Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN," LAWRENCE SATURDAY, 21st SEPT., 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4893, 21 September 1901, Page 2

Tuapeka Times. AND GOLDFIELDS REPORTER AND ADVERTISER. "MEASURES NOT MEN," LAWRENCE SATURDAY, 21st SEPT., 1901. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

,Mjt O. J. Coombs, surgeon dentist, will visit Lawrence professionally fan Tuesday and Wednesday next, and ! may be consulted at tfy Commercial Efote'l. THERB^were six patients in the Lawrenoa Hospital last night. One patient was admitted during the week and three discharged. Eliza Tippet died in the institution daring tbe week.

Mr H. A. Stbatford, late Stipendary Magistrate in this district announces by advertisement in the " Otago Daily Times " that he has (to compliance with tbe request of tbe Hon. Lady Henniker) assumed the name of Augustas Henry Aldborough StratfordHenniker. v

AT the Lawrence Woaleyan Church to-mor-row morning the Rev. J. Gk W. Ellis will conduct an " In Memoriam " service in connection with tbs recent assassination of the American President, and will preach, on the snmA.snbjeo't at Blue "Spur in the. evening. Mr "jf. Turner will conduct the services at Blue Spar in the morning and at liawrence tn the evening, v. . v £ - _ ./, Mb N. Turner, authorised representative of the "Prohibitionist," newspaper will deliver a temperance lecture in tbe Presbyterian Schoolroom on Monday evening next. Mr Turner is an ex-" Major " of tbr Silvation Army and is very well recommended, and the lecture has been listened to with much appreciation by large audiences in the districts recently visited by him.

".THE Enquirer's Oracle," the best reference book on every-day subjects ia given away with 10lb Book Gift Tea.

The Japanese Consul »fc Sydney has 'protested tO Mr Barton against the Federal Government's Immigration Restriction Bill, on the grounds that tbe .Japanese belong to an empire whose standard of civilisation is so much higher than that of the peoples the bill proposes to include, and that it is a reproach to include his countrymen. He 'ask* either that the Japanese be exempted from the Bill's operations or that they be placed upon the same footing as Europeans.

The high Chinese functionaries responsible for tbe Chucban massacre, including the Governor, Ohe-Kiang, ■ have been degraded and banished, while, the fourteen actual murderers were ezeented. Seven accomplices received sentences of five years' imprisonment, and nine have been banished for life. Renter's Peking correspondent states ',that tbe American and Japanese troops have handed the Forbidden City over to Chinese troops. The scene when they took possess. ion is described as picturesque.

At the meeting of the Education Board on Wednesday, Mr Sbenhouse reotor of the Lawrence District High Sohool, applied for additional assistance.— lt was resolved that the matter be deferred until tbe whole question of district high' sohool stiff* was considered by the board. A motion that tbe request be granted on condition that the salary be paid out of the Government grant earned by the school under tbe distriot high schools regulations was lost.

At the meeting of the Tapanui School Committee on Friday evening a letter was read from tbe secretary ,' of tbe Education Board intimating tbat'Tapaaai educational establishment would class as a High School as from lot October. — The committee questioned the desirability of opening the High Sohool until the new class rooms were built and teachers appointed, but decided to await further action of the Board.

Owing to tbe inclement ireitber prevailing the free lectare on " Health " advertised to be given by Mrs M. O. Barclay representing the Sospita Company, Sin Francisco, did not take place. By request Mrs Birclay has consented to deliver a lecture this afternoon

when we have no doubt there will be a large attendance. The report of the Committee appointed to inquire into tbe " tied .house " question by the New Soutb Wales Parliament has been tabled in tbe Assembly. It generally condemns the system, and states that 90 per cent, of the public-houses in Sydney and suburbs are tied. It alleges that Sunday trading, sub-letting of bars, and other evils of the trade are largely due to the system.

