LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1458, 17 January 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— . » A grass fire occurred m the Domain at noon to-day by which three or four aores of the fine plantation, hear Mr Fooke' place, was swept, and it is doubtful whether some of trees will recover. The firebell was rung and both brigades turned out, and as neighbors were promptly on the spot with buckets any danger ot tbe tiro spreading to houses m the vicinity was soon averted. It is not known how the fire originated, but as it is evident jit started near a path it is presumed, a lighted match, thrown down by some careless smoker, was the cause of starting what might have been a very serious fire, and which even as it is is quite bad enough.

A picnic m connection with the Ashburton Woollen Factory was held at Windermere on Saturday. The weather was all that could be desired, and tbe day was pleasantly passed.

At tbe B.M. Court this morning, before Mr XI. Alcorn, J.P., and Mr T. Bullock, J.P., a first offender for drunkenness was fined $s and costs.— Colin McLenn, for drunkenness, was fined 5s and ooals ; for resisting the police was ordered to bo imprisoned for four dayo and for having made use of obscene language wAßsentenoed to a like term of imprisonment.

Quiet nerve and balmy sleep m Hop Bitters, for sleepless . ladies and invalids. American Co. make tbe genuine. Notice.

A lad named Voss received a sunstroke at Tai Tapu last wetk. and died from the effects a few days af terwardf?.

We observe by our exohangesythat the birds are committing great havoc among the orops m the North Island.

At a church m the Waitara a Sunday or two ago somebody put a conversation lozenge m the plate while the collection wns being taken up.' The churchwarden denounced the perpetrator of the mean triok before the whole congregation.

Fishermen hate been netting trout m the bay off Oamaru, and the local Acclimatisation Society are considering whether tHfey can prosecute.

Tho New Zealand gold export for the past quartor was valued at £216,585, and the total export up to 31st December, 1886, at £43,231,476.

£3,200,000 have been expended m defence m Viotoria, while about 10 per oent. of that amount has been spent m New Zealand.

It is stated that Sir Edward Ceoil Guinness has written to Mr Purser, who, for upwards of forty years, aoted as his head brewer, enoloaing a cheque for £217,000, as a parting souvenir of regard and confidence.

The interior of the statue of Liberty on Bedloa's Island, New York, caught fire on the 23rd Nov., and it was only by the hardest work that Bartholdi's great statue was saved from ruin.

A hater of vermin writes to an exohange given reoipes for the destruction of the speoies of icseots which infest the Old Men's Home, and gives the following hint whioh may, perhaps, be useful, to the authorities of that institution :— " It is said that if a branoh of narrow-leaved dittany or pepperwort (lepidium ruderale) be suspended m a room, all tho inßeots will settle on it and may be captured and destroyed."

George Kersey, the sou of Dr Kersey, of Lancaster, Fa., is said to be the tallest boy m Amerioa. He is 13 years old and seven feet high, and he has an older brother who measures six feet three inches. Th father and mother are each six feet.

The Akaroa, Mail of Friday reports :— A good many whales have been seen m the neighborhood of the harbor and bays during the last few days. One right whale calved m the harbor on Monday night, and yesterday was still inside. It has been quite the fashion to go out m boats to get a view of this whale and her youngster. There has been much talk of trying to get them, but there are no appliances.

The Auckland correspondent of the Dunedin Star reports that the New Zealand Tobacco Company (Limited) was registered on Friday. The Company have sent out the first seed to over 200' farmers and growers to the extent of about 400 aores, and the reports to date promise heavy orops this season. The Company will open their faotory very soon, and have a good Btock of colonial leaf to keep them going for the next twelve months. The Company will turn out plug tobacoo as their staple, but they will also produce other tobacoo and cigars.

An owner of a combine and engine located at Maori Hill met with a painful experience a day or two ago. He had (aays the Timaru Herald) taken the maohine to be overhauled preparatory to the grain threshing season, when on opening out the top of th<) combine a swarm of bees waa discovered. They resented the invasion of their rather curious domain m the most stinging manner, and as a result the intruder suffered m a very painlol way. _J?ha b«eH.came off victorious, and the unlucky owner of the machines is now" resting m an easy ohair, with his head and arms m a sling, perfecting specifications for a new combine beehive.

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