LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.We have to acknowledge the receipt from Mr Charles 3. Pownell, of Wellington, of a plan of his patented Rabbit Paddock Trap, whioh we shall be happy to show to those interested. St. Stephen's (Anglican) Church was very prettily decorated on Sunday m joyful celebration of the Easter festival. Scripture texts, m white on crimson ground, were displayed m the chance and nave and on the aroh openings of the transepts, anu* the capitals of theoolumns and sills of tho windows were adorned by wreaths of foliage interspersed with dahlias, geraniums, and other bright blossoms. Tho choir stalls, desk, lectern, and pulpit were also festooned with leaves and flowerß, the lady decorators haying been specially suocesstul with tho lootern, where white frosted-looking loaves viere ' dispersed with very pretty effect among bright green frondage and many tinted blossoms. The font was a mass of flowers, but as was fitting the decorations of the Sanctuary had evidently received the greatost attention, those of tho eastern window being very pleasing, , having for their central attraction a beautiful cross m white Bummer chrysanthemums. Tho services were choral and were well attended, and appropriate sormons were preached by the Incumbent, Rev E. A. Scott. It is just forty years since the John Wycliffe the first immigrant ship oast anchor m Port Chalmers. 1 Messrs • Merry weather and' Sons, who supplied Invercargill with Jts ste#m fireengine, are constructing for the London fire Brigade two engines of the " Greenwich " type, each capable of delivering 1400 gallons of water per minute. These will be tbe most powerful steamers of light draught ever oonBtructed. Eaoh will throw six 1-J inch jots to a height of 180 feet, or twelve working jets of effective force. Holloway'b Ointment and Pij,i,s. As winter advances and the weather becomes more and more inclement and trying the earliest evidences of ill-health must be im? mediately checked and removed, or a Blight illness may result m a serious malady. Relaxed and sore throat, quinsey, influenza, chronic oough, bronchitis, and most other pulmonary affeotions will be relieved by rubbing this cooling Ointment into the skin as nearly as practicable to the seat of misohi'ef. Thjs treatment, simple yet effective, is admirably adapted for fhe removal of theQo diseases during infanoy and youth. Old asthmatic invalids will derive marvellous relief from the use of Holloway's remedies, which have wonderfully relieved many auoh sufferers, and re-established health after every other means bad signally failed

The Rev Mr Holland leoturea this evening on " Manliness oi oharaoter," The annual tea meeting of the Ashburton Preßbyterian Church will be held m the Oddfellews' Hall on Tuesday, 24th April. The tiokets, whioh by the way are of a much more I artistic design than those usually sold for tea meetings, are now being circulated, and there is no doubt with fine weather on the occasion the hall will be severly to xed to find room for the many visitors presen. In the course of a lecture at New Plymouth the other day Mr William Courtney, who has been for the past three years employed m England as an Emigration AgSnfc, said that when he was at Home he had never seen Eiver Plate or Australian mutton labelled up, although thousands upon thousands of tons of it were imported into England. The reason, he said, was that it was retailed as New Zealand, which wa3 retailed as English. The same system would also extend to the butter if there was not a shippers' representative at Home. We remind our readers that tho bazaar m aid of the liquidation of the debt on the Catholic Church will be opened this evening m the building known as Mrs Butler's Stores, opposite Mr Harrison's Auotion Mart, by the Right Rev Dr Grimes, Bishop of the Diocese. A number of the olergy from Timaru, Temuka, and other parishes will be present, as well as His Worship the Mayor, and other gentlemen m public position. We^understand that there will be a large display of fanoy goods and useful articles, and that a gift auotion will be held of all sorts of live stook and farm produce. The ladies have also arranged for providing luncheon for visitors. Altogether the preparations made seem to be very complete, and it is^hoped that the result will be an appreciable reduction of the ohuroh debt. A serious row ooourred at Methvenlate on Friday evening. Several men were drinking m a (private house belonging to R. Bryden when a dispute arose between Bryden and a man named Weir. Weir left the house, and Bryden, taking a mallet with him, was following m order to settle the difference. A neighbor, J. Gilohrist, endeavored to restore peace but received a blow on the head with Bryden's mallet for his pains. The blow was a heavy one and inflicted a severe out. Gilchrist would probably have bled to death had not a dootor been near at hand, who was ' summoned and attended to the injury. As Gilohrist refuses to prosecute, it is not likely any aotion will be taken m the matter. No news of the ocourrenoe reaohed the looal ' police, the details being telegraphed direct to [ Christohuroh, j Some time ago says an Auokland paper Dr t Campbell adventured on the experiment of the r culture of the olive. The trees have thriven |. well, and are now making a goodly Bhow m the landscape. 