LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1439, 23 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Saturday next, being Christmas Day, the Guardian will not be published. The Eev P. H. Oomford is advertised to conduct a service this evening at 8 o’clock in the upper room at the back of the Oddfellows’ Hall.

We draw attention to an advertisement headed Methven Sports announcing that entries for the horse race handicaps will close on Tuesday next, 28th instant, instead of on the 26th an stated in the programmes. Mails for the United Kingdom, &0., via 'Frisco, will close at Ashburton on Friday next, 31st inst., at 5 p.m. Money orders will be issued up to 10 o’clock on Friday morning. On Saturday next (Xmas day), and on Saturday, Ist proximo, (New Year’s Day), the Post Office will be closed, and mails will be despatched by the early trains only. On Monday, 27th inst., (Boxing Day), the office will be closed, but mails will be despatched as usual up to 10 a.m., and the letter-carriers will make one delivery, commencing at 8 a.m. The Telegraph Office will be open from 9 till 10 a.m., and from 7 till 8 p.m. on each holiday. 1

The quarterly meeting ol the officebearers of the Ashburton Wesleyan Church was held last night at the parsonage. Thera was a good attendance, the Her D. MoNiooll presiding, and Eev. T. W. Newbold being also present. The membership roll showed a slight decrease, owing to deaths and removals. The income did not meet the expenditure, and the consideration of ways and means necessarily occupied much time. After prolonged conversation it was decided to accept the magnanimous proposals of the Circuit Ministers, and to take steps for wiping off the existing debt. A gratifying letter was received from the Society Steward at Hinds, and the spiritual aspect of that portion of the Circuit evoked devout thankfulness. After being in office for eight years Mr H. M. Jones retired from the position oi Circuit Steward, and Mr W. H. Co lins was elected to the vacancy. A very expressive resolution was ordered to be recorded on the minutes indicative of the meeting’s approbation of Mr Jones’s services, and of the thorough manner in which he, at all times, has applied himself to the Circuit’s interests. Mr Jones suitably responded Bav T. W. Newbold and Mr H. M. Jones were elected representatives to the forthcoming Conference at Auckland, and the former gentleman received an unanimous Invitation to work in this Circuit next year. Reference was made to the projected visit of Rev J* S. and Mrs Smalley, who who will commence an Evangelistic Mission next Sunday week, and a few other routine matters having received attention the proceedings closed, after an invitation had been given by Mr Robert Alcorn to hold the March meeting at his house. It is notified that the Christmas number of the Weekly Press contains a large number of English stories, six New Zealand prise stories, and an eight-page pictorial supplement ol Hew Zealand scenery, New Zealand towns, etc. This popular publication will, ws understand, consist ol fifty-six pages, and will bo the largest newspaper ever published in the colony.

A fifty-ounce nugget has been found at Teotulpa. The Bank of New Zealand have now 100 branches and a staff of over 400.

Sir Andrew Le Fleming (probably a son of Sir Michael Le Fleming formerly a wellknown settler in the neighbourhood of Fapanui) is, we see, practising as a horsetamer. At an exhibition of his skill given at Bangiora the other day the animal Sir Andrew operated upon had never previously been handled, but within three-quarters of a hour it was under complete control.

In ten years more that 30,000 people embraced Christianity in the Samoan Islands. It is thought there are not more than twenty houses in the whole group where there is not a Bible and family worship. A ring with four pearls r and three ruby stones has been found in the back of an herring caught at Dunbar. The herring was cooked, and being eaten at breakfast by a woman in Edinburgh, when the discovery was made.

A ghastly discovery was recently made in the rains of an old convent at Panama. The skeleton of a man was found immured upright in the solid “wall oloso to the altar, fastened to a wooden cross bearing a defaced inscription. The skeleton fall to pieces on being exposed to the air. A gaint is coming to London. He is an Austrian. He calls himself Winkelmeier. He ia Bft 6in in height, and is one of the tallest men who have lived since the days of Anak. He is said to have nothing to recommend him to notice except his size, being, like most giants, without any particular intellectual energy.

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