The South Canterbury Farmers' 00-opera-

tive Association held its annual meeting on Saturday last. Tbe balance-sheet showed a surplus of £15,128 for distribution, including £5,548 brought forward. The share capital receives 8£ per cent., 7 per cent, bonus will be paid on business done and on salaries, and 3 per cent, of commissions refunded. The Conciliation Bqard at Dnnedin has

made its recommendations' in tho matter of

the bricklayers' dispute substantially on the lines of the demands of the Union, owing to the employers failing to appear in the first instance and afterwards not adducing evidence. The hours will be 44 per week and the rate of pay Is 6d per hoar, Bod travelling expenses for country work. The Board do* dined to insert a olanse abolishing piecework. Be Careful.- You won't drink poisonous wine knowngly — why, therefore, drink poisonous tea ? Avoid China tea, which is now adulterated out of all resemblance ; also avoid blends," for the average is vile tea disguised with a little good. The uniform pure tea, most reliable and most satisfying, is grown in Ceylon, and the name it has is as famous as that island itseIf— NIRVANA, We are informed that Nirvana Tea is packed under British supervision, and guaranteed pare and delicious by a responsible company. It is packed in lead in pounds and balf-pouuda, and the local agent, Mr F. Oadaille, Lawrence, will be pleased to snpply the requirements of those dispoaed to purchase a tho-

roughly pure and reliable Ceylon tea.

It is a remarkable fact that only two members of the late President M'Kinley'a Cabinet received a university education. Not one inherited wealth. The Secretary of the Treasury began life as a bank clerk, the Secretary of War as a schoolmaster, the Postmastergeneral as a oompositor, the Secretary of the Navy as a " chore boy " on a farm, the Secretary of Agriculture as a ploughman, and the Secretary of the Interior as a salesman.

The three men who were blown out to sea in an open boat from Motnnua on Sunday turned up at Gore Bay, Cheviot, safely 00 Sunday in a very exhausted condition. It. appears they were blown oat by a very strong westerly gale, and, when many miles off shore, the wind went ronnd to the eastward and blew them towards the shore, and they eventually landed 23 miles farther up the coast than Motunut. The Lyttelton Harbour Board's tug was oat -ill Monday afternoon searching for the boat, and bad a very rough time, having great difficulty in returning to Lyttelton against the high wind.

It is evident that the falling birthrate has been the raison d'etre for the introduction of the Sales of Preventives Prohibition Bill, which the Premier has oharge of. The sale or possession of preventives is deemed an offence, punishable by fine not exceeding £20 for first offence, £50 for second, and imprisonment for a subsequent offence. The Bill is apparently aimed at hawkers or vendors of goods, and power is given the police to SS&reh the packs or goods of these persons. A duly registered medical practitioner may under certain circumstances authorise the use of preventives, in such cases aa where a woman's life may be endangered.

The Duke of Argyll, who is an ardent promoter, of the new movement for wholesale emigration to South Africa after the war, made a funny slip of the tongue when addressing a West Ead drawing-room meeting of ladies on the subjcot lately. He had said that after the war it would bean excellent thing if Boer and Briton were to intermarry. " We want the Briton to marry the Boer girl, but we want him to have an Eoglish wife as well 2 " The peal of laughter which- greeted this ambiguous declaration led the Dnke to correct himself, and explain in great baste what be meant, which was, of course, that we want the Boer to reciprocate by marrying a British n ife.

Mr John Loveday, of the Balli Mountain*, N.S.W., who. suffered for 4 years with «eate grave], writea to the "Illiwara Mercury" that ho wbb completely cured'of, bis oompUint by the internal use of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. He also states ha has found the Ertr«ct (Sander and Sons') a cure for rheumatism, and remarks that in publishing these faofca be has no other object in view thin a par* deslro to benefit suffering hnnaanity. Dr W. Oaborne, CottageTiile, Kv., writea :— " I ase SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT as a spray for nasal catarrh, low fever, asthma, &c, with great success. I find this proptration superior to all others." Dr A. Bruegman, Hartwell. Nebr., says :— " I have osed SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT in pneumonia and inoipient phthisis, and have 'met with most happy results. I have practised over 34 ytiars and I candidly say this— SANDERS' EXTRACT is one of the grandest preparations I ever chanced to meet." Dr Stall], Gathrie, Ok., writes .-— " I have used various preparations of Eaealptus, bub I pet better results from SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT than from any of iho others.' Toeae and similar testilUODitlS prore iadiapaubly tbe superiority of SAN« DEfii SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT over any other, and we snjjoest to the pablio to take care to set it— ZANDER & SONS', i

