LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1730, 8 December 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The nominations for the Tinwald Races closes at Scott's Hotel, at ten o'olook, on Saturday evening. At the B.M. Court this morning, before Mr John Ollivier, 8.M., four first offenders were fined for allowing cattle to wander at large, m one case the defendant was ordered to pay the costs only, as his was an exceptional case. —In a civil case, H. Thompson v W. Wells, claim £10 2s 63, judgment was given for amount claimed, with interest and costs. ] A daylight inspection parade of the Ash* burton Volunteers was held on Tuesday evening at half-past seven o'olook, Major Douglas being the Inspecting Oflioer. Capt Pooka was also present. There was a good muster of both the adult corps, and the Cadets, under Sergt-Major Hayes, numbered 40. The latter Corps was exeroised on the parade ground. The Eifloa and Guards were exercised m battalion drill by Capt Dolman. Before dismissing, Major Douglaß said he considered there waß room for a deal of improve* ment m the drill, and announced there would ba a Church Parado on Sunday week, at whioh a good muster is expeoted. A telegram from Pitteburg soya that the Amerioan flint bottle and window glass workers of the country havo formed an organisation to prevent the importation of oontraot labor. Thoy have raised £Q, ( QOO dollars., which will be used m the prosecution of any manufacturer who attempts to import contract labor. Skinhy Men. — "Wells' Healt l^annwer.j' i stores health and vigor, ouroa Dyspepsia mpoteace, Sexual Debility. At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Proiser, a»d Go, \ £<?flte, Ql»ie(QhHrob 2

la Paris a boy of fifteen years of age robbed a shopkeeper who had, for charity's sake, interested himself m the boy, and ran away with a girl aged fourteen years, and the boy and girl started housekeeping on the spoils. E The boy, discovering that the girl had anothe r c lover, stabbed her with a knife, inflicting three wounds, which ended fatally. A joke is going round the lobbies of the House of Representatives, at the expense of a certain Auokland member, who when sitting on a Committee the other day was attacked by a violent fit of sneezing. The attack was so violent that, to the horror of the member aforesaid and the ill-disguised merriment of his colleagues, a set of false teeth worn by him dropped out on the table. It is reported that an attempt was made last week to wreok a train on the Hawkesbury line near Peate's Ferry, New South Wales, the scene of the terrible aooident a few months ago. A long and thick pieoe of iron was plaoed across the rails, scoured by wire, and bricks were also heaped on the rails at a curve on the line where the oarriages would be thrown over a preoipioe 300 feat deep if they went off the rails. The obstructions were fortunately removed by a settler before any train passed over them. Lawn tennis was introduced under the queer title of Sphairistike, and under that name it was patented by Major Wingfield, but it was not until 1876 that it really began to take the publio fanoy. The first ohampionship ever oompeted lor was held at Wimbledon on July 9, 1877, when there were only 22 entries. A tornado, aooompanied by violent raia, swept over Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoris, m Mexico, and the vioinity. The Bio Grande rose to suoh a height that it overflowed its banks and deluged the oountry. causing great destruction to crops and houses. The damage is estimated at 1,000,000 dols. The wheat orop m India this year oooupiss an area of 5,943,400 aores, and if the average yield be 9 bushels of 631 b the total quantity is estimated at 1£ million of tons. A correspondent writes from the neighborhood of Bologna, under date Sept. 11th, that the highwaymen who are infesting the wild oountry between there and Pistola have stopped a countess who was driving home to her country house and robbed her of money and valuables to the extent of 6000 florinß. Mrs Langtry's ooaohman is one of the Bights at Long Beach. He is only a little more than four feet tall, and weighs about 110 pounds. What little hair he has is red, and his face is covered withe freokles. As a foil for his handsome mistress he is an unqualified sucoess. The "New Zealand Times" cays: — "It will be very difficult to make people at Home believe m the heavy trade depression existing [m the colony when they read that the sum of £36,287 was put through the totalisator at the Ohristohurch races. It is estimated that fully £250,000 changed hands over the Melbourne Cup, The Frenoh Government has taken measures to suppress the importation of manufactured cripples into the country from Spain. The scoundrels who deal m these things take feeble young ohildren and bind their lower limbs under them so as to destroy the use of them, and then turn them out to beg m little carts. The Government has ordered the Prefects m the Southern Department to prevent their entrance into Franoe. It has hitherto been supposed that the highest mountain m the world was Mount Everest, one of the Himalayas (29,000 feet high), but this honor is now claimed for Mount Heroules, m New Guinea, whioh rears to the tremendous altitude of 32,788 feet. The Frenoh population returns for 1886 have been issued. The births exceeded the deaths by 52,566, the smallest exoess known of late years. In 1881 the exoess was 108,000, m 1882 97,000, m 1883 96,000, m 1884 78,000, and m 1885 85,000. The divorces, whioh for the second time figures m the returns, were 2948 m 1886, against 4277 m 1885. Paris furnished 650 of them; whereas Hantee, Alpes, and Lozere had none, and Canto), Savoie, and Vienne had only one each. An important report bearing upon the efficacy of wire-netting fences for ooping with the rabbit nuisanoe has been furnished by Mr Stanley, one of the New South Wales Stock Inspectors, who has been carefully observing and experimenting with young rabbits. He finds that rabbits four weeks old can get j through wire-netting with a mesh of 1£ inch with the greatest ease. As young rabbits are left to look after themselves even before reaching that ago, he regards it as absolutely necessary to provide against young rabbits getting through the fences. If Bteps are not taken m this direction the immense expenditure on rabbit-proof fenoing will prove practioally useless. 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Cured m fourteen days, Surgical Clinic of Prof. M'lntyre, College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Ijoui's— Soirrhus of Breast-^ Exoiaion. Euoalypti Extraot employed. No swelling, heat, or discoloration. Cured m fourteen days.— (Advt.) 4