LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1602, 6 July 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. Oraighead has been appointed Water Danger for tha Atshburton-Rangitata Distriot, and Mr 0. Morrison for the Ashburton-Rakaia Distriot. Unsuccessful appHoants can have tbeir testimonials returned by calling at the County Council offices. A widow named Mary Francis, residing at Cornelly, near Port Talbot, has attained the exceptionally advanced age of 103 yeara, having been born at Llansamlet m 1784. She is still m excellent health, and is still able to read, her Welsh Bible and thread a needle. Her mother lived to the remarkable age of 110 years. The Illinois Senato has passed a law making marriage between first ooaßins incestuous and void. A female contributor brought m a communication written on both sides of the paper. The editor soowled and refused it. " she retorted, •« I'd like to- know if you don't print on both sides ?" There'B no buo h thing as arguing with a woman. The crater of Mount Mtna was aotive all the morning of May 31st, and lava flowed m large volumes. Masses of Btonea and cinders were thrown to a gr,eat height, and heavy clouds of smoke enveloped the cone of the mountain. There was a man m our town, who thought him wondrous wise; he swore by all the fabled gods, he'd never advertise. His goods ■were advertised at last— aiad thereby hangs a tale ; the ad. was set m nonpareil, and headed « Sheriff's Sale." A despatch from Kansas City, dated 21st ult., says:— A little three-year-old child of a I family named Daviß Livingstone, of this oity, fell m a tubular well eighty feet deep and ten inoheß m diameter. The child's ories oan be- ! heard, but no means can be devised to resoue> I it, as the body just fits the diameter of the' well. Dr Temple, travelling m the underground railway, entered into conversation with a particularly bumptious Yankee. " I rather gueßs, Bishop," said the latter at 1&B&, " that with all your Divinity studies jerat can't direct me the straight road to be aven." "Oh! yes, I oari," replied hi* lordship' gravely. " Turn to the riijht * r the n Uep straight on,' 1 Roogh on Piles.— Why suffer piles ? Immediate relief and complete cure goal anteed. Ask for " Hough on Piles." Sure « ure for tolling, protruding, bleeding, or a»y i .orin of piles. 4 11 Roucjh on Catarrh." — Corracfaj cq tensive odors at once. Complete) cure of worst ohronio oases ; also unequalled as. g*a jle for diphtheria, bqiq throat, tout bxeatb i

, We are m a position to state that the Hon. W. Rolleston has definitely decided to stand for the new Bangitata seat, A Government inspection parade ot> the * Ashburton volunteers was held last evening.the rifles mustering 40, under Capt. Dolman and the Guards 35, under Capt: Sparrow' } Major Douglas inspected the parade, after x which the companies were instructed m t aiming and position drill by Sergt.-Majors «J Jones and Hayes. The Jubilee Committee held a meetiDglas ( [ night m the Borough Counoil Chambers, i |Mr T. Scaly m the chair. He reported i receipt of £5 5s as subscription :' .-om the • Union Bank per Mr A. H. Shury, but that J so far neither of the other two local Banks ' had given any donation to the funds. A ' number of acoounts were passed fo: pay- j ment, and some others referred to the Fire ( Brigade for settlement. Discussion regard- < ing getting m the unpaid tubaouptloas took ' place, and the Secretary was iobti jcted to ' write to f hose having lists, and ask them to ' forward monies collected as soon as possible^ On acoount of the threatening state of the i weather, the sooial gathering ia St. Stephen's I Sohoolroom is postponed from to-morrow until Thursday m next week. To.morrow| evening a conoert and dence will be held m the Sohoolroom, Seafield, proceeds m aid of the piano fund. An attractive programme wi'l, we understand, be presented. A •' mission," m wFch fie Salvation Army, withJihe^Baptist, Primitive Methodistand Wesleyan Churches, are taking thw leading part, is being held this week, and the meetings, so far, have been of a unique and specially interesting nature. The attendance has been large, and the prooeet^rgs animated. On Monday evening the seiuoe took the shape of ".testimony-giving," Captain Field presiding. Last night a tea meeting was held under the auspices of the Women's ' Christian Temperance Union. Mr J. W. ' . Sawle conducted the after-service, and referred | to a scheme which is to be set on foot for ! opening a temperance reading and recreation room m Ashburton, particularly for the use of young men. Forcible addresses weregiyen by i Mesdames Field and Hepworth, and the relation of the former lady's experiences of Army work m Auokland was at times pathetio [ and at others decidedly humorous. The ( mission will be conduoted this evening at the , Wealeyan Church, and at the Salvation Army Barraoks, the succeeding nights of this ! week. The proceedings are enlivened by plenty of singing, and there is an absence of formality without