LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1744, 19 January 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first inspection parade for the current year of the Ashburton Rifles, Guards, and Cadets will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 31st, at seven p.m. A full muster is particularly requested.

Sinoo writing the article m yesterday's

issue headed " Trouble m Taranaki," infor. mation reaches us that the trouble is spread*

ing, as will be seen by the following oopy of ft resolution passed at ameeting of the Waitara Harbor Board, held on the 9th instant :—" Resolved that the Waitara

Harbor Board deoline to pay the rale now demanded by the New Plymouth Harbor Board, or any farther rate demanded by the same body, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the New Plymouth Harbor Board, and to all local bodies within the rating area of the New Plymouth Harbor Board/ Judge Black, of Lancaster, Perm., the wellknown Prohibitionist, thinka that the patty will poll from 500,000 to 800,000 votes next year for ita candidate, who, he thinks, will be General Fisk, of New Jereey. It is expected that every State will be organised by the time the National Convention is held. . He says St. John won't run again, beoause he has received enough abuse for one man, A oorreoted Bnilway Timetable for tha ourrent month will be found on the fourth page of this issne. The Sultan of Morocco has been tormented by a revolt m his harem ; and forty of his Majesty 'a laUiea have been distributed among the officers of his guard. The King of Spain, althongh but little more than 1 year old, is a general offioer m the Spanish army. Of course he is m the infantry servioe. He has been m arms all his life. Mr Blob Bom: 'Yea come on. We r ye no time to lose.' Mrs Blobsom : « But here lam m my nightdressa.' Mr Blobsom: Good enough. I'm glad you've got out of your balldress and into something decent.' In a Chinese villsge, during a time of drought, a missionary saw a row of idols put m the hottest and dustiest part of the road. Ho inquired the reason and the natives answered • We prayed our-gods to send us rain and they won't, so we put them out to see how they like the heat and drynesß." "One who knows" writes to the "Pall Mall Gazette " denjiog that there is the ghos* of a shadow of justification for the statement that Baker Pasha was to be reinstated. The Queen has given peremptory orders that the matter should not be mentioned to her. The Kreuz Zeitung asserts, on authority, that England m the event of war, will send b fleet to operate m the Baltic and another to proteot the ooast of Italy. The consent of Parliament, says the paper, will not be BBke(d until the moment cornea for putting the •rrangerr ent into effeot. " Bill," said one Jaok Tar to another, the other day, " what is a hanthem ? " •• What,'" replies Bill, "do you mean to Bay as you don't know what a hanthem is?" "Not me." » Well, then, I'll tell yer. If I was to flay to you, • 'Ere, Bill, give me that hancl. spike,' that wouldn't be a hanthem. But }t I was to Bay to you, • Bill, Bill, Bill, give, pive, give, give me, give me that, that, that, that, handspike, Bpike, Bpike, spike,' why that wonld be a hanthem." The " Manawatu Times " Bays that Auok. land is getting low-spirited and out of heart owing to the severity of the existing depression, whioh has swept away tha means of mony who were considered well-to-do. The result is that for the first time m over thirty years the annual meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society will not be held, and the nsual regatta will share the same fate. The second part of Sir Walter Bulled II Birds of New Zealand " is now issued, and fully maintains the reputation of the first poriion of the work. The plates are admir. ably illustrative of Mr Henliman's skill as a zoological artist. The two parts together contain colored illustrations of 18 species, all peculiar to New Zealand, together with 75 pages of letterpress m large and small type. The names of subscribers are ooming m freely, one of the latest being that of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who is an ardent omit tbologist.-— O.D. "Times " correspondent. The "New Zealand Times "says a report has found ourrenoy to the effect that, on tht expeoted retirement of Sir Franois Bell from the Agenoy-General at the end of this year, that appointment is to be oonferred upon Sir Robert Stout. There ia no foundation what, ever for thiß report. There ia not the faintest probability that the present Government will offer the Agenoy-General to Sir Robert Stout, and it ia considered unlikely that he would ' accept it even if offered, involving as it would the virtual aaorifice of his profitable legal bnsinesf, ; Money Market news of i&'G, London, Jan. ' 18th, quotes New Zealand Stock as follows !— Five per Cents., £103; Inscribed Stock, £90. j Tho " New Zealand Tioieß " states that it I has been deoided to reduce the rato of ' travelling allowanoe to Civil Servants from ' the present Boale of 3s Cd per £100 of salary (with a minimum of 7s 6d) to a uniform i scale of 109 per day for every officer receiving up to £400 a year salary, and 12a 6d for all ] drawing higher salaries than £400. This * change will not apply to Judges of the c Supreme Court, and exception may be made * m oases of a special charaotet. Some years ago " Punch " used to be I replete with allußiona to the Billy and mis* r. ohievous "No Irish need apply," whioh was £ frequently appended to advertisements for servants. In Wellington it would eeem that J m at least one instance the boot is on thp c other leg, for a correspondent signing him- t self " Argus No. 1," and heading his letter li " No English need apply," thus writes to the " Evening Post " : — " Every right-minded person, particularly the Irish, have at all v times felt it painful when, at the foot of an advertisement has appeared the words, "No 1 Irish need apply ; ' but I now find the heading of this letter is being applied by many ft J.t}^h Catholics. I have heard of several d joaeea iatoly, jsnd although not mentioned. in gi advertisements', to &JJ £p£l.ioants it has been ** plainly understood. Aa an instance, on ft ] Monday last a respeotabla domestio servant cc made application to a lady m this oity for w engagement, when the questions put were :— ac

' Are you a Protestant ? ' Yes. ' You are not Ijisb ? ' JSfo ; ana the reply, ♦ Then yta wod'6 Button; I prefer flab." -

"With reference to Professor T. A. Brookes' advertisement m another column, we are requested to state that specimens of his att (crystal ivory-type painting) are on view at Messrs ,H. J. Wood and Co., stationers, and Mr H. G. Flower, confeotioner.

Mr John Paterson, son of Mrs Paterson, of the Ashbnrton Forka, was drowned on Deo. 21st last, by accdientally falling overboard the steamer Marnoi, which was on the voynge from Newcastle to Sydney, New South Wales. ' The oase was of a very melanoholy nature, as Mr Patereon, a very short time previously, bad written to his friends here intimating his intention of paying them a visit at New Year, and he was evidently on his way to New Zealand, after an absence of six years m tho sister colony, when the acoident by which he met his death took place. There was no doubt whatever as to the iden'ity of the unfortunate young man, as a number of letters addressed to him from his friends and relatives were found on him,

Arising out of the lawn tennis matoh of last week, a private game was arranged between H. Woston and J. A. Caygill, and oame off yesterday on Mr C. O. Fooks' lawn The conditions were that the former was to concede the latter 15 m eaoh game, the winner of three sets out of five to be the victor. Play began at 4 p.m., Weston winning the toss and eleoting to play with the sun at his back. He scored the first two games and then Caygill scored two, both players doing their utmost, and finally the first set ended Caygill 6, Weston 4. The next Be* showed even more conclusively that Weston Witf giving too muoh handioap, Caygill winning by 6—3. In the third set both men played up splendidly, but the handioap and the hard work evidently told on Weston, who only managed to Boore two games while hie opponent went out; Though by the scores the result appears to have been an easy wiD for Caygill, it is only right to say that many of the games were splendidly contested, some very good rallies being put m, and it is not Faying too muoh to state that the matoh afforded the beßt exhibition of Bingles we have yet Been here.