LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1432, 15 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough School Concert takes place this evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall. A meeting of the Fire Brigade will be held this evening. A full attendance is requested.

The second of the series of Ashburton wool sales will be held to-morrow.

The Garden Party in aid of the funds of St. Stephen’s Church will take place at Mr Hunt’s grounds to morrow. The Rev P. H. Cornford (President of the New Zealand Baptist Union) is announced to conduct a service in the upper room at back of Oddfellows’ Hall, on Thursday next, 23rd instant, at 8 p.m.

The promoters of the proposed wool and grain exhibition have decided to postpone further action till next year on account of the postponement of the Imperial Intitule. The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times says that the official orders prohibiting scented soap in the Government buildings have been cancelled, to the great delight of the ended darlings of the aristocratic establishment

Efforts are already being made in New South Wales in favor of the nine men under sentence of death in connection with the shocking outrage at Mount Bennie. Nothing is yet kown as to whether it is intended to carry out the sentence.

The Woodville Examiner calculates that at least half a million of money is passed through the totalisator at race meetings in the course of twelve months in this colony, and suggests that, as such investments must come strictly under the heading of “ luxuries,” a tax of 2£ per cent, should be imposed upon them.

The usual notice regarding the sum of £4OOO voted by the New Zealand Parliament for distribution among the public libraries in the colony appears in the Gazette. The distribution will take place on the Bth Feb. nest, and no claim will be considered unless it be received by the Secretary for Education on or before 31st January, 1887. gtAn ex-Postmaater-General was recently fined, along with a number of other drunkards, at the Sydney Police Court. He is now engaged as a cabman. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr A. W. Brown) having suggested that his successor should be presented with a Mayoral uniform, the Post thinks that it ought to be original, and says :—Mr Sam Brown, the Jubilee Mayorelect, for instance, would present a very striking appearance if he bad a head-dress of huia feathers, was arrayed in a handsome mat of native manufacture, wore a necklace of shark’s teeth, a greenstone pendant from each ear, and had a mere in his hand. It is impossible to remain long aiok or out of health where American Oo.’s Hop Bitters are used. See another

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