LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1437, 21 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It will be seen by our cable news that it is probable the Prince of Wales will accept the invitation to visit Victoria to open the Centennial Exhibition. The funeral of the late Mr J. L. Coster took place on Monday afternoon, at Opawa, and was very largely attended. For the Heath - oote seat in the House of Representativee, rendered vacant by Mr Coster’s death, the following gentlemen are probable candidates: —Mr W. S, Wynn. Williams, previous member; Mr Frederic Jones, who has already announced himself; Mr Aaron Ayers, Mayor of Christchurch. The greatest nourishing tonio, appetiser, strengthener and curative on earth. liop Bitters untie only by American Co. See

Our South Rakaia correspondent writes : Arrangements have been made through which we shall have a resident clergyman of the Church of England here. The Revd. H. Collins has been appointed, and it is to be hoped we shall be able to retain his services. Mr Collins was here some years ago, and gained general esteem. We have had no regular clergyman here for nearly two years, and only three services in the church. Divine service will be held in the Episcopalian Church, South Rakaia, on Christmas Day, when the Rev F. Knowles will officiate. The Wanganui Herald learns that the Hon J. Bryce will address bis constituents towards the end of next month. Mr Bryoe has not exactly decided whether he will speak first at Waverley or Wanganui. “ I discovered many years ago,” says a writer in an American paper, “ that wood could be made to last longer than iron, in the ground, if prepared according to the following recipe :—Take boiled linseed oil and stir it in pulverized coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man will live to see it rot.” Some years ago, at the Derby, when the grand prize was won by a French horse, the Frenchmen present cheered most vociferously, and, in addition to other expressions of triumph, one of them shouted, “ Waterloo avenged 1 ” ” Yes,” said Sir William Harcourt, : who was standing by, “ you ran wall in both I cases.”

According to the Cromwell Arr/us Mr Lachlan McLean, farmer, Hawea FUt, was recently savagely attacked by an entire horse belonging to him, and narrowly escaped with his life. While in the stable the animal suddenly turned open-mouthed on McLean, and caught his left arm below the elbow, completely smashing the limb. The bone is broken is two places and the muscles badly lacerated. Mr McLean also sustained a number of bruises, more or less severe, and it was only after a determined struggle that he treed himself from the horse, which previously had been looked on as singularly quiet. A prize fight between a man with one arm and another with one eye took place near Coshington, in Leicestershire, The fight lasted one hour and forty-five minutes. Tne one-eyed man had bis eye so damaged that at last be could not see, and the one-armed man, who was also severely punished, was declared the victor. The stakes were £lO.