NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13055, 15 March 1911, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A first-class mob of half-bred hoggets for Messrs Hugonin and Henderson, of the* TakaUa hills, passed through Motueka o.n Friday morning, says the "Star." The sheep, which were purchased from Messrs Redwood, Goulter and Richmond, of Marlborough, have been a fortnight on the road, and are in charge of Messrs W. Watson and C. Steivenson. Not a single sheep had been lost on the road. At the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., judgment for plaintiff was given in the following diebt cases:—W. G. Vining (Mr Milner) v. Rosella McLeod (Mr Gully), £10 15s and £1 10s 6d costs; Albert Karsten (Mr Newberry) v. E. J. Robb, £4 12s (5d and 10s costs. Tha Prime Minister's carriage plant was sold at auction in Wellington last week. The landau realised'2s guineas, a pair of Shetland ponies fetched 25 guineas, and a bay gelding £5. Two boys entered the Baptist Tabernacle, Gisborne, a few days ago, and thair search for money in the Sundayschool boxes proving unsuccessful, they turned their attention in other directions. The library was, broken into and the books and Sunday-school registers mixed up and strewn about the iioor. The boys then caught sight of tha communion wine and glasses, and they must have drunk over half a bottle of the wine-. Several of the glasses were broken. . The choir's , apartment was then visited, the music shoots and nearly every other movable thing being thrown ovor the floor. A 501b. bag of sugar and a. 51b. tin of tea wore scattered about the vestry. The organ also failed to escape attention. There are indications of tho keys having been covered with sugar and then a match applied, two of the keys being badly chaired. Hymn book and bibles were scattered about the platform. One of the boys decamped without taking Ins cap, and this fell into the hands of Detective Connelly. When taken round to the school it was claimed by a small boy. Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, was also visited the same afternoon, and the Sunday-school boxes relieved of their contents and damage done, including tho dislodgment of the cross from thct altar. A man is usually judged from the company he keeps, says a contemporary, and it seems that the same applies to butter. When in Vancouver recently, Mr Andrew Gray, of Wellington, saw Now Zealand butter from Cambridge, Waikato, selling at 40 cents (Is 8d) per lb. An inferior local butter was sailing at 45 cents per lb. Mr Gray found that there was a keen interest taken in New Zealand meat and butter by merchants in Vancouver and.other parts of British Columbia. He spent four months in the. United States and Western Canada. From Mr Middle-ton, a director of the Vancouver Cold Storage Company, he learned that New Zealand butter was confused in tho British Columbian mind with Australian. As a good deal of inferior Australian had found its way to Vancouver, it had prejudiced the -sale of the New Zealand article, the quality of which was unexceptionable. An empty motor-car hurled itself down Hope street on Wednesday morning, says the Dunedin "Star," took the mud off the wheals -of a tip-dray as it entered Princes street south, and charged headlong into the hoarding below Mr j. J. Marlow's premises, whore it stuck fast. Half a minute earlier it was resting quietly at the comer of Hope and Walker streets, outside the Caledonian Hotel, where its chauffeur liivos and was at the moment having breakfast. The brake was on hard, and some curious person must have released it, thus launching the ear towards Princess street. Had an electric car boen passing or any person crossing the street at the moment a serious smash must have occurred, for tho auto went through the hoarding as if it was paper. Curiously, the only damage it sustained wero broken mudguards and hood-stays. The Christchurch Socialists, not content with ignoring the municipal mandate to hold their meetings in Cathedral Square in the north-west corner thereof, on Sunday afternoon added insult to injury (says a- Christchurch exehanga). One speaker wanted to know why the Salvation Army should receive differential treatment from that meted out to other bodies. "Why should the Army be t)vx white-haired boy of the Council," he asked. "If the Council believed in the Salvation Army," he wont on, "why did not its members join the Army ? Thci Mayor would look well playing the big drum, whilst a councillor (whom he named) would be too funny for words banging his little tambourine. Then the testimonies of the lawj-ers and land agents would hot very interesting." He went on to allege that tho object of the bylaw was to prevent the Socialists, a.nd probably the prohibitionists, from holding meetings in the Square, and concluded by asserting that the Council would not be successful in suppressing the Socialists. A meeting of the committee of tho Nelson Trotting Club was held at Mercer's room yesterday afternoon, there being present Messrs E. E. Tr-a-sk ('chairman), R. Hunter, W. Coleman, C. J. Ruffell, J. E. Barham and J. Glen (secretary). Tho secretary presented a statement showing that tile annual race mooting had resulted in a profit of £29, and the annual balance sheet showed that the credit balance had been increased by about £30, the amount standing at £295 at the end of the financial year. Tho financial result was looked upon a,s very satisfactory in the circumstances and incidentally complimentary -references were made, to the manner in which Mr H. D, James had run tho totalisafor. A number of accounts were passed for payment, Mr. W. Colcman expressed gratification at tlie advance^ that trotting had made in the district and the good prospects for the sport. He favoured tho inclusion of a three miles e-vent on the programme, and spoke of the useful all round purposes a good trotting horse served. Tlic meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will hold stock sales as follows: — To-morrow, at Wakapuaka; Saturday next, at Murchison. Messrs Bis'ey Bros, and Co., announce tho following sales: Tb-day, stock sale at Richmond; to-morrow, stock sale at Thorpe; Thursday, Friday and Saturday next, sale of jewellery at their rooms; 23rd, 24th, and 25th, clearing sale of furniture etc., on account of Mr. A- Karsten.

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