Tuapeka Times AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. " MEASURES NOT MEN." LAWRENCE : WEDNESDAY, 3rd JULY, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4870, 3 July 1901, Page 2

Tuapeka Times AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. " MEASURES NOT MEN." LAWRENCE : WEDNESDAY, 3rd JULY, 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The price of the 4lb loaf was raised by the Ltwrenoe bakers on Monday from 5d to 6d, and the price of ooal has been raised locally by 6d per ton. Tbbeible heat ia being experienced in New York. Seventeen deaths are reported from sunstroke, with six saioides and numerous cases of insanity. It is probable that the contest for Fntea seat will be between Mr John Hislop (Go* vernment) aad Mr Haselden (Gouservalive), and will take place on Wednesday, 24th inst. Two safes in the stores of Mr J. MacGibbon at East Gore were dynamited on Saturday night, and £66 in notes stoleo. The dynamitards left a set of burglars' tools behind them. xhb Loveii-. Fiat coil Company annoanat in oar advertising oolamnn tbat they are in a position to supply coal on trnek at LovelU Fiat siding: for 10a per ton, and are also prepared to give special quotations for large quantities. The vital statistics in the Gabriels district for the month of Jane are as follows :— Marriages, 1; births, 11; deaths, 1. The following are the statistics in the district for the quarter ending 30th Jane: —Marriages, 6; births, 17 ; deaths, 8. Stewart M'Lean, as he now calls himself, the self-confessed murderer, is abonb 23 years of age, and ia a native of Australia, having been born at Eaglehawk, Bendigo, where bis grandmother and several relations live. His father and mother are both dead. It is a coincidence tbat a little over 13 months ago lie was arrested not many miles from Tinwald on a charge of housebreaking. The Taieri Poultry Society's Show was held at Mosgiel on Friday and Saturday, when the Lawrence fanciers were represented 1 by Messrs Hart, Bloy, and Eyes, and they ! were very successful. Mr Hart obtained first and second prizes for black-red game cock, first in black-red hen, cockerel* pullet, pile cock, ben, cockerel, pullet, and game bantam cook and hen. Mr Bloy gained first prizes in silver dorking cock, hen, cockerel, and pullet, and second for hen and pullet. Mr Eyes obtained first prizes for andalusian cock, cockerel, and pallet, second for Indian game oookerel, and a special prize of balf-a-ton of coal for the best andalusian in the show. Measra Hart and Bloy also obtained special prizes. The annnal social in connection with the Lawrence Wesleyan Church takes place in the Town Hall this evening. This reunion of members and their friends is always . popular, and the gathering which takes place this evening should prove even more attractive and enjoyable than any that has pre- < eeeded It. The musical part of the programme has, we understand, been specially well provided for, the very best local talent (including several who have not previously appeared before a Lawrence audience) having consented to give their assistance and, hi addition to this, Miss M. Williams, of Dunedin, who has the reputation of being an accomplished singer, will also give her assistance. There will be too, of course, the usual addresses incidental to such a gathering. The members of the Taapeka Mounted R flea while in JDanedin were put up at the Crown, Australasian, and Globe Hotels, and they speak enthusiastically of the treatment they received at the bands of their respective hos's, which added considerably to the enjoyment of the trip. The horses were stabled at Wright, Stephenson's yards, and Bacon's and M'Kewen's stables. When leaving Dunedin on Friday morning, the Company established m record that will take o lot of beating • by Other Corps. They (racked 54 borses in 13min (official time), and even then tbey lost fully a minute by shifting a horse out of a truck and re-trucking it, to' ensure its safety. R.S.M. Cardale (Government mounted inafructor) arrived in Ltwrence yes'erday afternoon and will remain till Thursday morn* ing. Last evening he gave instruction in dismounted drill and to-night he will condnot •n examination of the non-coms. THE monthly meeting