The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1670, 23 September 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A, We have been requested to state that on Sunday next tbe Rev Father Chastagnon will | celebrate Mass at Hakaia at half-past ten a.m., and Vespers at Ashburton at tbe usual hours, Miss Emma Orr, of Ashburton, has secured a prize m the annual eßiay competition under the auspices of the Ohristchurch Sooiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. We learn that a petition for work, Bigned by twenty unemployed, has been addressed to the Borough Council, but having arrived too late for tbe last meeting, His Worship the Mayor has, m conjunction with Mr W. C. Walker, County Chairman, forwarded it to the Minister of Publio Works, with a strong recommendation from both gentlemen that work should be provided to enable these men to tide over the dull season. Messrs Friedlander Bros bold an important Bile of horses to-morrow. The annual horse parade of the Ashburton A. and P. Association takes place to-morrow at 11.30 a.m. The entry consists of twenty horses, comprising the best blood m the district m draughts, thoroughbreds, and hackneys, The first marriage solemnised m the Christohurch Cathedral was that of Mr G. H. Rhodes, of Claremont, to the youngest daughter of Mr J. C. Thierens, on Thursday. The Primate officiated, and there was a dense orowd m and around the sacred edifioe. The happy pair passed through Ashburton m the afternoon per special train eti route for Danedin.] An American has invented an ingenious contrivanoe called " The Handy Mouthcloser," warranted to close any mouth while sleeping, or the money refunded. It is regretted by a northern writer that a supply has not been sent to New Zealand, as one judiciously applied would be the saving of many an honest man making a fool of himself during the present election. A young fellow sat languidly upon the seat at the railway station m an Amerioan town, and gazed expectantly m the direction whence the next train was to enter the dep&fc, One of the regular loungers at the station c ed him critically for a few moments, and ib ;n approached [him. "You bin gettin' married lately, stranger, I guess," observed the Uounger. " Yes," replied the youth, " I hey." " Whar's the missis?" "Well," said the youth, " she was dead set on hevin' a honeymoon over the job, and my coin wouldn't run it out for two, so she went along by herself for a while, and I've stayed at home to ,nx things a bit agin she gits back." The brain came m, the bride joined her husband, and they started home together, apparently Satisfied with the arrangement whioh their limited means had forced upon them. A valuable mare, the property of Sir : Gilbert Greenall, Bart., M.P., Wamngton, j England, has just given birth to a foal. A j faint line indicated the position of the eyelids, i but the animal was apparently without eyes. : An incision across each eyelid was made, and | the foal, immediately i^s eyes were opened, ' recognised its dam. During a period of 23 ; years the vetinary sutgeon has not met with j such a oase. j Certainly the most effective MEDICINE m C the world is SANDER and SONS' EU- ; CALYPTI EXTTRACT. Test its eminent j powerful effects m Coughs, Colds, Influenza, ' etc. *, the relief is instantaneous. Thousands I give the most gratifying testimony. Read : this certificate :—" 24th April, 1885.— Messrs [ Sander and Sons,— lt is with the greatest of pleasure that I testify to the excellence of your Eucalypti Extraot. Having had inflam- j mation on the bone of the leg, whioh came on ! after a severe attack of low fever, I was attended by Dr J. Boyd, who had made strenuous efforts to Bave my leg, but without succeos. He then found it necessary to amputate my limb. Having heard m the meantime of the wonderful oures worked by the Eucalypti Extract, I obtained a bottle, and the extract had not been applied more than an hour when I began to feel greatly re» lieved. After applying the extraot every fcut hours or nine or ten days I was out of all danger. I would persuade all who may be affected with any such disease to give the Eucalypti Extraot a trial, and I am convinced that they will find it the most wonderful of medicines.— Yours etc., E. J, Curnow, Wattle street, Sandhurst,"- (Advt, mmmm

The Otakeho Dairy Company's cheese is j now m the English market. Mr Milton,' of Manaia, some few months ago purohased a ; ton or so, and sent it to a firm at Worcester, ! of wbioh Mr Milton was until recently a partner. The cheese is advertised at 6£d, 7d, and 7_d per lb, alongside Amerioan ' cheese at s_d, and is desorib. d as " sp'endid ripe old oheese, equal to the fineßt Cheddar." The prize of 1000 guineas recently won by the Genesta is the largest ever secured by any j yaoht m an open race, Sleuthound's £250 j cup, presented by the King of the Netherlands to the Royal Yacht Squadron, at Gowes, six years ago, coming next. About twenty years ago, however, a matoh took plaoe at Byde where the stakes where £1000 and the losing yacht, which was worth £800 at least. The Melbourne Opera Carnival has reaobed its final stage. The Bum of £2000 was required to anti _.c the people of Melbourne to secure the gift of £20,000 by the Hqn F. Ormond towards the foundation of a chair of mupio m connection with the Melbourne University, and this oarnival was conceived with the idea of raising the funds. So successfully was it carried out that the handsome sum of £3766 was realised, after paying all expenses. i On July 14th the funeral of a negress was 1 < being conducted m a graveyard at Mount 1 Pleasant, sixty miles south of Nashville, ! Tennessee, when a storm came on, and tbe crowd ran for shelter under the trees. Nine persons stood under the shelter of a large oak whioh the lightning struck, killing every one instantly, inoluding three clergymen and the mother and two sisters of the girl who had been buried. Mr Vssey Btewarfc visited the Northern special settlement reoently. He reported that the total population numbers 1084. They own amongst them stock valued at £1000. The settlers have felled 655 acres of bush land, grassed 231 acres, and ereoted 390 ohains of sencing. There are 86 whares and 100 completed houses, while 25 houses are m course of ereotion. The total sum paid as advances to settlers is £2631, while their improventa are valued at £3533.—" Otago Daily Times." A baby sister has lately come to a Boston household. The children hearing that the baby was to be called after a friend of the family, whom they have always heard addressed as Miss Agnes, gave the title to the baby. "What is the name of your baby sister?" asked a lady on the street car. "Her name is Miss Agnes," said Jack, gravely. «• And how old is she ?" the lady went on. " Oh, she isn't any old ; she is all new. Don't you know about babies?"—" Harper's Young People." A curious series of experiments has just been oompleted by Dra Emil Fisoher and Pen_oldt (" Liebegs Annalan," B 239, i. 131) upon the sensitiveness at the settee of smell. These ohemistte used mercaptan and chlorphenol as theh. <£LortteKfc.s substances, and experimented m a room of 230 cubic metres capacity. A gramme of the substance was dissolved m a litte of alcohol ; sco of the solution were again diluted to a known volume, and l-3co of the latter solution measured out into a flask, from whioh a fine jet could be directed by the experimenter to all parts of the room, the air of which was subsequently agitated by the waving of a flag. At a given signal a second experimenter stepped into the room the room, and took his olfaotory observation, which was checked by the Independent observation of a third person. Tbe astonishing result was arrived at that our olfaotory nerves are capable of detecting the 1-4,600,000 p»irt of a millegramme of ohlorphenol, and the 1-460,000,000 part of a millegramme of mercaptan. The quantity of meroaptan present m the air of the room was 250 times less than the amount of sodium present m the air of the room m which Bunsen and Kirch, iff made their experiments upon the sensitiveness of the spectroscopy when the sodium 'lines were just peroeptible.