The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Ora Mota Iwi” TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1903.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 162, 10 March 1903, Page 3

The Motueka Star PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. “Te Ora Mota Iwi” TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1903.

Mr W. C. Gilbert, dentist, may be consulted at Mrs Rumbold's from Friday until Saturday next. Intending patients should call early.

I The last English mail brought news o* the death of Mr J. Nuttall, formerly Government veterinary surgeon, who made several official visits to this district last ] year- The late Mr Nuttall suifered from consumption and was obliged.to resign his appointment, when he returned to the Old Country. In accordance w : th his wishes his remains were cremated at Manchester, During their residence in the colony Mr and Mrs Nuttall resided at Picton. Supreme Court sitting open in Nelson on Wednesday morning. The only case of interest to this district is that against the man Stewart, charged with theitoi a cash box etc. The witnesses lor the prosecution leave here tomorrow. The programme for the Collie Dog Trial, to be neld in Mr Thomas Macmahon's paddock on the nth cf April is now in the hands of the printer and will be in circulation. The prizes offered are good and ar excellent days sport may be looked for. The following passengers arrived this morning by the direct steamer Manaroafrom Wellington—Mrs Thorp, Miss Butt, .Messrs Oanavan, Charles, Hume, Fredericks and Aston. The Manaroa sails again this evening at five o'clock. C Board to employ an extra hand at the wharf will recommend itself to shippers and others who have for some time past recognised the absolute necessity of such a course being taken sooner or later. In order to meet the extra charge on its fuurts, the Board has decided to levy light and wharf dues which it is estimated will bring in suff cient to pay the man who has been engaged,. __. Balclutha North has lately been in receipt of an average of 700 gallons of milk per diem. The largest quantity handled in me day was 800 gallons. Some conception of the extent to which cjlonial industries are financed by external capital may be formed from the fact that, the amount thus invested averages .£BB per head for the seven Australian colonies. There is scarcely a night now but. a burglary occurs somewhere in New Zealand. There was a time .vhen burglaries were almost unknown in the colony.

During January and February of this year the Gear Meat Company has killed at its Petone works an aggregate of over 200,00 n head of stock. Sir Will am and Lady Russel have placed in the Anglican Church, at Hastings, two beautifully designed brass tahlets, in memory of their sou, Lieutenant Lionel Philip Russel, of the West Yorkshire Regiment, who fell in battle during the late Boer war, on December 19, 1901, and the other to their son, Mr C. J. North Russel, of the Inner Temple, barrister-at law, .vho died on August 27, 1900. Fr.mi the Ist April 1902, till the 31st January, 1903, 6,202.699 passengers travelled on the New Zealand Government railways, an increase of 271,780 as compared with the number for the corresponding period in "the previous year.

The boarding accommodation at the Wanganui Girls' College is taxed almost to its utmost capacity. There are now over 60 boarders.

The West Australian Government have accepted a tender for the erection of a State hotel at Leonora, to cost £4900. This will be the second hotel in West Australia managed by the State.

SPRAINS are often more serious then broken bones on account of not beinoproperly treated Apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm treely as soon as the injury is received and it will quickly restore the parts to a healthy condition A, Manoy sells it.

A trundler turned up in Adelaide recently in A. S. Day, who clean bowled six batsmen with successive balls. A chance unaccepted lost him a wicket off his seventh and one run was made off the eight. Next ball took the last man's stump—seven wickets, one run-clean bowled.