NEWS ITEMS.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 65, 28 March 1902, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

It appeal's that the reduction in the price of kerosene arose (says a "Wellington correspondent) in consequence of the action of a free importer, who, having secured 10,000 cases in America. shipped these v to tho colonies for disposal at 9gd a gallon. Accordingly the cargo of the Jupiter is to be sold, it is stated, at 9|d. -It is understood that the consignment of 10,000 cases is on board the indradevi.

In a recent article Mr H. W. Lucy writes :—-“The Vice-president of the Irish Board of Agriculture tells me a curious story about the Galway election at which he stood and was defeated by Mr Lynch. The earliest intentioa of the Nationalist party was to put up Mr Kruger and run him as their candidate. The matter .vas seriously discussed. Objection, was taken that Mr Kruger being a foreigner and not naturalised, was incapable of sitting in the House of Commons, and .this was met by the ingenious argument that the Transvaal having been formally annexed, the exPresident forthwith became a British subject. There is no doubt that if Mr Lynch had not turned up with the recommendation . that, having borne arms against the Queen, he would be equally objectionable to the Saxon, the fantastic project would have been carlied out, and Mr Kruger would have been triumphantly returned at the head of the poll.” The outlook for grain is cheerful (says “Drover” in the Otago Witness). hea u is firm m sales have been made at 3s Id on trucks at country .stations, and scarce. Redehalf is more plentiful. At Oamaru sales of new crops are reported at 2s 10|d, deli%Tered. The samples being shown are by no means equal to those of previous years, the season having been unfavorable. A good demand for shipments to North Island exists. In Canterbury 2s to 2s 2d has been paid at .country stations for oats, and several large parcels, up to 40,000 bushels, have been dealt with at these rates. About 12,000 bushels went to the North Island from Lyttelton last week. It is said that several large forward contracts have now been covered for the present at the rates mentioned. Several large steamers are now on the way to load for South Africa, and there will be a smart clearance. The Melbourne Methodist Conference regretted that the State Government should give a deliderate incentive to gambling by declaring Cup Day a public holiday, The Poverty Bay Herald states that a gentleman who has lately returned from a visit South, where he had seen the growth of the dairying industry, says it will not be many years before New Zeala.nd is one vast cow paddock. One of the largest trout ever taken out of the Oreti with the bare fly was hooked and landed by Mr Jules H. ’ Tapper recently. The fish weighed 141 b, was 2ft Bin long, girth 17in. The captor had a good 30 minutes’ sport before landing his prize, with the assistance of Mr Wyinks. The fly used was the March brown.

Tuesday’s New Zealand Times says : Mr F. Buxton, C.E., who has been in town for a week or so, is returning Nelson to-day, to attend to matters in connection with the Parapara iron deposits. Mr Buxton has been successful in forming a syndicate to develop these extensive deposits. During a thunderstorm which passed over Lithgow, New , South Wales, on February 27, Mrs A. Little, residing in the vale of Clywdd, was peeling peaches in the kitchen near a window, where ‘there was a vivid flash of lightning. The current struck her on the hand, and, running up her arm, rend-

ered he»- unconscious for several hours. Her had for a time was completely disfigured. Although still suffering from shock she is progressing favourably. The current after striking her hand, transmitted through the steel knife, which she was at the time usingy communicated itself with the knife drawer close by, making the contents dance and jingle in an extraordinarymanner. A dog which was lying at the woman’s feet, was also struck, the animal for a time after being unable to move, and a towel hanging off the nal] was set on fire.

“D.M.L” writes as follows to the Wellington Evening Post: Mr Atkinson’s imaginary story in the Appeal Court of a supposititious Pope who tried and found himself guilty and awarded condign punishment to himself has a real parallel in a very small way. Ifaceurred in Nelson more than thirty years ago, when Mr John Poynter was Resident Magistrate there. His horse had strayed, and was taken to the pound by a policeman, who laid an informs tion against its owner. When the case came on Mr Poynter, who was on the Bench solus, addressed the Clerk of the Court thus:—“Swear me. Joe and Joe swore him, with a half- suppressed grin on his face. “I plead guilty,” - said the Magistrate, “and fine myself five shillings.” And he paid the money. And (adds our coirespondent)> Joe Harley is still alive to “witness if I lie/’ Mr Poynter was the well-known Magistrate who was celebrated in civil cases for “splitting the difference,” and pleasing neither party. When he left, this sphere his epitaph was. written as follows :—“Take him for half-and-half-we’ll never look upon his like again.” One of the best-known and mostpopular of English present-day Wesleyan ministers is the Rev. W. L. Watkinson. Some stories concerning him are told in the Young Man by Mr Scott King. One or two may be given_ When addressing a nonconformist deputation on one occasion at Bradford, Mr Watkinson alluded to a notion then very prevalent among a certain section of the working classes, that all capital--ists were thieves. “At a P.S.A, the other day,” he said, “a working man was reading in his turn the account of our Lord’s crucifixion. When his verse came whether through illiterateness or Socialistic zeal I cannot say—he read ‘And they crucified Him between two Manufacturers.’ ” Everybody knows"Wesley’s wife was a termagant. Once when staying as guest at.' a certain house, Mr Watkinson camedown to breakfast very late “You are a degenerate son of your founder, Mr Watkinson,” said the host; “he used to get up at four in the morning.”' “Yes, said the guest, taking his seatcorn posed ly at the table, “and if I had had John Wesley’s wife I sho.uld have got up at two.”

