LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1555, 11 May 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

&- Th« Financial Statement was delivered m the House at Pepresentatives last evening. No intimation of hte Jptention of bringing it down was given by the Treasure* till yesterday afternoon. Our Alford Foreat correspondent writes staifflg that is rumored that an attempt will be made to upset the recent eleotion for the Mount Somora Boad Board, when Messrs W» V, Chapman, A. Macfarlane, ana T. Harrison w.ero £at#rnj3£l« It is said there is some informality m cxMiAe/Jitton with the proceedings. Tho promoter* of tho meeting to bo held j to-morrow night for the purpose of consider, j ing how tho Queen's Jubilco may be best locally celebrated, do not deserve the blame that has been cast on thorn for not taking steps to make the meeting a representative one and not having resolutions prepared for it. 'Tho l£ayor assures us that steps have been .taken to hritig the matter under the laiico of the ,repr,es,entg,tiy£ men of the lißtrict. A meeting for tho purpose of draw ng up KiSolutionß for submittal to the meeting o-morrow was h@ld this afternoon. '[ B Major Douglas has received a telegram, rom Colonel Bailey, stating that the Ash-i >urton Eiflcs havo won the third prize for ijje shpoting. This, no doubt, refers to the Government t>rl«es for last year's class firing, md should encourage .our jps&l volunteera to jo m for practice this yostX. HolIiOWAV'b Ointment akd Pijir,s.— ColdH, ■ 3oug#B, Shortness of Breath. — These maladies early and unremitting attention, for i neglectecUtbpy often end m asthma, iimebjtfcj ,or fionrnWi-iUtn, The Ointment veil ?übbed unon itie chest and back, pene.rating th« skin, is absorbed and carried i lirectly to the lungfl, it expels all mFurities. All the Wood m the body is perpetually passing through th,o lunga, and all noxious particles tending io disease ;an fea ,7uiokly, thoroughly, and permanently loufraUkefl, rendered harmless, or ejected from the eypterti. gpUoway's Ointment and Pills perfectly acco«4>V^ t b »s pui-itication ; md through the blood t*w« .clejiß^d, the influence of these wonderful med^ofiitn.onts reaches the remotost parts of the human bqdy, and thus cures all diseased action' imi wto9s w vsterpal,

A Yiotorian constable who had charge of a man to be brought up for misdemeanor accidentally allowed him to escape, and, to avoid getting into trouble, paid another man to personate the prisoner. The arrangement was, however, exposed through the original offender getting drunk and coming back to the station m search of a favorite pipe. The constable will probably get into trouble, his ingenuity not being appreciated at headquarters.

The new South Australian Parliament is largely composed of new men. In the new House there is a substantial majority m favor of Protection, an absolute majority m favor of the payment of members, and there is a large majority who will support an inorease of the land tax. A progressive land tax and the sale of Crown lands are favored for roducing the defioit. The Government propose to drop the property tax and submit this programme : — Beorganigation of the Crown lands leasing system, the appointment of civil service and railway boards, amalgamation of the existing land and income tax by abolishing the exemption clauses.

A typhoid patient m tho Melbourne Hospital, while convalescent, ate some grapes given him by a friend named Williams, ana died soon after. At the inquest Coroner Youl said that m fever cases special pre* cautions had to be taken that improper food should not be given. In the Alfred Hospital recently a man had died from the effects of eating fruit surreptitiously given. Th'*s was a [similar case, where an ignorant, though well meaning, man had given a patient dangerous food, which the dootora prohibited. Although morally guilty of his death, Williams was not criminally responsible ; but it would be well fer everyone to understand m future, after this warning, that a person giving prohibited food to a patient and causing his death might bo prosecuted. The jury returned a verdict -that the deceased died from perforation of the intestines during typhoid fever, caused by grapes improperly given him by John Williams. A rider to the verdict recommended that caution notices should be posted m each ward warning persons not to introduce improper food. A similar case has just been reported from tho Castlemaine Hospital, where an apple was given a convalescent hospital patient, and caused his death.