LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1845, 19 May 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The " Poat " oonsidera Mr Hannay well qualified to fill the office of Assistant ComtniHsioner of ltailwaya. Id is stated that the Government baa seleoted for the offioe of Chief Commissioner a gentleman who was not among the list of applicants m response to the Government advertisement. According to one of the Inveroargill auotioneers, three Chinese miners at Round Hill have just divided £4000 as the prooeeds of twelve months' work, and yet unemployed work is being applied for. That indigestion or stomaoh gas at night, preventing rest and sleep, will disappear by k Using A.merioa.n Qo.'g Hop Bitters,

Monday nr.\f be>^ W "t Monday will, be observed as a Bank Holiday. Mr R 0. Bishop beat Mr Eden George for the Oounoillorship of the North West Ward m the Ghristohuroh City Council yesterday. It will be seen from the oable news that Benson, the onoe noted forger, has ended his eventful life by suicide. He was ringleader m what was known as the " Turf Frauds." The Chrtstohurch unemployed are still insisting that the Government should find them m work, and a number have been just on at the High Peak works. Mr T. W. Price will giye an exhibition of horse taming this evening m the Arcade. One of the horses to be operated on, which oomeß ' from the Channel Islands, is exceptionally wild. The Wesleyan Methodists m New Zealand, who were desirous to be separated from the Australian Conference, will be disappointed at the result of their representations, Only 18 favoured the separation at the Melbourne Conference. The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company will ship 15,000 oaroasses of mutton by the s.a. Doric whioh finiahes loading to-morrow By the s.s. Kaikoura, whioh leaves later on, they will also despatoh 11,000 carcasses for. the Home market. The Premier wants two millions of money to carry on the Government work, and advises that the money market be gone into at onoe, Two millions let loose m the oolony just now would make things lively while it lasts. To-morrow being Whit Sunday [collections will be made m St. Stephen's Church at all the servioea, and also m the Sunday Schools, for the Melanesian Mission. The Holy Communion will be administered at half-past eight o'olook m the morning and also at the midday servioe. The Taranaki Hospital Board are agitating to prevent the importation from England of nominated emigrants m a weak state of health, as they are constantly having applications from such new arrivals for medical treatment and for charitable aid, An absolutely new phase of retrenchment was presented to the House the other day by Mr Taylor, member for Sydenham, who stated that offioers m his district had been discharged against whom there was no objection whatever, except that " they were physically and mentally incapable of performing their duties." A Sohool Committee at Haloombe favorably considered the suggestion that the members should form themselves into a Christy Minstrel Troup to raise funds for sohool purposes. There are not many Sohool Committees of suoh talent going, but the idea is reoommended to those Committees who are always complaining of being short of funds. A consignor of grain from the Oamaru distriot to a station south of Dunedin has been compelled to pay £12 odd for exoesa freight, because there was an average of about a pound or a pound and a half over four bushels m each bag. The Railway Department refused to meet the demand for a reconsideration of the matter. * Says the "Taranaki Herald ":— Mr A. O. Atkinson, a surveyor m the Government > Department here, and eon of the Premier, i has reoeived notice that his servioeß will be 5 dispensed with. It is Mr Atkinson's intention to go into the office of his brother, a lawyer m Nelson, m order to study for the profession ' of the law. Mr Cloudsley, the disooverer of the seam 1 of ooal on the western slope of Mount Torleßse, i lodged an application with the Land Board > for a license to prospeot for minerals m the , Grasßmere and Kowai Survey districts. The I l license will be granted should the Midland 1 Railway consent. A Bample of the coal haa been placed on view at the rooms of the , Industrial Association. i The average cost of patients at the Dunedin Hospital last year was slightly over 3s per 5 head. During the year 8749 cases were attended to, inoluding re-applications, Twentythree medical students are regular m attend- ■ ing the practioe of the Hospital. The sum i expended for medical comforts, winea, spirits, j beer, etc., was £180 15a, as against £151 15s f Id fortheprevioua-yeaiv- --......