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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 144, 6 August 1880, Page 3

Messrs Sharp and Pickering report the sale of the Manaroa Ilun, Pelorus, toMrF. Suisted, for ill 800. The Blenheim Rifle Volunteers will meet for inspection on Tuesday evening next, at FiWart’s Hall, after which the annual meeting will be held. The Sprink Creek Boad Board and the Rivers Board met on Wednesday last. Want of space compels us to hold over our report of the proceedings until next issue. Mr Kenneth Campbell, agent for the Australian Mutual Provident Association which is admittedly one of the most flourishing institutions of the kind ever started, is now on a visit to Blenheim.

The new Good Templar Lodge at Richmond (Nelson) was instituted on Tuesday night, in the presence of a large number of members of the Order from Nelson and Stoke. . Mr C. J. W. Griffiths announces that he will sell by public auction, on Wednesday the 18th instant, Mr T. O’Sullivan’s residence in Maxwell Hoad, together with the household furniture and effects.

A little boy, a son of Mrs Chuck, of Maxwell Hoad, whilst playing at leap-frog with another hoy, on Saturday last, fell and dislocated one of his elbows. Dr Cleghorn was sent for immediately after the occurrence, and wc are glad to hear that the patient is progressing favorably. Mr J. H. Martin, of Blenheim, school master, has filed a declaration of his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting will he held at the District Court House on Wednesday next at 11 o’clock. Mr Sinclair is the debtor’s solicitor.

The Spring Creek Hoad Board intend forming a byelaw compelling the owner or occupier of land adjoining a public road to keep the ditches on the sides of the road clear of all growth and other obstructions ; shouhi any person neglect or refuse to clear such ditches after receiving notice from the Board, a penalty of so much per day will be inflicted for every day the work remains nn done, which amount will be recoverable in a court of law.

At the Resident Magistrates’ Court, Havelock, yesterday, Neils Hansen, charged with stealing a Bank deposit receipt for £3OO was discharged.—Messrs Brownlee and Co. were fined Is for selling liquor without a proper license. (They claimed the right to sell under tho Distillation Act). —Thomas and William Doreen, charged with assaulting the police, were discharged.

Mr E. Purser invites everybody to become a freeholder, or all events, to run the chance of becoming oneby purchasing goods at either of Mr Purser’s town stores to the value of 20s, which will entitle the customer to a ticket in an art union, in which two valuable building sites in the Borough of Bleuheim are offered as prizes. On or about the 14th September next a committee will be selected from the ticketholders, under whose management the drawing for prizes will take place at Ewart’s Hall on a day of which due notice will be given. We expect to hear of a large number of tickets being taken up in the course of a few days. At the meeting of creditors in the assigned estate of Mr George Stevenson, held on the 3rd instant at the Court House, when the crediiors assented to a deed of arrangement, the following resolutions were agreed to :—Proposed'by Mr Johnson and seconded by Mr Lawrence —‘ That the debtor be allowed the book debts for his own use and benefit.” Proposed by Mr Robinson, seconded by Mr Johnson—- “ That the trustee wind up the estate, and declare a first and final dividend, and that the trustee advise the creditors on tho schedule who have not claimed that unless they do so on or before the 6th instant (to-day) they will not participate in the dividend to be declared.”

