The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. 38 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1701, 2 November 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. 38 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The San Frano : eoo mail closes at Ashbnrtort on Friday noxt at 5 p.m. Money orders muit be ebtainod before 10 a.m. The following is a list of letters reocived at the ABbbnrton Foßt Office, from places beyond the colony, during the month of September, and remaining unclaimed on Nov. Ist, 1887 : — Heotor McKenzio, Patrick Halleran, and 6, Sohmidt, The Summer Assembly dance takes place to-morrow (Thursday evening), ai usual. The temperance play, •• Trial of John Barleyoorn," will be presented ai the Odd* fellows' Hall this evening. It has besn a long time under rehearsal, and those taking part are thoroughly well verstd m the oharaoters they are to represent, and therefore the affair should be a great euooeis. The first load of wool for the season was delivered at Messrs Friedlander Bros, stores, West street, to-day, it being a vary nicely grown sample from crossbred hoggets, and reeeivsd from Mr John Corbett, of Wakanui. The wool shows excellent fibre and good con. dition, and augurs well for a very favorable return to the owner, and confirms the previous report of a heavy clip and good quality of wool being handled thig season by our wool growers and salesmen. ; A daylight inspection parade of the Ash. \ burton volunteers was held at the drill-shed last evening, Major Douglaß being ineptoting officer. Capt. Fooks and Sergt.-MajorHajei were also present. The rifles (Capt. Dolman), mustered 50, guards (Capt. Sparrow), 37. The oonpanies were exercised m battalion and skirmishing drill by Major Douglas, and sword-bayonet exercise by Capt. Fooks. Before dismissing, Major Douglas announoed that he had been informed there would be a field day at Orari on the 9th inst., (Prince of Wales birthday), but no orders have yet boon received, A private trial of a plough designed to form water-races was held yesterday afternoon. The implement, whioh is worked by a traction engine, iB the property of Mr W. J. Siloock, whose invention it is, and has been con. etrncted by Messrs P. and D. Danoan. The present average ooßt of forming water-races is about Is 9d per ohain, but with his new plongb Mr Siloook estimates that he will be able to do the work for id or 6d, and complete from two to ten miles of race per day. As the plough has not yet been patented we are not at liberty to enter into any details of its construction. At the trial yesterday the implement gave great satisfaction, and when a few improvements, suggested by tho practical test, are effeoted, there seems little doubt that it will fulfil all the expectations of its inventor Why do American Hop Bitters eara so muoh ? Beoauso they give good digestion, rich blood, and healthy aotion to all the organs. HolliOway's Pills akd Ointment. — Soldiers and Sailors,— Theso well-known and easily used remedies are especially serviceable and convenient for those who, like soldiers and sailors, are exposed to great changes of climate, and the hardships inseparable from their calling. Many of the diseases engendered m the system from these and other un. toward causes can be checked and controlled by attention at their onset, and m Holloway's remedies will bo found a ready means of relief without hindrance from duty. Many a man is invalided and rendered more or lets a burden to himself and friends from neglecting the early eymptomß of his ootnplaint, whioh calamity might be averted by timely resort to the up« of Kol)ow»7 7 s Fill* ted Ointment*

The annual garden party m connection ith St. Stephen's Ohuroh will be held this ear as usual on the 16th Deo. The paraouago arden will be the place of meeting. The " Mataura Ensign " says :— It is umored that a oompany, composed of laading den throughout the Olutha elaotorate, is being , £ ormed for the purpose of starting a paper at ' j, Jalolutha m opposition to the " Leader," p Mr Alexander Stephen, shipbuilder, recently v purchased the estate of Kelly, Wemyaa Bay, * m tbe Clyde, for £35,000. The late Mr * fames Young acquired the estate from the late Mr James Scott for £50,000. In the report of the Agricultural and Pastoral Show an error occurred m the prize list, the words " not pure " being appended to some of Messrs Upton and Kussell'a entries of Shropshire Down sheep. Most probably this has been generally recognised as a manifest mistake, beoause the sheep scoured two