LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1546, 30 April 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The popular leoture by the Bey J. J. Lewis, postponed on acoount of the unfavorable weather, is announced to be given at the Wesleyan Churoh next Monday evening. The choir will contribute several pieces at intervals, and the prooeeds will be devoted to the Circuit Fund. We have been requested to remind members of the Ashburton Biftes and Guards that another Government Inspection Parade will take place on Tuesday evening at seven o'olook. It is understood that the new helmet and cap badges for the South Canterbury Battalion have arrived from London per Arawa, and will shortly be distributed. Several complaints have been made to us lately that the tether ropes of oattle have been cut. Mr Cole has been ra-elected a member o the Wakanui Boad Board for No. 2 Ward. The expense of the speoial jury, alone, m the Gibson v. Wilson case was £72. The second reading of the Bepresentation Bill was carried m the House of Bepresentatives yesterday without a division. The usual monthly meeting of the Hampstead Town Board was held last night m the Board's office. Present— Messrs Andrews (m the chair), Hunt, and Fawoett. Mr P. T. Mayo sent a letter of apology for unavoidable absence. A disoussion took place regarding water supply. The matter was ordered to stand over till next meeting. A letter was read from the Colonial Secretary ie by-laws. Consideration was deferred. It was resolved that the Inspector of Nuisances be instructed to exercise more energy m the disoharge of his duties, several nuisances having been reported. The Begistrar of Dogs was severely admonished regarding his lenienoy to those persons who had unregistered dogs. The Bate Colleotor was instructed to sue all persons m arrear. After a considerable amount of routine business had been transacted the Board adjourned. Tenders for cropping 250 aorea, near Race, oourse, will be received up to Saturday next by Mr Outhbertson.

A noticeable feature m the proceedings at the Lawrence District High School on Monday evening last was the presence of two ladies and a number of Chinamen. While it is gratifying (says tho " Tuapeka Times ") to see the heathen Chinee taking part m European school matters, it is nevertheless contemptible that he should be made use of by certain aspirants to publio favot m the manner intended on Monday evening. What will be thought of a man who m the futherance of a petty desire to Bee himself figuring on a school committee betakes himself to the Chinese Camp, touts for Celeßtial plumpers, and while thus engaged, vainly ridicules the educational standing of his brother committeomen ? It waa manoeuvring of this character that is responsible for the attendance of Chinamsn at the school on Monday evening, and anything more oontemptible it is impossible to conoeive. They were brought there as plnmpers— to write the figure "7 •' before a certain name ; beyond thia they knew nothing and cared less. They ware brought there as so many sheep to have their heads counted, and were altogether innocent of the true objeot of their presence.

The public celebration of the jubilee m Great Britain will, it is said, involve a con. siderable outlay, for which a Parliamentary vote will be necessary. The coronation of the Queen oost about £10,000, against £50,000 for William IV., and £240,000 for George IV. ; and m many respects the coronation forms a precedent for the jubilee. Aocording to the " World " there is to be a special meeting of the Privy Council — either at Windsor Castle or at Buckingham Palace — when the proposed arrangements and estimates will be submitted.

Andrew Craig, aged 85, [and Mrs Mary Martin, aged 83, were married at Deerfield, Pennsylvania, recently. Mrs Martin had been a widow a year only 1 Craig was a baohelor. A large party assembled at the bride's farm, where the wedding ceremony was performed, and the festivities were kept up till after midnight, the married couple being as gay and lively as any of their gueats. The bride's mother died m Connecticut, m 1880, aged 101. The bridegroom's father was 96 when he died, and was twioe married after he waa 75. Naturalism has been oarried to great lengths m providing the costumes for some of the actors and actresses who figure m M. Sardou's new play of •• The Crocodile." The corsage of Mme. Claudia, for example, was composed of the skin of a boa constrictor ; while Mile. Delorme appears m the hide of a young alligator, whose tail forms part of her skirt, whioh is ornamented with red and green seaweed interspersed with mother-of-pearl Bhells.

"Truth," describing a new mail service between Lisbon and Calais, saya that passengers are carried without change of carriage, notwithstanding the faot that the Frenoh lines are of a different gauge from the' Portuguese. This difficulty is got over by slinging the cars with their complements on to a new set of wheels by means of huge cranes, so that travellers may m future be said to cross the French frontier m mid-air. Arrangements have also been made whereby there will be no Custom-house examination until the passengers reach their destination m one or other of the four countries traversed by the train. It has been suggested that our direct mails might be accelerated by this route by landing and embarking them at Lisbon and so saving a day.

The statue of Christopher Columbus, which the citizens of St. Louis [are preparing to have unveiled m 1892, will be cast at the Government Bronze Factory at Munich. It is to be of heroio size, 10 feet high, and represents the disooverer standing at the prow of his vessel beholding tho first glimpse of land.

While the German Empire oan reckon over 2,500,000 of her children m foreign climes, or 5*7 per cent, on the aggregate population of 45,2^0,000, she affords a subsistence to 293,000 natives of other countries, inoluding 118,000 Austro-Hungarians, 35,000 Scandinavians, 28,000 Swiss, and only 17,000 French, who thus take but a poor revenge of the 82,000 Germans who have peacefully continued the invasion of French territory.

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