The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1541, 25 April 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Meetings of householders for the election of Sohool Committees will be held this evening, that iv th.c Ashburton Schoolroom at seven o'olook sharp. The Beoond annual general meeting of the Ashburton Club will be held this evening. After the oonolusiou of the business of the meeting a social gathering will be held. Mr W. 0. Walker, M.H.R., addressed bis constituents at Methven on Saturday oven* ing, and received a vote of thanks and con. fidence. A full report of the meeting will be found elsewhere. Mr Walker addresses his constituents at Ashburton this evening. The Rev J. J.Lewis' leoture at the Wesleyan Churoh to-night promises to be an intellectual treat. The subject is one of deep interest to every individual member of the Empire, and Mr Lewis' reputation as an entertaining speaker should be a guarantee that " The British Parliament and its ex-Premier " will :be reviewed m a manner both pleasing and instructive. The Eoselle Bros.' Surprise Party purpose giving one of their variety entertainments m the Templar Hall, Itnwald, on Tuesday evening. From the programme before us we notice that all kinds of items comprise it to suit the tastes of all sorts and conditions of men and women. The Surprise Party, though all local people, we can assure our Tinwald friends, produce a most enjoyable entertainment, and we oan promise that no regret will follow the spending of Tuesday evening' at the Templar Hall. A herd of 150 elephants, valued at £10,000, has just been oaptured m India. The Kaiapoi Woollen Company have declared an interim dividend of 8 per cent. The addition of sugar to mortar greatly inoreaaea its strength. It is supposed that the wonderful Roman mortar, hard after 2,000 years had passed, owed its ezoellenoe to the addition of saacharine matter. The cure of pug noses is advocated by a physioian. A simple operation will ohange the pug nose to a charming Greoian feature, and with slight ohange at tho top of the pug the countenance may be made almost olassic. Gravitation on the sun is about twentyseven times as great as on the earth. If the force of gravitation here were increased to that of the sun we should bo unable to move; a 150 pound man would then weigh about two tons. Several dairy factories, Gore among the number, are combining to send a small shipment of cheese to India with the intention of testing the market there for the produot. The cheese will be specially paoked. A correspondent of the Wanganui " Yeoman," writing of the Oalifornian thistle, says that "As oompared with it all other vegetable pests are utterly insignifioant. It spreads from the roots by underground runners as well as from seed, and whenever it gets a footing farming becomes simply an impossibility. A. " munching match " was the intellectual treat afforded by an enterprising musio-hall caterer to his patrons at one of the large towns at Home recently. For a small wager a man undertook to eat a boiled leg of pork, two pounds of pease-pudding, and a bunch of greens, before another individual oonsumed five pounds of sausages, three pounds of mashed potatoes, and two pounds of bread, The pork and pease-pudding man won. A Presbyterian minister who married a qoupje of bio rustic parishioners, felt exceedingly disconcerted on his asking the bridegroom if he were willing to take the woman for bis wedded wife, by his scratching his head and Baying, » Ay— l'm wuljin', but Vi rather hao her sister." It may not be generally known that, after olothes aie starched m the usual manner, if they are passed through a bath of chloride of zino heated to about 60 degrees the starch will be held through several successive wash, jngs, and will suffer no ohange by being exposed to dew or rain. A new prooess of printing m colors, whioh iB at present kept eeoret, has been adopted m the production of the art supplement of the " London Lady's Piotorial." It appears to be a jSombJnatfon of ordinary color-printing and typogravure. A softness of tone haß been obtained by it superior to what can be found m most of the kindred publications. When near his end Lord Northington was reminded of the propriety of his reoeiving the consolations of religfon, he readily agreed that a divine should be sent for, but wheu tho Bight llev Dr , with whom he haa i ormerjy been intimate, was proposed, he sa^d, ••No! that won't do. I cannot well oonfeaa to him, for the greatest sin I shall have to answer for was making him a bishop 1 " Feeble ladies, aged persons, weakly ohildren, parsons of sedentary habits, all need American Co.'p Hop fitters d,&ily, geiiove