LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1343, 16 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails for the Australian Colonies only, via Melbourne, close at Bluff, per Waihora, at noon on Friday, the 17lh instant.

The correspondent of an exchange writes—- “ Mrs Hall, the wife of the man charged at Timaru with attempted poisoning, it is said believes her husband innocent. She protests against the course taken on the medica testimony.”

Mr D. A. McKenzie, ol Auckland, has received a cable message from his agent at Cambridge Gulf, (asking for instructions re the disposal of the Bapido’s cargo, the goods being wholly unsaleable, and Kimberley a “ total failure.”

The ;Sydney Mail states that best beef is quoted in Melbourne at 40s per 1001 b, and best crossbred sheep at 23s to 28s each. Surely, says the Bruce Herald, with kflil prices at present quotations it would be found to the advantage of settlers to start a trade with Victoria.

Eighteen of the Christchurch unemployed arrived in Ashburton by the express this morning. They were set to work cutting and planting willows for protective purposes in the river bed and repairing fences and attending to plantations at Wheatstone, under the supervision of the County Council. Mr W. C. Walker, M.H.B;, has, we u nderstand, been in communication with the Minister of Public Works in reference to providing work for those men who are out of employment in Ashburton. The Hon Mr Richardson, on behalf of the Government, has offered to grant a subsidy of £ for £ up to £SO on money voted by the County Council for the purpose ol providing relief for the unemployed. This proposal will probably be considered by the Council at a special meeting to be held to-morrow.

Mr George Cates wishes us to say that if the “On dit” mentioned in our last issue (to the effect that one of the defeated candidates at the recent borough election proposed to claim the seat of one of the successful candidates) had reference to himself that the rumor referred to is incorrect.

In Chicago they are getting gas at 75 cents per 1000 feet, and hope soon to get it at 50. This is the gratifying result of an internecine war between two gas companies.

John (jiromie, a well-to-do-farmer residing in the Eingsdown district, was charged on Tuesday with the [arceny of a portmanteau belonging to a young man named F. W. Drummond. Mr Brobam conducted the prosecution for the police, and Mr Perry defended the accused. The case was rather a perouliar one. At the outset Mr Perry objected to the jurisdiction of the Court, as ths portmanteau and the c'othing it contained were of the value of £lO. He also objected to the Court dealing summarily with the case, and requested that the depositions of all the witnesses be taken. This was agreed to, and it was shown that about sth August last Drummond lost the portmanteau on the main road and passed accused riding in the direction the article was lost. Some weeks went by, and then prisoner was noticed in town wearing young Drummond’s trousers. Information was given to the police, and Cromie was duly arrested. The portmanteau and most of the articles were found at bis residence. The defence was reserved.

A Brazilian physician, Dr Ramos, states that refrigeration of the lobe of the ear will stop hiccough, Whatever its cause may be Very slight refrigeration, he asserts, will answer, the application of cold water, or even saliva being sufficient.

An exchange says that an aged farmer, named Sol Joyner, living at Southampton, in the state of Virginia, has been murdered by his two daughters, aged twelve and eighteen respectively. They chopped his head off with an axe after be had fallen asleep. Their motive for the act was that he had chastised them for taking provisions and wearing apparel from a neighbor without permission. Both the girls have been arrested. A meeting of the executive Committee of the Ashburton Caledonian Society was held in the Secretary’s office last night, Mr W. St. G. Douglas in the chair. Messrs Reid and Mcßae wore added to the Concert Programme Committee. Mr John Sim’s name was added to the Scotch Play Committee. It was resolved that the annual concert and ball be hold in the Town Hall on Friday, 15th October next, and that the charge to the concert be 3s, 2s, and Is, and to the ball Bs for gentlemen, ladies free. Balmy sleep, good digestion, rich blood, elastic step and cheerfulness in American Co.’s Hop Bitters. Bead and elieva 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 acoompany 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 Bingen, 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 linger was coaled. The wounds thus contracted healed in three weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing Ihe patient has etained the full use of hand.— (Advt.l

As a proof of the profits to be derived from cropping with linseed, Mr Postlethwaite, of Geraldine, submitted the following figures at a recent meeting of the Temuka Linseed Factory Company. On his own farm last year Mr Postlethwaite set aside 32£ acres tor this crop. The following were the preliminary expenses :—Ploughing and harrowing, £5 19s 2d; disc harrowing, £2 ss; 60 bushels Kiga seed, £ls; pulling, £SO 2s 9d; tying, £lO ss; stooking, £1 12s fid: carting to factory, £25 15s. The produce was 75 tons sowt 3qrs, which at £3 per ton, brought £219 17s 3d, or a balance of £IOB 17s lOd over expenses.

Mr G. P. Scott met with an untoward accident yesterday which resulted in the oss of his cavalry horse “ Prince.” Ho was driving near Winohmore and after crossing a water race, over which he went at a walking pace, the horse’s leg suddenly snapped. Mr Sootkoannot account for the accident beyond a supposition that the horse must have slipped upon a stone. The animal, which had to be destroyed, was a valuable one, and the loss falls upon Mr Scott at a most inopportune time, as the annual cavalry manoeuvres will take place in two or three weeks. The Premier, Sir B. Stout, passed through Ashburton this morning en route to Dunedin. We learn from the North Otago Times that the Government has undertaken to advance to the Oamaru Harbor Board the sum required to enable the repair of the damage done to the breakwater by the recent storm. Our contemporary adds, however, that it is said that it will take between £20,000 and £30,000 to protect the wall in such a way that it will be sate from repetitions of the damage it has recently sustained. In reference to a paragraph quoted from the Eastern Star concerning the Plenary Synod, Christchurch, and Bishop Moran, the Dunedin Herald, is authorised to say the statements of this paragraph as regards these three are for the most part untrue, and that Bishop Moran wrote no such letter as the one attributed to him.

The Wanganui Herald is responsible for

the following:—" Ic is rumored that a very spicy case will shortly engage the attention of the Divorce Court in Wellington. It is said that a well-known citizen of Wellington intends to petition a dissolution of his marriage on the grounds of his wife’s alleged misconduct with a southern member of Parliament.”

The Wellington Post says that by the s.s. Ruapehu there arrived three intending settlers, who have come to this colony under the regulations for the introduction of farmers with small capital. Two of the new comers are single men, one bringing with him £1000; the third is a married man with a family of sis. One of the immigrants goes to Auckland and two intend settling in Hawke’s Bay