LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1371, 15 October 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand loan which was placed on the London market on the 6th inst. is quoted at one per cent premium. Mr Lowther Broad has been appointed District Judge for the districts of Timaru and Oamaru, Ashburton, Otago Goldfields, and Western Otago, vice Mr Justice Ward. The Caledonian Society’s annual concert will take place in the Town Hall this evening. A rnofd attractive programme has been prepared, and from the success that has attended former conceits of this society, there seems little doubt that that of to-night will be greeted with a crowded house. A ball will be held at the conclusion of the entertainment.

The Mikado has ordered the English language to be taught in the public schools in Japan. A beautiful flab, supposed by experts to be a Californian salmon, was accidentally caught in a net in Inglia Bay, Kaikoura, on Monday. Later news, however, states that it proves to be a trout which had been down to the sea.

Mails for the Australian colonies only close at Auckland, per Mararoa, immediately after a!rival, which is expected to-morrow. The house of Krupp is stated to have completed a cannon 46ft. Sin. in length, weighing 125 J tons, and having a calibre of 16in. Th e monster has been turned out to the order of the Italian Government.

Lieutenants Restell, of the Ashburton Guards, and Dolman, of the Ashburton Rifles, are gazette! captains. The London correspondent of a contemporary writes :—Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, who is making a tour round the world, has already got half way through the United Stales. He expects to reach San Francisco in about six weeks, and may skil for New Zealand by the October mail steamer.

A special meeting of the Tinwald Town Board was held on Wednesday night when all the members were present. Tenders were opened for haulage of shingle from river bed on to South Eoad, and that of James Skilling at 6Jd per yard accepted. A settlement was made with contractor for filling approaches to bridge. An approximate statement of assets and liabilities was ordered to be prepared for next meeting with a view to striking a rate for the present financial year. It was resolved that the Board should put in crossings to private property when applied for, half the cost to be charged to the applicants. It was also resolved that specifications should be prepared and tenders invited for putting in these aulverts as required. In the case of any person making application for a culvert exceeding contract price, it was decided that the extra cost should be defrayed by him in addition to the half cost of tendered price. Notice of motion was given for next meeting “ That the County Poundkeeper be authorised to impound from the whole of the Tinwald Town District.” The Board then adjourned. A Wellington exchange says Spiritualistic circles in Wellington, and we are told there are many, will be interested to learn that Eglinton, who has recently returned to London from Kussia, contemplates visiting New Zealand early next year. A Loudon correspondent states that his “materialisations aro described even by sceptics as a most fearsome and awe-inspiring exhibition.” An English paper states that the land, owners of six counties have agreed to prohibit the export of stoats and weasels to Now Zealand or elsewhere. It has been found that the balance of nature has been seriously disturbed by the great decrease in the number of those vermin, and that rats have enormously increased.

A San Francisco merchant named Cassin, has subscribed the sum of £2O towards purchasing and presenting a magnificent emerald stone to Mr Gladstone, as a mark of the high esteem with which the Irish race regard an Englishman who baa a heart and mind worthy the highest type of cosmopolitan manhood. 'T'X?

A meeting of householders in the Flemington school district was held at the schoolroom last evening for the purpose of electing a committee. Mr W. Harding was voted to the chair, and explained that in consequence of the householders of the district having failed to elect a committee at the proper time the Board of Education had directed that the present meeting should be called, and nominations were taken and an election held, which resulted in the following gentle, men being chosen as committeemen : Messrs Smith, Harding, Houston, Brabble, Holland, Antrobus, and Ede. At a meeting of the newly elected committee, subsequently held, Mr Smith was appointed chairman, Mr Harding secretary, and it was resolved that meetings should be held on the first Wednesday in each month at 8 p.m. The Eurojiean Mail thinks it certainly speaks somewhat in favor of the reasonable idea that New Zealand is not in so depressed a state as is represented in some quarters—possibly for financial purposes —to know that (he Canterbury Club at Christchurch has sent to England for a cook, offering wages at £75 for the first year, and £IOO for the second an i following years. Tho London Timnt remarks :—Tho climate oi New Zealand is almost notorious for its salubrity. I:s average death rate, about 10 per 1000, is probably the lowest in tho world, while its average birth rate, about 38 per 1000, indicates that tho colony must soon be independent of immigration; there is one town, indeed said to be so extravagantly healthy that when a man wants to die he has to move elsewhere.

Tho Palmerston and 11 'aikouaiti Tim*.i states that accounts from the Hampden diggings arc by no means encouraging, the average earnings per man engaged on the ground being somewhat under what may fairly be considered as a fair wage, or to rank them as tho poor man’s diggings. There are a number of men working on the ground who seem determined to thoroughly satisfy themselves as to results before abandoning the field as hopeless.

That furred tongue, bad tasting mouth and miserable feeling, say you need American Co.’s Hop Bitters. ead and believe.

Wo clip the following important testimonial from the J/iamirra Mercury (N.S.W.), on the 30th of March. It needs no comment: —Mr Loveday, of the Bullia Mountain, writes to us that after suffering for four years with aoute gravel, ho has experienced almost complete relief by using Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. He says seeing tha said Extract advertised in the Illawarra Mercury his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr Hosking, chemist, of this town; and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. Ho states that between the 10th March instant, when ha obtained the first bolt e of the extract, and on the 19th, the use of that medicine continued to afford him relief, to which he had been a stranger for four years. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extract a cure of rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests us to pub ish this information through the Mercury. We have much pleasure in complying with Mr Loveday’s request, whose word cannot be doubted, and who can have no object in view other than a pure desire to benefit suffering humanity.”—(Advt).