LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1665, 17 September 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A ball, to suit the convenience of country visitors to the cirous, will be held m the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday night. Partioulara will be found m our advertising columns. An inspection parade of the looal Volunteers is ordered for Tuesday next, 20th inst., at 7 p.m. We are informed that both Colonel Bailey and Major Newall purpose being present, and the Ashburton Cadets will also attend. It is desired to have the fullest possible muster ot all three oorps— Rifles Guards, and Cadets — on this occasion. $ Five hundred and nine thousand six hundred and two pounds waß the amount passed through the totalisator m New Zealand last season. This is £50,171 less than the sum invested the previous year, but £39,000 more than m 1884-5.

In Venezuela they were about to erect a statue of the President. As that Eepublio 'frequently changes its President, there ocourred to them the happy thought of fixing on tbe top of the statue a head which oould be unscrewed. As often as a new President is elected the head of the old one is taken off and that of his successor put m its place. The body, uniform, and docorations remain as before. i We wish to remind the Candidates for the ooming election that the tenders for the Oddfellows' Hall close at noon on Monday, September 19th. Viotoria intends to treat her juries liberally m future ; but then she is the only oolony of the Australasian group m the happy possession of a substantial surplus, and therefore can afford to be generous. Jurors drawn from within a radiuß of five miles from the Melbourne Law Courts and from within tan miles of the principal Courthouses atßallarat, : Sandhurst, or Geelong are to reoeive 10s per ' day for attendance, Is per mile for travelling expenses (one way only) for every mile oyer five ; m the event of any oass lasting more than three days £1 per day for the next three days, and £2 per day for the sixth and eaoh succeeding day. One of the French regiments stationed m Algeria has just passed through a deplorable experience. The men kill themselves m suoh numbers that the oolonel at last announced that every man who committed suicide would be disgraead by a speoial order of the day. Tho Bo tr«s of Amarapoora, m Burmah, is about 2170 years old, and it oan be traced m historio documents as far back aa 182 A.D. Other trees are believed to be older, African and Californian specimens being computed at 5000 years, but there is no aertain evidence of it. This ia how an American oommeroial editor (who should have been a poet) speaks of the .fluctuations on the S:ook Exchange— ' •• Corn, the friend alike^of poet, peasant, and speculator, hovered lovingly a moment at 430, and then alighted with pink-doved feet on 440. A recent cablegram states that the Queen of the Wallis Islands, a small group m the South Paoifio, westward of Samoa, has requested the Frenoh Government to establish a protectorate over the islands. It is Btated, observes the "Daily Times," that she was induced to take this step by the reoent •roubleß m Tonga, which led her to the opinion that British influenoe was not sufficiently strong to proteot the native Christians. It is thought possible that othsr annexations will Bhortly be made by France m the Pacific. The Wallis group consists of nine small islands varying from one mile to 10 miles m oirouit. Only one island, Uvea, is inhabited, 300 of the natives being Protatants, and 2700 Roman Catholics. A Philadelphia physioian says that a great deal of what passes for heart disease is only mild dyspepsia, that nervousness commonly ia bad temper, and that two-thirds of the booalled malaria is nothing but laziness, Imagination, he says, is responsible for a multitude of ills, and he gives as an instance the case of a clergyman who, after preaching ' a sermon would take a spoonful of sweetened water and doze off like a babe, under the impession that it was bona fide sedative. The " Hobart Mercury " reports that at a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania the secretary (Mr A. Morton) stattd that a disease having broken out among Borne of the fish at the salmon ponds, on examination it was found that some of the salmon batohed m 1884 wore suffering from a peouliar kind of fungoid growth, caused by the malt fish fighting, the growth ooourring after tbe bitea were received. A number of specimens of the young salmon, migratory trout, and brown trout are to be forwarded for further examination to Mr Ogilby, of the iohthyology department of the Sydney Museum, who had stated he waa prepared to give a report upon the fish, and a Sydney professor had undertaken to examine this peouliar fungoid growth. The specimen of the young salmon exhibited was pronounced by the president, his Excellenoy the Governor, to be without donbt a true salmon. SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. -Cure of Skin Diseases. Invercargill, N.Z., 3rd of July, 1880. Messrs Sander and Sons, Sandhurst :— Gentlemen.— Having suffered from eczema (a Bkin disease whioh is very prevalent m this colony) for about nine years, I had consulted numerous medioal men here and m Australia, and had taken arsenic, strychnine, iodide of potassium, eto., intern, ally, and had used preparations of zino and load externally. In faot, I had tried all the remidies known to the faculty, and what between travelling, dootors' and druggists' bills, had spent a small fortune, almost, if not wholly, without results, exoept to injure my constitution. During a reoent visit to Hokitika I was recommended to try your Extraot Euoalyptus Globulus by a brother who had experienced great benefit from it m allelevating a very severe cold, and no less to my surprise than satisfaction, I found the disease whioh troubled me so long was oohquered, and the skin resumed its normal condition. This was effected by the external use of less than two two-ounce bottles. You are weloome to make any use you please of this letter, and I subscribe myself Yours, etO., Signed John H. Kerr, Manager Union Bank of Australia, Limited, — (Advt.)