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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Palmerston Island, formerly supposed to be uninhabited, waa found to contain 33 personß, .all of whom Bpeak English fluently. The Cabinet are considering the advisability of establishing a sohool of mines m connection with the Sydney University. Perhaps one of the most primitive of independent kingdoms is the little island of Johanno, m the Comoro group. The Sultan boards any ship that may oall there, and endeavours to secure the washing for his wives, whiln the Prime Miniater peddles aocoanuts and bananas. Mrs Pye, well known m Ashburton and who has resided at Winslow for some time, died suddenly at Ohristohuroh yesterday. In addition to the particulars reoieved by wire last evening we learn that deceased was rather unwell on the previous evening, but not seriously. A friend m Christchuroh, whom she was visiting, prooured her some medicine, and she retired to rest, and next* morning was found dead m bed. At tbe inquest it was found that the cause of death waa serous effusion of blood on the brain. The reverence for the Sabbath m Sootland sometimes takes a form one would hardly have anticipated. An old Highlandman said to an English tourist .—" They're a Godfearin' set o' folks here, 'deed they are, an' I'll give ye an instance o't. Last Sabbath, just as the kirk was skailin' there was a drover ehiel frae Dumfries along the road, whitlin' and lookin' as happy as if it waa ta muddle o' ta week. Weol, sir, our laads is a God-fearin' set o' laads, an' they yokit upon him an' a'uioat killed him." The Hon W. J. L.Larnaoh, late Minister of Mines and member for the Peninsula, Otago, has decided to settle m Melbourne, and with Mr Montague Pym, auctioneer, late of Pnnedin, will open a big auctioneering and land agency business m the capital of Victoria. There Ib wor<|, however, that Mr Larnach will keep his seat warm at Welling, ton during this session. Mr R. L. Stanford, lawyer and ex-olergyrnan, Mr Gallaw'ay, lawyer, Mr H. Gourley, undertaker, Sir Robert Stout, and pthera are mentioned aa ■ likely candidates for Rfr I/arnach's segt. The Cordilleras of the Andes has for sorne time been exhibiting a curious phenomenon. It results from observations made upon the altituu_'. R of the most important points, that their height is gradually diminishing. Quito, whioh m 1745 was 9506 ft above the level of the sea, was only 9570 ft m 1803, 9567 ft In 1834, and scarcely 9520 ft m 1867. The altitude of Quito has, therefore, diminished by 76ft m the space of 122 years. Another peak, the Pichinoha, has diminished by 218 ft during the same period, and its crater has descended 425 ft m the last 25 years. That of Antisana haß sunk 165 ft m 64 years. j H|Mr Robert Browning has appended a short j memoir of his gifted wife to the new edition of her poems which has just come out. From this we learn that she waa his senior by six years. She was forty at the time of her marriage, while he was but thirty-four. It is a curious fact that literary women bo often marry men younger than themselves ; and yet fcheoo marriages invariably turn out well. They are generally founded on th» true affection whioh grows out of sympathy and general community of taste. With suoh a marriage age has nothing to do. Mrs BarrettBrowning waß born m 1806, at the house of an unole, -at Carlton Hill, Durham. "Rough on CATAimn" orroots offensive I odoiw at once. Complete cure of worst chromo i oases ; also unequaled aa gargle for diphtheria, ore throat, fowl breath, 4 1 1

