The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1697, 28 October 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Hayes and Co. have a new drapery advertisement m our first page, to whioh we draw particular attention. The musical service entitled "Robinson Crusoe " was given last night m the Baptist Church to a numerous and appreciative I audience. The various solos and ohoruses were given m excellent styly by the members of the church choir. Mr Porter gave the connective readings m bis usual finished manner* The position of some of the Natives m Hawke's Bay (says the ''Post") is a most I peouliar and embarrassing one. They possess land but cannot deal with it, and although thnir property is worth a large sum they have not the money required for their ordinary support, and oannot even afford the fees neoessary to pass their land through the court. One hapu of about thirty persons owns a reserve of some 600 acres, on whioh is placed a railway station. This reserve has bean through the court, but it has not been subdivided or the title individualised. It is fine land, and would readily find purchasers at a high price if the ownerß could sell, but but tbey cannot. Adjoining this reserve tbe same Natives own a block of 20,000 aores not yet put through the Court. This, too, they could readily sell at a good price if they were allowed to do bo. They can give no seourity even, and now that they have exhausted their credit they are m considerable straits. Mr Knight, the well known interpreter, ig at present m Wellingting on their behalf, and has had interviews with the Native Minister, m which he urged tbe Government to buy the land itself or to pass an Order m Council enabling the Nativeß to sell to private pc nn. Mr Mitohelson promised to consider H matter, and has since replied stating tb a the Government does not at present see Us way to become the purchaser. Nothing is said, however, about letting the Natives find their own market, and Mr Knight will, it is understood, press this alternative further upon the attention of the Native Minister, A Napier carter has fallen heir to an estate m Scotland worth £100,000 per annum. Arrangements have been completed for the publication of the " Patea County Press "— a bi-weekly paper. The first issue is to appear on Monday. The " dengue " fever is raging at Napier, nearly half of the business men of the plaoe being affected. "Bcchd-Paiba." — Quick, complete cure, all | annoying kidney, bladder, and' urinary diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kemp, thorne, Proiier and ICo., Agents, Christfbwch. _„ jl

I Porty-six selectors m Hawke's Bay are m arrears with their rents. It was deoided, if the instalnents due were not promptly paid, that the land Board would take action. Ferrets run the risk of destruotion m more ways that one. The last danger mentioned (says the " Wakatipu Mail ") is that of phos- ! phorised grain laid for the rabbits on Mrs j Meiklejfhn'-i run, Lake, whioh, it is asserted, tbe ferrets also eat, and, as a consequence, I suffer tha fate of bunny, ] Two hundred years ago one person m five had sound teeth. A hundred years ago but one person m twenty-five had perfect teeth ; and m the nineteenth century age of reform our very latest statistics show that but one person m eighty has perfectly Bound teeth. The casualties of the Jubilee prooession m London foot up to about 600. Three hundred ! were owes of fainting, over 20 of Bunstroke. There were several broken legs, arms and collar bones, and dislocations. Some people suffered oonoussion of the brain, some had their .heats crushed, and others were kioked by hoisos. The Tapanui paper cays :— " Station after station are calling tenders for oarting wool to port, and yet the railway authorities make no signs of lowering the tariff. The next move will be passenger coaches competing against the railways." Tha • Timaru Harald ' eaya l— " Mr Walker ia spoken of ia Wellington as tho member who ia likely to be put forward to move a Want of Confidence resolution. We are inolined to think that Sir Julius Yogel will do it himself if it is to be done at all." Mr Walker is member for Ashburton. The Wellington correspondent of a oontem* porary prophesies that the session will extend over Christmas and well into January. He aids that Ministers are' not sanguine as to the r.oeption their financial proposals will meet with. They are, however, unusually reticent, aid any assertions as to their intentions are little more than guesswork. A very shrewd and observant gentleman ncently made a tour of the Australian colonies, and contributed his impressions on what he saw to the 'Oamaru Mail.' He wiote most enthusiastically about the city of Melbourne, and the indications of prosperity everywhere apparent m that place, and summed up as follows ; — As to the oauses to whioh the prosperity of the oolony has to be isoribed, various opinions exist, the most prevalent opinion, however, undoubtedly is mat it is ohiefly due to the Protectionist polioy whioh has for the last number of years been carried out." Dr Doremus says that the lightest tissues oan be rendered uninflammable by dipping them m a solution of phosphate of ammonia m water. It will be found impossible to set the fabric so treated on fire. The British War Office costs £255,000; while the corresponding German staff, inoluding the separate War Ministries of Saxony, Wurtemburg, and Bavaria, costs only £160,000. The German offioials number 573, and are all officers ; The English 693, mostly oivi-ians. The "West Coast Times" states that Francis Upham, formerly of Boss, Hokitika, and Eumara, and more reoently an inmate of the Old Men's Home, Caversham, where he has been bedridden for sick, and a sick member of the Ancient Order of Foresters for the last li years, has come into a fortune left him by some relative m the Home oountry. He loft the colony on the 11th inst, m the s.s. lonic. The mortality amongst the Bheep m the province of Hawke _ Bay th.B winter (says the T '"-Hasting's Evening Star ") has been something enormous, some authorities putting the the number that died at fully 100,000. The reason, of course, is well known, but there is a lesson to be learnt from past experience, and that is the necessity for providing winter feed for the Hooks. In one inttanoe that has come under notice ample provision was made m this respeot by a local sheepfarmer, and he has had the satisfaction of seeing a spleedid return for his outlay m the faotthat bis stook suffered comparatively little from mortality, while those of others around were dying by hundreds. SANDER and SONS' EUOALYPTI EXTRACT.—Cure of B_in Diseases. Invercargill, N.Z,, 3rd of July, 1880. Messrs Bander and|Sons, Sandhurst :— Gentlemen,— Having Buffered faom eczema (a skin disease whioh it very prevalent m this colony) for about nine years, I had consulted nnmerous medioal mon here and m Australia, and had taken arsenio, stryohn ne, iodide of potaesium, etc., internally, and had used preparations of zinc and lead eternally. In faot, 1 had tried all the remedies known to the faculty, tttwhat had been travelling, dootors' and druggists' bills, had spent a small fortune, almost, if not wholly, without results, except to injure my constitution. During a recent visit to Hokitika was reoommended to try your Extraot Eucalyptus Globulus by a brother who had experienced great benefit from it m alleviating a very severe and no less to my .surprise than satisfaction, I found the disease whioh troubled me so long was conquered, and the skin resumed its normal condition. This was affected by the external use of less than two two-ounce bottles. You oan make any use you please of his letter, and I subscribe myself, — Yours, etc. Signed John H. Kerr, Manager Union Bank of Australia, Limited.— (Advt.