The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, March 17, 1904

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 410, 17 March 1904, Page 4

The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, March 17, 1904

St. Patrick's Day. The Assessment Court sits at Alexandra on Monday, 18th April. The Xince'nt County Council meets at 'Clyde on Wednesday next. The Kail way Department advertise ex« cursion fares for the Easter holidays in this issue. The Alexandra Poultry Farm will be open for public inspection on Thursday afternoon next from 2 to 6 p, m. The annual meeting of the Alexandra Football Club is called for Saturday evening next, at 8 p.m., at the' Criterion Club Hotel. Messrs Young, Buchanan and Co. will sell by public auction on the 31st inst.. furniture and effects on account of Mr A C Perkins. The Agricultural Department is expending £2OO on prize poultry in England. The fowls will be here before next breeding season. The Alexandra Rifles shooting team left yeasterday,to take part in the match for the Goldfields Challenge Shield, to be fired a* Arrowtown to-day. ,; ' Mr Herdman, member for Mt Ida, intends to visit various parts of the electorate next month. He will deliver an address at Opbir, probably about April 9th. New Zealand millers announce arise of. 10s to 15s per ton on flour. It is stated that wheat has jumped in price in London and America about 4s per quarter, and that at the figures now ruling it will pay to export. - A young man named John Robertson, «f Shingle Creek, was admitted to the Dunstan Hospital last week suffering from typhoid fever. He succumbed to-the disease on Thursday night last. - The body of a man with a pencil behind his ear, a pair of. shears in his right hand, and his pockets filled with gold, has been excavated at Pompeii. He is supposed to be a tailor who advertised well. Breakers ahead 1 the cold and rain Will soon be with us once-again, ' Soon Winter's breath will freeze the air, 8 For coughs and colds we must prepare, V Complaints that cause so much distress, 8 Yet everyone will soon confess £ That the remedy good and pure Is some* Woods' Great 'Peppermint Cure. -• * This month's sitting bf the Warden's and 0 .Magistrate's Court at Alexandra was a record one; The Court sat from 11 a.m, till fe 10 p.m. on Monday; from 10 a,m. till 10 p.m. on Tuesday; and again yesterday from » 10 a.m, till 7.3Q pirn. Owing tothe late hour when the business was completed, we are compelled to hold oyer a portion of oof • report of the proceedings till next issue.

We regret to have to record the death of Mr P. Walker, relict of the late Mr Pete! Walker, of this town. A short time since, the deceased lady met with an accideufc causing the fracture of an arm ; and subsequently an attack ot congestion of the lunjgs developed, to which she succumbed on Monday last, at the age of 61 yearn The body was taken to Dunedin for interment in the Southern Cemetery, beside the remains of her late husband. The late Mrs Walker had been a resident of Alexandra for a number of years, and was highly «*» teemed by all classes of the community. Lecttjbing at Riverton (says the " Western Star";, Mr Wragge, the weather prophet, upset the general opinion respecting the utility of the Aneroid barometer, the instrument in which the pressure of air is measured without the use of liquid. He said they would often have noticed that when the hand was at " set fair" tbey would have rain, and sometimes when it indicated rain they would have fine weather. This was due to the fact that in .reading it latitude had to be taken into consideration, The words "very dry, set fair, fine, change, rain, stormy,,' absolutely meant nothing, and should not be on the instrument. He had mentioned the a manufacturer at Home, but the reply wpa that the people wanted them, er<§. so they got them. The correct instrument to use was the tube with the column of mercury. Notwithstanding the rather unfavorstate of the weather, there was a good attendance of the public at the recreation reserve on Sunday last, when "Hospital Sunday" was held under the auspices of the Alexandra Brass Band and Volunteer Corps, A short service, appropriate to the occasion, was conducted by the Rev Mr Fitohett, after which a programme of- sacred selections was gone throueh by the Band. A collection was taken up on behalf "of the Hospital by Nurse Thompson and Mr Eelman (mayor of Alexandra), and a sum of nearly £ll was realised. The members of the Brass Band have the satisfaction of knowing that the result oi their efforts at Clyde and Alexandra will mean an addition to the hospital funds of about £3B, this be* ing approximately the amount that will be realised when the; Government subsidy it added to sums collected, ■