The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1655, 6 September 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special general meeting of the Ashbnr. too Agricultural and Pastoral Aisooiation ig tailed for Saturday next, at 3 p.m., at the Arcade Chamber ■, for the purpose of electing a President and other important busineaa. An inspection parade of the Ashburton Rifles and Guards takes plaoe at the drillshed this (Tuenday) evening at 7 o'olook. It is understood that Col. Bailey has deoided to hate a field-day of all the South Canterbury Corps at some central plaoe on H.B.H. the Prince of Waleß' birthday, 9th November, Mortimer's Troubadour and Minstrel Company opened at Bakaia on Saturday night to j a good houie. The programme oommenoed with Blondin's slack wire ezhibitioa by Ebby Cox, challenge champion of New Zealand, who introduced some of the most daring feats of the present ago, iuch as undressing and repressing, violin, conoertina, and flute solos on the wire. Thie waa followed by a minstrel performance, which was received with loud applause, and embodied the whole strength of the Company. The performance oonoluded with a first-class negro faroe. The oyoling season opened at ChristohurebJ on Saturday by a parade of 80 machines, o which 64 formed a procession to Sumner. A howling nor'-wester prevented it being % great success; On Friday night the wife of Qeorge Kinley, •attle dealer, Ranglora, committed suioide. She was missed between six and seven m the evening, and was searched for, but without result. At Beyen on Saturday morning ehe was found suspended by the neok with her apron to an apple tree m the garden, some distance from the house. Life was extinct, and as her feet were on the ground, death must have resulted from strangulation. At the inquest on Saturday a verdibt waß returned that deceased took her own life while m a state of temporary insanity. The garden is three quarters of a mile from the house, and, on Mrs Kinlty being missed, her husband and son searched for her from 6 o'olook at night to 4.30 next morning, and after an hour's rest resumed the search, finding her quite dead. Both her feet touched the ground, and she might easily have saved herself. She had been upset by a letter about some trifling family affairs a few days previously, but this had passed, and there waa nothing m her b«havior to indicate any aberration of the mind. "Vanity Fair" remarks : — " Americans look on fastness as possessing more claims to admiration than any other quality. If they have a civil war it beats all previous records tor size and slaughter. If they sot aside ground for a park it has the dimension of a country. If they indulge m Bjmpathetie embezzlement, they point with pride to the faot of its being the biggest steal ever known. The latest instance of the admiration of our cousins for vastnesß ia the expenditure of an Amerioan novi ia London on a musio-room piano designed by Alma-Tadema, 8.A., and painted by Mr Poyntor. Tt hasjoost £7000 ; the Jchairs cost £1000 each, while the entire outlay on the room reaches the enormoia amount of £100,000." It has been found that a lobster produces 42,000 young per year. The man who sup. poßed that A lobster had nothing to do but gad around on the beach was sadly mistaken. A farmer Baid to his barber : " Now corn's cheap you ought to shave for half price.'' " Can't, Mr Jones," said the man of razors, " I really ought to charge more ; for when corn's down farmers make snob long faoes, I have twice the pound to go over." The London •orreipondent of the " Sydney Morning Herald" has the following:— 11 During the time the service was being con. ducted m the Abbey, by special command of nil Holiness the Pope, one of the most elaborate and impressive cervices was taking place m the Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral at Kensington, Monsignor Buffo Soilla, the Envoy Extraordinary from the Vatican to the British Court, celebrated High Mass. No such service, m point of pomp and splendour, ever took place m tbt country since the days of the Reformation. The investiture m the street of the Envoy with what ia known as the 'Oappa Magna* was never witnessed before m a London street, at least, m modern times. The Cathedral wai packed te> suflo. cation, and at the condition, what U a very rare thing m a Roman Catholio Church ' the National Anthem was sung by the congregation." ■Per steamer, which left Sydney last week, a party of returned miners from Eimberley left again foi the field m company with an experienced man from Ibe Balltrat School of Mines. They go on behalf of a private company consisting of several prominent members of t arliament and speculators to take up a section of land on the Elvira river. " Rough on Raw."— Clears out rats, mio roaches, flies, s>nts, bed-bugs, beetles, ingecu, skunks, jaok-rabbits, sparrows, fophiri. A htmtiti md dragguta,

At last night's meeting of the Borough Council some disoussion arose m regard Io an acoount of £1 15s for expenses inourred m connection with the recent risii of Sir Julius Yogel. Some of the Councillors objected to the item, and others maintained that as the expense had been inourred m the common interest of the burgesses, it should be paid by the Counoil. The objectors considered that the whole county had been interested m the matter, and further that m other cases where expensss had bean inourred the persons sign* ing the requisition had been mad* responsible for them. As, howeyer, m the preßsn* instance the rejeotion of the aooount would inTOlve the Mayor "going round with the hat," or making good the amount himself if it was passed, but notice of motion was giTsn for next meeting that m future oxptnsei incurred m connection with other than purely Borouph matters be paid by th* requißitionistl, Negotiations are proceeding for extenßirt shipments to Hamburg of oranges which armed m London from Sydney by the Royal Mail steamer Lusitania. A splendid market is stated to be open for Australian fruit io that city. Tobaooo m its raw state, or prarioai te sweating m balk, is Tsry powerful m its eflsst, and will sertainly drire rsrmin from ths h»'s nskt, The whole leatso may bs thoroughly fry so as crumble easily, and put m tht nsit tf a sitting hen, ac a lining under ths sgfs. With this precaution ihs will not b* drroa from her nest by Ycrmin bsfore the time of hatshing arrtrei. Tobaeso is oftsn srronaously supposed to bs difficult to eultiyate. But it is really as easily raised as corn or potatoes. A few plants only will girt the poulterer plenty of leaves for vie m the fowlfcoui*. A gentlsman on his way out of the Broad* way Theatre, New York, between aota askaA a lady if he could do anything to relieve her wsariness. She Baid, " Yss ; just do as well by me as you will by yourself." He did. On his return he laid a pratty bunch of flowera m her lap, and, when .their extraor. dinary weight aroused her attention, behold sonningly fastened by a wire m the esntre was, the half-pint pumpkin-ssed bottle. Through the cork into th« hsart.of a ealla lilly went a Btraw. With what a wealth of admiration for man's invention did she hold the bouquet to her pleased face ! The bar that has got up this novel way of introducing r, mild cosktail to a lady will doubtless prosper, — •• New York Sun." It has bean discovered that the Sydney harbor is silting up, the sounding! reoently made by the Sydney Harbor Tunnelling Sjndioate revealing the fact that an enormous silt bed ran* right across from Fort Mas* quarie to ths northern foreshore. Hollowat'b PiiiLs and Ointment. The attention of all sufferers is drawn to thess well-known remedies, for they possess conspiououa advantages as a safs and reliable aid m all thoße emergencies to whioh travellers, emigrants and sailors are bo especially liable. Thty have been largely patronised by wayfarers by land and sea, and, m fact, by all olaseeß of the community, to their very great advantage. The Pills are beyond all doubt one of the most e&eotive remedies ever discovered for cases of obstinrta oonstipation. confirmed indigestion and colic, complaints which are engendered by exposure and irregular feeding. The Ointment will be found of the very greatest service m oases of piles, abeoesses, erysipelas, and all kinda of local uloerations.