of the Waitabnna School Committee was held on Monday evening last and attended by Messrs Cowen (chairman), Ellis, Thomson and M'Ara. A ciroular was received from the Education Board informing the Committee tbat Mossr* Harraway, Kyle and Sim were the three retiring members of the Board and inviting Dominations np till Monday, Br.h July, of three eligible pereons to fill tbe vaoancies. The head teacher (Mr Patrick) reported tbe attendance for the month of Jane as follows:—Boys, 34*2; girls, 325; total, 66 7. The number, on the roll is: Boys, 36; girls, 37; total, 73. The highest attendance on any half day daring the month was 72. Tbe secretary reported tbat a new fbg-pole had been procured and could be erected when the Committee deemed it necessary. Small accounts amounting to £15s 'Si were presented and passed for payment. This was all the business. MR J. O. AfiBOOKLB will be » candidate for one of the vacant seats on the Education Board and should obtain from the school committees a sufficiently large measure of support to place him high up on the list among the three successful candidates. Mr Arbuckle is an enthusiastio educationist, a man of sound judgment and large experience in tbe administration of public tif tin, espeoi* in educational matters, baying been an active j member of tbe Dietrict High School Com- j mittee for many years, as well »s chairman of that body, and country committees especially, if tbey are true to tbeir own interests, will give him their support. The administration of the affairs of tbe Otago , Education Board daring tbe last year or two has been anything bat creditable to lbs members of that body. From an administrative point of view they have brought themselves into ntter disrepute, and the majority of them have time and again shown themselves to be utterly no fit for the position and inoapable of discharging in a competenb or capable-manner tbe duties they undertook. In fact, they reduced the business of,tbe Board to a travesty and covered themselves with ridicnle. It ia to be hoped that on this occasion sohool committees will disorimate a little and place men'oo the Board of whose oapaoity tbey ate assured. Daring the last few years it has been an asylum for incapables and medioori.es, who should be weeded out and sent about tbeir business as opportunity offers, The best medicine known is SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful tff ots in Coughs, Col is, loflueczi, etc., tbe relief is instantaneous. Thousands give tbe most gratifying testimony. HisMjesty the King, of Italy and Medical Syndicates all over the Globe are its patrons. We have no occasion to cffer re* wards in proof of tbe genuineness of oar re* fercoces, Tbe official reports of Medical Clinics and Universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Ijfcaly at Melbourne, the Diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam, are authentic documents, and, as sacb, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the 1 oases treated at the Oiino of Schultz, M.D., Professor, etc.—" Absaea of the thigh. In cislons made in two placet. Although Lister's dressing was applied the secretion became, two days later, very oopioas and assumed a a foetid, decomposed character. Temperature rose enormansly. The dressing was removed and daily irrigations with SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT were made. Tbe offensive odoor disappeared, tbe fever abated within a few days, and the patient recovered in a few weeks. We must not lose sight of the fact that the latter treatment saveri tbe patient's life."—Take care to get SANDER & SONS'—the only genaiop Eucalypti Extract —or else you will be supplied with worthless oils, 1

