The Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1721, 28 November 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The travelling agent of the New Zealand Bible, Traot, and Book Society, Mr D. Haggett, is now m this town and baa opened m Saunders' Buildings for a few days only with a Btock of the Society's publications. The next danoe m conneotion with the Summer Assembly will be held on Thursday at eight o'olock. The Temperance play, " The Trial of John Barleycorn," will be produced m the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday evening. As an extra attraolion vocal and instrumental items are announced. The- juryman who inquired into the Exeter fire, roundly censured both Mr Phipps and the Magistrates, and it is generally under* stood that a strong minority was m favor 0 returning a verdict of manslaughter agains' the whole of these individuals. I certainly regret that they did not do so, for although the chances of a conviction were remote, still it would have been an excellent lesson to a fashionable arobiteot, who appears to think that he is justified m defying the recommendation o! the Board of Works, and to a parcel of ignorant and careless J.P.s, to find them* selves m the dook on a criminal oharge. Borne suoh example is very much wanted, if ony^oK?* encouragcr les autrcs,-^^" Truth." A Viennese lady swimmer has jußt beaten the feminine aquatio reoord, She is the wife of a Vienna professor, and swam along the greater part of the Lake of Gmunden (Taun See). Hue oooupied two hours from Gmunden to the Little Kamioes. In returning she took lour hQura, the lake having become ro'igh. This is the first time that a lady has swam m a lake for six hours right off. Hollowav's Ointment and Pills.— Colds, Coughs, Shortness of Breath. — These maladieß require early and unremitting attention, for if neglected they often end m asthma, bronchitis, or consumption. The ointment well rubbed upon the chests and baok; penetrating the 'eTnoVia absorbed and parried directly to the lungs, wtierjpe" "it ' ex^s all impurities. AH thfi blood jn the body is' perpetually pass- i ing through %c Juuga, and there all noxious \ particles tending to <U?esss pan be .quickly, thoroughly, and permanently utfuij-ftijseci, rendered harmless, or ejected from the system. Holloway'B Ointment and Pills perftotly accomplishes this purification • and through ttyfl blood thus oleaeed, the iDfiueaoe of thud's Wonderful medioainens reaouei the remotest parts of the .human body, and thus euros all <lis.e&i6JJ jjQtjoii, ttsßs«f internal et, •it«n»J, .... i

A concert m aid of the treat (and of the I ampßtead School waß held m the Oddfellows' " [»U on Friday evening; There was a large ttendance, all the available seating aocomoation being oooupied. The Mayor, Mr T. ealy, occupied the chair. A miscellaneous rogramme, contributed to by the children s ttending the school, assisted by friends and fc thers, was presented. The whole affair t iassed off most successfully, each item being t warmly applauded. The infants, during the t ourse of the evening, rendered several pieoes a a really creditable style. These were as a ollowb :— " Now we little children assembled 1 n school"; "Here we stand hand m hand"; < •Raise your hands if they are clean"; < •Now let ua match our teachers' hands "; 1 rio, with chorus, "Little bird yon are welcome " ; and a very diffioalt, comical, and ' pretty piece " One finger, one thumb keep ' moving." Kecitations were given by Misses Jane Addis, Kate Battray and Mary Stigley m jn excellent manner. Pianoforte aoloa were contributed by Mrs Mayne and Misses ' Blanche Fowke and Emma Orr ; and a violin J iuet^by Masters Orr with a piano aoeompani- ■ ment by Miss Alice Orr. Songs were rendered ' by Mlsßes Barrett Alcorn and Kidd, and by Messrs Kneen and Lamb. The whole affair was moßt successful and the outcome, financially, should be most gratifying to the promoters, AnoDg other curiositieo of plant life exhibited at a late meeting of the Royal Botanical Sooiety waß a leaf of the Tiotoria Regia watorlily, seven feet m diameter, ihowing the peouliar airucture of the under side of the leaf, from whioh one might suppose th« cellular Btrnotura of tome ironolada and Other large vessels was taken, the radiating ribs or veins resembling T girders, tied together by deep lateral walls, forming maiiy hundred air-tight cells, some aa large as to contain lOoz of water. A single leaf wiil support a weight of 4001 b. A large seizure of milling machinery, whioh it is alleged has been considerably undervalued, was made by the Customs authorities at Melbourne about a fortnight ago. In one ease it is asserted that machinery passed through the Oußtoms as worth £2064 is really worth £7000, and that m the other case £3000 instead of £629 is its true valae > The representative of the importers denies that any fraud has been attempted. la the meantime the Commissioneer of Customs hesitated to pronounoe judgment till all the facts and evidence are before him. Mr W. Courtney, m despatching a small parky o£ emigrants-to Taranaki, at the begin. | ning of October, wrote :•— " I shall not have aa large a party out with me as would have been expected, the news from the Colony being so far from enoouraging, and the fare, though low for the distance, yet high to those of very small means. It is £3 3s to America, and that Is what kills us. Fiftyfvessels and 300 Hves|haYing been lost m the British Channel during the storms of last autumn;and;winter, a firm of coalowners at Swansea have offered to supply the neces- j eary fuel gratis if the Admiralty will under-take-before stormy weather again sets m to station a powerful steam tug off the Mumbles Head with the view of affording help to vessels m distress. ' Although shorthorns m England have fallen m value far below that of a few years ago, prices above the general run were obtained by the Earl of Beotive at the sale of his celebrated Underley herd on 7th September, when 32 cows and heifers brought an average of very nearly £80, and 13 bullg at upwards of £00 per head. Two Grand Duchesses were sold for £950 ; two other oowb for £108 each, one for £130, and one £100. Of the lot sold 32 oows brought £2531 Us, and 13 bulls, £702 15s. Not long ago a wag changed the notioe, 41 Wait until the train stops," m a car of the London under-ground railway, to " Wait until the rain atop?." The next day, whioh happened to be a rainy day, a French gentleman got into the car and read the notioe, and 'hough surprised at it, determined loyally to obey the rules of the road. At every station he aßked a porter if it was still raining, and on receiving an affirmative reply, went back to his seat. And it waa not until he had riddf n three tim^a round the inner eirole that he discovered his mistake He now thinks aR little of English wit as he doeß of the Erjglifh climate. Surely some steps ought to be taken to put a stop to the vagaries of Mr Bartholomew Binns, ex-hangman, who is at present travelling about with an exceedingly disgusting show. Mr Binns has got together a company who represent the scene at an execution, the characters being a surpliced chaplain, a gaol governer, two reporters, and a lay figure supposed to be Mrs Berry, the Oldham prisoner. The group is arranged under a scaffold, and the ex-hangman proceeds to hang the lay figure. Binna is doing a roaring trade, but there certainly ought to be some way of suppressing this disgusting exhibition. We clip the following? important testimonial from the " Illawarra Merourry " (N.S.W.) on the 30th March. It needs no comment: " Mr John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to ua that after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extraot. He says seeing the said Extraot advertised m the • Illawarra aleroury, 1 his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr Hosking, chemist, of thiß town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once He states that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extract, and on the 19th, the use of that medicine oontinued to afford him relief, to whioh he had been a B'ranger for four years. Mr Loveday writes also that be has found the Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests ne to publish thie information through the 'Mercury.' We have much pleasure m complying with Mr Loveday'a request, whose word cannot be doubted, and who can have no objeofc m view other than a pure desire to benefit suffering humanity," (Advt.)