The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, March. 19, 1903.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 358, 19 March 1903, Page 4

The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, March. 19, 1903.

The Vincent County ( ouncil meets at Clyde on Wednesday next. Our report of the sports held at Ophir on Tuesday will appear in next issue. . Tuesday last (St. Patrick's Day) was observed as.a general holiday in Alexandra. Mr Thomas P. Beck, of Alexandra South has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. Thk, Goldfields Challenge Shield' fired for atQueepstown on Tuesday was won by the Cromwell Rifles team. . An Ashburton district farmer has threshed out. a paddock of oats which yielded 103' bushels per acre. • ■ The number of electors on the roll for Tuapeka is 3797. The rolls at th e general election contained 398§ names There are 340 i names on the new rolls for the Mount Ida district. This is 895 less than the roll for the general election.contained. "..«■--?>• 7* -■.■•;•.■ -,-••■' -. Messrs G Fache and D Livingstone, candidates for election to the Tuapeka Licensing Bench insert addresses to the electors in our advertising columns. The, election of a licensing committee for the Tuapeka electorate takes place on Wednesday next. The following gentlemen have been-pominated :—Messrs H Craig, J Elder, G Fache, J Michael D M'lntosh,J Rivers and L,Ryan: ~r ; ■. : r ;. : :; . •> *' - A M BETING of clergy and laity, at Christchurch. decided to hold a meeting, tc be presided over : by the bishop, to protest against the desecration of Good Friday by the annual sports of the Christchurch Cycling Glub being held that day. Messrs Briasco and Thomas advertisethat they will conduct a quadrille assembly dur-ing-the, winter months., on Wednesday evenings,commencing April Ist. We. think these gatheriugs will be appreciated by the young people who indulge in the terpsichorean art. The advantages of growing green food for fattening purposes has been clearly de. monstrated this season (says " Oamarr Mail"). Rape was sown for the first time in Waitaki Plains Estate this spring, and the owner of the estate disposed of, in one-line 1000 fat lambs at 14s per, head. ' ! '-; SaYs the " Bulletin ":—" Jimmy " Tyson, the Australian millionaire, died just in time, perhaps. The buyer of his Meteor Downs (Q) station, Springsure district, has mustered since the rain, and can find only 1000 of the 95,000 sheep he bought. The price for the lot was said to be £IOO,OOO. A cable from St. Petersburg says that '.the monks of; the Damlos Monastery: decoyed the daughter of an Englishman named Wballey, manager of the Moscow Mill, and so shockingly maltreated her thatishe died after the police had released her from the monastery. The Government, yielding tc pressure from Great Britain, has ordered an inquiry. . Mr George Fache advertrses in this is,sue Ithathewill sell the privileges in connection with the Clyde Sports Club's gatherings on Easter Monday, on Saturday next. The booth has in past years brought from £l4 to £lB, and "as the attendance at the sports is usually as large and as thirsty as that at any country .race meeting, we have rio doubt a good profit'tOibemade'i r pr ; r < " ; < Sir E. BARTON, replying to the toast of the Commonwealth, at Sydney, eulogised Sir J. G. Ward as one of ,the;best supporters of an entire Liberalism, which,-as,a matter of prediction, was to absolutely ruin a country, but which, as a matter of fact, had been concurrent with 'ils increase lation and wealth until New Zealand; stood as a bright example of State Government. • At a meeting of the Otago Licensed Victuallers, held on Saturday, the following resolution was uriamiously carried •—" That the resolution' passed on the 30th of January re abolition of free counter lunches and oysters be rescinded, on the grounds that some members of : the trade have broken faith in the matt'eri thus placing thosei who have honorably fulfilled the agreefrient-at a disadvantage." .■" j ... .. • ?.,*" '- ~ The workings of the latest amendment to the Imprisonment for- Debt Abolition Act, caused considerable surprise to adjudgment creditor at Christchurch the other day, when he found- that unless he could prove that the iudgment debtor atthe moment of examination • had the, money in his pocket his application for' an order would be user less. "I don't-understand it," he remarked plaintively. "I'm 'not sure that- I do," replied, the ,magistrate, '•'but I have to administer all. sorts of queer laws." Mr J A Millar, member for Dunedin, j was interviewed in Wellington by a " Star" reporter, and predicted; a; stormy session. Speaking on the.contemplated attack on the Otago Central by .Canterbury and Auckland 1 members, he announced himself as ready and fit for the fray, and capable of giving; on beba'f of the South as good as he received. Mr Fowlds, in an interview, deprecated Mr Millar's Violence and fight", predicted an uneventful session, and toned down his>disparaging references to Central Otago. Christchurch Fruiterers' Association have; passed the; Sollpwingv resolution £t4 ••••« Seeing that po, effectual: steps ifiave 4>eeh'. taken to clear the colony of fruit pests, especially, codlin moth, which is being over vwholesale, : -vtb.e ; assosafip|) consider tbe ; present sygtehj of 'fruit* inspection farce, and the restrictions """on imported fruit an injustice, both tss(k trade and the whole community. Further, "that step be taken to bring the matter before Parliament.; with a view to having the restrictions removed " A STRANG*WesunectiohtHbf<a baby^oc*- 5 curred one day last week at Auckland;r A motherless, cbild,.<aged. seven- months,-was taken ill, and several hours later, apparently died, becoining,r r igid and cold. The father ordered the coffin, and informed the doctor; of the fact, and with otherrefetives-watched over the corpse during the night.At 3 the morning the babyfe eyes opened, the'rigidity disappeared, and the baby consumed a hearty meal. The women were astounded at i f tba, occurrence, • and ,tbe doctor is completely puzzled at the recovery, which is unprecedented in sucTTa' young baby; The order tfor the coiSn' wasi ; of course, couiateraoEfided. The baby teareaaia-

. Ihe following team has been chosen to represent the Aloxandra Cricket Club in the rnatch s which is to be played against a combined team at Alexandra on Saturday n Q xt:-W. Burnside, E. King, W. King, L. Churchill s. Churchill, Laidlaw, Burgess, Daniels, Cairns. Watts, Shanahan. With reference to Mr J A Millar's utterances on railway works, the' Lyttleton limes says.J_«lt will be atsolurely deplorable if Otago and Canterbury membeis go up to Wellington next session as suggested by Mr Millar with the determination to oppose the . completion of the North Island Trunk line, except on condition that their own-line bo finished at the same time, ine Otago Central ought never to be carried further than Alexandra; and the Midland Railway can.-v( 1 wait, until communication is established between Wellington and Auckland. Tim colony cannot afford, for the sake of getting one.necessary railway, to pay the price of three; and'we trust "that Canterbury members; at any rate, will refuse to join in a compact that would be a positive disgrace to the House; ■ ■ With its porch-like voracity for seizing upon any yarn -likely to tell against the Premier, the Wellington -Post" concocted .a .story concerning certain incoherent remarks made, by a non-Prorubitionistas the Kotomahana was leaving Lyttelton wharf on Tuesday night, which pointed to the suggestion that a well-known man had called cheers for Mr Seddon, and that the invitation was not responded to. It was alleged that this opponent of No-licenso principles called out •• Hip hip," waiting amidst great silence for the " Hoorays" which might reasonably have been expected, as is usually the case. The hearing of the «'Post's" informant must have been distinctly •affected." The non-Prohibitionist did not call "Hip, hip"; he said "Hie hic,' ;i and said so quite a number of times with great emphasis. In its desire to make capital at the expense of Mr Seddon the "Post "'has agamtjfallen in again badly. A political opponent of the Premier who came up in the same vessel characterised the report as utterly ridiculous. .