LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1448, 5 January 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Next Sunday one of the Professors of St. Fii.riok's Oolite (Wellington) will proaoh at, tbe eleven o'olook Mass at the Aahburtcn (luholio Church bnd at Vefipors t.Io w. 11 ulso attend at the Coufessiooal on Saturday tveniug and Sunday morning. . The Mission Borvioes at the Wesleyan Ohuroh oontinae to be woll attended. Las night a large congregation assembled to hear Mrs Smalloy's addreso, the Bubjeot of whioh was the rioh young man whom Jesus loved,, but whoso riohea kept him from beooming a disciple. A very solemn influence rested upon the meeting as the speaker showed the inability of temporal things to give peaoe to the soul. This evening both Mr and Mrs Smalley will deliver addrcßaes, tho subject oflMr Smalloy's being •• flh.dranotm to convention." To-morrow night an openair sorvioo will be held near Mr Jones's shop, and afterwards Mr Smalley will giro his eoture on "Sunken Bocks" m the Wealeysn Ohuroh. A sword-bayonet competition for a trophy valued at £20 was held at Timaru yesterday • under tho auspices of the Caledonian Society. Seven teams ; entered, and the result of the competition was as follows :— Scottish Rifles, 213 ; Lyttelton Navals, 212 ; Aehburton Rifles, 210 ; Timtru (Rifles, 203 ; Timam Navals, 199; Sydenham Rifles, 197; Irish Rifles, 155. Tho Master of tho Aohburton Home dosirea to aoknowledro, with thanks, the receipt of pipes and ~ .- oo from W. Zander; cake from Mrs B. Murria ; and papers from Mr E. J. Paul, for the use of the inmates. In the Supremo Court at Christohuroh yesterday a true bill was brought m by the Grand Jury against W. H. Zouoh, who stands ■harged with forgery, No bill was returned m tho ohargo of larceny as a baileo against the samo prisoner. R. J. Beale, indioted for indecent assault at Mount ■ Somers, was acquitted. Messrs Eirkpatriok, makers of the celebrated Nelson jam, announce that tbeir new made jams and jellies of tho present season are now ready for delivery. They claim for them that they are the most delicious preserves m the market, and having tried them oursolves, we oan testify to their being no whit inferior to the best home-made preserves, There is no necessity to import from Tasmania, when so superior an article can bo obtained m Now Zealand, and ovory one who realises the importance of encouraging tho development of the looal industries of the colony, should make it a point to patronise them whop opportunities servo. We, Afapwr Nituvs, havo been shown a literary curiosity m tho shape of a lawyer's bill of oostß. It covered twelvo pages of foolscap and totalled up to £121. Tho actua matter m dispute m the caso was Bomewha' under £50, and the othor side had repoatodly offered to settle for that sum 1 Wu are informed that tho. preoiouH document will be referred to the Judge at Wellington, aud wo shall bo ourious to hear his ruling., on the matter. The details of tho Midland railway oou* traot have beon finally settled by tho C^ovornment and representatives of the Company, and tho oontraot was forwarded to England by Ir«6 mail for consideration by the English shnroholdera. At a meeting of tho Now Plymouth Harbor Board held last week tho Chairman Btated that some two years baok a copper canister containing 501 bof dynamite wan lost at tbo break* water. It had been plaaed by the mate of a Union Company's boat on the oonorote near the orano, and m the morning it was gono. It was thought to have been washed away. Much consternation had boon caused at tho time by tho possibility of explosion' if set off by a vessel coming into contaot with it. Divers had boon sot to work, but the misting oanister had never beon recovered. It would, however, probably be found by the dredge when raising Band, and it was hoped that the mysterious disappearance of the thing would be solved. Yestorday morning Ethel May Dodge, 10 months old, daughter of a farmer at Sandi Traok, died from acalds received by aooidehtally falling into a buoket of hot water on Monday. Early yesterday morning tho shop of Mr William Barnott, ohemiet, Victoria street. Christohuroh, was broken into and £5 taken from a desk and drawer. Tho thief missed a box containing £30 m the desk. Entranoe was made through a fanlight over the front door. ' . : Tho London correspondent of the Press says that honey is now being sold m that city by retail at the modest sum of 2s Cd per glass, the glass containing not much over lib It ifl reported from London that whalebone has gone up to £2200 per ton, owing to the unsatisfactory results of tho whaling BOftßOn. Kidney oomplant, onn of tho most oommoa and yet most neqleated disease of this oountry oan be readily oured by the use of Hop Bitters. Be sure aad gat Amerioan Co's mak«. Sue. Why do American Hop Bitters oure so muoh? Booauee they give good digostion, rioh blood and healthy aotion of all the organs