LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1842, 16 May 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Controller and Auditor Gonoral has been appointed to audit the acoounts of the ABhburton High School as well as those of similar corporate educational bodies. Councillor Oohen has given notice m tho Dunedin City Council to suppress glove fights and similar exhibitions m licensed placos .within the city. Quito right Councillor Cohon. The town clerk of tho now borough of Melroso is a proficient shorthand writer, and probably tho only stenographer south of the lino who oooupios a similar position, Next Sunday, May 20th, the Very Itov P. E. Loughnan, D.D., will hold the ÜBual services m the Calholio Church, Aphburton, and preach at 11 a.m. and at C p.m.. In addition to this tho Rev Father Binsfield will say Mass next Sunday m the Lyndhurat Schoolroom, at 11 o'clock preoisoly. The latest "Gazette" contains the republication of proclamations declaring China, Java, Sumatra, and Islands of tho Eastern Archipelago to be infootod with cholera and smallpox, and suoh diseases aro declared to bo infectious or oontagious and highly dangerous to the health of the poople. Notice of motion has boon given m the Christohuroh City Gouueil that, as tho Gas Company ia pppoaod to granting a renewal of tho contract for Btroot lighting on more favourable terms a roliablo OBtitnalo be obtainod of the cost of a oomplete gasworks plant suitable for the requirements of tho city, Tho last " Gazette " to hand oontainp particulars of land taken at Methvon fop tho " use, convenience, and enjoyment " of tho Ilakaia and Ashburton Forks Railway. The land taken is about 2 roods and 37 poloß, boing portion of seotion No. 2020, Blook VII., Roaorvo Spaxton. * It is said that In China many of tho country people are affeotod with loprosy, and it is thoreforo dangerous to oat the eggs whioh are sold m the markets. The spittle of lepers, it appears, is pecked up from the ground by tho poultry, whioh soon become leprous, lay leprous egga, and bo transmit the contagion. That there waa an intrigue to prevent the Buooession of the Emperor Frederick to the throne (says "Truth "), there oan bo no doubt. On tho death of his father, Prinoo Bismarok telegraphed to San Itemo to say that if tho < Emperor Frederick did not at once come to Berlin, the Prinoe could not answer for the consequonooß. Mr Joseph Macky, of Auckland, has Invented and patented a most ingenious eon. I trivanoo to provide against tampering with \ cheques. Thoro are three spaces for the ; figures, colored differently— one for unitß, ' one for tens, and one for hundreds, with three similarly oolored spaces for tho signature of tho drawer. Thus it will be praotioally im- J possible to ohange a one pound to ton pounds, < and so on. J <

. Mr and Mrs Foley appear m the Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow night, and considering the exoellenoo of Mr Foloy's entertainment there should be a full house. .The first of a Berios of sooial gatherings m connection with St. Stephen's Uhuroh, Ash- ' burton, will be held on Thursday week, May 24th (the Queen's birthday), m the Church Schoolroom at 8 p.m. A publio entertainment, under the außpices I of the Wesleyan Band of Hope, is announced 1 to be held m the Cameron street Churoh this evening aommencingat at half-past seven. |An interesting programme has been prepared, and an enjoyable evening is anticipated, The Baptists of New Zealand are at present supporting two missionaries m East Bengal. One of these ladies is Miss MoGeorge, of Dunedin, who has well-nigh mastered the language, and will soon be fully equipped ; the other is Mies Newoombo, a member of the Auckland Tabernaole Church. . The society is about to aoquire or ereot mission premises, and aßks tbe aid of all interested m foreign mission work. An! American exchange says:~New Zealand finds that it can ship butter and oheese to England at such prices and of such quality aa to command^ the^ patronage of English buyers, and our dairy interests, apprehensive of injury inone of their most profitable markets, are excited to a corresponding extent. They have only themselves to thank for their prospeotß, If they had sent better goods and taken greater care to ensure their purity, they would not now be bewailing competition from far distant Australasia. Mr Iyey (director of the Canterbury Sohool of Agriculture) has adopted a method of Btoring apples which has proved uncommonly BuooeßSful. Instead of being placed upon shelves of wooden battens, the fruit is kept upon trays of galvanised iron wire netting. These trays are arranged m tiers sufficiently far apart to prevent the apples m the various layerß from touohing ono another, Mr Ivey has apples whioh have been kept for fifteen months on these trays, and whioh are still perfeotly sound. Blooks of Crown Lands open for sale m the Ashburton County are described m tho •• Gazette "on May 10th. The lands will be re-opened for sale at £2 per acre for cash on July 23rd next. In the Mount Hutt, Spaxton, i