LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1621, 28 July 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tbe seoond of the winter series of Sixpenny Entertainments m oonneotion with St. Stephen's Churoh will take place this evening m the Churoh Sohoolroom at eight p.m. The programme will included glees and ohoruses by a new Glee Sooiety.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Limited, has reoeived the following cable message from London, dated 20th July :— Wheat- The markofc for New Zealand sorts is dopressed. New Zealand avarago and long-berried arc worth respectively 34s and 35a Gd per 4061b5. New Zealand f.a.q. is worth c.i.f. off coast 31b 6d per 4301b8. Oats— Market steadier. Preeerved Meats — The market ia depressed. Arrivals m excess of trade requirements. Boiled mutton and beef without bone (Gib tins) are worth respectively 4f d and 4gd per lb. Boiled beef without bone (21b tiga) ia worth 4?d E>«r lb.

A Queensland editor has just had to pay j £41 for libelling a doctor by stating that the I town " had long been m want of a good pby- j

sioian."

The •• Wellington Post" refers to the many burglaries that have recently taken plaoe m that city, and saysjthat the police are too few, and are overworked.

The export trade m oattle carried on between Queensland and Victoria has been dia r continued, owing to tha low prioes ruling m the Melbourne market.

Spiritualists will read with feelings of alarm the following from the Wanganui " Herald " :— At Adelaide the police have laid [an information against certain people, for attempting to impose upon MountedConstable Shegog and other persons, by pretending to hold conversation with the spirit of a deceased person by means of mysterious knocking upon their leasehold premises, m the hundred of Moookra, m order to depreciate the value of land which, being held under lease from the Crown, had become liable to forfeiture.

At a Wesleyan tea meeting m Auokland the Rev Mr Carew told the following :— " On one occasion m a street m one of tbe cities at Home a boy swallowed a sixpence. A number of people gathered round him, and were very solicitous as to the lad's welfare.'jearing it might hurt him. A pedestrian coming up and seeing the ' how do you do ' enquired what was the matter, on being told, he pointed to a . Methodist ohapel, saying—' Take him there, they will get it out of him if anyone oan.' Mr Carew's story produced considerable laughter from the congregation, even although it was somewhat hard on the persuasion, but * truth is mighty' and instinctively recommends ifcsel to the candid mind."

The temperanoe people of Maine are forcing the antiliquor laws m that State with extreme vigour. They are now prosecuting farmers for selling the products of their orohards, m the shape of oider. On May 21, Frank Boynton, an old soldier, was summoned to give evidence m this regard against a farme* friend, and rather £than do .so he quietly drowned himself m a shallow pool.

•« Colonus " sends the following good story to the " New Zealand Herald " :— I see it recorded of a reoent distinguished dinner party, at which many eminent divines as well as distinguished laymen were present, that a solitary bottle, the remnant of a vintage of hoary antiquity, was to be submitted to these cultivated tasteß, but the announcement was suddenly made that it had fallen and broken. Speechless silence fell on all for a moment, when the neoessity for some relief being painfully experienced, one of the distinguished divines, m scarcely audible voice, asked, '* Will some lay brother say an oath ? "

The " New Zealand Herald " has the following pleasing little bit about His Honor Judge Ward .'—Numbers of little children, whose parents would gladly avail themselves of the Kindergarten, are absolutely without clothing to come m. A sale of children's clothes being held at Arthur's and Buddies, Mr Justice Ward attended and purchased several pounds worth of ready-made garments. These will be a great boon to numbers of the little children of the poor, who are wholly unprotected from tha severity of the weather, and will enable them to oome to school, and receive further oare and a good dinner.

The earthquake at Vernoo reoently announced by cable was, remarked the " Daily Times," of an extremely Berious oharaoter. Vernoe is m Turkestan, about half-way between Tashkend and Kuldja. The first shock occurred at five o'clook m the morning, all the houses m the town collapsing at once, and many persons, especially ohirdren, losing their lives. Among the injured personß was the Russian Governor of Semiretohinsk. The inhabitants fled for refuge to the open oountry, as the earthquake shocks continuod, though less violently than at first. The telegraph line was brokea for 200 miles, and only as the details were slowly reoeived was it seen how destructive had been the convulsion. Many other places have since been destroyed besides Vernoe— even the houseß at Taßhkend, which were strongly oonßtruoted of stone, being thrown down. There was considerable loss of life m the oountry moreover, and many cattle were destroyed by landslips m tbe mountains and chasms opening m the ground.

We shall soon begin to think (remarks the " Pall Mall Budget ") that King Solomon's Mines are really m existence if many more hidden {treasures come to light. It is only the other day that £6,000,000 sterling was found m one of the harems at Hyderabad, but those [figures are paltry when compared with the latest find reported from .Morooco. The report states that hidden treasure has been discovered m the palace of.an old vizier, who died some time ago at Rabat, amounting to the enormous sum of £95,000,000 sterling. The Emperor, like a wise man, is said to have instantly confiscated it, and it i' 8 now being conveyed to the Imperial coffers a Fea.

The " Bruce Herald " states that among the measures to be submitted to the Victorian Parliament during the present session is a Bill for tbe permanent endowment of the State sohool system of the oolony by a grant of Grown lands. It is proposed to vest the lands m trustees, and it is hoped tbat m course of time the lands will yield an inoome of £500,000 per annum, whioh is the present cost of elementary instruction m Viotoria.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— These remedies are unequalled throughout the world for bad legs, wounds, foul sores, bad breasts, and ulcers. TJused according to directions given with them there is wound, bad legs, or ulcerous sore* however jobstinate or long stand'ng, but will yield to their healing and curative properties. Many poor sufferers who have been patients m tho large hospitals under tbe care of eminent surgeons, and have derived little or no benefit from their treatment, have been thoroughly ourod by Ointment and Pills. For grandular swellings tumours, " piles," and diseases of the skin there ia nothing that can be used with so muoh benefit. In faot, m th» worst forms of disease, dependent upon tbe condition of the blood, these medioine, used oonjointly, are irresistible.