LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1611, 16 July 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Electors' Protection Association will be held this evening, at eight o'elook, m the " Press " offioe, Arcade Chambers, to consider what steps shculd be taken to prevent the disf ranobisement of thoße electors now on the Wakanui manuscript roll We are informed that a proposition will also be laid before the meeting to wind up the Association land join the Political Reform Association. An ordinary meeting of the Loyal Ashburton Lodge, 1.0.0.P., M.U., was held last evening m the Lodge room, Oddfellows' Hall. There were about thirty members present. A very large amount of business was gone through. The Anniversary Committee reported that the reunion was, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, a auooess, and handed over the profits to the Lodge. Three candidates were initiated and six proposed for admission. The Lodge eloged at eleven o'clock after enjoying a pleasant evening. The tea service and salver presented to Mr Seed by the officers of the Customs Depart* njent are of solid silver, and weigh 170ozs, The artiolcs are of the most chaste form and beautifully carved with designs from the antique. The Dowager Empress of China, who has just abdicated m favor of her young kinsman, Quon Shu, is a woman of broad liberal views. The recent order guaranteeing liberty m China is of her doing, aa also the loosening of the old isolation, and the adoption of European ideas, which are bringing China into the new place she is beginning to occupy among the other nations of the earth. The new Emperor is reported ai a bright, olovar young man of 17, thoroughly educated by his predecessor, and fully prepared to continue the liberal and progressive aotion that has made her reign the commencement of a now epoah m the history of China.