Husband-djSJ.-1-.i..ii seems to be getting fashionable at Wairarapa. The Bombay wheat crops have ranged from 16 to 38 bushsls per acre. i At Wedderburn (Vio.) a little girl got possession of a bottle of poison, and swallowed the contents. At a sale of pictures m New York, Charles Orooker paid £3900 for Gerome's ' Serpent ; Charmer.' An old actor was heard the other day to refer to an undertakfng establishment as a " box office." The Victorian Government has decided to allow worked-out alluvial goldfields to be taken up by miners on a nominal yearly lease. A Chinaman named Wek Sing was reoently found to be suffering from leprosy m a lane off, Blackburn-Street, near B.lmore Park, and was removed to the Little Bay Hospital. A man named John Fifagerald has been sentenoed to a mouth's imprisonment for gross oruelty to a cat m Monour-Street, Woollahra. A certain Georgia preaoher says that the lowest cannibal will not eat the flesh of a man who ohews tobaooo. This being the easel a fine soheme it would be to make missionaries of tobaooo-ohewing preaohers. A pig weighing over five hundredweight was killed last week at Akaroa. It was two years old. The head alone weighed 301bs, and the ohops 91bs eaoh. The animal was said not to be by any means fat. The Rev Dr Green will reoeive a salary of £3000 per annum and house rent as rector of St Bartholomew's Ohuroh, New York, to whioh he has been oalled. His invitation to New York was extended by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrß Ayrton, wife of Professor Ayrton, of England, is delivering a series of lectures m London on eleotrioity. This is the first time a British matron has disoussed a eubjeot of this kind m public The Waitaki County Counoil has sent out circulars with the object of getting the maximum number of Councillors eligible to Bit on County Counoils raised from 9 to 12. The Selwyn Counoil has deferred the question for consideration, but the Olutha County Council seems inclined to go m for the alteration. On the whole we do not think an increase m the membership of County Counoils would be of any advantage. It is hardly a case where m the multitude of Oounoillors there is wisdom. A Musical and Literary Association has : been formed m connection with'the Ashburton Presbyterian Ohuroh, and the opening of . the session will take place this evening m the ohuroh at seven o'olook. Members of the . congregation, with those who have enrolled themselves as members, are expeoted to r attend, and the proceedings will take the t form of a social and harmony meeting. > Refreshments will be provided. A large 1 number of members have already been } enrolled, and with energy and union the i session of 1888 should be a suooess, . The annual congregational meeting of the f Tinwald Presbyterian Ohuroh was held on . Wednesday evening last, Rev A, Blake m the ohair. The Treasurer's report was read, also 1 a statement of the Church building fund l showing that a sum of £273 had been ex--1 pended m payment of Ohuroh building, j furnishing, purohase of seotion, fenoing, etc Votes of thanks were oarried to those who ' had generously assisted m wiping off the debt, l and espeoally to the pastor and Mrs Blake for I their efforts m raising funds, and avoiding [ the- neoessity of borrowing. Officebearers were appointed for the ensuing year, and Mr 1 Taylor, who was present with Mr J. Shearer, 3 aa deputy from Flemington, having addressed 1 tbe meeting it was brought to a olose. At the Palace Elite Skating Rink last . evening Mr B. Bass gave a very olever exhi--5 bition of hurdle jumping on roller Bkatea. t Tho various featß were loudly applauded by : the very large number of spectators present. 1 There was not less than 150 persons present, . and the floor was pretty well ocoupied with ! skaters. ProfeßßorjGreeawood gave his ÜBual exhibition of fancy skating and for his more difficult efforts he Beoured the applause of • those present. The Rink will be open as usual m the morning, afternoon and evening, 3 and the management are oareful to meet the r wishes of patrons to tbe fullest extent. The mußio discoursed by violin and piano every evening is an agreeable adjunot to the delights J of the skaters as well as the spectators. ' In a Paria Court reoently a band|of juvenile J thieves, varying m age from eight to thirteen i years, was brought up. They picked pookets . habitually m ohurchea, particularly at marriage ceremonieß. One urohin, barely eight 1 years of age, who had stolen a bride's purse J and handkerohief, waa asked how, being so f small, he could put his hand into the pooket 3 of a grown-up person. "My companion , oarried me m his arm," replied the boy. It 1 transpired from further evidence that several • ot theße precocious young malefaotors had \ acquired extraordinary proficiency m their , oriminal art. The band to which they belonged had existed for two years without being ■ detected. No adults were conneoted with it, the lads operated on their own aooount. Their place of meeting was m ohuroh every Sunday morning. _ Professor Blaokie, who still from time to i time makes eocentrio appearanoes, has'oom- , posed a song m celebration of Jennie Geddes and her Btool. He calls it a " historioo- , eooleaiaatioo-oomioal song," and has sung it . at a smoke oonoeit given m Edinburgh m aid of the University Athletio Olub. But it waa [ quite appropriate to the occasion, as everyone [ must acknowledge that Jennie Geddea was, k both m body and m spirit, a very distinguished I athlete, m virtue of which faot her memory , remains with us. The Professor, who pre- , faced, or rather preluded, his song with a declaration that he oared nothing about " Mrs Grundy," and would be remembered as the ! writer of the lines m question, even when Scotland had succumbed wholly to John Bull, recommended his hearers to make a pil^rim- ' ago to the brass Btatue erected m St. Giles' Cathedral m honor of the redoubtable Jennie. ' / And, indeed, if a share of her spirit is to be 1 acquired from anything it should be from a '. brazen contemplation. — •• Tablet." i Our own correspondent writes :— On Tuesday evening a meeting was held m the library, South Rakaia, to consider the advisability of forming a Skating Rink Club. There was a good' attendaooe, and id was resolved " That a Olub be formed to be oalled •The South Rakaia Rinking Club.'" A letter was received from the Town Hall Company stating terms and conditions on whioh the hall could be obtained. It was resolvod that quarterly subscriptions should be ten shillings for gentlemen and .five shillings for ladies, and that admission to the hall for non-subsoribers should be one shilling. It waß decided to open on Friday evening, June Ist, and that the hall should bo open on Saturday afternoons and Tuesday and Friday eveninga. A Committee waa appointed to make all arrangements, and Mr Winkleman undertook to aot as Hon Sec— Another correspondent furnishes us with some additional particulars. A oommittee consisting of Messrs O. Turner, J. Turner, Blackburn, Hughes and Diokson was appointed to arrange the necessary details. The matter which seems to have been taken up with great spirit bids fair to be a great sijcoess aa a nice hall, and plenty of youth and beauty to glide over its woll-laid floor will afford muoh pleasure, which is always to be fpund at similar places of amusement. A number of skates have been ordered, and, no doubt, some ouahions will bo required for those who are not initiated into this graceful and healthgiving exerpise. The poßt-oards oalling the meeting caused no little fun from tbe designs With whioh they were adorned, showing skaters m all sorts of attitudes and were from tho penoil of a looal artist by tbe name of, woll say, Johnson. Tbe weather, whioh has been very bad for the last week has now improved, and the sum shines as brightly aB of yore. . Hora-OWAs-'s Piua..— Weak S.OlPaoh.— The Wisest oannot enumerate one quarter of tftg distressing symptoms arising from injperfepi or disordered digestion, all of whioh can be relieve by these admirable pills. They remove « cankery taste from the mouth, flatulenoy, and \ constipation. Holloway'B Pills rouse tho ' stomaoh, liver, and evory other organ, thereby < bringing digestion to that healthy tone whioh I fully enables it to convert all we eat and drink to the nourißhment of our bodies. Hence these pills are the surest strengthenera and _ the safest restoratives m nervousness, wasting, i and ohrohio debility. Holloway's Pills are i infallible remedy for impaired appetite, ] eruotationa, and a multitude pf other dia- t agreeable symptoms which render the lives of 1 | thousands miserable indeed. These pills are i approved by all classes, <

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1855, 31 May 1888, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1855, 31 May 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1855, 31 May 1888, Page 2

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