The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1689, 17 October 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ ■ — ♦ There are said to be 60,000 Amerio&ns m London spending on an average of £100 eaoh, £6,000,000 annually. Strikes have penetrated even to the Vatican. • The ohoir boys and acolytes m St Peter'e have Ptraofc for an increase of salary. A regular trade m the manufacture of little cripples for purposes of begging is carried on m Paris. A Melbourne cripple named Hayes was fined one shilling for hitting a missionary who came to pray with him. Queen's Victoria's favorite dish is tapioca pudding. Her Ministers seem to prefer Irish stow. £130 was obtained by a «weep promoted at the Hawkesbury meeting. The promoter omitted to pay up. The U.A.5.N.00. hftßpnrohased the A.S.NCo.'s wharves and properties at Brisbane for £95,000. Mr Joseph Jones, at one time Minister for Railways m Victoria, hai died at Ballarat from blood poisoning. The births m Sydney m August were 368 as against 300 deaths, and m the suburbs 864 births and 213 deaths. Mrs Francis, a widow residing on the Welsh hills at Tymean Pile, attained on August 15th the exceptionally advanced age of 107 years, having been born on August 15tb, 1780; The aged lady, who looked remarkably well, can thread her needle without using glasses. She moves about with eaße, and ii able to attend to her domestic duties. An extraordinary epidemio of measles has broken out amongst the ohildren attending the State Bohool, Upper Hawthorn, Victoria. Two hundred ohildren oat of seven hundred are suffering from tha complaint. There is on the North British railway between North Queensbury and Durtfermline an engine-driver namtd James Horn, who has been m the railway service einoe 1832, at which date he was employed driving a horse with carriage on [the railway between Gartsherrie and Glasgow. Judge J. H. Logan has produced a new small fruit by grafting raspberry on blackberry stock. It is as large as a blackberry, but more the color of a raspberry. It is firm and should be a good Bhipper. The flavor .'of both berries is blended, while it is Bimilar to the raspberry m color.—" Watson* ville Pajoronian." Lord Palmerston used to say that ono of his best servioea to tho country was the purchase of the camp ground at Aldershot for £15 per acre. Since then, and largely as a eonsequenoe of tho establishment of the camp, land at Aldershot has been cold at the rate of £1000 an aorc. SANDER AND SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.— In protection of the world-wide fame our manufacture has acquired all over the globe, we publish the following : — Hazard, M.D., Profeseor of General Pathology and Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, says m an editorial published m the " Clinioal Record " :—•" We have examined half-a-dozen specimens of different manufactures; the preparation of Sander and Sons' was the only one that proved to ba reliable and corresponding to scientific tests." Another conoootion called " Refined Extraot of Eucalyptus," has made its appearance einoe. This product stands, aooording to Dr Owen, foremost m causing injurious effeots. That gentleman communicates at a meeting of the Mediaal Society of Viotoria, that a ohild living at Fitzroy beoame most seriously indisposed through its use. In another oase a ladyatatea on the strength of statutory declaration that she Buffered cruelly from the effects of the same oonoootion. To guard the high reputation of oar manufacture we feel warranted m exposing the above facts, and desire the public to exercise care and precaution when buyiog,~BANDER & SQNS.^JAdvt ) M

Wa have received information from the Telegraph Department that the Darwin line is now restored. Members of the Ashburton Rifles and Guards are reminded that the Government Inspection Parade takes plaoe m drill order to-morrow (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. Wa are informed that the uniforms for the Ashburton Cadets have been received and will be at onoe distributed. The funeral of the four little children Jenkins, who were irowned m the river on Wednesday evening took plaoe on Sunday. The funeral procession was a vary large one. The fnneral of the late Mr T. Toppin took place on Sunday. A very large number of friends assembled to pay the last tokens of respect to the deceased, the Orangemen mustering to nearly the number of a hundred, bdsides which there were about seventy vehioles, and a number of horsemen. The cortege, headed by the band, playing the " Dead Maroh," left the deceased gentleman's late residence about three o'clook, and proseeded to the cemetery, where the burial serrice was conducted by the Bey E. A. Soott At the conclusion of this the Orange burial service wai read by P.M., Bro Sparrow, the Charter, Bible, and Seal of the Lodge being laid beside the g;ave, the brethren filing round, and eaoh one dropping a piece of orange ribbon on the coffin. More than five hundred perseni followed the body of the dtoeased gentltman to its last reßting place. A boy m » public sohool was told that a reptile " is an animal that oreopß," and on being asked the name of one promptly replied, •• A baby." Tb* Victorian Lands Department calls for tends™ for the comtruction of the remaining sections of the rabbit-proof fence on the Australian border. A statistician says that 30 per oent. of the men over thirty years qi age, who live m the United States, are more or less bald. People marry early there. The international cricket match between Viotoria and New South Waleß is to be played on the Melbourne Crioket Ground Deo. 24th, 26th, and 27th. The Melbourne Exhibition promises to be an unprecedented success, exhibits being expeoted from all parts of Europe. It will be a grand advertisement for Australia. The "Westminster Review" for August contains a luminous artiole on " Young Australia," which is attributed either to Mr Twopeny, of the " Otago Daily Times," or Mr Giaborne. A man seldom recognises that he is no longer a gay young bachelor until his wife tells him that it is no use to talk about having a new summer suit until baby has got its perambulator. The Cunard agents at Queenstown have reoeived a cable message annonnoing the arrival at New York on August 13th, at noon, of the Etruria, whioh left Queenstown the previous week. The passage was made m short time of six days three hours and a half. This is the Etruria's best performance, and equals the Umbria'a fastest reoord. How many know it? Keep Dairy Salt and all other that is to be uaed for human food m clean paokages and away from all foul odors, for salt absorbs impurities from bad air, and afterwards imparts it to food with whioh it comes m contaot. Serious losses have occurred from ignoranoe of this faot. " Phytolacoa Eleotrioa " is the name of a new plant lately discovered to have electrical properties, and described by some of the German journals. It gives a slight eleotrio shook to the hand when its stalk is broken, and it affects the magnetic needle, disturbing it considerably if brought very near. Its energy varies during the day, being strongest about two o'clook m the afternoon, and fading away to nothing at night. James M'Gregor, a Dundee man, arrived m Fleet street, London, having walked from Dundee — a distance of nearly 500 itniles by road— on a pair of stilts. M'Gregor stated that he would oomplete the distance m thirty days. He started from Dundee on the ' morning of the Ist of July, immense crowds seeing him away. He has completed the distance m twenty-eight days and a half. A giantess is said to be on exhibition m Japan only 12 years 5 months old. She stands 8 feet high, and weighs 2701b5. Pin-head dotted white muslins are revived for yonng girls' wear. They are worn over colored slips or white ones at pleasure. The Geographical Sooiety of South Australia are making endeavors to send another exploring party into the interior. A unanimous feeling prevails at Norfolk Island m favor of New South Wales exercising 1 a protectorate over the island. The natives of Honolulu are dissatisfied 1 with the new Constitution, and are again leaning toward the ex-Gibson Ministry. The deseoration of the Sabbath by Chinese gardeners at Botany is being brought under the notioe of the New South Wales Colonial Seoretary.