LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1902, 26 July 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The King of Siam has recently given to the Baptist Mission at Bangkok the sum of £48,000 for an hospital and schools. In the Lenox library is a perfect copy of the Mazarin or Gutenburg Bible, the first book ever printed with movable type. It ie stated to be worth £5000. A beautiful example of the force of habit is to see a Good Templar fill his glass with water, and dreamily blow the froth off the innocent water before drinking. Spain is the place for electricians just now. The Government has deoreed that all the theatres m the kingdom shall adopt the eleotrio light within 6 months. Europe used 13,000,000 dollars worth of American pork last year, m spite of all efforts to exclude it. The American hog (says a Yankee paper) may not be absolutely perfeot, but the Old World cannot get aloag without him. HA medioal|opinion is that if consumption were eradicated from cattle it would soon disappear from the human race. Five per eont. of Englißh cattle have tuberouiosis, and twenty per cent, of some Jersoy herds of the United States are said to be affected. Suspicious husband wanted badly to know who had escorted his wife home the previous night from the rink. Then she remonstrated : " I never want to know who brings yo\ii home," said she. An awful silence supervened Mr Glover the temperance lecturer, recently delivered a lecture on "Our Girls " at Woodville, and at the olose two young ladtes, who evidently would have enjoyed a lecture on " Our Boys " more, got up and sang •' Where is my wandering boy to-night ? " ■

Next Sunday Father Binsfield will say Mass at Rakaia at 11 a.m. The German population of New York is given as 350,000. A meeting of all interested m bowling will be held m Mr D. Thomaß' Offiice at 8 o'clock this evening. The Prinoe of Wales has the right of wear-. t ing one hundred and twenty-three uniforms and official dresses. The channel of the Congo oan be traoed for a hundred miles out to sea, having a depth of 1432 feet just at the river's mouth. •;< A steam horse-power is equal to three actual horses' power ; a living horse is equal to seven men. There are 130 incurable patients m hospitals m the colony. Christohurob has only two while Ashburton has none. The Kentucky Legislature will prohibit marriage where persons have a <l violent temper." It can't be done. Violent tempers* are discovered after marriage. Sensationalism m the pulpit seems to be all tbe rage m Napier, where the Rev J. Edwards was announced to preaoh on "Broughton v Airini Tonore." These are the disputants m tbe great Renata will case. Parties visiting the volcano of Popocatapetl recently, report an increased aotivity m the orater, with clouds of Bmoke and sulphurous fumes. Reportß from. Central Amerioa show that several volcanoes are unmistakably m renewed aotivity. Aooording to a liquor law passed m France every person who may be condemned twice by the polioe for open drunkenness will be incapable of voting, of eleotive eligibility, and of being named for a jury or any public office. " It is said that there is a post office for every 1000 men, women, and ohildren m tbe United States, and that if the expense of carrying the mails was paid direotly by the people pro rata eaoh oitizen would pay an average of 85 cents a year. The weather yesterday and to-day has been very severe, a bitterly cold wind accompanied with heavy rain having prevailed. At the hills there has been a good deal of snow, the tops of the carriages of the Mount Soraers train when it arrived this morning being thiokly ooated. A Ohristohuroh paper states that the polioe have obtained information, whioh they have reason to believe reliable, that the escaped oonviot Roberta was Been m the neighborhood of the south of Timaru a short time ago. As will be seen from a telegram m another part of this issue, Roberts' prison clothes have been found on the Peninsula. The Wellington Protection League purpose holding a banquet on tne 28th instant at which they will have 1000 people aB guests, including the members of the Ministry and tbe members of Parliament who voted for the tariff. An attempt will be made to make it a big advertisement for tbe food products of the colony.

