LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5, 6 January 1900, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

B.N.Z.— Mr J. B. Blair has been re.eleoted Ohairman of the Bank of New Zealand. Eduoitioniii.— The Misses Allen, of Pio- ' ton, notify that they are prepared to rooeive ipapila for tuition. The first term oomimenoeß on February Ist. -• Qabfiiiino.— The gasfilting at Mobbm Smale & Hay's new buildings was carried oat by Mr A. Leslie m his usual workmanlike manner. Special.— Messrs T. Watson & Co. invite inspeotion of their display of late summer millinery. A choice lot of remnants and oddments are to be cleared out at greatly reduced prioes. Shifted.— Mr D. P. Sinolair, barrister and solicitor, owing to alterations m the premises formerly oooapied by him, has raraoved bis office to the room m what was reoently the W.O.T.U.'s building, next Ewart's Viotoria Hall. A Stbokb of Fobtuhb.— Acoording to the Taranaki Herald, an tnveetor had a chare of gooa luok at the races on Tuesday. In the Sourry Stakes he intended eeouring ten tiokets on number 10, but m the exoite meat the money was put on number 1, Vibration, who won and paid a dividend of £4 Ba. Gold and Sjlvbb Exbobt. — The gold exported during the last year amounted to 389,685 ounces of the value of £1,513,242, an inoteaße of £482,551 over the previous year. The silver exported was 849,858 ounces, of the value of £40,288, an increase of £7181. The gold return is the highest einoe 1873. There are no mines working silver m the oolony, that exported being the product of gold mines. Brvxß Boibd Finance.— After an elaborate osculation, a member ol the River Board estimated last night that the liabilities incurred m oonneotion with the Overflow Flood Belief eoheme amounted to £6870, and, comparing this with the loan money (about £5000) there remained about £1800 to finanoe somehow or other. The inooming Board, he B&id, had a hard task m front of it. The Chairman thought that this calculation was rather excessive. The unoolleoted rates, he pointed out, amounted, roughly to £1300. The first member obBerved that that money wbb required for general work. The obairman remarked Maroh would Bee another rate bringing m £1500. Lobt m ihe Bosh.— A boy, three years of age, wandered away from its parenta m the Dunedin Botanio Gardens on New Year's Day. Though the child was only away a few minutes, when eearoh was made no traoe oould be found of it. It waß presumed that he had followed some other ohildren. On Thursday morning a resident of Leitb Street, attracted by b cry, eearohed the bush, and found the boy Bitting behind a tree. The little fellow, after being out three whole nights and two days and a half, was found to be very weak. He bad only one shoe on, and that had to be out away, as the foot was badly swollen. Medical men think the little fellow will soon be all right again. John Bull's Little Account.— A Boer, shortly after the Jameson BBid, was loudly asserting that they oould easily drive the English before them m headlong oonfueion. An Afghan, a resident of Johannesburg, quietly remarked : "We understand tbe great English m our ooantry, you people do not. Sometimes we have a little trouble, and they Bend a few men, and we tripe them out. A little time goes on, and they send another lot, and wo wipe them oat ; and yet again we wipe out another lot, and we say we have finished with them. All this time the English have had a little book, putting it all down. They then add it up and come to us with a great force, and show us a little aooount, and say 'Pay,' and we have to pay. You have had Laiog's Nek— it's down m tbe little book. Majuba Hill— that's down m the little book. And Jameson's Raid— that, also, ia down m tbe little book, and it's all added up now, and you'll have to pay. Oh ! we know these English." The Late Mb Alexander Bolandebb.— lt is with great regret (writes a London oor. correspondent on November 24tb) that I have to reoord tbe death of Mr Alexander Bolanderß, formerly of Nelson, New Zealand, who passed away at hie reßidenoe at Olapham Common, on Saturday last, at the age of aixty-four years. Mr Solanders bad been for a loog time a resident m Lon. don, and was almoßt always to ba met at tbe periodical colonial gatherings, of which the Royal Colonial Institute are the oooasional oentreß, as well as at the apeoial city functions having relations to oolonial matters. Mr Solanders was greatly reapeoted m the oity, and the news of his death has been received with sinotro sorrow.

Amunao. — Mr John Hutoheson, the looal agent of the New Zealand Insurance Com pany, sends us a neat otfioe oalendar for 1900. Thi Laib Ghnbbal Wauohopb. — The correspondent ot one of the Australian dailies writing from De Aar, m referring to the late General Wauohope, of the High, land Brigade, who fell at the battle of Magersfontein, says that the last time be Baw the distinguished offioer, was immediately prior to bis departure for the front. <« The General," he says, " passed my tent on hiß way to the burial ground, below the hills, a natural garden of sleep, where for the time being, at any rate, the peace of the dead hushes the strife of the living, He was attending the funeral of a Boer prisoner taken wounded, and the r«« mainß were buried to the tones of the splendid liturgy of the English Ohurob, while the Gordon Highlanders, m their tartan kilts, formed a firing party. An impressive Bervioe it was— all military honours paid to a prisoner of war, with even greater reverenoe than to one of our own men." Poliob Bbtoenb. — The police returns for Blenheim for 1899 show a decrease m the total number of oases as oompared with those of 1898. In 1899 168 arrests were made or summonses issued, the number m 1898 being 188, Of the 168 obbbb m 1899 25 were either discharged or dismissed, 143 oonviotions being reoorded. Of the tottl number of oases only 8 wereoharges against females. The prinoipal offenoes dealt with were ; AbpbuU, 4 ; assault with intent, 1 theft, males 9, females 1 ; arson, females 1 receiving stolen property, 1; breaches ol Borough by-laws, 15 ; breaohes of various Aots, Btook Aot, 2 ; Babbit Aot, 2 Agrioul--tural and Pastoral Beturns Aot, males 8, females 4 } Shops and Shop Assistants Aot, 1 ; Gaming and Lotteries Aot, 2 ; Impounding Aot, 1. The obeob of drunkenness were 59 m number, disorderly oonduot 7, and one each of the following, drunk whilst m oharge of a horn, begging, indeoenoy, illegally on premises, and no visible means of support. During the year three applications were made tot protection orders. The number of prohibition orders applied for was 29, of whioh 25 were granted, four being withdrawn. The number of civil summonses isßned was 816 for £3016 12s sd, of whioh £1608 5s 8d was reoovered.