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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Auckland is supporting seven skating rinks, oaoh one m fall swing, and yet trade is depressed m that city. The Wasboe Indians of Nevada have found a new amusement. They pit their squaws against one another m prize fights. No rules are observed, and hair-pulling, soratohing, fighting, and kicking are permitted. The " Auckland Star " says trade must be reviving, for men were aotually seen repairing the broken windows m the Auokland Courthouse. It ia easy to see how a drowning man olutohes at straws. The Auokland boya hit upon a now and sfleotive plan for " raising the wind " to bay a football. A number of them agreed to get a tooth drawn at the Golden Chariot, and by raising a great howl after the operation got money shoved into their hands to paoify them. The ruling passion is often strong m death There is no reason why it should not be strong m the pulpit. A clergyman m Melbourne the other day, who was up to his eyes m the land racket, and up to his eyes m aorner seotions, gave out his tost the other Sunday thusly :— ln Matthew, block Vt, section 3, you will find it thus written. The guarantees that Bbeep will be supplied for freezing purposes during the years 1889-90, received by Mr P. Waymouth on be. half of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, are bo satisfactory that the Pireotora will be enabled to prooeed with the necessary negotiations with the Shipping (Jompanieß, and oiroulars to that effeot are now being issued to the guarantors. One reault of the agitation for economical administration will bo that officials oonneoted with the House of Parliament will be engaged m olerioftl and other work duriDg the recess. Hitherto they have been paid an annual salary for the work they do during the three months that the House is sitting ; but under a circular recently issued they will also be required to do departmental work during the xeoesH. The " South Gantesbuyy Times " says : — Speaking of the use of schoolrooms for other than school purposes, Mr Jackson on Thursday said a distinction should surely be made between dances and ohuroh services. For ono thjng there would be no whiskey at ohuroh services. Mr Barker said he had known people to drink whiskey .after church, and he believed thero was as much kjtepiqg behind . the blackboard after ohuroh as after dances. Th# v North Ptago Times" says.— There are still pereops m the community who are never weary m assisting thpmsplyes tp other people' property. Tba other day a plumber, after finishing work on a stove jn a town, left a ladder, about 30 feet long, on the ground. When next ho oame to look for it, the ladder had disappeared. The person who took it away was evidently not to be deterred by trifles, for the ladder was a pretty tidy load to oarry. Ao advertised m our columns the Rev C. -C. Brown. ,of Ti^ari;, leotured m the Orange Hall last eyebing. fcttpndaaoe, oonsidering the inclement state" bi me W£fc'her, was very good!. At the oloso of the ''address , several questions were asked and answered, to the apparent satisfaction of those present. Mr Brown will leoture again this evening, the subjoot being "Dead persons are dead, and not m either Heaven or Hell." Given fine weather there should be a large number present, I " Skipped by the pale ligh£ o/ the mornI ing," wa« acted on Monday at an early hour, a well-known purveyor ip JSaßt street taking the leading oharaoter, Thr) ghop was not open at the usual hour, and upon en/^iry it was discovered that the enterprising pro, prietor waß non est. Enquiries were set afoot ani it was discovered that an early hour he had driven to a southern railway station ond waited for the down express, on which he et^bar^ed with feelings of high hopes. Alas for thos,e yb#m he was about Ito loavp lamenting, ©rib ,of tjfco •' left," however, wa« e^ual to itbe qooasion) oqd j^ben our hero arrived at Runedin he found' a ' stranger who knew him not, bat who would '. not take less than £4 to let him leave. tUa platform. The money was paid, and now all those whom our friend left m tears wish they were as luoky, or had had the outeness to anticipate his arrival m Dunedin. Opinions $r/3 divided as to the future destination of our wortftfr.