Misses M. M'Mtjllin and L. Leslie, both pnpils of the local Dominican nun*, ptMed the rcoont Royal Academy (I*ondoD) elemenla»y maiieil «xitttln»Uoo. Tbb pope, in tbe coarse of a letter, deplore* the fiolent ttorm in FcaDoa against deserv* ing religions orders in conneotion with the Religions Associations Bill. A BEMABKABLK instance of tbe fecundity of ewes has been brought under the notioe ot tbe " Brace Herald." At Mr T. Cannon's farm at Soatbbridge are to b« seea four ewea with no less than 13 lambs at foot ! They are quite healthy, and there is every prospect that all will be reared without loss. Thb anniversary tervioi in ooanaoUon with Sfc. Matthews Chnrob, Waitahnna willbeoon* ducted to-morrow at 11,8.01. by the Bev.Oanon Richards, when there will doubtless be ft large congregation. The annual social in connection with the oburoh will take place in the Good Templars Hall on Wednesday. evening, 25th inst. at 7.30 p.m. The members of the Fourth and Fifth Contingent* hive received notioe that they are entitled to a month's full pay in addition to the month's furlough they were granted after arrival in the colony. They will also receive a boons— £s for troopers and a graduated in* crease for non-oommissioned and .ooinmU* sioned officers, according to rank. , . ._,,.- „ It's football that works up the mnsole ' ■''■ And gifps\a man plenty Of (dash, ' \Jt's kick, ifftjternm, and itfr bustle " : And a general ltokiogfolr" lash." ' In the good old bant Tor tne T lealher '• ' '' If at cold you 1 sboold have to ensure, - You will soon pull yourself all together . With' Woods' Great Peppermint Core. A solicitor at tbe Qhristohuroh Magia* trate'a Court on Tuesday drew, atten tion to the anomaly in tbe Old Age Pensidus Act which does not allow pension* Ao. tanatio** The children had to maintain olnV people for whom,. under ordinary oirouuistenoes, the State would provide. -,' , - Wives are apparently not- ao expensive as is generally supposed* A W^ttieas at the .Cbristohuroh Magistrate's Obtfrt-on Tuesday said ton* bis wire oosG Dim front & 44 to %Qi 104 per week— 3s 4l per weekfojr^ general es« penses and 5s to 7a 6d as board, for her, paid to bis mother. He thought thjflttax upon hi* resources too great, however, a* he was willing for the issue of a separation order* * 'P ABSONS art often conspicuous aa-ibeing the fathers of but-sized families,' but a Servian Greek priest has easily* beaten all previous records. The. "fester Loyd " states that Mrs Arangvel, wife of a Greek priaat of D«li« grad, in Servla, was delivered of six babiesthree boys and three girls— all normal and healthy. Eighteen nfbnths ago the same lady gave births to triplets, » total of nine children in IS moDtbe. A low Servian! wonld bt useful to any country with a falling birth* rate ATtheTimaru Criminal session a farmer was oharged with making a false declaration under tbe Land for Settlements Act on becoming an applicant fora lease*in*per« petuity allotment, the falsity relating to the quantity of land he already held. A twofold defence was offered— First, that he did not understand the requirements of the fora supplied; and, secondly, that he bad parted with tbe excess of land. Documents were produced to prove that he had parted with the land to a brother-in-law, but the prose* cution and Mr Justice Denniston in summing up, indicated to the Jury- that this was a sham arrangement to be carried out if accused was the successful applioanr. He was successful, but the Land Board, learning, that he had an excess of land, refused the lease and forfeited tbe deposit of £42. The jury found accused guilty, but recommended him to mercy, as he did not know the seriousness of tbe offence, and on the ground of previous good character. Aa to tbe latter, the judge remarked that many men who will not cheat a neighbour think little of trylnc to cbeat tbe Government. Accused wae & ;ed 420.