THGE KAIKOURA STAR KAIKOURA, APRIL 27, 1894.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 733, 27 April 1894, Page 4

THGE KAIKOURA STAR KAIKOURA, APRIL 27, 1894.

Hack Race Meeting programme will be published on Tuesday. Report of meeting, held last night, will be found on page 6. Football Club revived here, with likelihood of the game being well supported.

Kaikoura thanks Mr Buick for his efforts in improving road communication with Blenheim.

Member for Ashley being urged to have dray road communication between Kaikoura and Cheviot established. Miss Overend died in Dunedin on Wednesday. Her remains were buried in Chiistchurch today. The Inspector's report on the Town School is of an exceedingly flattering nature— all the Teachers receiving very high praise. Westport resident obtained verdict for £250 against a local doctor for unskilful and negligent treatment. Protest entered by Kaikoura residents against this district being included in the Ashley Licensing District. Tbongh late in the day, and no of now value for about three years, it supports the action taken by Mr Renner (and supported by Mr Inglesby) last July, when the local Total Abstinence partly favored large districts, as at present. Of course this is not stultification ; it is only a ease of changing one’s views, finding that one was mistaken, formerly.

The Premier and the Wellington Post have had a tilting match. The former issued orders that no representative of the Post should be admitted to the Government Buildings—at all events, one of its reporters was refused admission thereto—but after the Editor of the Post had written a couple of letters to the Premier, and published an article condemnatory of the Premier's position, the ‘ boycott ’ was withdrawn, and things are ‘ as they were.’

Madame Carandini is dead. A once sweet singer she was the adored of the early gold seekers of Australia, and her name was a tent word all through the land. From Ballarat to Lambing Flat, from Melbourne to Sydney her voice was heard in sweet melody during the fifties and early sixties, and then she followed the rush of gold seekers to New Zealand, establishing her sway on this side the ‘middle ground' as in Australia. Madame had a small but highly efficient company, of which her daughters were prominent members, and those who heard them will never forget. The gifted Rosini (Mrs Palmer) was in Milton only the other day. Isabel (Lady Campbell) is in Wellington, a teacher of singing, and Fanny (Lady Morland) is in England. To her, eventually, Madame Carandini went, and it was there she died, as per cable advices recently received at Melbourne. The death of Madame Carandini severs another link that binds us to the past.— Bruce Herald. Mr Peter Trolove, Woodbank, Clarence, who, with characteristic energy, has imported from America, what is termed a Railway 2-horse power, writes us as follows concerning the machine : The machine, to look at, is something like a horse box for shipping horses. When the horses are in this box they are standing on an endless p'atform : one end of the box being tilted up makes an incline of about one in five or six. The brake on the flywheel being released, the endless platform starts to move downwards, and the horses have to start walking forward to keep themselves from falling. Many people were under the impression that these horse powers were cruel and hard on horses, but my experience is just the opposite of this, and I am surprised at the amount of power two horses produce. I find with two trap or hack horses I can cut chaff'half as fast again as I did with three draught horses in the old sweep power; and lam now sawing up all the firewood I require, which I find a great saving of labour. No driver is required, and any horse that can walk will do for this railway power ; which cannot be said for the sweep power. Any one interested may inspect an illustration of the machine at the office of this paper.— Express.

More ‘ Hobson’s Choice' School Committees! Just one householder in excess of the required number present at the Suburban School meeting, and so the consent of seven was obtained without much trouble. At Waiau, however, it was literally a case of going out into the ‘ highways and by-ways ’ to secure the assent of a seventh candidate. The Kaikoura and Waiau folk are, it may be argued, quite content with the manner in which school matters are proceeding in their respective districts. Government been offered property of 7000 to 8000 acres, near Fielding, at price equal to Government valuation for adjacent land.

Mr Meredith, M.H.R., has been elected Chairman of the North Canterbury Education Board. The office is filled in rotation by members of the Board, and it is now Mr Meredith’s turn.

Government promised Ballance Memorial Committee to take opinion of House as to placing monument of late Premier in Parliament grounds. Mr Seddon regrets nothing tangible done in recognition of memory of late Sir Harry Atkinson. The opening of the Mutual Improvement Society’s third session is to be deferred for a fortnight—namely, on the 15th instead of Ist of May. Not, of course, that it would have been viewed as a ‘ May Day ’ celebration in the Continental sense.