LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1600, 4 July 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Letters of naturalization have boon issued m favor of Karl Zander, clerk, of Aahburton.

The Tinwald Town Board invites tenders for rarioua works.

We understand that Mr Jolly has decided not to contest the Ashburton seat at the forth, coming elections.

Wo are requested to state that Mr Gilboy, roaster at tho Catholic Sohool, who has boon •very ill for some time past, bus gone to Ohriatohurch for rnedici-l treatment. Mrs Gilboy accompanies him, but will roturn very soon to settle any business m town they may not yet bare irranged,

In another column appears a telegram setting forth the boundaries of the two electorates m which this district is interested. The old Ashburton electorate has been reduced m area but inoreased m population, it taking m the townships of Bakaia, Tinwald andHampstead Wakanui has been done away with, and the portions that have not been absorbed by Ashburton, have been added to a new distriot called Bangitata. This also takes m the old Geraldine electorate and portion of the old ABhburton electorate. A general description of the boundaries of the other electorates came to hand too late for publication.

Thursday's " Gazette " notifies that M r John Ollivier has been appointed Resident Magistrate for the Districts of Ashburton, Geraldine, and Timaru, with extended jurisdiction to £100. Mr H. C. S. Baddeley has been appointed Sheriff and Assistant-Resident Magistrate at Auokland. The same " Gazette" contains a notification of the appointment of Mr C. W. Purnell as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ashburton Racecourse Rerservs vice Dr Bobs resigned, and of Sergeant Felton as Inspector of Weights and Measures for the borough and county of Ash-

burton.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Ashburton Hospital Board was held at the County Council Chambers on Friday afternoon. Present: Messrs W. C. Walker (chairman), A. Harrison, and T. Scaly.— A list of patients admitted and disobarged during the month was laid before the Committee. — The matron complained of the conduct an assistant, andDr Trevor, the Enrgeon, forwarded a report on the matter. It was resolved to discharge the assistant m question, and to invite tenders for the position thus rendered' vaoant.— The tender of E. Vinten to collect outstanding accounts at a commission of 25 per cent, was aooepted. — Boutine business was transacted, accounts passed for payment, and the Board adjourned.

It will be remembered that a few week? ago a man named William Henry Hawkiriß pleaded guilty to two charges of obtaining sums of money by raeqins of 'valueless cheques. He was placed undar. tile operation of the Probation Aot for'/ six months, on his assurance that he would pay the costs of the prosecution, and would meet the cheques when a remittance, which he stated was sent him from Home, oame to hand. It was arranged that this money should have been paid by Saturday last, but on that day it was not forthcoming. Hawkins was, therefore, again arrested and brought up at the B.M. Court this morning, before Mr E. Aloorn, J.P., and Mr T. Bullock, J.P. He stated that the remittance he expected had not yet arrived. In the absence of the Probation Officer Hawkins was remanded for a week, to be brought up m the meantime should the Officer have returned.

On Jubilee Day the Sydney Mint struck 250 sovereigns from s new die m which Her Majesty's head appears m widowed garb and of mature age. These sovereigns were of course m great demand, and from 25s upwards was freely paid for them as curios.

It is estimated that there are now 200,000 more Mahomedans and Buddhists m the world than there were five years ago.

The Princess Beatrice's Jubilee present to the Queen was to consist of a tiny miniature of the late Prince Consort, enolosed m the interior of a sovereign.

According to a London contemporary Madame Adelina Patti will have oleared during her Beven months' operatic and concert tour no less a Bum than £180,000. In Mexico, at a single performance, £38,000 was taken, and by her contract, La Diva being on sharing terms, with a guarantee of £1000 per night, she must have netted a large sum on that occasion.

The " Northern Advocate " is informed that from one of the local orchards 1100 dozen lemonsjhave been gathered this season, while from the orchard of Mrßrooker sample of oranges of excellent quality and flavo^ oombined with a thin smooth skin, leaving nothing to be desired, and which must satisfy the most cultivated taste have ako been reoeived at the offioe.

The name of God is translated as follows : — It is, m Latin, Deus ; m Greek, Zeus > Hebrew, Adon -, Syriao, Adad ; Arabian, Alia ; Persian, Syrs ; Tartarian, Tgan ; Egyptian, Aumn or Zeut ; East Indian, Esgj or Zuel; Japanese, Zain; Turkish, Addi; Scandinavian, Odin ; Wallaohian, Sene ; Margian, Eese ; Swedish, Oodd ; Irish, Dich ; German, Gott ; Frenoh, Dieu ; Spanish, Dios ; and Peruvian, Llan.

Two honest farmers riding along together encountered a large number of clergymen, and one of them said to the other, " Where be all these parsons coming from ? " To this his friend replied, "They've been at a visitation." The other, no wiser than before, said, " What'B a visitation ? " and the answer he received was, " Why, its where all the parsons goes once a year and swops their sermons." His friend on being thus enlightened, quietly remarked, " Dang it, but oor chap mun get the worst on it every time."

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