LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1341, 14 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We direct the attention of all business men to the notices which have been issued by the Banks, to the effect that on and after October Ist exchange will be charged upon all cheques drawn upon Banks in any other town or place, and also upon drafts. The charge upon cheques will, we understand, be up to £2O, sixpence; £2O to £4O, one shilling; £4O to £6O, one shilling and sixpence ; £6O to £BO, two shillings; £BO to £IOO, two shillings and sixpence ; an eighth per cent, on all amounts up to £1000; over £IOOO, ona-sixtoenth per cent. Minimum charge for draft# ooa rijilUng.

Thomas Hall, the chief character in the sensational case now before the Court at Timaru, passed through Ashburton this morning on his way to Timaru from Lyttelton gaol, where he has been in custody for the last few days. He was brought before the Court to-day and further remanded. He will again be taken to Lyttelton gaol.

A lecture, entitled “Frederick Douglas, Slave Orator and Emancipationist,’’ is to be given in the Ashburton Wesleyan Church, on Monday, 11th Oct., by the Bov F. Whitmore laitt, of Christchurch. The lecture will bo illustrated by diagrams, and the introduction of several slave melodies by the choir, will add interest to the evening’s entertainment. The proceeds are to bo devoted to the Sunday School funds. The lecture being a commendable substitute for the usual anniversary tea meeting, and (he object, combined with the lecturer’s ability and the peculiar charm which invests his subject, should draw together one of the largest audiences met together In Ashburton.

According to the Tivtevti Herald Mr William Sweet, nursery gardener, of Temnka, claims to have discovered a perfect cure and antidote to that pest of gardeners, the blight. His experiments have lasted over some years, but he is now confident that he can not only cure blighted trees, but can prevent the recurrence of the evil. Mr Sweet's remedy is very simple. It consists merely in planting in proximity to the affected trees a shrub indigenous to England. How this affects the insect which carries the blight, we are unable to say, but we have been credibly informed of some wonderful cures affected by such, apparently, simple means.

An entertainment was given last night in the Oddfellows' Hall by the Dawn of Peace Lodge of Good Templars. About fifty persons were present, and the chair was taken by Mr T. M. Jones. The meeting was opened by prayer by Mr Sawle. A miscellaneous programme was then gone through, as follows: —Song, Miss Potter; speeches by the Rev. Mr Hill and Mr Sawle; song, Mr Bonnington; reading, Mrs Manhire ; song, Mr Kingston; song, Miss Kingston; recitation, Mr Martin; song, Mrs Manhire; recitation, Mr T. Kingston; speech, Rev. Mr McNicol; song, Mr Bonnington; reading, Mr G: Andrews; song, Miss Potter; song, Mr Kingston dialogue, Messrs H. Steel and Martin. During the evening refreshments were handed round. The meeting was brought to a close, by the singing of the National Anthem by those present.

Private telegrams from London state that Californian wheat is worth 35s 3d; Chilian cargoes, 335; November options in Liverpool, 7s 31 per lOOibs. The market, generally, is much firmer.

The question, " What shall I do with my boys?” might be thus answered, “Bring them up to be oirous performers.” At Fran, coni’s well-known establishment in Paris, the Briaton family of acrobats receive £4O a week; the serpent charmer, £3O; the little Japanese “ All-right,” the same amount; Batty, the “unrivalled jockey,” £25; and Mdlle. Fillis, “ the incomparable horsewoman,” £35 a week. Franooni’s company comprises twenty-five women, forty-three men, and eighty horses; and he expends £l2O per week In provender, gas, music, and playbills. Each of the performers above re* ferred to appears for about ten minutes each evening.

News from Wellington, dated 13th instant, states that Colonel Sir George Whitmore has left for New Plymouth, where he will meet the Hon the Defence Minister, and they will together select and endeavour to arrange for the use of a site somewhere near Waitara for the next Easter Volunteer encampment. By holding the camp in this neighborhood facilities will be afforded for naval as well as land movements.

It it not generally known (says the Zealand Times) that a large edible salt-water crab is to be caught on the New Zealand coast, and it has often been proposed to make the attempt to acclimatise the species common on the British coasts. Last Sunday a gentleman living in Wellington was fishing for crayfish [with a net at the point on the Kilbimie side of the Hermit’s Cave, and caught [two large crabs. The largest was of dimensions worthy of those from the Channel Islands to be seen in fishmongers’ shops in London. It measured more than nine inches across the shell. The smaller one was about five inches in diameter. Both were caught at dead low water.

A young wife in Adelaide, says an exchange walked into a billiard hall in which her hnsband was, playing the other night, laid a neatly done np bundle among the pool balls, and walked ont without a word. The inmates of the room fled, fearing dynamite, but instead of exploding the bundle began to kick and cry. The husband did not stop to explain to the boys, but gathered np his child and went home. He is thoroughly reformed now, and says be begs to be excused from having more to do with with billiard bawls.

A lad who died suddenly last week at the Dunedin High School had been suffering from hydatid* in the lungs, and it is supposed that this had affected the heart. The hydatid is a parasite which is bred on dogs, and can b« communicated to the system by drinking water that dogs had been in or near. It was but the other week in Auckland that a young man underwent an operation, the eye being removed, hydatid* being discovered in that organ. The best known remedy is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects 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. Bead the official reports that accompany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer 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 oases 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 hand 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 con- 1 traoted healed in thvee weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing The patient has etained the full use of hand. —(Advt.)