WAIMEA ROAD BOARD ELECTIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 155, 3 July 1877, Page 2

WAIMEA ROAD BOARD ELECTIONS.

SOB-DISTEICX OF WakHFIEM). I There was but a small attendance at thia meeting. Mr Grove was voted to the chair, when Mr Jer via proposed and Mr B. Linea seconded Mr George Holland. Mr W. Wadsworth proposed and Mr Batt seconded Mr Samuel Baigent. The show of hands waa declared in favor of Mr Baigent, four being held up for Mr Holland and five for Mr Baigent. - Mr- -Holland demanded a poll. Great interest was taken in the voting aa the nunibera recorded below will show. Ifc ia alao worthy of notice that two ladies voted at this election. One having been brought up by the one side, a vehicle was immediatelydespatched to fetch up another lady tp the rescue, there fortunately being more than one female voter on the roll. At the close of the poll Mr Holland was declared duly elected, the numbers being— Holland, 37; Baigedti " 36. ' ■ *. Waimea West. - --- ; Mr William. Bell and Mr Richard Andrew were nominated, arid a poll having 'been-, cjemanded, it resulted in favor of .the former gentleman, the- niimbera ' being — Bell, i 7« Andrews; 12. . ■■'■''- ' ■■* *.-. y' '" . The old proverb of its « being better to be born lucky than rich." is often exemplified this world, and the following from the Wanganui Ch_roni_(e of. the 25th instant may be taken as another of the many -proofs^df the saying:— "A young man named George. Walton, an employee, pf Mr John Anderson, cabinet maker, has just come into property Worth about £ 15*,000. The davisor was an uncle pf the fortunate legatee, who resided in Auckland, and is only lately dead. ' The property : consists of an extensive business, besides Other investments." I The following telegram appears in the Lyttelton Times:— ln reply to enquiries made by certain members of the Dunedin Police Force as to whether in the event of the Otago Police declining to serve at the reduced rate of pay, compensation will be allowed for past servicesi the NafciYe Minister has intimated that compensation will be given on the conditions prescribed by lav? and no other. As the. new Constabulary Act .under which the reductions iv pay are to take effect, has not been'submitted to Parliament, the reference to the. conditions prescribed by law is somewhat ambiguous. Some of the members of the force in Dunedin will have their pay reduced to the extent of as much. as. 37s. per week and whythey should be kept'frra state of suspense, and prevented, at the risk of endangering their claim to compensation, from quitting their connection with the force, appears rather strange. Great dissatfsfaqtioE exists among the members. ] J Another good story, says the Auckland Star, is to hand, illustrative' of ' th- remarkable tariff of charges on the .Auckland and Mercer railway. A few days ago a settler in _ the Waikato bethought himself of a friend in* l tciwn to whom -a present: of a: brae®'ofpheasants would be acceptable, and he determined to s-hd; him one. After "securing a couple of nice bird_, took them to the * local agent of the Waikato Steam Navigation' Company, ap-J asked what .would, be the eipens&qf sending them right through. : The' agent said he didn't know what the railway charge would be, but" that if the gentleman would pay -him three shillings he would guarantee their delivery. Now the agent, in I accepting ,thia mm,^bought to himaell, that'll will /pei one Bhilling.for.fcbe Company, and as ! the railway charges are always twice as much as they ought to be, there will be two shillings for the carriage from M-_ce_ i to Auck? land, which is sorely ; the_i_t__o3t that will be . demanded. The birds; were duly handed over to the booking.clerk at Mercer, who, in answer to the steward's question '.' What's to pay?" promptly replied, " Must be charged as quarter of a ton; four shillings and ninepence, please.'^ Remonstrance was useless, the Waikato S. N. Company lost one shilling and ninepence oq the transaction, and it ia tolerably certain they will not undertake the delivery of any more pheasants. It . ia wonderful how Very perfectly our railway authorities have learnt the lesson how not to make the line pay. An old Australian entrepteneur is thus spoken of ih the Melbourne Era :— R. g< Smythe, the Australian manager aad agentarrived in Liverpool from New York last Monday. This gentleman claims to have been the. first manager to go to Japan, the first to ascend the Himalayas, and the first to cross the Orange River ia South Africa with a professional company. Mr Smythe returned to Melbourne jn 1869 with Herr Bandmann. and during the interval has been several times through Australia and New ' Zealand with various 'stars,' numbering ) Madame Arabella Goddard. To obtain Vale'nt for Melbourne, which now possesses four I first rate theatres, is Mr Smythe's present object in visiting this country." Mr Smythe it will be remembered, left Australia last year with the Rev. Charles Clark. A Quebec paper says:— Half the fools in his city hink they can beat the doctors at curing the sick, two-thirds of them are sure they can beat the ministers preaching the gospel, and all of them know they can beat I the editors running the gapers.

