hawera winter show buildings, at £3530, has been accepted. i "I ain't got no money, your worship," exclaimed a Yarmouth hawker 1 who was fined ten shillings the other day for disorderly co"hduct, ''but if you'll take it out in shrimps things could be harranged as hamical as possible." The arrival in London of a cargo r of about 1000 carcases of pigs from ; Russia a short time ago (says the : "Live Stock Journal" of February • 4th) led to developments. Nearly i 200 of them were consigned to a cold ; storage -in Berniondsey, and there rejected. | The Stratford dairy factbrv will pay 1 out to milk suppliers this month £5943. This, is at the rate of an advance of lOd per lb on butter-fat, a rate rather lower than some factories are advancing. • A well-known Ngaire settler is given as the Stratford "Post's" authority for stating that a species of 1 black moth specially chooses ragwort : plants as a depository for its eggs, and that when the caterpillars em- ' erge therefrom they practically de- ■ stroy the plant upon which they feed. i I the Opotiki papers are making 1 warfare over llua, the Maori prophet. ■ One urges that he is being treated 1 with too much leniency, and the • other that too much notice is being 1 taken of him. The Hawke's Bay ■ Fruitgrowers' Company, Ltd., report that up to ■ February -28th, their output of truit ■ for this season totalled 47,000 cases. ; For the same period last year tne 1 output reached only 19,000. A party of 20' workers and sailors • went -out to the cemetery at Karon ! (Wellington) on Saturday to attend to : the graves of teamen lying far from : home. Some 30 graves were put in order, .and many plants, which had been kindly given, were planted. It is a far cry from Scutari to Hawera, but last week there met at Hawera a AVanganui man who was wounded in the Crimean war, and a woman o. 80 lessee of the railway refreshment rooms, who nursed him in the Scutari hospital. . . It may surprise many of our readers (says the "Wanganui Herald ) to know that no official records are kept of the vital statistics of the Maoris. Births, deaths, and "marriages continually occur, but the natives are under no obligation to record or report tbe same to either European or native authorities. The only time that any note is made of the Maori population is when the census is taken, qumquenially, and the estimates then made are far from reliable. A remarkable/ effect of a "Scotch mist" was related to a Chnstchurch journalist by Mr. A. Donald Paterson, who has jusfretumed from a visit to the Old Country. He waa attending an orchestral concert in one of the Glasgow theatres, when a fog descended on the, city. It penetrated the building, and its intensity increased until the performers on the stage were shut out' of sight of those' of the audience who were more than a few yards away. All that they could see was the dim radiance of. tha footlights, and the only indication of the presence of the orchestra was the music which came through the gloom. The performance decidedly gave one a weird sensation, and the circumstances under which it was given rather justifies the conclusion that a Glasgow mist is worse than a London fog. A visit to the showroom of Mrs Anstice's, where the complete^ showing of autumn and winter millinery is now displayed, will prove of absorbing interest to every lady who is interested in lovely new things. : Each one of these hats, from the simplest to the most dressy, is a study, in millinery art, for the new shapings and colour blendings are truly tasteful. You're invited to call in soon and see these becoming hats. You'll find the prices most moderate for such lovely millinery.* The Temperature.— At trree o'clock this morning the thermometer outside this office registeredi37 degrees] If you require the highest grade butter made on the latest and most approved principles, ask for "Yj°~ tory," which is sweet and palatab'd, and: take no other.* The Great Clearing Sale which is now in full swing at Lock's Furniture Emporium, is affording the best opportunity ever presented to the Nelson public of securing reliable, up-to-date furniture and furnishings. The whole of the enormous stock is marked in plain figures at very low prices (in many cases we are assured at less than cost price).- As happy homes can be completely furnished at such small cost at this great sale, the matrimonial question is bound to be influenced, and no doubt marriages will be on the increase as the result -of the bargains offered. The stock is one of the largest in the- Dominion, and comprises everything required to furnish the home^— including carpets, rugs, curtains, pianos, organs, sewing machines, linos., crockery,, ran- ; ges,' dining and drawing room as well as kitchen furniture, cix;. Don't fail to visit Lock's Emporium.* .