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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual report of the Timaru Flour Milling Company for the year ended 31et Deoembor last shows a loss of £1579 13s 3d.

A special general meeting of members ot the Tradesmen's Baaing Club was held at Mr J. G. Duncan's office last evening. The meeting atter receiving the auditors 'report, adjourned for a week. Mails for United Kingdom, Continents of Europe and America, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, &0., (via San Franoieco) and Sand* wioh Islands close at Ashbuf ton on Friday next at 5 p.m. Money orders will be issued up to 10 a.m. The meeting of the Borough Oounoil to have been held laat evening lapsed tor want of a quorum, only Councillors Scaly, Roberts^ Reid, and Thomas taming up. The cheque for the wages of the labor gang was signed, but of course no other business could be transacted-

It is stated (saya the •• European Mail") that a gentleman from New Zealand has for some month? past been making arrangements to open an establishment m London for the sale of frozen mutton, and a company is being formed with a capital of £100,000 for the purpose of bringiog the New Zealand frozen mutton direct to the consumer. Our South Rakaia correspondent write*, dating yeßterday :— Between five and six o'olook on Sunday morning we had a nice shower, and at three o'clock m the afternoon heavy rain lasting for some hours. There was a thunderstorm, the lightning being at timeß very vivid. Very little hail fell m the

township, but a few miles up the river there was a very considerable fall for some ten minutes, and it is very fortunate that nearly all the crops are down. During the night the rain was very heavy from south-weßt and bitterly cold. To-day we have had very heavy showers, intermingled with hail. If it clears off and we get good weather, it will have done an immense amount of good to the gt&BB and root crops. The Ashburton Rifles have decided to eend three of their best shots to represent the Company at the forthcoming Rifle Association , meeting to be held at Oamaru, and whioh commences next Monday. The conolnding competition for the purpose of deoiding upon the representatives was fired yesterday morning, the result being that Private A. McDonald, Private S. Salek and Sergt Nelson are the successful competitors, and will represent the Company at the meeting. Corporal Aflhton was one of the plaoed men, but is unfortunately prevented by private matters from going to Oamaru. The meeting promises to be a sucoess, a large number of entries having been received from Auckland, Welling* too, Wanganui, and other places m the North Island, We wish our local men success. The " New Zealand Herald " says that it

would be difficult to name a time when fruit was cheaper than it is at present m Auckland, and the wonder is that it does not enter more largely into consumption as an artiole of diet. Hothouße grapes are m the windows at Is 3d per lb, formely 3s and 4s ; pineapples, 4d, formerly Is ; and bananas 2d and 3d a lbj whioh are not infrequently 5d and 6d. Other classes of frait are also m proportion.

The " New Zealand Times " has been suggesting, m all seriousness, that the Wellington High Sohool girls should go m for a modified kind of football. The two evening papers visit the suggestion with a good deal of merciless chaff, while a correspondent m the ' Post ' further suggests that, with a view to still further developing the muscles of the mothers of the future, they also, under the direction of a qualified master, go m for the beooming and ladylike sport of leapfrog— but with a high fence around the sohool ground. "You don't mean to Bay that you understand French, Tommy?" "Oh, yes, I do, for when ma and pa speak French at tea 1 1 know I'm to have a powder,"

Mr Martin Simonson ia said to have made £6000 by his Italian Opera Company. He will probably leave for Italy to bring oat another, with whioh ho will visit New Zealand' It is well enough to say thirteen is an unluoky number. But the United States started m business with thirteen States, and seems to be holding her own up to going to press. Of 45 notices of death m a recent number of the " London Times " 19 were of persons upwards of 70 years of age, the oldest being 89 years and the youngest 72 years. Thei* united ages amounted to 1513 years, showing an average age of nearly 79| years. A terrible epidemio of measles has broken out m Gape Clear, a desolate island off the south coast ot Ireland. A similar epidemio occurred there six years ago, and nearly decimated the place. The mortality is high. The Boboolß are being oonverted into a temporary hospital, and medical assistance is . being Beut to the plaoo. ' Messrs Whitney and Sons aro about to ereot new buildings at the Cartridge Factory, Mount Eden. The factory will be enlarged to three or four times its present size, m order to accommodate the new cartridge manufaoturing plant, half of whioh is already to hand. This plant can be adapted to any cartridge it mayabe necessary to make, and it j will be capable of a output of 15,000 cart* ; ridges per day. 1

I The Government are bringing oat a new handbook, and it is understood m Wellington \ that Mr E. Wakefield ia to be the editor o the new publication. New South Wales enjoya a bad preeminenoo it consumes more intoxioatiDg ' liquors, and of worse quality, than almost any other English-speaking community m the world ! Here is a comparative table of some drink bills wbioh bring oat this faot : — United States per head, £1 13a 6d ; New Zealand, £3 ; United Kingdom, £3 7s lOd ; Victoria, ££ 19a lid ; New South Wales,

£5 145. 1 At Geraldine the other day Mr A. E. Brisco, while standiog m his backyard at hia premises during a thunderstorm, waß suddenly almost forced to the earth, at the Bamo time seeing an intensely bright flash accompanied by a noise. He stood up a little dazed, and was astonished to find that two pine trees near by had been considerably stripped of their bark, while a meat safe a little further off had been smashed to atoms, and a large meat blook standing beside the safe had also been turned completely over— the effect of a stroke of lightning. The British baby has been put to a new use. It has aforetime been Btarved to death, overfed to death, left on doorsteps as a present for any passer-by, But it has been left for a Birmingham lady to throw her baby boy at her husband' b head. If babies are to be pitched from pillar to post— or, to speak more correotly, from wife's arms to husband's face — the world will soon come to an end. We can't do without babiea— if the human raoe is to keep up the running. •■ For general debility and prostration Hop Bitters American Co.'s will do wonders. Prove it by trial. See

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1772, 21 February 1888, Page 2

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