Half-aorown per head ja the prioe paid at Thargomindah station, New South Wales, for all oats. The San Franolsoo mail cloaca at Ashburton on Friday next at five p.m. Money Orders must be procured not later than ten a.m. ?9Mails for the Australian colonies and the Continent of Europe, via Hobart, olose at the Bluff at noon on Friday, 13th instant. Dr Maogregor m hia charitable institutions report, reoomraonds the establishment of the workhouse system m New Zealand, Barracouta are very plentiful m Warrnam. bool. Men have been catohing them almost as fast as they oould pull them up. ■* Since the opening of the Columbia Rink at Auckland, 2800 skates have been sold and the managerihas ordered 500 more from America. From Cooktown it is reported that numerous applications are being daily received by persons desiring of emigrating to German New Guinea. The directors of the Canterbury Tramway Company have deoided to call for tenders for a tramway to Sumner, m order that the line may be completed m time for the summer traffic The " Hawke's Bay Herald " says :— " The greater portion of the Victorian 'jam' now being retailed In Napier is absolute rubbißh, and some of the New Zealand brands are as bad. The major portion of the stuff offered under the'name jam ought to be oalled ' potted pumpkin.' " A gentleman' m Ohristohuroh has invented a oontrivanoe to prevent Bkating amateurs from falling backwards. It oonßists of a wooden check-block conneoted with the hind axle of the skate. So long as the skater keeps upright he is safe, but as soon as the rollers are about to oarry the skator off the equilibirum the blook drops down and allows him to traighten up again, Professor De Loree and Son will give an interesting entertainment m the Templar Hall to-morrow evening. The programme oomprises a series of views known as the '• Mirror of the World," while the " Boyal Jubilee Panorama " itself should be a deoided attraction. Our country correspondents have spoken well of the entertainment, and upon their opinions we oan recommend the performance to the notice of our readers. Admission is fixed at the popular shilling, and wa hope to Bee the Professor well sup. ported. The Auckland Schools Committee have passed, a resolution that all pupils who have passed the Sixth Standard, and were over age, be no longer eligible to remain m the schools m the district. The mover asked that every member should vote. Although they had few instances of this kind m their district, still, aocording to the report of the Minister of Education, there were 1992, or, m round numbers, 2000 pupils over ago attending sohools. They, as a Committee, should show that they took an interest m the expenditure on eduoation. In connection with the oiroular whioh has been issued by the Education Department, forbiding the use of sohools for purposes of amusement, the Minister has received a reply from the Wanganui Board to the effeot that it has long been one of the rules of that body that schoolrooms Bhould on no account be used for danoing. On one or two occasions the Baard has been obliged to resort to stringent measures m enforcing the rule. In the paragraph whioh appeared m Saturday's issue, the expenditure upon the re-ereotion of the West Coast school, destroyed by fire, was represented by a printer's error at £800, instead of £1000.—" Post," At a meeting held at Oamaru on Friday night a resolution was carried " That viewing the necessitous circumstances of many, the meeting respectfully yet earnestly urges the Government to open if possible, and without delay, some reproductive work m North Otago. as until harvest comes round again many men willing to work will otherwise not be able to obtain it here or elsewhere m New Zealand." It was suggested that the proposed new road over the ranges from the DUntroon line to Naseby would be a suitable job ; but as it must be some time before this could be put m hand temporary work near town is to be asked for, The " Daily Times " says :— We have made inquiries regarding the oiroular whioh it is alleged the Chinese have received from Pekin, and leara that there is some truth m the statement. The manager of the firm of Kwong Sing Wing, Stafford Street, assured our representative that news had been reoeived to the effeot that China was going to make preparations for fighting by manufacturing {small arms and other implements of warfare ; but he thought there was no immodiate prospect of war. He said there was no truth m