Messrs Todd Bbos. & Co. will hold an important sale of hones at Roxburgh oik Saturday. Hoppnkb's portrait of Lady Louisa Man* ners was sold at auction in London for the sum o£ H,OOO gQineM, AT tbe aaleyards, L«wr«ace, to-morrow, Mr John Thompson will offer, oa accoant of Mr C. Nieper, a number of first-class yoang and staunch draught mares and geld!ngr t also harness and covers. Mb Nelson Robinson has given 462,000 dollars to Harvard University, and Mr Fred r rick Yanderbiltand eight other million* aires 710,000 dollars to Yale University. We would remind oar readers of the visit of the Ada Delroy Company to Lawrenoe on Saturday evening next. This company has been appearing in Dunedin for some weeks past, and is highly spoken off by the City Press. The Otago A. and P. Winter Show olosed on Saturday night after a most successful five days' ran. The door receipts were £790, as against £632 last year. Counting members, exhibitors, &0,, about 20,000 persons visitea the show. - Forty Aastrians leave Auckland by the Mararoa en route to New Caledonia, ander an engagement made through the Austrian Consul. The men will be pat to road work. More leave shortly. Over 600 have left this year. When the Royal party were on the plat* foam in front of the railway station atOamarn durine tbeir visit, tbe Premier beokoDOd. to an officer close at baud and asked if tt» people of tbe place were sickly or In Ul« he-ili h. He was assured tbat they were all right in respect to tbeir health. The Premier then asked : " Why don't they cheer?" Ax midnight on Saturday an attempt at burglary took place at the New Zealand Shipping Company's office at Lyttelton. A man named Johason Baker, who. entered by breaking a window in the basement, was : caaght inside the building by Constables ; Moore and Connell, who heard the noise in breaking the window. Roblf Latigajt wu ssntenoed at Cols*, berg to 15 years' imprisonment for having joined the Boers, and having participated in tbe fight at Damplaats. Adrian Duplessis was sentenced to five yean' imprisonment. The Boer prisoners have been removed from Green Point camp. Most of them will be i aent to the refugee oamps. The London •• Time's" Shanghai oorrespondent states that Manchorian refugee* 1 who have arrived at Chefoo report tbat the Shinking district is in a state of insurreotion. The rebels are pillaging the country. All the , villages near Mukden have been burnt, and hundreds of the inhabitants killed. The Russian forces in the provinoe are inadoto oope with the rebels. I A ybby painful accident happened to Mr Morrison, engineer on the Central SU-otrie dredge, Uromwell, OO ISSt. TfOllf doing some engineering work a pieoo of steel flew into his eye, and on going to Dr M'Koight tbe latter foand it necessary to ' place bis patient ander chloroform and ex* tract the eye altogether. This was done, and Mr Morrison is now progressing favor* ably. The House of Lords' Seleok Committee ap- ; pointed to consider the wording of the Coronation Oath have famished a report suggest* > ing a modification of the terms employed in the O.th as it is at present. It recommends , that the King merely express disbelief ia the 1 doctrine of Transabstantiation ; also that tbe • invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary 1 and the sacrifice of the Mass, as practised by ) the Cburoh of Rome, are contrary to the Pro* . test ant religion. ) A terrible gale is raging along the N',w South Wales coast, and several coasting steamers have been driven ashore and 1 wrecked. The tag Protector ospsised' at , Ballina and drowned her crew (five married I men) and a passenger. Tbe steamsr Manly. I with 30 passeegers, left Manly for Sydney on b Monday night. She broke down at the beade , and drifted to ber destination, where her a passengers were taken off at 3 a.m. next day. 1 The wildest sea ever known in Sydney Har1 bor is now running. ' In the " Gazette " of February 7 there appeared a return showing the estimated yield ' of wheat, oats, and barley for the colony. ? Tbe actual yields are now to hand, and are somewhat heavier than was anticipated. The ] estimated yield of wheat was 27 bushels per 1 acre, the aotual yield was 31*61 bosbels. Oats were estimated at 34 bushels, the aotnal yield was 42 45 bushels. Barley was aatimated at ? 