LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 228, 27 September 1926, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Two of the Tahiti' s passengers diecl on the run from San Franeiseo- to Wellington — Captain Grey, of Wellington, and Mr P. J. Patten, an Ameriean. Both were biiried at sea. At the opossum, skin sale at Dunedin on Saturday 30,000 were oifered m'Ostly from the North Island. Super blues brought to 15s, super greys 14s 4d, super blaeks 11s, super browns 7s, and super reds 8s 6d. The Minister for Education (the Hon. Mr R. A. Wright) arrives from Wellington td-morrow niorning. He will be welcomed at tlie Council Chambers at 10.30 a.m. It is reported on good autherity that four Blenheim resiclents, wlio sliared the purchase oi a tieket in "Tatt's," lia.ve been aclvised that they drew ihe seeond hovse and their prize is worth £1500. The Hon. G. J. Anderson. Alinister for Marino, arrives from tlie Sputli tliis evening by motor and will he located at the Oriterion Hotel. He leaves early to-morrow morning i'or 'Havelock, and after visiting Manaroa, returns to Picton via Portage eri ronte to Wellington. Fears that a grass fipe 011 tlie river bank near St. Andrew's Hall would, with the high wind blowing, set alight to the building, ea used the sounding of the liro alarm just after 2.30 on Saturday alternoon. The Brigade appeared on the scene and1 extinguished the outbreak without wetting the hoso. The following Australian judges have accepted tlie invitafion to act at the Royal Sh-pw at Auckland: Messrs YY. G. Wilkinson ( Yietoria), Clydesdales; G. L. Wilson (Vietoria), Aryshires ; D. Walters (New S01u.ll Wales), Jerseys. An attenipt is to be made to s-ocure oompetent judges from Australia for Friesian eattle and pigs. In view of the developments in the China situation Ihe Presbyterian Foreign Missions Cominittee is further considering the sailing ol: missionaries for Hong Kong. Miss F. G. Ogilvie, of Wellington, wlio is at present in Sydney, has been cahtef! to postpone her depavtme, and miJess the position is elearer in >a few days tlie departure of the Rev. E. H. Wilkinson (Dunedin) and 11 urses Rohei'tson (Oamaru) and Goodson (Temuka) will also be deferred. Annie Elizabeth Brown was fined £75 at Wanganui for using her p remises as a. common gaming-house on September 16th. 1 lenry William Hume, for assi.sting, was fined £10. The premises were used as a tohacoonist and hairdressing saloon, and occupied by tlie woman's husband. Bett mg was . transacted in the othce. Decision was reserved in a charge aguinst Tliomas Alfred Brown of wilfully permitting the premises to be used as a common gaming-house by his wife. The charm of the Marlborough Sounds has made its appeal to Their Exeellencies aml the- Lady Alice Fergusson apparently de-ii'es no thing vSoj much as a co-ttage where the Governor-General and horself could spend occasionai ho-lidays. Her Excellency gave expression to this wish 011 two or three occasions cluring their visit to iMarlborough and Mr W. J. Girling, M.F., has gallantly undertakeu to try and 'move the Governmenb in the matter of a vice-regal co-ttage on oue of the many Gove-rnment reserves with which the Sounds abound. At the intersection of High and Richmond Street, s this morning a car driven by Mr Ernest P-eake, of Springlands, rau into 'Mr William Bridger, of Charles Street, who was ri-ding a bicycle. Mr Bridger emerged from Richmond Street and rau right in front of the car, but tortunately he was eaught on «a buffer and -escaped serious injury. The car swerve-d on to the footpath. and sustained two damaged tyr-es and other minor da-mage. The bicycle was rather badly b-e-nt. Mr Bridger .suffer-e'd fro-m shoek and an abrased arm, which was attended to at a chemist's. The arrange-ments fqr their Exeellencies' visit to Havelock and Pelorus Soun-d on S'aturda-y wero splendidly carried out and, although the difficulties, particularly in regard to commissariat at such a distance fro-m Havelock a-s Nikau Bay must have been enormous, everything we-nt swimmingly, the -Sounds" -settlers and the Havelock Town Board, in cooperation, aehieving wonders. Mr H. 14. White and Mrs White, and the indefatigable Dr A. G. McOlymont were warmly oongratulatecl 011 all h-ands, and the party passed a special vote o-f thanks to the- settlers who did so much to make the day a inemor-a-ble oue. * * A reporter's bad writing placed in .the hands of a composit-or w.hose knowledge of tliings Galedonian evidently does not extend beyond the national music and certain beve-ragos, 1-ed to an amusing mi.stake in a paragraph which appeared in a rcoent issue- of the Express. His Excellency the Governor-General was made to say that in the late Lord Glasgow's experience, he was nearly killed by kindness in New Zealand, the kindness of people in the -southern p-art of tlie Dominion manifesting itself in the shape of whisky and bagpi pes, whereas His Excellency referr-ed to whisky and haggis. Speaking at Havelock o-n -Saturday, His Excellency, who bad read the paragraph said that as a Seotsman he was fond o-f the b-ag-pipes and he oe-riainly did not think they would -ever make- anyone i 11 . (T/aughter and ajiplanse). Blenheim ites are- to he introduced to a. new sport 011 Saturday after110011. when a feature of the- ev.ents ai'i anged to cele-brate the -opening of the Blenheim Rowing Cluh's new boat-house and the 1926 se-ason, will he exhibitions o-f uquaplaning 011 the river. There was great excitement at the boat-sheds on Saturday afternoon last when the performers had a full rehears-al in weather that was any thing but ideal for water sports. Hovveve-r, the- attraction of the sport overeame the participants' shivery qnahns about getting a -ducking, and there were plenty of -aspirants for trips 011 the surfboard which was towed behind Mr A. E. Woodman's speed lanuch "Miss Blenheim." It (was found to be 110 simple mat-ter to maintain the required balance and angle on the board, and when it struck the wash of the launch no mean skill was required to stav with the board, which bounded about like a buckjumper. 1