TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3559, 9 May 1901, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

Captain Edwin predicts moderate,westerly winds, glass rise, poor tides, and expects frost at night. . A carriage load of rabbits attracted much attention at the station last night when the express stopped. Mr P. B. t)ix, of Dix's Gaiety Company, and Mr Fred Duval, his general manager, passed through Timaru yesterday. The South Canterbury Hounds meet at the Washdyke at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow, the "sports meet." A special general meeting of the club will be .held on the 18th to revise the Hunt Club rules.

A shipment of honey recently made by a Poverty Bay settler realised £42 10s per ton in the London market. The settler in question has been obtaining an average yield o£ 901b of honey per hive during the season. Fully 400 tons of butter are at present stored in Wellington. Most of, it will probably be set apart for local consumptionL It is stated that about 15 tons of butter, the retail value of which is £I6BO, are consumed in Wellington every week.

A start has already been n ado to get Messrs Mill and Co.'s big grain shed ready for the reception ball. The plumbers are busy laying on the gas, and men are moving bales of wool and grain. To-day a start is to be made to get the floor in order.

The South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club have decided to start the sports this morning at 10 o'clock, in order to have them over in time to allow the reception of the troopers to be witnessed. There will be no interval for luncheon, and the events will be got off as quickly as possible, and certainly up to programme time. The 150 yards for schools will be run at 10.45, and the relay race at 12 o'clock. Mr Gordon Wood,.secretary to theSf nth Canterbury Jockey Club, has received telegrams from Mr Hobbs, owner of Benzoin, and Hewitt, the rider, stating that they have a lot more evidence, and intend to reopen the case affecting the horse nsmod. The president has convened a special meeting of the stewards for next Monday to consider the request. The sea yesterday undersecured the approach on one side of the Normanby railway bridge to such an extent as to render the main line dangerous to traffic, and in consequence the express going south was delayed for about an hour and a half till repairs were effected. The express bound north, instead of crossing at Studholme, came on to St. Andrews, and was delayed for about half an hour.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Timaru Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., was held in the lodge-room last evening. There was a good attendance of officers and members. Correspondence and the sick visitors' report were read and received. Six candidates were duly initiated into the order. After the usual business the lodge was opened for harmony, and. a very pleasant evening was spent playing cards. The results of the card matches were as follows :—- (Cribbage): Butchers 14, Oddfellows 13, 1.0. G.T. 11, Fire Brigade 10; (euchre): 1.0. G.T. 18, Fire Brigade 7. This brought . a very pleasant evening to a close. Mr A. Humphrey, the well known Seadown farmer, returned to Timaru yesterday after his trip to Scotland. He is looking j extremely well as a result of his trip, and said that he had enjoyed it very- much. We have not had an opportunity of more than a brief chat with him. It was 40 years since he left his native heath in Bannffshire, and on renewing his acquaintance with it, he naturally found that there had been a great many changes. He was at Home during harvest time, and of course the advent of the reaper and binder had made a great difference in the manner of working. He observed that farmers had not hit upon the obviously proper manner of using the reaper, as the practice was to go up and down one side of a field. Mr Humphrey thinks that the average stamp of cart horse at Home is not at all superior to our own, but found that really good horses fetch high prices. His brother farmers and friends generally in South Canterbury will find a chat with Mr Humphrey highly interesting. We have received from the publishers, Angus and Robertson, of Sydney, through Mr P. W. Hutton, a copy of No. 7 of their "Commonwealth" shilling series, A. W. Jose's "History of Australasia." It is a handy volume of about 250 pages, and it is a most desirable shillingswortli. It is one of the pleasantest brief histories we have ever met with. Mr Jose ha* traced the outlines of the history of Austral discovery, and of the salient points in the subsequent history of the Austral colonies (but chiefly the early and political history) lightly but clearly, and has compressed a large amount of information into a small space, but so skilfully that there is no sensa of insufficiency about It. The trials and difficulties of the earlier settlers and their Governors ars sympathetically told, and the story is as interesting as a piece of clever fiction. We should say that it would make an excellent classbook for Standard VII. as a history reader. It may be a little too difficult for Standard VI. New Zealand is allotted a very failshare of the book, and so far as we can ( judge, is also very fairly treated. At J Is in paper, or Is 6d in cloth covers, a J reliable and interesting history is within } the reach of everyone, and the edition de- \ serves a large sale. It takes something real good to catch on now, and a good thing doesn't struggle long for existence. It is just so with " A Colonial Welcome Waltz." The melody is rich and full with splendid bass solos which make it very effective, and now that the festive welcome to our returning troops, and the approaching visit of H.M.8., the Duke and Duchess of York, are the topic { of the hour, this particular waltz will fill I the bill exactly.—(Advt.) j

Mr T. Wells reports the sale of a 5roomed house, Victoria street, to Mr W. J. Cartwright at a satisfactory price.

