The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL
Seventy-four guineas was refused for the thoroughbred gelding Murat, by Apremont— Miss Kate — at Mr S. Brown's sale at Wakanui yesterday. Horses generally Bold well. A Norweigan physician olaims that, whoop-ing-cough can | be readily cured, even m one night, by causing the patient to sleep m a room m which sulphur has been burned. Eleven Perthshire farmers who had cattle inoculated last season as a preventive against pleuro-pneumonia, with one exception, report favourably of the result of the experiment. The Christchuroh South-East Licensing Committee'b&Ye expressed their determination to regard licensees aa the responsible persons m breaches of the Act. We omitted to mention that during an interval m the proceedings at the fauoy dress carnival on Wednesday evening, Mr J, C. Ross presented Miss Jeannie Shury with a silver Victoria Cross medal as the prize for the ladies' half mile skating race. The medal is suitably inscribed, and will be an interesting souvenir of the oooasion. The proposal to tax thoroughbred stallions m Adelaide came on again before the committee of the South Australian Agricultural and Pastoral Sooiety recently, and after much discussion it was resolved to request the Government to appoint an inapeotor to examine and report on the stallions open for publio service. A new settlement will shortly be established m the Cape Colony. It will consist of a number of Beleoted families taken from one of the southern counties m England. The settlement will be called Tennyson, after the poet Laureate, who for many years past has taken great interest m South Afrioa and other British colonies. When the Stratton Island ferryboat South' | field reached her slip one day lately, on her ! first afternoon trip, it was found that the j number of passengers had been increased by a big, bouncing, eleven pound boy. Mother and child were placed m a oarriage and driven to the residence of the former at Clifton. fj^An English print is responsible for saying that the jubilee plunger, Mr E. Banzon, who is not unknown m the colonies, haa spent the greater part of £250,000 he commenced last year with. He is remarkably fond of gambling, and has been known to lose as much as £14,000 at baccarat at a single sitting, The demoralising influence of the income tax is thus recognised by the English bench : — Justice Stephen recently said m a caße before him that " the standard of publio morals was so low with respect to inoome tax returns that the admission of a false return Bhould not invalidate a man's claim to be believed on oath m relation to private transactions." A leading article m the " Times " upon military hygiene quotes Sir H. Norman'a conclusions that a soldier is of his greatest value when from 25 to 30 years of age ; that the age and lpngth of service whioh produce the most enduring e.qldier may be said to be from 25 to 80, with from three to eight years' Indian service ; and that deterioration oom. mences after from 30 to 35 years of age. Mr Lowell has been Btniting the Cauoas hip ani thigh m the very city of his birth, Mr Lowell saya :— •• While we wore yat m gristle we produced statesmen, but I think there is a growing doubt whether we are not ceasing to produce them— whether, perhaps, we are not losing the power to produoe them. Tickets of management are more and more superseding the science of government," and the door to distinction is being " made so narrow and co low as to admit only petty and crouching men," The Parliamentary correspondent of the •Dunedin Star " says :— Major Steward, who is one of the most persevering men m the House, iB evidently disinclined to allow his pet Bobeme for the formation of labor settlements to fall to the ground, for, notwithstanding Jthe two motions on the subjeot that recently lapsed, he has notified his intention at moying fcfor an allocation of £50,000 of the unallotted sum (70,000) m the sohedule to the Loan Act with a view to purchasing land for the formation of labor settlements m districts where there is no Crown land available for the purpose. A deputation, beaded by the member lor Waimate, waited on the Minister for Lands on the question early m the season. A writer m the " Evening He?ajd " says ;— A recent return shows that no fewer than 2316 persons are known to have been drowned m New Zealand rivers during the 47 years we have been m the colony. That is the average of nearly one per week. Add to these a rough estimate of those drowned and never reported, drowning accidents to children, and Bbippjng casualties on our ooaßts, and we may fairly eet the deaths by drowning down at three per week, or about 10,000 m all ! No wonder it is oalled the New Zealand death I Think of it 1 Try and imagine 10,000 of our fellow colonists going gurgling down to a watery death, struggling, fighting for breath m their mortal agony, for what must have seemed to them an interminable period of awful anguish! 10,000 of them { p eppmu horrible to me.
