LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1851, 26 May 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

, The Ashburton High School re-assembles after winter vacation on Monday. One efleofc of the appointment of Bishop Barry, of Sydney, as an archbishop, will be to give the ohuroh m the oolonies the power to deal with questions relating to the hierarchy. Two hundred and twenty-five pounds /or an egg ! That is what an egg of the great auk ' fetohed at auction. It has proved a very good investment for its late owner, who only paid £18 for it m 1851. Persons setting up poultry yards are advised to prooure a couple of auks. , According to the " Gippsland Meroury," •; 1 the late Henry Miller left £6,000,000 behind ' him— £3,ooo,ooo m Viotoria, and £2,000,000 m New South Wales; but he disposed of it all by deed of gift, and left no will, bo no pro* bate duty will be paid. It will be remembered that the death o - the violinist Bemenyi was reported some time ago. We notice, however, from the " Oape Argus " of April 4th last, that he was then about to open m Capetown. The paper adds that he was " looking well, and had benefited greatly by his sojourn m South Africa." Regarding the Royal marriage announced m our cable news, we may mention that Prince i Albert William Henry of Prussia, third Bon of the present Emperor of Germany and grandson of Queen Viotoria, is m his 26th , year, and Princess Irene, of the Grand Duke Louis IV. of Hesse and grand* daughter of our Queen, is not quite 22. = The City of Rome, Italy, is having Berious labor troubles. The city is full of idle work- : men, and the professional Socialists are making a bad matter worse by inciting them to mob violence. This all results from the great building boom of the last five yeara, I which is about over, with & debt of 3 300,000,000 franoa just beginning to make . itself felt. r Count Herbert Bismarck, the favorite son r of the Iron Prinoe, was foroed, much to hia ' disgust, to share a Bleeping compartment with a commercial traveller while journeying 1 to Dublin by the Irish mail train. The train . was orowded, and the " drummer " deolined . to be bought off; while the company's official r intimated to the Count that "ha could take it or leave it." j It is stated that the oldest working journalist m Europe is Sir Edward Baines, now m his 1 eighty-ninth year. He began his oareer as a . journalist some three years after Waterloo i 'was fought. He was prasent as a reporter at , the battle of Peterloo, m 1819, and subsequently gave* evidenoe on behalf of the tnen ' <arrested m connection with that famous i gathering, which told greatly m their favor. [ For full seventy years he has been a journalist. A Case of Self-Denial — He was brought before a Texas justice on the charge of. , drunkenness. "Do you plead guilty or not guilty ?" " I don't plead at all. I deny 1 (everything." "Do you deny having been up i here before?" "I should smile. Why, > Judge, 1 deny being here right now. I deny [ ,'that you are here, or ever have been here. If you catch me giving myself away, just 1 wake me up and let me know it.— Texas * Sittings. » A return giving particulars of the expen- ' , diture m connection with the Centennial . celebrations m Sydney shows that the ftrnnt to the Agricultural Society absorbed £7350 ; | the Centennial banquet cost £2854 ; the gifts I and provisions to the poor, £2767 ; the illu- ; minations m the publio buildings and the j harbor, £5084 ; advertising, etc, £2352 ; while the ceremonies of unveiling the Queen's * statue at the opening oE the Centennial Park, I and the laying of the foundation stone of the f new Parliament House, oost less than £2GOO ; [ ' the total outlay being £25,839. i American steel rails have appeared m Great Britain, American cheese is driving the StilI ton from its native haunts, American hardware has gone to Sheffield, and Amerioan ' watches to London. The imports of foreign ■ silks are less yearly, the best telescope lenses [ oome from Cambridge and the best cut diamonds from Boston. These nnd a thousand similar facts indicating progress m the same direction should Bufflce not only to show Amerioan manufacturers what possi- , bilities lie. within their grasp, but should encourage foreign traders to auk ua for what they want and leave Amerioan enterprise to fill the bill.— Amerioan exohange. A young man named William Jamieson is missing from Gore, having disappeared m a rather curious manner. The Mafcaura Ensign states that on the night of April 3rd Jamieson was met by the occupant of a buggy, and being m a quarrelsome mood and acting m an objectionable manner, a quarrel took place. An information for assault was laid against Jamieson next day, but he has not been seen or heard of since. It was supposed he was keeping out of the way, but last week his hat and ooat were found m a ditch between the road and river. It is feared that, as the river was m high flood at the time, Jamieson may have been drowned. To reach the spot where the clothes were found he would, on the night m question, have had to swim through Beveral lagoons. The " New Zealand Herald " eaya :— There is now at the Auckland Railway Station, a natural cariosity, which is well worthy the attention of .scientists, as Berving to show the power of organic growth. Under one of the platform seats a growth of fungus, as soft m texture as a mushroom, has foroed its way through the asphalt, bursting the latter right and