The Tuapeka Times AND Goldfields Reporter & Advertiser "MEASURES,NOT MEN." WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1915 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6307, 3 November 1915, Page 2

The Tuapeka Times AND Goldfields Reporter & Advertiser "MEASURES,NOT MEN." WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1915 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Sundatrum'i next viiit will be on Thursday, whan he may be consulted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. At the monthly meeting oi the Central Otaigo Fruit-growers' Association at Alexandra, it was resolved .to charge the following prices for fruit during the coming season Dessert and preserving-Apples , 3d, pears 3d, peaches 3d, apricots 3d, nectarines 3d, ■quinces (ali grades) 2id, strawberries 6d per pottle ; -am—apples pear* peaches 2Jd, apricots 2Jd.

At a special meeting of llie lieaumotil School Committee, Miss I. W. I Mason, at present. Ist assistant u ; I Qlandboyo, ftouth Canterbury. was appointed Ist assistant. The Hon. U. l«'raser (Minister of Public Works) who was in Duuidiu on Monday, in reply to a question said it vva:: not proposed to proem d with am work on tho Lawrence-Roxburgh extension this year. A ''ili' of work under the- auspice.- ol tht i'.W.M.I . will lie held the Presbyterian schoolroom this alternoon,? the proceeds from which will be di\ ided between the lLome Mission J-'uinl and IHmedin Presbyterian Orpiiau. ly. '| he ladies of the congregation have lieea forking zealously on behalf of this sale ior sonic fane • <ac.> and have got together a very fine array of goods and produce lor disposal. As tiie object is one which must commend itself to all <\ve have o doi till there will, b* a very satis faotory turn out ot the public and liberal patronago of the various staiis. Private Clarence McLeod, son of Mr and Mrs lloliert McLcod, i'uupeka Mouth, who gained tho D.C.Ai. by his heroic work at 'the Dardanelles, wa„ subsequently (wounded and ruluine,-; to New Zealand by the \\ illorhra which arrived in Dunedin on Saturday, passed through Lawrence en route to. his home on Monday. I'nlorLunateK our Patriotic Committee had no news of his coming tnrough and therefwas thereiory no reception at the railway station. We are sure that had the news of I'rivate McLeod's home-com-ing been l>no-wn the people of Lawrence would certainly Roen to it that he received a hearty reception. A-correspondent cynically doubts the truth or the paragraph whic ; i appeared in our last issue to the elTect that several of our local sports had returned from tho <!ore races in an improved financial position. ]Jc saya " I am creditably informed that, after seeing your paragraph, the eoltfectova for our Wounded Soldiers Fund muck, 1 a point of calling on the said sports in the hope of getting a Contribution from them for tlws deserving iund. Result, a .blank." He concludes : I, " Either your information lacked con- , firmation or the gentlemen re,'erred to ! are not "sports" in the ordinarv ■ meaning of tho term." Br reply we ' may say we published tho paragraph ! an interesting piece of gossip) considering the source from w'hich it came sufficiently reliable Mr A. E. o. Blakeiy, dentist, visits e Lawmen fortnightly, \vlieu he may In- r consulted in private wjoihh opposite r Herbert and (o.'s. Next visit Thurs- .1 November 4. ' I

