LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4851, 27 April 1901, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Mb E. Evans, who recently disposed of , bis dispensing business in Ltwrenoe baa, w« i are informed, purchased an, old established dispensing business in Gore. At a sitting of the Polioe Court yesterday, a first offender was brought before his Worship the Mayor (Mr B. Winn) on a charge of drunkenness and oonvioted and discharged. The County Clerk notifies that the electoral rolls, and defaulters' lists, 1901-1902, for Tuapeka County will be open for inspection from 27th April to 15th May next at tho several places set out. Miss Cormack, who is at present teaching at the Tuspeka Flat school, has just received notice from the Southland Education Board of her appointment to the position of matron of the QueenStown school. Splendid tea at the price of ordinary, every day tea, and a library for nothing, by using only fragrant ••Bjok Gift "Tea. The attention of those interested is directed to a notice of application in another column to proclaim rivers and streams with all their tributaries and water-courses for the deposit of tailings. Included is the Tnapeka River with its tributaries, Weiherstone, Gabriel, and Munroe streams. The evangelistic meetings in the Presbyterian Church, Lawrence, conducted during tho week by the Rev. D. Borrie were brought to a close last evening. The earnestness on the part of the speaker in preaching the Gospel seemed to leave a deep impression on the congregation, and there is no doubt that these meetings will have a beneficial effect. . ,£?? GoVOTDIBe nt looal loan of £500,000 in £100 debentures; with a three years' currency »t 4 per cent, was over-subaeribed locally at Is above par. The Government undertakes to pay principal and interest in Greatßritain. Australia, or l»ew Zealand at the debenture holder s option. This saves the expenses of raising the loan in Great Britain, and speaks 7hl 1c1 c f «^ t^ colonT '?finanoilll? finanoilll P°»i«on. With the £500,000 recently paid off to the Govern* As showing the dimensions which the rabbit export industry has assumed in this colony, it mmc ont io evidence in m <n»O in fehaloe&l efttart last week tb.fc fcb c Q rm rf Tonkin and Co. alone have 150 men engaged in the business (not inoluding trappers, from 500 or 600 of whom they boy rabbits), con* sirierably over 100 horses and 60 carriages. Mr Tonkin says it is no unnsasl thing to pay £2000 a week for rabbits and in wages. Last rabbit season this firm paid ont no lew than £50,000 for this work.— 4 ' Mt. Benger Mail." Yon caa depend on ridding your children of Worms with Wade's Wobm Figs the wonderf ui worm worriers. Price, 1% I The census returns show that the popn. latlon ot Melbourne and suburbs is 493 956 being an increase of 3.060 since 1891 The census by thenatural increase is at the rate of 15£ per 1000, and Melbourne therefore shouta have shown an increase of 70,000 during the decade. Therefore, instead of an apparent increase, there has been a very Urea decrease. In 1891 there were about 5 000 more males than female^ while at the present tine there are over 7,009 more fema}cf than

The population of the Borough of Milton la 1241. being an increase of 102 since 1896. Andrew Caknegib has given £45.000 to endow free libraries at Vancouver, Ottawa, Winnipeg,_Windßor and Ontario. British capitalists are ■pending 10 million pounds to establish steel and iron works »t Saalb* Sainte Marie, in Canada. They will employ 10,000 handt. Cassbll'S Popular Educator Is now within the reach of all ; it is given away free with the.f ragrant " Book Gift " Tea. ' THERE were four patients (male) in 1 the Tnapeka Hospital last evening. Four patients were admitted into the institution daring the week and three discharged. The Turkish transport Arnslan was wrecked in the Red Sea. She bad 2500 troops and 100 pilgrims oboard. The oapUin and orew aeteed the boats snd deserted the ship. Two hundred soldiers were drowned. The rest were rescued after being in a penlou position for 48 hours. A SHOOJtING 'outrage occurred at Wanganui . on Wednesday evening. A woman named J Caroline Peters was brutally assaulted and : frightfully injured, especially about the head I and face. The woman was taken to the hoapltal. Her condition is so serious that her depositions were taken. A man named Shan'ahon has been arrested on suspioien. MB P. A. M'HXJQH, the member for North Leitriro, has been sentenced to sixth months