Tuapeka Times AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN." LAWRENCE SATURDAY, 29th JUNE, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4869, 29 June 1901, Page 2

Tuapeka Times AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN." LAWRENCE SATURDAY, 29th JUNE, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

There were eight patients—six male and two female—in the Tuapeka Hospital last evening. THE mioy friends of Mrs Peter Robertson will besortv to lew that her condition is oiusing her family some anxiety. The breech of a 12-pounder gun burst at artillery practice at Newport, England, killing tbe captain-gunner and wonnding six others. Mb Murbay ASTON, the well-known insurance agent, who unsuccessfully contested Dunedin City in 1896 on tbe Bible-reading in schools ticket, died on Monday from blood poisoning. " How we kept tbe Flag Flying," defence of Lady am 5 th, by Donald M'Donald, war correspondent, is given away with Book Gift Tea, The decomposing body of a Chinese vegetable hawker was found in th« bash at Wya-' long, N.S.W. Tbe bead was smashed, and other evidences point to a brutal murder having been committed. FhOM Thursday, 20th, to Friday, 28th inst., 1,122 excursion railway tickets were issued from Lawrence to Danedin. la addition to tbis there was BometbiDg like 140 volunteers cicried over tbe line from here. We woald direct the attention of . our farming readers to an alteration in tbe Dnx Plow. Messrs Herbert and Co., who have held this agency for some time, have relinquished it and it bas been taken up by. Mr S. P. Askio, of the Co-operative Stores. The Mad Mullah, after his defeat at Welahed, escaped with all bis property to Madug, which is within the Italian sphere of inflaence. The British foroe has encamped at Beratruble, and ia preparing to attack tbe Aligherie tribe, who are active supporters of tbe Mullab. The Rev. R. Wilson, of Roslyn, will conduct tbe morning service at the Bine Spur Wesleyan Church to-morrow and tbe evening tervioe at Lawrence. He will also pretoh at Evans -Flat in the afternoon. The ananal social in oonneotion with tbe Church anniversary will be held in the Town Hall next Wednesday evening and, judging by the number of tioketa already aold, the gathering will be very successful. The southerly buster at its height, With wind and rain and sleet, Is bound to give us evory night, Wet clothes and cold damp feet. Bad coughs and colds most then prevail, Well try to make them fewer, And take a dose of never failSome Woodi' Great Peppermint Core. ,

