LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1451, 8 January 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ashburton Borough Counoil meets on Monday evening.

The following are the Ashbutton Hospital returDß for December, 1886 :— ln Hospital on December Ist, 13 ; admitted. 3 ; discharged, 9 ; died, 1. Remaining (m Hospital on Deo. 3Xat,o. | .^uHjjtfß

"i*. The ordiaary monthly meeting of the W-ikanui fijad Boari was held to-df.y. Our report ia held over.

• Tha matron of the Aahburton • Hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks ths receipt of trout from Mr 3iinp*on ; duit Mad flowers from Mr G. 3mi h ; f) ai from Mr G. James ; anil pap»ra fmm tha Poacmaater for tho u.-o juf the m mi tea

The Hon Sir Robert Stout piu-sed through AHhburion by the express la3t evening en route to O.'iriatflhuroh. 'Mr J. Ivaas, M.H.R. for Wakanui, was a passenger hy (he same train. We underattmd that Mr Iveaa contemplates addreasiag hia oonsticuonta at an early date.

A meeting of the Vestry of St. Andrew's Church, Tinwald, was held on the evening of the 7th ult. The returns from the recent concert showed a small sum to the good, with whioh it was deoided to pay small claims due for tha incidental expenses attending church worship. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to tha choir of St. Stephen's Charoh, Aahburton, to other residents for their kind assistance m providing the c mcert, and to all others who assisted to make the entertainment a bucoubb.

A V«stty meeting of tha ohurch of St. Philip and St. James, Waterton, was held on the evening of the 4th ult., when the returns from the recent tea and concert showed that £21 6a had been reoeived from all sources, with a few shillings yet to come m. Accounts to the amount of £H la 5d on different items of expense, were passed for payment, of which £3 8s wbb due for expenses connected with the entertainment. It was deoided to appropriate the balance to the payment of the premiums due for the insurance of the ohuroh fabric and to complete the fencing of the church enclosure, and the ereotion of strong railing for bccv-j ■. Uie horses during servioe time. Hearty voita of thanks wtre passed to the ladies of the di3triot, who had provided the tea ; to the vocaliats who gave their services at the oonoert, special mention being made of the {[kindness of Mr and Mrs Thomas and Miss Bell m ooming all the way from Aahburton ; and to the Misses Ashton for the trouble they had taken m collecting towards the expenses of the enterI tainment. s l -^ '

The session of the Educational Institute conoluded at Christohuroh yesterday. It was dttoided to hold the next annual mneting at Nelson, m January, 1888. The following officers were elected:— President, the Pre&ident of the Nelson Branch for 1887 ; secretary, H. Worthington (Auokland); and treasurer, J. Q. L- Scott (Christohurch). The report of the Ciommittee on the Standard Syllabus, as amended by the Council, was referred to the District Institutes, and will be brought for* ward next year. The prinoipal clauses of the report stated that the number of compulsory aubjeots included m the syllabus is excessive ; that compulsory subjects for individual examinaton and individual passes be restricted to reading including explanation, spelling and dictation, writing, arithmetic and composition. According to the Auokland correspondent of the Wellington Evening Press it is understood that a revelation of a sensational character will be made by the defence m the Great Barrier murder case, showing the previous character of Taylor and the treatment of Gaffery during the time he was trading to the Island.

Three counsel have been retained for the defence of Hall on his trial for the murder of Captain Cain. Mr F. B. Chapman will lead, with him Mr Denniston and Mr Perry (of Timaru).

A little boy quietly watched a bee crawling on his hand till it stung him, wheu he sobbed " I didn't mind its walking about, tut when it sat down it hurt awful."

The privilege of being a member of the Town Council is not appreciated m Biverton. Four times has the returning offioer called for nominations, only to meet with no response.

The study of the drink question m Switzerland has disolosed the faot that the use of alcoholic beverages is largest m those oantone m which wages are lowest, and the people are the poorest.

An exchange baa the following sententious paragraph: — Oinoinnati has discharged two policemen beoause they could neither read or write. The position of juryman is now about the only one for whioh dense ignorance is a qualification.

The American Consul General at St. Petersburg, speaking of Russian military strength, says that within twenty-four hours Eussia oould have an army of .625,000 men on the march, and m one month oould make tha force 1,500,000 men ready for aotion.

A steamer arriving recently at Philadelphia, with a cargo of sugar from India, was found to hate eight feet of syrup— no* wattr — m her hold. It appears that the melting heat of the Suez Canal brought this about.

The mountain castles of the late King of Bavaria were lately dosed for the season. The entrancs fees during tho ten weeks that they have beon opened to tb« publio amounted to upwards of £10,000.

A telegmm recently reoeived from New York, via San Francisco, gives a dreadful aocount of the outbreak of cholera at Seoul, tho capital of Corea. The deaths averaged 1000 daily. The bodies of many of the dead were Abandoned, owing to the difficulty and danger of interment. The absolute eitinotion of the oity was threatened.

We clip the following imortant testimonial from the lllawarrct, Mercury \ N.S.W., on the 30th March. It needs no comment: "Mr John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to ub after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. He Bays seeing the said Extract advertised m the Illwtvarra Afercury, bis intense Buffering induoed him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr Hosking, ohemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. He states that between rbe 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extract, and on the 19th the use of that medicine oontinued to afford him relief, to whioh ho bad been a stranger for four years. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Eziraot a cure fo rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests us to publish this information through the 'JUereury. We have much pleasure m .complying with Mr Loveday 'a request, whose word cannot be be doubted, and who can have no objeot m view other ihan a pure desire to benefit suffering humanity." — (Advi),