LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1590, 22 June 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We remind our readers of the Bpeolal Jubilee Thanksgiving Service to held at St. Stephen's Church to-morrow evening at 7.50. The preacher will be the Yen Arohdeaoon Harper, of Timarn, whose Jubilee Hymn, published m our oolumnß last week, will be sung during the service. The collection will be for the Inoumbent'a Building Debt Extinction Fund. The Canterbury Coursing Club have fixed Tuesday next, the 28th instant, as their next ooursing day. The meeting will be held at Ashburton. ..-*•■ We are requested to state that the Rev Father .Chastagnon will not visit Rakaia on Sunday next, but will hold the usual services at Ashburton. At the R.M. Court thid '.morning, before Mr B. Alcorn, J.P., and Mr T. Bullock, J.P., James Shilling, for drunkenness, was fined £1 and costs. A first offender was fined 5s and costs. A woman born m the Jubilee year of George 111., and named Sarah Jubilee Wildmott, died suddenly a few weeks ago at Mansion Bow, Old Orompton (Kent), aged seventy-eight. It is astonishing how muoh money is earned m the streets of London by crossing sweepers, shoeblacks, and people of that sort. The South London shoeblaok Sooiety 91 its reoently issued report, Bhows that the average amount earned by each boy is 16s 9£d per week. The Jubilee business was played very low down m Halifax, Yorkshire, where the loya] committee managed to exftraot eleven shillings and twopence, m coppers, from the inmates of the workhouse. That looks like a modern edition of " and from him that hath not shall be taken away, etc" The inventory of the personal estate of the late Mr David Kennedy, Scottish .vocalist, Bhows that the net value of the estate amount* to £7, 184 175,11 d. In addition to the property m Scotland the deceased gentleman left another £7,C00 of assets m Australia. The total property left by him is £14,100 m personal estate, and £1,000 heritable; Mr V. Pyke, M.H.8., has reoeived intimation that his patriotic song "The Old Flag" has been officially adopted by the primrose League m England as one , of thei/ national songs. A rara avis \n the shape of a- yellow keg has been shot near Lake Wan,%ka. The usual colour of the kea is green. I%q one m question is a bright, yellow, and on th.9 baok 0! the head and point of tail red, and tips 6i wings green. It is said to be a most beaTitifu bird. This unique speoimen has been Btitffeo by a well-known taxidermist. Curious requests, it appears, are made to the Queen m the cause of charity. According to a Society journal, a lady recently wrote asking the Queen to. send her the hairs her Majesty combed from her head, the writer b^iog^ruanua.tQ iia thainjipinto little- twista and sell the same at a bazaar. The Montreal " Herald," of the 17th nit., records two magnificent donations towards a flitting memorial of the Queen's jubilee made by Sir George Stephen and Sir Donald ASmitk, who offered between them, 1,000,000 dollars (£200,000), for the ereotion of a hospital m Montreal, to be known as "The Royal Viotoria Hospital," the conditions being that the Municipality should set apart the site and ereot the building as soon as possible. The offer was gratefully accepted, with the remark, that its princely munificence had never been equalled on the continent of America. One of tha strangest of religious seota is that which calls itself the New and Latter House of Israel. Its head-quarters are m Chatham, England, m which town its devotees are building an immense temple which will oosfc £50,000. They believe that they will not die, and that they are the remnant of true Israelites who will reign with Christ for a thousand years. Their founder; was a man named Jezriel, who is now dead. His death was a 'great shock to the believers, but his wife claimed that it was an accident, and deolared herself to be his OHcoessor, We find the following m the " Dunedin Evening Herald : "—lt is known that many rabbiters make a praotice of turning adrift young bunnies, they m»y capture, so that they " multiply and replenish the earth " ior future profitable work. A muoh easier and probably more remunerative plan of operations is diaoloaed m the following from a contemporarj :— •• Id a certain part of New Zealand there lives a man who makes his living by breeding ferrets and selling them to the Government. The Rabbit Department turn out the ferrets purchased from him. The animals, m many oaßes, are then trapped by a party of enterprising individuals anxious to turn an honest (?) penny, and sold to the aforesaid breeder, who, m his turn, again sells them to the Government. That's how the money goes. " Rough on Catarrh."— -Corrects offensive odors at once. 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