The \ ictoria Dolby of UUUDsovs (1$ miles), run at iieiHuiglon on featurday, was won by I'au'obas by H alt lace- Si/.zie • with Letigno second and HesiconU thud. I lie Melbourne biases w,i.a., Jj miles, was won by lutquetto. ■I he luliowiiig appomuuents have been made in the Olugo education dioU'ici. Mr .). \\, (j, rieuHie to be 11. aumaster at neiso; Miss L, A, N. Uaiuei*, nr.'i assistant at A i tun tun', .mss t. W. Mason, lirst assistant at i.eaumont. Mr l:. Kuiglit,. Wuipoii, has itceived a cablegram staling that his iou, trooper Lr.o ft. l\night, who was wounded m action ui the Llardsneilos on August 'J, has recovered and ugaoi at the front. •<;r A. 11. UcilUlan, WaiLal announces that his Uydcsdule colt i aien chief by ttie Unpolled siro .\ewiou Chief, is at the disposal of o.euueis in thf rtauahuuit. and surrounding districts. liie ..re. 11 island Uorough Council aa. n dt.-fided to resort to tlio old-time ton gale, as a meaus of raising revenue to kee|i its three miles Oi main road in repair. Motor car owners would we opine rather pay an animal than bo continually held up for thu payment oi the toll-gate tee. u The death of Mr Alexander Sutherland, w%icli occurred at. hig son-in-law's, residence, W'ailati, on Monday, removes another lipk in the band of early pioneers of tho I'uapelia district. bome ten or twelvd years ago he removed with his faintly to the Touomairiro district but lie will be well remembered by the older generation of our settlers, ilia remains are lob interred in the Lawience (Jumetery this morning, the funoral leaving tho railway station immediately after thq arrival oi the midday train. As a result of a motor accident on tho ilighclitie road n»ar Duncdifl on Sunday, l)r. W. A. Fleming, a) wellknown Dunedin medical man and a Son of the late Mr J. S. Fleming, of .Balclutha, was killed outright and the chuliour, a mat) named Fagan, sec - ousiy injured. Dr. Elemjng wag returning from attending a patient. One of the volunteers for "civil capacity in conneotion with the present war " has informed, the Government and the publio, by means of his registration schedule, that he i« tylit* . willing to lijpt on as " a member of Pmlinmpni a . ,

'The Mayor of Uunedin (Mr J. J. Clarkj, Mr IT. 1). Bedford, and Lieut.: Col. Stoneham will be the speakers at a Kecruiting liaily at Uoxlmrgii on . aturday night. .v- uiaows oi soldiers' who havo lost their lives iu the present wax mil l9*e tneir pensions in the event of their marrying again, a correspondent oi a Sydney paper suggests the advifealjility oi the Kederal Government iniprting a clause in the Art allowing such widow's to retain) 'their pensions if they marry a man who has served in the torces of the Empire. He urges that there would be a strong bond of sympathy between such a couple, and that the pension would act as a partial recompense tor the ex-soldierfs gervicas to his ' country. The weather during the past few days has been very unsettled and a good deal of rain has fallen. The glround is .'now well supplied with moisture and vegetation of all desoi'iptiona is lojuiiungi litst-cla,ss. Uur farmers are now making preparations for their shearing and a tew weeks ci bright dry weather would prove a boon. The monthly meeting of the Beaumont School Committee was held in the schoolhouse on Saturday, 3Utl. October. Present—Messrs Geeves (in the chair), i. Thillipps, L. Johnson. " G. Welsh, and G. llonaldson. 'The examination report oi Inspectors liichardson and Kobertson was received and considered highly i satisfactory, and it was resolved that the teacher* be thanked for their services during ...iu iii Keeping the school's et ficiency so high. Accounts amount into £6 17s 3d were passed lor payment! In conversation with a gentleman teres ted in the fruit trade who has just made a tour af central Otago, a representative of the Alexandra Herald was informed that from Koxburgl. to Cromwell the out look was phenorn nally good. There will be a good crop of apricots, heavy crop of peaches, a .splendid apple return, and an abnormal crop of .pears. Strawberries , ilook well, but he did not think there would be an exceptional crop. Among the " change " taken at the oliice of the Timaru Post the other morning was atl note of theiNational Bank oi New Zealand on the back oi which was written the following " (iod be with you till we meet again. N.Z. Expeditionary Forces, i. Company, 6th Reinforcements, 'l'ren- . tham, A.J.T., 20/7/15." There is 'an Old Country tradition that in years of calamity—war, fammine and pestilence—the berries of tin mountain ash tree are bitter and the birds will not eat them (writes a cor nqspondent > ; of a paper from Bournemouth). It is very strange that last year the birds would not touch the berries of the mountain ash, st far as 1 was able to observe, in this district. This year they have ten eaten greedily, and are now practically all gone. ' Is this a good omen for the future ?