3 The " Wellington Evening Press " states . that the approaching session ia likely to be a r most eventful one, probably abounding m strange combinations, extraordinary alliances, t and sensational changes. It is pretty certain to be a long one. 7 A Melbourne woman gouged out one of her i husband's eyes and blinded the other with a : pair of scissors, and then Bued him for main* ) tenanoe. She did not get it. During the week before last the Broken Hill ■, Proprietary Company (the original prospec- > tors) treated 1707 tons of ore m their 3 furnaces, the yield being 250 tons of bullion,---k containing 73,G590z of silver. This at the low 3 rate of 3s 9d per ounce represents £12,840, 1 besides whioh there would be a large sum > derived from the lead at £12 per ton. gThere has been a separation between a • Parramatta young man and his sweetheart. i. J»lie.-prcßoukoil...luni__ H ifc|v tor photograph. which he, on his bended knees, swore he , would always wear next to his heart. While making his last Sunday evening call he pulled r his handkerohief from hiß coat-tail pocket, k when 10, the photograph fell at his lady's feet ! She Bays now |that he is either a liar _ or his heart is not m the right place. 3 An unpleasant incident, whioh has greatly _ affected the Pope, ocourred at the Vatican the r other day. As the Grand Master of the 3 household of the Prinoe Colonna, Enrico £ Donati, was advanoing to the throne of His c Holiness to present a magnificent diamond, s the jubilee gift of his master, he suddenly fall j forward on bis face, and when raised was c found to be dead, 1 Cardinal Manning, m a lettor just pubfc lished, says : "No pestilenoe has ever t destroyed so many millions of men, women, 1 and children as intemperance ; for a pestib lenoe comes and goes, and often at long f intervals, but intemperance is a fixed and permanent plague, always spreading and alwaya destroying our people, body and soul." t Mr Toxward, Consul for Denmark, narrates the following heroio act of the Danish clergy- ' man of the distriot, Mr Rees, during the reoent disastrous fire at the Norsewood settlement ; — " A Bottler's wife, the mother of eight children, whose natn.e I oannat recall, was on the eve of her confinement. In the absence of her husband, she had gone to bed, J and was unable to move, Mr Rees, who was digging a hole to bury his valuable library 1 of books, almost his sole possession, left his 3 house and his wife, and lifting the woman 3 into his buggy, drove some miles away through tho dense smoke to a comparatively f Bafe place. The mother gave birth to a still--1 born ohild. On his return he found his own. J house burned to the ground, with all his ' b.elongings, including all hia cherished 1 yolumes, but he saved the woman'B life. So dense was the smoke and intense the heat, 1 that many were temporarily blinded, aud 1 people had to take refuge m the ditches, ' lying face downwards, m order to be able to 1 breathe." The " Post " (Wellington) writes that one | of the first matters to which Parliament will be asked to give its attention will be a now [ code of Rules of Proceduro which Ministers ( have bad prepared for consideration. These rules are of a very radical character, and propose to entirely revolutionise the present 1 practice m many important respects. It ' is, for instance, provided that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday m eaoh week shall be (devoted to Government business, Friday only being given to private members. The i House is to meet each sitting day at 10.30 a.m., and with an adjournment for lunch, is I to continue sitting until 5.30 p.m., when the i Speaker will leave the chair for the day, unless, on motion, the House resolves to sit at ! night. The Select Committees are to do their work after dinner. No member is to be pprmitted to move the adjournment more | than twice during any Bjtting ; and whenever i the Speaker is satisfied that a question has been, m his opinion, sufficiently debated, hs is to apply the closure, and at once put the question, without motion or discussion. Those are the most important of the ohangea proposod. 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