imprisonment for a criminal libel published in his paper.the •' SHgo Champion," consisting of an »llag«tton of jnry-p»ckin« against the Grown Liw Officers. The offence of Mr M'Hugh was that of publishing the names o« the Protettemt jurymen who had served in aonneotion with the conviction of certain Land Leiguars on charges of conspiracy and lntimidatiop. For sprains, swellings and lameness there is nothing so good as Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Try I*. For sale by B. ». Poison, "chemist, Lawtenoe. Prices, Is 6d ; big size, 3s. THE monthly meeting of theAthenaram Committee was held on Thnnday night, the following' members being present :— Messrs J. H. Jackson (in the ohair), A. M. Eyes, A. W. Tyndall, W. Sinclair, J. Norrie, and Dr Newell. Owing to the absence of the President (Mr WakeEeld) and several members only routine business was done and the work of preparing a Home order for books was postponed till next meeting. Thb Premier (says the "New Zealand Times") tells a good story of his visit to Palmerston North on Wednesday. Before the 'speechifying commenced in connection wittt unfurling the flag at the school grounds a> four-year-old aon of a leading supporter climbed on his knee, and after be bad put the child down, Mrs Seddon asked the boy if he knew who was nursing him. The child looked up, m if surprised at such ignorance, and replied, " Of course, tbat was Dick." A SBRiOTJB fire occured in Duuedin shortly after* 9.30 on Wednesday night. The outbreak occurred in a building situated at the b«ck of the bank of New Zealand and the National Insurance Co., and occupied by Messrs Laidlaw and Gray as a warehouse, and Messrs J«s. Gardener and 00. as a stocking factory. The brigade succeeded in confining the fire to this building, but all the atook and machinery therein were destroyed. Messrs Ltidlaw and Gray's stock was valued at £6,000 and was insured for £2,000. The stook and maohinery in the stocking factory were valued at some £3,000, and were insured for £2,000. Sir Robert Stout, speaking at the farewell given to Mr John Boss, at Wellington, on Friday-afternoon, emphasized the supremacy of indnstrfftl pursuits above temporary military tmtbutats, and ot tecbuiQ&l and scientific training above the too literary system of instrnetion. He hoped that the people would be prepared to spend more money in the teaching of soienoe on proper lines, and that youths would find as much pleasure in the scientific training of the future as in the literature of the past; also, that they would look to industrial pursuits as the highest life. The penny dreadful, " Deadwood Diok," Perhaps may charm the vulgar mind. Though rather apt to turn one sick Whose taste is cultured and refined. Bat though the mind be high or low, The body must its ills endure ; The thing for coughs and colds we know. Is W. E. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. . Mr Cameron, Inspector of New Zealand produce in England, reports tbat the - prospects of New Zealand butter in Great Britain were never brighter. There is likely to be a great demand in many large provincial towns. There have been great improvements in thequality of the butter, and many of the largest - merchants are anxious to increase the quantities whioh they handle. Some of the principal firms in Leith are likely to import direct from this colony next season. Mr Cameron recommends producers of cheese to accept < 4Jd per 1b in the colony in preference to consigning to London on their own account. MRS YATBS has been on the warpath at Auckland again. At a meeting called to consider the nomination of candidates for the forthcoming municipal elections, and whioh ahe described as not legally constituted, the following dialogue took place :— Mrs Yates aiked " why was she not allowed to attend the meeting?" A Councillor : "Yon speak the truth, and yon will be listened to." Mrs Yates : •' You keep your month abut, and then people won't know bow ignorant you are." (Roars of laughter.) A Councillor : •• If yon bad been at tbe meeting you could not have understood it." Mrs Yates : " I •m better qualified, both by education and business ability, to represent the ratepayers than yon are."