LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1413, 22 November 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. E. March will be in attendance at the Courthouse this evening in order to explain the conditions under which Village Settlement Land may be taken up. A public meeting will be held in the Townhall to-morrow evening when the candidates for the Mayoralty will have an opportunity of expressing their views on municipal affairs. Ten of the Ashburton unemployed were this morning sent down to work on the Wakamii Protective Works in place of some of the Christchurch man who have been removed. The Christchurch men, who are at present engaged on the portion of -the South Road, running through the Tinwald town district, will be kept at that work for another fortnight. Mr Donald McLean, Lagmhor, warns persons poaching trout in the creeks on that estate that they will be prosecuted for so doing, and further offers a reward of £2O for the conviction of such offenders. A correspondent of a contemporary points out that the undergraduate course of Muß Annie Forbes ia unique in the annals of the Otago University, and, for a lady, is without a parallel. Going to the University as dux of the Girls’ High School in 1883, she gained the first junior scholarship of the New Zealand University for that year, and her college course of nine classes show six firstclass certificates and three seconds. Six times she has been dux of her class, and as many times she has received prizes. A.cablegram represents William Beach as saying, daring an amicable meeting with Edward Hanlan at the Cambridge Music Hall, London, that he had made £IO,OOO during his brief career as a sculler, and he proposed on his return to Australia to devote himself to his farm, holding himself, however, in readiness to accommodate anyone who might undertake to wrest the champion|blp front him on the Parramatta,

1 A meeting of the Mount Somers Sports Managing Committee was held on Monday, the 15th inst. Present—Messrs Potts, Johnston, Wright, Cooper, Hood, and Peaohe; Mr Peaohe in the chair. It was resolved that the annual sports be held under the Canterbury Jockey Club rules. The programme for the horse races was then arranged, and it was resolved that the Chairman and Secretary be empowered to arrange further details. Mr O t Morrison was added to the Managing Com. mittee, and the next meeting of the latter was fixed for Saturday, November 27th. At Christchurch early on Saturday aftternoon the boiler of a tramway engine exploded, fortunately without injuring anyone. The engine with oar attached was standing on the Ferry Road line near the Heathoote bridge. The driver bad just left, and was a dozen yards away. The car which was empty was partially wrecked. The Marlborough Express has the following The confidence which the lower animals repose in their enemy man in the hour of danger received a curious illustration on Saturday last. Just as the thunderstorm was approaching, a common wild duck, followed by ten young ones, was seen to come up the bank of the Omaka river and march deliberately into Messrs Earll and McKenzie’s yard, where they took refuge in the office till the storm was over. The ducklings wore easily captured, but the mother bird flew away. It continued to hover about the neighborhood lor some time until the young ones returned to the edge of the water, whereupon it joyfully alighted and swam away down stream. The reasoning powers of the old duck composed (as all reason must be) either of instinct, which is simply the inherited reason of the past, or of experiences derived from observation, led her to know that whatever might be her fate, the young birds were safe in the hands of man. The London correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Star learns that Mr Gordon Baillie has perfected arrangements enabling 2000 more crofters to emigrate to Otago. The half-yearly accounts of the Wellington City Council shows a balance of £2OOO of revenue over expenditure. The Tasmanian Salmon Commission reports that the last experiment in placing salmo salar in the waters of that colony will probably prove successful. The Southland Times says that, although not yet much of a nuisance, there can be no doubt that the dreaded oodlin moth has found its way into that district. The Home correspondent of an exchange says that the post-card system is to be extended to the Australasian colonies at an early date. Mr Raikea and his coadjutors are busy considering the difficulties in the way, and have every hope of being able to surmount them. The last session of the Parliament of New South Wales is said to have produced the largest and most sensational " Hansard ” and the smallest statute-book ever contributed by a legislative body to the literature of any Country. The Wanganui Herald says that at the ' drillhall there a few nights ago a major and I adjutant went through the drill with the books in their hands 1 They differed from the drill-instructor, and after each movement , the men were halted, and the order given I “ stand easy,” while the officers discussed the point. Certainly the most effective Medicine in the world is SANDER and SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful , effects in Coughs, Colds, Influenza, &o.; the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the moat gratifying testimony. Read this certificate:—“24th April, 1885. Messrs Sander and Sons, —It is with the greatest of pleasure that I testify to the excellence of your Eucalypti Extract. Having had in- 1 {lamination on the bone of the leg, which 1 came on after a severe attack ot low fever, I i was attended by Dr J. Boyd, who had made ' strenuous eSorts to save my leg, but without I success. He then found it necessary to amputate my limb. Having heard in the , meantime of the wonderful cures worked by ( the Eucalypti Extract, I obtained a bottle, j and the Extract bad not been applied more than an hour when I began to feel greatly relieved. After applying the Extract every 1 four hours for nine or ten days I was out of 1 all danger. I would persuade all who may * be affected with any suob disease to give the I Eucalypti Extract a trial, and I am convinced that they will find it the most wonderful of 1 medicines.—Yours, &0., E. J. Cnrnow, Wattle < street, Sandhurst.”—(Advt.) ,