LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1706, 8 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j By announcement m another column it wil bi Bees that a monster and unique bazaar will bo held m the Masonic Hail on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Deo. Bth, 9th, and 10th, The idea has met with a most, liberal \ amount of Bupport from a very large body ; of Masons and their friends, and the bazaar i promises to be the moat successful affair of i the kind ever held m Ashburton. The hall | I itself with its beautiful decorations will | amply repay a visit, but these will be materially added to for the occasion, and f when the large collection of fancy and other goods, are displayed the bazaar will present 1 many most attractive foatures. Oa account of the badness of the weather . the social gathering m St. Stephen's Sohool- > room is postponed from to-night until next ■ Tuesday. i In our present issue Mr Frederick Mokeig announces that he has taken over the New 1 Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Com* pane's Stores m Ashburton, and is prepared to receive wool and grain for storeage or shipment. We wish Mr Makeig every suooess m bis sew venture, m whioh, owing to Ilia long experience, he should do well. It will be Been by advertisement that the Bummer Assembly dance will not be held this week. The next danea takes place on the L 17th instant. i 'Last evening there was a fair attendance to > witness a repetition of Sir A. le Fleming's I molhod of horse-taming. Two animals of a i moat vicious charaoter was broken into saddle > and harness, and thoße qualified to judge were high m their praise of Sir Andrew's system of horse-taming, The Kew ([Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Limited, has received the 7 following cablegram : — London, Nov. 0. — Tallow — Market strong. Good mutton and beef tallows are worth respectively 2<is and 25s per owt, After many yeara of retirement Blondin^ _tba iuo&£_famoua.n( tight-«»pt>-perfOr&lerß, is again giving regular exhibition m England, and .is said to have lost none of his fearlessness;ani,graeefulnesß m his old age. The heaviest British subject is a Dover k publican who weighs 40 stone. He is 6 feet . m height, the measurement of his waist, being 80 inohesr, and the size of his legs 25 inches. ' The Michigan State Prison has been shipping its wagon 9 to Australia and Van Diamante Land, and the convicts on the contraot are i oalnrally proud to see these far- off orders come m. The amount of bacon used m the American navy foots up over 1,000,000 pounds per year. How the fifteen or twenty men manage to get away with so muoh is none of the bußinsss of foreign nations. In the eightr.nine highor grammar schools m Germany which are entitled to grant certificates of the profloienoy requisite m order that military service may be reduoed from three years to one, French and English are the only foreign languages taught, Latin being •xcludel, There is a hotel m Sugar Hill, m the White Mountains, where the night watohman and clerk are both divinity students, and the scrub girl hai been for five years teacher m a publio aohool, and speaks Frenoh and Latin. The building of railroads m Mexico has been accompanied by singular phenomena. Wherever the rails are laid rain follows, and where there are no rails there has been a drought. The faot is said to be well authenticated. Aa American editor gives reasons for not publishing a poetio effusion as follows :— "Thg rhythm sounds like turnips rolling over & barn floor, while some lines appear to have been measured with a yard-stiok and others with a ten.foot pole." The Russian Government is said to he considericg plane for arresting the depreciation of Russian paper mon«y, and to contemplate the imposition of a tax upon foreign oommeroial travellers', a measure that will bo aimed principally at the Germans. A German deserter; m undress infantry Bniform, crossed the boundary and tramped forty miles on French territory the oth«r day befors, he was challenged. The incident is referred to now to Bhow how loosely the French frontier is being guarded. The use of electric light on publio buildings at Washington has led to a great increase m the number of spider's webs. The lights attractttiultitudea of inneots, and these m turn attract the spiders. In many oases arohi tsotural outline have beoome badly obaoared by the webs.