Untitled

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 119, 3 October 1902, Page 3

There sire seventy three persons in the Motueka di-trict drawing old age pensions, the amount disbursed being ,£1,241. No Maoris domiciled in the district draw pensions. Mr John King, Government Auditor, is at present on an official visit to Motueka. The monthly meeting of the Riwaka Road Board will be held this evening. On Monday afternoon the Motueka Wharf Board will hold its peiiodical ■''meeting, when applications for the Secretaryship and tenders for wharf extension will be considered. During the month of September four deaths and three marriages were registered by Mr EL. A. Tarrant, Registrar for the Motueka district. In connection with the Oliyeiy Ploughs advertised for sale by Mr Manoy, through a printer’s error, ttfe words “circular coulter” should have been added to specify the description of plough. The annual meeting of the Motueka

Oiicket Club was held last night when there was a good attendance of those interested in the pastime. Mr L. Man'oy was voted to the chair. Owing to the absence of the honorary Secretary, Mr G. W. Jenkins, the election of officers was postponed until his return from Canterbury. In connection with the proposed floral fete, it was decided to start preparations without delay, the fete to take place on the 3 oth of November. It was also arranged to open the season on the 18th instant, when a friendly game will be played against a team selected from the employes at Currin’s mill. Practices will be held every evening at five o’clock.

It is rumored that Mr Henry Baigent, Mayor of Nelson, intends to contest the Nelson seat at the forthcoming general election. Mr Baigent is a real live citizen who has earned the respect and esteem of the public throughout the whole of the province, and he should stand a very good chance of being returned at the head of the poll. From what we know of him he would be no political wobbler, nor would he halt between two opinions fearful lest by doing the right thing, according to his convictions, he jeopardised his position. There are too many of such politicians representing constituencies just now —men who hanker after seats in the Cabinet and are disappointed because they are passed over —and it would be delightfully refreshing if the electors of Nelson, for once, selected as their representative a man with healthy political opinions, which he would be prepared to stand by. An interesting letter written to the New Zealand Dairyman by a Motueka lady appears on our fourth page. The Borough School Committee will meet next; Monday evening. Mr J. Glasgow, .vho has lately established himself in Nelson as a barrister and solicitor, has a professional announcement in this issue, to which we direct the attention of the public. The fishing season opened on Wednesday last, when several expert anglers from Nelson proceeded up the Motueka river for the purpose of trying their luck. It is notified elsewhere that licenses to fish may be obtained on application to the local postmaster, Mr Gilbert.

Mr G. A. Elarkness, Inspector of Schools, arrived in Motueka on Wednesday evening for the purpose of conducting the annual examinations. A start will be made with the Borough Schools on Monday. A Motueka boy, Captain D. W. Talbot (son of Mrs G. Boyce), who was attached to the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles during the late Boer war, was in command of the detachment which ambuscaded and captured Commandant Van der Haver and seven other Boers, for which splendid work he was compliments d. A c immittee meeting of the Motueka Horticultural Society was held last evening. Mr S. Cana van, President, in t we chair. The schedule was levised, and after discussion it was decided to abandon the idea of holding a floral fete.

One Denis Farrell, of Annandale, Sydney, recently went into a stable to feed a horse and cow, when the cowkicked him, breaking his left arm in two places and throwing him against the horse, which also kicked him, breaking his left leg and knocking him over a barrel, by which several of his ribs were broken. Denis, however, survived this deadly game of pingpong. r A PAIN IN THE CHEST is nature’s warning of a tnreatened attack of pneumonia. Dampen a piece of flannel with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and bind over the seat of pain, and another on the back between the shoulders. One application gives relief. Tx*y it. A Manoy sells it.