LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1428, 9 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the meeting of the Hampstead School Committee last evening it was resolved, on the motion of Mr Hunt, that the Chairman should, in conjunction with the Chairman of the Ashburton Committee, wait on the local doctors requesting them to inform the Committees of any infectious diseases that may be abroad.

We remind our reader that a good opportunity of finishing up raceday pleasantly is afforded by the performance of the Alleyne Comedy Company who appear to-night at the Oddfellows’ Hall in the amusing farcical Comedy “ All at Sea.” Miss Florence Wade, Miss Marion Medway, Mr Alleyne, and that old favorite of the public, Mr Harry Power, are all in the cast, which is sufficient gauranteo of the excellence of the perfoimance.

We understand that the next series of wool sales in Ashburton will, in all probability, be held a day ealier than at present intended. Nothing has been definitely decided yet, but the 17th is an inconvenient day for purchasers to attend, and it is therefore likely that the sales will be held on the IGth.

The following will play for the Suburbs against the County Cricket Club on Saturday next on the Sports Ground, oS Wakanui roadG. W. Andrews, W. Bruce, A. Buchanan, E. Buchanan, A. Cookson, W. E. Marsh, D. Todd, J. Walsh, H. E. Wilkinson, Walmsley, and Wood. Emergencies : M. Fitzgerald, F. Clark, and R. Hart. Play to commence at 1.30 sharp. Book Agent: “ Here’s Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.” Aunt Chole : “No, sah I Don’t want ’em. Got two bunions now, and d ■ don’t help dis pilgrim’s progress one mite.” The Timaru Herald says that angling still goes on merrily in the Temuka and Winchester rivers. As a specimen of what may be done by nn enthusiastic and skilful angler, Mr N. C. Nicholas’ tally is worth noting. During the two months passed Mr Nicholas has brought to bank no fewer than 180 fish, weighing 553 Jibs, or an average of over 31b loz each. His biggest trout turned the scale at 10Jibs, and .ho has captured six weighing from 9Jibs to lOJlbs. His most noteworthy day’s takes have been 12 weighing 41Jlbs ; 11, 50J : bs ; 10, 4Glba ; 15, 33Jlbs ;6, 251bs; 3, 20Jlbs; 4, 221bs; 5, During the present month, for five days’ fishing, Mr Nicholas can show 22 fish scaling 92Jlbs.

Mr Alan Scott, manager for the Midland Railway Company, has returned from the West Coast. lie has made arrangements for placing the contractors for the first section from Brunnerton to the Teremakau in legal possession of the land required for the line. This contract has been divided into eleven subcontracts, for which tenders will be called forthwith. By February the work will be in full swing all along the section.

There aro twenty persons whoso gifts to American colleges aggregate over five million pounds. Three of these rich men—Stephen Girard, John Hopkins, and Asa Packer—gave over three millions.

Colonel Laudas is making an attempt to irrigate some of the African deserts by means of artesian wells, and has reported to the French Academy of Science that he has driven an artesian well in the desert to the depth of 300 ft, which is now discharging fresh water at the rate of 2000 gallons a minute. This area was a desert, and is now a fertile and well-stocked district.

£SOO will be paid for any case that American Co.’s Hop Bitters will not cure or

help. Doubt not. See. Statutory Declaration.—l, Franz Kaabe Ironbark, Sandhurst, in the colony of Victoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on the 25(h June, 1877, my son Alfred, six years of age, was accidentally hurt with an axe on the knee. I at once took all pains to secure medical assistance. However, in spite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, the opinion was given by Dr Macgil ivray than an amputation of tho injured limb had become imperative, ic order to save life. At this junction I called on Messrs Sander and Sons, procuring some of iheir Extract of the Eucalyptus Globulus, and by the application of the same I had the satisfaction of seeing my son within a fori night out of all danger, to-day he is recovered. I may just add that it was when tho crisis hud been reached that ‘.he Extract re erred to was first applied. And I make this so'emn declaration, etc., —Franzßaabe. Declared at Sandhurst, in the colony of Victoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven before me, Moritx Cohn, J.P.— Advt.