LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1723, 23 December 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Master of the Home deijires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of fruit and flour for Christmas paddings for the inmates from Meßsre H. Zander and Go. & The seata for the Marjeroni Company's performance to-night are being rapidly taken np, and .there is every prospect of a large attendance. On Monday last the looal acclimatisation Society tamed oat m the Ashburton river 5000 brown trout and 1000 Amerioan brook trout (fontinalis,) also 500 brown trout m the Domain, and* to-day 5000 brown tront m the river m various places; the fish were brought from Cbristohuroh by Mr S. 0. Farr and received here by Mr Quane, the loca Secretary, who took charge of them and caw them safely into the water* According to the native journals, Japan can boast of a phenomenal giantess, Though only twelve years and five months old, she I Btands 8 feet high, and weighs 33 kwamme, or over 2701b5. Her hands measure over 9 inches And feet 15 inches. At Berne, on 9th Oot., while the troops were being eieroised m rifle drill one of the Boldiers taking part m the evolutions was shot dead and another was wounded. A search was thoroupon instituted, and a man m whose pouoh ball-oartridges were fouud was placed under arrest. An inquiry showed that the man intentionally used the ball cartridges. Little brother, whose sister is playing oarda with a gentleman : "Mr Smilor, doea Minnie play oarda well?" Mr Smiler: " Ye», very well, indeed." Little brother: "Then you ! had better look out ; mamma said if she phyed her cards well she would catoh you." The official report of Surveyor Beattie, of ' the New York Cußtom House, shows an immense amount of smuggling attempted by ladies with the aid of that expansive artiole of apparel known as a buatle. The artioles found by the stern inspeotresses m this con. venient receptacle embraoe silks, table soarff » pipes, cigar holders, diamonds, cotton and woollen goods, laoe, ostrich feathers, and divers other commodities. If theßo dieooveries tend to bring the bustle into disrepute and finally into disuse they will be weloomed by a very considerable fraction of the community, grievous as they undoubtedly are to the detected Bmugglercsses. The Great Eastern steamer was offered for sale by auotion m Liverpool by Messrs Killock and Co. The first bid was £15,000, whioh speedily mounted to £21,000, at whioh figure the vessel was knocked down by Mr Craik, manager to the late owner, Mr Worsley, of Manchester, who gave £27,000 lor the vessel twelve months ago. The sale was by order of the mortgagees. The officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Corps of Royal Engineers are about perpetuating the memory of their deceased oomrade, General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, by the erection of a large monument. The site seleoted ia m front of the Royal Engineers Institute, at the school of Military Engineering, Chatham, and the monument will ba Bubaoribed for by the officers and men of the. corps stationed ia al* parts of the world. London, despite eoarlet-fever patients, ib still the healthiest large oity m the world. Its death-rate recently was only 16*7 per 1000» while other places stood as follows : — Paris, 21-0; Brussels, 20*9; Copenhagen, 24-5; Stockholm, 20 A ; St. Petersburg, 23-6 ; Hamburg, 27*0 ; Vienna, 24*8 ; Cairo, 46-5 ; New York, 27*7 ; Philadelphia, 21-7 ; Dresden 25-8 ; Borne, 29-1 ; and Brnslau, 30*4. The " Hawera Star " of the 15th instant cays :— A capital haul of English maokorel ib reported to have been made early on Tuesday -morning m Ohariu Bay. A ehoal about a quarter of a mile m length was sighted, and of these about 1000 fish were taken, whioh varied m weight from nine ounces to about five pounds. Property m Melbourne continues to bring high prices. A piece of ground having a frontage of 85 feet 3 inobes to Elizabeth street and 87 feet 6i inches to Little Collins street, with the buildings thereon, was sold by auction,^nd realised at the rate of £1500 per foot. Tbo total purchase money was £98,037 10a. A Duntroon correspondent writes to the •• Oamaru Mail"; — I think ifcraay perhaps interest some of your readers, especially those who are lovers of the- gentle sport, to hear that the Waitaki river at Duntroon is full of fine trout just now. The other day Mr Young Rabbit Inspeptor, being on hjs way up country, stayed one night at this place. Having an hour to spare he strolled over to the river about Bundown, and m less than half an hour succeeded m landing two beauties of about Clbs each, m capital condition. The fish were rising all around, just asking to be taken out m faot. ' A very desponding picture of Frenoh agriculture is given m a recent series of Consular reports. Writing from La Boohelle one authority deolarea that farmers are going | from bad to worse; Corn, m spite of the I duties on imports, cannot be grown at. a profit, and all kinds of liye stook have fallen m price since 1885, and sell oheaper at every fair than at the preceding one. The agrioulturisls have tried market gardening and fruit, growing since the grapes failed, but with no result, except to bring down the prices of fruit apd vegetables to 'half whajt Jhey sell for elsewhere, ' ' We know that there is nothing on earth equal to Amerioan Co.'s Hop Bitters' ftp a family medicine. Look for Holloway'h Ointkent and Pills.— A frequent obuso of gout and rheumatism is the fcflammatory state of the blood, attended with bad digestion and general debility. A few does of the Mils taken m time are an effective preventive again* & gout and rheumaHem. Anyone who has an artaok of cither .Sbo&d use IJolloway'B' Ointment" also 1 , the powerful aotfon of ipn job/combined wjtn the operation of the Pills, must In/aIJJbJs effect a oure. These Pills aot directly on t& e plood, which they purify and improve. _ Having opce subdued the severity of these diseases, perseverance with-the Ointment, after fomenting the affeoted joints with warm brine, will Bpeeddy i 4&? all ct;£neß6 apd prevent toy