LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1817, 17 April 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual general meeting of th( ABhburton Permanent Building Sooiety tc have been held yesterday was adjourned til a future date. The next Fheco mail will leave here on Friday 20th mat. Money orders for this mail may be obtained up to 10 a.m. Mail closes at the Ashburton post office at 5 p.m. Wo remind those interested that the clearing aalo ot farm stock, on account of Mr Chorlca Martin, Winslow, takes plaoe tomorrow at 12.30 o'clock. We are dosired to call speoial attention to the Clearing sale at Mr W. Aiken's farm, Winslow, which takes place to-morrow, Wednesday, commencing at 11 o'clock sharp. Mr George Sylvester, the oldest surgeon m England, who has just died at Trowbridge, waa within three months of attaining his 100-h' birthday. He was a naval surgoon, and was present at the taking of Java m 1811. Mr H. S. Valentine, MH.lt,, proposes to instruct the farmers of his district its to the possibilities of the beet sugar industry, and has prepared a paper on the subject, which he will probably read to a publio meeting at Gore next week. Saxony and Thuringia are the home and paradise of dollß. The annual production of dolls' stockings alone m Saxony is 85,000 dozen. Thousands of shoemakers find constant employment m making dolls shoes. The annual tea meeting m connection with the ABhburton Presbyterian Church is to take place on Tuesday next, 21 inst., at 6 p.m, m the Oddfellows' Hall ; after which addresses will be delivered and selections of music given by the choir, assisted by friends. (Jur readers will be glad to learn that the Inapeotor of Mines hns been instructed to report on the mineral resources of the Mount Somers distiiot, and will arrive at Ashburton to-morrow evening, proceeding on Thursday morning to Mount Somers for the purpose mentioned. [ A magnifioent new reredos has just been placed m St Paul's Cathedral, whioh will attract some attention m the world of art. It is a life-size representation of the CruoiIxion m white Italian marble, and haa cost £24,000. It is said that nothing like it has before been m England. The following extraordinary but highly interesting information concerning this oolony appears m that well-known periodical the " Family Herald," under date February 11, 1888:—" There are 197 "towns" m New Zealand, but 82 of them have less than 100 inhabitants, while Devonport, the most populous, has only 2650 inhabitants. More musical prodigies are announced. Tho most recent discovery m this lino ia little Fritz Kreisler, a violinist aged seven and l-half. He was trained m France, and is playing m Vienna. Another prodigy is little Albert Weinatein, son of a New York tnueioian. Weinstein is now playing at Dookstrader's, New York. An American jury have given a verdict of £10,000 damages m a breaoh of promi3e notion brought against Charles Arbuokle, Benior member of a New York firm of coffee merchants, by Clara Campbell, the daughter of a prominent western forge-master. This i 3 the largest amount, with one exception, ever given m the United States to a plaintiff m a breach of promise oase. One of the most successful missionaries m Oroomlah is a blind Armenian from Harpool, Turkey. He knows the |Bible thoroughly, and riding on a miserable looking donkey, which is led by a one-eyed deaf man, he goes boldly from village to village preaching the Gospel. His blindness protects him, and the people orowd to see the wonder— a blind man reading. We do not think that it is generally known (says the "Dunedin Evening Star") that there is m our midst an industry for canning and preserving milk and preserving butter. This is the establishment of Mr llichards, at Anderson Bay. The industry has been brought under ihe notice of the Premier, who emphatically declares that the preserved milk is, to his mind, far superior to the famed Swiss milk. Mr liiohards cans about 700 gal of milk per day.

An exohange writes : — It will give people an idea of what West Coast weather is when tho rain once sets into atato that during tho month of March the men employed on Mr Brown's Nelson Creek contract were able to work only ten days— 'and yet there are those who complain of the high rate of labor here. Ton days work out of 31 days takes the gilt off the gingerbread.

