LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1573, 1 June 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An will be noticed from an advertisement m another column tho Boselle Bros. Surprise Party intend giving an entertainment m the Schoolroom, Mount Homers, on Tuesday next, June 7. The Company has earned for itself a good roputation, and should meet with as good a reception at Mount Corners as it has mot with elsewhere.

Our readers ato reminded of the onlor. tainment to bo given by the Druids this evening. In previous years tho Druids, m thoir concerts, have always satisfactorily catoreil Tor tho public amuKcment, and on this cocasion they have exerted themselves more than ordinarily. Professional assistance has been obtained, and this evening's entertainment proinitios to.be a success.

Tho following are the returns of the Asb? burton Hospital for the month of May :— ln Hospital on May 1, 7; discharged, 5; admitted, 8 ; remaining 0.

The Matron of the Asbbnrton Hospital wishes to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of fruit and flowers from Mr G. Smith and old linen and books from Mrs Hayes for the use of the inmates.

We remind our readers thai the Jubilee Concert m connection with the St Stephen's Ohuroh Society takes place to-morrow evening m the Oddfellows' Hall. Steady praotioe has been maintained for some timo, and much advance has been mado towards profioienoy The Dettingen Te Deum will be first sung and the programme will olose with Mozart's Twelfth Mass whioh will be sung to English words. Miss Gates, Miss Barratt, and Mr Atkinson aro the Boloists. We hope that the audience will be a large one and that the concert will be a success throughout. We may mention that tho worda of the Te Deum are those m the Anglican Prayer Book.

A bye«day was arranged for Whit Monday ! to afford a good many members of the Ash. burton Hunt Club having holiday the oppor. tunity of a day's hunting. The meet was at the Kennels, 11 a.m., and after a little delay the hounds were taken to a paddock opposite Mr Mathesone' where a bare waß aoon on foot and .gave a very good run of forty minutes, when she was lost. Several bare wive fences had to be negotiated at the beginning of the run, which considerably thinned the field. After a spell for both man and beast the hounds were again taken baok to Mr Mathesons' and another hare was soon found, affording a good run as far as the lollowers were allowed to go. Unfortunately pusß headed for prohibited country aud the hounds wore vhipped off. The start having been made early md it being now after three o'clock the order for home was given. The horses out were exooptionally good jumpers, and there I were only one or two falls and those not at all serious. Amongst those following were Mrs Lleid and Mrs Upton, Messrs Winter, Allan, Hoid, Russell, Wroughton, Heweon, A. 1 Fooks, Death, Bestell, Norrißh, G. and C. 1 Hart, Wornor, and Smith. There were also a great many ladies and gentlemen who kept Ito the hard road ; the woathor being exceptionably favorable from an onlooker's point Of tf eWt

A meeting|of the Ashburton Volunteers was hold at the Dril&lied last evening, and it was decided to hold their annual ball during the Jutilcc week, Thursday, 28rd mat. The ball is to be a military and fancy dross one, and should be a great (success. The oflioors of both companies form part of jtbe committee. An Inspeotion parade of the Ashbuiton Itifles and Guardsjtook {plaoo at tho urillshed

last evening. The Itifles mustered 51, and

were under the oommand of Captain Dolman. The Guards mustered M unde r

Captain Sparrow. Major Nowall was tf'e inspecting oflicer. Major Douglas and

CapUin and Adjutant Fooks were also present. The companys were exorcifsed m battallion drill by Major Douglas and moved fairly well. At the conclusion of the parade Major Newall said ho was well pleased with the appearance of tho mon and said he noticed a great improvement m the drill since his last visit. He also explained .some recent changes m the musketry instruction and paid a very high oornplimeut to the Bitles for their good shooting last year and hoped .they would practice this important branch of their nclu,cation.

Tho ordinary weekly meeting of the Jubilee Committee was held •■in tb,e County Council Chambers jeßtorday atteraooo, m* *. u^v, Mayor, being m tha chair, Mr Harper being unable to be present. A discussion re site for gathering of sobool children took place and tho Secretary was instructed to write to the ABhburton Saloyards Company, asking for use of their yards and grounds for the day, also to write to the various schoolmasters m the county, as to probable number o* children likely to be present from their, schools It was resolved that the fireworks display be held m Baring Square if no objections were made by Borough Counoil or fire inspector. It was arranged that a Committee meeting take place after tho meeting of trades, eto, m the Borough olllce on Friday ovening. The following gentlemen were appointed Bab-Gomrnittee" for various distriots, viz. : •— Itfethven: J. Jackson, B. Patton, D, Oamoron, J. C. McWilliam. Longbeaoh : J; C. N. Grigg, T. Taylor, F. Staudish. Rakaia : E. S. Coßtor, C. Hardy, C. Tucker, VV. L. Allan. Ashburton Forks: |W. Sutherland, M. Htitt, R, Millar. Chertsey ; J. Stringfollow, H. Childs, J. Patorson. "Willowby H. Oullon, A. J. Houston. Wakanui : D. Wilson, D. Williamson, G. W. Loadley Mount Somers and Alford Forest : J. Hood, John Boyle, A. MoFarlauo, E. Herring. 82afield|: M. Brube, M. Redmayne, H. M. Parsons. Kyle: J. Lambio, D. Buckley. Tinwald: Joseph Clark, C. Jophson, W. Soott. Hampstead : F. T. Mayo, P. Fawcett. Allenton: J. Tucker, H. Atkinson (for Factory), and the Committee adjourned.

A ourious hypothesis has been Btartod by an eminent member of tho medioal faoulty m Paris, It has been observed that many of the Nihilist conspirators m liussia are physically frail, timid, and nervous m temperament, highly impressionable, and not composed of the stern stuff of which regicides are usually made. The theory put forth to account for their desparate attempts on tho life of tho Czar is that they have been hypnotised by raau of a stronger will and great magnetic powar, and that the would-be aßsasaina are thus the involuntary instruments of their hypnotisers.

Magnetism, so oallodjfroru Magnes, a shoperd, who is said to have been detained at Mount Ida by the daila m his boots. The attractive power gf tho loadstone or magnet was early .known, and is referred to by Homor, Aristotle, and Pliny ; it was also known to the Chineso and Arabians. The Greeks are said to have obtained the loadstone from Magnesia m Asia, v.c. 1000; Roger Bacon is Bttidjto have been acquainted with its proporty of pointing to the; North (12U1). The invoutiou of the mariner's ooinpaßs is asoiibcd to Fla'vio Gioia.fa Neapolitan, about 1310 ; but it waa known m Norway previous to 1266, aud is mentioned m Frenoh poem 1150.

A praotioal joke, whioh was something beyond , a joke, has just been played on a retired picture dealer, Mr D , who has? a large collection of paintings at bis residence. Ho 'Went to Nioo a ehcrt time back, leaving his house iv charge oC an old mao soi'y^nt. A few days later some young men, dressed en paiulers and carrying boxes ol colors, called at the house and said they had reoeivod orders from Mr D to varnish and restore some pictures m his gallery. The tsau woepspeotingly allowed them to enter, and they shortly after left. Mi 1 D , who baa just roturnod homo, stood aghast at the transformation his pictures had undergone Madonnna were smoking pipes, a John the Baptist wearing a Chamberlain glass m one eye, Hippocrates mi earing a box hat, eto, Tho Authors of thia costly piece of fun are sappusod to be young painters diasalißtiod with thoir dealing* ivith Mr D .— "l'aris Letter."

At the obaugo of life nothing equals Ainorioan Co.'s Hop Bittera to allay all troubles. iiioidoQl thereto, Sse