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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 735, 4 May 1894, Page 4

Messrs Maxton & Co. report having sold at their monthly sale, on the 2nd inst., a line of 136 lambs at 4s Id. Cows sold at £4 15s to £6; light draught horses from £8 to £lO.

Mr W. 11. Boyens returned from Christchurch yesterday, where be had been attending the Conference of the Shearers’ and Laborers’ Union. The designation of the organisation has been altered to that of ‘ The Worker's Union.’ Mr Powell, Dentist, left for Blenheim last week. Though busily employed from daylight until after midnight for several days before he left, there were still other cases for him, but engagements in Blenheim necessitated his return thereto. He anticipates revisiting Kaikoura shortly. During the course of some very heavy’ squalls under Mt Fyffe last week Mr Brunel’s residence was blow over, and the roof of his saw mill carried off. Fortunately he, and the members of bis family, had left his dwelling when it was overturned, having previously sought shelter in the bush.

A short length of track connecting Deal Street, at the intersection between Mr Win. Gibson’s and Mr Hitchcock's, with the Post Office Cutting would be highly appreciated by residents concerned. In wet weather they now find it rather dangerous when traversing the water-worn lines, and hope that nature will not, as at present, continue to be their only friend.

We are indebted to Mr Alex Arber for a sample of the splendid apples grown iu the Inner Clarence. The fruit is of an enormous size, and of excellent quality. The climate on the western side of the dividing range is, generally, much warmer and more genial than on this, though over and on the ‘divide’ they get plenty of snow in winter.

On Saturday Mr A. W. Ingles dealt with tenders received by the County Clerk, for Works, as follows: —Delivering metal on Davidson's Road : 11. Schroder (accepted), lOi-d per yd; J. Boyd, Is; Howard and Chapman, Is; J. Mclnnes, Is lid. Delivering metal on Cemetery Road : H. Schroeder, (accepted), lOid per yard; Howard and Chapman, Is Id; J. Boyd, Is Id; J. Mclnnes, Is lid. The New Zealand Tablet says: ‘We specially deprecate the craze which forces our boys into miserable billets in the towns. We would wish to see parents alive to the importance of p'acing children in a position in which they can with persevering industry become independent. The land of the colony is being opened up and large holdings are daily subdivided. Why do not parents turn the attention of their children more to farming, in which there is some prospect of securing a good living and a comfortable borne ?’

At a banquet tendered the Minister of Lauds, at Palmerston, Otago, the Treasurer, on responding to the toast of the Ministry, expressed the opinion that there was no necessity for the Colony to borrow at present, or for some time to come. He informed the meeting that the Colony's 34 per cent stocks were now approaching 1004. They were over 100|, a thing wniph had never happened before. Regarding the surplus for the past financial year, he declared that not one payment had been kept back by the Government, and that their liabilities at the end of the financial year were never as low as at the present time.

The danger of treading on nails, particularly rusty ones, is pretty well known, and the death of a young man, in the N. Island, from lock-jaw, caused by such an accident, is reported. The wound at first appeared to heal, but on the sixth day the patient became worse, and died in a few hours. Neglect is often the cause of fatal consequences in such cases, while proper attention generally produces satisfactory results. A case in point occurred here the other day. Mr C. Evans had the painful misfortune to tread on a very rusty nail on the floor of bis sheep dip. The nail was not only rusty, but dirty, and Mr Evans wbs occasioned much pain for a few days, but the unremitting attention of Mrs Evans, who acted, immediately, on the directions of the Rev Mr Ensor, and, subsequently, those of Dr Fraser, soon led to Mr Evans’ foot recovering. Here we see one instance of the worth of a good wife. The young man who died in the North recently was, unfortunately for himself, unmarried. Young men here will, probably, draw their own moral from this fact, and get married —to a good wife. Hum —the excitement in the local matrimonial market may be be viewed as a safeguard. Be that as it may, it as well to be careful not to tread on nails—clean or rusty. Prevention you know, young men, is better than cure. A meeting of the Library Committee was held on Wednesday evening, Messrs Robertshaw (Chairman), J. H. Cooper, Flower and Smart being present. Mr Flower handed in a list of subscribers in arrears, and it was resolved that the instructions of the annual meeting respecting refusal of books to persons in arrears should be given immediate effect to. Mr Smart stated that he had attended at the Library for meetings on each first Wednesday of the month since January, but no meetings had taken place for want of a quorum. The Treasurer reported about £5 in hand.

Mr J. Prince has been earning credit for himself for the excellence of the wedding cakes he has produced recently. That supplied Mr and Mrs Wilfred Morris is declared, by one who knows, to be equal to any obtainable in the best confectioner’s shops in Christchurch. Europeans of Kaikoura are not the only residents of the place marrying and being given in marriage. Within the past week two Maori marriageshave been celebrated, the contracting parties being, respectively, James Norton and Jane Starkey, and George Willa and Ellen Maraetaia. Trial is to be made by Mr B. Saville, proprietor of the Calliope Cycle Manufactory, Christchurch, of the contrivance invented by Mr W. H. Boyens for improvements in the driving mechanism of bicycles. A machine is in course of construction to test the value of the invention. We hope that it will prove thoroughly satisfactory. Messrs Flower (Chairman), Maxton, and Renner were the only members of the Town School Committee in attendance last evening, and, not constituting a quorum, no business was done. The Master’s report showed 160 pupils on the roll (an increase of 5), giving an average attendance of 138'1, and a percentage of 86 2. The highest attendance during the period was 147. (We are informed that Mr Mclnnes reached the School before 7.30, and, not seeing any lights, conjectured there would not be a meeting last evening') —C. Mills, jeweller, has a special notice regarding display of wedding presents. Maxton & Co. sell Queen’s Birthday racing privileges on Monday at 3 p.m. —Rabbit poisoners wanted at The Reserve on Monday