LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1663, 15 September 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nominations of candidates for the Ashbnrton and Rangitata seats must be made by noon on Friday, at the Courthouse, Ashburton, and the Courthouse, Geraldine, respectively* The direct English mail per Aorangi arrived m Aebburton by the afternoon train yesterday, and was sorted by the local postoffice officials with their ÜBual praiseworthy promptitude. Candidates for the Ashburton and Rangitata electorates are notified by advertisement m this issue that m consequenoo of the Lessee of the Oddfellows' Hall having had several applications for the Hall, for the night proceeding the election, ho has decided to call for tenders for tbo rental of same for that . evening! For somo time past the butts at the Ash. burton rifle rango have been getting into a dilapidated condition, no local funds being available to effeot the neoeßsary repairs. Wo are glad to learn that, m response to representations made by Major Douglaß and Mr W. 0. Walker, a cum of £25 has been granted by Government towards putting the range m ardor. As will bo noticed from an advertisement m another column, Messrs Herbert and Fitzgerald's great London Circus intend giving a performance m Ashburton on Monday next, opposite the Central Hotel. Sinoe their laßt visit here the Cirouß have added a number of pew features, inoluding the latest London and Frisiftn seneation, iEola, the human cartridge, and as they play to popular prices, a bumper " house " no doubt will be tho result. A suburbaner was recently asked how his house had fared during the storm. " Oh, badly I " was the reply. •• My cistern is the only dry place m it."

A ohuroh m Boston, m which services will be oonduoted every Sunday m the Gaelio language, will oertainly be s religious and linguistic curiosity. Such a church is to be provided, however, by the Sootoh Presbyterian Sooiety just organised. According to the " Dunedin Evening Star " William Paul, who is oharged with running a still at Mount Misery (South Canterbury), was arrested m a somewhat novel way. He is a small farmer, owning about seventy aores of land, and was on the point of leaving the looality, and on the evening of the 7th inst. a number of friends had gathered m order to make him a presentation before his departure. It was originally intended to have given him a watch and ohain, but, as he had found j oooasion to leave somewhat earlier than he at first gave out, it was resolved to present him with the money instead. The presentation was being made when the police appeared, and gave a tarn to the proceedings whioh was not expected. The prisoner exhibited considerable unooncern at his position. A despatch to a Galifornian paper states that on Higgings' Lake, Ohio, Mrs. Petit and her little daughter, aged three years, were boating, when the little one, while capering about> fell into the water. The mother m her anxiety and fright upset the boat, and the ohanoes were excellent for a double funeral But their horse, an intelligent French pony, whioh had been turned loose to graze on the shore of the lake, came to their resouo. Alarmed by the soreams of the mother and by the oommotion which the two made m the water, the animal swam out to them, and when they had taken a secure hold of its mane he struggled back to the shore, a tired but a heroic pony. The animal wag inclined to be baulky, and he never would pull pfntfe ;> 2flr,iuUi.:a. I'Rnt load, but now he is a As a farmer named Hcrsen, living near Wonaka, Soutn Australia, was driving home with his daughter, a flash of lightning struck his horse and killed it. Miss Hcrsen was knooked out of too vehicle and her clothes fired. The.'girl was badly scorched, and when pioked up was unoonacious and appeared ohokod with blood, but is now recovering. Ilcrson received a slight shook only. Frenoh physicians havo discovered from study of the manner of death at the great firo m Pariu that it never comes more painlessly than m the interior of a burning theatre. Many victims are frightened to death and the blood rushea to the heart. Others die from asphyxia due to carbonio acid. I The Czar of Russia is an extraordinarily strong man. It is said that before he became Czar he was m the habit, when paying oalli, of leaving, initead of a card, a rouble which he had rolled up m hia fingers, Tho person for whom it was intended knew at one* who had left it, as there was only one man m the empire capablo of treating the coin m this way.

King Otto of Bavaria 'B mania is an unoon. querablo desire to cboot peasants. He is given a gun with blank cartridges, and peasants, for a Blight remuneration, pass within shooting distance, and go through with the pantomime of falling. And so the crazed and lately dethroned monaroh has been " amused." On a recent hot day a party of girls were enjoying their quiet swim at an English sea* side resort. While dosporting m the waves like a lot of mermaids a dude appeared on the goone, and, thinking it would bo good fun to keep the girls longer m the water than they wanted, he took up his position oloso by and watched proceedings. The girls, who were all m bathing costumes, did not mind this at first, bnt at length thinking that he was getting monotonous, they made a sudden sally, caught hold of him, and dragged him into the water. Ab they were ten to one they soon made a wreck of him and his collar, and only lot him alone when they had given him a complete soaking. American Oo.'s Hop Bfttera has restored to sobriety and health perfoot wrecks from in(emperanoo. Peruso all Keatino's Cormxi Lozenoes ouro Coughs Asthma, Bronchitis. Medical testimony states that no other medicine is so effectual m the cure of these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives case, ono or two at bedtime ensures rest. For relieving difficult breathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium nor any violent drug. Sold by Chemists m Tins 8 lid and 2s 9d eaoh. SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EX» TRACT.— Cure of Skin Diseases. Inveroargill, N.Z., 3rd of July, 1880. Messrs Sander and Sons, Sandhurst : — Gentlemen. — Having suffered from eczema (a Bkin disease which is very prevalent m this oolony) for about nine years, I had consulted numerous medical men here and m Australia, and bad taken arsenic, Btryohnino, iodide of potassium, etc., iutern- ! ally, and had used preparations of zino and lead externally. In faot, I had tried all the remidiea known to tho faculty, and what be- | tween travelling, doctors' and druggists' bills, bad spent a small fortune, almost, if not wholly, without results, except to injure my constitution. During a recent visit to Hokitika I was reoommonded to try your Extract Eucalyptus Globulus by a brother who bad experienced great benefit from it m all* elevating a very severe oold, and no less to my surprise than satisfaction, I found tho disease wbioh troubled me so long was con(juerod, and the skin resumed its normal condition. This was effeoted by tho oxtornal use. of less thun two two-ounce bottles. You are welcome to make any use. you please of thia letter, and I subscribe myself. — Yours, etO., Signed John H. Kerr, Manager Union Blink of Australia, Limited,— (Advt.) ..^.,^,