LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Contributions', of produce, sweets, fancy goods, etc., are earnestly solicited for the Red .'-Cross sale to-isior-rbw. . ■

Colonel Davidson: 1X5.0., of the Peruvian army, who was recently on a visit to his parents in .Nelson, has been appointed attache with the Italian forces. —

: On Monday next, Anniversary Day-, Si. ' AndrewTis. i ■Presbyterian Sunday School will'hold:ah excursion to Torea, leaving Blenheim Jy the 8.30 a.m. train. .. ~-.s{.-. ■■,;;.. ■ *;• ■

i A ta?r.arj organised by tbe Canvastown Patriotic' Committee for the benefit of (ur wounded soldiers, will be opened in the Victoria Hall, Canvastown, on Satrrday next. The programme includes weight judging and guessing competitions, followed bj a sale of produce and stock. .

.Acting on the request of the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Churchy,of,;,New Zealand, Prof&sor Ilewitsdnj' master of Knox College, left Duiiegin to-day en route to Oanton' as depj(iy to the Canton Villages Mission >-; He expects to be aosent five months. ■'..-. .;

' Tliere w.as every evidence of' rough water in the, Straits to-day, <Jape Campbell,. , Gape Palliser, and Stephen's Island all reporting agitated conditions At 9 o'clock rain was, falling at, Christchurch, and showers . were,;y Reported at Cape I atliser . Southerly breezes predominated.; The highost temperature was 64' at Napier, and the lowest 48 at QueenstoAvn,. The Blenheim reading was 59. .

The Rev. C. J. Bush-King writes to a. frund in Cj-nedin: "1 am living luth other invalid officers in a house specially built for the Kaiser m a residence during his visit ,to Egypt after the war. A wealthy German subject built thei jhouse/. which' is most gloriously fitted up. When Egypt had been a ptured by Turkey and the war had ended in the Kaiser being the supreme ruler of this place, he was going on a tiiiimphal world tour, and this place was built as his Alexandrian residence." Mi Bash-King is .retvrn-mg.-to.New Zealand. '

Regarding its complaint about a leakage of oa.ble news, yesterday's iV;lison Colonist says:—"The result inquiry, removes the Telegraph. Ofnce from the matter entirely. It transpires that a junior official in another service, who became cognisant of the contents of the message m the course, of his duties and was doubtless ■elated] at the apparently good news it contained, incautiously imparted it to a friend, and, as good news does,'it travelled fast and far. The divulgence of the. information appears to'"■■-{have" been due to thoughtlessness, and there was no deliberate breach of confidence."

Nine tenders were received by the Nelson City tiSouncil on Friday "night for -the, ei'ectjijO'fl ai. a. ferro-concrete bridge over'the Maitai River in Trafalgar Street (states the Colonist). The Mayor explained the position createil ,by .the death of Mr Cawthron, who Jhad intended to defray the cost or the bridge as a- gift to the city. His will, which had been executed thirteen years ago, left practically the whole of his estate for a technical institute and museum, and contained no reference to the bridge avA other uncompleted gifts to the city which he had in .mind. It was decided to acquaint the, tenderers with the position, and return their deposits. At the- same meeting a letter was re:id from the tinderSecretary for Public "Works -.intimating that the proclamation in couueo tion with the Britannui Heights road had bo?n gazetted. The- Mayor said that _ this "matter was in tho ?;i.me; position as the bridge.

No good housewife can afford to be without STT.YRLAND'S Raking Powder—the most, economical ccm}:oi nd on the market.—Ad vt.

AVlten nsxt tho '"Jovernmcutsteanie.r Hineraoii goes south along the west coast, probably within the next throe weeks (says the Auckland Herald), she will 'take- from tho Manukau Harbor a quantity of oyster rock, which is. to be distributed in suitable localities in the Marlborough Sounds.

Ar. the end of May last a cable message of sympathy was st-nt by a Feilding father to Malta., whwe his soldier son was in liospital, wounded. Tho father has just received word from .his son that the cablegram readied the latter when he had been back some time in the trenches at Gallipoli. Tho cablegram left Feilding an May 29th, and was delivered on August 26th—or just .three months late!

At a recent meeting of the Board ot Agriculture, held in Wellington, the date of the collection of sheep ret ims was discussed <vith the Government Statistician (1.- Fraser). It was pointed cut that the most accurate means of ascertaining the number of sheep in the Dominion was to take the number actually shorn and the number of lambs tailed, and it was agreed to alter the headings of the collectors' forms in order to obtain this information.

At tlie Nelson. Anglican Synod on Monday (reports the Colonist) Mr W. Girling obtained leave to- bring up the report of the committee on the Weld Street vicarage. Certain arrangements were recommended; to the Trusts Board for repayment of loans, rent. etc. In speaking on this matter. Archdeacon Baker said the only joy he would have in leaving the diocese would be the joy of being free of the Wold Street vicai-age; and for the, nako.of the sanity of members of Synod he hoped the matter would be dealt with once and for* all. The, report and lecommendations were adopted.

"LINSE3IID COMPOUND*" for coughs and colds. Of proren efficacy for chest complaints.—Adrt:

, "Plie Nolson Anglican Synod on Monday passed the following motions, both of which were introduced by the Rev. G. A. Crossanan:—"That the Synod of the diocese of Nelson viewes with regret the inadequate i-epresen-t«tion given to Churoh of England chaplains at Trentham, in view of the fact Uiat the Church of England has the men ready and is willing to support them." "That this Synod views with alarm the spread of the gambling spirit in New Zealand, and particularly the use of raffles-for raising money for patriotic purposes; and that, this Synod use every effort to oppose all gambling, no matter for wiiat purpose."

