LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1340, 13 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a largely attended meeting of the New Zealand Wool-growers’ Association on Saturday, Mr J. D. Lance presiding, a resolution was passed in favor of the formation of the Amuri and Cheviot Counties and Waipara Road District into a district under the Babbit Act 1882.

Somebody says that a healthy infant, cooing in a cradle, is a sight that makes angels lean over the battlements of heaven and gaze longingly to the earth. The idea is poetic, but the cold facts of the case are that life is full of howling discord to the inexperienced father of teething twins. The Master of the Ashburton Home desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a parcel of clothing from Mrs Thomas Bland and books from Mr H. Zander, for the use of

the inmates. It will be remembered that at the last meeting of the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society members strongly protested against the formation of a new sooiety at Ashburton, and interviewed the Premier on the subject. From the prominence which has thus been given to the matter it has been found that the Ashburton Sooiety is in a somewhat peculiar position. It has been duly gazetted but no boundaries were stated. It was intended that it should comprise the district between the Bakaia and Bangitata rivers, but through an omission, as matters at present stand, the Ashburton Acclimatisation District is one without boundaries. The main objection tbs Christchurch Sooiety baa to the severance of the proposed new district from that under ita control is that the advantages in the way of fees and licenses, resulting from its labors, would be reaped by a Society who had no part in those labors. We understand .however, that Mr Farr, the secretary of the Christchurch Sooiety, was interviewed the other day by a few Ashburton gentlemen who represented to him that a Sooiety here would be better able to cope with poaching and transact the other business incidental to such an institution than one having its headquarters in Christchurch. In addition, any surplus of funds remaining after expenses had been paid would go to the older Sooiety, for the purchase of fish, &o. Mr Farr promised to lay the matter before his fellow members, and it is probable that amicably arrangement will soon be between the two societies. The public are invited to attend a social temperance meeting at the Oddfellows’ Hall this evening. The entertainment is expected to be both interesting and amusing. During the evening several ministers will give addresses, and a number of songs, readings, and recitations will also be given.

ggjust as the express was leaving Bakaia On Saturday a man, who was endeavouring te step from one carriage to another, slipped and fell between the carriages. Ha was caught and pulled up by a person who fortunately happened to be close at hand at the time, otherwise a serious accident might have eventuated. The Hon the Premier and Lady Stout are at present staying at Sumner. Sir Robert will probably pass through Ashburton on his way South on Wednesday.

The Tichborne claimant has not attracted crowds to his lectures in New York, but he had the honor o! being interviewed. Replying to the question of who was interested in his case now, he said Miss Baring, of the great family of bankers, chiefly, with many wealthy Englishmen. Miss Baring has spent over 40,000d0l in collecting evidence during the last two or three years, sending agents to Australia and all over the world, and everything is now in hand. The evidence I have is absolutely incontrovertible, and proves not only that 1 am not Arthur Orton, but that I am Sir Roger Tichborne,”

The expansion of empire (writes the Pall Mall Gazette) proceeds so automatically that even Lord Granville and Mr Gladstone seem to have ceased to try to check it. Their latest act oi acquiescence in the inevitable is the issuing of a charter to the National African Company, which practically makes the Niger an English river. This latest offspring of the limited liability joint stock idea, which has offices a Ludgate Hill and a capital of a million, is now authorised and empowered to hold And retain all tights, in. interests, authorities, and power for purposes of government, {protection of public order, protection of the said territories or otherwise, of what nature and kind soever—already acquired or yet to be acquired—in the basin of the river Niger. There is the germ of a new empire here, the end of which no man can foresee

An account of a miraculous escape comes from Kanieri. It appears that a day or two ago a little boy of two and a half years of age, the son of Mr Head, of the Commercial Hotel, in company with his brothers and sisters, was wandering in the vicinity of Tucker Flat, when he suddenly fell headlong down a shaft 30 feet in deph. At the bottom there wore immense boulders and jagged stumps which had been thrown in ( and though tho child fell directly upon these from such a height, he was brought to the surface almost smilingly and with no wounds more serious than a few scratches. This youngster is evidently preserved for great things as only a very short time ago he was rescued from drowning in the river.