— (Laughter.) THE question of the crates to be used for packing frozen rabbits for export has lately been nnder discussion, says the "Austral* asian," and, as tbe result of experiments, it has been decided to use the New Zealand crate in future while the weather is favorable, and while spaoe will permit. The New Zealand orate baa the advantage of being of simpler construction than tbat now in nse in Melbourne, and the rabbits being packed so that the bellies are placed together and completely covered, there is not the risk of perishing in a prolonged storage, the rabbits also keeping a better shape. On the other hand, as the freezing has to be done through the fur, the process is slower, and it is necessary to use more space in the refrigerating chambers for a given quantity of rabbits. Why cook badly ! You can obtain a splen* did large edition of Mrs JBeeton'a Book on Cookery free by using the famous "Book Gift "Tea. THOSe who have occasion to advertise for boys, "apply in own handwriting," are aware in bow many oases the caligraphy is so poor as to be unfit for tbe pages of a rough counterbook, let alone a journal or ledger. Commenting on this, the Inspectors of North Canterbury, in their annual report, say thit Sixth Standard stage, with boys of thirteen or fourteen years of age, much JndTe than a crude schoolboy hand, falling far short of a passable oommeroial standard can scarcely be expeoted from the average itapil when the time available for special ?praotioe amid the claims of a variety of subjects is considered. "We often have reason to { direct tbe teachers' attention to the necessity of enforcing muoh more strictly the well understood roles of posture and finger-position." 1 ■ Statistics compiled by the Secretary of the Wellington Law Society show that at ithKend of 1900 there were 603 solicitors practising in the oolony, one to every 1344: of the 'estimated population, or one to every 336 .male adults. In 1889 the . proportion was to every 1334 of the population, or every 333 male adults. There were besides many persons, probably more than 200, qualified to practise on payment of fees. Nevertheless, students are not deterred from following this overstocked profession. Last year 'there was a distinct falling off in the number of applications for admission as barristers, only 13 being received as against 23 for the previous year and 23 for the. year before. These numbers do not include solicitors already on tbe roll, who apply for admission as hamsters. There are now seven more solicitors in praotioe than in 1899-1900, while the .population has increased by 14,177. The. proportion of solicitors to population is greatest in Auckland and lowest in Dunedin. * It Happened tn a Drug Store. ♦One day hat winter a lady came to my drag store and asked for a brand of cough medicine that I did not have in Btook,' says Mr O. R. Grandin, the popular druggist of Ontario, N.Y. ' She was disappointed and wanted to know what congh preparation I could recommend. I said to her that I could freely Teoommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and that she could take a bottle of the -remedy and after giving it a fair trial if she did not find it worth the money to 'bring back the bottle and I would refund the price paid. In tbe course of a day or t|ro the lady came back in company with » friend in need of a pough medicine and Advised her to buy a bottle of Chamber? lain's Cough Remedy. I consider that a /very good recommendation for the re- "• medy.' The remedy owes its great popularity extensive aale in.a large mea- ' aare to the personal recommendations of people who have been cured by its use. ' It la for aale by R. S. Poison, chemist, Prices, li 6d ; big ilze, 3i,

The Dunedin •• Star " aaya :— Prom a source which we have always regarded as thoroughly trustworthy, we have this piece of startling information :— A rumor hat reached me (and I Rive it for what it ia worth) to the effect that the ensuing Parliament will be the last whioh Mr Seddou will meet as Premier, it' being understood that the Imperial Government will reward the right hon. gentleman's] splendid aervioei to Imperialism by offering him the Governorship of a constitutionally-governed oolony. If the offer is made and accepted, there mnst necessarily be a reconstruction of the Cabinet, in whioh case Mr Ward will in all probability be called on by the Liberal party to direct their future destinies. The Cbristoburoh Typographical Union is proceeding in the Arbitration Court against country newspaper proprietors in respect to wages, boars, and proportion of apprentices taken. The Hon. J. M. Twomey, proprietor of tbe lf Temnka Leader," was severely reprimanded by Mr Justice Cooper for an alleged attempt to prevent the attendance of one Boulter, employed