LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1336, 8 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Orr and Alcorn announce that tl tj will have a grand display Sof pring goods g their windows on Thursday night and Friday next.

Mr Henry Driver, es-M.H.11,, has undergone the operation of having a portion of his tongue out off. He is reported to be making favorable progress. It is stated that Captain Hallett, 8.N., now in command of the N.Z, Shipping Company’s steamship Bimutaka, is about to retire from the service of the Company, on account of ill-health.

We are sorry to learn from an exchange that Mr Douglas Moore, of the Union Bank here, met with rather a severe accident while playing football at Christchurch on Saturday, The tendons of one of his knee joints snapped, and Mr Moore had to be carried oft the field. The iniury is of rather a serious character, and will incapacitate him from work for some weeks. Mr Moore has been removed to Ashburton.

According to Sir Henry Parks the indebted* ness of New South Wales has increased in tour years by £22,363,040. An old Ballarat digger reports to the Palmerston, Times that, judging from appearances, when experienced miners have given the field a fair trial there will be room for hundreds of men on the new Hampden diggings.;

At a meeting of the Loyal Waterton Lodge of Oddfellows, held on Saturday evening last, Bro Malcolm was presented with a beautifully illuminated Emblem of the Lodge, on the occasion of his leaving the district. Bro Davies, N.G., made the presentation in a few well-chosen remarks, wishing Bro Malcolm, on behalf of the members of the Lodge, every success in his new home. Bro Malcolm replied in appropriate terms. The emblem was handsomely framed, the work being done by Messrs Gates and Son, Ashburton. > Sir Julius Vogel has served notice on the proprietors of the Evening Frets of his inten. tion to move for a new trial in the late libel suit against the Evening Press on the grounds (1) That the Judge misdirected the jury ; (2) That the plaintiff has farther evidence to produce; (3} That the verdict was against the weight of evidence.

Government (have granted Judge Gillies extended leave; of absence ; and District Judge Ward has been promotedjtemporarily to the Supreme Court Bench. This is, in all probability, the preliminary step to the pemanent appointment of the learned Judge to the superior Bench, a position to which his If.lliant abilities and long service fully cntit'e him.

At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr T. Bullock, J.P., and Mr H. Friedlander, J.P., William O’Brien, for having (been drunk and disorderly in East street, was fined 40s and costs, or seven days’ imprisonment. Jeremiah Leary was brought np charged with having been drunk and with having made use of obscene and profane language in a public place. The accused bad only been liberated from the lock-up on the previous day, he having been serving a sentence for similar offences. The police proved that the accused had been a source of great annoyance to many persons, and on the charge of drunkenness he was fined 40s and costs, with the alternative of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, ; and [for having made use of obscene and profane language he was ordered to be imprisoned for one month with hard labor.

The news contained in the following paragraph should be made a note of by those landowners who are cursed with the rabbit pest:—Some time ago we {Sydney Globe) announced that a report had been received by the Mining Department to the effect that the Bulloo (or Queensland) rat was devouring rabbits in large numbers in the western division. The Department immediately called Inspector Holding, of Yandaeloh, to state bis reason for his leport, and that gentleman has done so in a lengthy document. Among other reasons for the belief Mr Holding says that on Mount Arrowsmith Bun (formerly infested) the 801100 rats have completely cleared out the rabbits. The aboriginals come across the carcases of rabbits in the bush, and all around them are traces of the Bulloo rat. An inquest was held at Christchurch yesterday touching the death of Daisy (Evelyn Taylor, daughter of H. A. Taylor, of Ashburton. The evidence of the mother was to the effect that the child was five months old, and hap been suffering for a fortnight from bronQbitis and measles, and she bad taken it to Dr Trevor. On Saturday evening witness came to Christchurch, bringing the child, and went to the Salvation Army meeting with it, It appeared brighter than nsual before going to bed that night, but when witness woke on Sunday morning it was dead. Dr Bussell who was then called in, gave it as his opinion that death had [resulted from convulsions. After the evidence of another witness had been taken, a verdict of 11 Death from natural causes’’ was returned.

By a fire at Springfield last-night a dwelling house belonging to the Malvern Road Board and occupied by Mrs Shanks, was destroyed, The furniture was insured in the New Zealand office for £IOO. The fire was caused by a child setting fire to some toitoi grass in a room.

The report telegraphed from Wellington with reference to Mr Joyce’s interviewing the Ministers anent Lyttelton matters, was the subject of a very lively debate at the Lyttelton Borough Cauncil. Mr H. Allwright, M.H.E., attacked Mr Joyce, and proposed—- “ That the Premier be written to informing him that Mr Joyce was not authorised by the Council to make any representation on behalf af the Council,” Mr Joyce defended himself, and spoke against time till the Council adjourned. He hopes to secure the election of three councillors who will rapport him at next meeting. The majority of the Jpresent councillors are against him, and the Mayor said ho would write to the Premier and inform him that Mr Joyce was not a delegate I from the Council. I

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The Mount Somers Koad Board has passed ( a vote of thanks to Mr W. C. Walker for his services in the interests of the district during the past session of Parliament.

The fine weather of the past few days has induced the bumble bee to leave its hiberna-

ting haunts. One was seen yesterday at Allenton.

We have again to call our readers’ attention to the concert in aid of the Catholic Schools, which tabes place in the Town Hall to-morrow evening. The programme is published in this issue, and is a sufficient guarantee that a treat may be expected. Messrs Hayman Bros., Wheatstone, have suffered severely through the depredations of sheep-worring dogs. Nineteen ol their sheep have been killed, and a number of others very much pulled about. A meeting of the supporters of Mr G. Cates’ candidature for a seat in the Borough Council will be held this evening at the Somerset sample rooms.