indecorum. The English House of Commons recently J spent more than half a day discussing an » item involving £10. A disgusted member offered to pay the £10 himself if his doing bo would expedite matters, but his proposition was looked, on revolutionary. The Rev W. C. O'j.ver preaching m Nelson : on Babylon said : — " Some records have been discovered of a large banking firm doing , business m Babylon for a peiiod of 117 years. These reoordß show that loans were negotiated and business transacted very similar to that of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile \ Agency Company at the present time." j Writing of orange culture m AucMand the 11 New Zealand Herald " says :— 4< There are at present on view at Mr Steadman's, seeds- , man, some fine samples of oranges of the St a I Miohaal- variety, grown by Mr Reader Wood, [. of Parje' l ; also some splenc^.d speoimens of oranges from Mr W. J. Courtney's orangery ! at Ponsonby. These are of the variety known as. « The Poor Man's Filend,' and Mr , Courtney has m his orangery an orange tree . beaiing a cluster o£ three on one branch. f On the four aorcs he has used nine tons of [ bonedust, 400 bushels of lime, and 400 loads , of stable manure. The return has been equal j to 10 per cent, on the money expended. The " Cape Argus " reports that the , marriage of Captain Dawkins, aide-de-camp t with Neredah Leeta, youngest daughter of i Sir Hercules Bobinson, took place at St* > George's Cathec'val, Capetown, on April 26th. - The maniage was solemnised by the Bishop f of Capetown, assisted by the Venerable Arch- , deacon Lightfoot. At the condition of the 3 ceremony the party returned to Government 1 House, where the guests were received by the r Govern or and Lady Robinson and the newly* l married pair. The hone j moon was being l spent at the Grange, Rondebosh, the country - eßidenoe of His Excellency the Governor* ' A paragraph has been going the rounds of the Australian Press J to the effect that Pastor Chlniqui was dead and that prior to his decease he had publicly recanted from the Protestant and been re-admitted into the 1 Roman Catholic Churoh. Nothing much i having tjen heard of Chiniqui's movements 3 since he lectured through New Zealand, no 1 one was prepared to throw doubts on this i statement, though many thought it was pass--1 ing strange that no inkling of his ohange o * views should have been once mooted unt'l his \ death was announced. However, a writer m j the " Now Zealand Methodist " says that he had a letter m Chiniqui't. handwriting of a i much later date than that given for his death, ) m whioh Chiniqui's states he had published , a denial of hia death, and utterly ridiculed ; the idea of his re-cantation. One of Thebaw's last aots as King of P Burmah was to receive a party of Parsee i actors. After witnessing their playing he arranged on a table as many silver cocoa- j nuts as there were actors, each nut containing a handful of precious stones, and invited ■ eaoh player to take one as a token ' of royal . appreciation. The " Taranaki Herald " is responsible for the statement that the wife of a Maori named Komeni " has given birth to a quartette o i infants 1" The " happy father " has applied ior the Queen's Bounty. Three of the youngsters aro still living. A physician m Russia who fails to respond to the summons of a patient is fined from 5 to 100 ronbles, and, if the case is known to liave been an urgent one, he may be sent to prison for three months. The legal fee for ■an ordinary visit is from 7J to 15 cents. The best medicine known is Sander and Sons' Euoalypti Extract. Test its eminently | powerful effects m coughs, colds, influenza, I etc— the relief is instantaneous. Thousands igive the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy and medical syndicates all over the Globe are its patrons. Read the official reports that accompany eaoh bottle, We have no oocasion to offer rewards , m proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports of medioal clinics and universities, the official communication of the '. Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne ; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Anaterdam — all these are authentic documents, and, as such, not open to doubt. We ' add here epitome of one of the various oases ; treated at the olinio of SchuHz, M.D., Pro- > fessor, eto :— •' 0.8., 24 years old; congestional absoess on the thigh. Incisions made ' intwoplaoes. Although Lister's dressing was ' applied, the seoretion became, two days later, very copious, and had adopted a foetid, decomposed character. The temperature rose ' enormously. In consequence the dressing ' was removed, and on its place were made i during the daytime repeated irrigations with Eucalypti Extract. The offensive f oeter disappeared very soon, the fever abated within a > few days, and the patient recovered after the t lapse of several weeks, m this instance we r must not lose sight of the fact that the latter treatment saved the patient's life 1 "— [Adyt,]