by him. Mr Twomey said that he bad never asked the man not to attend., It was his foreman wbo had spoken to the man. He only desired to present his humblest apology, and to say that he would never do it again. Hit Honor said Mr Twomey's apology would be accepted, but he would like to say that the Court did nob care • whether alnan was an employer or a worker, | whether he was in a high position or a low ! one, the Court would deal to the fullest extent in its power with him if he attempted to intimidate a witneai. A. JttOST enjoyable dance, given by % number of young ladies of Lawrenoe, took place in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The invitations were freely responded to and the result was a very large gathering of ladies and gentlemen, inoluding several visitors from other districts. The hall was beautifully deoorated with flags and evergreens which, added to tbe handsome costumes worn by the ladies, oreated a very pleasing, scene. All tbe arrangements were of an elaborate description and were carried out with the most perfect harmony. The stage was furnished after the manner of a drawing room where those who did nob care to take part in the danoing had an opportunity of enjoying themselves in various other social ways. Tbe refreshments, whioh were available throughout the whole of the evening, were provided by the ladies themselves and were of a most varied and tempting character. Excellent music was supplied by Mr and Mrs F. A. Miller (violin and piano), while several of the ladies also assisted. Mr Justice Wimjams gave judgment for plaintiff, at Dunedin Supreme Court, 00 Tuesday when John N*sb, Temuk* (late of Lawrence), claimed £1418 19s 9d from Michael Kett (formerly of Mataura and Milton), being purchase money of an hotel at Mataura, and half costs of an action consequent upon the owner of the botel, one Hugh Cameron, successfully claiming possession. The point at issue was whether an agreement — whioh plaintiff alleged was signed by the defendant to the effect that if tbe plaintiff's claim to tbe hotel was not sustained then he was to reoeive back the purchase money and half legal ooits— was ever in existence or not. It was alleged that the «3oetimenfw»a bnrneel in tbe fire mfc Gore by whioh the, offioe of Mr W. F. InSer, solicitor, were destroyed. The defence denied tbat such a document ever existed. The judgment carried costs, and stay of execution was granted for a fortnight. Oub Wetheratones correspondent writes :—: — At the meeting of householders on Monday evening for the election of a School Committee, a ballot was taken, with the result that there was a tie between two of the candidates. The chairman was asked to give his easfclng-vafce hat was nab willing, and than I fche fan commenced. A Rip Van Winkle, who thinks the Education Act la tbe same as it was in his younger day*, objeoted and said the ohairman could not give his casting-vote, and there was really no chairman. He thought tbat after the report and balancei sheet were dealt with tbe ohairman ought to vacate the chair and be elected afresh. Some of those present tried to convince the objt ctor, but be wonld not be convinced. Two other ballots were taken, both also resulting in a tie. Some of those present wanted to put , tbe two names in a hat and draw one, or else toss up, but he still objeoted. The chairman then decided to use bis casting-vote and did so. The objector then foolishly threatened to upset tbe election. He also intimated that he bad done more for tbe Wetherstones school than anyone in the place. Tbe inhabitants are still wondering and asking . what he has done for the school, for they never knew him to even act on tbe commit- ; tee. Sandeb and Sons' Eucalypti Extract.— Under the distinguished patronage of bis Majesty the King of Italy, awarded diploma at the International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Acknowledged by Medical Clinics and Universities all over the globe. That tbe crude, resinous oils, whioh are now foisted upon the publio under the name of Eucalypti Extracts, ■ may not be mistaken for our Fure*Volatile Eucalypti Extract, we state : — It is proved by tests made by tbe Medical Clinics of the Universities at Bonn and Greifawald (Prusaia), 'that only products that are saturated with oxygen and freed of acids, resinous and other substances adherent to primary distillation, will develop the curative properties possessed by tbe plant. 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