LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Western Star, 13 October 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. Trotter left by the Moeraki, from Bluff, en route for (Melbourne on, Monday to attend the Medical .Conference to be 'held there this month. The doctor, who is accompanied by Miss Trotter, will make a general holiday tour of the Comnionwea Ith and New Zealand extending I over two months. Dr J. Millar, L.R.'ajfcV etc., Edinburgh, will act as his locum tenons, and may bo consulted at the Railway Hotel,. Riverton.

Mr D. Luke Had a m'aifiw escape fi’om drowning in the Aparima river lost week. One of his cows had crossed the river and in attempting to drive it back the horse Tm whiefi 'Mr Luke was riding got into a quick sand and! fell into, the river carrying its rider with it. (UnfortunateMr Luke’s foot got caught in the stirrup rim, and it was with difficulty "that hd managed to extricate himself, after being under water for some considerable time.

The sale of work jin aid bf the Presbyterian /Church at Thornbury will commence on Wednesday, the i2{lst inst at 2, p.m. Various competitions will, bo held.

Parliament was brought to an end on Saturday night, and members are making; post haste lo their electorates to start their political cam-* paigns. ‘

Whilst, marking at the butts at Miller ton, on Saturday last, George Brown, a coal miner, was shot in the ohm. Ho was conveyed to Westrport by special train, but expiroyi on reaching the hospital

•Sydney Biaki-c, a fourtcen-ypai-olti hoy, who lives with his another at Ryot Bush, shot himself in • iho right forearm on Sunday evening with a peia rifle whilst i*abbit shoot ing. As the wound was a slight one young Blaikic continued) his shooting, but! afterwards became faint with the pain and fell. The shock exploded a. second charge whfch penotrated his light leg just below the knee. He managed to reach his home unaided, and his injuries were attended to by Dr Ewairt.

Ihe vote of £SOOO for compensation to J. Meiklc was defeated in the House on Friday (by thirtyseven to .twenty-seven votes.

The sitan of £250 has been granted by the Government for a fishery hatchery a t Fairfax.

The annual meeting of the Riverton Athletic Society takes plaqa on •Friday, ™ - ——‘- J ‘—~

■Fred. Slaughter, of OrepuJd, met with a painful accident while working the haul-tag line at the mill. He was lifting the wire rope while running when his hand was drawn, into the block. His hand was severely injured.;

AaSus Sutherland, wife of Mr F. Sutherland, Nightcaps, and daughter of Mr F. Stroud, Wrey’s Bush, while on her way to the afternoon train on Eric'jay. took suddenly, 4M dn Esk street, Invercargill, and paissed away in a few minutes. Deceased had not been in the best of health for some time, and the cause of death was the 'bursting of a blood vessel. ’live deepest, sympathy is felt for the bereaved husband and parents at her early demise.. The funeral which left Nightcaps on .Monday; foil* the Wrcys Bush conelle-ry was very largely attended. he funeral of the late Air J oseph Robinson, which took place on [Friday W(a;s very) largely attended, showing the respect in which the dev ceased was held. The Rev. Alprland conducted the service at the grav^ Envoy Liang^ ols . of the Salvation Army, will give his’ humorous' life sketch next Thursday evening. Thq story will' "he interspersed with songs and recitations. It will be remembered that this was postpouied Thursday owing to counter attractions.

■A burglar who entered a Beddington house, and, among other articles, took a clock from the drawing room, on coming out met the owner, who, thrown off his .guard by the thief’s boldness, concluded that he had -been sent for, to take the time-piece away for repair. He told him the dining room clock also wanted, a little attention, atad ho might as well hake that. The burglar took it;

Ernesto Santaglio, a .train inspector, 'taken to a Naples hospit]al after an accident, was told that, there was no hope for, his recovery, lie thereupon asked that ho should be permitted to marry his fiancee,in order that she might receive, as his widow, a pension to which he was entitled. The ceremony took place in the ward, and on its conclusion the bride swooned. She recovered only a few hours later, when her husband was dead.

I The Riverton Rowing. Club open! fcfcteir season on Wednesday, 2lst October, and a cordial invitation is extended to all. The trysting place will be the .Narrows, and passengers will be conveyed there in the motor launches. Members and intending members of the Club are requested to attend practice for the President’s Fours to bo ro,wed off -in the first week in November.

The Native Land Court, under the presidency of Judge G-ilfedder, will open at Riverton, on Monday, C)ct. 19th. Kanapu Haerehuka, a chief of the Arawa tribe [(Rotorua)', [will bei native assessor* and Mu iO e W,; ISeon* of Ngapuhij ißasi of Islands* SseilS aojj aa clerk: and inferE&eteak if '£>

The restaurant keepers of New York are at their wits’ ends to cope -with the waiter difficulty, and a Mr John Murrjay has come to their rescue with, a contrivance that is only in the , experimental stage at present. According to the New York correspondent of the London Telegraph you order your dijlriner on entering a restaurant, and proceed to a table conspicuous for the absence of attendants. The ringing of a bell signifies that the meal is ready ‘whereupon you press a button, and the centre of the table sinks into and below the floor to the serving 'room below, and quujckly (rjeiappears in Arabian Nights’ fashion laden with the first course. At the end of each course the button is pressed, an(d the table disappears with like result so that your food caches you quite hot. The inventor has patented the disappearing table, and a company has been foamed to exploit it, •

The final meeting of the present Wallace County Council takes place on Friday. -V

In a accent report of the Wallace A. and P. Association, Mr Buick, according tp. his own version, w]as wrongly (reported in regard to the erection ,of tit; dairy shed. A sum of £’loo' was voted for the structure, but the lowest tenderer was £ILOS, and Mu’ Buick, as one of the committee, considered the shed should be diminishekl in order that it could be erected for the sum of £IOO,

The Wallace election, will absolve itself into a contest between Mr J, C. -Thomson, tlxc sitting mlmibe!r, and Mr Dugald Macphorson. The latter will open the campaign at Nightcaps immediately. We are given to understand that had the Second Ballot Bill not become daw a third candidate would* have boon in the Held.

The following addiekmal votes appear on the supplementary estimates for Wallace : —South Ililiend School road, £ ,- i()0; Dipton channel bridge, £IOO ; Harbour Endowment road, £ UK Hokonui (between section 88, Hokonui, and section 93, Forest Hill)-, £100; ]\.V‘l' ai'lan<s road (£ for £■), £lO9 ; Mc.NaV’a'hton road (Mcrrivale) £SO ; McNci.d’s road (Jacobs River Hundred), £75 p Ronald road (Wairio) (£ for£) £SO • 'Scott’s Gap (Lower), £75 ; Slat ion ix'ud (Jacob’s River Hundred), £IOO- ’

A cable; message from Afiviaide slates that a; Worm has boon discovered which may possibly prove to be a parasite* for i iio aalji ano th.

Nominations for 'the Win ton Jockey Club’s annual race meeting, to be held on November pth and 9th, close on Friday, l6'th October, at nine p.m. The club have considerably increased their stakes, and the Win lon Cup, of TOOsovs, should prove a strong attraction for the bottler class of Horses. We wish live club all success -they deserve.

The Caulfield Stakes,, run on Saturday was won by Pinkim, with Post Town second .and Tuikeroo third. In the Guineas the placed horses were Parsee first, Alawa second, and Bobby third. The Eanwick Plate run at Sydney was annexed! by Peru, - Lord Nolan second),