LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1678, 4 October 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The daisy gets its name from a Saxon word signifying " day's eye," m whioh way the great Ben Johnson writes it, and it is called by Cbauoer tbo " eio of the dai." In all probability it received this name from thft fftot that the blossom opens at daybreak and closes at sunset. The West Clare (Ireland) Railway has been boyootted, owing to tha hatred ftlt toward Traffic Manager Sullivan, and placards have been posted warning people not to patronise the road until Sullivan is dismissed. Persons who travel by this line, the placards nay, will be m danger of being Bhot, Keating's Couan Lozenges cure Coughs, Asthma, Bronohitis. Medical testimony states that no other medicineis so effectual inthe cure of these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bedtime ensures rest. For relieving difficult breathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium nor any violent dru Sold by Chemists ia Tine, U lid and 2s Od each

Mr A. E. Peaohe, of Mount Somers, h»s| returned from his visit to Europe, oad is looking well. Volunteers are reminded that the Govern* ment Inspeotion Parade takes place thiß evening m drill order. We learn than an additional target has been received, thus giving first-olaes and third-olastf targets without hauling the heavy plates from one place to the other. We understand that Major Douglas has ordered uniforms for those members of the Cadets who have given m their sizes and paid a reasonable proportion of their subscriptions. It is hoped that the uniforms will come to hand before the end of the current month. Ten Scotch estates were recently offered for sale by auotion, comprising nearly one hundred and twenty thousand aores, and every one was withdrawn for lack of euffioient bid?. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Tinwald Town Board waß held at the Board's | offloe, Templar Hall, Tinwald, on Friday last, September 80th, at 8 p.m. Present— Meows Jephson, Scott, and Beid. In the absence of the Chairman (Mr Olark), Mr Jephson was voted to the chair. — Correspondence was read (1) From the Bank of New South Wales, re taking over road on Grove Farm. — It was resolved to visit the apot on Monday, Ootober 3rd, and have a special meeting after to oonaider the question,— (2) From Mr J, 0. Bell, re sale of property,— Received,— The tender of W. Dwyer for forming footpath on Lagmhor Boad at 7s per chain for formation, Is 8d per yard for shingling, and 10a for forming ford, was accepted, — The Clerk was instruoted to ask Dwyer to give a prioe for taking up old culvert and putting ford m lieu thereof m Melcombe atreet.— The Clerk reported that the Railway Department had let a contract for cleaning out main drain along railway line.— The Clerk was instruoted to write to the Department requesting that the drain should be deepened m places. — After passing Recounts and transacting routine business the meeting adjourned. One of our esteemed contemporaries (says a New Haven paper) takes twenty lines — about 140 words — to tell " where women are valuable." And yet he might have told it m one word, to wit— namely, that is to say " Everywhere." London was originally a mere collection of wattle huts m the vioinity of the present Tower. Of the 480 Boman Catholio students at Maynooth, no fewer than 350 are pledged total adstainers. Mrs Grant has received thus far nearly £80,000 from the publishers of General Grant's Memoirs. Mr Parnell, it is stated, is Buffering from oancer of the stomach, and his case ib believed to be hopeless. Dr Burns calculates that sinee 'the Queen oanio to the throne we have expended no less than £4,500,000,000 m intoxioating liquors. It has been discovered that whereas there are 1,850,000 Irish-born inhabitants of the United States, there are 2,000,000 British, born oitizens. The coal lands of China are five times as extensive as those of all Europe, while her gold, Bilver, copper, tin, iron, and marble deposits equal those of any other country. The Bussian Empire has just deoided upon an enterprise that will doubtless prove the greatest undertaking of the twentieth century* th? construction of a railway fron St. Petersburg to Pekin. A sensation has been caused m Vienna by the conversion to Judaism of Fraulein Bleskovich, a member of one of the oldest families of the Hungarian nobility. She will marry a Jewish banker at Vienna. The Town Counoil of Assen has voted 12,500 dollars for a statue of Krupp. Spain's seventeon-months old King, Alfonso XIII., receives a salary of £500,000 a year. There were throe thousand carriages m line at the funeral of Katkoff, the Moscow editor. The French Senate has approved tho Com" meroe Treaty between France and Mexico. There is talk m Dublin of erecting a statue of Gladstone m one of the public squares. A movement is to be agitated to erect an American memorial over the tomb of Lafayette. The jasamine has succeeded tho orange flower at weddings, aocording to a Paris newspaper. Two German firms have contracted for stoel enough to make 400,000 rifles for the Turkish Government. The whole number of ohurohes m the United States is 132,435 ; the whole number of ministers, 91,911 ; and of communicants, 19,018,977. The railway between Nish and Pirot is finished, completing the line of direot railway communication between Calais- and Constan. tinople.j Pope Leo XII. is about to found an international college for literature, m whioh the Italian poets and authors will be studied m an especial manner. The triennial world's Conference of Young Men's Christian Associations will convene m Stookholm, Sweden, 1888, by speoial invitation of the King. Dr Wilder, of the ♦« Missionary Beview,' says that only 2 per cent, of the money contributions m the United States and but 2} per cent, of ministers go abroad. The folly of rushing into the law-oourta to decide small monetary disputes, and contesting them with all the pomp and oiroumstanoe attaohing to legal battles, was (remarks the • Post" of Thursday) seldom better illustrated than by a oase whioh was deoided m the Magistrate's Court to-day. The amount m lueßtion was only £3, but the litigants tough* the matter out m due form, employing a lawyer on eaoh Bide. To-day was the third iay of hearing, and at the conclusion of the avidence and legal argument the Magistrate ?avo judgment for £1 m favor of the plaintiff, who was awarded £1 7s costs. His Worship ilso entered £2 oosts againat the plaintiff, besides whioh £2 7s had been paid by the parties m costs prior to the adjournments. When, m addition to these Bums, the partiei 3omo to settle up with their reßp«otive lawyers they will probably arrive at the conclusion that itigation is an expensive luxury. Statutory Declaration— I, Fraz Baabe, [ronbark, Sandhurst, m the oolony of Viotoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on the 25th June; 1877, my son Alfred, 3ix years of age, was accidentally hnrt with m axe on the knee. lat onoe took all pains io seouro medical assistance. However, m jpite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, She opinion was given by Dr Maogillivray that an amputation of the injured limb had Jooome imperative, m order to save life. At <biß juncture I called on Messrs Sander and Sons, proouring some of their Extract of the Suoalyptus Globulus, and by the application >f the same X bad the satisfaction of Boging ny son within a fortnight out of all danger, md to-day he is recovered. I may just add hat it waa when the crisis had been reaohod hat the Extraot referred to was first applied. Ind I make this solemn declaration, etc., — ?ranz Baabe. Deolared at Sandhurst, m the Colony of Viotoria, Australia, this seventeenth lay of Ootober, one thousand eight hundred iod Reventy.seven, before me, Morifcz Conn, f.P.— [ApvT. t<