first prizes, but m justice to Messrs Upton and Russell, as perhaps some persons have been given an erroneous impression, we tako this opportunity of putting matters right. The experiment of artificially forming an oyster bed at Blueskin Bay, Otago Heads has turned out a failure. Mr A. Wilson the pro* jtotor of the scheme, planted the bed with spawn, and has attended to it for tha last Ifteen months ; but the flood-water shifted the ohannol and submerged the bed m a lot of mud, and after fifteen months of work and worry Mr Wilson haa become discouraged and given up the venture. Five years age (says the " Boston Budget ") there was not an eleotria railway m praotioal operation m tho country, while to-day there are more than a dozen with every prospect that there will be a hundred within the next two years. Experts do not hesitate to prediot tbe [speedy displacement of the horse as a motor for oars m cities, and one authority believes that the change from horses to eleotrioity will go on as fast as the eleotrio plants can be manufactured. Step by step the dynamo has been so improved that the work whioh it costs lOdola to do with horses oan be done by eleotrioity or Gdols. A story of mental telegraphy comes from Christohuroh, whioh may have something m it, but as told it does not hang together. The story is that a lady m Christohuroh was, about seven o'clock one Wednesday evening, suddenly seized with a peouliar kind of fit, and she was queer for some days after. By and bye comes the news from Melbourne that her sister was killed on the railway at Essendon nbout seven o'clock on that Wed* nesday evening. The narrator forgot tbat there is a difference of about 100 minutes between Christohuroh and Melbourne time. In sooiety there are many young married ladies who seem to think that their whole duties m life consist of " going out " as muoh as possible, and being as well and expensively dressed as possible, no matter what their! husband's means may be and what bills they May ran at their dressmakers and milliners. They are entirely eaten up by the craze for society, and it does not seem to enter thoir brains that they have duties as wives and mothers.—' 4 Saturday Review." Says an English paper :— To the shame of our womankind, it was left to the Roman Catholic nuns of England to present to the Queen the best Jubilee offering. These devoted women worked as many as eight thousand four hundred articles of clothing for distribution by Her Majesty among the poor. The offer was accompanied by a beautifully; Illuminated address breathing loyalty m gentle womanly terms. The Queen was delighted with the nuns' idea, and the liberal way m which they had carried it out. England has raised the cost of naturalisation from £5 to £14 on acoount of the influx of aliens to London, and the Home Office thinks it is now none too dear. Germany practically excludes aliens exoept as temporary residents; The delarations of American political conventions within the last two or three years point m a like direotion, though they have not yet gone far on the road. Not far enough with regard to some olasses of immigrants: The " Sydney Echo " stated recently that the deaths resulting from administration of chloroform had averaged one weekly of those reported, and that there was reason to believe that the aotual number of deaths from the same cause was considerably m excess of that, SANDER AND SONS' EUOALPTI j EXTRACT. — In proteotion of the worldwide fame our manufacture has acquired all over tho globe, wo publish, the following '.—Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Dißoases of the Mind and Nervous System, ' says m an editorial published iv the *' Oiimaal Beoord " : — " We have examined half a dozen speoimem of different manufactures ; the 1 preparation of Sander and Sons' was the only one that proved to be reliable and corresponding to scientific tests." Another concootion oalled "Refined Extraot of Euoalyptus," has made its appearance since. This produot stands, acooordipg to Dr Owen, foremost m causing injurious efleotfi. That gentleman communicates at a meeting of the Medioal Sooiety of Tiotoria that a child living at Fitzroy beoame most seriously indisposed through its use. In another case a lady states on the strength of statutory declaration that se suffered cruelly from the effects of the same conoootion, To guard the high reputation of our manufacture we feel warranted m exposing the above facts, and desire the publio to exercise oare and preoauttOß when buying.— SANDER AND SONS'. — (Advt.)