LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1865, 12 June 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Eerr, member for fcfotueka, says a Nev Zoalandor is as good aa any two jGngliuhtnei Jio oversaw. The Waitabuna Farmora' Club during thi past season bought 925 doy.on of small birdt eggs, lor which they paid 3d a dojzen. The " Post " urges tho Immediate abolitjo; of the Audit Department, as pq good pu'rpoe can be sorved by its continuance, Tho Colonial Treaauror has added s dut, of 2d por lb on honey to tho now Tariff, a Jho request of tho beokoepors. Peßpito tho laughter of mombora, Mr Kor lias reitorated bis Btatcmont that thoro or rabbit faotorios and shoop faotoriea m Nolsoi province. The Otago University Btudents had a debat on the Chinese Question and deoidod by large majority that sufficient restriction wa already put on thorn. Mr Joyce is urging the Government t( BUthorjso the Uqn. Mr Oliver to negotiate fo intercolonial jeoipjoqity during bis visit to Australia. We would [remind our readers thai tin Boy Gordon Maopheraon leotnroa m $1 £Uoph/m'a Schoolroom this o'veninp;. Th admißHion is pnn and the pubjoot o tho leoturcr an In tor option Q'? 0 ; The Aahburton l^iflo Company pyrpos holding one of those popular meotings oaliei eooialH m the Oddfellows Hall, on Thursday 28th Juno. This will be tho iirat of the kirn held by the JRifles, and the objoot m view viz., the raising pf funds for build ing an orderly-rgotn o/L the DriHshed is a very worthy one. Tho JRifle bavja now been nine years m oxistenpo '&& i Voluatoor 'company, and havo Bpont a con sidorablo sum of monoy m butts, targete ,apd othor neooßsarioß. ft is therofore hopo that a great many of tho jrjubli^ will giv their palrooago on this pouaston, especially & a very atirj»otjyo programme ia being pre pared, jnolujjng oomo military dril exercises of a charaoter not^ttjjepgod jbefore ii A.Bhbwton. (■, Kkatinq's Couoh Lokknoeb cures Coughs Asthma, and Bronchitis. Medical tostimon; states that no othor mediaina ig no offootua m the cure of these dangerous maladies. On Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bed time eneuroa rest. For relioving diflioulty o breathii?a tjjpy are invaluable. They contaii no opium or any violent drug. Bold by al .chcojietß, ia.tiQß li J^i »ad^ H eaoh.

Sir George Gre>- waU' d potsplaoed at the Kermadeos for shipwreokod Bailors. Photographorß are exorcised at the taxation proposed on their requisites. They say iho materials taxed cannot be prepared m the * uolony. > A first and final dividend of 20s m the £is , announced m the bankrupt estate of Edwin , Laney, Oamaru. Such a dividend i<3 rather ' unusual m these days o! official assignees m bankruptcy. According to the latest number of the " Lanoet " the rate por head of money spent on drinking ia as under :— Amorioa £1 Ida 6d ; New Zealand, £3 ; United Kingdom, £3 17a lOd ; Viotoria, £4 13s lid ; and New South Wales, £5 Ids. Tho directors of the Waiarcka Dairy Factory, Oamaru, have leased the same to Messrs Sawyer Broe., for £150. per annum. The faotory has not yet paid a dividend, but the direotora now hope to gut an 8 por cent one out of it. The Hon Mr Mantoll, speaking to a deputation at Wellington on Monday, said tha Episcopalian oemotery m Wellington was ao crowded that m digging new graves the rtmaina of those previously buriod wero thrown out, and he did not know what beoame of them. At Oamaru two boys named Meek and Hollow, while playing m the school grounds on Friday, ran their heads together with suoh force that Meek's eye was almost knocked out, and a wound infiiotod whioh bled profusely. It is believed the eye is permanently injured. There is not m New Zealand (saya the " Temuka Leader ") a more generous-hearted Or more noble-minded politician than Sir Robert Stout. In nobility of character and single-minded devotion to his adopted country, as well as m point of nobility, he Btands head and shoulders above nil others. The amount of money scoured by mortgage within tho colony on the 3 let Mar oh, was £28,111,611 6s sd, of which j£9,409,245 is within the Canterbury distriot alone. The mortgagee negotiated during the year represented a sum of £3,603,857, and during the same period mortgagee to the amount of £2,853,826 were paid off. The oareless use of the editorial * we ' frequently gets newspapers into trouble, and the use of the word * we ' to represent the people of the whole country is sometimes as fatal as 1 rough on rats * — al least this is the opinion of the editor of the- " Springfiold Union," who recently said: 'We ate 3,100,000 bags of ptanatß last year.' Sugar refining by eleotrioity is about to be Attempted by a Brooklyn company, whioh olaims to be able to oonverfc a ton of raw sugar m two hours into bard white sugar, at a cost of 80 cents, turning out 3000 barrels per day. Present cost