The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1464, 24 January 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Boston paper Bays that the apothecary is a vial and pestle-nt fellow. The Bey Mr Barclay is spoken of as a can* didate for the Gladstone seat. Aocording to the Palmerston (Otago) Times smut is very general among the oat crop. Steps are being taken to start dairy factories at Otaiao and also at Mataura bridge. The adherents of the Church of England m New Zealand number 229,756. The Hinemoa is to be sent to Oamara for a few days to try the fishing beds about that part of the coast. According to the Taran&ki Herald private letters reoeived by last mail state that there is any amount of money m England seeking investment at two per cent. The Government has reoeived a cable message from the Agent-General notifying the shipment to New Zealand of four Nordenfeldt guns. The steamers plying the Nile have, aooording to Professor Sayoe, driven the crocodile from the river, as it is praotioally extinct. So is the faith which formerly considered the orooodile saored. The Very Bey Dr Eitchin, Dean of WinChester, has promised to find a niobe for a statue of Izaak Walton m the great soreen of the Cathedral (whioh is now being repaired), if anglers will provide the statue. On opening a channel from the Milford lagoon on Friday to allow the young salmon therein access to the sea the lagoon was found to be literally full of herrings. A wonderful take of trout m the uppet waters of the Opihi by Messrs Nicholas and Flint is reported, the gentlemen named having on Friday night last landed 21 fish grossing 112|lb. The largest fish was 81b. and the smallest 41b. According to the Chronicle since the horrible Christoburoh abortion oases have come to light, it has been freely hinted that there are one or two disreputable individuals m Wanganui who, if they had their deserts, would be where Dr Russell is to-day. The great heat a few days ago caused a lose . of fifty pounds of honey to the owner of one ol the Masterton apiaries. The weight of the honey proved too much for the softened wax, and several hives collapsed. An exchange says that besides being threatened with a libel oase by Gen Whitmor c 11 Paddy Murphy's Annual " is to be proceeded against by Mr Seddon, M.H.R., for some re. ference to him m a piece " The Boys from the Coast." The Star says that Masterton is at present suffering from a most unusual visitation— a plague of mosquitos. Young children are suffering dreadfully ; many have been bitten till they seem as if suffering from smallpox. A very successful rehearsal of the drama of "Bob Roy," whioh is to be produoedon Wednesday and Thursday, waß held on Friday evening last. A description of the plot of the piecH is crowded out of this isßue, but will appear to-morrow. At the B.M. Court this morning, before MxD. Thomas, J.P., a man named Henry Dagg was fined £1 and costs, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment, for having been unlawfully on premises, and for having refused to quit the Bams when ordered to do so. Ik is a curious fact, if true as alleged, that Mr Richardson's approaching visit to the West Coast of the South Island will be the first ever paid to that district by a Minister for Public Works while m office. A correspondent m a Christchurch paper suggests that the reason Sir Robert Stout is always at the break-up of the N.Z. Educational Institute is that he looks to the schoolmasters of New Zealand to support him at some future day for the position of elective Governor of the colony. We learn from the Evening Press that a very small turtle obtained by a digger named Mayne, 100 miles up the King river, Kimberley, has been an object of great interest at Wellington. The turtle is the smallest we have ever seen, being no larger than half-a--orown, and is full of life. Mayne has now bad it four months, and it seems quite content m iti little tin of water. The best medicine known is Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminen powerful effeots m coughs, colds, influenza, etc— the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy and medioal syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Read the official reports that aoaompany each bottle. We have no oooasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports^ of medioal clinios and universities, the official oommunioation of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne ; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam— all these are authentio documents, and, as such, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various oases treated at the olinio of Sohultz, M.D-, Professor, eto: — "0.8., 24 years old; oongestional absoess on the thigh. Incisions made m two places. Although Lister's dressing was applied, the secretion beoame two days later, very, copious, and had adopted a foetid, decomposed character. The temperature rose enormously. In consequence the dressing was removed, and on its place were made during the daytime repeated irrigations with Euoalypi Extraot. The offensive foeter disappeared very soon, the fever abated within a few days, and the patient reoovered after the lapse of Beveral weeks. In this instance we must not lose sight of the fact that the latter treatment e»vea, the pititnt's life—

Writing of harvest prospeots the Bangitikej Advocate says : — A general iDspeotion gives one a most favorable opinion of the orop» throughout the distriot this season. Poor orops are the exception this year, and good harvest weather is only needed to have excellent yieHs. Several orops we have seen, both of wheat and oats, will give a return of fully 60 bushels to the aore. The land under crop appears to be equal m extent to that of last year. flit is reported that a quartz reef has been discovered m Stewart Island, and that a teßt of a sample m Dunedin gave 10 ounces to the too. The looality is not made public At a meeting of the Grassmarket " Prison Rescue Society," held m Edinburgh, the Seoretary gave the following as an authentio case of reform : — " One man known to them all was now a large and extensive sheep farmer m New Zealand— a man who was without a shoe m the Grassmarket, and who was ohasedfrom post to pillar by the police. But for th interference of the Grassmarket Sooiety th at man would have oost the country thousands of pounds for petty laroeny." Mr Viotor Nissan, whose letter to Sir Geo. . Grey on the subjeot of ostrich-farming was laid on the table of the House last session, has brought a large number of these birds from the 'Cape by the barque Johann Brodersen. Of 56 ostriohes Bbipped seven were lost on the voyage, owing to the bad weather met with, but the remaining 49 have arrived safely at Hobart, whence they are to be brought to New Zealand, Mr Niesen being about to start an ostrioh farm at Oteamatea, Eaipara. The cost of the 56 ostriches, including the £100 export duty per bird imposed by the Cape Government, was £15,000.