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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1742, 17 January 1888, Page 2

I The Emperor of Brazil is said to be intending to visit the colonies incognito. The fungus blight has appeared on the pear trees m the orchards of the Waikato. The parents of a pair of twins named one , Simul and the other Taneoaa. A aplendid wheat yield is reported from al 1 quarters of Queensland, and millers are giving 4s per bushel. It is said that mustard plasters, if mixed with the white of an egg instead of water, will not blister the most delioate skin. A very fine speoimen ol rye grass over 7ft m height, grown on Mr James Bell's land at , Kairanga, Manawata district, has been ex- : hibitsd m Wellington. The officers of the Victorian Rabbit Depart, tnent are opposed to ths experiment! pro* posed by M. Pasteur. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Limited, has received the following oable message from London, dated 18th January:— Tallow— The market has an upward tendenoy. Good mutton and beef tallowl are worth respectively 25s 6d and 24a 6d per owt. The "Press" says that m a ease wbiehi was being heard before Hie Honor Mr Justioe Ward, it cams out m evidence that at the Chatham Islands there is the nearest approaoh to Utopia that one can look for m these , degenerate days. It was stated that there are no lawyers there. His Honor, with a smile, suggested that they could very well spare a few lawyers from New Zealand if i* were necessary. In the peninsula of Abeheron, m the pro* vince of Shirwan, there is found a perpetual, ' or, as it is hero called, an eternal fire. It has ' risen from time immemorial from an irregular ' orifloe about 12ft m depth and 120 ft m width* I The flame rises to a height of from 6ft to i Bft, is unattended with smoke, and yields no I smell. The inhabitants have a veneration i for this fire, and worship it with religious ceremonies.

>* The Jew's-harp has never been an essential! y c Jewish instrument, and it is a mistake to a imagine that ho name shows it to hava a originated with the Jews. This people have nothing whatever to do with the invention or c aie of the instrument. The correct name for c it is jaw-harp, beoause when played it is held ir between the jaws. A Bio de Janeiro joarnal| announces that, lt on a large hemp farm m Brazil, twenty y monkeys have been taught to out the hemp , and prepare it for sale. It is added that the J animals are preferred to negroes, beoause they I] work muoh faster and the cost of feeding g them is trifling. y The " Manawatu Daily Times " records an c imtanoe of liberality on the part of the d National Mutual Life Association. A young a man namod William Arthur Collins who died recently had been insured m that offioe for , the sum of £200, tho policy having been m I existence a year only, but being taken ill 8 during the days of grace, he had unfortur nately not paid the renewal premium. Notl( withstanding this, the directors have paid to I the widow the handsome sum of £100. A recent visitor to the capital of the Argan* line Bepublio says:— One of the curious customs is the manufacture of butter. The dairyman pours the milk, warm from the cow, Into an inflated pig or goat akin, hitohes it to the saddle by a long lasso, and gallops five or six miles into town with the milk sack pound, ng along on the road behind him. When he reaches the city hia ohurningisover, the butter is made, and he peddles it from door to door dipping out the quantity desired by oaob fatnlly with » long wooden spoon. Dealers m produce declare that the present season offers a good opportunity for colonial and New Zealand butter and cheese (remarks the London corespondent of the " LytUlton Times.") Several small paroela of New Zealand ebeest bare been sold m tha London market at from 48s to 5Si, which is the average price of American ohetso. Through* aut the summer Cork batter has maintained the price of 108s to 120s, the average price being 70s to 80s, and it is considered that prioes are not likely to recede before next spring. A Wanganui man who has just returned 'rom a visit to Auckland gives anything but a favorable report of the otate of affairs m tha northern city. Large numbers of unemployed were to be seen perambulating the streets, and work; was difficult to meet with. Carpenters, he was told, readily accept 5s a day, and a rumour was current, so our informant tells as, that laborers were* willing to work for Is day. The industries established were not by any means m a flourishing state, and the outlook altogether was not particularly promising. Tho " New Orleans Picayune " tells the following story of a mother's heroism. There has just been entered as a student at one of the great colleges of this city a young lad whose education is to be paid for by the proceeds of the labors of a heroine. This boy came from the oountry, and when his mother wrote to enter him at college she said b her letter :— •• At last I can give my son tha blessed privileges of education. The money has been hardly earned. I earned every penny of it walking m the ootton fields picking ootton." Before the war thiß Spartan mother was a great lady. She owned many slaves and rode m carriages and had a box at the opera, with jewels and fine clothes m plenty. To-day she walks down the ootton fields that onoe were hers, and patiently picks off the fleece, for which she is paid for piok. ing co muoh a pound. . The monthly meeting of the Tinwald Die. triot School Committee was held on Friday last. Present— Messrs J. Oaygill (chairman), W. H. Smith, S. Corrigan, M. O'Brien, and W. Bobinson. Correspondence from the Boerd was received and dealt with. The In. speotor's report was also received, and was considered satisfactory, Tha Master's usual report of attendance showed the average attendance during the last quarter to have bae» —Boys, 45 5; girls, 3 I'D; total, 77.8. The , average attendance for December had been— , Boys, 48 ; girls, 33 ; total, 81. It was agreed 1 that the neoessary repairs to fence and pump ' be attended to by the Visiting Committee. ' Mr O'Brien was present, and reasons given ( for his non.attendance were considered and ! accepted, and it was reßolved that he be al» j lowed to retain his seat on the Committee, t Mr Jephson did not reply to his notice for i non-attendance, consequently his Beat upon • the Committee was deolared vacant according x to the Education Act, and Mr John Fergie J was eleoted to fill tho vaoanoy. It was do- j eided to issue subscription lists for the colleo- 1 tion of funds for prizeß and aohool treat, such i lists to be returnable at next meeting of the « Committee. Messrs Corrigan and Smith ' were appointed Visiting Committee for next h quarter. • There are more cures made with American * Co.'s Hop bitters than all other medioines. v See flags und all. Heating's Powder destroys both moths, fleas „ beetles, and all other insects while qoite harmless to domestic animals. In oxtermi " Bating beetles, the Buooesa of this powder is c extraordinary. It is perftotly olean inapnli. q cation. See the artiol* you purohas is n Heating's .as imitations are noxious and (1 ineffectual. Sol* n tint, 64, If, a ß d ?i «d SI ticb, by ill ibewiu. 1