LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1644, 24 August 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

We wonld refer our waders to oar advortising columns whera the bill for Mrs Willmott's benefit will be found. Tbt programme is a really first-class one, as veil as the popularity of the lady, and as a number of influential gentlemen have undertaken to push the matter, it is expeoted tickets will be m great demand. The weather also eeems m favor, go that a large sprinkling of country visitors will no doubt avail themselves of the oppor. tanity of enjoying an evening's entertainment and showing their appreciation of the lady's talent. We are requested to state that the Rev Father Ghastagnon will be unable to attend at Bakaia on Sunday next. The rev gentlemen is going to Wellington to be present at the ceremony of presenting the Pallium to Archbishop Bedwood. He will return early next week. A huge whale, about 63 feet In length and having a girth of 25 feot, has been stcandad on the foreshore about seven miles from Warrnambool. Lord and Lady Carnarvon will visit Hobart, via, the Cape. They will leave England at* the end of this month or at the beginning of *he next. The Taranaki Harbor Board is m an awful mess, and cannot meet the interest on the money borrowed. They will appeal to Parliament to grant the money; The Victorian sawmill proprietors intend asking the Premier to put a duty of 2s fid on all undressed timber except red gum and poles imported into that oolony. Keatino'b Cocoa Lozekoes cure Coughs Asthma, Bronchitis. Medical testimony stata that other medicine is so. effectual m the cure of these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone give ease, one or two at bedtime ensures rest. For relieving difficulty breathing they ara invaluable. They contain no opium nor any violent drug. Bold by Qh««usts m Tin*. Udfto4 219|«l 1

A ooaple named MEwing just oelebrated ihejr diamond wedding at Houston, at which Tillage the husband is the postmaster, As a remarkable instance of longevity, the bridesmaid who was present at the wedding also attended the diamond wedding, and it was mentioned that the aged pair's grandfather and grandmother respectively attained the agea of 101 and 103. Mrs MEwing has a brother living at 90, and sisters aged 85, 80, 77, and 74. The "Sydney Daily Telegraph" devotes three columns to the examination before the Legislative Council Committee of "Dr Fawoett " and "Dr W. Moore." In the headings Dr Fawcett is described as " Gasfitter, poundkeeper, bailiff, engineer, honse painter, and dootor ; " while Dr Moore is Alluded to as a " Horse dootor and coach* man who becomes a medical man, and finally retires on a fortune." The evidence given by both clearly showed that neither had made any regular ntudy of medicine or surgery, and that neither had any professional diploma. ■ Judge Dowling, of New South Wales, has ruled that solicitors employed by a man's wife to obtain a prohibition order can reoover oosti from the husband. In a case of this nature the defence waa that it was not within the fcopa of the wife's authority to employ an attorney for anch a purpose, bat the Judge held that it was nectnsary thai something should be done to protect a husband against himself, and a wife was justified m obtaining legal assistance for that objeot. *'A snail's pace" has been timed by the TCetre Haoto Polytechnic, U.S. America. Half-a-dozen molluscs were permitted to crawl between two points ten feat apart, and the average spetod was ascertained to be at the rate of a mile m fourteen days. A 'novel method of securing a Bmall but comfortable inoome was recently pursued by a Michigan tramp by begging for postage stamps. His plan was to aek every available person for a stamp to send a letter to his wife. He nearly always obtained his request, or the money equivalent, and frequently obtained an extra gratuity for his marital .affection. The total amount of subscriptions receive! from all sources m Victoria for the Bulli relief fund wai £12,074 12s Id. This sum only ] cost £12 to collect; and, as the "Argcu" remarks, it is improbable that such a oum was •var raised m Australia or any other country with so slight an outlay. The fatal colliery explosions m England and Scotland have led Mr Ellis Lever, of Manchester and Colwyn Bay, to renew his offer of £500 for the production of a portable 'eleetrio miner'B lamp within the Jubilee year. More than 50,000 miners have lost their lives by aocidents m coal mines during the half century of the Queen's reign. John McLeod, one of the crew of the iteamer Rotomahana. fell down the hold of the vessel m Port Lyttelton yeßterday afternoon, and sustained serious injuries to his head and the upper part of his body. -Medical assistance was quickly rendered, but the unfortunate man tucoumbed shortly Itterwards. An Auokland paper says:— The First Offenders Probation Aot is working m a very satisfactory manner. There now some eighty persons subject to its provisions, only three or four of whom have not fulfilled their pledget. Instead of these eighty persons being kept In gaol at a large cost to the country, the offenders themselves pay the costs incurred under the Aot, and are likely to turn out reformed characters. Aa the gaoler" are appointed the probation off"-- there " Do «pense incurs -^ r Wat he * d ' „.. -corge Grey addressed the Ohristehureh electors last night m the Theatre Royal, which was densely crowded. The speech lasted nearly two hours. He spoke on the subjeot of the Government system of village settlements, whioh he condemned.; on education, m which he said departmental retrench, ment could be eflooted ; and on retrenchment generally. He advooated reduction m the salaries of Ministers, and was m favor of an elective Governor. He got a fair hearing, and a vote of thanks wae carried. The beßt medicine known is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects m coughi, colds, influenza, eta.— The relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical epndioates all over the globe, are its patrons. Bead the official report! that accompany each bottle. We have no oooasion 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 Amsterdam— all these are authentio doouments, and, as such, not open to doubt. We acfd here epitome of one of the various cases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc. : Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epidermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-years-old patient was completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the □ail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounda thus contracted healed m three weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing. The patient has retained the full use of her band.— [Advt.]