LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1749, 25 January 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fire-bell rang just an we were going to press (3.50 p.m.), bat it was of course too late to obtain any partionliars. We eommenoe m this itsae an interesting story of the rescue of a London waif by Dr Bernado, the philanthropic founder of the Homes for Destitute Children, to whose work we propose ehortly to refer m our leading columns. It ib headed " Saved from a Grime." It has transpired that the amount of £10 was oolleoted for the testimonial to Miss Kidd, and presented to her at the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Ghuroh on Wednesday evening. A violent nor'wester has been blowing all day, and m all probability a great deal of damage will be done to the ripe standing orops, and much grain be lost through being blown out of the ear.. A good many months ago it was reported that Mr Jaoobsen had discovered tin ore m praotioally inexhaustible quantity at Alford Foreßt. From tests which have recently been made there is not the slightest doubt that the ore will yield handsomely, for although the tests were of a most primitive nature, a large percentage of metal was obtained. The lawn tennis tournament was continued at the Domain yesterday m the presence of ■ considerable number of spectators, Messrs A. Fooks and Oliver meeting Messrs 0. G. Pooks and Caygill, the latter reoeiving half 15. The former won the first three sets, but not without some hard fighting, the first set being 6—B, but the Beoond and third being B—s each. There were a great proportion of vantage games throughout the three sets, and the victors several times won on the final stroke. The game will be continued to-day at 4 o'olook, and as to-morrow will praotioally be observed as a holiday the court will be kept going nearly the whole of the day. The looal polioe were the viotihu of a ■light " soil" yesterday. A telegram tt*3 received stating that a man' had passed' through Dunsandel on his way to Athburton who answered to the description of Nilson, a Finnish Bailor, who a few days ago stabbed a fellow countryman on board the barque Elizabeth Graham, and immediately after* wards absconded. Constables Smart and Casey proceeded towards Ohertsey and fell m with their man, but he was not the individual " wanted," although he bore some resemblance to the latter. There was no doubt as to his identity, beoause one of the constables who intercepted him had performed the offioe of " running him m " a ■hort time ago. The man was very wroth at the manner m which he had been bailed up by policemen throughout his journey, and he will probably remember for some time the annoyanoe his unfortunate resemblance to the Finnish sailor, of knife-using propensities, caused him. This morning before the Mayor, Mr. A. Harrison, Martha Dstaell was oharged with the wilful murder of her son, Thomas Blackstock Dalzell, at Bakaia, on Deo. 29th. On the application of the police a remand to February Ist was granted. The woman was removed to Addington this morning, Dr Tweed having certified that she was sufficiently recovered to be removed. Since the traxio oocurrenoe sho has been m the charge of the polioe, who are therefore responsible for her safety, except, of course, so far a9 it was affected by the natural course of things. She was at first removed to the Ashbnrton Hospital, as being the nearest institution where she could reoeive efficient medical treatment, but now having progressed so far towards reoovery it is not deemed advisable to allow her to remain longer here, as it is impossible to say what the consequences might be when she gains full consciousness of the terrible deed she has aommitted. The authorities, therefore, thought it neoessary to remove her to Addington, where there are conveniences for the reoeption of oases suoh as hers. She was accordingly sent thither by the 11 o'clock train this morning m charge of Sergt Felton and Mrs Felton, the gaoler and matron of the local gaol. Everything neoessary to avoid publicity was observed ; the woman was taken m a oab from the Hospital to the cattle siding on the railway where a carriage awaited her, which was afterwards shunted on to the train, and few, if any, of the persona on the station knew of (he woman being taken away,

Wa are m receipt of a copy of " The J Illustrated Australian News," New Zealand I

Edition, which has taken the plaoe of " The ** Illustrated New Zealand News," formerly published by Mr R. T, Whealer, Dunedin, > whioh ceased publication last October. The " Illustrated Australian " is m the familia? ol form ef the " Illustrated London News," and p 3 printed upon toned paper. The number for l S the current month contains among New n Zealand I lustrations & picture of the lying- c< in.atate of the late Wi Tako Ngatata, M.0.L., P and a well-executed view of a landscape near ° Taupiri, Waikato. There is a good selection * of reading |matter, and altogether the paper well deserves Bupport. Those desiring to a aubsaribe may do ho on application to Mr H. * M. Jones, stationer. * Several of the Tauranga farmers estimates c the yield of their orops of wheat and oats at ' between 30 and 40 bushels to the aore. . { A Ballarat firm offers to exterminate spar- < rows m South Australia for £5000, the money ' to be payable when the soheme is proved , effective. ( The editor of "London Truth" receives ] each year from some unknown benefaotor a , quantity of bright new sixpences for Christmas < distribution among the London workhouses ' and infirmaries. Last year tin number of ] coins was 10,000. The " Auckland Bell " says :— " Under an ( outer varnish of sanotity, aloaked by much pretence of religious observance, probably < more dishonesty, corruption, and deliberate villainy prevails m this tity than m any oom- : munity of equal size on the faoe of the earth." Thi •• Waikato News" states on the authority of loonl flour millers that wheat m that district will this season rule at 2s 9d to 8s per bushel. The value of th« Waikato wheat rop at 12s per Back is estimated at £80,000. The average will be 26 bushels. At the recent Crystal Palace Poultry Show r there were some 3350 pens, of fowls, 8000 pens i of pigeons, and 256 pens of rabbits exhibited. c The following are a few of tha prices for 5 which some of the birds were Bold:—Black- > red game pullet £31 10s ; Dorking oook, £21 ; y Hamburg oook, £20 ; Brahma ocok, £11 ; j black-red game hen, £10 ; Langshan oookereJ, I £10; Dorking hen. £10; Plymouth liook oookerelß, £10. Out of thirty lots Bold, not one was below 5 guineas, L The venomous snakes of India show nof Bign of becoming scarcer. Last year, of a total of 22,905 human beings killed by wild : beasts, no less than 20,667 are known to have fallen victims to snake bites. A war of extermination is being carried on with some suooess m the Bombay Presidency, where | rewards were paid for the death of nearly 800,000 serpents, and m the Punjaub 50,000 f were disposed of. The other divisions did not do so well, and the result is seen m an ' increased death rate from snake-bites m both 9 Madras and Bengal. Europeans rarely suffer harm from snakes, the boots protecting their feet, which is the part of the body most * frequently struck by snakes. HOLLOWAT'S OIKTMBST iND PILLB.— OoUghS, a Influenza. — The soothing properties of these '• medicaments render them well worthy of f trial m all diseases of the respiratory organs. t In common oolda and Influenza the Pills, . take internally, and the Ointment rubbed 1 over the chest and throat, are exceedingly J efficacious. When iofluenaa is epidemic, i this treatment is the easiest, softest, and surest. Holloway's Pills purify the blood, ! remove all obataoles to its free oiroulalion through the lungs, relieve the over-gorged f air- tube b, and render respiration free, with. f out reduoing the strength, irritating the j nerves, or depressing the spirits ; such are the ready meant of escaping from suffering when afflicted with colds, coughs, bronchitis, 1 and- other chest complaints, by which the 2 b&wh of io tn»ny U eerirntly and poemiK „ neSuy injured m moot countries.