At Mount Pisa, in the Lakes district, there is a cleft in the rook four or five feet wide at the surface, but so enormously deep that huge stones cast in can be heard crushing against the sides, the sounds getting fainter and fainter, until lost in silence, not because the stones have reached the bottom but because they are so far down that the sound cannot reach the surface. Professor Black says the crevice is caused through shrinkage or volcanic actionr.

According to a letter written by an old resident of Invercargill now living at the head of Lake Wakatipu, and an extract from which is given in the Southland JVewjt, the writer says that ho knows a few men that have been to the Big Bay district, and they say they can make from £2 to £4 per week in nearly any place. The difficulty has always been to secure provisions. The best known remedy is SANDER and SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful eSects in coughs, cold, influenza, etc. —the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Read the official reports that accompany each bottle. We have no occasion to ofier rewards in proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports of medical clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam all these are authentic documents, and, as such, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various cases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc.: Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epirdermis on the volar and palmer side of the band of the thirty-year-old patient was completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounds thus contracted healed in three weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing The patient has stained tbs full use of faand.~(AdTt.) |

| Yale College has established a chair Jo journalism. It is an old battered affair with three legs and a broomstick and filled with exchanges for a cushion. Professor Thurston, a well-known American scientist (says Anglo-Australian,” writing in the European, Mail), has a scheme—which I am assured is much more than something simply on paper—for producing a passenger vessel that could really traverse the ocean at the rate of an express train. The ship he proposes to build is, as may be supposed, one of a special type, some 800 ft long, 80ft beam, and 25ft draught. The power of the engines, and this is the thing, is pat down at 250,000 horses 1 The fuel consumption is assumed at 174 tons of coal an hour, and the average speed will, or should be, 40 miles an hoar.

According to the official report presented by the Seine Board of Health, the following are the statistics for the year 1885. In all 518 animals were found to be suffering from rabies, namely 503 dogs, 13 cats, and 2 horses. There were 527 suspicious cases, consisting of 513 dogs, 13 cats, and 1 goat. The nutnbe r of bites by animals not proved to be hydrophobic was 655 and those by animals actually proved to be hydrophobic amounted to 14; of these 19 were fatal to the persons bitten. The report shows a great increase in the number of rabies cases over 1884, namely, 518 in 1885, , against 301 in the preceding year.

When the employees in an Indiana furniture factory, operated by a German, struck for eight hours’ work a day he granted it, but when they wanted ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work, be called them up and said, “ My fr’ns, maybe Ido as you like. I haf an order from Shegago for ten dozen sbairs. Yhill sheep him eight dozen and bill him for ten. If be doan’ kick on me, it shows me dot der rule vborks both vbays und ve vhas all right.” It is needless to add that the idea didn’t work, and that bis men are receiving eight hours’ pay.

A minister in the North was taking to task one of bis hearers, who was a frequent defaulter, and reproaching him as an habitual absantee from public service. The accused vindicated himself on the plea of a dislike to long sermons. “ 'Deed, man,” said his reverend monitor, a little nettled at the insinuation thrown out against himself, “ if ye dinna mind, ye may land yersel whaur ye’ll no be troubled wi’ sermons either lang or short 1 ” “ Weel, may be," retorted John, “ but it’ll no be for want o’ ministers, at ony rate? ’’

At the entrance of a restaurant in Festh, where young ladies are employed, is posted a notice reading, “ Gentlemen are requested to abstain from kissing the waitresses on the stairs, as this is a fruitful source of breakage and impedes the service.” Use American Co.’s Hop Bitters once and you will use no other medicine. Test it. Take no other. Bo sure and read