A Feilding family who have* written regularly to their son and brother and who/ have grieved over his oftexpressed lament that he wished there was "an inward mail sometimes," leoeivedi a delightful surprise L-iKt week (s!.ws the Star). Their soldier boy wi-ote from the trenches, under date August 27tli • "I got a whopping big njiail, after four months' lac-k of il —43 letters, four postcards, and two newspapers, all in a heap! Everybo<ly guyed me, but they all wore wistful expressions. Yesterday afternoon and this morning my right section commander took'on my duties and I fi^-t down and read. I read until dn.vk yesterday and from daylight this morning."

The van which is to be used for horn« mission work was dedicated by the. Bishop of Nelson at the Diocesan Office grounds en Saturday moimng (states the Colonist). Tliere was a brief service, and the Bishop gave an address explanatory of, the, work in which it is proposed that tho van t.».\aH be engaged ;n .outljing parts of the diocese vhich. cannot ccnveniently be visited by • the, clergymen settled in tho viiirus centres. He acknowledged the # generosity of Miss Marsden in giving the van to the diocese, and «ud the vehicle was suitably named r.fter the Rev. Samuel Marsden, who' brought the Gospel to New Zealand when it was practically an unknown country. It is to put tin: van in the charge of Mi- J. W. Bloyce.

Correspondence which now comes from the front is enclosed in envelopes specnadly designed for the purpose They are of a pale green color, and are about six inches in size. The face of the envelope bears the printed inscription "On active service," and directions as to the mariner,, in which the envelope, is to be used. Printed on the flap of the envelope is the following::—"I certify on my.honor.that the contents of this envelope refer to nothing but private and family matters, " and this declaration is used by the writer who uses the envelope for his correspondence. Correspondence enclosed, in the envelope need not be censored regimenbally, but the contents are liable to examination at tho base.

Tlie first .-.{ a series of route marches, which it is proposed to in-s-titute with a view to encouraging every mian, whether of military aae or not, to get fit, took place at Wellington on Sunday (reports Tho Dominion). It was an experiment j made by those members of executives I of various bodies interested in the! movement, with a view to deciding the best lines on which to conduct such marches. Tlie route followed was Oriental Bay, Evans Bay, Lyall Bay, and back to town via. Honghton and Island Bays and Newtown. Several groups of young men, paint■ng their yachts or basking in tho *mi, t\ft"v a swim, wondortxl what, these old stalwarts, headed by a burly ••"•oldier, ant; marching two deep, were doing. Some of the young men were ;nvitod to fall in and soe, but they s-hook their heads, as though there was souie "leg-pulling" p'-ocesl; in train. AnoHi^r nvuvh is to be xindert.".k"n nc^xi Sunday.

; lt.r Waito, representing the Hail- - vay Department, visited Kniko.ira List- week, and nas met by men.bers lof tho Gonntv Council. During the course of si cVirvt over railway matters !as affecting Kaikoura, Mr Waite ex- I plained (says the Star) that after the Ist November the afternoon liain i from "Ward on Tuesdays, Thursdays, ! and Saturdays would connect with the | through train to Picton. The >incer was asked if the ChristclmrchParnassus seivicc could not bo speeded up and so enatle a. through connection with the afternoon train at Ward. It was mentioned that if that could, not be arranged the whole district was opposed to the Blenheim agitation to run a irorning instead of an alternoon train from Ward to Blenheim and so make Ward the '"stay over nu?ht place instead of Kaikourn. Mr v\ aite pointed out it was impossible to speed up the Parnassus service, nor could it be arranged for the train to be despetc.hed any earlier than i.t present from C-hristchnrch. He also mentioned that there was not sufficient trade at r.resent to warrant the opening of the line io Mills; what little freight there was offering could be picked up on odd runs The new time-table would be given a thorough trial before any alteration would be thcught of.

Some informations which were dealt with by Mr J. S. Evans, S.M., at the Nelson' Magistrate's Court on Thursday were the first of the kind laid in this district (reports the Mail). The defendants were two women, and the i charges was that they used their I houses as private hospitals without a [ license issued by the Minister under ! the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909. Under the Act it is an offence to have more than one maternity case in an unlicensed house at one time and tho informations alleged that defendants each on three occasions committed an offence. Though both defendants pleaded guilty, there was great confusion as to dates, and the Magistrate in the end dismissed one information against the first'defendant, imposed a. fine of d£2os and costs 7s on the second, and convicted and ordered, defendant to j pay 7s costs on the third. In regard ! to the second defendant the Magistrate said that though the overlapping cases were overdue cases therehad ; been a technical --breach of the Act, and he dismissed one information and ordered the defendant to pay 7s costs in respect of the two remaining informations. The proceedings were instituted by tho Health Department. There was no suggestion tl<at the defendants were incapable—in fact, statements by a doctor and'letiters from the Health Department bore abundant testimony to the contrary. '•The first wealth is health." —Emerson.

Tho, er mmonest fnrms of ill-health are coughs and cok!t>, which are often far-reaching in their effects The whole system loses tone and you become liable to contract other oiid n.ore serious complaints. A few doses of Baxter's Lung Preperver stop tbe coiigh and soothe inflammation, 'virile a eotuse of this wonderful remedy loth strengthens ami invigorates. The ■ wisest plan is to h aye -i big Is lOd bottle..handy. An occasional dose will help you to keep fit-arid well.—Advt.