LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1344, 17 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Dunedin butcher is shipping mutton and beef to Melbourne. A trial order was sent by a Melbourne firm, and proved so satisfactory that an enlarged order has been received. Mr Vanderbilt is having a yacht built which will be the largest ever constructed. The cabin accommodation will include diningroom, drawing room, nursery, and fifteen state rooms.

The Auckland Herald declares that olive tree planting in that district has got beyond the region of experiment. The plantation of 20 acres on Dc Logan Campbell’s estate at One-Tree Hill have thriven capitally. Some of the trees are already 12ft high: It is now estimated, on very good authority,

that the number of colonists in Great Britain for the Colonial Exhibition is not less than 10,000. Sir Saul Samuel recently remarked that the amount that they would probably expend in England could not well be under two and a half millions sterling. A digger, who believes he is the man referred to as lost in Tautauku Bush, between Gatlins and Fortrose, has arrived at Invercargill. He states that he left Gatlins on Good Friday, that he left part of bis effects there, and that be turned off the bush track at the point described on the Surveyor’s maps. There can be no reasonable doubt that he is the man supposed to have been lost. He says that be was induced by the letters of Mr Vincent Pyke, in the Otago Witness, re the possibilities of beach working for gold on the south-east and south coasts of Otago, to leave Westport with the object of giving a thorough trial to the beaches. He had been many months* prospecting from Hampden to Waikawa, but found nothing of great moment, the best prospects being between Gatlins and Bushy Point, Bluff. The man is an experienced digger, and goes to Big Bay. Should he not succeed there he will return to the locality previously named.

In one of the Hawkes Bay country districts some of the young damsels are getting up a dance, and as a postoript to the gentlemen’s invitations add the words “ Please bring a pot of jam with you.” A Sydney paper says that a man down from the backs block went into Compagnoni’s the other day and was offered some macaroni soup. He declined. He said he could put up with “ damper,” but he must draw the line at stowed tobacco pipes. The severe depression which is hanging over Auckland at the present time is telling upon the number of people in the city. Travellers are leaving for Australia by every steamer.

The Otago Education Board have passed a resolution instructing the Secretary to communicate with other Boards in the colony as to whether they are in favor of an exchange of Inspectors. A proclamation appears in the Gazed; from Western Australia prohibiting the importation into that colony of horned cattle, sheep, and swine from places beyond the limits of the Australasian colonies. The Gazette notifies that the sitting of the District Court for the Ashburton district is fixed for November 19th. Tho Telegraphic Department advises that communication with Europe and India by the Penang-Rangoon cable was restored this morning. At a meeting of the North Canterbury Education Board yesterday a resolution was passed strongly protesting against the intention of the Minister of Education to withhold any grant for repairs to school premises. Mr G. J. Matson, of Christchurch, is sending a shipment of 2000 ostrich feathers to England in the Bimutaka, The quality is considered by experts to be very good. Stephen Middleborough, a young man in the employ of T. Rowley, baker, Knightstown was thrown from his cart at Christchurch yesterday afternoon and killed by the vehicle turning over him. The Wool Growers’ Association of Australasia propose to iioat a company in Melbourne to work a factory at Senju, Japan. A portion of tho capital it is anticipated will be subscribed in New Zealand.

At a meeting of the North Canterbury Board of Education yesterday a letter was read from the Ashburton School Committee respecting the appointment of teachers, and forwarding a resolution-which suggested the desirability that the Committee should enjoy to the fullest extent the power vested in them under the Education Act of 1877. The Chairman pointed out that the Board had not infringed the Act, and had in fact done everything to assist the Committees. All other Committees appeared to be satisfied with what had been done. On Sunday next the Kev Father Chastagnon will hold Divine service at Ashburton at the usual hours, and on Sunday week will say Mass at Bakaia at 10.30. Vespers at Ashburton at the usual hour.

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