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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 756, 17 July 1894, Page 4

Items crowded out. The County Council meets on Saturday at 10 30 a.m.

Mr Slater, surveyor, arrived here this afternoon.

A meeting of the Directors of the Dairy Company is to be held at the Council Chambers on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock.

We hope that the Council will, on Saturday, determine to do some tree planting on the South Bay Domain on Arbor Day. Next Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Mutual Improvement Society is ‘ Editor’s ’ night, but it is stated that other business, of a stirring nature, may be imported into the proceedings. The full programme to be given at the Benefit Entertainment in the Town Hall on Thursday evening will be found in another column. There is both quantity and quality in it. The cow-boy's exhibition on Saturday was very good as far as the material at their disposal went. The horses and cattle were not a hundredth part fiery enough ; the lassooing surprised the spectators. The many friends of Mr 0. L. Maclean resident here will be pleased to learn that that gentleman is about to revisit Kaikoura. He is expected down from Wellington on the return of the Wakatu from the North.

Our local coal merchant, Mr Goodall remembered a couple of aged residents not largely endowed with worldly possessions, and sent each of them a bag of the famous Coalbrookdale coal. His generous gift would be very acceptable at this season of the year.

Mr R. Brown is evidently making headway with ‘ Brown & Co’s Vegetable Bronchial Astringent.’ He telegraphed to Mr Burland on Saturday to forward a quantity of the Astringent to Wellington. We hope to hear of the specific coming into general use. The supply of gold railway passes to members of the Legislature—both Houses —is quite unnecessary. A neat watchpocket leather pass would answer the purpose equally as well, and at a fractional part of the cost. Why should the Colony provide some hundred and ten men with gold pendants for their watch chains ?

The S.M. missed the Wakatu on Sunday night. He will not hold Court here tomorrow, nor is it yet known when the sitting is to take place. Justices will hear the minor eases tomorrow.

Tke Wakatu came up this afternoon from Bort Robinson, where she had been since yesterday morning. Heavy sea prevented any work being done there. The Wakatu will not, it is understood, proceed to Wellington until she has landed cargo at Port Robinson.

The road leading out of the Conway up to Ferniehurst has again been washed away, and ordinary means of communication by dray are non-existent. Something of ajnore substantial nature should be done by the County Council next time, and, of course, as soou as possible. Some Councillors have, or had, an idea that the Council was asked to do road work on the freehold, but such is not the case. The proprietor is quite prepared to do his part of the work, so long as the Council provides an approach from the river—a convenience he is justly entitled to.