30 basbels, the actual yield was 33*33 bushels. There was an apparent surplus of wheat on " hand on February 28 of 3,260,659 bushels. ;. A CURIOUS incident occurred daring the •• march of the Maori contingent to Rotorna. c At a spot 18 miles this side of Rotorna one of • the trooper's horses suddenly dropped down, g apparently dying. After a short delay, the >- troop proceeded 00 its journey, the riderlnsa 1 trooper starting for Rotoraa on foot, whioh 0 place was reached about 1 a.m. next morning* s When the bugle soanded in the morning to 1 feed horses, the trooper was greatly surprised c to find bis horse among the number, having i- apparently recovered and followed the troop to camp, a distance of 18 miles. d A« showing the oaro exercised by the Home c authorities over tbe movements of their Royal i Highnesses the Duke and Duohess of Corn* t wall and York, Mr F. H. Barns, in common c with other agents for Lloyds, received in* [> strnotions to immediately cable tbe arrival i of the Royal yacht Opbir at its various s ports of cair. Both Captain Clark, the i- Harbormaster at Lyttelton, and Mr Mason, - tbe officer in charge of the Telegraph DeI partment at Cbristobarob, giYO OTflrj M* a oiotance to Mr Barns, to enable Dim to dt§» t patch bis cable within a few seconds of the 1 Opbir's arrival and departure from Lyttel- . ton. It would be interesting to know what • time elapsed between the despatch of these - oables and their receipt by the King, We are in receipt of a fasoinating book enI titled " Character, and how to read it." This t volume is published by The Bile Bean Mann* factoring Co., and it is absolutely .the best 1 literary production yet issued by that' Firm. - The many ways of reading eharaoter are de* 1 scribed in a concise, yet comprehensive form, I and it cannot fail to prove interesting, and 1 instructive reading. From a typographical 1 point of view, it is exceedingly satisfactory, i- the blocks are well cat, and special mention { most be made of tbe picture on the back of f the book. 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A London cable states:— (The Antwerp wool sales are closed. Prices remained an* changed. Half tbe quantity catalogued were sold. Three hundred and twenty-five bale* of Australian were offered, and thirty*fonr sold. There was fair competition in rabbit skins. ■ Common advanced t. halfpenny to • penny. Wheat •— Oargeaa we Lake mold •• 28s 6d. Oross-rifed wethers, maiden ewes, Canterbury, 4£d * Dunedin and Southland, 3g 1 ; North Island, 3 l-16d. Lamb t Prim* Canterbury, 5 7-16 d ; fair average (inolud* ing Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury, 5 5-16 d. New Zealand beef, 1801 b to 2201 b, fair average quality ; ox fores, 2Jd ; 01 hinds, 3fd ; River Plate cross-brea or merino wethers, heavy and light, 2|d.

The automobile raoe from Paris to Berlin, started on Thursday and finished on Satnr* day, was won by M. Foamier, who arrived half>an*hoor ahead of M. Oirardot, and with* in iwo hoars later 15 more motorists arrived. All these motors were driven by benzine. The winner occasionally travelled 75 miles an hoar, and averaged 46 miles. When ha ar« rived crowds boarded the oar, kissing Four* nier, and hanging wreaths round his neck. He was then oarried.shoulder*high in a chair in tbe midst of a huge crowd. Most of the hotels flew the tri-color. Numerous accidents occurred on tbe road, and the Premier of France (M. Waldeck-Ronssean) notifies that there will be no more road races, and henceforth the limit of speed will be 20 miles.

Mb A. Palatchib, of Lanrenoe, had a narrow esoape-from a serious accident on Saturday night. He was returning from Dunedin by the evening train, and, with a number of others, was standing on one of tbe carriage platforms. On coming round a sharp curve at Johnston tbe train gave a lurob, causing tbose on the platform to roll suddenly agaiost Mr Palatohie, and he was bumped off the train. He had both hands ia his pockets at the time, and thus could not save himself. The accident was reported on arrival at Waitabuna, and a searpfr party on a trolly went baok to pick him up, bat no sign of the raits*

in? man was to be found. After Banting fQ the vicinity for some timo tbey returned to Waitabnna, there to find that Mr Palatofaie had incidentally called in to report himself alive, and then continued his journey on foot to Liwrence, where be arrived at an early hour on Sunday morning, little the worse (or his mi-adventure. The British Bull-dog rules tbe wave. Undaunted tar is he. And angry billows oft bis grave, Cm't tarn him from the sea. The hardship of a sailor's life He can so well endure. When concha and oolds are always rife, With Woods' Great Peppermint Core.