LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1821, 21 April 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual general meeting of the Ashburton Club will be held on Monday evening. There will bo apeoial services at the Primitive Methodiot Churoh to .morrow. We have been requested to draw attention to the clearing Bale at Mr H. Anderson's, Aahburton Forks, by Mr Bullock, on Monday. Mr S. B. Seymour, surgeon dentist, will visit Ashburton on Thursday next and may be oonßulted up to 4 p,m. on that day at Mr Cambridge's, chemist. I In the E.M. Court this morning, beforo Major Steward, J.P., an inebriate, dealt with as a first offender, was fined sa, with the usual alternative. We remind our renders that the annual meetings of householders for eleotion of School Committees take place on Monday evening, at seven o'clock, m the respective schoolrooms. The anniversary services of the Ashbarton Presbyterian Church will bo conduoted tomorrow, both at Ashburton and Wakanui, by the Rev P. R. Munroe of Sydenham. The tea meeting takes plaoe on Tuesday at the Oddfellows' Hall. " IJough on Catabrh " oorredts offensive odors at once. Complete oure of worst chronio cases also unequaled as gargle for diphtheria, sore throat, foul breath, 4 1

The Crown leases m the vicinity of Piocadilly Circus and Picoadilly have been falling m rather thickly during the last few months. As an indication of the enormous value of property m the neighbourhood, it may be mentioned that short leases of twenty-one years are being granted at an advanced rental of from 80 per cent to 100 per oent.

The " Post " of Wednesday last has the following : — The Rev. Father Ohastagnon, from the Diocese of Cbristchurch, is at present m Wellington, on hiß way to France, on a collecting tour to pay off the debt on his parish church at Ashburton. He first goes to Australia aud then on to France, The Very Rev Father Kirk, of Wanganui,- goes as far as Sydney with him. Both leave here on Saturday by the Wakatipu.

Nominations for the Hurdle Raoe, Ashburton Plato, Ladies' Bracelet and Flying Handioap and the Handioap Time Trot at the Ashburton Tradesmen's Racing Club Meeting olose to-night at 6 o'olook, at the Commercial Hotel. The programme appears m our advertising columns. Nominators will please note that the* distance for the Ashburton Plate is one mile and a quarter, not one mile and a hall bb appears m the advertised programme.

An extraordinary accident is reported from Lillo, While a party of Boldiera were engaged firing blank cartridges, a man named Carre put a bullet into his rifle, fired with the rest, and his bullet lodged m the bead of his frontrank man. The captain who had oharge of the party dropped dead, owing to disease of the heart, when he saw the soldier fall, and Carre endeavoured to kill himself but was prevented. The soldier who had been hit m the head was carried to the hospital, where the bullet waa successfully extracted.

Lieut Muller, of the Ashburton Rifles, had a rather unpleasant experience when returning from the rifle range on Thursday. He waß fording the river on foot, carrying a portion of his wearing apparel and his rifle, when he stepped into a deep hole, and aa there was a strong eddy ho was spun round and round, and his clothes and rifle, although he clung on to them as long as possible, were Bwept away. It was with some little difficulty that he gained the shore. Portion of his olothing he recovered, but his rifle, boots, and some money he had m his pooket have have not yet turned up.

From the investigations of Dr Murray, of the Challenger expedition it appears that if the dry land of the globe were reduced to the sea level by being removed to and piled up m the shallower waters of the ooean, then its extent would be about eighty million square miles, and the rest of the surfaoe of the earth would bo covered by an ocean extending to 113,000,000 square miles. Again, should the whole of the solid land be reduced to one level under the ocean then the surface of the earth would be covered by an ooean with a uniform depth of about two miles.

The Wellington correspondent of the " Press " says ; it ia not decided whether any Bill amending the New Land Act shall be brought m thia year, but at present tho dißpoaition seems to be to postpone it to the following session. It is rumored that if an amendment Bill should bo introduced one prominent feature will be a provision as to the re-letting of the Canterbury runs, whose leases expire m May, 1890, and that it will be proposed to classify those runs, distinguishing the purely pastoral from the semiagricultural, and according a lengthened fixed tenure of fourteen or twanty-one years m the former case, bo as to give reater security and encourage improvements,

A pleasing realisation of the text " Oast thy bread upon the waters " took place m Waipawa lately. An African many years since escaped from slavery m the American States, made Peru, and finally got away to New Zealand. Here he met a kind-hearted tailor at Waipukarau, who bedded and boarded the poor (and then despised) negro. After a time Cuffy got a cook's billet on a station and has never wanted a meal since. As a proof that though "skins may differ" there's no distinction m sentiment, feeling, and principle with the black, honest old Cuffy came back and sought his benefaotor and presented him with £10 m notes by way of pgying off the debt of gratitude he owed the benevolent tailor.