At a meeting of the Geraldine Domain Board, the chairman mentioned that the sum of £4 had been collected on behalf of the Swimming Club. The caretaker s account of £5 was passed for payment. A carriage with six greyhounds and their owners went up by the vouth c.xjress Inst night to run at the Ashburton cou;fing meeting. Several other hounda went, r.c rth the previous night. Dr Julius, Bishop of Christchurch, will preach at Albury on Monday next at 7.30 p.m., and visit Fairlie the following day. His Lordship will hold a confirmation service at 3.30 p.m. and preach at evensong at 7.30 p.m. A social will be held in the Assembly Booms this evening in connection with the Juvenile Foresters. Mr A. Budd will do the catering, which will be done in his usual first-class style; and the music will be supplied by Mr A. Munro and others. Christchurch is spending £I2OO in decorating its streets on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. The decoration and festooning the streets has again been placed in the hands of the D.1.C., and will be on a much larger scale and more elaborate than on the Jubilee of Canterbury, and will be well worth seeing. One of the many attractions at the .Theatre Royal on Monday next is the toy comedian, a child of eight years of age, Master Claude Sullivan, a cousin to Sid Gregory, the great Australian cricketer. It speaks volumes for this lad when we state that he is in receipt of £5 5s per week salary. In addition to this the company bear all his travelling expenses and those of Mrs Sullivan, who always accompanies her child in his travels.

The Sailors' Rest Committee met on Tuesday evening, the chief business being to arrange for a concert to be held on June 4th. Mr Stead's report showed a busy month, 109 sailors having made 301 visits. Literature had been received from Mesdames Laing-Meason, Cameron, Ross, Guinness, Sterndale, Bruce, and Messrs Mayne and McCahon. A hearty vote of thanks was passe 1 to the Hon. Mr HallJones, Mr J. Mill, and the Farmers' Cooperative Society for donations received during the month. In response to the Australasian "Review of Reviews'" offer of a prize of £SO for a Federal flag, over 5000 designs have been sent in, from all parts of the world. The Federal Government having since offered £75 for the best design for a flag, the managing director of the "Review" has offered to make no adjudication, but to hand over the designs he has received to the Government, together with £75, to increase the prize to £l5O. No reply had been received to this offer when the last number of the "Review" was published, but Mr Fitchett had reason to believe that his offer would be accepted. The "Australasian Review of Reviews" for Apni is a most interesting number, made so chiefly by a collection of! replies to the editor's request, to all sorts of famous men, high in authority or occupying upper seats in the synagogues of learning, for "A Message of Goodwill! and Counsel" to Australia, and the replies are in a great many cases accompanied by excellent photo-prints. There is a character sketch of Queen Alexandra, by Mr Stead, and a suggestion from him for a Queen's memorial in London. An,.'article by the editor of the American "Review" discusses the latest form of Prohibition in Kansas—Mrs Nation's "Saloon-smashing" campaign. Kansas is a Prohibition State, but the law is not enforced. Mrs Nation started out with other) women to enforee it with an axe, holding that as the trade is illegal the liquor sellers have no legal remedy, and the Courts seem to uphold that view. The budget, of "messages," which express the highest goodwill, but are diffident of counsel, make the number especially worth getting and worth keeping.

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.—Special entries for Studholme sale to-morrow; Albury stock sale on Monday. Guinness and LeCren —Stock sale at Albury on Monday. Canterbury Fanners' Co-operative Association—Sale of horses and cattle at Albury on Monday. Farmers' Exchange Co.—Sell sails and cutlasses on Saturday.

S.C. Hunt Club—Special meeting on Saturday, the 18th. inst. Loyal Orange Lodges—Notice to brethren to attend reception to-day.

Pleasant Point—School annual entertainment on the 24th inst.

The Bishop of Christchurch—Will be at Albury on 13th, and Fairlie oni. 14th inst. J. S. Turnbull—Has roll top desk and new linoleum for sale.

Wai-iti School—Calls tenders for supply of coal. Timaru Traders' Association Are requested to close business! places at won today. Assembly Rooms Juvenile Fore iters' social, this evening. Timaru Lodge of Druids—Memtars .\- semble at 1.15 p.m. to-day. The Hawea—Leaves Auckland wWi sugar to-day. Davies and Murphy —? Prices for men's and boys' new clothing. Mackenzie County Council—Calls tenders for work in Burke's Pass Cemetery.

Theatre Royal—James C. Bain and company on Monday next. Pareora Schoolroom—Social to returning troopers on Tuesday next. Penrose's Drapery Establishments-Flags for procession to-day. Loyal Timaru Lodge—Members assemble at 1 p.m. to take part in procession to-day. The Volunteer Companies Parade at Drill Shed at 1.30 p.m. to-day. Reception of Returning Troops—lmportant amended orders. Wanteds—Six notices.