Westerfield, Alford, Shepherd's Bush, Hinds, and Kangitata Districts there will be allotments open for application. The greater portion of the oountry is desoribed as " light, stony land," and " gracing land only." The areas range from 2 to 11,000 aores, and there is plenty of choioe both of land and looation. Tho ravages of the codlin moth m apple orchards have assumed such an alarming charaoter that the Government have been compelled to devise more stringent legislation on the Bubjoot. Not only are apples affeoted by the moth, but pears and plums also. A Bill is now being drafted making the former Act general and compulsory instead of permissive as at presont. Provision will be made for the establishment of a fund for the ohlif and other inspectors, the tax being at the rato of not more than Jd per tree m olean districts, or £d m unclean districts. The contribution may be inoreased, however, if the fund is not sufficient. Tho inquest on the body of the man found dead at Lyttelton, was resumed on Tuesday, and further adjourned for the production of letters from Timaru bearing on the oaße Dr FitzHenry, who had made a post-mortem examination, stated that he had oome to the conclusion that death resulted from poison, but he could not say of what nature without an analysis. The body has been fully identified as that of John Morten, a baker by trade, formely employed by Mr Douglas, at Timaru. The coroner read a telegram from the Timaru police stating that letters had been received there from deceased dearly showing his intention to commit suicide. A virago named Mary Brown wns oharged at the Onehunga Polioo Court, reoontly, with beating her bußband, Eli Brown, with a oandlestiok. The husband Btated m ovidenoo that his spoußo was m the habit of getting drunk and making violent attacks on him. On this occasion Bho had blown out tho oandlo and attacked him m tho dork, threatening to take his life. Other evidence showed that she had been conviotod of larceny, and had boon sentenced to three months' imprisonment for ohopping her husband on the head with an axe. She was bound over to keep tbe f|[aoo' for throe months, herself m £25 and two sureties of £25 eaoh. The Minister of education, reporting on .the cost of sohool buildings, says that sinoe the passing of the Eduoation Aot the Government have provided £90,009 more than was necessary to oreot buildings of lasting and durable oapaojty to aooomodate the largest 'attendance of children yet reoorded. The case of Auokland is mentioned as an instanoe of . the waste of monoy m erecting so many small schools, to say nothing of the waste of teaching power, whioh, by reason of so many small schools, must bo involved. He rooommends the adoption of a model design lot sohool buildings by tho oentral department m Wellington, and thinks £20,000 to £30,000 ,a year should bo sufficient to meet all ordinary building requirements. Mr J. 11. Walsh (" Stonohongo "), editor of the " Field, 1 ' is dead. Mr Walsh, who was a Follow of the Royal College of Surgeons, practised as a medical man m Worcestershire until 1852, when ho quitted the provinoes for the metropolis, and subsequently spent somo time abroad. He ultimately settled m London, and devoted himself to literature as a profession m 1855. As he was an acknowledged authority on courßing and all kinds of sport, having published Bevoral works on tho subject, Mr Walsh was m 1857 seleotod by tho lato Sergeant Cox, tho proprietor of tho " Field," to iill the editorial chair of that journal, to the suoooss of which newspaper he m a groat degree contributed. He subsequently published works on " Domestio Economy," and m 1858 the " Dog m Health and Disease." In 1882 he produood the first volume of tho " Modern Sportman's Gun and Rifle," the seoond following m 1884. He was perhaps best known as tho author of "British Rural Sports," of whioh no fewer than fifteen editions have been issued. Statutory Declaration.— l, Franz Raabe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, m the oolony of Viotoria, Australia, do solemnly and sinoeroly declare that on the 25th June, 1877, my son Alfred, six years of ago, was accidentally hurt with an axe on his knee. lat once took all pains to sooure medical assistance. However, m spite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, tho opinion was givon by Dr Maogillivray that an amputation of the injured limb had become imperative, m order to save life. At this junoturo I called on Messrs Sander and Sons, procuring some of their Extraot of tho Eucalyptus Globulus, and by tho application of the same I bad the satisfaction of seeing my son within a fortnight out of all danger, and to-day he is rooovered. I may just add that it was when the crisis had been reaohed that the Extract referred to was first applied. And I make this solemn declaration, oto, — Fbanz Raaiik. Doolared at Sandhurst, m tho oolony of Viotoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of October, ono thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven before me, Moritz Cohn, J.P.— (Advt.) 7