The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, MAROH 23, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1797, 23 March 1888, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, MAROH 23, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL

We remiod our readers that the annual meeting m connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society takes plaoe this evening m St. Stephen's 3choolroom, when addresses will be delivered by the Rev Mr Robjohns and other gentlemen.

Owners are reminded that nominations for the Autumn Meeting of the Ashburton Raoing Olub must be m tho handß of tbe Secretary by 0 Jp.m. on Tuesday next, the 27th instant.

No. 16 of Leslie's Parliamentary Portraits to band oontains a fairly good likeness of Mr W. B. Perceval, rhomber for Christohuroh South, and a libellous oarioature of Mr W. O. Smith, member for Woodville, whioh oven his own mother oould not reoogniso.

The annual meeting of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held on Tbursday'night. Mr John Deans was elected preiident. Tho JCommittoe's report showed that £3334 had been rocoived during the year, and £7022 expendod, inoluding £4115 on the now grounds. The bank overdraft was £3G95. The association numbers 141 life and 304 annual members.

The annual ram fair, under the auspices of tho Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, was hold on Thursday. The ontriesnumberod 2144,88810813274 last year. Tho general quality was good, but prices did not run vory high.

The following team haa boon chosen to represent Canterbury m tbo ooming match with Lillywhito'a English eleven :— E. P. Barnes, W. J. Crawshaw, L. A. Cuff, D. Dunlop, J. Fowko, W. Frith, O. Garrard, It, D. Barman, R. Halley, A. Labatt, H. R. Mathias, R. B. Mathiau, F. A. Maodonald, H. | Ofjior, W. P. Reeves, H. M. Qeevos, W. Studholmo, and F. Wilding. The team is strong m bowling and fielding, but its batting form ii not muoh above tho average. A farmer named Cornelius Grady, living i near Queanbeyan, while riding along tho i railway line was overtaken by tho mail train. His horse was cut from under him, and h_> was thrown with great force on to the buffer plats of tho ongine. Grady had his neok broken, and death must have beon instantaneous. Nothing was known of tho aooident till the engine steamed into Quoanboyan with Grady's body m froflt of the engine. '• itooau on Ptf.ES."— Why s«#er Piles '} Immediate rolie and complete cure ga.uranteed. Ask for "Rough on Piles." Sure oure for itching, protruding, bleeding, or any form of pilas

It is said that there are at least 1400 dif* | ferent forms of religion m the world. A year ago a Peoria lady, who iB something of a talkor, looked m her stooking to see what Santa Glaus had brought her. Her husband had promised hor an appropriate present. In it sho found a smoked tongue with a Btring tied around it. This yoar it wbb hor turn to get her husband a present of something he needed. When he awakened one morning he found his socks filled with ohloride of lime. Jubl at the present the lady ifl ahead.

Aooording to an Eastern paper, at Rook, well, Georgina, one Thursday Mrs James Smith gave birth to twin boys ; on the foi. lowing Friday Mrs William Smith presented her husband with a boy and a girl ; and on Sunday, Mrs George Smith, tho wife cf the third married brother, completed the soven by giving birth to three daughters.

The " Auckland 801 l " sarcastically says :— «• The Russian Court havo gone into mourning for the dead Emperor. This will give them time to get a good army ready, then they will try to knook the stuffing out of Germany. France sends a message of con(jlolenoe, but keeps her finger on the trigge r all the same,"

A sad oase of religious hallucination came before the Newcastle (N.S.W.) polioe Court the other day. Jeremiah Endean, a resident of Stook ton, haß been m the habit, of attending the Salvation Army meetings. During the last fortnight be has been labour, ing under delUEtionß, the latest being that he had been commanded to oiler up his son m saorifioe, as Abraham did Isaac, and he threatened to take his life. He was deolared by the medioal men to be insane, and was sent to Gladesville. Endean is a fine-looking man of determined appearance.

•• The great American deer-stalker," Mr Wynans, now controls 230,000 aores of deer forest m Scotland, and employs several hundred keepers.