Young Man (to Sexton at church door) : " Isn't the sermon nearly done ? " Sexton : 11 About an hour yet. He ia only on his • lastly.' " Young Man : " Will it take him an hour to get through his 'lastly?'" Sexton : "No -, but there's the • One word more and I am done,' and the ' finally,' and the m (conclusion 'to come yet. Don't get impatient, young man! Your girl won't spoil I "

Dr Matthew Baillio, a celebrated Scotch physician, after listening with muoh vexation of spirit to the oomplaints of a lady whose illness was so little felt that she had arranged to go to the opera m the evening, had escaped from the room and waß desoonding tho stairs, when he was requested to step back again. " May I, on my return from tho opera, oat some oysters ? " " Yea, ma'am," waa the impatient reply — " Shells and all 1 "

Our readers aro reminded that Mr J. D. Foley, who claims to be a second Macoabo, opens his " Festivities " at tho Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. The entertainment consists of oharacter representations with •' lightning changes," ventriloquism songs, and dialogue, with a "wonderful Chinese orchestra." Judging from the very favorable notices of our exchanges an excellent evening's entertainment may bo looked for.

Sheffield is m an unhappy condition. Small-pox is spreading, something liko a panio prevails, and nearly everyone ia being revaccinated. Lead poisoning from tho water passing through leaden pipes ia also causing muoh alarm. Some doctors have treated 40 victims. There has beon one death, and tho lead is said to have laid the foundation for consumption and kidnoy diseases. Small-pox is also raging m Leeds, Nottingham, Stockport, and Stalybridge. The scarlet fever epidemic is dying out m London, though the deaths from whooping cough have beon nearly doublo the average.

Edwin Hornaby, well known m connection with mining at tho Thames, and who wont to tho Broken Hill rush, writes to his friends m Auckland, saying it is a wonderful place. Ho says : — " The Proprietary Gompany alone employ 1000 hands; their wages sheet foots up to £GOOO fortnightly. They have at work thireen stoara engines of various capacity, three smelting furnaces, with live others rearly completed, scorea of horses and bullocks — m fact, I could oontinao giving a startling account of their magnitude for pngos were it necessary, but from the above it can be fairly guessed what an immense institution it is."

" Icbabod " (says the " Press ") to this complexion has it qomo ftt last. A Wellington firm of auctioneers announces that they aro " favored with instructions from tho lion K. Mitcholson, Minister for Publio Works," to soil by auction at tho Ministerial residence, Tinalcori road, Wellington (familiarly known as tho " Casino "), tho " wholo of the superior and handsome household furniture." The Wellington relic hunters will havo a rare chance of scouring artiolea famous m the Parliamentary annals of tho colony. Between tho nickel plated gaa-stove and tho pink and gold broakftiHt service enshrined m the " Bluo Jjooks " of last session they ought to iind no .amioulty m making a soleotion of mementoes of a linio that tupstof us would most willingly forget.

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A tea meeting and conoert is announced to take place at the Newlands School on Friday next, 20th instant. Tea at 6 p.m. Concert I at 8 o'clook. [ We learn from the " Wanganui Chronicle " that about £350 has been subscribed to date to the Bryoe Memorial Fund. The Committee has finally decided to expend the total sum that may bo subscribed m the purchase of a library for Mr Bryce, instead of investing it m land, or m procuring a silver dinner servioe.

If it be true, a<? reported, that His Eoyal Highess the Prince of Wa'cs is " teaming the banjo," .that instrument is likely to become society's next craze, and banjo solos will be a regular iem at musical at-homes. Already there are signs of it, and tho^ professors ot the instrument find co many calls on their time that they can charge with impunity what aro, comparatively speaking, fabulous prices for lessons.

The bridge which is to bo bniU. over the Straitaof Messina, which separate Sicily from Italy, will, when consummated, form one of the most striking worka m the line of modern engineering. The place seleoted for this great undertaking is where the ohannel is Borne two and a half miles wide and 361 feet deep. Two piers support the viaduct of steel rails at the height of 328 feet above the water.

The London Bible Society is arranging for the exhibition of versions and the circulating of Soriptures at the forthcoming exhibition m Melbourne. At the request o£ the National Bible Society m Scotland, a set of electroplates will be lent to that society for the printing of copies of the pamphlet, containing a verse of Soripturo m 267 different languages, by machinery exhibited at work m the Glasgow Exhibition of 1888.

It is reported that a Me Sherrin, a painter of still-life subjects, but who has made a hobby of mechanics and allied eoiencea, recently discovered and patented an invention whiou promises something like a complete revolution m locomotion, It consists ot a very simple but effeotive application of eleotricity to wheeled vehiolea m general, the motive power being completely under control. It is said that the inventor haß sold the patent for as maoh as £50,000.

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