Writing from London to his father(Mr J. Mandel, of the Empire Hotel Wellington), Mr Leo Mandel, who is a medical student at Guy’s Hospital, makes a reference to the -prominent place his colony holds in British opinion just now. Mr Mandel adds “Good old New Zealand ! What about thetwo meetings held to uphold the English Government’s action ? It created quite a stir here, every paper devoted about a column to it, even giving each speech. What an advertisement for the colony ! Clever man, Seddon. To show you what it did, in a ballet at the Alhambra, when tne New Zealand Contingent marched on the stage, there was great cheering. Giesen and self got quite an ovation when we entered the lecture room last Monday. In the shops here if I even hint I am a New Zealander, none of the assistants can do too much for me ! I never knew how much I loved my country till I left it.”

That habit is second nature w.-'is evidenced at the official opening < f the Motueka High School on "Wednesday afternoon, when the- woi-thy chairman of the Education Board, in his speech, frequently referred to this district as the “Borough of Richmond,” of which he has been Mayor since it was established. Allowing for such slips, his. speech was a good one, appreciated bv those present. We give a final reminder of the meeting of teachers to be held at the local school On Saturday afternoon for the purpose of forming a branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute.

A special meeting of the Borough Council was held on Wednesday evening to revise the district electors list. \ number of names were added to, and xken off, the roll. The point was raised as to whether lodgers were entitled to votes, and it was decid.ed to write to the secretary of the Municipal Association of New Zealand for legal advice upon the subject. Mr J. C. Blackmore, telegraphs to us as follows, from Kaipoi : Shall arrive Motueka early next week, but cannot say what day.

Attention is directed to an advertisement appearing in our advertising columns with reference to applications for service in the Tenth Contingent. Intending applicants must appear before the Recruiting Board at Takaka not later than the 29th instant.

At the .annual statutory meeting of the Nelson Hospital and Charitable Aid Board the Motueka Borough Council's allocation for the year was fixed at -£6O, being .£4 less than the previous year.

As Saturday will be observed as a holiday by many persons in this neighborhood, we would draw attention to the annual fixture of the Riwaka Collie Club, which starts at half past eight on that morning in Mr Thomas Macmahon’s paddock. Some inter esting events will be got off, which will no doubt be keenly contested. In connection with the opening of the High School, no mention-was made ■of the Arch tect and Secretary of the Nelson Education Board. This was evidently an oversight on the part of someone, for Mr Ellis has provided us with a building -which is both ornamental and useful, and a credit to the Borough ; therefore we think his services should have been recognised at the gathering. [Since writing the above, we have been informed that Mr Moffatt spoke to Mr Ellis and apologised for the oversight.]

An old veteran writes to the Wan ganui Herald suggesting that about 50 New Zealand veterans —European and Maori —should be selected to visit the Old Country on the occasion of the

Coronation. He thinks none should go under 70 years of age or under sft. Bin in height, and as the Maoris cannot be taken to South Africa for the defence of the Empire a visit to England at the time of the Coronation would enable them to obtain an idea of Britain’s greatness, and it would also serve as a good advertisement for the colony. “From the time we landed in New Zealand,” said Mr Wilson Barrett in his speech of farewell at the Wellington Opera House, “we have all been •ck with the grandeur and beauty |ur country, and with its many abilities. You have a country in

which your hands should become great, and you have at the head of your Ministry a man who is not. a mere politician, but in every sense of the word a great statesman.” (Apple.use.) “Probably he has made mistakes — someone has aptly said that tin? man who has never made mistakes has never made anything—but he is a. mail quick to conceive and swift to execute. He has not the faculty of following be-

hind a crowd ; he goes before, see de - finitely what is the course to take, and does not hesitate to take it. We can see better at a distance than you who are near what such a man is; and I know that Richard Seddou is a man vvho is respected not only here but amongst the nations, and is making New Zealand xespeeted amongst the nations. He is making New Zealand a factor in our Empire—don’t you forget it, ladies and gentlemen.” (Hear, hear.) Mr Bax-rett disclaimed any idea of interfering in New Zealand politics, but said that he was speaking of what he knew.

The free Lance says —“So far as De la Rey is concerned, the British bear him no grudge. He was strongly averse to war, but once the die was cast* he declared he would fight to the bitter end, and he was proved 1 1 be the Iwavest, most resourceful, and most humane of the Boer generals. He was known to the colonial Tommies as “the parson,” because he took to the field a black frock coat, wore smoked glasses, and carx-ied a white parachute. And although he has managed to clothe his troops in British khaki—“the spoils of war”---he has, up to date, maintained his own costume. .

It 'is fully expected that when its usefulness for household culinaxy purposes becomes better known, the fx-uit pulp put up in Nelson and other fruitgrowing districts will have a large sale in the colony, quite apart fiom the export trade which will be done in the product.—N.Z. Times. Children in the Paola (Kansas) public schools have established a correspondence with children in the Edinburgh (Scotland) public, schools, and the letters which pass between them contain much that is amusing. For example, one Scotch boy is very indignant at the mistaken ideas which are held of his people. He says : “Many people, even in England, # think that our male sex dress in kilts, but they are quite wrong, for there is hardly a man in Edinburgh or anywhere in the m ddle and south of Scotland who wears the kilt. It also is thought that the language of the Scotch is bad English,, but it is quite the levex-se,*for the English is bad, broken Scotch.”

The Newcastle steam collier Boldon of about 1,200 tons, bound for the north and, carrying only water ballast, collided recently off Woolwich with the si earner Umtata, 2,655 tons. A big rent was torn in the bow of the Boldon. She at once began to sink, and in a few minutes her bow was on the ground. A lighterman rowed inpidly to the scene of the collision, and rescued the crew of the Boldon, who numbered twelve. The Omtata, which carried passengers received practically no injury, and proceeded to her berth in the East India Dock. The Boldon throughout the night was left standing on her head in mid-channel, the vessel's stern being quite out of the water.

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