LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1442, 28 December 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cheap excursion train will run from Ashburton to Timaru on Monday next. Particulars will appear in to-morrow’s issue.

The annual concert and ball in connection with Lodge Star of Ashburton, No. 23, L.O.L, was held in the Town Hall last evening. There was a fairly good attendance, and the concert passed off very successfully. Vocal and instrumental items were given by Misses Moss, Scholefield, and G. Steele, and Messrs Brooks, Atkinson, Gates, Thomas, McLean Dunn, and Hall, while Highland and Irish dances were given by Mr J. Munro and others and Mr Healy, the music for these being supplied by Mr A. Maokay. An exhibitijn of boxing by “juvenile pugilists” was also given. A ball was afterwards held, and was well attended, the musical arrangements being in the hands of Mr J. H. Brook, A fire, which might have been attended with serious results, was luckily subdued while in an incipient stage on Christmas Eve. About nine o’clock at night one of the children of Mrs Hyde, who lives in Tancred street, while searching for something, accidentally set fire to some wearing apparel hanging up in the r oom and the flames spread rapidly. The child ran out and gave the alarm to Mr McGregor, who resides next door. He, aided by a few neighbors, took prompt steps to extinguish the fire. Damage to the extent of £lO or £ls was done.

At the R M. Court this morning, before Mr B. Alcorn, J.P., Thomas Richards, against whom several convictions have been lately recorded, waa charged with having been drunk on the previous day. A line of 40s and costs, with the alternative of four days’ imprisonment was inflicted.

While congratulating Mr Arthur Cookson, Master of the Wakanui Main School, upon his promotion to the beadmastership of the larger school at Templeton, wc but express the feeling of the residents of Wakanui, as well as of a great many Ashburton people at bis removal from this district, Mv Cookson having been a prominent member of the Orchestral Society and being always ready to assist at oonoerts and entertainments in all parts of the district. A social gathering, in bis honor will, we understand, take place at the Wakanui Main School at an early date, when a miscellaneous concert, in which the Orchestral Society will take part, will be given. The usual Christmas services took place at Longbeaoh and Tinwald on Saturday last. The private Chapel at Longbeaoh, and St. Andrew’s Church, Tinwald, were very prettily decorated. At the latter place Divine Service at 7 p m was attended by a crowded congregation, and the morning service at Longbeaoh was also well attended.

Acceptances for the meeting of the Tinwald Racing Club to be held on New Year’s Day close with the Secretary at 9 p.m. this evening.

About three o'clock on the afternoon of Christmas Day Mr William Parkerson, of Singletree, left bis bouse to go into tbs bush at Alford Forest, and on returning a few hours later found that the cottage had been broken into and several articles stolen therefrom. These comprise £4 in money, 8 revolver, a great coat, and two bottles of liquor. Information was given to the police, and they believe they have a clue that will lead to the apprehension of the culprit. A patient being operated upon in a London hospital was found to have a grain of wheat sprouting in his cheek.

A traveller on the St. Arnaud line of rail* way, Victoria, states that the locusts between the St. Arnaud station and Emu, a distance of 20 miles, darkened the air for the whole of that distance.

In his speech on assuming the Chief Justiceship of New South Wales, Mr Darley said: —“ But, above all and beyond all, I place my reliance upon the Supremo Dispenser of Justice, that He will, in answer to my prayer, aid me, His humble servant, in the due administration, without fear, favor, or affection, of His justice, for the benefit, advantage, and welfare ot this great country.” A clergyman on the west coast of Scotland, rather elderly and extremely sensible, once horrified a gathering of Greenock ladies by defending the general pratioe of “the cloth” in marrying well-toohered woman. “ It’s the ae solitary speculation they’re allowed to mak’ in the coorse a’ their lives,” said the unromantio old gentleman ; “ an’ sic being the case, I think they shouldna be blamed if they mak’ the best o’t.” Bishop Moorhouse has already committed some very grave blunders at Manchester. One of the latest is a venomous attack upon the Nonconformists of that city. A protest has now been drawn up by the Congregational ministers and deacons of Manchester and Salford, in which they repel the haughty and uncharitable aspersions of the Bishop. They specially repudiate the charge that they seek recognition from the State clergy for social reasons. Dr Moorhouse’s experience in a colony where there is no established church does not seem to have fitted him for a Lancashire diocese. Dr Fraser was on excellent terms with the Dissenters. The best medicine known is SANDER and SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXRACT, Test its eminent powerful effect in coughs, colds, influenza eta.—the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty t* s King of Italy, and medical syndicate 'all over the globe, are its patrons. Bead the official reports that accompany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards in proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports ot medical clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; the diploma awarded International Exhibition Amsterdam—all these are authentic documents, and, as snob, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various oases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc.: Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epidermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year-old patient was completely separated and lilted up as far as the joint of the band. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounds thus contracted healed in three weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing. The patient has retained full use , of her hand.—[Advt.]