LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1736, 15 December 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

» , To-morrow being Anniversary Day will be observed as a holiday by the Banks. The Coldstream Road Board will meet on Monday next, at two p.m., at Longlands. The Ashburton Rifles, Guards, and Cadets will attend Divine Service at the Weßleyanj (Dhuroh on Sunday morning. The three pompapjea are ordered to parade at the Post Office at ten o'clock m full dress, with sidearms and white gloves. A large muster is anticipated, An entertainment m aid of the treat fund of the Aahbarton Borough J3chool wilj be j held at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. A very attractive programme has been pre. pared, the first part consisting of musioal items, and the second of a comedy 'entitled '• The Suspicious Husband." The ladies and gentlemen taking part m the comedy have spared no time and trouble m order to gain profioiency m their parts, and there eeemc little doubt that the entertainment will be a great success. We remind our readers ol tbo Garden Party to be held at St. Stephen's Parsonage to-morrow evening. Very careful preparations have been made, and no doubt everything will go off well. Among the games to be provided are lawn tennis, oroijuet-, swing?, quoita, bowls, etc To suit persona from this country tea will bo served until 7 p.m., but after 6 p.m. a shilling only will be charged tot admission to those who do not wish for taa. In the event of to-morrow being wet the tea and sale of work m connection with St. Utepbem's Garden Party will be held m (he Church S.chQQipo9n9, A telegram from Chriatcharoh says : — The $r?enwooda opened on Tuesday evening at the Theu tf fl Royal to an appreciative and enthusiastic audio^' 0^ oi si^en pieqoa given cloven were encored: They play at Ashburton next Monday and Tuesday. Mr Goschen'3 Jubilee sixpences are Belling freely m London at 2s 3d. In shop windows where the coins are exposed for salo a gilded sixpence and a half sovereign are exhibited on the same card with the question •• Which is which ? " superadded. The shop windows of Mr McFarlane's grocery premises, both m East street and Burnett street, are now profusely filled with ; the various and toothsome arJiolea co much i m demand at the approaching Christmas ■ season; The assortment of dried fruit, candied ', peels, jellies, spices, preserved and orystalised j fruits, nuts, almonds, confectionery, etc., being very artistically arranged, showing that ( the stocks m both establishments are now ' replete with all the delicacies now so much m ' demand. The collection of china, glass, and ' crockery ware m the Burnett Btr,eet premises io also well sorted up, so that buyers of all these goods can be supplied fit very jpw rates, < and have large, and good stooka to ealect <

It must be excellent news to impecunious

people (says " Truth ") to know that there is a part of the kingdom within easy reach of London where County Court summonses Oannot be served. This happy spot is a certain portion of Penge, which is called, naturally enough, " Tom Tiddler's Ground ; " and the reason why writs do not run there is because no man knows m what parish it is situated. The interesting fact came out at a meeting of the Croydon Board of Guardians recently, when it was stated that '• one part of Penge was m Kent, another m the parish of BatterBea, and part of the remainder m Surrey *> Gome of the police business went to Lambeth, ! some to Bromley, and some to Croydon ; while. the sanitary authority for the Hamlet of Peuge was the Lewisham Board of Works, and for poor-law purposes the Croydon Union. Pengs was most peculiarly situated." So we should think. The agriculturists of Victoria complain bitterly of the competition of Indian Wheat and New Zealand produoe. At a Wesleyan gift auction at Oambridge a few days ago, two black Bheep were sold which had been presented by Mr Millman. The joke m the locality is that it is seldom that " blaok sheep " bring oredit or profit to a church. The Eduoation Department m Wellington has a staok of opinions by specialists on eduoation which etandß three feot high. As honorable members have acoesa to this formidable heap of documents, none ought to be ignorant of the subject. The polioe force of the Colony subscribed the sum of £130 8s to aid the wife and family of Constable Henry Porter, who was drowned at Fort Chalmers. The best medioine known is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects m coughs, colds, influenza, etc. — the relief iB instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globs, are its patrons. Bead the official reports that accompany eaoh bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards m proof of tho genuineness of our references. The official reporta of medioal clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam— all these are authentic documents, and, jas such, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various cases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc.: Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epidermis on the yolar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year-old patient was completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand; The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounds thus contracted healed m three weeks under daily applications of Ijjjucalyptio Extract dressing. The patient has retained the full use of her hand.— (Advt.) 1