LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1466, 26 January 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have been requested to state that on Sunday nexi|the Rev Father Chastagnon will celebrate Mass at Rakaia at 10.30 a.m. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass will be celebrated at Ashburton at 9 a.m.

HTbe Jews of Englandgare talking of transferring their Sabbath to our Sunday, beginning with the year 1900.

We presume it is almost unnecessary to remind our readers of the production by the Caledonian Society of the drama of *'Rob Boy " in the Oddfellows' Hall this evening.

The annual meeting of the Ashburton Rifle Volunteers was held at the Drillshed on Mondayi Captain Dolman in the ohair. The balance-sheet, whioh showed a credit of £2 odd, was adopted. Bandmaster Hosken, Corporal Leitch, Private Aehton, and Private Sim were eleoted a committee. Totes of thanks for services rendered were accorded to Major Douglas, Capt Dolman, and SergeantMajor Hayes. Lieut Dunn brought forward a requisition, signed by nearly every member of the company, asking Captain Dolman to withdraw his resignation, and this he consented to do. It was resolved " That the Committee be empowered to spend £10 10s in providing souvenirs of Major Douglas 1 and Gaptain Fooks' oonneotion with the company, and that the Committee also provide a sword for the Sergeant-Major as a token of the Company's appreciation of his services as Color-Sergeant, also that the sum of £5 5b $e spent in providing a BOUT6DU {or Captain Bolnjaq,"'

Tbe firßt lot of oatß of the season has been delivered to-day into Messrs Friedlanders' grain stores.

A Wairarapa paper complains that the bush fires are •• converting Maßterton into an elaborate cannibaroven."

A Hawke's Bay paper suggests that Mr Ormond should resign to allow Sir John Hall to enter the House.

The Wanganui borough valuations are £800 lower than last year, being now £38,709 10f. They have been going down steadily for years.

The bore for petroleum at Botokautuku, Poverty Bay, is now down 1580 feet. The prpspeot is said to be good, oil showing freely through the sand. It is probable the sinking will have to be carried 50 feet farther.

Wanganui must be badly off in the matter of water supply, to judge)from the following which [appears as a looal in one of its daily papers:— Residents in the town who would prefer spring water to the highly flavored

liquid that is being supplied by the borough authorities, are direoted to an announcement in our *• Wanted " column.

The Napier Telegraph says" that the herd of red deer at Matapiro (Mr Shrimpton'a) Btation has grown to respectable dimensions, and has thrown out a branch family that has crossed the river and taken up its quarters on Mr B. D. M'Lean's, Maraekakaho country. The deer are very wild and keep on the high ranges.

The Sydney larrikins revenged themselves on those who refused to sign the petition in

favor 0! a reprieve for the Mount Bennie prisoners, by bombarding their houses with

atones.

On Monday last some Nelson fishermen sucoeeded in capturing a couple of sharks near the entranoe to the harbor, one of them being 15 feet long, the other an immense fellow of 20 feet.

Bee culture is an important industry in France. The Minister of Agriculture reports that there are now 1,971,865 hives in operation, which last year produced honey worth 14,945,835 franos.and|wax valued at 8,755,290 francs.

A Wanganui paper reports that four Maori children were poisoned at Okato from the effeots ,of eating |tutu berrias. One of them is reported to have "turned almost black in

the face " before relief was obtained, the

other three being not quite so bad. An emetio oi Bait and water was administered, and all but one are now quite out of danger.

Fifteen years ago the buffalo ranges of Kansas and Colorado were covered with thousands of animals. The other day a party went over from Denver, and after a week's hunting managed to kill three from a herd of 29 they found in Lost Park. It is said that there are not more than 2000 buffaloes now

in existence. Systematic slaughter hai pro duoed this shameful result.

" Read this, ye lordly landowners (sa;i Modem Society). In China they have a compulsory cultivation law, and in every village there is an Agricultural Board, consisting of old and experienced men who sit in judgment on defaulters. Every Chinese landowner or oooupier who negleots to cultivate his land according to the regulations is punished with ■tripes — so many stripes for eaoh aore of land uncultivated. What nice little floggings the Duke of Sutherland and other landowners would be entitled to if they had only the luok to be Chinaman !

The number of Jews, acoording to the last Israelitish Annual, in the world at present is 6,300,000, of whom 5,300,000 are in Europe. There are 230,000 Jews in the United States ; 2,552,000 in Russia ; 1,644,000 in AustriaHungary (688,000 in Galioia, 688,000 in Hungary) ; 562,000 in Germany ; in Rou. mania, 255,000 ; in Turkey, 105,000 ; in the Netherlands, 82,000; in Italy, 40,000 ; in other countries, 35,000 ; and in France, nothwith. standing all the the fusja that M. Drummont makes about them in bis Jewish France, only 63,000.

SANDER AND SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT In protection of the world. wide fame our manufacture has acquired all over the globe, vre publish the following : — Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Pethology and Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, says in an editorial published in the Clinical Record : — "We have examined half-a-dozen epeoimens of different manufactures; the preparation of Sander and Sons' was the only one that proved to be reliable and corresponding to scientific tests." Another concoction called " Kefined Extraot of Eucalyptus," has made its appearance since. This produot stands, according to Dr. Owen, foremost in causing injurious effeota, That gentleman communicates at a meeting of the Medical Sooiety of Viotoria, that a child living at Fitzroy became most seriously indisposed through its use. In another oase a lady states on the strength of statutory declaration that she suffered cruelly from the effeots of the same concootion. To guard the high reputation of our manufacture we feel warranted in exposing the above faots, and desire the publio to exercise care and precaution when buying.— SANDER & SONS.— (Advt.)