The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “TE ORA MOTA IWI.” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1902.

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 122, 14 October 1902, Page 3

The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “TE ORA MOTA IWI.” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1902.

The Borough Council will meet this evening for the transaction of business. The Christmas number of the Canterbury Times has reached us. The proprietors of this popular weekly deserve the thanks of the community for departing from the usual custom of Christmas editions and issuing a number which illustrates many of the famed health and tourist resorts of the colony. Such a publication will help to still further popularise such resorts, not only in the colony, but throughout the civilised world, for the issue under review will be mailed to friends and acquaintances at a distance. / Mr Thomas Boyes, collector of agriI cultural statistics for the Borough of / Motueka, has started to secure the inf formation required by the Department, i which muat be sent in by the end of ( the month. Collectors are also visit- { ing the neighboring districts. Tbe export of eggs from the Motueka district during the year ended 30th of September amounted to 4,331 cases. As each case contains 24 dozen, the total number shipped was 1,247,328 eggs. Bast week a large eel, weighing 18 pounds, was caught in a stream at Flaxmore, Moutere, by Mr Walter Parker. The fish was 3ft Bin long, the girth being 16 inches. Mr W. E. Brown, the well known photographer who secured some excellent views of tbe proceedings in connection with the coronation celebrations held in Motueka on the 9th of August last, notifies that Mr E. Goodman has been authorised to canvass for orders for the photographs which have lately been on view in Mr Manoy’s shop. There has been a very good demand for them and Mr Brown has had to print off an extra supply, which, will no doubt, be purchased by those who wish to keep them as a memento of the occasion. We understand a number of persons are to be summonsed for breaches of the by-laws, such as riding and driving vehicles" and bicycles without lights. The cases will be heard next Monday, at the usual meeting of the S.M., Court. Owing to the lateness of the spring and the temperature of the water in the river through the melting of the snow on the high ranges, whitebait has been very scarce, so far, this season. The following players will represent Motueka in the cricket match to be on the local ground next Saturxlay against a team from Ourrin’s mill : —Messrs Easton, Oanavan, L. Boyes, F. Mead, F. Delane} 7 , A. Talbot, G. Boundy, H. Boyce, R. Goodman, Joe Boyce and F. Atkins. Emergencies, S. Miller and H, Stewart. A start is to he made at one o’clock sharp. THE FIREMAN is in great danger from falling bricks or limber as well as from the flames. No fire department is properly equipped without a supply ot Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. This liniment is unexcelled for burns and bruises. One application gives relief. Try it. A. Manoy sells

The installation of W.M. and investiture of officers of Lodge Motueka was held at the lodge room on Monday 'evening, when there was a full attendance of members as well as a fair muster of visiting brethren. The installation of W. Bro. Deck as Worshipful Master was conducted by W. Bro. DeCastro, assisted by P.M.’s Bros. Stead Ellis and T. Easteott, The other officers of the lodge (re-elected) were also invested, and at the close of the proceedings the brethren adjourned to the Church of England school room where an excellent supper was partaken of. Masonic toasts were honored and the enjoyment of the evening added to by songs, the proceedings being brought to a close shortly after eleven o’clock. The brethren signified their high appreciation of the catering by a special word of praise to Bro. Brougham, Mrs Brougham and her daughters. The adjourned meeting of the Motueka Cricket Club will be held on Thurs 7 day evening. As several important matters are to be discussed, it is to be hoped there will be a good attendance. A football match is to be played at Riwaka on Saturday afternoon between the local club and a team representing the East Takaka club.

It is notified that the Clydesdale stallion will be at the service of breeders, at Mr J. S. Wratt’s estate, The Grange, during the present season.

A Foxton baker advertises that owing to the fall in flour, bread will be sold in that town at 3d cash and 3|d booked. There are said to be over a thousand acres of land covered by fruitgrowing houses in the United Kingdom. The Standard’s Waikaka correspondent records a curious incident in connection with Sunday week’s flood iu that district. A number of Mr T. Taylor's sheep were seen floating down the river, and perched on their backs were several rabbits—partners of a rather perilous and uncertain voyage. Dr Skerman, a surgeon major on the New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff, has been been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration, for long service. His service counting towards the decoration is over 20 years. Mr J. W. Bryan, in an interview, said positively he would not be a candidate for the American president in 1904. He s lid he was satisfied to live as a private citizen. Mr William T. Simpson, of Cincinnati, proposes starting the largest hennery on earth near Dupont, Indiana. He has bought 2,000,000 eggs. They cost ,£3600, and will be placed in 100,000 incubators to hatch. Pope Leo XIII. celebrated his 92nd birthday on Sunday, August 17, with a magnificent reception in his private library, at which were present all the cardinals resident in the Curia, numbers of nobles of the Papal Court, and a deputation of the Knights of Malta. Seated on his throne the Pope, who was evidently in the best of health, and indeed in an unusually jovial mood, made his visitors quite a long speech, thanking them for their congratulations and expressing his delight at having seen in this year of jubilee all the Catholics of the world rally round the Papal throne. Mr William Williams, the old mining celebrity of Adelong (N.S.W.), whose death was announced last week at the age of 102, is stated to have acquired over .£250,000 worth of gold during his 80 years’ residence in New South Wales. “Home Rule,” once very much discussed, Is laid aside, and left to rust. Old Gladstone, spite of all his skill, Failed to pass this famous Bill. How often do the greatest fail ? And boughs make ill the strong and hale, Unless the remedy they procure—