LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1793, 19 March 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mis Amy Sherwin, and her oompany appear at the Oddfellows' Hall this [evening.

The Sons of St. Patriok will hold a ball this evening m the Store opposite the Salvation Army Barraoks. The Ashburton Lodge of Draida will hold a sooial gathering m the OddfellowB 1 Hall on Wednesday next. I Farmers will be interested to learn that a " trial of the Massey Reaper and Binder, of wbioh such an excellent record has already been given, and which the makers claim to be " the simplest, strongest, lightest, and beßt ever used id a harvest field," will take place on Wednesday next, at 1 p.m., on the farm of Mr James Bishop, about 3£ miles from Tinwald. At the B.M. Court this morning, before Mr D. Thomas, J.P., a first offender for drunkenness was fined se, with the usual alternative. Four boys were caught robbing an orchard last night. They will appear ;before the B.M. on Thursday next. It is probable that a licensee of a country hotel will be proceeded against; on the next Court day on a charge of having used a defioient measure. It appears that one day last week four men sent to the hotel m question for half a gallon of beer, and this was supplied m a tin utensil. The men not being satisfied with the measure sent it baok, but could get no more beer. They retained the utensil and cave information to the polico,, m oonsequenco of which it is probable a case will be brought. Friday's storm was general throughout the provinoe. The rain has been generally welcomed, being muoh needed for the grass. The Waimakariri rose m heavy flood, but fell rapidly on Saturday morning. At the Ororge. the river on Friday nigbt rose ten feet bub , fell five feet on the following morning. At Kaiapoi the water broke through the embank, ment at Obarles street about one o'olook on Saturday morning, and the northern part of the town waß flooded. The water, however, did not attain within two feet of the inundation of last June. The greatest height was reaobed at six a.m. No damage ocoUrred to the railway, but a good deal to the small bridges, the culverts, and the corn m stook. Not muoh live stook was lost. The Rakaia Bridge was bo far repaired this morning that trains were able to cross. Up to the present the value of the gifts received by the Pope is estimated at 60,000,000 lire, or about £2,400,000. The Midland Bailway Company are at present landing a large quantity of railway material at Greymouth and it is expected that active operations will shortly be resumed. A lad named Hewer was drowned m the harbor at Akaroa on Thursday afternoon. He was out boating with a companion named Brown, and the boat oapßized, and Brown was 1 drowned. The cultivation of the olive m California promises to be [a great suooess. The trees begin bearing m three years, and oontinue to yield for centuries, Some of the olive trees are already eight years old, and produoe 250 bushels of fruit to the aore, representing £250 m oil. It is a curious fact that the house of Commons has had three blind members during recent years, and that two of them (Bobertson and Fawcett) have sat for Brighton. The other, Mr MoDonald, is an Irish Episcopalian clergyman by profession, but left the church some years before he beoame blind, on aocount of religious doubts of a somewhat pronounced type. He now sits for an Irish constituency as a Parnellito, Dr. Robertson is a cheery and indomitable old man, who, finding hia eight hopelessly gone, entered himself as a law student at Gray's Inn (at the same time as his own son) and beoame the life and soul of the students' mess. Fifty-five years ago, when London waa quite a small city, with a population of ovor one million and a half, 31,000 persons were a pprehended for having been drunk and disorderly, m the course of twelve months. Last year m a population of over five millions, the number of suoh apprehensions had fallen by more than a quarter ; and the ratio was adout 4 per thousand instead of 20, My wife and daughter were made healthy by the use of American Co. 'a Hop Bitters, and I recommend it to my people. — Methodist Clergyman. Bead Holmway's Piiii.s.-~Enfeebled Existence. —This medicine embraces every attribute required m a general and domestic remedy. It overturns the foundations of disease laid by defective food and inipuro air. In obstructions or congOßtions of the liver, lungs, bowels, or any other organs, those pills are specially serviceable and eminently successfwl. They should bo kept m readiness m every family, being a medicine of incomparable utility for young persons, especially those of feeble constitutiona. They never cause pain or irritate the most sensitive nerves or most tender bowels. Hollo way 'a pills are the best-known purifiers of ihe blqod, the most aatiyo promoters of absorptioja and' secretion, wheftby All pojsopoua and obnoxious partioles' are .MWOjed from both, solids apj( fluids,' ,