LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1408, 16 November 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A half-holiday ou Thursday next has been declared, it being the occasion of the inspection of the Ashburton Volunteers by Sir GWhitmore. An exchange says that a gentleman well known in Wellington sporting circles reported confidentially to one or two friends—that ha had dreamt overnight that Deceiver had won the Criterion Stakes at the 0.J.0 Metropolitan meeting. He saw the colors of the jockey, he said, and heard people talking about the horse winning. This gentleman left for Christchurch by the Mararoa, and duly backed his dream. As the horse won the race and paid a handsome dividend, the prophetic dreamer has no doubt made a haul from what is certainly a very remarkable coincidence. Mr Maokay, whose absence from home since Sunday morning caused some anxiety as to his safety, has returned all right. Millionaire Walters, of Baltimore, has just paid £SOO for an orchid. A Canadian great-grandfather recently attended Ihejohristening of his 117th descendant. Aunt Susie Grubbs,, an old lady of eightyfive, took the prize for dancing at a recent picnic in Indiana. The author of “ Box and Cox,” and other popular farces, is a pauper in London at the ago of eighty-siz. A census-taker found a woman who gave her own age as twenty-eight years, and that of her eldest son as twenty-three. The London correspondent of a contemporary states that Mr Spong, a clever young scene painter, who gained considerable kudos for his contributions to recent Lyceum and Drury Lane spectacles, has been engaged for Australia by Messrs Williamson and Garner at a salary of £IOOO a-year. A London physician. Dr T. Lander Brunton, comes out against “high” meat, the taste for which is, in his judgment, an acquired and a morbid one, and also dangerous, since eating 1“ high ” meat overtaxes tbe bile and gastric juioe. The Urenui correspondent of the Taranaki Herald tells of a novel form of sheep stealing, which has just been introduced in that district. The thief having killed and skinned the sheep, stuffed the skins with the entrails and so disposed the carcasses on tbe ground aa to give them the appearance of sheep Bleeping, the result being that it was only after close examination that the fraud was discovered. The police are now in search—not of the Rst meat, but of the perpetrators of the theft. Robust and blooming health in Hop Bitters (American Co.’s) and no family can afford to be without them.. Bead

A public enquiry was held yesterday in the Ashton Schoolroom, before Mr A. Saunders, who was commissioned by the Board of Education for that purpose. A number of witnesses weio called, who gave their evidence in support of the several charges brought against the Master. After reviewing the case, the Commissioner said it was not required of him that ho should comment on the matter now brought before him, but as an expression of opinion of what he would have to embody in bis report to the Board of Education, he would just say that from the evidence given the charges were too well substantiated. Addressing the Master, he said if he (Mr Saunders) was allowed to tender advice, it would be that he should resign in the ordinary way; he was a young man, and for want of experience had been guilty of great indiscretion in the school, and towards the Committee, who had full power over the management of the school, and who he, as a Master, was expected to treat with courtesy. The enquiry lasted nearly three hours, a great majority of tbe parents and householders being present. Mr Allred Harrison was to-day nominated for the Mayoralty. The election will be held on the 24th. So far Councillors Sealy and Harrison are the only candidates. Attention is dirioted to the feet that the date of the Ashburton wool sales previously announced by Messrs Friedlander Bros., H. Matson and Co., Miles and Co., and the N.Z.L. and M.A. Company for the 19th inst, has been changed to the 2Gth inst.—Friday week. Printers have much to endure. A morning paper that had sub-edited a cheap " ad.” received the following lucid complaint:— “ Pleas insurt the abuve as it is roate down, not alter it as it ware last weak pleas.” This is how it was “ roate ” :—“ A respectabl woman age 47 as plane cook trustworthy to eldy or small fanely good refferenoe, adrss,” &o. Don’t use stimulants, but nature’s brain and nerve food —Hop Bitters. Beware of except made by American Co. Sea