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The London Bank account of tha "^ictori^n -J Gpveromeutf is .pver^rawfi^£4o,ooo, : and-:the. Agehfr**General haa telegrap>ed ah tfrgenfc demand for; money. _\ ; ; ■ ; \=- ;j_i recenti Melbourne --telegram 'mentioned tnafc Leei the proprietor 6i^ a weekly newijj&per, hid been comj-itked for\teial | oHibel Vra^a woma'Qy. IhNref e-ence ' ft» fcn^ : ckse, the Melbourne Argus of the 166h instant says: A criminal prosecution was commenced afc the City Police Court" yesterday, against Richard Egan Lee, the proprietor of an illustrated weekly sheet called fche Citizen, ofcherwiaethe Budget, on a charge of "having;, in ah issue, of that paper 'dated .' 26,fch JSfay, last,maliciously published a defamatory libel concerning Mrs Emily Chapman, landlady of the Freemasons' Hotel, Swanspn_.streefc ,16 .appeared from the evidence that the "defendant • had also been guilty of a gross act of iuitimidation. Previous to fche appearance cf the alleged libel, he waited, it waa stated, on .Mrs Chapman, and made her acquainfcedwifch its existence, pointed out that its publicity would rain ber, and intimated that he would not keep ifc oufc of his paper unless she gave him fche sum of £10. Lengthy depositions r we.e taken, and fche accused,..w;as committed [for trial.- ?■ t.J Vanity. Fair says that an amazing activity r has reigned afc the Admiralty during the past jjew weeks, and drawings are now being prepared in great haste for a vessel of a more .tremendous kind than has yet been conceived > by eveu fche mosfc ambitions naval constructor. ; This vesiel is carry several 200-ton guns. It js to-.be covered with armour three feet in ..thickness; it is to' have a speed oE .3 knots; -and is to cos. only a million sterling. So - a3fconnding an enterprise has been undertaken, :not on account .of.the Eastern Question, bat Tnterelyin competition with Italy, which is ;&boufc to build a vessel to&arry Sir William TArmsfcrong's 150-gungj to have three feet of -armour, and go. 1 7 knots. . When and .where 'is the insane competition to end 1 "', Armour swas formerly measured by feet, and soon will Jte hy yards, until it is some day; found in •practice, as; it will, that fche whole system is :' a craze 'founded upon a delusion. - . . -"' ""'" ■'" • • ' ■ ■•*" i ' -'T__ 7 HotilowAY'a; Prt-a.— When incl'emeu. : weather checta.to a consiJer-ble extent .the „ natural* exhalations of the 'sidn, an alternative r;is required to expel them entirely from.' the ?body through - some other ch-tune . ' Hdl-71oway--TPil_scm be confllently recommended •jp the easiest, surest, ani .'safest means of attaining'this desirable obj ict, without weakening tbe most delicate or iujomoto h tg the most feebl«\ When from frequent chills or impure air fche blond becomes toul and die secretions viafciated these Pi»s pr.s-nfc a ready ; an<l efficient means of clean.ing the former land correcting the latf.r. By this salutary 'proceeding disease is arrested at its outset, its ptias and incoaviences avertad, and the hervous structures saved Irom tha depressing effects ent died upon them bj an, illness.