LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Western Star, 19 November 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the iC.Aj. Board and Hospital Trust will ' be held on Tuesday next.

The statutory meeting of the Wallace County Council takes place on Wednesday. .

Jn conKiersation witfea wool buyer the other day, he stated that if the Newcastle coal strife continues for any length of time it is likely to affect thie, . wool sales in the Dominion a ; s the departure oi several steamers which have for Home .during* ~T>ccembier, will .be retarded-

At a meeting of directors of the Aparima Dairy Factory held on Saturday last it was decided to consign the coming season's output. , \

Mr H. A. Arcbdall will be a candiddate for the .Northern Ward on the Southlaiid Education Board. As Mr ArcbJdjall has had considerable experience in educational matters having been engaged in the teaching profession, his knowled'ge, if elected, would he of incalculable benefit .to 'till© Board

A young .woman named Alice May McK«nn|y met with a frightful death the otibtr d a y at hd' mother'a residence Newt own (Sydney), the other day. She was doing some disinfectant with kerosene and carried id her li.md a lighted candle' wh-n the viaPor from the oil came in contact with the light a«nd immediate!) the woman was enveloped in flames. The young woman's mother, seeing her <a - 's. plight, screamed for help, and the «ar.ie« wore smothered. The woman's elothos, lio'V ever, had by this time rjem practically burned on" her, a-nd she was m 1 agony. Before medical assistance fcr " rived ehe succumbed.

At the Supreme Court no bib was returned in thv case against .»• 'V, Humphrey*, charged with munVmu J.ter arising out of the reeuat accident at Christchurch, in whieU ■« up "tain Pav'iU was 1#«1. Tllu *-' rnlid jury examined witnesses for the oijinvso as well as tliose for the prosecution, the names of all being placud <» tbo book of <the indictment.

A very heavy rain from the aotithward set in yesterday afternoon, and for a little over twx>lv e hours 4- 3 « r > ™" ch.es fell, wMeh is easily a record for many years. All the creok-s were swollen, lift the Jacob's River, thiouig'h Ivith, will notle in acavy flood there twftng tt<* KX<y> ott tiba \ . .

The local train/ad horse W-aiju won the Handicap at Lawrunoe 04 Wednesday .

The Gore racing Club propose giv>Lrig fifteen! "hundred pounds for their summer meeting. The Gore Cup will be worth £2oo.

The forty-third annual metropolitan summer show will he .held at lojv<jrcar gill on 14th and tsth December. Many new classes and attractions have been added. Entries close on Saturday December 4*h. y

The Otautau carnival committer are Vo<l)3 upon securting from the brush of Mr G\ Batod ((Otautau) two splendid oil paintings. The subjects treated are Cold 'Lake scenes.

•A reminder is given that the Uedidoin Bush races will be held 0 n Wednesday next. Gd.od nominations have been received, ,and given a line day tV.ere should be a large attendances ;.

Jt is rumo,rod (,Says the New Zealand Times! that burglars entered 'the Central Police Station at Liambton

Quay a or two ago and reinoyecl a considerable sum of money placed th re for the payment of, the wages of the force. Detectives are making investigations into the occurrence,, but no arrests have been recorded.

The steamer Gryfuale which has arrived at Perth, spoke the Sabine, which is searching for the Waratah. She reported that she had visited the Croxo.s, and had seen no trace of the mivsing steamer. She was then proceeding to St. Paul's.

'the jury brought in a verdict of gißlty with a strong recommendation tor mercy, against Arthur Roberts for the ( onu,ifcbr oi Alice Newm'aioUvt '6(hcia| ohlrch. He w a s therefore condemned to be banged.

The Scott's Gap School concent 'wail be held oh the 24th inst. liio funds are to be devoted to procucjng prizes. A dance.will follow.

Imthe course of an article in a Manchester newspaper, Mr Edward Noble, I (ho author of-the ''Grain carriers," re' \iews the toll of the sea for the past twenty years, and- discusses the causes which were probably responsible for the loss of many of Britain a ships Taking the period bf liS(5 t n l9oi, during which tramp vessels, ht\h steam and sail, eiiorinously ho says that. 11 It ships were listed as "missir%," .and he estimated the number of officers aod seamen who perished at 15,892. In one year as many as* 101 ships mysteriously disappeared, but in 'other year's as few as twerJly&bz vessels failed to put in an appear anco at their destination. Mr Noble condemns the practice* of sending old ships to sea, laden with heavy cargoes, and declares that very many vets sols are undermanned. The surveys ho says, aro ineffective and absurd, and he complains of the action of the authorities ail permitting deck cargoes "Not one tithe of the vessels which pais through our dock gates are surveyed in a,ny sunise at all,"he says, '■'and ,a little more than ai year «go wig (wiped . out jby a strode ofi the plen the legislation for which Himsoll fought, and in the place of it sot up the law of Mr Lloyd-George."

Charles Win. Smith, a native, of 'Ben mark, who died at Russell, Auckland, on Tuesday was over lOp years 'of age. He settled in New Zoaland • in zB7o and previously followed the sea. He claimed that lie landed on the coast between Cape Brett and iMiotngonui ia the early twenties. <

As showing the enormous profits in some proprietary medicines the officers charged with the administration of the Commerce Act state that', the ingredients in' a box of a certain article for which half-a-crown is charged are worth a fortieth part of a penny. The lease of the .accommodation house at Laic© Haurbko will be offered for sale -by auctioto at the Lands Office, lnvcroargill, ,on December 2©,next

An important discovery of galena ore has bean made by a .wool cutter named Wallace about five miles ircui Zleehani, Hobart. The 1 lodes (average three feet in width, and am assay has given eighty per cent. f of lead and niniety oiunces of silver per ton. Galena or lead-glance,, is the naturally-ocodr-r,ng sulphide of lead and forms th? source from which the metal lead i» entirely obtained. Galena i* very, widely distributed and occurs :- i n heavy cubic crystals of a bright lead color that are brititle and readily cleave into, smaller cubes. It is somewihat vola-« tile and easily oxidiaed, lead bein£ set free under suitable conditions. Galena often contains antimony, gold, and 1 silver. '