the statement that all Chinese had | to return to their native oountry before the end of three years The •' PoB,t " says: — A correspondent, 11 E.T.," forwards us the following Communication, whioh we gladly publish ; — " J hayp the pleasure of informing you concerning a oaso of youthful honesty m Wellington. A friend of mine, m buying a oopy of the "Evening Poaf," gave the boy inadvertently a half-crown for a penny, the night being dark. The youngster, on seeing my friend next day, brought the half-orown baok. He had been keeping it oarefully sot apart from his -other money, m a match-box, until he should have the chance of restoring it. In these days of howling against the morals of our young people, it ia a pleasure to light upon contradictory evidence like this. The boy's name, I havo since found out, is William Day, a runner for the " Evening Post." It is a great mistake to suppose that th« usefulness of lifo oeases with the power of aotiyo service. When the tjxod hands are folded m the repose whioh their toil has rightly earned for them, when the weary brain m relieved from the burden of cares and nerpfexUies whjph it has nobly borne, there should be a season rich m blessings and jn influence wnioh no pne would willingly forego. Then should come the leisure vainly lopged for m paßt years, and the opportunity to attend to many things and to enjoy muoh that waa before impossible. If the busy life has also been 'an Honourable one, there are Bweet memories, cherished friendships, the devotion of ohildren, the rospoot of sooiety, the power of helping others through the accumulated experienoo and intelligence of many years. The very presence of a venerable and beloved fa£o is a bleping to those who look upon it, bringing sugiP^B' jono 9/ well-earned peace and oalm to the busy toiler, aria" Qalljpg up emotions of tender roveranoe jn Ihe'eajjer and buoyant youth. The Venerable Arohdeaoon Lingard of Christohurch patronises the rink, and at the Columbia on Tuesday night the Rev gentleman distributed certain prizes won. In the course of some remarks he said he had received floma'v hartf'Jcnocks ;' from people who blamed his recognition -of tlio pasti'mo, but fop hjs pwn part b,e gloried m it, as ho had m formey yjeofa gloried jn the championship of thoee who doybtod tfyeir jtioui's'ot amusement to boating and orioket, no furj:hernjpre complimented the management upon the excellent order and docorum nlways maintained, assertthat during the dozen or bo times he had visited tha Rink he had neither heard nor Been anything that could be considered m the plfghttißt degree objeotionable. He had, when seating, mat and ?i}spn with many m a few minutes, to visit wbotp would haw paounied O»*ny d'avs; v and"he'on]i' v reßrdtte'd tfeat r the numW of Mlcflgymgn W|ho thus mixed 'wfth the people during re6rfiat£o.n was '$ofr Jaeger. Mr 'Shappero's residenco on the Waimataitai Itoad, at Timaru, was totally destroyed by fire at two o'olook this morning. It is not known how the flro began, bufc it seems probable that it was from a spark from tbp dining room fire whioh was not extinguished jvhen Mra Shappore wont to bed, she being jthe lap* retired, and the J?our then being about 12 o^'plockf jjfcprtly after two o'clook Miss Ada Shappere a.wojte chokingsensation #nd found the rqo'm full ojc a r em& X qmojke. She iraraedjatolv rouaod the O.the'r'irimatbß, i but the fire had evon thpn got a .yorv strong ' hold, and the family had the utmost dj#}o,ulty ' m making their esoapo m their night olotnea, As it was thoy had to got out of a bedroom window, and they had hardly done so when the whole plaoo beoamo enveloped m flames which burnod with terrible fierceness till the roof fell m. The night was very stormy, and thja rain fell m torrents during the whole time the " £>lace wag burning. The insurances 1 amount to fiMQ on honoe apd furniture m Liverpool, London, and Globe office. Hothing ' was payed, ' ••'■... ; ' To tub Deaf.— A person who was oured ' of deafness and noises m the bead of twentythree years' standing by a eimplo remedy will send a description of it free to any person I . I who applies to Nicholson Linooln Inn i ( Ghatnbers,|WUliam street, Melbou.rne.3j ]

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1890, 11 July 1888, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1890, 11 July 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1890, 11 July 1888, Page 2

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