One of the cleverest planned robberies yet reported was frustrated m Melbourne last week. A German named Gillivad disposed of Borne property at Riohmond for Borne hundreds of pounds, and being afraid of the banks deoided to keep the money m his house for safety. Towards evening a young man knooked at the door and told Mrs Gillivad that her husband had been injured while at work at Ooburg, and was m tho hospital. The wife started off, but on arriving at tbe hospital she was surprised to find that her husband was not there. Going home she met hor husband, and both hurried to the house together, and on arriving there found the plaoe completely ransaokod, the burglars leaving nothing unturned to find the large

sum of money whioh was evidently the object of tbeir search, as nothing olso was taken

away. Mrs Gillivad had, howover, before taking hor departure transferrod the money to hor pocket, and so tho burglars wore frustrated.

QgTho " Hamburger Korrospondent " says that tho King of Sweden and Norway flatly refused either to congratulate Leo XIII. upon his jubilee or to send him a present. A Swedish diplomatist was interviewed by tho Jubilee Committee and entreated to do his utmost to prevail upon the Swedish Government to expostulate vuth tho King. It seems, however, that the Government heartily seconded the stalwart, old-fashioned Protostantism of its master. •* Our King is the monaroh of a Protestant nation," is said to have been tho oi.icial reply from Stockholm, " and he sees no causo and feols no obligation to render honour to the Pope."

On the 2Gth Jan.; the " Detroit Free Press " informed its readers — "Johnny Jones, the financial king of New Zealand lives at Dunedin, and his wealth runs up into millions, and tho greator parfcVf it was made m steamboating. He is a native and once earned soant wages as an oarsman on a ferry boat," . As nearly 20 years have elapsed eince tho death of this " financial king," the "Daily Times " thinks it might reasonably be expeoted that whoever supplied tbe information would bo] aware of tbe fact.

A telegram tp Brisbano from Thursday Island reports a tragio inoidept there. Onfa recent Saturday afternoon Captain Ifcirby, a very old Straits navigator, was m the bar of tbe Thursday Island Hotol with Douglas, the engineer of the Albatross. The latter was inspeoting a Japanese sabre, and playfully pointed it towards Captain Ruby's broast. Captain- Kirby jokingly presented his b r £ast to the blade, but m doing so pressed with unintentional fojreo against tbe weapon, whioh, boing as sharp as a ragov, penetrated four inches and sovored the main artery. Death ocourrod m three minutes afterwards. Douglas haa been arrested pending an enquiry.

In the month of September last, the Hoang Ho, or Yellow Biver, broke its artiSoial banks •n tho province of Honan and deluged 1500 villages, destroying an immense number of inhabitants and rendering a still larger number homeless and destitute. The expense of repairing the damage and safely confining tho river at that point is estimated at £500,000; about as muoh (says tho '« Evening Press ") as wo havo spent lately m New Zealand m our efforts to frighten away the Russians and Frenoh. But instoad of borrowing tho moDey as we havo dono, and fastening on tho people a burden of £25,000 a year for ever, the Chinese aro raising it at no cost |to tho people at all, by a monster sale of rank, t^tloft $nd jjeoorations. The assortment is largo, varied an<jt att^fltiye. Many of tho artioles offered are of groat yaiju?, but there ara olso numberless very neat decorations adaptod to persons of humble means. In short, almost any gopt ql distinction may bo had, from a marijuisato to ' the right to wear a feather or a button, while literary and soientifio honours havo beon prepared to suit all tastes and circumstances. Tho ohief business, howover, is expeoted to be done m an entirely now rank of nobility, whioh, boing oroated fqr this oooasion only is sure to be m groat demand, and js nriped accordingly. All goods aro marked m plain figures, and a reduotion is made on taking a quantity. When tho laßt mptf loft China tho salo had just oomnjenoed and w&s prooeodiug with groat spirit. Tho wholo amount of £500,000 was likely to bo oleared m a few weeks, and meanwhile oontraots have been let for the works on the Hoang Uo,