LOCAL AND GENERAL.
♦ A public meeting is convened for Tuesday evening next, in order that the candidates for the Mayoralty may have an opportunity of expressing their views on municipal affairs. We are requested to call attention to the fact that Mayfield and Sycamore Farms, situated at Winslow, will be sold by auction, at two f-m, to morrow, at the rooms of Mr OfeaifriOiaft, Hereford street, Christchurch.
The Camara show yesterday was very successful, and the attendance was large. The weather was fine. The following took the cups:—Ayrshire cattle, Mr James Gemmull; thoroughbred horses, Mr John Henderson ; merino sheep, Hon M. Holmes ; Leicester sheep, Little Bros.; Lincoln sheep, Hon M. Holmes; dairy produce, Mr H. Mitchell; grain, Mr William Meek. Sir Julias Vogel yesterday morning received a telegram from the Hon Mr Suttor, Postmaster-General of New South Wales, to the effect that the Press of Sydney had been consulted relative to the proposed gaurantee to the cable company. Sir Julius has also received a telegram from the Auckland Chamber of Commerce expressing great satisfaction at the arrangement made with the company re cable rates. The second annual meeting of the Canterbury centre of St. John’s Ambulance Association was held at Christchurch last night. The report showed that six branches bad been established in various townships. A class for training ladies for nursing had been very successful, 81 having attended it. The medical men have given their services willingly as honorary lecturers. A presentation was made to the retiring .secretary, the Rev T. Flavell. The Hon E. Richardson, accompanied by his private seeretary, arrived in Christchurch early yeeterday morning. Daring the day be was engaged with Sir Julius Vogel and Ur Alan Soott, in completing arrangements for the final draft of the contract for the Midland railway. All the members of the Cabinet are to meet in Wellington by December Ist. The Victorian defence expenditure for the year 1885-6 amounted to £108,318 for maintenance, besides £60,684 (for works and building. The King of Portugal has very recently passed a week at Buckingham Palace. He has had unusual attentions, though the Court and the Prince of Wales are away in the Highlands. A guard of honor attended at the station on his departure, and a cavalry escort saw him through the streets. Of coarse the Lord Mayor had him to luncheon, and the King spoke warmly of the ancient friendship of England and Portugal when they fought together in the Peninsula. He hoped that it might continue to increase as it had done throughout the intervening years. It is said that there are at the present time, including the Carlist dynasty, no fewer than nine Kings and Queens of Spain. First, there is the infant King upon the throne, and his mother the Queen Regent; then comes the ex-Queen Isabella and her bueband, King Francis; thirdly, the ex-King Amadeo, brother of the King of Italy; and lastly, the four Cellists—Don Juan 111. and his Queen, Dona Beatrix of Este, the former of whom abdicated a few years ago in favour of bis son, Don Carlos, who with his iwife, Dona Margaret, makes up the total. An anecdote is told of the ex-King Amadeo, paying; a visit to the ex-Queen Isabella in Paris, a lew years ago ( when Don Carlos was announced, whereupon Amadeo took hie leave, observing with a smile, " I don’t think three sovereigns of Spain ought to be in one room.” An Indian writer in a Delhi paper addresses the Russians as follows :—” Russians ! asses, blockheads, boobies, clowns, dolts, emptybeads, fanatics, flats, fools, fallow-brains, gabics-geese, hypocrites, ignoramuses, jobbernowls, jabberheads, knaves, loggerheads, mooncalves, numskulls, oafs, pnmps, quacks, rogues, ruffians, squatters, simpletons, tomnoddies, ualators, vultures, wreckers, yellen, yokels, zanies 1 ” Having thus ran through the gamut from A to Z, the writer proceeds : —“ Hearken to a friendly whisper of advice from an Indian.” And then, apropos of the British Lion“ You have already caused the said lion to wag his tail and roar. Attend to that roar, ye land-grabbing, besotted Russians—mark that tail—be and beware. Bun not your head Into the lion’s mouth.” Don’t use stimulants, bat nature’s brain and nerve food—Hop Bitters. Beware of except made by American Co. See SANDER end SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.—Cure of Skin Diseases. Invercargill, N.Z., 3rd of July, 1880- Messrs Sander and Sons, SandhurstGentlemen.—Having suffered from eczema (a skin disease wbiob is very prevalent in this colony) for about nine years, I bad consulted numerous medical men here and in Australia, and bad taken arsenic, strychnine, iodide of potassium, etc., internally, and had used preparations of zinc and lead externally. In fact, I bad tried all the remedies known to the faoulty, and what between travelling, doctors’ and druggists’ bills, had spent a small fortune, almost, if not wholly, without results, except to injure my constitution. During a recent visit to Hokitika I wasj recommended to try your Extract Eucalyptus Globulus by a brother who had experienced great benefit from it in alleviating a very severe cold, and no less to my surprise than satisfaction, I found the disease which troubled me so long was conquered, and the skin resumed its normaloondition. This was effected by the external nse of less than two two-ounce bottles. Yours, eto, Signed John H. Kerr, Manager Union Bank, of Australia, Limited.—(Advt.)
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1411, 19 November 1886, Page 2
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881LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1411, 19 November 1886, Page 2
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