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LOCAL AND GENERAL

« The " Otago Daily Times " of Thursday writes :— The interest taken m the looal option polling for the licensing district of Maori Hill North, which took place yesterday, may be judged from the fact that only one ratepayer took the trouble to vote. As he voted against any increase m the number of lioenses, this solitary vote decided that for tho next three years there shall be noinoraase m the district of publican's, New Zealand wine, accommodation, or bottle lioenses. Aooording to the " New Zealand Herald " an amusing incident took plaoe at the Ponsonby licensing election. When the result was announced— the return of tho "moderates "—one man near the door of the hall attempted to "go one better" than the doxology sung at the previous eleation on the return of the prohibitionists, and started •' Britons Nover Will Be Slaves." Ho got rather wobbly " on the first line, though he endeavoured to sing it m a spirited manner, and the brass band on the verandah of tho neighbouring pub oama to tho rescue and took up the strain. There are 350 men employed m the construction of the groat Eiffel Tower at Paris, and some judgment may be already formed of this erection which is to bo the eighth wonder of tho world, and to rise to the height of 1000 feet. According to present appearances, nevertheless, it promises to bo ourious —or, porhaps, even grotesque, rather than beautiful. Holloway's ! Pills.— Changes of tempera, ture and weather frequently upsets persons who aro most careful of their health, and particular m their diet. These oorreotive, purifying, and gentle aperient pills are the best remedy for all defective action of the digestive organs. They augment the apnf titn strengthen the Btomaoh, correct biliousness and oarry off all that is noxious from the system. Holloway's Pills are composed of rare balsams, unmixed with baser matter and on that account are peculiarly well adapted for the young, delicate, and aged As this peerless medicine has gained m fame for tho pa3t, so will it proservo it the future by its renovating and invigorating qualitios, and the impossibility of its doing barm.

