LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1899, 18 July 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr E. Shaw, formerly B.M. of Wellington, is now m Melbourne, The Poßtm aster informs us that th« (/bingtu sails from Port Darwin at noon on Thursday with cablegrams for Banjoewangie. Manawatu small farm erg are said to be reaping their harvest just now out ot butter at Is Id. per 1b wholesale. Twenty-three teeth out m half a minute. That is the Canadian doctor's record. Ugh ! its butchery. #ir Arthur Halliburton, a Bon of " Sam Sliok/' m &n .under-seoretary m the British War Office. When Artemua Ward wa« ejh^bjting hie #bow m 'Salt Lake City, his oompluo^entary tickets to the officials read— "* Admit bearer and oos wye/ The body [ot a man, name unknown, wan found at Leslie Pass, near Waiau, by pnp of Mr Duncan liuthorford'B boundary ridors on Tuesday morning. While the Lawrence train was going down a fair inoline with steam shut off one of the axles of the engine broke and ihe sleepers were torn up for & considerable distance. No one *r*fl jburt, At the 7/ajpawa County Council meetings the reporter to? Ab£ Jpcal paper adds to the jnerriflient by joining £a tho debates, and, when this is objected to, by telling the objector that he £haU ba ppoken to " outside! I1 '' f "

! The Viotorian Minister of Defence stated to j a reporter his opinion that the yiotoaan forte are superior m armament to those of $reat Britain, and yet Victoria ie tbfl jnoet easily soared of all the colonies! I A V'anganui* paper says that the strain eu the single wire cable m Cook's Straits, when it was broken by the Sherard Osborne, was bo that when it snapped the two ends ,s£>raDg nearly half a mile apart.

There are one hundred men on the new goldfield at Mahakipawa, Nelson. Ia Southland there are nine dairy factories most of which are paying a dividend. M. Pasteur's system of inoculation haß been tred upon some sheep m Russia as a remedy against the Siberian cattle plague, and so far the experiment is said to promise satisfactory. The " Auokland Herald " declares that the kvwi ia not becoming extinot, although many other.native birds are getting soarce. In some districts it is increasing. Kiwi oan easily be prooured at Waitakerei, withia a few miles of Auokland.

In consequence of the recent extensive sheep stealing by Kyrrison and Batohelor m the northern district, a Sheep Farmeis' Protection Association has been formed af Bangiora to protect farmers against similar depredations m future. A ourious typographical error appeared m a ; morning paper rebently. In giving an account of an inquest, it was stated, "the deceasod bore an accidental oharaoter, and the jury returned a verdict of excellent death." It has transpired that the British Government recently offered to hand over Norfolk Island to New South Wales, but the Government deolined the gift on the ground that they would not know what to do with the island if they accepted it. A Kansas pastor has wisely deolined an addition of one hundred dollars to his salary on the ground that the hardest part of his | labors heretofore has been the collection of his salary, and it will kill him to undertake to colleot one hundred dollars more. An Inspection Parade of the Ashburton Voluteers was held last evening, Major Douglas inspecting officer. The Rifles (Oapt Dolman) mustered 49 and Guards (Captain Sparrow) 32. Stafi-Sergeant-Major Jones put both oompanies through the manual exercise,

The meeting of the Bowling Club to have been held last evening was adjourned for a week. A Committee was appointed to obtain information m regard to securing of a suitable ground and other matters, suoh infor* mation to be laid before the members at their next meeting.

The quarterly meeting of the Ashburton Club will be held this evening, and we would specially direct the attention of members to the same. Eight o'olook is the hour announced for tbe commencement of business, and after tbis is disposed of a social smoke concert is to be held to whioh the members may bring their friends.

One day last week Mr Levestam gave the House an illustration of the unreliableness of "Hansard" reporting. In the course of a debate be bad said that " one grain of stryohnine would kill a man, but a larger quantity would not." He found he was reported as saying that " one grain of opium will kill one man, but it would not kill another."

A meeting of tbe Ashburton Rifles was held last evening with the object of arranging for the holding of the annual ball. It was decided to hold the ball early m August. The following Committee was appointed to make the neoessary arrangements : —The Officers ex offioio, Color-Sergeant McDonald, Seigt Dee, and Privates Salek and Williams. It was decided that tbe ball should be a military and fanoy dress one.

Mr John Ollivier has retired from the contest for AHbley m deference to the wish of tbe electors to be looally represented. Messrs Verrall and Dixon addressed tbe eleotors on Monday evening. The former announced himself a Freetrader and independent of all parties. The latter thought that tbe present Government was as good as any New Zealand had bad, but he was not m fivor of Protection.

