LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1481, 12 February 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the JR.M. Court this morning, before Major Steward, J.P., and Mr T. Scaly, J.P., Thomas Blookburn, for having been drunk and disorderly m the bar of Butler's hotel, was fined 20a and costs, and for having made use of obsoene language was ordered to bo imprisoned for seven days with hard labor. An eel, weighing 12 or U lba, was captured m the river last evening by Mr J. Tasker. It is stated that the trials of Thomas Hall ■will cost the oolony about £6000. Misa Honora Costella, who died at Gundagai (N.S.W.) the other day, was 105 years old. She waß a great great grandmother, and retained possession of her faoulties till within a few dajs of her death. The Trafalgar is the largest armour-clad vessel whioh has yet been laid down by the English Admiralty. Her hull is estimated to cost £686,000, the propelling maohinery £97,000, the gun mountings £79,794, and the guns £56,840. The jPremier: (Sir 3 Robert Stout), Colonial Secretary (Hon P. Buokley), and Undersecretary (Mr G. 8. Cooper) passed through Aahburton this morning en route to the South. The Colonial Secretary goes on business oonneoted with the Hospitals and Asylums, and the Under-Secretary to attend the meeting of Sheep Inspectors whioh ia to be held at Timaru. At Manchester a man haa died from the bite of a cat. At South Shields a boy suddenly beoame unconsoious, and died from the effaot of a blow received six monthß previously at football. Says the North Otago Times .—The Rev Mr Dowie has fallen foul of the Christohurch Press, because the Telegraph exposed one of his supposed cures, that of a blind man. He eaid that the New Zealand Press was the most libellous and eourrilous he had ever exporienced; but after all there were some papers nearly as bad. The editor of the Melbourne Age was a direct descendant of Anauiaa, and the editor ,of the Melbourne Argus was the descendant of the impenitent thief. He could .not, apparently, find a genealogy sufficiently bad for the editor of the Telegraph. Two Auokland novelists recently had books published m London, and now the " Queen of the North " seems likely to make her mark m another domain of art. A new comic opera 41 Pomare " haa jußt been aooeptod for production by Rignold and Allison m; Sydney from the pens of Auokland composer and librettist, N. G. Barnett, late of Christchurch, and J. ;L. Kelly, of the Evening Star, respectively. The scene of the op^ta is laid m Tahiti, and the plot hinges upon curious native customs and the predicament of officers of an Englifsh warship wrecked on the Island. The Sydney JUornmg Herald, m a long notice of the opera, says the music is particularly fresh, and m many plaoeß bears distinot evidence not only of originality but of musical scientific knowledge. The value of nut-bearing trees may be judged from the following;— John de Hart haß on his farm at South Madison, N.J., a hickory tree whioh this year bore five bushels and three peoks of nuts, which brought two dollars a bushel, and the dealer who came for them said he would be glad .to get a hundred bußhels at the sameprioe. The tree is worth for timber and firewood, fifteen dftllare, and there is room for forty suob trees on an aore Of ground.— Trenton State Gazette, It will be well if everyone celebrates the Queen'a Jubilee as wisely as the good people m the north of Derbyshire propose to do. Lord Howard, of Gloasop, has offered to give to the flourishing cotton town from whioh his title is derived a park, with sites for a hospital, public bathß, and f tee library. Several looal magnates have oomo forward liberally, one with £5000 for the hospital. "Mirabel," the lady correspondent of the Australasian at Sydney, writing under the date of the 24th of Jan., says :— Mies Claiice Brabazon, a ohild of only twelve years, gave * pianoforte reoital last weok. She cornea from New Zealand, and has so far only been taught by her sister. Miss Clarice has a wonderful memory, playing ten solo pieces, m eluding the Moonlight Sonata as a final one, without her music She plays with great faoility and vigor. The annual production of butter and cheese m New Zealand, calculated to Maroh lust, was : —Butter, 12,173,9651b5 ; cheese, 4,594 7951b5. Weakness and Biokneps changed to health and strength with Hop Bitters always Ihose made by American Co. See Holloway's PijiLß.-— Weakening weather— The sultry summer days strain the nerves of the feeble and decrepit, and disease may eventuate unless some restorative, such as theße purifying Pills, bo found to correct the disordering tendenoy. 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