The ordinary meeting of the Borough Counoil will be held this evening, The meeting is called for seven o'olook, The annual general meeting of members and shareholders m the Ashburton Permanent Building and Investment Society will be held on Monday, April 16th, at three p.m. Two experienced miners are engaged m thoroughly prospecting the Alford Forest mineral district, the neoessary funds having been subscribed by the syndicate interested m opening up the mineral resources of the locality. At the next meeting of the County Council a motion will be disoussed regarding the propriety of granting a sum of money for constructing traoks, and if the Council decides to vote a sum, a grant m aid will, m all probability, be obtained from Government, Mr Paterson, of Lismore, lose two staoks of wheat by fire, about 500 bushels of grain was destroyed. There was an insurance on the staoks, but it does not cover the loss. Letters reoeived from New Zealanders m Melbourne convey the intelligence that so far as the building trade is concerned it is most difficult to obtain work for more than a day or two at a time, as' the custom is to engage ••improvers," journeymen being employed but sparingly. A young man who is said to be a hard-working tradesman, writing to a resident of Gore, states that he has not been Buooessfui m getting work, although he had twice the offer of 35s a week. Wages, he states, are very low, but living is as dheap bb m New Zealand, He conoludes as follows :— " In the house I am stopping m there are 15 carpenters and some brioklayers and stonemasons, and the most of them are from Inveroargill. They all say that they will go baok to Otago very soon. For it ia Buoh a nuisance to be always looking for a job. If they get a job for a fortnight they oonßider themselveß very lucky. There ore hundreds of New Zealand people here, and I have met lots of Dunedin people." The officers m charge of the Yellow river works m China, who showed remissness m not taking measures to prevent the reoent floods, have been sentenced to be exposed m the oangue, or wooden oollar, along the river banks. The term of sentence varies from two weeks to three months, and during the whole time the prisoner cannot lie down or rest with any comfort. Somebody has been blundering again. The cablegrams to the Melbourne papers of the 22nd ult. say that the Prince of Wales on his return to London after attending the Emperor William's funeral expressed the opinion that the Emperor Frederick's malady will not prove fatal. In the message as it reached New Zealand the word '« not " was omitted. Of the great oarved house just completed for Major Ropata, and opened with great rejoicings the other day, the " New Zealand Herald" says:— lt is a moat remarkable structure, and has taken over ten years to carve and erect. It is CO to 70 feet m length by 40 feet m width, and oontains many magnificent oarvings after the Maori or aboriginal design. The ridge-pole has been cut out of one magnifioent totara tree, and some idea of the capacity of the building may be gathered from the faot that over 800 natives assembled m it at one time during the meeting. The oarvings are decidedly unique, each carving representing an ancestor of the Ngatiporou, Beveral of whom are represented as grasping and proceeding to devour children who are fashioned something like themselves. What this represents is not exaotly known, unless it may be to show the cannibal propensities of the respected progenitors of the Ngatiporou tribe. _JVIr Justice_Stirlinß recently_deliyered judgmenr[Bays a Home paper) on the qulHtforTof the validity of the marriage of the late Mr Christopher Bethell with a girl named Teepoo, of the Baralong tribe, South Africa. Mr Bethell married the girl aocording to th< riteß and ceremonies of her tribe, but ha had refused to marry her m a ohuroh. His Lordship deoided that the marriage was not valid, but he expressed a hope that Mr BethelPs relatives would make adequate provision for Teepoo's ohild. This romantio case excited considerable interest, and the equity of the deoision of Mr Justioe Stirling is questioned m some quarters, A letter from Mr Milne, the New Hebrides missionary, published m the " Presbyterian," gives some particulars of the cruel treatment accorded to an unfortunate woman by the natives of an inland village oalled Evate. Rather than marry an old man she disliked, she ran away, but she was afterwards recaptured and drove baok again. She esoaped again, but when reoaptured her hands were tied behind her back with a fishing line, and then with her feet tied she was left m that condition for three days without food or drink. The line cut the flesh into the bones. When rescued some time afterwards by Mr Milne she was found with the left hand out off by the wrist, while the thumb and nearly all the flesh of the right hand were gone, presenting a ghastly eight of bare bone 3, with i fingers attached, the flesh left swarming with : maggots. Afterwards the fiogers dropped off. It was thought the woman might recover.] An inquest was held at Christohuroh, on Saturday, on the body of James Ferguson, who was drowned' in the Avon on the previous day. Two young men named Beok and Simmons deposed that they were going up the river with a party of ladies m a boat when they Baw deceased lying drunk on the bank with his feet m the water. They removed him half a dozen yards from the water's edge. Returning three-quarters of an hour later they saw him m the water. Ho appeared to be dead. They wont and informed the police before getting him out, because they thought be must be dead, and because one of the ladies aearly went into hysterics. When the police took the man out he was dead. The Coroner said it was the most stupid thing he ever beard of. They should have taken the man jut of the water, and given him a ohance. SVhat was the lady's agitation compared with ;he chance of saving the man's life. The ury returned a>erdiotof found drowned, with i rider censuring the young men for want of bought m not rescuing the body when it was irst discovered m the water. At the change of life nothing equal Lmerioan Co.'s Hop Bitters to allay all roubles incident thereto. See i Statutory Declaration.— I, Franz Raabe, ronbark, Sandhurst, m the colony of Viotoria, Australia, do solemnly and sinoerely declare hat on the 25th June, 1877, my son Alfred, ix years of age, was accidentally hurt with n axo on his kneo. lat once took all pains o secure medioal assistance. However, m pite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, be opinion was given by Dr Macgillivray ' bat an amputation of the injured limb had opome imperative, m order to save life. At lis junoture I oalled on Messrs Sander and ons, procuring Borne of their Extraot of the iucalyptus Globulus, and by tho application E the same I had the satisfaction of seeing ly son within a fortnight out of all danger ad to-day ho is recovered. I may just add mt it was when the orisis had been reached iat the Extract referred to was first applied, nd I make this solemn declaration, oto.~ iunz Raabe. Declared at Sandhurst, m the ilony of Victoria, Australia, this seventeenth ly of Ootober, one thousand eight hundred id seventy-seven before me, Moritz (John P.— (Advt.) 7 '

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1810, 9 April 1888, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1810, 9 April 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1810, 9 April 1888, Page 2

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