MARLBOROUGH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVI, 17 October 1903, Page 53

MARLBOROUGH.

Dear Bee, October 5. The success of the BULB SHOW, held in Blenheim hist week, exceeded the most sanguine unticipations of the promoters. Tile credit of the show is due to Mrs. Macalister, who has been anxious for some time past to have one, but with difficulty persuaded the rest of the Horticultural Society’s Committee to agree to it. Now it will be an annual affair, and.no doubt there will in the future be as much interest displayed in growing bulbs as in growing chrysanthemums. Two Wellington exhibitors, Messrs. Gibbons and. Cooper, had fine collections, some of ihc flowers being of exceptional merit, and several local growers were not far behind. As the publie took so much interest in the show it was kept open for two days, and was well patronised all the time. Primroses, polyanthi, anemones and other spring flowers were also exhibited. The local exhibitors were: Mesdames F. Shaw, Farmar, 11. L. Jackson, F. Clarke, C. J. Griffiths, J. Conolly, R. H. Smale, Walker, and Messrs. Furness, Ewart, Bishell and Nosworthy. The Horticultural Societies. Blenheim and Pieion both, are making great efforts to add to the popularity of

the spring shows. Pieton is striking out in an original line by having classes for dressed poultry for export, and also for eggs and other table produce. Some big prizes have been given for those classes. The Government poultry expert, Mr. Hyde, lectures in various places in the district on this money-making industry in all its branches. 1-arge nnd interested audiences received him everywhere, and there appears to be quite a rush for fancy poultry. The craze has caught on. and possibly horticulture will have to take a hnek seat. For the future the Christchurch Meat Company will prosecute trespassers on Kaipupu Peninsula, and thus the innocent will suffer for the delinquencies of the guilty. There are many prettj- bays on the peninsula, where picnic parties could land and boil the "billy,” but the wanton destruction (firing the bush, and destroying the plants and ferns) by many people has resulted in the fact that now no one will be allowed to land. The rule is a right one, and if bush-burning is allowed to go on as hitherto Kaipupu will be the only pretty spot to look at in the harbour. Time after time people have planted fruit and other trees in some of the bays, where people do love to picnic, but the fruit trees are carried away, and the other trees burnt, and there is neither shade nor shelter anywhere. The closing of the whaling season was celebrated by A SOCIAL held at Mr. Norton’s house at Te Awaite, Tory Channel, on Thursday. The supper, a sumptuous one, was laid out in the schoolroom. Many settlers from all the bays in the channel, from Arapawa Island, and about thirty from Pieton, were present. The season has been a most successful one., and the rejoicings were In accordance. There was also a social held at the schoolroom, Koromiko, on Friday, and another is being held to-night at Mahakipawa, not to mention one to the whalers in Picton, and I believe there are several others looming in the near future down Picton way.

The steam launch Myth was brought

over from Wellington toy the Wainui on Saturday. She belong* to a syndicate of railway employees in Wellington, and the four who came across with her intend to enjoy themselves visiting the different bays in the Sounds. There is now quite a fleet of oil launches in the Marlborough Sounds. and in this way travelling is made easy and pleasant. .MIRANDA.