LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1696, 27 October 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We presume that it is almost unnecessary to remind our readers that the Ashburton A. and P. Association's show will be held tomorrow. The annual Scotch concert will be held tomorrow evening m the Oddfellows' Hall. A very attractive programme has been prepared, and without doubt there will be a large gathering. It is notified elsewhere that on Show day instead of tha ordinary evening train to Mount Somers one will leave Ashbarton at 11 p.m., arriving at Mount Bomua at 12.35 a.m. At a meeting of the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society, held last eveniDg, it was reported that six tins, for the purpose of transport of fish, had been purchased. It was further reported that durmg the month 1750 fontinalh — American brook trout — had been liberated m various creeks m the district. It was resolved to purchase 10,000 brown trout, and 1000 foiitinalis from the parent Society, the fish to be turned out m the river.

We have been requested to draw the attention of members of the Aahburton County Hunt Club to an advertisment which appears m another oolumn calling a special general meeting of members for to-morrow, j at Henry's Hotel, to consider the keeping and hunting of the paok for the ensuing year. A perch of about 21ba weight was picked up dead m the gutter m West street, opposite the Railway Station last evening, having evidently floated oat of the reservoir m the Domain. When the fish was examined, it was found that its decease was duo to an appetite for a smaller brother, it having endeavored to swallow a peroh some six inches m length. The victim had been seized tail fitßt, and having ah objection to being thus summarily disposed of, erected his spines, which, sticking m bis captor's throat, effectually prevented the latter exhibiting any more oannibalistio tendencies. An advertisement appears elsewhere asking for forty boyß, from twelve to Bixteen years of age, to take part m a dramatic entertainment at Christmaa time. Applications must be made to tbe lessee of the Oddfellows' Hall at two o'clook on Saturday afternoon. The bushranger Hughes, who waa found guilty at Perth of unlawfully wounding Constable Oarrollß, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for that offence. For the manslaughter of Constable Oonnell he was sentsneed to penal servitude for life. The " Boir " announces that the gendarmes ' at Bauge, m tha Maine-et-Loire, reoently succeeded m laying hands on a real German spy. At the moment of his arr«st the man slipped a pieoe of paper into his mouth and tried to swallow it. It was, however, recovered from him piecemeal. Put together again the paper was found to contain, finely written, a description of places m the neighborhood just visited, together with dates and words m cypher. The names of some of the larger villages were marked with a cross. The man said he was a navvy, but he had white hands, and spoke Frenoh well. An Austrian passport was found upon him. A strange fatality is reported from Sale, Yiotoria. A navvy named Riohard M'Koy, who had been working at the canal works at Sale, and who has been mißsing since tb.B 9th inst., was found standing up m Flooding Creek, on the road leading to the place he wai boarding at. It is thought m going home m tha dark he missed bis way and walked into the creek, and as the mad at the bottom is very tbiok he moat have etuok there, and been anable to extricate himself. This is j the mora likely as he wa« said to have been a | good swimmer.

The " Gr«j Rivet Argui " Btites that the following telegram baa been sent by Mr John Munro, of Wesport, to certain members of Parliament ;—" Deep indignation here at persecution of Napier Bell by O'Oonor, oalminating m Bell's foroed resignation. Harbor Board works entirely worked by O'Conor, ana great apprehension of diversion of Board's funds for Mokihinui Bohemes. Wasteful expendituro now going on, m Bpito of Bell's protest. Urge immediate Government inquiry into oauaefl of Bell's resignation and Board's affairs generally. First £150,000 spent, and application to Parliament for fresh guarantee will be made." The "North Otago Times " states that 150 hands employed on the South Island railway lines are said [to have received notice that their services will not be required. This stop has been taken by the heads of departments, and does not come within the scope of any soheme of retrenchment the Government may have decided upon carrying out. The Police-constable Endaoott, who was lately concerned m the arrest of Mias Oass the Oxford street milliner, is now (bays the London correspondent of the " Argus ") before the police-court on a charge of perjury. The public prosecutor is conducting the case against the constable, who is being defended at the coat of his brother officers of the metropolitan police. Meanwhile it is interesting to notice ,how readily the authorities respond to publio criticism. One of the best known of th« London Polioe Magistrates has deolined to punish solicitation by a woman on the mere evidenoe of the person solioited. He deolares— and rightly enough— that the oharge might be brought against anybody for the purpose of revenge, and he insists that there shall be some corroborative evidenoe •gainst the woman. It was very different at the London police courta previous to the ex. posure of the Oass inoident. It is impossible to remain long siok or out o health where American Co.'a Hop Bitters used* See another HoLLOWAx'a Pii&s and Ointment. — Boldiers and Bailors. — These well-known and easily Uied remedies are especially serviceable and oonvenient for those who, like soldiers and sailors, are exposed to great changes of climate, and the hardships inseparable from their oalling. Many of the diseases engendered m the system from these and other nntoward causes oan be checked and controlled by attention at their onset, and m Hollo way 'a remedies will be found a ready means of relief without hindrance from duty. Many a man is invalided and rendered more or less a burden to himself and friends from neglecting the early symptoms of bis oomplaint, which oalamity might be averted by timefy resort to ha on of RoUq"»7'i Fill* au3 Oin^toeut.