LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1837, 10 May 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Oonviot Roberts is said to have been traoed to Ashburlon, and his arrest is likely to bo shortly made. Three thousand five hundred oases of kerosene oil on the way from New York for Auckland. A son of the Oomte do Paris and a son of the Duo de Ohartros have lately joined the Busßian army. Two hundred thousand infants under two years old are believed to be farmed out m Franco. Luoas, the man who reoently Bhot Louise Michel, has asked for her forgiveness and she has acquiesced. Two native women had a fight at Wbatiwhatihoo, with the result that one got her elbow dislocated. Private oredit is wealth, publio honor is seourity. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight ; strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth. — Junius. Hot bad for a professional drunkard. " Why will you make such a beast of yourself ?" "To drown my oares." " And you succoed ? " " No ; unfortunately, they know how to swim." By a fire at Waimate on Tuesday morning, at three o'clook, a threshing mill, several Btaoks, and a quantity of threshed grain tho properly of the Waimate Estate, were burnt. The mill only is said to be insured. The loss is a pretty substantial one. •'.-Dootor," Baid a patient, " I suffea a great doalwith my eyes." Dr Wallaoe Maokenzie adjusted his spectacles, and with a Sooratic air replied : " I don't doubt it, my friend ; but then you ought not to forget that you would suffer a groat deal more without them." A Hartford woman nearly lost her lifo by jumping oil a moving train backwards. It seems strange that out of four million paragraphs printed every year warning people not to jump oil a moving train backward, not one by any chance meots a woman's eye. The latest accession to the list of aristooratio tradesmen is tho Hon W. F. North, eldest son of Lord North, who has started business as a butcher m the village of Wroxton, hear Banbury, where the family soat is situated. Mr John Drisooll Foley, the "Australian Maocabe," will appear at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening, when he will give one of his performances. Tho " Festivities," as Mr Foley desoribon his entertainment, have been well Bpoken of, and there is a good deal of humor m tho carrying out of the bill. "I have a fellow-feeling for that man," sympathetically remarks a country editor, pointing to a hotel clerk whoso scarf-pin lookod like a meteor. " Why so? " asked a bystander. " Beoause we both believe m the efficiency of paste," replied the man of shears. Tho return football match, England v Canterbury, was played at Lanoaster Park, Christohuroh, yeßtorday, m the proßenoo of a largo number of spectators. Tiie game was very evenly contested m tho first spell, and Canterbury pretty well held her own. In the j second spell the English team made the paco warmer and won tho match by 4 points to nil. Tho play of tho Canterbury mon was all round bettor than at the previous match. FgA northern paper says : — " Wo are constantly hearing oomplaints as to bad times, especially amongst farmors, also statomonts that we cannot grow wheat. It is oheoring to hear that tho past soason has been bo abundant m tno neighbourhood of despised Howiok. Mr Charles Roberts, of Pakuranga, has averaged sixty-eight bushels of wheat to tho acre, and many others over sixty m tho same district, and there is very little to oom. plain of m tho way of disease of any kind. I shall be glad if you will find a corner for these facts. It may serve to put heart into our farmers for tho next season. " Owing to ill-health," says Bill Nyo, " I will sell at my residence m town, 29, range 13, wost\ aooording to Government survey, one crushed raspberry-coloured cow, aged six years. She is a good milker and is not afraid ot the cars— -or anything else. She is a oow of undaunted courage and gives milk frequently. To a man who does not fear death m any form she would bo a groat boon. She is very much attached to hor home at present, by moans of a trace ohain, but she will be sold to any who will agree to treat her right. Sho is one-fourth shorthorn, and three-fourths hyena. Purchaser need not be identified. I will also throw m a doublebarrelled shot-gun, which goos with her. In May sho generally goos away somewhere for a week or two, and returns with a tall red calf, with long, wabbly logs. Her name is Rose, and I would prefer to sell her to a nonresident. The leoture given by Rev Oharlos Murray, M.A., m the Presbyterian Churoh last evening on the New Hebrides was very well attended considering the damp weather. The missionary gave a very interesting nocount of the group of islands ; their discovery, locality, formation, botanical produots, climate, commercial aspeots, harbors, and inhabitants being lucidly commented on and many items of information given, ia regard to tho languages, habit, and superstitions of the people on the islands. Mr Murray gave some specimens of the language ' of Ambriem, one of tho islands, also singing ! a hymn m tho same tonguo. The Fronch | oooupation of the islands and tho probable j reasons why this was done was also explained, ' and at tho conclusion of tho address a numbor of questions woro put to tho lecturer by somo of the audience, and all answorod cloarly and willingly by Mr Murray. Altogether a very large amount of information was givon, and those present were muah pleased with the lecture. Hoi/doway'b Ointment and Piwr.— Golds, Coughs, Shortness of Breath. — Those maladies ; require early and unremitting attention, for if negleotod thoy often end m asthma, bronohitis, or consumption. The ointment well rubbed upon the cheat and back, penetrating the skin, is absorbed and carried dirootly to tho lungs, whonco it oxpols all impurities. All tho blood m tho body ia perpotually passing through tho lungs, and thoro all noxious particles tending to disease can bo quiokly, thoroughly, and permanently neutralised, rendered harmless, or ejeotod from tho system. Holloway'a Ointmont and Pills perfectly accomplishes this purification ; and through the blood thus cleansed, the influence of these wonderful medioamonts reaches tha remotest parts of the human body, and thus cures all disoasod aotion, whothor internal or external. .