In reference to a remark made by Mr Sinclair at the last meeting of the Borough Council as to the reason of so few tenders having been sent in for street works, we have taken the trouble to make enquiries and have been informed that a number of men would be glad to tender if they had horses and drays of their own, but they cannot miiko the work pay if they have to hire. The same information is furnished by private firms who have been surprised at finding a difficulty in getting men for small contract jobs, the reason given being that the men have not got horses and drays. For ordinary pick and shovel work plenty of men can be got. We take the following quotations of Marlborough wool from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company s circular of 17th June ;— Combing halfwashed, 20 bales not sold, light grease, 55 bales 1 lid, Do 3 do lOd, Upton Downs. Scoured Ist 1 bale Is llid, do 2nd, 1 bale Is 4d, do 3rd 1 bale Is sd, Fulton. Greasy 1 bale Is lid, Pike ; do 3 bales Is, Fulton. Combing, 3 hales, not sold, W. Douslin ; Greasy, combing, 4 bales lid, Wratt ; Greasy combing, 4 bales lid, W. Soper; Light greasy combing, 21 bales Is Id, crossbred combing, 10 bales Is 3d, pieces, 8 bales 9d, C. Redwood. Super combing hoggets, 12 bales, not sold, light gieasy superior combing, 20 bales Is Id, do 20 bales, not sold; superior combing, 11 bales Is lid do 4 bales Is, light greasy combing, 3 bales llid, Benopai. Cross-bred combing, 29 bales Is Id, 21 do Is, pieces, 5 bales Sid, Woodbourne. Greasy, superior combing, 93 bales Is Oid, 1 do damaged, Is, pieces, 9 do Sid, Seymour. We take the opportunity of reminding our venders that this evening a vocal and instrumental concern in aid of the principal sufferers by the late fire at Itenwick Town will take place. The programme appears in our advertising columns and appears to have been selected in excellent taste. Several ladies and gentlemen amateurs will give their assistance on this occasion, and Herr Norbcrg has tendered his services as conductor. The merits of the performance promise to be of a high order, and it is almost unnecessary to repeat that the object for which the concert is held appeals to the sympathy of every one in the community. We feel sure that the public will respond by filling the Hall to overflowing by which a handsome amount will be raised. It will be remembered that one of the principal sufferers lias himself on former occasions given time and trouble in assisting at public entertainments got up for charitable purposes, and now that lie and bis companions are in want of assistance, it will be a graceful act to make some return. We feel snre that all present will enjoy the entertainment, and will go away with the pleasant feeling that by their presence they have aided good cause. Early on Tuesday morning the dwelling of Mr T. Eden, at Waimca West, was completely destroyed by fire. Unfortunately, Mr Eden was only insured to the amount of LISO. of which LIOO was effected in the Norwich Union upon the building, and LSO in the same office upon the contents.— Colonist.

The shareholders of the D’Urville Island Copper Mining Company held their annua meeting last Friday evening in the Panama Chambers. Mr W. G. Jackson, who occupied the chair, stated that the auditors’ report had not yet been received. He invited an explanation of the circumstance. Mr Marks, one of the auditors, said his coadjutor, M r Nancarrow, had been ill, and this caused a delay in the preparation of the balance sheet. Mr White had, however, consented to act in his place, and the financial statement could be presented at an adjourned meeting. The election of directors was then proceeded with, and resulted as follows :—Mr Krull was rc-elect-rd, Messrs C. Redwood, Finnimorc, J. B. Harcourt, and Lord were also appointed to the directorate. Messrs Marks and Nancarrow were re-elected as auditors, and the meeting then adjourned tili Tuesday.—Post.

The waole of the elson exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition, not previously forwarded, were despatched by the Hawea yesterday morning. In addition to a fine collection of minerals, produce, &c., from tho district, there are being sent a number of admirable paintings. An exhibit consisting of at least 20 tons of ferns, shrubs, &e., is being forwarded by Mr J. Dahl, and as these latter are being sent packed with their native soil about them, they will on transplanting at once form an imposing contribution, as some of them are over 30ft in height and weigh over a ton. — Colonial. Holloway's Pills— Eor the cure of debility bile, liver and stomach complaints this inappreciable medic’ ie is so well-known in every part of the world and the cures performed by its use are so wonderful, that it now stands pre-eminent above all other remedies, more paiticular for the cure of bilious and liver complaints, disorders of the stomach, dropsy, and debilitated consitution. In these diseases; ie beneficial effects of the Pills are so pe in it that the whole system is renewed the o o .iiis of digestion strengthened and a free respiration pro noted. They expel from the secretive organs and the ciroul tion the morbid matter which produces inflammation pain fever, debility and physical decay—thus annihilating, by their purifying properties, the virulence of the most painful and devastating diseases