The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1682, 8 October 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A peculiar attempt at boycotting is reported from an eleotoral distriot On the other side of lhßßimutaka. During the recent elections a gentleman m the district shared with many other people m the colony the doubtful honor of being beaten. Certain of his supporters were not all pleased with the defeat of their candidate, and they propose to boycott a looal journal which opposed him by forming a league of people who will refuse to buy goods from storekeepers advertising with that particular newepapftr. The devioe is a very paltry, contemptible, and un-English one, and we , hope it will meet with signal failure. — " NZ. Times." A recent little land transaction m Elizabeth street, Melbourne, shows how easy it is to make money, if you get the chance and know how to use it. A long lease fell m, and the tenant applied for a renewal. "You shall have it," replied the landlord, " but you have been getting at me for twenty years, and by — I'll get at you now. Your rent for the next ten years is £2000 a year." The tenant complained bitterly of this harsh treatment, and strove, though m vain, to beat down the inexorable landlord. Finally, he executed the lease of the premises at the higher rent. He then went across the road and signed a sub-lease, for which he had previously arranged, at very nearly double what he was paying his landlord. The latter has since heard of this transaction, and now swears at bis tenant more than ever. £ Keating's Powder destroys both fleas, moths, beetles, and all other insects, while quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating beetles the sucoess of this powder is extraordinary. It is perfeotly clean m application. See the artiole you purchase is Keating's, as imitations are noxious £nd ineffectual. Sold m tins, 6d, Is, and 2s 6d each, by all ohemists.

«. The first fish of the season exhibited m Ashburton is now on view m Mr W. Zander'B window, East street. It is a nice 21b trout, caught by Mr John Corbett, of the Forkß, and brought to town to-day. In order to hurry on the completion of the Mount Somers Tramway the men are at work m the snow laying rails. The snow m still several irnohes deep. Mr Walters, of the •' London Tiroes," has for the third time declined a peerage. No traces have been found of the man Alfred Robin, who is charged with embezzlement, and is said to have absoonded from his bail. He is Baid to have been formerly a Beafaring man, whioh would naturally assist him m getting away. Four hundred and eighty-five tons of kauri gum received m Auokland this month. It is said that m Napier the railways have increased the value of the land thirty-fold. One English nobleman has 4000 acres lying idle, at an annual loss>of rental of £10,000 a year. Captain Jovis, a Frenoh reronaut, is going to try to cross the Atlantic m a ballcon next month. In August the navigation of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was partially stopped by the deficiency of water caused by the drought. On the 16th July Paris was flooded with a printed propheoy, according to the Cagliostro method, of the future oareer of Boulangor. He is to be victor over Germany on Nov. 7th, 1890, and President of the Frenoh Republic m May, 1890. The city authorities of Paris' have just tested an Austrian invention for automatically lowering coffins into graves/Jrithout ropes. A ooflin was placed on a kind of reotangular platform, and Burrounded with funeral drapery, whioh concealed the grave. When a spring was pressed the platform, with its lugubrius burden, descended Blowly into the earth. The price of the apparatus is £80 and the inventor states that it is used m Vienna and Milan, the rata payable being 6 francs for each burial. The genial veteran, Mr John Ollivier, will celebrate his golden wedding at Christchurch on the 25th instant. The " Press " says :— He intends holding a sort of "At Home " m the shape of a monster garden party to celebrate the event, to whioh all his friends are invited. There will be no formal invitation by cards, eic, but both Mrs Ollivier and himself will be glad to see and welcome all comers. The English Government has just given £3200 for 16 premiums of £200 eaoh for stallions m Ireland, and the time is not perhaps far distant when some like encouragement may be given to English breeders. The Royal Agricultural and Hunters' Improvement Booieties are likewise exerting themselves with great liberality towards the same end. A duplicated self-baiting automatic rabbit trap has been patented by Mr F. Ironside, of Sydney. The novelty of the oontrivanoe is that each rabbit caught re-sets and re-baits tho trap with oats, eto,, the refleotor being so placed at'the exit that it serves the double purpose of a decoy and a door lo prevent the return of tbe rabbit, whioh is secured m the duplicated hidden trap. The trap is capable of containing a large number of rabbits.