The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, July 28, 1904

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 428, 28 July 1904, Page 4

The Herald. Alexandra, Thursday, July 28, 1904

Wb understand that Mr Be»k has sold his well-known horse, The (.gar, to an Invercargill buyer, at a satisfactory figure. Foa one guinea a marriage agenoy advertising in the Melbourne 'Age* offers to unite couples at any hour between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m., providing a genuine clergyman and a guaranteed gold wedding ring. This Mount BengerMail states that Mr W Bain lately had the misfoitune to lose no less than 32 eheep through over-feeding on turnips. Several other sheep farmers of the district have also suffered from similar causes,

-It was suggested in the Upper House on Thursday that, notwithstanding the £IOO poll tax, there was an abnormal influx of Chinese into the colony at the present time Colonel Pitt said inquiries were being made and ,i f L i<! proved so Berionß . consideration would be given to the question of increasine the poll tax;. B

A aooAL Chinese celebrity describing a reoent theft of poultry stated the birds stolen were "two she-fowls and a cock aaoK.

A* Monday night's meeting of the Alex, andra Borough Couaoil, it was resolved that the Library Committee be empowered to procure new books for the Library to the ▼aloe of £ll. :- " ■

As last week's meeting of the Waste Land* Board, District Surveyor Wijmot forwarded a report on the application by John !*»- a B™ lD B Hcease over an area of SSuf I '™? te » Io & **• Waning Bock district The application was grafted at a rental of 10s per acre.

*«f *u ZK 4 ? *• «>w»trj want to Lyttel- *£ 5? ot £ e '<% | or *e Purpose of " seeing under his notice was the Harbour Board's 9dge ' which lB in scooping up the sea bottom for the general mprovem<H»t of the harbour. Apparently it pooled him. Finally he addressed himself tea city man who happened to be 5S ang .. 8 S me 8hi PP»g business in the iSft u S »y. he remarked, how many buckets does that blamed ship carry I Ive been looking at it for the last twenty minutes, and have counted a thou!!Si.! b l!™ ha T en '' come to the end of them yet 1 -—•• Truth.

Messrs Hewitt Bros, intimate by advertisement in this issue, that they have, taken over the tailoring business earned on in Alexandra for some years past by Mr J. Smith, and they solicit a continuance of the patronage bestowed in the past. As a result of last, year's heavy tnow storms, the sheep farmers of Otago and Canterbury lost 216,60? sheep, valued at £164,318. The Minister of Lands, who was approached in the matter by a deputation, thought that those who had suffered these losses sho-jld be compensated by a lengthen* ing of the period of their leases. Never in the history of British emigration has there been such a rush as is now taking place to the farm lands of Western Canada. At the rate of over 2000 a week, some of the most enterprising citizens of the United Kingdom are being driven by hard times and the scarcity of work to seek their fortunes in the undeveloped lands of the great North American Dominion. • .