The Herald. Alexandra Thursday September 15

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 15 September 1904, Page 4

The Herald. Alexandra Thursday September 15

8 ! I ... . i A bazaar, in aid of the Pr(v»W*terf*»< Church, will be held in the Clyde town bai on September 22nd and 23rd. Mk C J Coombs, dentist, o f Duned'n. mur be consulted at Ophir on Friday, th' R<rh of September. A discovery of Epsomite, or pure Epsom salts, is reported to have been made bear the head of the Buller River. The C'yde and Mexandra Junior Football teams met at Clyde on Saturday lns», the game resulting in a win for Clvde by 7 points to 3. • Our Nevis correspondent writss that Mr« Elliott, has disposed of her business to ttt Hop°;ood, of ('olac Bay, at a satisfactory figure. .A correspondent informs us that at present there is a greater quantity of snow lyinsr on the mountains in the neighborhood of Lakes Wanaka and Hawea than has been the case for the past fifteen years, The football match for the R&nfurly' Shield, played between Wellington and Ofcago, last Saturday at Wellington resulted in a win for Wellington by IS p.vrjts to 13 pts.

It is stated that Mr Cassidy, a Christchurch solicitor, will be appointed to the Magisterial Bench, and that Mr Bishop, S M , will be transferred to Dunedin. Thk "Argus" says that the Hftlfya? House Hotel has changed hands, th* new proprietor being Mr Thomson of Lauder. Mr A E Lane, representative of Mew* Brown. Ewing and Co, will be in Alexandra from the 16th to the 20th. inst, with the newest and latest novelties in. ladies' and men's wear. The running of the coaches between Rotburgh and Alexandra has again been altered. The coaches will leave Alexandra on Tue.. days,' Thursdays, and Saturdays (the mail* closing at 12 noon). The coach returns on tbe alternate days. In future the mail for Danedin and ia'er. mediate stations will close at the Alexandra post office at 6 a.m. daily. Hitherto tha time of closing was 9 o'clock in the evening preceding the departure of the coach Owing to the impassable state of the roads between Lawrence and Boxburgh the Taylor-Oarringtoa Company could not travel that way with their impedimenta an t on Friday wired that they were compelled to postpone their visit to Alexandra for a month. A becoxtAß incident occurred at Manaia (near Hawera) last week. Some pigs wnre being removed from a farm in a dray, when they began to make the uproar that animals of the class usually do. The horso ',n the shafts took fright, got beyond con'rol, and dragged the dray into a dam, where the horse and pigs were drowned and the eart smashed up.

The " Daily Mail " tell 3 of soma extraordinary expedients which were r««o ted u> by Government agents to prevent. We being given for opponents in the bite Port \ gueso General Election. A popular trie was to prod an elector in the baok with long nail just, as he was on the point ovvoting, Turning furiously round, the elector would strike at the man nearest to him, and the usual end of the disturbance that followed would be the arrest of iho unfortunate voter. Officers of the Public Health Durmrt. ment in Wellington recently took .<«'inml<M of wall-paper from a house from which n consumptive patient had been- rerafn'ejl. On bein r oxim'nod bye baotoriologlstthe specimens were found to be literallyiteeating with tubercu e. bacilli.

News) from New Britain tell- crt the murder of ton Roman Oatholie and sia'ers. Slaves liberated by missionaries, unrier the leading of Tomave; the favorite boy, attacker! Father Rusher, 'Who was shot, with one of the sisteis who went to his assistance. Those killed at ot]9 station wore Bar.ire Rusher, rqiir brqihar* and ftvß sisters. Most of them- ,\vcro coma« hawka I. The punitive exhibition kill#d SC of the murderers.

This (Thursday) afternoon, Messrs Young, Buchanan and Co hold an important auction •ale of houwhold furniture and effects on behalf of Mr» Hansen Full particulars will be foand in our advertising columns. On Friday last, a fatal accident happened on the Halfway House dredge, the victim being an elderly man named James King. It appears that King came out of the engine bouse just as a sling of eoal was coming aboard, and was struck and s pinned against » Samson post, his body being so severely crushed that he died in a few minutes. An inquest was held on Saturday, the jury rereturning a verdict that no blame was attachable to anyone, the affair being a pure accident. A MSrtTSG of the Alexandra Jockey Club will be held on Wednesday evening next Tne chief business of the meeting will be to consider and finally pass the programme for the forthcoming race-meeting, and a full attendance is requested. Thb " Evening Star" says :—We understand that during the week an application will come before the Supreme Court having connection with a very old resident oi the Ot .go < 'entral district. The hearing will be of peculiar interest to inhabitants of the St Bathan's district. Thk " Cromwell Argus " says ;—We notice that our two contemporaries the " Dunstan Times "and the AIeXANDea HEEALD are having a controversy over the alleged misconduct of some of the Dunedin footballers, who visited Clyde on the Sunday morning following the Vincent match. The " Times " had a very hot i#r about the occurrence, and, from what we hear, made a conspicuous mountain out of an insignificant molehill. The charges are to be enquired into by the Rugby Union, and, for the credit of. football, we trust that the result will be to prove that our esteemed contemporary spoke stronger than was warranted by the circumstances. ' . On Friday and Saturday evenings last Mr Valentine Vousden (a monologue entertainer of exceptional ability) appeared before fairly large audiences at the Alexandra town hall. J£r Vouaden'a efforts were highly ap* predated, and we can racommend the entertainmemt to the public in other centres. ____________