LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1631, 9 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* The annual mooting of the Ashburton Guards will be held this evening when an election for lieutenant will take place. C'r Weymouth Roberts haß resigned lu'b seat on the Borough Counoil, it being uncertain when the oontract he ia now engaged on m the North Island will be completed. At last night's meeting of tbo Counoil the members were unanimous m thoir expressions of regret at losing the services of Or Roberts, whose practical knowledge had always beon willingly devoted to the servioe of the borough, and they trusted that on his return ho would see his way to again seeking election to the Council. A public meeting m the interest of Foreign Missions was held at the Weßleyan Ohuroh last [ovening, the Rev D. MoNicoll m the chair. A most interesting leoture was delivered j by Rev 0. H. Standage, formerly of Aahburton but now m charge of Loeston oirouit. The rev gentleman ohoßO for his subjeot " A trio of missionary heroes— John Williams, John Hunt, and Bishop Pattcrsonj" — but.the timo at his [dispoval ionly allowed ot the liyes of the former and latter being dealt with. For about an hour and a half Mr Standage spoke of tho;courage and devotion of thoße saintly inon, and referred m pathetic terms to their early death by martyrdom at the hands of those for whom they had endured all kinds of hardship. A oolleotion m aid of the mission funds waß taken up, and a, vote of thanks to ! the lsoturer ooDolmicd the meeting,

At the R.M. Court this morning before Mr I H. Friaaiander, J.P. and Mr T. Bullock, J.P., Fridolf Beoker was fined oaand costs with tha alternative of 24 j hours imprisonment fo hating been drunk,'and.for having mado use of obscene language wbb ordered to be im- 1 prisoned for eigh^dajs with hard laboi. Mr 0. W. Purnell will 'address tho eleotow of the Aehburton constituency on Thursdaj evening, m the Oddfellows' Hall, Aahburton, and m the Town Hall, Kakaia, on Monday evening, 15th Aug., loth meatinga commence at 8 p.m. At the R.M. Court at South Rakaia on Monday, before Mr J. Ollivier, R.M., and Mr D. J. Holmes, J.P., judgments by default and costs were given m the following casoo : —Chamberlain v. James Robb, £51 10a; same v. James Scarlett, £11 14a Gd ; same v. Thomas H. Hudson, £5. A Inrge number of oases were settled out of Court. Cremation at Milan only coßts £2. The work is done with gas. " With those three little jets a head ip reduced to ashes m fir* minutes," said a guide to a recent visitor* From 12 to 15 bodies are burnt daily. The most popular French aong for half a generation, " Returning from tha Review, 1 ' which wound up with a rousing chorus, •' Vive lc Gen Boulanger," has been prohibited by the censors unless the name of the ex-Miniator is eliminated. It is stated that the Barrow Shipbuilding Company of London has been asked if it can guarantee to build a passenger steamer to go at least twenty-five knots per hour (equal to thirty miles), and that it has given an affirmative reply. A German has recently invented a steelolad bullet with a slight alloy of antimony, whioh, m addition to increased powers of penetration, gives a much flatter trajectory, and is warranted to pass through a man's body with •out causing unnecessary discomfort. It will kill two, or even three, men at one shot if they atand m tho way. At the conclusion of business at the R.M Court, Rakaia yesterday, Mr Ollivier Btated that m all probability that would be the last Court held there. In view of the proposed retrenchment a number of small courts were being abolished; he wob not aware what amount of business was transacted at this Court, but it would now be for the settlors m the distriot to apply to ths Minister of Justice if it was thought necessary to hold a oouiti either every month, as heretofore, or every two months. It ia to be hoped that a court will bo held, as it is a great convonienoo not having to go to Ashburton and lose a whole day. Since the opening of the Court at Rakaia, the business done must have considerably added to the it.M. Court's fund, and it has certainly been of considerable service to tho people, The "Evening Star" says it wsb not Dr Wright, Secretary of the Adelaido Bible Society, as stated by Reuter, but his son, David, aged nineteen years, who mysteriously disappeared for some days from his home. The City of New Orleans is about to adopt a system of Colonel Flad for overhead wirai. This consists m erecting tall towers at th« street corn ore which will carry the wires over the roofs. This system will be under the supervision of the Commissioner of Pnblio works, and the older method of running the wires — telegraphio, telephonio, and electric lighting on poles— will be ibolished. The towers will be classified for different classes oi wire ; and wires are not to be less than ten feet above tho roofs. The Star Iron Towet Company, of Fort Wayne, ha« reoeived aa order for two hundred and twenty-foor towers. An association, with a vast iield of operations before it, has been organised m New York, with Father McGlynn aB president and Henry George vice-president. It is an AntiPoverty Association. The Ohristchurch working men are protest, ing against the constitution of tho Labor Bureau Board of Advice, affirming that both capital and labor should be represented on it. A London doctor was recently offered a foe of 85,000 dollars— probably the largest medical honorarium on record— to go to India ,to treat one of tho native Princes. After consideration he deolincd tho offor. There are said to be about sixty Protestant communities m [Spain with Id.OOO oponly confessed Protestants, and hardly a large town with a rogularly organised ohuroh. It ia just eighteen years since the first Protestant ohuroh was opened m Madrid. We (" ttangitikei Advooato ") learn, on reliable authority, that wheat jin Rangitikoi is now eagerly inquired for at is a bushel. Wo have heard of two pretty large lots whioh have changed hands at that figure. This should be goods news to the farmers. Fifty thousand children are receiving moral and religious teaching m the English ragged echools. The single and Bimple industry of making matohea gives employment m Norway to 1200 men, while 2000 families are employed m making tho boxes. Judge : " Are you not ashamed to stand m the dock on the charge of beating your own wife?" Prisoner: "Well, your Worship, what do you do when your wife calls you a drunken scamp ? " Holloway's Pills. -With darkening days and changing temperatures the digestion becomes impaired, the liver disordered, and the mind despondent, unless the cause of the irregularity be expelled from the blood and body by Buch an alterative aB these Pills. They directly attack the aouroo of the evil, thrust out all impurities from the circulation, restore the distempered organs to thoir natural slate, and eorreot all dofective or contaminated secretions. Such an easy meana of instituting health, strength, and choerfulness should be applied by all whoso stomachs are weak, whoso minds arc mnah haraßsod, or whoße brains are overworked. Holloway'a is essentially a blood tempering medicine, wheroby its influence renobes the remotest fibre of tho frame and offeots a universal good.