The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, Jan. 2, 1903

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 360, 2 April 1903, Page 4

The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, Jan. 2, 1903

MrW T Talboys inserts a new advertisement in this issue. . ; ; : : Important auction sales to-day and tomorrow See advertisements. ~ The Bail way- Department :,adyertise. , e cursion fares for the Easter holidays. Mr J'R BarlHolomew; and solicitor, inserts a card in this issue. General Sib Hector Macdonald committed suicice at Parison the 25th ulti! ?ff\ The court sits at Clyde on Saturday, and on Monday and Tuesday at Alexandra. Messrs A and t Burt insert a change of advertisement on page eight of this issue. The ! Alexandra Borough ;Couhcil;invite applications for the position of borough dayman. Mr S. A Mills, watchmaker and jeweller; of r Aiexandra, """hai ' Wmbved*"'int&'" new premises in .Limerick street. i The members Ml the Vincent County Council wilt comrnience thefe tour of the southern portion lot the Coutoty on, April. 22nd.

Nonstable M'Quabbie, of Port Chalmers, will fill the vacancy on the police staff at' Clyde, caused by the retirement of Constable Pratt.- '-■■ ?

A bazaar will be held in the Alexandra Town Hall on Saturday and Monday, April 11th arid- I3th, in aid of the funds of the Medothlst-Church. The Mt; Ida Chronicle states that last week, Mr T Keenan, of St Bathans, was stricken with a paralytic stroke, and his condition is considered dangerous.

Geohge Fowlds, clothier (member f° r Grey Lynn), Auckland, was fined in the minimum penalty (£5) for a breach of agreement in the tailoring trade award. The Invercargill Licensing Committee have announced their intention not to grant conditional licenses in connection with sports or'publiic gathering! of any kind in futures '■'"•- --■-■--■ S.«h3* a It is started that a Palmerston North residdent recently invested £4O in a quantity of Chinese idols in Sydney, loot from Peking, and believed to:be bronze. To his delight, several of the articles have proved to almost puragold.c.- »■■'& &f~V J? Robert lait. M returned contingenterhas been making himself ridicu'ous at Auckland. He fell in love with a young woman: who refused him, whereupon Tait shot at himself five times, and missed every time. He fell to the ground uninjured. ; Wb were slightly in error in stating, in our last issue,' that the shooting season opens on May Ist. The season for Otago is gazetted to open on Ist,April and close on 30% June. Native game comprises duck, pukeko, pigeon acd kaka. For the rest colony the season begins on May Ist and closes oh 31st July. ; : An impudent robbery was perpetrated at Alexandra last Thursday, when Mr Wilson (of the firm of Callaghan and Wilson) was robbed of the sum of £9 15s. The money was contained in a bbpfe, in the pocket ; of Mr Wilson's f coat; which was hanging on the wall of the workroom. The police are investigating the case. I Because of certain remarks made by Mr Ritchie, Secretary of the Department -of Agriculture, in regaWl to the scandalous condition" of private/orchards throughout the colony, |I would fnolf be surprised were the Minister in charge of the department to introduce legislation in the coming session with the object of putting the fruitgrowing industry on a better footing. Mr Ritchie is firmly of opinion that drastic, steps are necessary to improve existing affairs. -

" Brandy and f oda " is all very well To drive a bad headache But is won't cure a cough as many can tell, Who have tried the right stuff and can say; The only thing they have found any use When colds they had to endure, • Is that which soon sends such ills to the deuce, ,: * . .:.••-;:>■•' Some ww*A' Q&firt ft&faatattt wt&ft

: v Ttro~,Talhape Post on ifcs eigiiity.:—* r In the ungentlernanly conduotdf ; fjfehibitga at a sooial oti Monday evening in abusing: the editofrbf this "Post:"; when, entrusted with the privilege of responding to the toast of • The Press," we have decided that in future this paper will not publish, a report of any function or meeting which Mr S is Considered good enough i to attend."

the pasaengew who arrived by the coach last ovenini? were Mr W Burnett (chairman of the Executive Committee of the Otago Central Railway League),-Mr E P'Esterre (special commissioner j f or., the Otago Daily Times) and Mr H Morris (" Otago Witness" photographer) who are making a visit of inspection along the Otago Central Railway route The partyis staying at the Bendigo Hotel and to-day will proceed to Cromwell en, route for Hawea. returning at the end of the week, when a few-days will-he 'spent in Alexandra^

We have evidently some ingenious rascals in the community (says the " North Otago Times "). The other day an Oamaru tradesman, who had a-penny-in-the-slot apparatus, discovered a penny in the till with two heads on it. The game of " twoup " is obviously in vogue, : and the penny in question has been clearly constructed 1 out of two, the pieces fitting so exactly that there was some difficulty in detecting the imposture.. With'a penny of this description the youthful gambler' could' make things lively for his opponents. He had apparently dropped this peculiar jiehny into the slot by mistake/' -..,.: : '

Mb Bkdfokd, M.H.R.. speaking to a representative of the Christchurch "Press "as to the impressions he formed of the Midland Railway line, said:—"The part of the country through, which it passes that i saw was nothing but a howling wilderness; The 1 few. miles from Paterson's Creek to Staircase Gully is nothing but a series of tunnels and culverts. At one place you ■ emerge from one tuunel, cross a culvert, for the foundation of which they have hadto sink about 30ft. and enter' another tunnel. I should say that the country through which the line passes will never feed it Then the proposed.six-mile tunnel will be a very costly undertaking. I saw the coal outcrop and certainly there are indications, of very good bituminous.'< coal in large, quantities, but it is very questionable wbe.tb.esthat will be sufficient to make the line pay. Of course, the difficulty in connections':with ;the line is that a very large amount of money haslbeen' sunk in it, and a good part of the most difficult''work baa been done—at 'any fate until tunnel is reached. > Candidly speaking, the line appears to me to be a .'blunder,.,'and is not within measurable distance of being reproductive. Tf'ifrwere being started now I could not imagine sane men ' undertaking it;" v The" "Tuapeka Times," in referring to the above, says "it would .be interesting• now to have a.correct account of his impressious of the Otago Central line, but no .doubt some,of the Northern, members will perform that: duty, in the House next session " - - The Heralo thinks it also would be. very .interesting to hear Mr Bedford's candid opinion of the proposed Lawrence-Roxburgh railway. -