left, and it has now attained a height of six inohes or seven inohes. The fungus is m a bunoh of about ten heads, They are elongated, not flat, but are quite soft to the touch, and break readily. They were first notioed on Monday, breaking through the asphalt close to the brick wall of the railway ■ station, and yesterday they had attained the , growth of six inohes or seven inohes, and the asphalt burßt and shattered surrounding them, whioh shows the strength of the organic growth. It is supposed that this fungus has developed from some of the wood ■ piles put m for the foundation of the building. If the other piles go m for similar developments, it may be that the building, as woll as < the pavement, will buffer. I A fretful mother and orosa ohild indicate < health, requiring only Amerioan Oo.'a Hop < ttera to remove. See I HOLLOWAi » PILLB AND OIHTHEHT. — ( Vioissitudea of climate, exposure and hard- r ships, tell heavily on soldiers and sailors, * sowing the seeds of diseases whioh may ulti- £ mately break up the constitution. Naturally careless of their health, a word m season r. may averc many evils, and may oause them 1 to resort to timely measures without any v difficulty or publicity. Holloway'a efleotual I remedies are so suitable, and so easily adapted for. the various complaints to whioh our sol- t dierfl and sailors are liable, that a supply \ should always be obtained before proceeding « abroad. It may with confidence be stated " that many a valuable life might have been c saved, or confirmed cripple prevented from c begging m the streets, if|Holloway s'remedies i< had been used m time. <£# ' \\

Mr Eden George announces that he has I reduoed the price of admission to his exhi- , bition of piotures for this evening. Detective Kirby arrested a man named r McSweeny at Springfield, on Thursday, on a a a oharge of forgery. The 'Prisoo mail arrived at Auokland by t the R.M.S. Zealandia yesterday afternoon, t The Southern portion left Onehunga by the \ Union Company's steamer at 8 p.m. laatj c night, and it should, therefore, reaoh Christ- t ohuroh on Sunday and be m Ashburton by i first train on Monday. < Nominations for (he Canterbury Cup of £50, ' for all ages, and Ashburton Stakea for ' puppies, to be run at Lagmhor on June 6, must be secured by eight o'clock on Monday evening from the Hon. Secretary of the 'United Canterbury Coursing Club, Mr W. Zander, Ashburton. A raid, whioh is expected to result m serious disclosures, was recently made on the coppersmiths' shop at Eeyham Dockyard. It is alleged that large quantities of artioles have been manufactured for outside firms out of Government store?, and the trafficking being at length suspeoted, the police were instruoted by the Admiral Superintendent to make a descent. It i 3 understood that a large number of officers and men will be placed under arrest. After various delays several tram-oara driven by compressed air on the Mekarski system have recently been plaoed on a tramway line m the north of London, where they are regularly taking their turn m working the traffic with the ordinary horse-drawn oars. The tramway upon which the oars are running is that seotion of the London Street Tramway Company's lines between Holloway Road and the King's Cross station of the Metropolitan Railway. It is about two miles m length, and has several heavy gradients and sharp curves. The Mekareki oars, whioh resemble the ordinary horse-drawn cars, take their turn regularly with the other oars on the line, keeping time, and observing all the other conditions of traffic. A meeting of subscribers to the Sustentation Fund of the Chertsey Presbyterian Churoh was held m the Schoolroom on Friday evening. All the subscribers to the fund, save one, attended. A statement of acoounts was read by the Seorelary and Treasurer, Mr D. Todd, from whioh it appeared that the Central Committee at Rakaia had been paid more than the actual amount of Sustentation j Fund collected m the Chertsey district for the past six quarters. Approval was expressed re iheaotion of the Secretary and Treasurer m declining to pay sums of subscribers' money m advance to the Central Treasurer, Rakaia. Suggestions having beeu made re the conduct of the financial business during the* current quarter, the meeting adjourned after according a vote of thanks to Mr Copeland, who i presided. In an interview published by a Southern paper Mr James Mills, member for Port • Chalmers, says :— " la my opinion what is at the bottom of the present stagnation is [ not so much ourpubiio indebtedness, although , that is heavy enough, but our large private i indebtedness. A vast number of properties I are over-mortgaged to our financial ins'itu- . tions whioh are afraid to realise. It suits j them better to keep the securities on their , books at a fictitious valuation, m the hope that something may turn up to their advantage. The* nominal proprietors are really insolvent, ' and have neither money nor heart to improve 1 and manage their properties as they shonld 1 be managed. We want to get rid of those 1 insolvent proprietors. Let th« mortgagees 1 realise, and when it beoomes known outside > that properties m New Zealand can be got at ' fair values, I feel cure men with means will 1 be attracted to our shores from the neighboring oolonies and the old country. We want 1 oapital as well as population, and if we drive 1 away the former the latter will follow. It is ; going on as we see at present.