The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1715, 21 November 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

♦ Messrs T. Scaly and A. Harrison were to-day [nominated for the oflioe of Mayor An eleotion will take plaoe on Wednesday,' November 80th. We learn that, on the recommendation of Colonel Bailey, Messrs Benjamin Lowe and J. Arthur Orr have been appointed Honorary Liflutenanta m the ABhburton Rifle Cadet j Volunteers as from 7th instant. Both these young gentlemen have been members of the corps from its inception, and Major Douglas speaks very highly of them. We oongratulate our young friends on their well-merited promotion. The polioe are keeping a sharp look-out for any evasion of the Employment of Females Aot,'and an information has been laid against one draper for a breaoh of that aot. i Owing to the obstruction oaused at Jones' corner on evenings when the Salvation Army hold -their open air servioes on the Railway Reserve opposite, tho police hare, we understand, determined to keep the footpath clear, and proceedings will be instituted against any person who fails to move on when requested. We wish to draw the attention of the public to the reproduction of the " Trial of John Barloycorn" whioh takes place to-morrow (Tuesday) night at the Oddfellows' Hall. The last rehearsal will be held to night at 8 o'clock. The Flemington Cheese Factory invite tenders for purohase of whey. Particulars appear m an advertisement. A sufferer from tho rabbit plague m N.S. Wales believes that unless some very effective measures are taken to deal with the rabbit pest, one half the country will be abandoned io two years.) Ag the special train to Christohurch on Thursday night last was nearing Orari it passed over a oow, killing her. Fortunately the train was not thrown oil the line or a serious acoident might have resulted. An information has been laid against the owner of the cow.

A return of unproductive railway" works whioh has been laid on the table of the House shows that the total expenditure upon Buoh works up to the 31st Maroh, 1887, was £599,707. The outlay upon the unproduotive portion of the Manawata Gorge section amounts to £48,000, and that upon the Man-gamahoe-Eketahuna seotion of the Wairarapa line to £18,236. The leading firm m Wiltshire of baconourers have indicated m reply to a set of questions the most desirable pig for the present demand for lean bacon —an eight-month-old pig, weighing 1601 b, fed upon skim milk and whey, with allowances of pea or bean meal. The Tamworth or large Yorkshire breeds are preferable to the Berkshire, whioh has a tendenoy to beoome too fat on the poll and shoulders. What is wanted is a good, long, deep.Bided pig, with plenty of hair and large bono, the two latter points indioat. ing a good proportion of lean. The market value for lean m preferenoo to fat baoon is 20 per cent higher. Miss Fay, who has received several flatter; ing notices m leading London papers, was giving a " Spiritualistic " seanoe at Blackburn on September 20; but the performance came to a sudden termination, for some people m the audience struok lights. Miss Fay was supposed to be floating across the room m semi-darkness, but as the figure passed over the heads of the audience it was caught, and lo! the Spiritualists object was found to be nothing but a dummy of worsted and gauze, manipulated by wires, while Miss Fay herself was to have climbed to the roof. There was a disturbance after this, the platform was stormed, and the polioe had to be called m. The Cotton Oil Trust, have monopolised the cotton seed oil trade ot America, by reason of their enormous capital and manufactories fitted with the latest machinery. These great capitalists ruin everybody, to their own aggrandisement. The growers do not intend to tamely submit, but will run companies of their own, In contrast with this, the Danish dairy farmers unite on the 00-operative principle, to supply the public with their produots. Co-operation is the probable solution of the labor and capital war. Prince Bismarok possesses some of the largest and finest forests m North Germany, and, |with the exoeption of Prinoe Furstenberg, the lord of the Sohwarzwald, he is probably the largest timber merchant m the empire. Prinoe Bismark also owns some very extensive distilleries, his annual output being about 650,000 gallons of spirits.