The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1735, 14 December 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Sohoeneberg, cabinet maker, of East street, has Borne very handsome specimens of cabinet work, manufaotered from native woods, on view at his premises, which would well repay inspection. The following will represent the Ashburton Cricket Club m the mat oh against Timaru, to be played m the Domain on Friday, the 16th : — G. Andrews, Strange, Hargreave, A. Fooks, Jamesoa, Wroughton, Walmsley, Denshire, Simpson, Socretan, Caygill, Buchanan, and Hawson, The matoh will commence immediately after the arrival of the train from Timaru. . Paper window glass is now said to be an assured fact. A window pane is made of white paper, manufactured from cotton or linen, and modified by chemical action. Afterward the paper is dipped m n preparation of camphor and alcohol, which makes it like parohment. From this point it oan be moulded and cut into remarkably tough sheets entirely transparent, and it can be dyed with almost the whole of the aniline colors, the result being a transparent sheet, showing " 'TSt'tiliSlc VfVuJ ; iiutjß tfittfl''f2jo-jM«$*H5'6W ; o*? hibits. i *' ■"'"'■ ""T^ As showing the voracious appetites of the trout m the Waitaki River, we (" Oamaru Mail ") may instance a trout caught by a gentleman last week, and weighing 91bs, which was found to contain between 140 and 150 whitebait. It might be stated that the white* bait m question are nearly double the size of the ordinary fish of that kind, and are, more correotly speaking, a kind of smelt. Anglers state that since these small fish have come into the river, the trout have much improved m quality. Recently some eight or nine fishermen visited the river, but, as the water had risen, and there was a heavy sou-wester blowing, only a very few fish were caught. The Emperor of Germany is said recently to have remarked to a personage who con* gratulated him on his excellent appearance, " Indeed, I now feel very well; but I must be bo, for I have one more wish which I should like to see fulfilled." After a Bhort pause he added, with deep emotion, " I should like to hear once more the voioe of my son, the Crown Prince, loud 'and 'sonorous as m former years." Writing to the " New Zealand Mail". the other day, on the subject of the depression of British Trade and Industry, Mr J. Dransfield | said that he had calculated that the produce I of five acres of wheat could be brought from ■ Chicago to Liverpool at less than the cost of , manuring one acre of wheat m England, i The acreage laid down m wheat m the Old Country has fallen from four millions m 1869 1 to 2£ millions. British farming capital is estimated to have depreciated by 200 millions Bince 1880. Thirteen persons m one family suffered from fever m |Marylebone through drinking from a filter, the charcoal of whioh had | become impure owing to the hot weather. Dr Samuel J. Fort gives an acoount of a case of abnormal memory m the person of a congenital imbecile, aged 43 years, now m his I private asylum. The memory ia the only remarkable trait m this otherwise ordinary imbeoile. He could compile a complete directory of those whom he has met during forty years of his life. He is very apt m remembering location and direction. Once passing over a road suffices to indelibly impress upon bis memory the surroundings. What he reads is apparently fixed for ever. Mention an incident of a tale [and be will give the title and the rest of the talo. He bas no power to classify or generalise the things he remembers.^" Baltimore Star."

A man at Prague, Bohemia, swallowed a iratch with chain attached, which a joker had lippled into a glass of beer while the man'B lack was turned. The metal dissolved by the tcids of the stomach has poisoned the organ tnd keeps it m an incessant fever making rim unable to retain food. The man has jeen dismissed from the Munich Hospital as ncurable, aud now lies m an hospital at Prague, kept alive by food artificially ie jeoted, waiting to see whether the watch will all diß- j solve or he will die first. A Wellington paper says:— Mr liawry, M.H.R, for Frankly n North, nearly lost, to use his own expression, the number of his mess the other day. It appears he had a booth drawn m the morning, and m the operation an artery or vein was Bevered. The bleeding lasted pretty well all day, but had ceased when Mr Lawry retired to rest. Dur" ing the night he was awakened by a choking sensation, and found a large clot of blood m bis mouth, while the pillow and bedding were saturated. Mr Lawry got out of bed to call for assistance, but, weakened by loss of blood fell to the ground m a semi-conscious state. When he again came to himself the bleeding had stopped, but he has only just recovered from the effects of the accident. A historian named Salamon recently found m the archives of Buda Peath 500 wills dated from 1852 to 1874, whioh had been deposited by the teßtators, and should have been published when they died, but were quite for* gotten. The wills which were not invalid m consequence of the length of time which has elapsed will now be published, and complicated law suits are certain to follow m many oases-Thirty-four wills are Btill legal, and the names have been made known, so that great excitement prevails m a number of Hungarian families. The Bhearers agitation at Caramut, m the Warrnambool district, bas assumed the mosl serious phase. Since Saturday Union mer have been m possession of Mr Ware's Bar widgee Station. The Unionists have beer j warned that if they entered Barwidgee the] would be prosecuted for trespass. Despiti this, however, a body of eighty of then marched to the shearing ehed and demandei some Non-union shearers. Mr Ware locke< up the Non-union shearers m the house, am had them guarded by the police. The m traders remained [at the station all day am Btopped the shearing. They also oapturei four Non-union men, and sent them to th camp at Caramut. "Bouoh on Corns."— Ask for Wells "Bough on Corns." Quick relief, complete permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. A obemista and druggists. 8-