» The mounted polioe force doing duty in Danedin daring the Royal visit were in charge of Sergeant King, who, with Constable Taylor, returned to In wren oe list evening. A telegram was received from Donedin yesterday by Mr D. M'lntoih stating that hia wife bad died rather suddenly in Dunedin. No further particulars of the sad event are to band. Mr M'lntoyh left for Dauedin by the afternoon train. . ONE of the riding horses purchased in Auckland for the use of the Royal party and taken through all the cities visited by them rightdown to Danedin,was banded over to the Polioe Department there on the conclusion of the tour and is now in the possession of Sergeant King. Our Waitabuna correspondent, writing last evening, says : — Mr A. M. Barnetr, headmaster of the Waitahuna Golly School, has informed me that a child of bis about two years old, suffering from scarlatina, died this afternoon. Six more of his children are down with the same sickness. Last night's '• Star " says the Tuapeka Mounted R, flea deserve great oredit for the quick manner in which tfaey tracked upward* wJ 50 dorses— the time was about 13 »JnnU» — *t the Dunedin railway aUtion on their return home yesterday. The company, with their horses, arrived in Lawrence last even* ing. ' Ax the Queenslandera' annual dinner In London, Captain Gordon, replying to thetoast of the "Imperial Forces,' said that whevcredit was due to the colonials it wai amply given by Imperial officers.- The gneata included Lord Strathoona and the AgenU- . general. Sir H. Toier, of Queensland presided, and in the .course of • speech regretted that Queensland had sent an untried team to the Federal Parliament. ' ' -' A resident of Oimaru named P«tsr M'Oalluin.ißyearaof age, met with an^ accident while coming to Dunedin by train, on Thursday wbiob resulted in. his death, He left Oamaro about midnight,: and as the train neared Seaoliff he .ttm thrown' off the platform, where he wai standing, by a sud* den jolt. He fell on to the tails, and, as far as can be ascertained, the wheek of. the carriage passed over hit legs, injuring both very badly. He was brought onto Dunedin and taken to the Hospital about 6 o'olock in the- morning. It was found neceisary to amputate one of the iegs, so badly was it injured. M'Callum, who was in a weak state, did not. however, rally, but died at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. .A " CABEB from Thursday Island States tba« eight men, described as Arab* or Lascars, brought from Grenvftle, tell an extraordinary story. They, state. that they left an unnnmed port in a small schooner, and voyaged for three months without calling anywhere. The schooner foundered in a gale. The men swam together for eight days. eventually landing at Cape Grenville. The supposition is that they either jumped from a passing steamer, or are escapees from New Caledonia. But when before the Polioe Court the evidence disproved their story. A letter addressed to a prisoner in New Caledonia was found on one and a Noumea paper on another. Mr Withered, M.H.K., presiding it (be annual meeting of the Salvation Army, at Auckland on Tuesday, said that if they could get Mr Seddon to be their general in Now Zealand— (laughter)— -and to put bis energies into the social work of the Army, it would be more beneficial to the colony, and bring Mr Seddon more lasting happiness than all be had done for Imperial unity by sending troops to South Africa. The report on the social work of the Army showed that £'1445 had been spent on social homes in New Zealand during the year ended March 31; wbile over £400 had been spent io Auckland alone. Tbe total n am her of oases dealt with during the year was 755. In Wellington a Workmen's Hotel had been established, at which 916 beds and 1620 meals had been given. One of the most despicable and cruel thefts that have ever oome nnder our notice was perpetrated upon one of the veterans of tbe Imperial Army who was on a visit to Wellington from Taranaki last week (says the "Post.") Sergeant-major Daffin, tbe veteran in question, was in the midst of a crowd on one of tbe days when the royal visitor! were to pass through the streets, the medals on his breast showing that h6 had assisted in the building of the Empire in the Crimea and in India. Close to him stood a young man who entered in conversation with him, «nd who presently asked if he might for a moment transfer the veteran's medals to bU own breast- S'just to see how they looked." Pleased that his hard-earned trophies should have called forth admiration, the sergeantmajor, in all good faith and simplicity, ' handed them to the young man. The next instant the eye of the old soldier wai arrested by a passing incident, and in that instant tbe thief and the medals disappeared. The Wellington correspondent of tbe CbrUtohurch " Press "says:— There baa been some unpleasantness during tbe past few days between the Hon. tbe minister for Public Works, Mr Hall-Jones, and some of the oiher members of the Ministry. It appears that the Government were desirous of securing tbe whole of one wing of Setrlft't Hotel for cause members of the Royal anita that could not be accommodated at Government House. Mr Hall-Jones, however, together with his wife, occupied looms in tbe middle of tbe wing which it was understood had been taken for the suite, and it appears that be would not shift. All entreaties, even from Mr Seddon and Mr Ward were in vain. The consequence was that Sir John AndersoD, of the Colonial Offioe, had to be accommodated in another part of tbe building. Tbe contretemps is being very freely ' commented upon here. The far-reaching effect of section 3 of the Imprisonment for Debt Limitation Act, 1900, was illustrated in ibe Wellington Magia- ' trate's Court last week, when an order wai sought against an expressman for a judgment) of £3 6s, It was stated that since tbe date of tbe judgment defendant had given his wife a bili-of-sale over bis horses arid ex* ' presses, and he was now without property. * Mr Hasfclden, S.M., «aid that this was the ' first case he bad heard under the statute of 1900, and he could not see bis way to make aa order, though he would h&ve done so trader tbe old statute. Under Motion 3— exe«bt in cases of default in connection with penal- . ties, trust moneys, or moneys obtained by fraud — no order of committal to prison can > be made, except " where it is proved or by the debtor admitted that he has money of his own which he has refused to pay to the 5 judgment creditor." It seems that in the . absence of present possession of property, tbe debtor "escapes soot-free. Tbe Magis- * trate also stated that be did not see bis way to make an order without an alternative of imprisonment in default (suggested bj Mr Dunn), as such an order had no' further > effect than tbe judgment had, except that it i might be misleidtng. One effect of the Royal visit has been to ciase great activity in the egg market (sayi . the " Lyttelton Times "). It was announced from Auckland that when the Royal visitor* - were there, eggs were selling at 6s a dozen, i It was expected that tbe price would also rise in the various cities as the Royal party approached. Consequently for a time it wai only with the greatest difficulty that eggs I could be obtained in Christcburcb, those who . bad supplies boldiag back on the ohanoe of a rise to ao abnormal price. As the time for the visit to Cbristcburch 040)9, Q6MT, hoW* ever, came poortag in from all Quarters, It seemed to tbe dealers that every citizen who had a fowl-yard, md every far- , mer in tbe district, had been accumulating . eggs for weeks, and had saddenly sent them : in to the city. Oa the top of this, eggs oame from Wellington, and dozens of boxei were offered from Auckland. It is hardly necessary to state that under these oiroumstances tbe market is terribly glutted. - Instead of 6s a dozen being realised, storekeepers are refusing eggs at Is a dozen, and the price to the retailer was Is 6d a dozen.