_ [ The Dunedin Hospital Board has decidea that all oases requiring speoial nursing be ! submitted with all particulars as to ciroum--1 stances of the patient to the House Committee, : who shall decide before the patient is adi mitted what shall be tha charges for mainfcen- ? anoe, and also that no maltine or patent "■ medicines be prescribed to out patients unless ; they are willing to pay for them. ? The suooess of the saored ooncert " The 1 Brave Covenanters," so far as the ooncert > itself was concerned, has led to its being . advertised to be repeated on Monday nex', 21at inst., m the Salvation Barracks. We I hope there will be a large attendance, for such an evening's entertainment ia worthy of > Bupport besides being calculated to do a great deal of good. l A correspondent at Willowghby writes :— [ On Tuesday evening we had a literary treat of no mean order when the Rev Mr McPherson I lectured m the sohoolroom on "An evening 1 m the House of Commons." The lecture pourtrayed the scene m St Stephen's very i grophioally when the debate was on whioh , was to deoide the fate of the Government, r when Disraeli and Gladstone were the mighty leaders of the Commons. The leoture was l both eloquent aud instructive, and was . generally appreciated. The Maori Football Team, akippered and s coached by Warbriok, the well-known interprovincial and|interoolonial player, will shortly commence a tour through New Zealand winding up at the Bluff, from whioh point the team will sail for England to play a aeries of matches. The Timaru Footballers have r arranged a matoh with the Maori team as they pass southwards to take plaoe some time m July. There is, however, no word of the Ashburton men giving them a taste of their quality. Mr Lillywhite's percentage of the takings at the Football Matches m Dunedin, Ohrist- ; church, and Wellington amounted to a little • over £1100. He expected Christchuroh to have . contributed more than it did. Each of the players m the team has been guaranteed £200 and expenses for the tour, and as there are 20 players £4000 will have to be raised as well as £3000 for travelling expenses. The speculation is not therefore likely to prove a profitable one. Otago is given oredit for playing the most scientific game and Wellington the roughest so far. Says the " Napier Herald " :— Renata's i strong-room at Omahu was opened recently m the presence of Mr J. Sidey, appointed by the court receiver m the estate, and Messrs Cornford and M'Lean, solicitors to the parties interested under Renata's two wills. Mr J. M. Parker was taken out to Omahu to open the strong-room, the key-hole m the door of which was blooked with cement shortly after Renata's death. A full inventory of the contents of the strong-room was taken. Contrary to expectation, there was not a great deal of money found. Wild dogs are proving a great nuisanoe to ■ettlera m Fitzherbert distriot. These brutes are numerous and extremely wary, eluding almost every attempt to got a shot at them, and taking full advantage of the oover afforded by logs, etc. They round up a flook of sheep m a manner whioh would secure the warm admiration of the best trained Hootch collie, and when they have got the sheep well packed together a dash is made and the throat of one seized. Not content with killing one and devduring it they frequently kill or injure many others apparently from pure wantonness, So far poison and other means tried for their destruction have proved of little or no use. We (" Wellington Press ") hear that Dr Heotor's remarks on the Hessian fly have been taken down South more seriously than there was really any ground for, and that there is wailing down there lest the grain export should Buffer m consequence. Dr Heotor has accordingly issued a further memorandum m whioh he explains that there is little to fear from the Hessian fly, and that its ravages are confided to unthreshed wheat or barley, the straw principally, while it does not attaok oats. The parasite destroyer of the pupa of the Hessian fly is propagated m its company, and may be regarded as a pretty sure oheok, Sir James instanoes that though the importation of Belgian infeoted grain has been going on for years past, it is only within the last two years that the pest has made its appearinoe m Great Britain. Liver coughs often taken for consumption are oured almost instantly with Hop Bitters if you use the genuine American