LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1566, 24 May 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We need hardly remind our Rakaia readers (hat the Roselle Bros.' Surprise Party appear m the Town Hall this evening. The Company is a very strong one— comprising the well■known acrobats, the Eoselle Bros., and some of the best variety artists that have appeared m New Zealand, and, m addition, they have secured the services of the champion amateur danoer of Canterbury, as well as a strong orohestra, and a string band for the ball. The Company is thoroughly deserving of the bumper house whioh, we have no doubt, (hey will receive this evening.

! Dalgety and Company, Limited, bave gecoived the following oable message from their jaead office iv London :— Tallow— There is a bbitctf movement m business, but prices tre scarcely changed. New Zealand frozen mutton 4d per lb. Wool— Market dull, owing to the accumulation of stook. Lists of arrivals closed. Total available, including old stocks, 360,000 bales. Buyers show little or no disposition to operate. It is possible that prices may be maintained) but a deolino would not be surprising.

A general meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club has resolved to amend rule 23, m order to deal with recent complications re the totalisator. An addition was made to the rule to enablo stewards to determine all fiustions arising re the totalieator, and investments made thereon, and to deolare a person .betting totalieator odds ov repudi&tiog his investment on totalisator to be guilty of corrupt and fraudulent practices on the turf.

Why be sick and ailing when Hop '.Bitters 'will surely owe you? Kfoue genuine but

Jo-day, being the anniversary of the leen'B Birthday, Mas observed as a close iliday ia town. The Volunteers, Rifles and uatds, held a parade m the morning, but 1^ comequence of several members haying Sift for Christohuroh m order to take part m he conpetition being held there, the muster

ras net so large as it otherwise would have leen. After the companies had "been put

ihroujh a variety of evolutions, a/<?« dejoie pas fired, then both corps headed by the band the members of whioh appeared m the! new uniforms, marohed round the town. & pedlar (says an exchange) made a «« fljng " visit to the Tuapeka distriot a few day ago on what he was pleased to term " a meeage of salvation to the farmers. 1 ' He had for sale a number of small paroelß lablled " The Electric Exterminator," espetally devised m the interests of the rabbits. Tb vendor claimed for it that no rabbit aujeoted to the exterminator eßoaped instantaeous annihilation. Ther parcels, which wfioh were sold at the reasonable price of 2f 6d each, were not to be opened until about to be used, " being subjeot to atmospherical disturbance." One farmer on opening out the " exterminator " for use found it to conBist ol a pieoe of ordinary whipcord Witb a noose at the end of it, while on an accompanying piece of paper appeared the words— " Place the rabbit's head* within the noose and pull until strangled." The polioe are looking for the talented inventor with the intention of having him properly rewarded.

Miss Stanley, aged 17, died the other week at Bathurst, N.S.W., under peouliar oiroum* stances. She was walking along side the river when she was stung by a fly, supposed to have flown off % dead dog. Blood poison* ing set m, and she died after suffering fearful agony.

Last year 558 men and 112 women were expelled from Austria. Among them were one nobleman, many pseudo-aristocrats, several schoolmasters, and a large number of merchants.

The following are interesting items of London's greatness : — " London is the greatest city the world has ever seen. It covers 700 square miles, numbering 4,200,000 inhabi-

tants. It contains more Jews than Palestine, more Roman Catholios than Rome, more

Irish than Belfast, more Scotch than Aberdeen, more Welsh than Cardiff, and 200,000 foreigners from every quarter of the globe. It has so many beer shops and gin palaoes that if placed side by side, they would reach from Charing Cross to Chichester, a distance of sixty-two miles. It has as many paupers as would occupy every house m Brighton. It has upwards of 73,000 persons annually

taken into custody by its police, including 26,000 arrested as drunk and disorderly,' and one-third of all the crimes m the country are committed in> it. London consumes 100,000,000 gallons of beer yearly, 10,000,000 gallons of spirits, 21,000,000 pounds of low quality tea, and only 4,000,000 pounds of coffee."

Immediately the Earl of Aberdeen arrived at Wanganui a firm of drapers there sent him their price list.

The sailors on the Northumberland were not less superstitious than their fellows. A

Persian oat (why a Persian oat of all others) jumped overboard on the voyage, and m the fo'csle it was confidently prophesied that the

ship would be wrecked.

The proof of the second 110-ton Armstrong ts*m -<vg commenced recently at the butts at Woolwioa <~. aona i, The first round was fired with a small .oho* 6 a of 5751bs of powder, giving on'.y loj tons pressure per square inoh »n the ohanber of the gun. The second round was w»h 8501 be of German powder " Prismatic Brov n , No. 1," whioh gave 2143 feet velooity to tL, lsooibs projectile and a gas pressure m the fliamber^of the gun of 21 tons per inch. The shot*, penetrated over six* feet into the sand of the Witts.

The other day a child « s^. years was orosslng a street m Auokland, with her infant sister m her arms, when she wt^ knooked down by a trap which passed over ter. On being pioked up her first utterance T?as " Where's the baby? " The baby had foxtunately fallen dear of the wheels and there, fore was unhurt, and, as it -happened to be a doctor who had run her down, the little girl is having a real good time under his oars. No bones wore broken nor serious injury sustained by her.

According to a Sydney paper Bishop Goe has been long enough m Melbourne to get •iok of the name of Moorhouse. Like a " second " husband he is nauseated with praises of ths dear departed, and had the pluck to protest at an early stage m his new life. Speaking at the installation lunoheon, Bishop Goe said — "All I have heard has increased my admiration of Dr Moorhouse's great ability, but 'comparisons are odious," and I would be glad when they cease to be made." That was pretty straightforward — for a bishop. If an ex- widow's new bride* groom opened like that at the wedding breakfast, it might prevent the subsequent hurling of many a flat-iron. The " Oamara Mail's " Wellington correspondent wires : — " Mr Ivess, the well-known newspaper proprietor, contemplates the •stablishment of a new Press Agency m the

interests of evening and country newspapers.

Mr Ivess thinks that tb.9 evening and country papers throughout the oolcny may success.

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