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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 150, 27 August 1880, Page 3

Mr Rose, Post-office Inspector, has been on an official visit to the district during this week. A dividend of 20s in the Pound is declared payable in the estate of David Bishell to all creditors who have proved their debts. A large number of tickets have been sold for the "amateur performance on Monday next at the Picton Assembly Hall in aid of the sufferers by the late fire at Ron wick Town.

Mr Cl. J. W. Griffiths will sell to-morrow (Saturday) commencing at 2 o’clock a quanPtyof trees, plants, shrubs, etc., the last consignment of the season, and also a quantity of useful household furniture.

The nomination of a candidate to fill the seat at the Marlborough County Council for the Omaka Riding took place at noon to-day at Renwicktown. The only eandididate nominated was Mr A. J. Litchfield, who was declared duly elected.

Attheß.M. Court yesterday, before H. Mefntire, Esq., R.M., John Watson was charged with being drunk on the previous day in Alfred Street, and pleaded guilty. Constable White stated that the man was staggering along the street and got in the way of a horse and cart. \\ hen taken into custody lie declined to go along with the Constable, who took him up in his arms and carried him to the station. The accused was discharged with a caution.

Mr Donslin has prepared plans for a new Catholic Church at Tua Marina. The site is near to the railway station and the building will be a neat and appaopriate structure. The body of the church will be 20ft by 3fift, having at the entrance a porch 6ft by Bft, and at the side a sachristy 12ft by 10ft. The time for receiving tenders extends to Friday next, and we understand that alrady a large number have been sent in.

The nomination of members to serve in the Picton Borough Council will take place on Thursday next, and should there be more persons nominated than is required to fill the annual vacancies, an election will be held on the 9th September. The retiring members of the Council are Messrs Fuller, Seymour, and Thompson, and although all arc eligible for re-election, we are informed that one at least, and probably two, of the retiring members will decline to serve again.— Press. The ketch Ocean Queen is, we are glad to hear, safe and sound at Ocean Bay, Mr Aldridge’s pface. She and her crew had a narrow escape during the late heavy gale, but instead of drifting out to sea, as Mr Bailiff apparently thought she had done, she drifted under the White Bluff', aud just saved herself and those on board, only escaping as a sailor would say “by the skill of their teeth,” After the first intelligence of the occurrence up to the time of the receipt of -Mi' Silvias’ telegram from White’s Bay, great anxiety was felt as to the fate of the vessel and her crew.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of Mr A. Ward, surveyor, was held at the Court-house on Wednesday last, Mr 8. Johnson in the chair. The following debts were proved—A. Mason LG /sSd, Joseph Ward L 9(), M. Healy Ls : 2s, C, Markmann L 7 4s, T. H. Host wick L 3 Os 9d, . B. Kuril L 23 6s 2d, S.' Johnson (for H. Johnson) LI 4s, W. B. Girling L2O 7s 7d, Jas. Macintosh L 24 15s. Messrs Stenhonse, J. Ward, and W. B. Girling ’ were appointed trustees of the estate and effects of the debtor. Tho liabilities are set clown at L 350, and the assets at L2OO. The Kaikoura correspondent of the Express is evidently very wroth at a statement made by our correspondent—which by the way was wrongly stated to be “ our own,” being only a “ casual ”, one—as to the action of the newly; elected Hoad Board m the matter of advertisements. He is pleased to say our journal is not attractive enough for Kaikoura,i If this were true we should bo sorry for it. We endeavor to make it attrictive, and we know that our efforts in this direction are not unappreciated. Probably what would be attractive to the jEr/wm’ correspondent and hi* tail, would be offensive.and even digusti.ng_.to the more intellectual portion of the district. Copious extracts from the Police iVei os. Pell's Life, <(■<■'., and so forth, with all their graphic and hideous details, would doubtless come nearer to his ideas of attractiveness than an impartial chronicle of matters affecting the interests of the districts in which'our paper circulates. As regards the sneers’flUWg"ilt"'6ur' own correspondent’ we leave it to him to reply to them or not as he thinks best.:.-He is quite able to defend himself. The .statement made as to the two or three copies of our paper,■ which ard sufficient for the district, is simply a malicious fabrication, thoroughly characteristic of the man who made it. The commission

and auction business at Kaikoura must be at low water when this knight of the hammer has nothing hotter to do than to attempt the task, in which lie will not succeed, of “knocking down” cur correspondent. When the proposed new paper is started at Kaikoura what a happy time the man will have who runs it !

