The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1886, 6 July 1888, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Chief Justice Way, of South Australia, ha* sold a property m King William Btreet, Adelaide, to the National Mutual Association of Australasia for £440,000, or an average of £571 per foot— That's the way to get rich. The liat of guarantees of stock to be shipped at the freight of Id per pound under the Auspioes of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company during 1889 and 1890 already represents a total of over 155,000 Bheep for eaoh year. English is the fireside tongue of the Greek Danish, and' RUBSlan-Rojal md Imperial families. Our Queen speaks German m her home oirole, and oddly enough, the German Crown Princess discards it m hers, preferring English. A recent trial m New York proved that a ferret kept m a oage m a barn or other building would drive away rats. The soent from the ferret is what does it. It is olaimed that rats are bo fearful of it that they will even abandon their nests of young. The sale of the Eumemmering raoecourse is another instance of the rapid rise m the value of land m Viotoria. Some weeks ago the land m question (about ninety aores m extent) changed hands for £4700 ; it is now stated that the property has been re-sold for no leas a sum than £12,000. Albert Frazer escaped from the Michigan Penitentiary and then induoed his wife, who was having a hard time, to deliver him up and secure the reward offered for his capture. She did so, and Frazer had the satisfaction of knowing that he . had done something to provide for his family. At Guy's Hospital, London, reoently thera was received the body of a drunkard whioh wa very much bloated. It was found thai when punctured and a match was applied to the gaß whioh esoaped, it burned with the ordinary flame of carburetted hydrogen. As many as a dozen of these flames were burn* ing at the same time. Captain Mennickan, of the Cunard steamer Umbria, whioh arrived m the Mersey a few days ago, has aohieved that whioh has never been accomplished before— namely, a veßael leaving New York -on Saturday and the following Saturday passing the entry «n the Liverpool Custom House as having arrived m the Mersey. Qneen Olga, of Greece, is a beautiful woman with a plump, well developed form, tbiok, handsome hair and expressive eyes. She has •weet and charming manners. She is a fear* less horsewoman, but is very domestic, withal, and is often seen at home spinning silk. She is a devout Greek m religion, leads a pure life and is devotedly loved by the Greek people. The Constantinople correspondent of an ' American paper states that on Maroh 28 a mob of women m that oity sought to obtain arrears of pensions for their husbands from the Government, and besieged the office of the Minister of Finance. The Minister was seoretad to esoape the fury of the mob. The mob killed a woman who was advising them to make their demands quietly; The faot reoently made public that £70,000 is annually paid by the Public m London for added water m milk, seems to have impressed Mr Bennat, the presiding magistrate at Clerkenwell, very profoundly. In fining two defendants charged with milk adulteration his Worship expressed his surprise at this remark able statement. "To mymi&oV' he said, " milk is a thing whihh ought to be sold pure." There will be many people of the same mind as Mr Beunet m this matter. AjQQDrdjng to one of the society papers the Tory Pemporafs are about to start a new journal of their own, whip}} is to" be the most brilliant paper ever published." }Lt is to he issued weekly, and to contain more novelties, special and political, than any organ m the press. Lord Randolph Churchill will be its avowed hero, and it wjll take ijts policy from his inspiration. The new paps* js to wage war on obsolete Conßeryatjsm, and rally tfje gilded youth of the country round $P standard of constitutional reform. There are ocly eight or ten while wonjen on the Congo. They include the femala missionaries at Bishop Taylor's Btation at Kimpoko, on Stanley Pool, and the wife of the English missionary (Wellington, who went to Africa to marry him. The wife of Lieutenant Talcke, who has lived on the Congo about a year, has just returned to Belgium m excellent health. The only white women who is m the depths of Central Africa, hundreds of miles from the coast, is Mrs Bore, of the London Missionary Sooiety, a black-eyed, sweet.faoed young woman, who was carried 800 miles to Lake Tanganyika m a bath chair, The fortnightly meeting of the Band of Hope m connection with the Tinwald Wesleyan Sunday School was held on Wednesday evening. There was a good attendance, Mr John Caygill, vioe-preßident, m the I A large amount of interest is evinced m cflDueptjon with these meetings, eaoh child emulating the pjfter as to who shall read, sing, or rieoite the most porreotly. The teaohers, Messrs fiujverhouse, Jjohmy, Geo. i Jjowe, Smith, Misses £owe, Bjjoriarty, and jßountreej certainly deserve mention for the | excellent manner m which the pieooa were rendered,. Mrs Hespjtjpe presided £t' the i harmonium. The choir gaye general jpatisfaotion for the very able manner jn whiofy several selections were rendered. A very jntereetjng and instructive meeting was brought to a olose m the usual way* "Houcm on Catabbh" corrects offensive odorß at once. Complete cure of wor&t chroni, oases; also unequalled as gargle for diphtheria, ore throat, foul breath. 4. Kbatino's Cough Lozenges ourea Coughs, Asthma, and Bronchitis. Medical testimony states that no other medicine is so effeotual fnthe cure of tfaesa dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bedtime en?uresrrest. For relieving difficulty pf breathing they are invaluable. They contain no opium or any violent drug. Sold by ail chemists, m tjw.lsjld^and 2s 9d eaoh,

The annual dinner m oonneotion with the Star of Ashburton, L.O L., will be held m tbs Orange Hall, on Thursday next, at 7.30 p.m. A heavy gale sprung up just before 2 o'olook this [afternoon and for some time clouds of dust were flying about, making outdoor travelling anything but pleasant. One or two windows were broken by the force of the wind, A homely French Abbe, who had jast inherited £64,000, has presented his fortune to the Pope, stating that hitherto he had lived on £12 a month, and thus he would not know what to do with so muoh. In return, however, he asks His Holiness to support him if he wantß assistance at any future time — which the Pope will, of course. The firebell rang out an alarm at 2.30 this afternoon,^ and m view of the furious gale that waß raging at the time considerable consternation arose. The Brigade turned out with great promptness and proceeded m the direotion \ol the racecourse. The fire being at_ Mr Kilworth'e place, near the Canterbury Millß. Mr Kilworth being engine driver there, As soon as the alarm was given the mills were shut down, and the whole staff taming out with buckets tha fire as confined to a detached wash-house and scullery, with an upper story used by Mr Kilworth as a workshop, m whioh he had a lot of valuable tools. The whole building and its contents were destroyed, and it is not known ff any insurance was on the building or its contents. It is supposed that a spark from the kitohen chimney oaused the file.