LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1346, 20 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ashburton Eifles and Guards wil parade at the Drillshed this evening for the Government Inspection. The District Adjutant, Major Newall, will be present. An exchange says that the late Mr Bradshaw, M.H.R., was one of the players in both Victoria and New Zealand against the first visiting All England Eleven, The rumour that Mr Ballance intends to visit England next year is semi-officially denied. A Wanganui paper states that upwards of 40 bushmen are engaged in felling bush on the Feilding Small Farm Association block, and it is expected about 1000 acres of bush will be felled this season. The Eev C D. Cecil, of Timuka, is, we understand, to lecture to-morrow evening, at 7.30, in the Schoolroom, Winslow, on spiritualism and mesmerism, when he will detail the history, phenomena, and results of spiritualism. The lecture is said to be a very able one and should be largely attended. Among the Lost Relatives advertised for in Lloyd’* Weekly, is the following :—" Arthur John Ussher, sailor, left the Albert docks in the s.s. British (Queen and arrived in New Zealand September 1883. He went up country shortly after, and then gave his address as ‘ post office, Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.’ The following is from tho London letter of an exchange ;—Mrs Muir, a New Zealand lady, who is travelling at Home with her son, was recently loudly cheered on her presentation to Her Majesty the Queen at one ot the drawing-rooms. This lady, though 75 years of ago, is quite active, and seems to take great pleasure in the gaieties at Home. She is a very old colonist, as many will remember, and a great deal of interest is taken in her on that account." The lady referred to is, we imagine, Mrs Muir, of Dunedin, who will be remembered t>y b»bj> of our readers who are themselves old colonists. Sir James Fergusson, as an old Governor of New Zealand, has, says an Home paper written an opportune letter to the Times with the view of obviating the injurious effect upon the public estimation of the prosperity of the colony which may be caused by tho late terrible eruption of volcanoes, superadded, as it is, to Commercial depression. He points out that the volcanic zone is comparatively sterile, and settlement within it has been rare, the eruption, besides, affecting an area not greater than that of Etna or Vesuvius. The steady increase of pauperism going on (says the Auckland Herald) unless arrested in some other way will end in the establishment of a poor rate. So little self-reliance or providence have some of the members of the working classes, that men who have just got out of work on a Saturday night by 10 o’clock on Monday morning were at the office of the relieving officer to be put on the ration list. The expenditure of the relieving officer during August was £3Bl, or £lOl above the amount expended in the corresponding month of the previous year. There are a number of artisans out of work, who, failing to find work at their own trades, are averse to taking other work. Among this class there is a good deal of hardship being endured, as also by their families. An exchange says—Mr Speight, the Victorian Railway Commissioner, is reported to have said recently that the railways of all the colonies, taken as a whole, were worth, with all their faults, 20s in the £ ; but that it was simply impossible to attain good commercial results it appointments were political, if there was no discipline in the ranks, and if the traffic was not conducted on business principles. Mr Speight is a man who knows what he is talking about. He has revolutionised railway affairs in jVictoria, made the traffic pay, and placed tho whole system in such a state that it is the best administered and most productive railway system in the colonies. It would be of enormous advantage to New Zealand if such a man were obtained, and the full control of the railways vested in him. The following item from tho Foxton Herald of September 10th should interest ornithologists :—A day or two ago a cat attached to Mr J. Walden’s house at Moutoa brought home a very rare bird, called by the Maoris “ Moho.” Mr Walden says that in all his experience of the district be never saw a similar bird. It is about the size of a woodhen, and has a most beautiful plumage, with a red streak round the neck, and another round the breast, the rest of the marking of the feathers somewhat resembling the skin of a leopard. Mr Walden says he believes Dr Bullet offered £5 for a live “ moho,” or £2 for a dead one. Balmy sleep, good digestion, rich blood, elastic step and cheerfulness in American Co.’s Hop Bitters. Read and elieve 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 ot Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Read 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 eases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc.: Burning of the right band through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epirdermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year--014. patient was completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half ot the phalanx ot the nail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounds thus contraded healed in three weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing The patient has stained the full.uee of band.—(Advt.)

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Ash- - burton Borough Council will be held. this evening. A man named Penlington,(employed at the Woollen Factory, was thrown out of a wagginette yesterday afternoon. He c sustained a dislocation of the shoulder a and several severe outs and bruises o about the head and face. He was F taken home where his injuries were speedily attended to by Drs Ross and Tweed. The g vehicle worth about £6O, which was hired by 1 Penlington from one of the local livery ■ stables was dragged on its side by the horses t for about four miles and completely wrecked; f The 'Frisco mail will arrive in town by the c last train this evening. A special train will j be despatched from Ashburton with the t southern portion immediately after the arrival < of the 7.12 ordinary. j Thomas Hall and Margaret Houston ware i again brought before the Magistrate’s Court, 1 at Timaru, to-day, charged with attempted 1 murder of the wife of the former. Hall, who - has been incarcerated in Lyttelton gaol, passed through Ashburton, in custody by the i express this morning on his way to Timaru to answer the charge brought against him. Mr W. 0. Walker, M.H.R., Chairman of the County Council, on Saturday received the following telegram from the Minister for Public Works, in reply to an enquiry as to the distinction made in the rate of payment to be given to the Christchurch and Ashburton unemployed engaged on relief works :—“ I am informed by the District Engineer that twenty-five men have been sent to Ashburton at request of Council, on conditions suggested by Minister for Lands. Will you please tell me if this is the case. I wish to know before making any arrangement to remove them. In the meantime you may employ the twelve or ( fifteen unemployed you refer to in your letter of 9th inst., on same terms as those employed in Christchurch, up to £IOO. — E. Richabdson." Mr Walker and the Mayor were to-day 1 engaged in enquiring into urgent oases, and 1 at the Borough Council meeting to-night it is 1 probable it will be determined if there is any work which can be thrown open upon which to engage the unemployed. 1 Use American Co.’s Hop Bitters once and you will use no other medicine. Test it. Take I no other. Be sure and read