LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1799, 26 March 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have been asked to draw the attention of those whom it may concern to the Borough By-law on the subject of straw stacks. The bylaw in question prohibits the building of staoks within a chain of a fence or building. An eleotion to fill the vacancy on the Borough Oounoil, caused by the resignation of Cr E. Friedlander, will be held on Wednesday. The candidates nominated are Messrs B. Bird and G. W. Andrews. The Directors of the Ashburton Woollen Manufacturing Company have contributed the ■urn of two guineas to the Fire Brigade funds, in recognition of the services of the Brigade at the recent fire at the Factory. . On Good Friday, 30th inst., and on Easter Monday, 2nd April, the Post and Telegraph Office will be open from nine till tea a.m. and from seven till eight p.m. Mails will be despatohed and received by the early trains, but there will be no delivery by lotter-oarriers. All country mails will be olosed at ten a.m. instead of the usual hour. ; On Saturday evening a few of the employees of the Aahburton Woollen Factory mot at the house of Mr Walmsley, Charles street, to take leave of Mr Maynard, who has been ohief engineer from the commencement of the factory, and is now leaving for Wellington. Mr Wildsmith presided, and with a few appropriate remarks, presented, on behalf of the contributors, a timepiece to Mr Maynard and a silver broooh and ear-rings to Mrs Maynard, as a small token of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow workmen. Speeches were made by most of those present, each and all testifying to his gonial nature and kindly and agreeable manners and disposition as a fellow workman, and, though much regretting his departure from Ashburton, they one and all most sincerely wished him " God speed" in his new sphere. Mr Maynard, in a suitable manner, thanked those present for their kindness to himself and Mrs Maynard, as shown in the very handsome artioles presented to them. Songs and piano solos were given by several of the company, find a very onjoyable evening was brought to a olose shortly after ten p.m. by the singing of " Auld Lang Syne " in whioh all heartily joined. The timepiece and trinkets were supplied by Mr Murray, jeweller, East street. A wedding-dress patchwork quilt is the latest craze among fair Transatlantic needlewomen. They manage to procure a sorap from the bridal toilettes of all their friends, and work up the fragments into an artistic memorial bed-covering. Holloway's Pills — Nervous Irritability.— No part of the human maohino requires more constant supervision than the nervous system — for upon it our health— and even lifedepends. These pills strengthen the neryea, and are the Bafest general purifiers of the blood. Nausea, headache, giddiness, numbness, and mental apathy yield to them. They dispatch in a summary manner those distressing dyspeptic symptoms, stomachic pains, fulness at the pit of the stomach, abdominal distension, and regulates alike capricious appetites and oonfjned howelß— the commonly accompanying sign of defective or diminished nerve tone. Holloway'g Pills' are particularly reoommended to persons of studious and I sedentary habits, who gradually fall into a ' nervous and irritable state, unless somo such restorative be pcoasionally taken, r

I The name of the Rev James Wright Sawle is ( published in the " Gazette " as an Offipiating • Minister within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1880. A grand bazaar in aid of the debt on the I Roman Catholic Church, Ashburton, is ■ announced to open on Eas'er Monday, in : Messrs Friedlander Bros. Auction Mart. This , effort has been for Bomo time in oontempla '■ tion, but the date has been fixed aa men- j tioned, as it i8 desired to raise as much as ( possible before the Rav. Father Chastagnon I leaves for a visit home on business oonnected with the Catholic Mission. It i9 hoped, therefore, that although the notice is short friends of the Church will make an earnest effort to assist tho undertaking. His Lordship he Bishop will open tho bazaar at 7 p.m., and a number of priests will also be present. A painful accident happened on Saturday afternoon to Mr De Bere, clerk at Messrs Friedlander Bros'. Auction Mart. He was running up a flight of steps at the rooms when I he slipped and fell, sustaining a fraoture of I one of the bones of his leg, We have to acknowledge the receipt of a pamphlet on the Cure of Diphtheria, by constant steam treatment, by Dr J. Murray Gibbes, with appendix by P. J. o 'Carroll, L.R.C.S., 1., Health Officer, New Plymouth. The ''New Zealand Times" is informed on authority that the date of Parliament's assembling is not yet definitely decided, and may be iu [either the last week in April or , the first week of May. It depends on one or two matters which are still unsettled. The •• Taranaki Herald " has been shown a telegram received by a shipper of butter *rom New Plymouth to London, by Tainui, stating that the best samples realised 104s per owt. Some inferior lots that were also sent fetohed the following prices: — No. 1 realised 84s the owt; No. 2 fetohed 100s; and No. 3 as much as 90s. The " Otago Daily Times," the " Wauganui Chronicle," and a number of other papers recently gave currency to the statement that the New South Wales duties upon dairy produce, (butter, cheese, hams and baoon) were repealed as from the Ist instant. We thought at the time that our contemporaries were confounding a proposal to that effect (whioh had been made) with a determination. It now appears that the proposal was never agreed to by the New South Wales Parliament and that consequently the duties remain in force. The " Timaru Herald" records that one o Messrs Drummond and Glasson's plate glass windowa got broke in a simple, yet ludicrous, manner on Friday afternoon. It appears that a couple of dogs were fighting on the street opposite, when who should come along but a wellkuown bank manager. Apparently not being an admirer of " J.L.S." or " Dan L." he picked up a piece of road metal and aimed at the two canine contestants, intending it as a " separator," But the Btone missed its mark, and went crashing through a £30 plate glass window. "Is Miss Binkins at home ?" asked Mr Saunders of the Irish girl who answered his ring at the door. " Yes, I b'lave she is, sir." "Is she engaged ?" " And is it engaged you say ? Faix, an' I can't tell you, sir, but she kissed Mr Vincent last evening as if Bhe had never seen the like of him, and it's engaged I b'lave they are, sir." Writing of Prince Ferdinand a Bulgarian semi-official newspaper says: — "Diplomacy and public opinion may now be sure that His Highness has secured a firm footing, and that the Bulgarians expeot prosperity and peace from his rule. Touched by the Prince's resolution and self-abnegation, Bulgaria will never abandon him, and will continue to demand his recognition from the Powers." Colonel Crumm, an advance agent, says : — The day of the clowns is nearly over. Formerly they were half the show, but now they attraot little attention. In the old days an average clown received from £20 to £40 a week. Dan Rice, who was considered the greatest of them all, was paid £200 a week, . whioh was the highest salary a down ever received. He was a bright young fellow, possessed of much originality, and reached the top notch of his profession. At the present day the pay of the down averages from £4 to £10 per week.