LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1440, 24 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wo remind oar readers that a Garol Service will take place at St. Stepben'e Church, at 9 o’clock, this evening. The collections will be in aid of the choir fund. The Her P. H. Coraford, President o! the j3 a p tist Union of New Zealand, and late India, a Missionary, is announced to preach in the OcU dfellows' Hall on Sunday, morning and evening. It is imp, ossible to remain long sick or ont of health wi' lora Amarioan|Oo.’e Hop Bitters are useck Sea' Mother

It is rumoured that the .old project for cutting across the great Peninsula of Europe by a canal from the Atlantia to the Mediterranean is likely to be revived. It is proposed to make use of the great waterway of the Gironde as far as Bordeaux, and then to cut a canal right across the south-western part of France to enter tha Mediterranean near Karbonnc.

“ What did your father leave you when he died, Pat ?” “ Faith, ho left me an orphan?” The Aorangi brought on her last trip several skilled workmen from England for the Endeavor Inlet Antimony Company.

According to the British Board of Trade returns of 1885, out of 700,000,000 railway passengers in that year, only six were killed in accidents on the lines.

They have had singularly fine weather in England. A London correspondent, writing nnder date October 22, says that peas, strawberries, and raspberries were being gathered as if It were July. The meanest practical joker lives in Derby (England). Being on a visit to a neighboring eity, he spotted his face all over with red paint, and suddenly made hia appearance at the annual meeting of tbe Anti-Vaccination Society. The members nearly broke their necks getting out of the windows. There was a oat show at the Crystal Palace on October 19. Over 500 oats were on view, but no Tortoiseshell Tom. Some were marked “ not for sale.” One lady, in her anxiety to preserve possession of an animal which had no particular claim to value, other than that of a sensational character, ticketed it at £24,000. Tbe crops in New South Wales promise to yield a moat bounteous harvest, whilst grass is rich and abundant, and water plentiful. The season promises to be one which, especially coming as it does after years characterised by dranght and consequent {pastoral and agricultural distress, will be red-letter marked in tbe calendar. In many districts harvesting has already began. M. Pasteur has now treated 2323 hydrophobia patients of all countries, tho mortality of the wolf-bitten being only 14 per cent, instead of 67 to 82 per cent., and that of the dog or oat-bitten 9} per thousand, whereas it bad hitherto been 160 per thousand. We have received from Messrs H. J. Wood and Co. a piece of music entitled " The Ashburton Waltz,” composed by Mr F. Russell, of Christchurch, and published by Messrs Spensley and Co., of the same city. It is well got np and published at a low figure. That faithful servant of the people, the Postman, desires, thorough our columns, to wish everybody the compliments of the season, and to hope that he may not be himself forgotten in his turn.

An important ceremony, interesting at least to our lady readers, took place yesterday at Willowby, where, at the Wesleyan Ohurob, at 11 o’clock, Mr Walter Qayman was united in marriage to Miss Frampton. The young oonple being well known in Willowby there was a large attendance of their friends and relatives. The ceremony was performed by the Rev D. McNicoll. The bride was tastefully dressed in white Indian muslin, with bonnet and veil, and the bridesmaids (four in number) dressed in cream sateen and white bats. The bride was given away by Mr Frampton, her father. Tho ohuroh was prettily decorated with flowers and evergreens. After the ceremony about 60 guests assembled at Mr Frampton’a house and were entertained right royally throughout the day. After the breakfast a number of speeches were made, in which the speakers expressed their best wishes for the future happiness of the bride and bridegroom, who soon after left for Christchurch for their honeymoon. SANDER AND SONS’ EUOALYIPT EXTRACT.—In protection of tho world-wide fame our manufacture baa acquired all over the globe, we publish the following :—Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Diseases of tbe Mind and Nervous System, says in an editorial published in tbe Clinical Record: —“We have examined half-a-dozen specimens of different manufactures; the preparation of Sander and Sons’ was the only one that proved to be reliable and corresponding to scientific tests." Another concoction called “ Refined Extract of Eucalyptus,” has made its appearance since This product stands, according to Dr Owen, foremost in causing injurious effects. That gentleman communicates at a meeting of the Medical Society of Victoria, that a child living at Fitzroy became most seriously indisposed through its use. In another ease a lady states on the strength of statutory declaration that she suffered cruelly from the effects of the same concoction. To guard the high reputation of our manufacture we fee warranted in exposing the above facts, and desire tbe public to exercise care and pra eaution when buying.— SANDER AND SONS.—(Advt.)