LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1722, 29 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

m i_ _, — *,' » . -* teftderg Wo would draw the attention u_ _ . to an advertisement on our front page, m whioh the New Zealand Clothing Faotory announoe their intention to closo the Aahburton Branoh. At a meeting of the Committee of the Ashbur-on Itacing Club on Saturday, the balance-sheet of the Spring Mee'ing was submitted. Tho receipts were £076 16s. The largest items of whioh wore— Totalisator, £299 log ; fees, £152 ; privileges, gates, etc, £134 14s. Expenditure, £530 9s lid; leaving a profit of £110 (5s ld ou the meeting. The following stakes were paid over ;— M. and 0. Hobbs, £06 10s ; M. Bherwin, £59 17s ; It. Rutherford.. £54 3g ; M. Friedlander, £48; W. 0. Rutherford, £33 5s ; W. Burgess, £33 ss ; S. H. Lemon, £23 155 ; F. Standish, £23 15s ; J. Worner, £23 15s ; S. Alexander, £14 5s ; O. Digby, £14 ss ; L. Markey, £4 16s ; J. Higgine, £4 15s; A. McLeod, £4 15s A. Denton, £1 ss. Total, £410 ss, Keating'a Powder destroys both moths, fleas, fceatles, and all other inseots, while quite harmless to domestic animals. In exterminating beetles, the euooees of thie powder is extraordinary. It is perfeo'ly clean m application. See the article you purohasa is Heating's, as imitations are noxious and ineffectual. Sold m tins, 6<J, Ib, and 2s 6d «aob. by all cb.wiits.

There was a very large congregation at St. Stephen's Church on Sunday morning, when he Most Bererend the Primate administered he rite of Confirmation to 23 persons. The f Bishop again preached to a large congregation t d the evening. A concert m aid of the High School take? t place at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. g m excellent programme has been prepared, md no doubt there will be a large attendance, c The weekly meeting of the Dawn of Peaoe Lodge, 1.0. G.T., was hold m the Lodge Boom, ( Saunders' buildings, last evening. Previous E to the Lodge being opened a Degree Meeting i was held, at whioh the Third Degree was < conferred on two members. The Lodge was ' then opened by Bro J, Hardley, W.C.T., and after routine business was finished, the installation of officers for the ensuing quarter was gone through, the following officers being installed :— W.C.T., Bro J. Dalley; W.V.T., Sister E. Jones; W.S., Bro J. Hardley; W.F.S., Bro T. Andrews ; W.T., Bro G. W. Andrews ; W. 0., Bro A. Mulford; W.M., Bro T. M. Jones ; W.G., Bro H. Hardley. The inßtallalation was performed by Bros Dalton and Mullaney- A vote of thanks was passed to the installing officers, after which several mattsrs pertaining to the good of the Order were diaousscd. The meeting was then closed' A Committee meeting of the local Auxiliary of the New Zealand Alliance was held at tha Temperance Club roomß last night, the Be? E. A. Scott m the chair. Communications between the Auxiliary and Auoklaad Executive ware read, and matters of more or less importance contained therein were dealt with. Arrangements were decided on for the dis semination of " prohibition " literature throughout the county, and, m view of the triennial local option vote to be taken m Maroh next, it wsb further agreed to hold a public meeting, some time m January, when machinery will be set m motion to carry out the object of the Allianoe. The liquor traffic (with its attendant evils) as carried on by Working Men's Clubs came under review, and the Committee was unanimously of opinion that these institutions had failed m tbeobjeofs for whioh they were established, and were & source of incalculable injury to the moral and sooial well being of the community. A resolution endorsing these sentiments, and urging fresh legislation m the matter, was ordered to be transmitted to the Allianoe exeoutive. After a brief conversation on the Temperance seotion of Government Life Insurance, the meeting adjourned. ' They have lately oelebrakd the centenary of Don Giovanni at Vienna, and as a part of the jubilee, the City Council has voted a monthly pension of £23 to Mozart's grandniece, who has been living there m great misery. News oontinues to reaoh us (" Napier Telegragh ") of the lightness of the dips. On many of the stations where shearing has been completed the number of bales show » decrease of from fifty to one hundred and fifty on the number of last year. To moßt people the rise or fall m Buoh a comparatively insignifioant produot as tallow of the smallest fraction of a penny is a very trifling thing, but to the owners of large sheep stations it is a very groat thing indeed, On one sheep station, some miles from Lawrence* the deoline m the price of tallow alone repretents for the last twelve months a loss of £600. A curious geological phenomenon exists m the Tioinity of Behring's Strait. At Elephant Point, Kotebue Sound, a ridge two miles wide and 250 ft high seems to bo a vast mass of ice, thinly covered with clay and vegetable mould. In this soil, birches, alders, and berry-bearing plants grow luxuriantly with the stratum of perpetual ice as the underlying rook within less than a foot from their roots. The Temuka Leader states that gold has been discovered m the* Kakabu Bush district. Mr W. L, Duncan has had staying with him for some time an old miner who wont fossioking about, and who has discovered a reef on Mr Dunoan'b land which shows strong indications of both gold and silver. Down near the limekiln, aleo, a reef was discovered m whioh gold was to be Been with the naked eye. Mr Thomas, elect rioian m the offices of the Brisbane Newspaper Company (Limited), met with an aooident recently while adjusting some wires m the machine-room which were serving the electric lightß. He caught hold of one of the cables inadvertently and received a severe shock. For some time he was m an alarming condition, but m about an hour was able to converse and was out of danger. Several medical men were m attendance and seemed muoh interested m the case. HoLliOtm-'S OINTJIENT AND PILLS.-— Colds, Coughs, Shortness of Breath. — These maladies require early and unremitting attention, for if neglected they often end m asthma, bronchilis, or consumption. The ointment well rubbed upon the chests and back, penetrating the skin, is absorbed and carried direotly to the lungs, whence it expelß all impuritieß. All the blood m the body is perpetually pass, ing through the lungs, and there all noxious particles tending to disease can be quickly, thoroughly, and permanently neutralised, rendered harmless, or ejected from the system. Holloway's Ointment and Pills perfectly accomplishes this purification j and through tho blood thus ele&eed, the influence of these wonderful medioamens reaches the remotest parts of the human body, and thus cures all diseased aotion, whether internal or external.