LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1560, 17 May 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

„ -♦ The answer to the Jubilee Conundrum appears m another column togother with the name ol the winner of the medal given by the advertiser. The replies were numerous and almost unanimous. Dr Jjynn, the famous Wizard o the Egyptian Hall, London, has finally arranged to appear m the Oddfellows' Hall, A3hburton, on the 25th and 26th May, previous fo his departure for South America. The attention of shearers is particularly called to an advertisement which appears elsewhere. The audience will be addreosed by Mr W. G. Spence, President of the Union, on matters concerning the Union. Mr Spenoe has come over from Australia for this purpose, and has already held very successful meetings at Oamaru, Waimate, Temuba, and. Timaiu. Taking fadvantage of Tuesday next being a public holiday the trustees of, the Ashburton Wesleyan Church have arranged to hold what is appropriately ltermed (a jubilee tea meeting at the Oddfellows' Hall. Preppra* (iocs are being made for an unusually larje gathering, and a service of song, illustrative 1 of scenes and incidents in'the^life of Queen ' Victoria, will be introduced for the first time . m Ashburton. The well-known reputation \ of the Wesleyan Church] choir is sufficient - gaurantee (that this portion of the festivities will be effectively carried out. I The tender of Charles Smithell at £4 10s . has been accepted for gorse grubbing at the > Irrigation Farm. ' Tho following cablegram came to hand last ! night : — There have been large investments by purchasers m Colonial seourities. Consols are 103J, the highest recorded. The existence < of an enormous wheat corner m Chicago is reported. It controls tho chief American ccnties, and owns half the wheat shipped to Liverpool. ' Un the R.M. Court, Napier, yesterday, two • men were lined {£10 and £15 respectively on a charge of wreoking at tho Northumberland. The Magistrate held that the minor charges only of being m unlawful possession of goods were proved. One was sentencod to 21 days' imprisonment, and four were oommitted for i triatjon similar charges. One of the men 1 fin^f-was a Chinaman. He brought an interpreter, and m the course of the hearing it transpired that the interpreter was wearing a pair of trousers from the wreck. Ha was promptly arrested, but after hearing his explanation was discharged. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce on Monday passed resolutions affirming that the proposed alterations m the Cnstoms tariff are not such as should be adopted for secur- : ing additional revenue and promoting local indastries ; that it would interfere least with ' general trade to impose additional levies on tea, sugar, wines, cigars, tobacco, and luxuries ; that to afford incidental assistance to any looal industry it would be unwise to ; fix a higher duty than 15 per cent, ad : valorem ; that the proposal to impose duties i on artioles and implements used m agricul- : turo, sheep farming, and mining, is specially i burdensome ; that it is inadvisable and unjust ; to alter the basis of application of duty on spirits from proof to liquid gallon ; that if ; there were fewer classifications the interpretation would be made easier and the cost of collection of duties roduoed; that the ■ Property Tax exemption should be reduced to * £200. The New Guinea mail steamer Truginini hag brought intelligence to Cooktown of the wreck of the Pride of Lovan on Moresby Island, and the massacre of all her crew, consisting of six Chinamen. The vessel went ashore during a N.W. gale. The orew were properly treated by the natives for a few days, and then brutally murdered. The vessel was also stripped and broken up. The Truganini visited the scene of the massacre, but the natives had all oleared into the mountains. The revenue of the Victorian Railway Department still maintains its buoyancy, and there is every probability the Commissioaers will be able to present a very satisfactory balance sheet at the end of the financial year. Mr Gillies m his last Budget speeoh, estimated the receipts for current year at £2,425,000, or £125,000 more than the estimated revenue last year. At the end of April however, the receipts exceeded the estimates by £140,000, and it is expected by the end of ! June to increase it to £180,000. The Government intend to proclaim a three days' publio holiday on the occasion of ; the jubilee, viz., June 20th, 21st, 22nd. . Temperance clergymen, lawyers, ladies, and dootors use American Co.'s Hop Bitters, as they do not intoxicate, butjrestore brain and nerve waste.

One hundred and eighty men applied at the Public Worka office, Christehurh, on Monday m response to an advertisement calling for 100 men to work on the Midland Railway. The Government have instructed the Public Works offioials to put 40 men to work m Hagley Park. In regard to the tariff proposals the Christohuroh Protection Association on Monday passed a resolution approving of the pro* posed duties on artioles which oan be manufactured or grown m the colony, and disapproving of duties on raw materials and artioles whioh cannot be manufactured or grown m the colony. The Industrial Association resolved that the proposals are fairly satisfactory as a revenue tariff, but raw materials and artiales nqt produced m the should be admitted free. The centesimal inorease of the Episcopalians by the last census is 14-41 ; of the Presbyterians, 15*42 ; Roman Catholics, 15.61. So far as these three leading denominations are concerned there is not much difference m the rate of progress which each is making. But a glance at at other names reveals a very different state of things. Agnostios head the list m the column of centesimal inorease. They have more than quadrupled their peroentage, their inorease being 527*7. Atheists, Secularists, and Freethinkers have also increased m a very muoh more marked manner than any other denomination. " Rough gou Coni?s." — Ask • for Well' "Rough on Corns." Quick relief, complete permanent oure. Corns, warts, bunions At ohemists and druggists. 3 "Rough on Itch." — " Rough on Itoh" res r^\n humors, eruptions, ringworm, tetter, *. .It rheum, frosted feet, chilblains toh, ivy poison, barber's toh.' 3