A football inatoh will be played on Saturday between teams representing the town and the Woollen Faotory. Play will commence at a quarter to three o'olock sharp, and players are requested to be punctual. The following players j,bave been picked to represent Aahburton :— Messrs J. Fooks (oaptain), R. Foley, Alfred Fooks, D. Moore, W. Quinn, M. Jameson. E.'.Simpson, B, Stewart, Grubb, Christie, Leokner, Outhbertson, H. Fooks, Daath, and A. Buohanan. Emergencies— Mesars O. Moss and R. Curtis. Labouobere loves the weed. He writes : 11 A Preßbyterian Convent at Pittsburgh has just paß3ed a rule making it a condition of admission to the Ministry that the oandidate use tobacco mno form whatever. This is a , short-sighted, as well as a narrow-minded ordinanoe, and cannot fail to have a prejudioial effect on the ministry. Parsons, whatever scot they may belong to. ought always to be smokers. Tobacco widens the sympathies, ripens the judgment, and softens the temper. It is therefore Nature's appointed antidote for all the worst olerioal vioea.V The usual fortnightly meeting of the Tinwald Gospel Temperance Society and Band of Hope was held m the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening. There wbb a very large attendance ; the Rev A. Blake took the chair. A long and interesting programme was gone through, consisting of reoitations, |aongs, readings, and dialogues. Temperance addresses were delivered by Rev Mr Boothroyd and the Chairman, and Mr Jamea Gudsell moved a vote of thanks to those who bad taken part m the proceedings^ especially those who bad oome from a distance, Two members joined, and a very enjoyable meeting, to tbe success of whioh old and young contributed, was brought to a close,

In an interesting article upon the Bubjeot, a French writer deaoribeg all the methods of sealing that have been successfully employed from the remotest antiquity. The first seals consisted of a Ting that was affixed to clay or bole, and later to ohalk or creta aittatica, a mixture of pitch, wax and plaster. The übo of wax aid not begin to become general till the Middle Ages. Beeswax, rendered yellow by time was the first material used. Then came Bealing-wax mixed with a white substance. Ked wax began with Louis VI., m 1113, and green wax made its appearance about the year 1163. In the thirteenth century yellow, brown, rose, black, and blue were added to the foregoing colours. Blaok wax is a rarity met with m the eeals of the military religious orders. In {spite of the very wet and disagreeable night there was a very good muster at the Rink last evening to witness the cricket match on skates between teams of seven pioked by Mr Hargreaves and Mr Strange. The former team wept m first and were disposed of for a total of 81. The fielding was not remarkable for anything but the number of Bpills made " m frantio endeavours to piok up the ball. The following are the soores : Hargreaves (captain), run out, 12 -Weston, b D. Moore, 17 ; E. Simpson, run out, 43 ; Curtis, b Oliver, 0 ; Mobs, not out, 0 ; F. Field, b Oliver, 3; Salek, b Moore, 5 • byes, 1 s total, j3l. Strange (oaptain), 6 ; D. Moore, 9 ; Oliver, 13 ; Baas, 0 ; D,e Beer, 2 ; Grubb, 3 ; A. Field 7 ; total, 40. Jt is likely thas a tennis tournament may be arranged shortly. The Rink still continues to prove an uttraotion for tbe general public We may shortly expoot that another throne will be rendered vacant by the death of the King of Holland, who is m his 72nd year, and is suffering severely from stone, He haa been confined to his room, it is said, for nearly a year, and his malady has developed m him such a morose form of misanthrophy that he refuses to see anyone, and it is with great diffioulty that bis medical advisers can obtain access to his chamber. His death, it is feared, will lead to serjoua complications; for although the succession to the throne will legally deyolye on the Princess Wilhelmine, who is a mere child, great difficulties are likely to arise with respeot to the choice of a Regent; and also with respeot to Luxemburg, which will pass by law to the Duke of Nassau, a German prinoe, who was dispossessed by Prussia m 1886, but will, it is expected, place himself and bis Grand Duchy under the tutelage of Germany, notwithstanding the neutrality guaranteed to it by the Treaty of London m 1867.

3ays the ♦' Hawke's Bay Herald " :— There is room for reform m the eduoation system m the direction of raising the sohool age, but when Dr Pollen, a pensioner paid by the taxpayers, wants to know where bootblaoka are to [come from if boys are eduoated, people who have not got pensions are apt to think bitterly, if justly, of the pensioner. According to Wellington papers, Dr Pollen has been talking like that, and he needs to ba told that there is no divine institution necessitating the existence of bootblaoks jrtus Dr Pollen and those like him. In the bad old times, before the spread of education, a man got iv^ma terrible fix for avowing that Providenoo had not sent into the world a olass harnessed to be ridden, and another olass bodied and Bpurred to do the riding, but speech is not shaokled now. Some sensible man ought to tell Dr Pollen that if he be driven to clean his own boots the occupation will be an honest one, and one that many men better than himself have had to praotioo.

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