LOCAL ANO GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1754, 31 January 1888, Page 2

LOCAL ANO GENERAL.

At the R.M. Oonrt this morning;, before Mr H. Friedlander, J. P., John Clifford, charged with helpl.Bß drunbennese, was fined 40- and ooits, and ordered to pay medioal expea.ei ._ incurred on bis behalf, tbe alternative being f 14 dayi' imprisonment. The aooased went £ *o gaol. It is annonnoed by advertisement tbat Robeon's Meohanioal and Seen.. Exhibition, ' illustrative of " Naval War as it is and as it j t was," will visit Ashbnrton this week, appear- I ( ing on Thursday and Friday evenings. There I will also be a matinee performance on j < Satarday afternoon. The entertainment is I 1 said to be a capital one, and the mechanical 1 1 efleatß are very ingenioar. Lftat week they were very short of hands • for the oookß-00 . har?e_t m somo parts of ' Banks' Penimn'ar. It iv Baid that a good ' deal of seed will be lost m consequence. , . The eleotion of a Lioensing Oommitteo for ihe Borough of Ashbnrton took place ye_ter. day. Not very much interest was evinced m the oontest, the number of votes polled being small. Following i. the re_nH:— T. Scaly, 83 1 D. Thomas, 77 ; A. Harrison, 73 ; D. MoLean, 89 ; B. Alcorn, 56 ; J. Grigg, 49 \ F. T. Mayo, 48 ; A. Orr, 45. Mes .rs Scaly, Thomas, Harrison, McLean, and Aloorn are eleoted. Major Steward, M.H.8., having written to the Minister for Lands urging that m the ' interests of settlement the lands open for ( selection m Canterbury as " fint-ola.B " and , " seoond-olaea " should be proclaimed without I delay, and also that tha Minister on his trip to this island should arrange to stay a day at I Ashbnrton and a day at Walmate, is m receipt of a memo, m reply intimating that I Mr Richardson is making a harried trip this c week m connection witb tha proposed rabbit 1 fence, and will retnrn to Wellington at once* He will try to arrange to pass v night at Ash- ' barton, but expeote that be will have to defer j this till next trip. He will forward a aoheduls • of lands to be opened m a day or two, bnt states that second-class lands oannot be deolared till the leases expire, 8 We are informed that Mr James Corrigan 6 ia opening those premises at Tinwald, formerly oooupied bj Messrs Grioo and Jackson, as a batcher's shop, he intends devoting speoial attention to the eupply of threshing machines and harvest camps with meat, etc, and will also run carts regularly for orders m town and country.— (Advt.) The "London Spectator," of Nov. 36th, , says: — "The Conservative Conference at I- Oxford, whioh met on Monday and sat for >, three days, produoed rather an ominous sign of the timeß. It included nearly a thousand ■* delegates from Conservative Clubs m the c United Kingdom, and on Tuesday it passed a Protectionist resolution by an immense m majority, only about thirty hands being held up, m the first instance, m favor of the _ •• previous question," and only about a doaen ' m the last instance, against the substance of iy the resolution itself. That means, of conrse, _ a widespread revolt against Freetrade." The " Timaru Herald " says that the Booth Canterbury Refrigerating Works are now busy getting a oargo ready for tbe Shire liner Elderslie, whioh is expeoted at that port about the middle of next month. It ia " eaid by a Home paper that hopgrowers m Kent are Helling hops at 10s and lt 12a per ow., whioh cost them fully 20s to prodnoe. 14 The " Milling World •» saye that steel may be bronzed by covering it with olive oil and exposing it to the steam of a kettle of boiling n water. „ A young man at Mangawai,. Auckland, while blowing a bottle as a horn, as a signal 1. for bia mates to oome to their meal, ruptured himself internally. Mrs Josephine M. Ayer, who gets her money 1. from patent medioine, is estimated to be worth from £800,000 to £1,000,000. 1. The " Ladies of England " are subscribing !? to pnrohase for presentation to Her Majesty the grand yelio w.orange diamond, bigger than D the Kohinoor, just found at the Cape. 1, It is stated that the late Lord Wolver ton 1 has bequeathed to Mr Gladstone the flam of - £100,000. # The «' Advocate "reports that Mr D. Soott of lower Rangitikei has a crop of sparrowbill oats whioh is expeoted to yielc. over 70 bushels _ to the aore. On three heads taken at random from the crop the number of grains was re* - speotively 310, 831, 351. A boy ten years of age, m the province of Vinoenzo, Italy, is suoh a musical prodigy b that he has been appointed organist m the 0 Churoh of Castion of Caatello. He not only II accompanies a large trained choir on the ~ organ, but is the musical director. Tbe latest society recruit for the English \ r stage is a Mrs Churchill Jodrell, who was to make her debut at Liverpool about Christmas. She can afford to gratify her taste for the stage, as Bhe is heiress to a fine estate, besides being tho patron of two floe livings. Sbe is tho wife of a son of a fashionable Liver* ' pool Burgeon, and is a oonneotion of the Duke 3 of Marlborough's family. ■, The eleotrio light is now being used m the 2 Sootoh fisheries with great suocess. 1 Several of the pug dogs on exhibition at , the reoent fair m Orange County, New York, : wore lace oollars— some of them eight inches ; deep. ' In London a paok of trained wolves are 1 delighting the little folks by doing trioks Buoh 1 as are taught to performing dogs. In Paria a 1 lot of oats are doing muoh the same trioks ai the Winter Circus. When the Chief of tho Penobsoot Indians was told that the 100 dollars that tho tribe paid its chaplain nnnunlly was " mighty poor pay," the noblo red man Birnply re.pond.d, " Mighty poor preach." An exoite'l military. 'ooking gentleman entered en editorial sanu urn one afternoon, exclaiming, " That notice of my death is falte, sir. I'll horsewhip yon within an inoh I of your life, sir, if yon don't apologise and express your regret m your next issue." Tbe editor inserted tho following the next < day:— "We extremely regret to announce '> that the paragraph wbioh stated tbat Major Blazer was dead is without foundation.' •