The Examiner. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1898.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XVI, Issue 2833, 15 July 1898, Page 2

The Examiner. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1898.

The news was telegraphed to Woodville yesterday. morning that the Racing Conference had granted the Woodville Jockey Club permits for two race meetings within the next racing season. This is as it should be, and the thanks of the members of the Woodville Jockey Club artdue to Mr O’Meara, who has been indefatigable in his exertions to carry this into effect.

With to-day’s issue we publish a supplement containing a splendid lot of reading matter, which will be found very acceptable to pur readers. Amongst other things it contains the opening chapters of Louis Tracy’s realistic story of “ The Great Betrayal, or The Final ■War." The first chapters of the story, the sole right of which belong to the Canterbury Times Company, will give an idea of what a powerfully written story it is, and those who read them will find it very hard not to go on to the end.

Borough overdraft at the present time is about £SOO.

The Borough Council last night passed accounts amounting to over £2OO, which is a record pay-sheet. The New Zealand cup winner Waiuku has been purchased by Mr S. H. Gollan, and the horse goes to England. A social is being organised in connection with the Catholic Church, Woodville, and will be held on the 3rd August. Mr and Mrs Florance and family leave Woodville for Christchurch on Tuesday next. There they will remain until the next steamer sails for the Chatham Islands.

Hone Heke, M.H.R., returns to the Bay of Islands district to satisfy himself as to the native feeling. He will probably report to the Government, and proceeds to Wellington in a fortnight.

Johnson, one of the victims of the Gorrnanston fire, Tasmania, was previously in business in New Zealand, but left this colony 24 years ago. He was one of the pioneer prospectors of the Mount Lyell mines.

Authority has been given for the establishment at the Paris Exhibition of a restaurant where colonial food and wine exclusively shall be supplied. The cost of the building will be £6OOO. Mr Crawford, the Town Clerk, deserved a pat on the back last night when he announced to the Council that he bad collected the whole of the 1897-98 rates with the exception of about £4O.

On Tuesday morning a farmer named A’exander Galletley, at Lincoln, Christchurch, went duck shooting. When getting through a fence his gun exploded and blew bis brains out.

There is on view in Mr F. M. Kenny’s window a handsome marble time-piece which is to be forwarded to Mr and Mrs Williams in token of the esteem i : which they were held during their residence in Woodville. The clock bears tl following inscription “ Presented

Mr and Mrs Williams by their Woodville friends. June 9th, 1898." It has been decided by the Defence Department that it is not advisable to arm the volunteers piecemeal with the new Lee-Enfield rifle, the first shipment of which has just arrived. Each district will be armed in turn, Auckland being supplied first. The shipment at present on its way out will be distributed amongst the Wellington volunteers.

A curious coincidence is recorded by a Southland paper. They were brothers, bachelors —one in Scotland, the other in south New Zealand—both agriculturalists. Ho in the old country died, leaving property worth some £4OOO to his brother in Otago. "When the legal firm through whom the money was to be paid made enquiries they discovered that the legatee had also died two or three weeks previously, leaving his property, valued at some J6301J, to the brother since deceased in Scotland.

There is not much sentiment about the Yankee. A certain Philadelphia cemetery company has sent the following letter to the military authorities of that city ; —“ We herewith respectfully beg leave to submit an offer made in sincere fa! h with an earnest hope that the occasion ..hr its acceptance may never arise. This cemejery company tenders to and for the use of the men of ycur regiment a cemetery lot, prominently located and of suitable proportions, for the interment of any of the men of your regiment who may be unfortunate enough to fall upon the field of battle upon which our country is now entering.”

A sensational bolt occurred in town on Wednesday evening. Mr Somerville’s red 'bus was at the Post Office at about half past six. The driver had gone in for the mails, when something startled the horses, and they startled off down Vogel Street at a fine old pace. The first thing they did was to carry the ’bus on to the kerbing, by Mr Hall’s fence, and coming into contact with the verandah posts of Hutchin’s buildings they succeeded in starting both corner posts and leaving them hanging loosely in the wind. The horses then got back on the road, and careered up Grey street round the block by the Methodist Church along Yogel street and up Grey street again, finally coming to a stand by Mr A. Lawrence's house. Strange to say beyond a spring broken and one lamp smashed, the ’bus escaped without damage.

An ex-Dunedinite, writing to the Dunedin Star of the Klondyke routes, says;-‘‘Fort Wrangel itself can be summed up in a few words. Never in one’s wildest dreams could one form any conception of this place. Vice in every shape and form is rampant. Gambling, etc., is carried on so openly that it perfectly disgusts anyone accustomed to a civilised country. They think nothing of shooting a man here, and although this is a prohibition town the hotels placard np outside ‘ Foaming Lager Beer, 10c. a glass.’ There is plenty of whiskey to be bought in any of them. The city (?) itself consists of a great many one-room weather-board and canvas shanties built on piles driven into the mud. The side-walks are fearful, being at the most 7ft wide, and consists of slates laid across piles, and some are 2ft higher than others, some more so. It is like continually going up and down steps. There is no money in circulation he e, and ItU'.ulri ds nre warving. Prices to not so iVitf, considering the dt tc ee stuff has to come.”

Mr Bollard, the burlj member for Eden, caused hearty laughter in the House on Wednesday afcnoon by asking without notice whether the Minister for Jns'ice could afford him police protection while he was a'tending his Parliamentary dmies. He explained i-lmr his reason for asking the question was because the Premier hud told him the previous afternoon that some man was dogging his footsteps, with the object of doing him personal injury, and'as he (Mr Bollard) was constantly mis'alien for Mr Seddon, he thought his request should be granted. He said he was not a nervous man, but he preferred to meet a foe face to face, instead of a man coming behind his back. The Premier said he should be happy to reply to the question, hut the only reply he gave was that that very morning a lunatic had been seeding to interview the Premier. Mr Seddon’s answer caused renewed laughter. H.B. Herrld correspondent. If you want good value in drapery and clothing, visit the sole now being held at the Economic. We intend to clear our all this winter’s stock, and to effect that end we have marked the goods a* prices that will make them sell. An early call is requested at The Economic. A. Rosenberg & Co.-—Advt.

Mr Watt is calling tenders for the erection of water-gas works in Pahiatua. The post and telegraph messengers at Pahiatua are to be supplied with bicyles. Miss Fawbert intends starting classes for the instruction of clay modelling and brush work at the school to-morrow morning.

The Grand Jury threw out the bill in the case of William Hambrook, charged with manslaughter as the outcome of the fatal fight at Collingwood. Sportsmen are reminded of the meet of the Woodlands Hunt Club at Woodville on Wednesday next. The throw off will be at 2 p.m. Mr Wragge the Queensland weatherman Sint warning Lst week that" Amn " would soon be round. “ Amn ” apparently is a more regular up-00-timer than “ Asat."

The Otago Prohibition Council passed a resolution, strenuously objecting to Mr J. A. Millar’s licensing bill as an outrage on common sense and entirely in the interests of the liquor trade. A resolution is to be sent to the Premier and the Dunedin members.

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