Franois [Innes, brewer, was sentenoed to three months' bard labor by Mr Justice Ward at Ghristchuroh an Tuesday for fraudulent bankruptcy. Tbe evidence showed that during tho six months previous to the bankrvptop be bad banked £698, though his day bookshowed reoeipts only amounting to £102. He bad disposed of property to the value of nearly £300, and bad paid the money to two or three creditors, thus shewing a fraudulent preference to them. He received about 30QQ bushels of barley for malting from Mr Moir, giain merohant, aud failed to account for 900 bushels of it.

In the House on June 27 Major Steward, speaking on the salt duty said : — That, as representing a district considerably interested m the dairy interest, be should have opposed even tbe reduoed duty on salt if its imposition Beriously affected that industry. But be should vote against the recommittal of the item, for tbis reason : Honourable members would find that a duty of 10a per ton on salt meant i.-lQth per pound, and only £d on a hundredweight of butter. P they reokoned Tib of salt for a hundredweight of butter they would find that tbe duty was only £d. It must be remembered, too, that the salt was weighed m with the other constituents of the butter, and was sold again at a very rnuoh higher price.

By the Bimutaka's mail the following advicesjhaye been reoeived regarding tbs Biver Plate Ppoaen Meat Trade, which as that oountry is our oblejE ooojpetitor jarinpt fajl to be of interest to our farmers j •— Freiglits— The rate of freight on muttpp vanes from }d tp lgd per lb, the average rate being 1| Sxports — The quantity of sheep exported isaa follows : —1884, 108,823 Bheep ; 1885, 190,571 sheep ; 1886, 331,245 Bheep ; and 1887, 242,903 sheep It is generally understood that the trade haa not been satisfactory to the growers of sheep, and the very large decrease m the sbipmsnts for 1887 as compared wj£h the previous year appears to confirm this view. " -

The story of a dceadf ul sequel to a soandal is told by the New York correspondent of the •• Liverpool Daily Post." He states that Mr Nathaniel W. Hatch, a broker, of New York, is stated to baye been unduly intimate with the wife of a Uv Sofroseld. At any rate, the woman's husband, on returning borne, founder fiatoh there, and a Boone took place; Tho broker, m ordpr to escape the wrath of the irate, husband, olin^ibjed through a back window and clung to the bough of 4 tree whioh shades the yard of the house, 'f be bough was too weak for Mr Hatob's weight, and hs fell to the ground. His brains were dashed out, death occurring almost instantaneously. The scandaf and itg dreadful sequel are the common talk of the oity.

The Parliamentary correspondent of the "Star" sftya;;— " By redooing the pay of the railway bands receiving r (a per day to ,6s fjd, and of police constables by 6d per day, and taking Is per day off those reoejving slightly higher wages, a saving of from £10,000 to £50,000 could be made, and if the [House makes it an instruction to the Government to further retrench, tbis course #$1 probably be followed. In the Survey JDepartraent, by the classification of officdrS it is estimated afurtbe? cayjng of £10,000, extending over three years', can be uiade, tj^e annualreduotion of vote being 'about £3^oo'.'.' We tHink"jyßgej3 haye been Buffioien'tfy retrenched.

The " Colonist " (Tasmania) has the following concerning the aooundrel who attempted to injure the Bale of New Zealand butter m that colony : — " It is impossible too strongly to denounce the mean, paltry, oontemptible aotion of the person responsible for the injurious falsehood. It is the more worthy of chastisement beoauso there is every reason to suppose that it had its origin m a pitiful trade jealousy, and a desire to make a few shillings by pushing tho local article during i,he period- of mild p,»nio so created. For the time'being'Jt ytaa sucoeflsful, y^je sale of $ew Zealand bucter was checked. Buipfee'Dtu for Tasmania were sent oh fh Sydney, and qon.s/'cter^bje loss waß entailed' Upon tjje looal purohaaer. $ut tL.e refutalioh ' o! the Jjibel yjU FPStore the to its place \ m the market, and %j attempt j to force trade by dishonest meonp will justly recoil on the head of its author. It a man cannot make sales without resorting to taotics of this chacaoter, he should accept it as an evidence that he is not fitted for commercial pursuits, and he should leave business to Ithvose who pan conduct it with, profit and Btjill pwaejrv'e a respeot for prinoiple and honesty. ' ' -

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