In our last issue wo published a telegram briefly announcing the sudden death of Mr Richard Hutchinson, of Havelock. The following additional particulars are taken from the Press : —On the morning of the 24th instant, Mr lliclia d Hutchinson, sour., landlord of the Masonic Hotel, left his residence as usual, and went to his garden, situated about a mile distant. Mr T. Brown had been carting manure there, and about! 1.30 a.rn. both lie and deceased left for the purpose of returning. Mr Hutchinson himeelf shut the garden gate and got into Brown’s cart unassisted. They had gone about a chain distance when Brown noticed deceased had fallen back. This was in the immediate neighborhood of Mr Scott’s brewery. Mr Scott immediately went with some water and sprinkled, deceased’s face, who was then seen for the last time to make any movement. He was irnmeditely taken to his late residence, where Dr Riley was in attendance; but life was extinct. The supposed cause was b r.ri disease, and for some time past Mr Hutchinson lias been under medical treatment. He was connected with th( Brotherhood of the Mystic Tie, in other words a Free and Accepted Mason, and it is a matter of regret that there is no organised body of that ancient and honorable order here, so that due respect might be paid to his obsequies. Mr Hutchinson was buried on the 26th inst, and the funeral was attedded by Freemasons, who acted as bearers and pallbearers.

There lias been a good' deal of' activity over the coal find this week, and parties wishing to take part in the developement of the coal have been engaged in pegging out the ground and taking other measures to obtain the legal right to secure themselves before commencing active work. There are rumors of further valuable finds, but as we can only speak from hearsay, we are unable to say what truth there is in the many reports. In 'Wellington they have the following on the coal field and its prospects : —“ The seam of coal is said to be 14 feet thick, and crops out on the side of a hill close to deep water. It should, therefore, be very easy to work. Should the discovery prove all that is anticipated, there is iio doubt that it will be of great value to Wellington as well as Picton. It is estimated that the coal could be brought across for 7s fid per ton freight, and assuming that it canid be sold at the pit’s mouth for 12s, which would be a fair average price, it could bo delivered on the Wellington wharf at LI per ton. It is intended to send over a cargo of about 50 tons to Wellington as an experimental shipment.”— Press.

Marriage With a Deceased Wife’s Sister. —The Home Secretary lias consented to present to her Majesty a memorial from over 200 mayors and ox-mayors of England and Wales in favor of the abolition of the restrictions to marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. The memorial, which is in the form of a large album bound in morocco, each signature occupying a distinct place, is headed with the signatures of the Lord Mayors of London and York, and prays the Royal countenance to the removal of the restrictions complained of.

No. 2 Siamese Twins.—Another case of Siamese twins is reported. An English paper s a ys : —A birth of an extraordinary character has occurred in the small fishing place of Instow, North Devon. A poor woman, the wife of a thatcher named Graydon, has just given birth to female babies joined together from the breasts down to the abdomen. They are perfect in every respect else, having a head each and two hands, two legs and trunk, and it is believed a separate existence. They lie in bed beside the mother facing each other, and are very much alike. They are well and healthy, but are slightly thinner than when they were hern a day or two ago. The mother does not think ore of them will live, and she is anxious least one should die and the other live. The neighbours and local doctors however, believe the infants will live. It is a more wonderful case than Siniese twins, and is exciting great interest in the neighbourhood.

Shot Like a Dog.—According to the Yienna “ Allgemeine Zeitung, ’ a painful tragedy occurred recently during the transport of a convey of convicts to Siberia. Among the convicts was a Polish nobleman who had been convicted of high treason but who had been allowed to take his young motherless boy, ten years old, with him in his banishment. On the way the boy fell ill, and the father asked the officer in charge of the guard to allow him to hire a waggon for his son., The father grow earnestm his entreaties, and as the soldiers forced him back into bis place in the melancholy procession, he in his excitement tried to snatch' a rifle from a soldier when he was immediately shot dead before the eyes of his horrified son.