LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1839, 12 May 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are said [to be 800 men unemployed m Christohuroh. A man named JJamos Lawrenoe was arrostod m Lyttelton yesterday, on a warrant from Timara, on a charge of larceny as a bailee. " From here to Heaven " is the sensational heading of a leoture advertised to be delivered m Wellington. The subject is said to oause exoitement throughout America and the world. Mr T. Pratt, native member for the Southern district, has been having a talk with his Kaiapoi constituents before going North. The Auckland beekeepers want a duty of 2d per Ib. plaoed on imported honey. It was stated that adulterated honey waa being imported into the colony." Mr W. B. Hood, of Mount Somers, failed to Becure a win m his draught matches with the Herd Laddie, though he gave the champion Borne trouble to beat him. A carriage painter named William Young emplojed Bt the Government Workshops, Addinßton, died suddenly at Sydenham on Friday, being siezed with an epileptio fit. The English Footballers received £208 as their share of the proceeds of the two matches with Christchurch. It wiH be seen that Canterbury gave over £100 less to them than Otago. . j Mangahane heads the lists with list 81bs for the Great Northern Steepleohase at the Auckland K.O. Winter Meeting, and is also top of the list for the Hurdles at 14at lOlbs. Peter Osbeok coming next with list 21bs. The late Mr William Moody, who was drowned at Timaru, is said to have had his life insured for £2000. Thia was a fatherly provision for his wife and family of six children, aB well as his aged mother, who lived with him. Mr J. D. Foley appeared m the Templar Hall, Tinwald, last evening. There was a good attenianoe, and the programme was one through to the evident satisfaction of [hose present. Payments m connection with the Tradesmen's Eaoing Club's MeetiDg were -made to-day, when the following stakes were paid over :— S. Alexander, £28 10s ;M. and O. Hobbs, £23 15s; H. F. Pitt, £23 15s: J. O. N. Grigg, £19 ; T. Harrold, £14 15s ; J. McDonald, £14 15s ; A. J. Kelly, £9 10a ; R Rutherford, £9 10s ; O. J. H. Neate, £4 15s : C. G. Primmer, £4 153. Total, £152.

Cupid ia always shooting "and for ever making Mra. A recent Masonio Fair m New York netted £15,000. An Amerioan team of baseball players are coming to Australia. # It is an easy thing to be a philosopher, but it is hard to make it pay. Berry, the hangman, boasts that he has performed 130 executions. La Crosse, " the national game " of Canada, is being introduced into Christchuroh. 11 If Shakespeare were alive to-day he would be a journalist insteatof a dramatist." Birds of a feather flock together, but women with high hats sit all over the house. Prince Bismarck declines the title of Dukß as he unable to support the dignity. It is estimated that the population of Australia at the end of Deoember waß 3,500,000. Three hundred more stoats and weasels are to be sent out to New Zealand from England. A firm at Garden City, Kan., has contracted to furnish a Cincinnati park with 1000 prairie dogs. The sarcophagus containing the body of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Saida. The man who is always " putting m his oar " when other people are talking generally gets into a row. Rev T. De Witt Talmage will be installed as Chaplain of the Thirteenth Regiment at New York, A boy of five years, son of Mr Geo. Cullmore, of Wai«iti road, near Timaru, was drowned m a dam near his father's residenoe on Friday evening. The first underground railway m London was opened 1863 from Farringdon street to Paddington. The Bystem is now so extended that 136,000,000 passengers are oarried on the underground railroads every year. The Duke of Westminster and the Baroness Burdett-Ooutts have gone into partnership as oab proprietors as the London Improved Cab Company. They have placed 950 of their cabs on the streets of the British metropolis. " Webster's Spelling Book " has probably had a larger sale than any other book except the Bible. Over 50,000,000 oopies have been sold, and it is still being issued at the rate of 1,000,000 a year. Mra John P. Graoher, who died recently at Reading, Perm., had a matrimonial experience which would be hard to duplioate. She was only forty years old, and had been seven times married. Some of the oldest members of the United States Congress take a bath as the last step m preparation for making a speech. They write the speech, oommit it to memory, take a bath and then deliver it. Nelson is all exoitement over a silver lode discovered at the Owen, The lode is reported to be three feet thiok, and the ore very rioh. Ten parties have pegged off thirty aores, and there was a raoe to get apploations m. There is on view at Mr H. Zander's shop an interesting exhibition, consisting of a number of tho ooins that were struck m com. memoration of the Queen's Jubilee. The pieces of money represented are threepenny, sixpenny, shilling, florin, four shilling, orown and sovereign. A sound sentiment is expressed by an eminent authority when he says : — " Revenue laws should be