LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1476, 7 February 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

._ i The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the &.shburton Borough Oounoil will be held this svening. To-morrow night there will be a partial solhpße of the moon. The tima of greatest obsouration will be 9.52 p.m. The 8.6. Alameda, with the 'Frisco mail, arrived at Auokland at 8.80 a.m. on Sunday. Nominations for the forthcoming meeting of the Ashbnrton Tradesmen's Itaoing Club slose to-morrow evening. We have been desired to draw the attention of the witneßaes jin the case of •' Fox versus Patton and Murray," to tho fact that the Resident Magistrate, thu morning, warned them not to fail m obeying their summons at the date to whioh he postponed the case, viz., the 28th February; he would m oaso of dis* obedience, he eaid, be obliged to issue a warrant for (heir apprehension. The following statement of assets and liabilities has been filed m the local Qistriot Court:— Sturgeon, Andrew, of Tinwald, laborer. Liabilities— Unsecured — Tinwald : SooU, £11 12 d 6d ; Godsell and Co., £14 Ids ; Oity Co., £21. Asbbarton : D. William«on, £9 9s 2d ; W. Anderson, £8 8a 6d ; Friedlander Broß., £3 6b; Dr Tweed, £6 15s; Dr Bosb, £2 18s ; H. Zander, £2 ; D. McMillan, £7 ; and small rams, total £85 19s 2d. Aseetß— Furniture nnder £10. The T*ranaki Herald reports that two sons of Mr Charles Ourer were attacked by eels laat week while bathing m the Mangorei rirer. Th« eldest, a lad of sixteen, reoeived a nasty bits just below the oalf of the left leg. The marks of the bite are on both sides of the limb, and the outline of the eel's mouth is moit olearly aud unmistakeably imprinted m the flesh. The wounds on both sides are about two inches long, and ara m shape like the half of an ellipsis. The othar lad was seized by the toes while wading m water leas than a foot deep, and the marks of the bite are, as m the oase of his brother, most unmistakeably defined. Borne good young men at St. Mary Cray, Eent, have been writing to Mr Henry Irving to enquire if Christians can oontsistently witness theatrical performances. As a matin of course, the aotor replied that they coi d and rather startled his querists by the folk if. ing quotation from the writings of Martin Luther :— " Christians should not entirely flae from comedies beoauae now and then there are coarse matters m them, as, |Ij the same reason, we might cease to read the Bible." Some 200 manufactories, it is estimated will be removed to Pittsburg next year, so as to make use of natural gas, and thus effeot a great saving m cost of operation. These manufactories employ 10,000 hands or more, 1 and will give a great s boom not only to Pittaburg, as a manufacturing oentre, but to the Companies whioh supply natural gas. There would appear to be some ground for the assertion that Shakspere (who died tweniy-six years before Sir laaao Newton was born) was the real discoverer of the law of gavitation. Witnesß the following* extraot from Troilua and Cassida, Act IV., Soene 2 :— 11 But the strong baae and building of my love Ii as the very oentre of tho earthDrawing all things to it." A man named Gottlieb Kai-ipar, residing at New Plymouth, disembowelled himaelf on Saturday, and died the following morning. A fisherman named Ike Hunt had a narrow esoape from drowning off Motuiti on Sunday, His boat oapsised, but be olung to some boards and was floated ashore, after being tight hours m the water. The Hobart Mercury reports that for the year just dosed over 17,000 tons of potatoes have been exported from the Mersey, whioh, at a fair average of £3 per ton, represent over £50,000 m hard cash. It is estimated that the total amount that has come to the N.W. Coast for potatoes for the past Beaßon .must be about £80,000. One individaal oa the Mereey Bold 700 tons during the season at a slight advance on £3 per ton. A table published m the laat Gazette shows that there were m March, 1886, 110,644 children attending publio or aided eohoolß m New Zealand, aB against 87,811 m April, 1881; 62,866 m March, 1878; and 24,407 m March, 1874. The number attending private eohoola was 14,948; attending Sunday sohoolß, 99,884; and receiving tuition at home, 7567. A rather pluoky aotion by a girl is reported m the Melb.Qurne,papera. A boy aged 12 fell ofl the Potaea ,Pier into deep water, when a girl named Ripkey, aged 15, living at Port Melbourne North, without waiting to divest herself of her olothing, plunged m to the reaoue, and held up the boy's head for several minutes until a constable jumped m, and brought the boy ashore, American Co. 'a Hop Bitters strengthens, builds up and oures continually, from the first iose. 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