is 7dol. to lOdol., and time thirty hours. The inventor is Henry Friend, a French-American, A contributor to the " North Otago Timoa ' writes:— "By raising the sohool ago, by abolishing Eduoatiou Boards, by the Government's taking over the work of the Sohool Commissioners, and taking the inspectors under its control, no less a sum than £40,000 might be saved per annum, without imparing the efficiency of the system m any way. The " Bush Advooate " oalls attention to the way m whioh the' Norsewood relief fund has been administered, Ono settlor reoeived £10 |whilo his neighbour, who lost two chains of fencing got nothing. Those who lost everything got a blanket or two, and those who lost nothing reoeived enough to start a draper's shop. At tho meeting of tho Borough Oounoil last evening it was mentioned that Mr D. H. Brown had a soheme, whioh ho was desirous of laying bofore the Oounoil, for a high pressure water supply, and also for providing the power to light the town by eleotrioity. The question of procuring a steam fire engine was further loft m abeyance for a fortnight, m order that Mr Brown might acquaint the Oouncil with his soheme. In Christoburch latoly gangs of young men of tho larrikin olass have been giving the police considerable trouble by annoying and insulting people and resisting constables when carrying out their duties. At the Keßidont Magistrates Court the Benoh showed a disposition to treat with a oertain amount of severity otronaers at tnlErolaßS. Ono man was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and another to two month's for .disorderly oonduot on the Htrcots, m oaoh oaao the ponalty being additional to those imposed for other offences oommitted by the aooused at the same timo. Mr Thomas Forons, an old settler m Oamaru, died the other day. He arrived m the colony m April, 1848, per tho John Wyoliffo, and hn was ono of the three North Otago settlers who came to the colony m that year, the late Mr Atkinson, and Mr Obarlos Bentley, now m Canterbury, being the othor two. Mr Fercns was tho first to ihtroduae draught fitook into the district, he having imported both Clydesdalo and Timor breeds. He was a good Maori soholar, and mastered the native tongue soon after his coming to the colony. The deceased leaves' a wife and grown up family to mourn his loss. Some oonfusion appears to have arisen m reference to the offices of Town Clerk and Engineer. Mr Braddoll the presont ocoupanF, at the meeting of the Oouncil a fortnight ago, reoeived a month's notice of tho termination of his engagement, under cirouma'anoes which have been fully reported m thoao columns, but ho refuses to accept this as suflioient. At last night's meeting of the Council he made an offer without profudioo to take cither six months' notice, or six months' salary. The Oounoil determined to refer tho quoation to their solicitor. Possibly the turn matters have taken may havo had some infiuenuo m causing the Council to defer making tho now appointment for a week, whioh course was rosolved on last night. Tn Timaru Mr James Bruoe, a well-known millor, was yeßtorday morning ohargod m tho B.M. Court with removing a truok from the rajlway lino without authority. He rooeivod by rail a lA-ton boiler for his mill, and it was run on to his Biding, ]fjo lajd down a traok at right angles to tho siding without 0 turd- ' table, and by means of shotr logs and taoklo lifted up tho boiler, lifted a truok on to' his priyato traok, and on it took tho boiler to its plage m thp mill, forty or fifty feet away. Too defence thaj ho never thought of ' asking for permission, as' he had dqno a r precisely similar thing beforo, arid nothing wan uaid about it. It was admitted that the c truok wa« net daroagod. A nominal penalty j of £1 was imposed with CQStg, Says tho "Referee"; — AH true lovers c of the sport, recognise that Bo^.e^saUent < meaßuroß are neoessary for tho restriction of the jtotaliaator and theoonflninpof its operations to < strictly logUima:c raojirig cluljs whoso only aim ,q and objeot is tho fostering pf racing. It cannot bo djoniod Hint the garao of racing has j been woefully ovordqne m j-hjs oolony during , c the season now olosing, and tlrfo tujff rulers m n Sydney are evidently rcooflnising the samo ' thing there, for by a Sydney journal rooeivod by this week's mail from Australia, we gather ' that It m more than Hkoly that oro long the 8 commit! te of tho Australian Jookey Club will l ' oonsider the adviiablonesa ot rogißtering only those olubn and rnoe mootlngu which givo 0 upwards of a certain sum to run for annually. 1 Restriction, not abolition, of tho totalisator iB Owhat is demanded by all who havo the welfare of the Tur£ at heart. 0 .«' Rouaii p^j #<mC-~oleitts out my, mlpo D oaohos, flios, ants, bod-bugs/ bddtlos, inscdotd, ■ jack-rabbits, sparrows, gopherß. AH "chemists and druggists. 1