enaoted with reference to. our local conditions and wants. We should legislate m the interest of our mankind at large. Not until we are able to oontrol the the markets of the world can we afford to , adopt Freetrade." • A young man of 21 years, named Duflot, son of the Canadian Doctor of that name, who is at present m Christohurch, wa3 drowned m the Halswell, about three miles below Tai Tapu, on Friday. Deceased was only a few days m the colony, and was out shooting on the river when his boat capsized and he was drowned. The "Silver Wedding" celebration has been a dismal failure. Excepting a few zealous toad-eaters and a distracted crowd of cadging snobs, there has been no inclination to present gifts to Marlborough House, and throughout the country the anniversary has been simply ignored, and, when mentioned, has only been ridiculed. The jubilee was quite a sufficient Royal anniversary to suffioe for the next half-century. — " Truth " The Cbristohuroh tradesmen are up m arms against bazaars, and at a meeting last night it was pointed out that tradesmen were frequently called upon by customers to contribute, gratuitously, goods of various kinds to be disposed of at bazaars. These goods having been obtained for nothing, are often retailed by the stall-holders at prioes less than they would be sold by the tradesman, who is thus " hoist with his own petard." Sir Charles Dilke, m a paper on Army Reform, demands an easier and looser uniform ; the present " smart " dress being useless for campaigning purposes. As a means of attracting superior men of culture into the army — men who will not submit to coarse barrack life— Sir Charles proposes a short service for reoruits of this character and liberty to live where they please at their own expense, provided they attend to orders. This relaxation of service is allowed m Russia. The Rev Dr Jefferis, the well-known|Oon- ! gregational Minister of Sydney, m dealing m a|leoture with the higher eduoation of women, and enumerating the professions open, and not yet open, to women, said : — " As for law the gates of it are as yet barred against your entrance, and I fear it will long be bo. Lawyers are wedded to old time formulas and ancient precedents. Woman's wit, clear and luminous, with its intuitive perception of worth and justice, would revolutionise law and the interpretation of it. But even that may come." It appears that £84,116 is the total amount of the Women's Jubilee Offering, and £10,000 of this is to be wasted on the statue of the Prince Conaort, which is to be ereoted m a remote part of Windsor Great Park. Considering the prodigious number of statues of " Albert the Good " which are to be found m all parts of the country, it does seem highly foolish and absurd to throw away so large a sum m erecting another, whioh, moreover, is .to be plaoed on a spot that very few people are ever likely to visit. It would surely be more rational, if it be neoessary still further to commemorate the Prinoe Consort, to place the statue on the Castle, at Windsor. It is, however, satisfactory that the soandalous design of removing the statue of George 111., at the end of the Long Walk, m order to make way for the Prince Consort, was abandoned.--" Truth," An action for damages against a oonviot who iB praotioally imprisoned for life may appear a Bingular kiDd of suit, and one which would afford the olaimant but little advantage m the event of its suooess. Suoh, however, ia the nature oJ the proceedings which are contemplated against the man Reuben Hind, who is at the present time fulfilling a sentence of 21 yeara' imprison, ment for arson m Mount Cook gaol. It has been ascertained that the prisoner inherited oertain interests under the will of his father, who was a citizen of Nottingham, and it is concluded that it is from these interests that Hind's regular remittances were derived. Steps are therefore being taken by Mr Jelliooe, on behalf of Mr John Beok, owner of the mill which was destroyed through the prisoner's crime, for the issue of a writ claiming damages, m the expectation that if a verdict should be gained the reaouroes m England could be levied upon. Mr H. D. Bell, who is representing New Zealand at the Sydney Conferenoo on the rabbit question, m a letter relating the proceedings of the Conference Bays, apropos of the microbe experiments: — "The Commission has of course been mostly ooncerned with M. Pasteur's proposal, m whioh the eminent French scientist has so much confidenoe that he has sent out three representatives to introduce it, and prove its entire effioaey, I may say at once that the Commission do not view with entire approval the extent of knowledge and of preparation displayed m the enterprise, whioh, m fact, { appears to have been oonduQted with extraordinary looseness up to the present junoture, j but nothing has yet transpired to warrant any j loss of hope m tho ultimate value of M. j Pasteur's suggestion, and very great care ban been taken by the Commission to give a fair and full trial under the amended conditions. Evory reasonable facility will be offered for a series of scientific, and praotioal experiments,"