LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1487, 19 February 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We understand that Mr Ivess, M.H.R., intends to address the eleotora of Wakanai about the middle of next month.

The followirig were among the passengers by the North express yeßterday Sir R. Btout, Hon. P. Buokley, Hon. W. Rolleeton, M.H.R., and Mr O. 8. Cooper, Under* Secretary. Bir R. Stout lays the foundation stone of the new wing of the Sunnyside Asylum today. * The next Government inspection parade of the Ashburton Rifles and Guards takes plaoe m drill order on Monday evening at 7 o'clock, when every man must attend.

Two millions of Martini-Henri rifles are on their way to Victoria.

The Cincinnati papery have been fined for publishing lottery advertisements.

Welsh tithe-payers are now threatened with dynamite if they dare to make payments.

There are eleven clothing factories m New Zealand, employing 264 males and 1005 females.

A Taranaki paper says :— " It ia well-known that all the butter dealers m this district hare tost heavily this year m butter."

There are 268 sawmills m New Zealand at whioh 5031 males and 11 females are employed The annual value of produotion is £1,177,718.

Aooording to one of the candidates for New Bonth Wales legislative honors, the last ParItament was composed of a set of " political hyronas."

The agricultural implement manufactories m New Zealand number seventeen, and employ 33G men, turning out annually £111,813 worth of maohinery.

Rev. John Salmon, Oongregationalist, of Toronto, Canada, has been asked by his ehuroh to resign on account of his declaring belief m the faith-ouro.

It will surprise souse of our readers to learn that m 1852 Ireland produced 32,2200aa of silver. Since 1796 a total of about £60,000 worth of gold has been found m Wioklow, including 220z and 250z nuggets.

A memorial is shortly to be presented to Her Majesty asking her to establish as a Jubilee memorial an order m recognition of good service m art and literature, to be called the Order of the Rose.

Feminine street-oar oonduotorß are quite the rule m Chili. They are pleasant-looking young women, who wear a uniform of blue flannel, white pinafores, and Panama hats.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Coughs, Influenza.— The soothing properties of these medioatnents render them well worthy of trial m all diseases of the respiratory organs. In common colds and influenza the Fills, taken internally, and the Ointment rubbed over the ohest and throat, are exceedingly effioaoioaa. When influensa is epidemic this treatment is the easiest, safest, and surest. Holloway't Pills purify the blood, remoTa all obataoloa to its free oiroolation through the lungs, relieve the over-gorged air-tabes, and render respiration (res, with* out reduoing the strength,., irritating he n«ves, or depressing tb« spirits; euoh are the ready means of esoaping from Buffering when asliotsd with soldo, coughs, bronchitis, and other cbesi complaints, by which the health of bo many is Berioasly |nd pnmsntiy jpjajed io most oouawep,

Petitions to the Governor praying him to prevent by proclamation under the Coilin Moth Aot, 1884, the importation of apples aud pears from those countries where the moth peat is known to exist, are being oiroulated m Aghburton. Copies of the patition are lying at, Messrs A. W. Randall, W. C. Davis, J. Canning, and R. Elston's places, and at the Mail offioe, awaiting signatures.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Ashburton Borough Council will be held on Monday evening.

The team whioh is to represent the Ashburton Fire Brigade at the competition to be held m Dunedin left by the express train this morning.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Mr D. Williamßon, J.P., three first offenders for drunkenness were fined 5s each and oosts.

The racehorses Mirella, Rookat, Wakatipu, Ravenswood, Mammoo, and Conundrum pasaod through Ashburton this morning en route to Dunedin.

A Russian journal, speaking of the terrible misery whioh prevails m St. Petersburg, mentions that one of the largest asylums m that capital 13 filled with destitute needlewomen, any one of whom would gladly give ten hours' work for twenty copeoks, whiob is equivalent to fivepence.

Wife : " Why, aren't you going to wear your dress suit, my dear ? " Husband : •• Not muoh. The last time I wore my dnss suit at a party, a young woman ordered me to bring her a oop of oofloe, and bs quiok about

Lord Charles Tbynne, second son of the Marquis of Bath, and onoe a canon of the Churoh of England, has been ordained by Cardinal Manning as a prießt of the Roman Oatholio Churoh, at the juvenile age of 78.

It is stated that m parts of Taranaki some insect is attacking the blue gums and red gums, the younger leaves beooming perforated, and showing similar signs of tbe inseotivorous appetite to those met with m cabbages.

"Now, Mr Witness," said a Columbus lawyer, " are you willing to swear solemnly that the ohair was really faoing the east ? Remember, sir, the awfolnesa of perjury." Witness : " Well, I won't swear, sir, bat I'll bet you ten dollars it was."