LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1482, 14 February 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In our leader of Satqrday we wrote " When they who woav the oaßsook also tear the sword they always govern with a high hand," but the sentence was turned into nonsense m print by snbatituting the word " fear " for the word " bear." At a special meeting of thf A^tjhbtVfttn Oonnty Coupcfl thjß morning, and at wbioh Meisra YJf. C. \Valker (oh.airtqan), D, McLean, B. G. fright, and E. B. Oo«te; i(?e?% y^Beflt^ Mr fe. Q(. Wright wfia o^eptod thQ Ociupoa'B representative oq the LjttgHoq Harbor Board. ; The raoehorseß Spade Guinea, Vinaigrette, and Toddy Yaillo paassd through Ashburton. this morning to fulfil tho\r engaaamenti at the pun.pdjn. Raoe mooting. The deoreaee of the onerohant marine of the world m 1886, at compared with 1885, m sailing tgbiolb is, according to the Bureau Veritae of Frnce, 1146 Yessel§ a^d. ?(ifi,Bttl tone. The Ir^oreftaa m steam V 153 and m Unnage'iß4,4sß. At Napiar, on Saturday, a laborer named Robert Bllingham was fined £3 and 7s oostq, and required to tind a Bu^ely m the buuj of £'4m to keop the peaoe for six monthß, on a charge of having oruelly beaten his little daughter, oged throe yearg,

The Blue Bpur olaimholders have settled thi que»tion of ■raalgamaiinß, and Mr J. O. Brown goei home by the next San Francisco mail steamer to float a company. Ho expeotp to ba absent twelve months, bnt will not resign his Beat m Parliament. A oorreipondent of the Christchuroh Press writes advocating the removal (and replaoe menfc with trees of another species) of the magnificent willows whioh adorn the banks of the Avon. He iayi that some soientiflo experiments lately carried out m America htv« proved that an average rize willow •xbnl»i »even and a half tons of water daring eaoh twenty-four honri of its growing tim«, and attribute! to this cause the fogginen of Ohriitohuroh durrng the winter Boseon. A Bcotohwoman who died nf. Glenorohy, aged 117 years, is said to h&vo only paned •ne night out of the parish of her birth, and was never either on • steamboat or m a railway carriage. A woman who has just celebrated her 100 th birthday, near Ather■tone, h»s been a widow for half * oentcry. and has lived m her present house for 86 years. Mr Farrah, of Te Kae, sent tha following note to the Auckland Herald, under date 18th January :— " Ai a relia from the < vasty deep,' the »nolosed came ashore on tha Parcngarenga beach to-day, and was picked op by a Maori. It was enclosed m a bottle tightly corked." The following is tba inaorip. tion on tbs piece of paper m the bottla : — " If this should be found, the Sovereign of tha Bess is lost. Caffrey, aaptain ; Perm, mata ; girl Graham, aook." A boy was lont to itty with some relatives because thara waß ioma apprehansioa of *n earthquake m his part of tha oountry. After a few weeks hia friends, ia desperation, telegraphed to his parents, " Take baok tha boy and land along the earthquake." In 1878 there were about 8000 convicts m New Caledonia— a total whioh has sinoe been swelled by tha arrival of reotdivistes to 20,000. The lowest sentenea for transportation is for seven yean. After that aaoh man hai to Berva for seven years more ai a libere under surveillanoe. Goal m immema quantities has been diecovered m Henderson and Smith counties Texas. In the formar oounty ona vein is twenty feet m diameter and only thirty feet below the surface. In Smith oounty it was disoovered m less Amount but its quality is excellent. A French engineer has obtained a conoea. sion from the Persian Government to con■truot a railway from Teheran to Shabdolazma, a distance of four miles, whioh is designed to be the entering wedga for an extensive railway system. The capital with which the railway is to ba built is ohiefly Russian. Tolegraph time from New York to Oaloutta, India, provided no undue delays pcour, iß.Teii than fifteen minutos. I]roni-NeV'Y6rlJ Stock Exchange to Jhe London Stock Bcfard ever; ■clay ' meaaa'geß. ; era. »e^Ar^>' < th^j^ijns^ received -inside, threp. trjinu^-inlb^^e^^^^ andfltnswer, all manner t»f Trial«diotlohßare invoked upon the hoad of the blameless operator, The Press reports that on Saturday after■oon a boy, about five yean old, fell ofl the boat stage, Dampier's Bay, into deep water. A youth named W. Wylie instantly jumped, m and brought the obild out tafefy, apyajentlv 1 nothing the worse for his daoking. Kidney and urinary oomplaints of all kinds permanently cured with Hop Bitters. Genuine made by American Co. Read Statutory Declaration— l, Frana Raabe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, m the colony of Victoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely declare that or* the 2&th June, 1877, my son Alfred, b<x years of a.ge, waa accidentally ■ hurt with an axe on the knee. lat once took all pains to seoure medical assistance. However, m spite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, the opinion was given by Di MacgiHiviay that an amputation of tha injured Umb had beoome imperative, m order to save lifo. At this junofcura I oalled on Mesars Bander and Sonß,>proou«ng some ol Iheir Extract of the B,ucaly ; ptuß Qlobulos, and by the application of. the Bame I had the satisfaction of seeing jay eon within a fortnight out of all danger, and to-day he is recovered. I may juat add that it was when the orisia had been reaohed that the Extraot referred to was first applied. And I make thii solemn declaration, etc. — Franz Raabe Declared at Sandhurst, m the colony of Victoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of Ootober, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-aaven before me, Morits Cohn. J.P.— (Advt.)