LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1787, 12 March 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. G. Thomas, Burgeon dentist, will be m ABhburton on Thursday and Friday next.

The annual general meeting of the Ash burton Rifles is called for Thursday nest, at 7.30 p.m., at the Drillshed.

A meeting of the Directors of the Caledonian Society was held on Saturday evening, Mr W. H. Kneen m the ohair. It was resolved to have four Ingleside meetings during the approaching season, the' first to be held on March 28th. An Ingleside Committee was appointed consisting of Messrs Kneen, A. McKenzie, Paul, Elliot, R. Patterson, A. Patterson, the Treasurer, and the Secretary. sharks were reoently caught m one day off the end of the breakwater at New Plymouth.

A family named Doyle, living near Killarney, became suddenly insane on Jan. 29tb, from the effects of poisonous food, and fought horribly together. Next day one of the sons was iound dead m tbe pigstye, with hie face eaten away by the hogs.

During tbe sermon a clergyman onoe noticed from the pulpit a young man who peeped m at the churoh door and anxiously looked round the oongrpgation. Grea'ly annoyed, tbe minister Btopped m the middle of bis disoourse and exclaimed, " Young sinner, you can go back 1 She is not here 1 "

Some very successful experiments m rabbit poisoning have been conducted by Mr MA n drew, of Port Arlington Victoria. He dug a long trench, and m this spread 701 bof appleß out m Beotiona ( and treated with 6»z of strychnine. This quantity, the experimenter says, was sufficient for a thounand aorea of rabbits. In the morning a thousand dead rabbits were discovered m the open, and a similar number lying m the scrub. This ocourred m the diatrict from which the trappers had just d' parted on acoount of there not being sufficient rabbits to make trapping pay. Mr M'Andrew lays stress on the faot that to make tbo bait effective tbe apples should not be bandied.

In Cuba a woman never loses her maiden name. After marriage she edde her husband' 8 name to her own. In being spoken of she is always called by her Christian and maiden name. To a stranger it is often quite a task to find out whose wife a woman is. Never hearing the wife oalled by the husband's name, one naturally does not assooiate them together. Tbe children take the name of both parents, but place the mother's name after the father's.

" My darling," Baid a fond mother who believed m appealing to children's tender feelings instead of punishing them, " if you are so naughty you will grieve mamma so that Bhe will get sick and have to lie m bed m a dark room and take nasty medicine ; and then she may die, and have to be taken away out to the cemetery and be buried ; and you will — " The ohild'B faoe had beoome solemn and more solemn, but an angelic smile overspread his face at his mother's last words, and throwing htß arms about her neok, be exclaimed, "Oh mamma I and mayn't I sit besitlo the coachman ?"

Colonel Bailey, commanding the South Canterbury Volunteer Diatriot, was a pas* eenger from Cbristohurch by Saturday's express train. It is expected that he will be present at Tuesday evening's Inspection Parade here, and that he will then be m a position to state what arrangements can be made for the Easter enoampment. The telegraph wires between Christohuroh I and Hokitika were down this afternoon west of tbe Bealey, thus cutting us oS from telegraphic communication with the Weßt Coast. The Port Darwin line is also interrupted north of Barrow's Creek, but early restoration is expected. The records of the Challenger expedition will soon be completed by the publication of the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twentyfourth volumes. This work has been m course of publication ever since the end of the voyage m 1874, and the cost of compiling and printing the report is said to have already exoeeded £200,000. A sensational inoident ocourred on Sunday morning during the progress of the servioe at St. Stephen's (Anglican) Church. Mr Ward, lay-reader, had just commenced the second lesson when a respectably- dressed man, of pale features, and apparently labouring under mental excitement, entered the Church, and proceeding straight up the aisle, opened tbe gate m the communion rails, and was s and* ing before the altar when Messrs Jameson and Bland, churchwardens, taking him by the arms, as quietly as possible conducted the intruder to the Vestry, and thence out of the sacred building, not, however, without considerable resistance on his part. After hammering at thu outside walls for some time he was induced to go away. It is stated that the individual m question is of weak intellect, and, if so, certainly needs to be bett< t ookei after. He has since been sent to (he Lunatio Asylum,

Holloway'b Ointment. — Sores, wounds, ulcerauons, and other diseases bffdoting tbe skin, are capable of Bpeedy amendment by this cooling and healing ointment, which baa aaled forth che loudest praise from persons who have suffered for years from bad legs, bad breasts, piles, abscesses, and cbronio ulcers, after every hope of cure had long paaaed away. None but those who have experienced i be soothing effect of this ointment can form any idea of the comfort it besows by restraining inflammation and allaying pain, Whenever Holloway'e Ointment has been once used it has established its own worth, and haß again been eagerly sougbt for aa tbe easiest and safest remedy for all such oomplaints. In neuralgia, rheumatism, and gout, tbe same application, properly used, gives wonderful relief.