The "New York World" publishes an Interview with J. L. Sullivan, who is now training at^Windsor_far Jus coming encounter with Mitchell, from whioh we take the following :—" Before speaking about myself," said John to me, while Bipping his tea, " I would like to Bpeak a word for my friend the Prinoe of Wales. I see they have been scoring the Prinoe pretty heavily m the press for his conduot at the Opera Oomique. I wish they would let up on him. I would oonsider it a personal favor. The Prinoe is a splendid follow, a bang-up brick, and lately down on his luck, I never pass by the oastle without thinking i! Albert Edward were only King ho would stand us a fight m the banqueting hall."

A miner from Broken Hill, fired with its wondrous promise, thought he detected m a South Australian capitalist's property the signs of a rich deposit of ore. He asked the rion man's permission to dig for it, and offered to do the work on oondiiion that he received one-fifth of the gross prooeeds " I'll think about it," said Crcß3us, " an' I'll see my wife." Next day ho saw the miner again and said, " I have talked over your offer, and mo and my wife both think onefifth is too much to give you ; but make it one-fourth and you oan work away." That miner skipped prayerfully to a lawyer to get the agreement down m black and white, and at latest advices was seen wildly voting againßfc more education for the masses.

At tho reception soiree last night, Captain Harvey, of tho Salvation Army, m the oourse of a capital speech, referred to the " compensation" question, which has recently been discussed m theae columns. His opinion waa that it would pay the commercial men of Ashburton to subsoribe to a fund for the purpose of buying out the local publicans, and by a swoop suppress the traffic at once. The llev J. N. Buttle, on the other hand, ridiculed the idea of compensation, and, from the few remarks which he made on the subject, it ia easy to conjecture that Mr MoNicoll's successor is no 'prentice hand on the temperance question, and will no doubt be heard of m the contests whioh must inevitably ensue m the near future between tho prorliquor and prohibition agitation.

Tho reception soiree to Eevds J. N. Buttle and J. T. Burrows at the Wesleyan Church last evening was well attended by members of tho Wesleyan body and representatives of other denominations. After a very substantial tea had boen discussed, tables were cleared, 'and seats rearranged, Mr»J. E. Buchanan [ topk tho chair, and briefly explained {lie Subject of tho gathering. The Rev A, M. ?s3oßftie and Mr J. W. Sawle then gave ■ addresses, tho former on the duties of the people to their pastor, and the latler on the pastor's relation to the people. After Rev J. Boothroyd and Capfc Harvey had spoken, giving a hearly welcome to the newly-arrived ministers, the Rev J. N. Buttle responded, and gave some of his first impressions of the circuit, which were of a decidedly favorable character ; and was followed by the Rev J. T. Barrows, whose remarks on some of the essentials to successful church work were given m a humorous Btrain. Speeches by Messrs W. H. Collins and S. S. Chapman terminated the ' proceedings. During the evening the Chairman -apologised for the unadvoidable absence of Rev E. A. Sootfc, and several excellent pieces were rendered by the churoh choir,

We clip the following important testimonial from the " Illawarra Merourry " (N.S.W.) of the 30th March. It needs no oomment : — " Mr J.ohn Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief by using Sander and Sons' Euoalypti Extraofc. He says seeing the said Extract advertised m the 'IlJawarra Mercury, 1 his intense suffering induoed him to obtain a bottla of the medioiue from Mr Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him groat relief at once. Ho states that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extraot, and the l'Jtb, the use of that medioine continued to afford him relief, to which he had been a stranger for four years. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism as well aa gravel. He requests us to publish this information through the 'Mercury.' We have muoh pleasure m complying with Mr Loveday's request, whose word oannot be doubted, and who can have no objeot m view other than a pure desire to benefit suffering EUmanity." (