LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1639, 18 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A thoroughly Representative meeting oi Mr Walker's frienda and supporters met that gentleman at the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday evening, /or the purpose of forming a standing Committee for the ensuing election. A Chairman of Committee and Secretary were appointed. It was decided to hold regular Committee meetings every Friday at 7.30 p.m. The office of Mr Thomas, at Mataon and Oo.'b, was offered for the purpose, The Committee accepted the offer. The next meeting to be held at that place to-morrow evening at 7.80. Considerable enthusiasm and earneßtness obaraoterised all the proceedings. Mr S. Buxton bas definitely decided to stand lor Itangitata. The Goraldine gentloman, who it was stated m our yesterday^ ißßue was a possible candidate, has determined not to come forward m consequence of Mr Buxtons reßolve, tbe views of both gentlemen being much alike. It is reported from lowa that prohibition haß largely deoroaßed crime m the State. The BftC Sun advertises the gaol of that county for rent, saying that it is empty and likely to remain 60 as long as prohibition laßtH. 11 Bocuo-Paiba." — Quick, completo cure, al annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases.. At obomisls and diijggists Kompthorno, Prpsser||and Co., Agents lUkrjs.tchurch

At the Court this morning m a oivil case, I tbe plaintiS'B particulars 0! claim contained an item orediting the defendant with cash paid two shillings. The olaim was a pretty largo one, and the amount credited seemed so ridiculously small that the Magistrate aßked for an explanation* whereupon the plaintiff informed the Court that on one occasion when he met the defendant to ask for a settlement of his acoount, the latter asked him if he were going to "shout." Plaintiff, it appeared, had no money, ani the duty of " shooting" therefore devolved on defendant. The plaintiff duly credited the defendant with the money thus expended, though the Magistrate remarked that it would have been more correct to have entered the ' item on the particulars ot demand :— " By shouts, 25." The football match, Canterbury y Auokland took place yesterday, resulting m a draw* Franois, the Canterbury man, kicked a goal from the field, whilst Whileßide, Elliott, and Oonway secured tries for Auokland. About 10,000 people were present. Tho game was faßt and tougbly contested, the ground being m excellent condition. A meeting of Mr O. W.Purnell's friends and supporters will be held at the Orange Hall, on Friday evening, at eight o'clock, for the purpose of forming a Committee to ensure that gentleman's return. Frank Willmott'g Comedy Company will appear at the Oddfellows' Hall on Friday and Saturday, when the performances will be under tho patronage of the officers and men of th« Ashburton Rifles and Guards. The bill of fare, which is a most attractive one, appears m another oolumn. From our advertising columns our readers Will observe that the enterprising proprietors of the " Lyttleton Times," have reduced the price of the journal to tho " universal penny." They have been enabled to do this now from having quite reoontly imported one of the gwift-running self-perfeoting Viotory maohines, which almost without any attention at all on the part of tho only two attendants required, turns out as the advertisement describes, from a four-mile long web of paper, a complete copy at one revolution of the maohine, wbioh prints 12,000 copies an hour. We are pleased to see this new departure taken by our enterprising contemporary, and hope a full reward awaits the ganuness and pluck of the proprietors.!] The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Limited, has reoeived the following cable message from London, dated 16th Aug., 1887 :— Wheat— Market depressed owing to favorable harvest prospects. The Frenoh harvest has been secured m good condition. New Zealand wheat (average) is worth 82s Gd per 4%lbs. Tallow— The market is better. Good mutton and beef tallows are worth 23a per owt. Leather — Market unchanged. Frozen Meat — The market is quiet. Canterbury mutton and lamb are worth 3£d and 5d per lb respectively. The drivers on a Cleveland, Ohio, street railway threaten to strike beoause a bright young oolored man has been employed as oonduotor. The "Feilding Star" states that hares have become bo great a nuisanoe m the Sandon district that the Bottlers have been foroed to adopt stringent measures for their extermination. A requisition is m course of signature among the farmers memorialising the Colonial Secretary to keep the season open all the year round, to enable the farmers to " improve pusa off tho face of their farms." The hares are playing great havoo with tho fruit trees. The ! r ßritish Mechanic" states that the railroad between Buenos Ayres, on the Atlantic side, and Valparaiso, on tho Paoifie, will be completed this lyear, and will bring New Zealand and Australia nearer to tho Old Country by sevoral thousand miles than any other route. Sinoe the beginning of tho year the gain m British railway clearings, estimated from tho aotual figureß of thirty-three principal lines, haß been about 2$ per cent., and the increase m bank cloarings m London has been about 10| per cent, for the same poriod. Tho prompt measures whioh have been taken m East Kent have been successful m stamping out swine fever. One locality, where 200 animals have been destroyed, is now free from the disease. It is also dying out m other districts. The meat supply of London (says a Home paper) m about to enter upon a new phase* A combination of capitalists has been formed to purchase large herds of oattla m the United States, 80,000 head have already been secured, and to ship them living to Barrow-in-Furness, where large dock aooomodation exists for their reception and slaughter. It is assumed that even if the prices inoreased 33 per cent, the capitalists conld deliver and sell retail m the London markot at 4d to 4Jd per lb. In some parts of tho wine distriot of France ohurch bolls are tolled when there is likely to be a frost sharp enough to hurt the vines. The inhabitants at onoe hurry out 0 their houses and place quantities of tar be* tween the rows of vines. Then a signal is given to light the tar and m a few minutes a dense oloud of smoke arises which completely protests the vines from the froßt. Tho New Plymouth " News " has been informed that To Whetu did not at all relish tha proßpeot of going to gaol, for he made strenuous endeavors to raise the money to pay the fines imposed upon him, and m the time (two days) that was given him to do so. Ha could not, howovor, raise the money and, consequently, had to face the inevitable. The sequel to this, apparently, is that there must be a dearth of cash among the natives when their most prominent chief cannot raise some £20 odd to save himsolf from being incarcerated m gaol. The supposition can even go farther, for this want of money lends coloring to the tdea that the grog selling, which caused tho Pitta aka affray, was started by Te Whetu m ordef (Q piovide himself with funds. QTho Imperial Chinese GomtaJllldnors state 1 that probably one of the first ftats of the Chinese Government will bo to doßpatoh a squadron to tbe oolonies, and that they I will appoint conßuls m tho chief towns of I Australasia. BANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.— In protection of the world-wide fame our manufacture has acquired all over the globe, we publish tho following : — Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Bayß m an editoral published m thft "Clinical Record:" — "Wo have oxaminod half-a-dozen specimens of different manufactures ; the preparation of Sander and Sons was the only one that proved to bo reliable and corresponding to scientific tests." Another conoootion called "Refined Extract of Eucalyptus " lias made its appearanoo since. This produot stands, according to Dr Owen, foremost m causing injurious effects. That gentleman communicates at a meeting of the Medical Society at Victoria, that a child living at Fitzroy became most seriously indisposod tbiough it use. In another oase a lady states on the strength of a statutory declaration that sho suffered oruolly from the effects of tho same concoction. To guard the high reputation of our manufacture) we feel warranted m exposing tho above facts, and desire tho publio to exoroiao oaro and precaution when buying SANDER and SONS.—