LUGALAND AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1771, 20 February 1888, Page 2

LUGALAND AND GENERAL

There was a complete change of weather on Sunday quite a wintry dim ate succeeding to the fine summer temperature of the WBek a In the afternoon the sky was heavily olouded over, and about four o'olook an unusually heavy thunderstorm with a deluge of rain eet m, the thunder and lightning being continuous for nearly two hours. Heavy Bhowers continued to fall at intervals during the night » which was followed by a cold and showery day.

There is a treat m store for the Ashburton publio as we are given to understand that Miss Amy Sherwin, better known as "The Taemanian Nightingale," has made arrangements with the lessee of the Oddfellows' Hall to appear here for two nights — 17th and 19th Maroh. |

At the B.M. Court this morning, before M r T. Bullock, J.P., two first offenders were fined ss, with the usual alternative, for drunken* ness. — Donald Brien was fined 10a for a similar offence.— A. Hewett was oharged with travelling on the railway without a ticket. On the application of the police a remand was granted. A Kaffir on the South Afrioan diamond fields was sußpeoted of being m possession o* tih'out diamonds, and was pursued by officers of the law. When they had come up with him he had just shot one of his oxen. They proceeded to searoh him. They ransacked his scanty olothing ; they combed his woolly hair: they tried all the usual prooeses, but never a diamond did they find, and finally they had to retire discomfited. Then the old Kaffir proceeded to pick out from the dead ox's caroase all the diamonds with whioh bis gun had been loaded, and whioh he had fired into the unfortunate beast when he saw tho officers approaching. A strange Beot has sprung up m one of thprovinoes m Spain. The prophetess dis pensed entirely with clothes, whioh led to a proseoution. The devotees, who injured themselves to represent the marks of the Oruoifixion, and burned nearly all their world* ly possessions, are also being prosecuted.

Opponents of the prize ring m England propose to introduce a bill m Parliament for* bidding the publication m newspapers of prize fight reports. A joker lately declared that a blind man, by taking something from the break-table, re* covered bis sight. What did he take? He took a tea-cup and saucer (saw.sir). Miss Maribel Greenwood's name has travelled afar, it would seem, for she reoently received a communication from Alma Tadema, the famous painter, expressing a deßire to paint her portrait. In consequenoo of the improved wool markets reoently many grazing framers along the West Coaßt of the North Island are giving up cattle and going m for Bheep, whioh yield a muoh greater profit. The Wellington correspondent of the 41 Auckland Herald " writes :— " It is stated that the direct steamers are fitting up large cooling chambers to facilitate the export of cheese and butter. In one case the demand for space was so great that they had to fit up a part of the ship intended for frozen mutton for the use of farmers making considerable shipments of dairy produce."

A farmer m Bangitikei is said to have cleared £4 an aore (over 100 aores) with a crop of grass seed this Beason. It is also Baid that there will be a very valuable export o* grass (oooksfoot and long fesone) from North Wellington and Hawke's Bay during the present month, &n tnnuuutitii guutiuuiou, intersscea m me Manawatu country, has informed a ooirospondent of the " New Zealand Herald " that the Hessian fly has made its appearanoe there, and is doing a great deal of damage He saw one orop of oats whioh was damaged to such an extent that the cattle had been turned into it. This orop covered part of 200 acres. The remedy proposed is to out the oats high up, leaving a long stubble, whioh is to be burnt off and the land ploughed. In the German Empire, where vaooination m infancy and re-vaooination at the age of 12 have bden obligatory sinae 1874, there were m 1886, only 155 deaths from small-pox m a population of over 47,000,000. In Denmark dairying is taught as a trade, boys being apprenticed for that purpose. They are not only taught the points and characteristics of stook, and all the improved modes of making butter and cheese, but schools are established where spient'fio know* ledge of dairying is also imparted. Certain!? the Most Effective MEDICINE m the world is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effeots m Coughs, Colds, Influenza, etc, ; the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. Read this certificate : — " 24th April, 1885.— Messrs Sander and Sons,— lt is with the greatest of pleasure that I testify to the excellence of your Eucalypti Extract. Having had inflammation on the bone of the leg, which came on after a s.evere attaok of low fev6r, I was attended by Dr J. Boyd, who had made strenuous efforts to save my leg, bnt without success. He found it necessary to amptuate my limb. Having heard m the meantime of the wonderful cures worked by the Euoalypti Extract, I obtained a bott3e,and the extract had not been applied more than an hour when I began to feel greatly relieved. After apply. *g the extract every four hourß for nine or ten days I wsb out of all danger. I would persuade all who may be affeoted with any suoh disease to give the Euoalypti Extraot a trial, and I am convinced that they will fin A it the most wonderful of medjoines,— Youra eto., E. J. Cuhnow, Wattle street, Sandhurst. — (Advt. . c