The Ashburaton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1506, 14 March 1887, Page 2

The Ashburaton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last year's immigration into the United States amounted to 386,755 persons, an increase of more than 60,000 over the year 1885.

Professor Shepard, of Newbaven, makes a B'atement which will surprise most persons. He says : " There have been several instances of death occasioned by meteorio stoner. Two monks m different places were thuß killed m Italy, and two sailorsjon shipboard m Sweden."

The Wellington correspondent of the "Auckland Herald" says that Parliament will be called together for the last week m April.

In the course of an interview between the reporter of the 4 * Auckland Bell " and Mr W. S. Graham, Mayor of Hamilton, the lastnamed gentleman expressed himself strongly as to the benefits to be derived from the establishment of the beet-sugar industry, avowing the opinion that the cultivation of tho beet root and tho extraction of sugar from it was as much a national question, or hould |be made so, and of as much importanoe to the prosperity of the colony, as that of the nationalisation of the land. There was m it " the means of floating New Zealand off the rocks — or doing very mnch towards it." He further declared it to be hia belief that the beet root industry was capable of rendoring New Zealand as prosperous as France. A. Syndicate is being formed m New York to excavate the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf Canal, on the survey made by General Q. A. Gilmore. The cut is to commence at the mouth of St. Mary's Eiver, on the dividing lino between Georgia and Florida, run to St. Mark's on the Gulf of Mexico, and thence to New Orleans by the existing line of waterways, saving 1200 miles of dangerous navigation. The Public Work 3 Department at Christohurch are authorised to put some of the unemployed at piece work on the extension of the Mount Somers Railway as Boon as the preliminary arrangements oan be made, whioh will be almoßt immediately.

The smallest newspaper m the world is published m the town of Guadalajara, and is entitled "El Telegramma." It is five inches (long and three inches wide ; it has four pages, and contains the most important news from all parts of the world. It only oosts 75 centimes (about 7£d) per quarter, and it has for its motto, "Plenty of roast and little smoke."

Some writers and waltz composers have fallen on halcyon days. A London correspondent, who gives some interesting foots on this subjeot, states that Theo Marzials receives from one firm of publishers £2000 a year for three songs. Frank L. Moir, another snooessful ballad writer, has made nearly £2000 out of his popular song "Only once more." Waltz writers do equally well, and tho correspondent mentions two ladies who drew £1200 a year each for a couple of waltzes.

An estimate of the harvest for the Canter bury province gives the following as the approximate yield for 1887 :— Wheat 4,200,000 bushels, oats 4,650,000 bushels, barley 330,000 bushels. The Government returns for. North Canterbury, just collected, are as follows : — Wheat 122,239 acres, yield 2,800,070 buehole; oats 91,340 acres, yield 2,333,673 bushelß ; barley 7,548 aores, yield 193,216 bushels, potatoes 6345 acres, yield 37^50 tons.

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Mr R. Meaclem, threshing machine proprietor, writes to say that it was not he who was the defendant m tho civil cases, Lancaster v. Meaclem and Morris v. Meaclem, heard m the K.M. Court on Friday.

Tho services conducted yesterday 'by Mr Duncaa Wright m the Presbyterian Church were attended by large nnd very attontive congregations. An afrer mcc ing at the close of the evening service waa also largely attended, fully three-fourths of the people remaining to the close. Mr Wright spoke m the morning from 2nd Samuel, xii. chap., and 23rd verse, " I shall go to him but he shall not return to me," ths speaker's remarks on death being very solemn. During hia discourse he sang two rerses of the hymn " Shall we gather at the river," the refrain being taken up by the congregation. In the af ernoon Mr Wright kept . the Sunday-school children attentively interested for some time, his remarks being also listened to by a number of parents and friends who were present. The evening eemee attracted a very large congregation, and Mr Wright, m a powerful and striking manner, retained the attention of all while he spoke from Jonah, I chap., 6ver., "What meanest thou Oh Sleeper?" his very dear and vivid description of the great city of Nineveh no doubt being m some portions at least new to many of those present. The servioes will bo continued during this week, commencing at half-past seven eaoh evening.

The northernmost railway m the world has just been oompleted. It runs from the town of Wara, m Finland, northeast to Uleaborg on the Baltio, and thus connects that place directly by rail with the capital of Russia and the rest of Europe. The northern terminus lies m latitude 65, which is only one and a half degree south of the Arctio cirole.

One of the greatest engineering projects now under consideration m the United States is- a tunnel under Gray's Peak, m the Rooky

Mountains. It will be over 4000 feet below

the summit of the mountain and about five miles long. It would shorten the distance

between the Atlantic'and Facifio slope valleys about three hundred miles. ■:$

The fallowing extraordinary dooument, which is given verbatim- et literatim, was produced m the Resident Magistrate's Court at Wellington during the hearing of a case last week :—" Wellington, June 21, 1886, New Zealand. This agreement Being droun By the under Sinds and to the Sadisfaoben of one Witness is named We the under Sinds, William Albert and Eliza Bird, Here By Give up all Commonquachen With Each other from this date for all the rest of Hour Lifes, Both Being responekel for their Home Contrackets this agreement Being Sind By the three parties ia now ligel to all transhactshorns, i William taking two Boys, and i Elizo taking on girl." The signatures are appended, written across six twopenny stamps. The street cars of Pensacola, Florida, are to be run by electricity. The royal palace at Honolulu, Sandwioh Islands, i 3 now lighted by eleotricity, and Honolulu is soon to have an eleotric light plant, the contract for which has been awarded to an American corporation.

Of 52,500,000 bushels of grain shipped from New York m 1886 not one bushel wsb carried by a vessel sailing under the Amerioan flag. The bulk of it was taken by British and German vessels, the former numbering 713 and having cargoes equal to #2,000,000 bushels. Speaking of the speed of the Ounard liners, the secretary of the company saya the figures show that the Etruria is the fasteßt ship m the Cunard fleet on a general average and by a very few points, but that the Umbria has made the fastest time on her homeward trips. Both vessels have an average time of nearly 21 miles an hour. " Illustrated Tit Bits " for this week has a really well-oonceived frontispiece intituled 14 The New Zealand Laocoon," the serpnnt m this oase representing thepublio debt, borough loans, barbor loans, etc Don't physio, for it weakens and destroys, but use Hop Bitters that builds up 1 (Take none but American Co. '6) Bead Holloway's Pills and Ointment. — The combined ill effects of over-crowding, sedentary occupations, and monotony of life are only too well-known to those who have to pass the best part of their lives labouring m factories and crowded workrooms. The compulsory confinement weakens the general health and induces ohronia constipation, indigestion, and various forms of skin diseases. Holloway's remedies are of priceless value to persons of this olase, for they can be used without entailing lots of woilij being purely vegetable m their composition, and consequently act without harshness on the most delicate Bystem. The experience of more than forty years proves that no means Burpaes Holloway's remedies for curing bad legs, bad breasts, piles, and wounds of all kinds.