The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1719, 25 November 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The £70,000 given to Queen Viotoria on her Jubilee will be devoted to tho training of nurses.

President Grevy, of France, was eighty years old on tho 14th ult. He received one thousand telegrams of congratulation.

An experiment was made by feeding fifty pigs on whey alone, and it was found that they consumed 2£ tons a day, m other words each pig drank his own weight m whey ; and advanced m valuo Od to 9d per week. Another who used meal m conjunction with whey estimates that each cow is worth 80s a year for pig-fatting. By the judicious übo of meal the pig is an important factor of the profit of a dairy business.

An extraordinary fraud has just been discovered. A gentleman of German origin insured his life m an English Company for £20,000 m favor of his mistress. Ha then tried to pass himself off as dead, and obtained a body whioh was buried m his name. The company, on the faith of certificates, paid the money ; but suspicion was afterwards aroused, and inquiry led to the gentleman's arrest at Versailles. A French doctor, his son, and a ohemist are also oharged with being his accomplices.

Linanaur, a volcano on tbe eastern boundary of tho Chilian province of Antefogasta, has boen aeoended by Don Jose Santo Tioes, and undoubted evidonoo found that tho voloano was at one time inhabited. An inner road leads to the summit, acd Peruvian " tambos," bouses of a single room, with a low atone benoh, -till remain upon it. The bottom of the crater ia about a quarter of a mile aoross, and haa a pond 400 feet acreas m its centro. Around the pond are the remains of some thirty large stone houses and a large quant : ty of fuel, whioh must have beon carried there at least 400 years ago, but whether by the Peruvians or by their enemies, J the Calohagui Indians, cannot be known.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— A frequent cause of gout and rheumatism is the inflammatory state of tbe blood, attended with bad digestion and goncral debility. A few doses oi the pills taken m time are an offeotual preventivo against gout and rheumatism. Anyone who has an attaok of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the powerful action of whioh, oombined with the operation of the pills, must infallibly e_eot a oure. These pills act directly on tbe biood, whioh they purify and improve. Having once subdued the severity of these diseases, perseverance with the ointment, after omenting the affected joints with warm brine, will spaedily relax all stiffness and prevent any permanent ontraotion.

We have been requested to state that tho Rev Father Chastagnon will celebrate Mass at Bakaia on Sunday next at half-past ton, and Vespers at Ashburton at the usual hour.

A concert will bo hold m the Oddfellows' Hall thia evening m aid of the Treat Fund of the Hampstead School.

The Robin Hood Combination gave their seoond performance m the Oddfellows' Hall last evening to an audience of about forty. The programme, whioh was an entire change from the previous evening, was gone through with great spirit, m spito of tho " beggarly array of empty boncb.es." It is a pity that tho Company did not receive more substantial support during their visit here. At the H.M. Court this morning Mary Mahony, suff eriug from lunacy, waa committed to the Sunuysido Asylum. Tho Bench was |occupiod by Messrs H. Friedlander and Thomas. In an article " Beat Butter " tbe " Sydney Mail" justly remarks:— Tho tost of butter is not its quality at tho momont of judging, a few days after it has been made, but its keoping proporties. it is quite possible for an inferior and expert maker to produoe an equally good toasting artiole when now, only that made by the former will not keep. In this lies tbe want of education. Training is wanted m every phase of tho process — fermentation, acidity, mould, and, indeed, ihe entiro riponing prooess, as well as m the management of cattle, the selection of breeding Btook, feeding, and the preparation of food, togotb.Gr with a knowledge of the best foods for production of milk, butter, and cheese respectively. The " Dunedin Herald " Bays : — Thore must surely bo something radically wrong m the management of our railways when suoh a state of things could exist as is indioated by the following clipping from the •' Tuapeka Times " : — " Quito a number of tenders were reoeived by Messrs James Smith and Sons, of Greenfiold, for the cartage of their wool clip to Dunedin. Tho one they aooepted gives a saving of Is Od a ton over sending by rail, and 10s a ton on return loading. Now tbat the freight has been reduced by Cd a bale, some arrangement may be made with the successful tenderer to abandon bis eontraot. During the past two years and nine months the amount of freight lost to the department from this station alone is _2500, the greater portion of thia produce having gone by road." Our contemporary also avers that while tho freight on a truok of chaff botween Gore and Dunodin is £2 10s, the oharge for a truck of wool iB £7 10s. Thore was so muoh soientiflo enthusiasm m Russia on the approach of tho eolipso of the sum that 115,000 glasses and 400,000 pamphlets wore sold m Mosoow alone. Forty-oight village sottlors at Pa hiatua, near Masterton, have sont a petition to Parliament asking that no attempt bo made to alter the tenure of their holdings, as they prefer perpetual lease to freehold. This is a praotical proof of the success of Villago Sottlomonts. The irrepressible Captain Barry sppoara to bo " storring " it m Viotoria, aa tho " Argua " of tho 1 ith inst. says ;— " Capt W. Juokson Barry, who is a colonist of lifty-oighl yoara' i standing, is announced to deliver a leoturo on hia colonial oxporionooa m tho Town Hall Suppor-room on Monday ovoning. It will bo under tho patronago of His Excollenoy tho Governor. i SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EX- < TRACT.— In protecion of tho world-wide i fame our nianufaoturo has acquired all ovor i theglobo, wo publish iho following :— Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Faihology and Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, says m an editorial published m the " Clinioal ' ltecord " : — " We have examined half-a-dozen ' specimens of different manufactures ; the preparation of Sander and Sons was the only ' j one that proved to be voidable and correspond- ( ing to scientific tests." Another c. noootjpn ' called " Itetined Extraot of Eucalyptus " ha. < mado its appearance since. Tins produot I stands, according to Dr Owen, foromoat m causing injurious effeots. That gentleman 1 communicates at a meeting of the Medical Sooioty of Victoria, that a child living at < Fiizroy becdmo moat soriouply indisposed through its use. Iv another case a Ifedy ctateT / on tho strength of statutory deolaraticu thai, ' pho Buffered oruelly from tho effects Cf the ' samo ,o,oncooiion. To guard tho high roputa- * tiou of our' manujfaotujro we fool warranted ( m exposing tbe abovo facts, aud deeirs the publio to exercise precaution when buying--, f torn* *** mvriuty ■ w ~ |