Clients, counsel, and all oonoerned m law business at the II M. Court this morning were considerably inoonvoniencod through the non-appearance of the Magistrate, Gapt Wray. This ia not the first that the R.M, has failed to put m an appearance to adjudicate upon theoaßGß set down for hoaring, and the matter is becoming a very serious one. This morning, for instanoe, several witnesses m a case to be heard to-day wore brought all the way from Ohristohurch only to find the case postponed, as the local Justioes could not hear it. It is most unfair that provision is not made for securing a better and more certain attendance of an iI.M. Tho publio has a ripht to have its interests consulted, i and its expression of opinion is sure to be I felt ere long if our U. M.'s attendances at Court are to be as lax and uncertain as they have hitherto boon under the new regime. If there are other duties whioh the R.M. thinks are paramount to his attendtnoo at the Ashburton Court the matter may be condered on its merits, but it is due to the public here to be informed before hand, if possible, when he is not likely to sit upon the Benoh. Eighteen new lodges of Masons have been organised m Kansas this year, making 288 lodges altogether. Mr Baden Powell is mentioned as a likely gentleman who will succeed one of the Australian Governors. The brewery of Bass and Co. is now a limited liability concern, with registered oapital of £2,720,000. George Gould is said to give £500 a year to a Gatholio priest whose salary is too small to ] keep him comfortably. There are 48 applicants for the Professorship of musio at Melbourne University. Tho billet iB worth £1200 a year. The May number of tho " New Zealand Musical Monthly "is to hand, [t still maintains its pristine good style, and is full of information of a general character as well as that of particular valuo to musioal readers. The supplement is a seleotion — " Dinorah " a oornet sole m B flat. An inquest was held at Timaru on Wednesday on the body of William Campbell, who was found dead at Washdyke the previous day with his neck broken. It was surmised that he had fallen off his dray, while not exactly m a state of sobriety, and a verdiofc of " Accidental death " was returned. It is estimated by Professor Kirohoff, of Halle, that the language most spoken on the globe, for the last thousand years at least, is Chinese, for it is without doubt the only one which is talked by over 400,000,000 of the human race. Tho next language moat m use, but at a very great distance behind Chinese, is Hindustani, spoken by over 100,000,000. Then follow English, spoken by about 100,000,000 ; Russian, over 70,000,000 ; German, over 57,000,000 ; and Spanish, over 47,000,000. The " Ballarat Courior " repeats the story that when General Wong Ho was m Viotoria, one of his servants was deteoted the aot of stealing some silver ware from the Government House during the time the Oommis* sioners were the guests of the Governor. In China the law is to behead the thief at once, but this oould not be thought of at Yiotoria. The thief was therefore taken to China ; and a leading Chinese resident at Ballarat has just xeoeived a letter from a relative m his native land, stating that the man was there tried for the offence, oonvioted, and beheaded by two officers attaohed to the Imperial suite m a oourtyard of the Palace. From a private letter, received by the Mariposa on Saturday last from Samoa, we ('• Herald ") learn that things generally have been quiet during the past month, and that there had been no further politioal develop* ments. Four men-of-war wore m harbour— | an Amerioan' a Russian, and two German. The people of the Amerioan and Russian . vessels woro on friendly terms, but would have nothing to do with tho Germans ; indeed, so strong was this feeling that the officers of Russian man-of-war refused to attend apionio if any Germans wero to be present. Tama3O3e's Prime Minister asked the Captain of the Russian vessel to salute the King, but the latter replied that when he left Russia he had been furnished with all tho flags he was to pay that compliment to, but that of Samoa was not amongst the number. Mr William Moody, of Timaru, the wellknown partner of the firm of Moody and Ziosler, Titnara, was found drowned m a oroek near his residenoe yesterday afternoon. It appears Mr Moody, who lives about five miles south of Timaru, left home about 10.30 yesterday morning, and his wife concluded that he had walked into Timaru to his place of business. In the afternoon, thinking he would come out by train, Mrs Moody went to Normanby station to meet her husband. He did not come, and she at once feared that something had gone wrong. She directed the farm hands to make search, and one named John Mann found the body of Mr Moody m the creek m eight feet of water, standing quite upright. The place where he was found is east of the railway bridge oloso to Normanby station, and about a mile from bis own house. The body was taken to his residence, find an inquest is to be held. The death has oast a deep gloom over Timaru and district, for deceased was a prominent publio and business man. Ho wna for years Chairman of tho Harbor Board at a time when most important financial matters were before the Board, and also when the work Galled for mo3t attention. He was also Chairman of the Geraldina County Council and Levels Road Board, presiding bo reoently as Tuesday at the latter meeting, when he was ro-eleoted Chairman. BSKeating's Cough Lozenges euro Coughs Asthma, Bronchitis. Medical tostimony states that no other medicine is so effectual m the euro of these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bod mo ensues regt. For relieving dillioulty of reathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium or any violent drug. Sold by al erniiH, iv tim, Li I /t"i '2 i '.) I