The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1652, 2 September 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

» The great pressure upon our space compel I vi to hold over the report of to-day's sitting of the County Couooil until to-morrow's issue. A meeting of the Jubilee Committee was held on Tuesday evening m the Borough Council Chambers, when arrangements were made for the collection of balance of unpaid subscriptions, both m town and country, and as soon as this results, another meeting will be sailed, at which the balanoe-shaet will be considered, and tha date of a general meeting of the lubßoriben .fixed to disbuss the form whioh the permanent memorial shall take, The following are the Hospital returns for the month of AugUßt ; — In tha Hospital on Ist month, 10 ; admitted during month. 18 . discharged, 14 ; remaining on Sept. Ist, 9. The Matron of the Hospital withes to aaknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of old linen from Mrs Blandish (Longbeaoh) and Mrs Sergeant (Forks) ; books from Miss Pattman, for use of inmates ; also a quantity of trees and flowering shrubs from Mr Bloom, field for the Hospital grounds. A miner named Moir met with a dynamite accident at Lyell. He was brought to West, port Hospital where the remains of a finger and thumb were removed. The New Zealand Loan and Meroantile Agency Company, Limited, has just received the following cable message from London, dattd August 30 : — Wheat— Market continues drooping. New Zealand, average and longberried, are worth rtspeotively 31a 6d and 33s per 4961b5. Quotations are nominal. The crop here is estimated to yield nine million quarters, and m America fifty-three million. Tallow—Market steady. Fine and good mutton tallows are worth respectively 24s 6d and 23s 6d per owt, and good beef tf How 22s 6d per owt. A correspondent of the " English Meohanio" lays:— Let «U "ours" know the following: —My wife has suffered occasionally with aoute rhsumatism m her feet, with painful swelling, •ompUtely taking her off her feet for many days at a time. The following remedy was reoommended recently and tried, and took ftway tha agonising pain m lest than fifteen minutes, and she oan now walk very fairly, and m a couple of days she was able to button her boots and walk without a stick or orutoh. One quart of milk, quite hot, into whioh stir loz of alum, This makes curds and whey. Bathe the part atfeoted with tha whey until too cold. In the meantime keep the curds hot, and attar bathing put them on as a poultice, wrap m flannel, and— go to sleep (if you can). Three applications should be a perfeofc cure, even m aggravated oases. Sir Julius von Haast leaves one daughter and four sons born m New Zealand, one of whom ii studying painting at Dusseldorf, and another son, by a former wife, is an oifioer m the Prussian army. Beef tea as ordinarily prepared is of little nutritive value ; but if the .white of an egg be mixed with a oup of benf tea and heated to about 160 degrees Fahrenheit, the value of the beef tea is greatly enhanced. Again, if minced raw beef be just covered with very weak hydroohlorio aoid (four drops of acid to one pint of water) and left to macerate for the night, the liquid strained off and squeezed out of the fleih by wringing m a oloth, it contains so much syntonin as to make it highly nutritious when neutralized; such a liquid will remain clear after boiljng to remove the above raw flavour. — "London Lanoet." A Berlin correspondent telegraphs :—Experiments have been made by a professor of chemistry here, by order of the War Minister, with the new explosive melinite, m the course of whioh the (interesting foot *as proved that this ohemioal compound m tbo course of time deoomposas. It is dearly, therefore, useless for war purposes. If this had been discovered looner by the Frenoh Government, a great saving would have been effeotod, as about fifty million fraaos bare already been «p/snt for the raanufaoturo, Hoi&OWAfc'S QjNTM ENT AND PlfcLS.— Coughs, Influenza. — The soothing properties ot these medicaments render them well worthy of trial m all diseases of the respiratory organs. In common colds and influenza the pills taken internally and the ointment rubbed over the chest and throat are exceedingly effioaoious. When influenza is epidemio this treatment |is the easiest, safest, and rarest. Holloway's Pills purify tha blood, remove all obstacles i to its free oiroulation through the lungs, relieve the over-gorged air-tubes, and render respiration free, without reduoing the strength, irritating the nerveß, or depressing the spirits ; such ara the ready means of escaping from suffering when afflicted with colds, ooughs, bronchitis, and other cheat complaints, by which the health of so many is seriously and permanently Injured ip most eou,ntriw,