LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1768, 16 February 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have to apologise to our readers for the fact that the paper has latterly been very difficult to read. This arises from the fault of the type being badly worn, having seen union service. We are making arrangements to remedy thiß, and as soon as the new type, arrives (now espeoted m a few weeks) shall put % new faoe on matters. Meantime we muflt ask indulgence for shortcomings, whioh are not the fault of either the compositor or the machinist, but whioh are very acnoying to ourselves as well as to our subscribers.

A cheap excursion train will be rur from Ashburton to Cbriatohuroh on Wednesday next, one of the days of the Fire Brigade demonstration. Fares ; 5s 6d Orst-olaeß ; 4s second. The fallowing is a list of the Ashburton Volunteers who qualified as marksmen for last year : — Major Douglas, Capt. and Adjt. Fooks. Ashburton Rifles— Capt. Dolman, Lieut. Mailer, Cot. Sergt. McDonald, Sorgt. Nelson, Corpl. Ash ton, Oorpl. Andrews, Pte. Choar, Pte. A. Curtis, Pte. Graham, Pte. ■ Hepburn, Pte. Mullanev.Pto. A 1 ex- McDonald, Pte. John Sim. Ashburton Guards—Color- , Sergt. Keir, Sergt. Gates, Corpl. Morrison, Pte. J. Loitoh, Pte. J. W. Mcßae. A meeting was held on Wednesday evening with the object of forming a Bowling Club. Present— Meeßre D. Thomas (ohair), Williams, Zander, Curtis, Makeig, Hawson, Purnell, I Kneen, and Cuthbertson, It was resolved that those prcaent form themselves into a Club, to be oalled " The Aabbnrton Bowling Club." The subscription was fixed at one' guinea payable m advance, the season to terminate on June 30th. Moesrß Thomas, William?, and Eneen were appointed a Managing Committee, and Mr Hawson Secretary and Treasurer. Mr Zander was requested to prooure four pairs of bowls, and an offer from Mr Crisp of the use of his lawn aa a bowling-green was accepted with thanks. This completed the business.

The following gentlemen were yesterday nominated as members o! the South Rakaia Licensing Committee ; — Meßsrs E. S. Coster, D. Q. Holmes. W. T.yttelton. L. Oxley, and 0. W. Turner. Thiß being the number required to form 'he committee, Mr Makeig, the Returning Officer, declared them duly elected. — Only four gentlemen were yesterday nominated as a Licensing Committee for the Mount Somors district. The eleotion, therefore, falls through, and it now rests with the Governor to appoint five Commissioners.

Our South Rakaia correspondent wroto last evening :— The weather on Sunday and Monday could not have been better for harvesting, but Tuesday morning again let up know that it oould blow from north-weet. Up till two o'clock on Wednesday it continued without intermission, and put a stop to at aoking operations. In the Road Board dietriot only some bix hundred acres of wheat are uncut and a very email acreage of late oats. Some pjf the wbeat will not be ready for five or bis days. The wind is now from the south-west, but there is no appearance at present of even a ehowcr. A day's steady rain would do an enormous amount of good to the graßß and turnip orppa whioh are very much parched up. The area m turnips this year is very considerable and farmer? are looking for some good winter feed. Borne few are threshing out of Btook, but the maJDrity ara busy every minute etaoking, weather permitting. From actual observation I should not imaglbo the yield of wheat thia year will equal that of last by some bushels per aore.

A member of Wellington Rifle corps, pharged with being a non-eflioient, has been ordered to pay £3, the amount of capitation which b« had Jailed to pern, into the funds of bis corps, oa well as the oostfl of pourt. ■The Chriatchurob Tramway Oompany have resolved to extend theii lines to Sumner if satisfactory financial arrangements can be made. Tbe Railway Department is at present making a thorough test m North Canterbury of the heat producing, eteara generating, and economio values of the different V.inds of native coal. The result will be published shortly. The last spike m the Overland Itai'road track connecting Orogon with California was driven on Dec. 17th. at Ashland, Oregon* At 5.-S p.m. as boou aB the first blow of a silver sledge w&s $yen to a goldon ppike, the bells and steam whis'iea alfln^ the coast and m San Francisco— loo mileti away — gave forth joyful sound?. This result was achieved by elcjjtrioal couneotion previously made. £'ho beot medicine ia Bander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, feet its eminent power* ful efleotß m ooughs, colds, influenza, oto.~ }he relief is' instantaneous. Thousands give the wobJ; gratifying testimony. Hlb t the King of jttaly and modioal syndicates all : over the globe aw its patrons. JUea4 the official reports that accompany each bottle. We havo no occasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness! of our references. The official reports of medical olinicg znd univer> sitieH, the ofHcloial communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne ; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam — all these are authentio dooumonts, and, aB suoh, not open to doubt. Wo <Wd b{><tQ epitome of one of the various oases treated at the clinio nf Sobultz, M.D., Pro* fosHor. etc.— "O.B., 24 yea.w jjld ; oongeg. tjonal cbjpess on the thigh. Inoiaiorfs J3 uiaJc m two pUoee. Although liister'B drotfeing i was applied, the ecoret^pa became, two days i law, very copious, and had adopted a foetid, deoomposed character, The temper atur.o rose enormously. In oonsequGOOfi the dressing was removed, and on ita place were tuado during the day-time repeated irrigations with Eucalypti Extract. Tho offensive foeter dis. appeared very soon, tho fever abated within a fcv7 d»iys, and the patient recovered af er the lftpflS of several yetfsa. In this instanae we m'usl not lose sight 'of the fact thai the latter treatment js&Ved t&e ptttienVi lito.'V (Mrt) . ■'■•■• •■■•• (

" Periohondritis," the disease whioh the] " Lancet " fears the Crown Prince may develops, is " Inflammation of the membrane of the oartilage." The extraordinary woatber m theWaikato (says the " Times ") is oreating much aneasine3a regarding the crops, whioh are now fully matured. The cold, bleak wind and rain is quite phenomenal for this time of the year, which is usually tropical m its boat. Harvest orperations are touch interfered with, and ft ait has suffered to a great extent. At Ohine« nrori the orchards have been rendered nearly nieleflß this year by the oodlin moth. It is far worse than last year, and is likely to be atill worse next year. Hoi&owat's Pillb and Ointment.— Soldiers and Sailora,— -These well-known and easily used remediea are especially serviceable and convenient for those who, like soldiers and sailors, aro exposed to great changes of 1 climate, and the hardships inseparable from their calling. Many of the diseases engendered m the system from these and other untoward causes can be ohecbed and controlled by atten tion at their onset, and m Holloway's remediea will be found a ready means ol relief without hindrance from doty. Many a man is invalided and rendered more or less a burden to himself and friends from neglect ing the early Bjmptoms of his complaint wbioh calamity might be averted by timelj resort to the pse of Holloway'a Pills am