Statistics appear to show that m England 1 domestic servants are growing comparatively fewer. In 1831 there were 1,000,000, but m 1888 there are 1,250,000 only. A new order has been instituted m Japan, which is to be called the Order of the Crown, and is to be reserved for women solely. It has long been thoroughly understood that the Japanese are a most intelligent and progressive people ; and, it any farther proof wero required, it ia supplied by this evidenoe of their complete appreciation of the merits of the fair sex. Gorgeous attire is rot usually the characteristic of nur6es, but exception must be made j ia the oaee of a King's nurse We are told that the nurse of the young King of Spain i 3 the moat gaily attired person at the Spanish Court. Her costume, whioh would make an admirable fanoy dresß for a brunette, is as follows : — A rich velvet skirt trimmed with broad bands of gold, a blue velvet apron also adorned with gold, a blaok velvet bodioe fastened with silver buttons and opening over an inner bodioe of white lawn and laoe. She wears a necklaoc Composed of six rows of coral, and long coral earringa. Her head-dress consists of a rich silk handkerchief beoomingly arranged over her dark hair. The meeting of the Literary and Musical Society m oonneotion with the Ashburton Preßbyterian Ohuroh whioh was held last evening was well attended. In the absence of the President, Mr Wm Craighead presided. An original paper by Mr Arthur on Matrimony waa well received. Mr Arthur advooated taxing bachelors and approved of the idea of olaseifioation m marriage with a view to bring together m matrimony those whose ideas and sentiments were alike. He did not approve of early marriages whioh very often turned out unhappy ones. Several members took part^ m the discussion whiah followed. Musical seleotfona by Miss Oliver and by Mr Lamb followed, and the meeting dosed m the usual way. A very successful and enjoyable " sooial " was held m the Oddfellows' Hall by the Ashburton Rifles last evening m aid of the Orderly Room fund. There was a good attendance, about 250 persons being present Songs were given by Messrs Stevenson, Pickford, and Simpson, Captain Dolman and Sergt Jessop, the efforts of the military men being |espeoially well received, the members of the Rifles taking up the chorus. A Shakesperian recitation was given by Mr Potter m a very able style. A bayonet squad, under Oolor-Sergt McDonald, went through the bayonet exercise fairly well, and some Btage drill by another squad, under Captain Dolman, waa really first olaes, and was by Bpeoial request repeated. On the whole the Rifles have every reason to be satisfied with the result of their first sooial. A correspondent writes : — The members of the Brighter Prospects Good Templars Lodge gave an opon meeting m the Ruapuna Sobool* room on Wednesday, 20th inßt. The prooeedings began with tea whioh was provided by Mrs Doyle. After tea Mr Doyle was asked to take the chair, and a good programme followed. The performers were the Misses A. R. and G. McLauohlan, G. and S. Doyle, and Kalleghan, Messrs J. and W. Dellow, Bailey, Murrieon, Sewell, Jackman, ThompBon, and Master James Doyle. Mr Twentyman gave a very amusing reading, and a dialogue by Misses Doyle and Restell caused Borne laughter. Most of tho performers were heartily encored and very good naturedly responded to the reoallß. The room was well filled with an appreciative audience. During the evening a collection was maae to defray expenses. Votes of thanks to the performers, chairman, and all helpers brought the evening to a olose, and it is to be hoped that the Lodge will before long, give another similar entertainment ; and that next time, the Chief Templar of the district:, Mr H. Haase, will favour the audience with a song. A Wisconsin girl, a Miss Curtis, of Rosen* dale, near Ripon, was one of the sohool teachers who was frozen to death inDakoto. Her brother brought her remains home, and the " Brandon Times " has the following bit of hißtory :— " When Mr Curtis, of Rosendale, went to Dakato after the remains of his sister, who perished m the recent blizzard, he settled up with the sohool distriot for whioh she had been teaching, and they mads him discount the amount due her 12 per oent. before they would pay it, claiming that it was damage to the distriot that she did not complete the term . That beats the record of meanness." That certainly does beat the reoord for meanness, and it tB due the people of tbe world that they know the name of the Dakato town m whioh she was teaching, and the nameß of the sohool district officials who deduoted the 12 per cent., that the town may be handed down as the meanest on earth, and shunned, and the offioials be pointed out 88 examples of graßping meanness that has no parallel. The lady lost her life while doing her duty, and over her frozen corpse the men who hired her haggled about paying what was due for her servioes. The Appeal Court to determine objections to the classification of lands m tbe Wakanui River District resumed its Bitting yesterday afternoon. Mr James Brown, the Chairman of the Board, replied to the objections which had previously beeD heard. The Magistrate, m given his decision, said that it seemed to him that what the petitioners asked bim to do could hardly be done on the evidence given. In oases of sections whioh were liable to be partly covered by floodwater he was asked to strike out of the first class the whole of the section, with the exception of that portion whioh was actually subjeot to the overflow of the water— that is to say m a oase where a man had a seotion of say 50 acres, 30 of which were liable to being flooded, he was [asked to allow only that 30 to bo placed m the first class, and to order the other 20 to be included m another class. Even if the Act contemplated suoh being done— and he did not think it did, m spite of petitioners' counsel's contemion — the evidence was too vague to justify him m making the orders asked for. As far as he could judge, withopt seeing the distriot or hearing expert evidenoe, the Board had proceeded m the right way m plassifying the lands, although they had not, as the Chairman had shown, gone far enough, and other lands might, with advantage, have been included m the first olaBS. All the appeals were dismissed.
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