LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1915, 11 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following stakes have been paid over m conneotion with the Ashburton County Hunt Club Steepleohases : —Mr W. Mitchell, £16 3s ; Mr H. G. Moore, £14 5s ; Dr W. T. Hannah, £12 7s ; Mr W. P. Olaridge, £11 8s ; Mr H. G. Pitt, £11 8s ; Mr James, £9 10s ; Mr Rusebll, £5 14s ; total, £80 15a. We are sorry to hear that the Club sustained a small loss over the meeting.

The almost continuous] heavy rain of the last few days has thoroughly saturated the soil, and all the low lying ground m the district is ropre or less under water. The river is highland was rising very rapidly this afternoon, The rain has been general, a heavy down fall having been experienced both North and South. Down South serious floods are feared if there is not an early oessation of the rain.

The ordinary meeting of the Land Board was held on Thursday ; when the following business was transacted, Gash salon, run land opened by Government on July 23rd at £2 per acre— Hugh Muirhead, 11J acres, Aehburton County ; Cyril G. Hawdon, sections of 37, 20, 20 and 20 aores, Ashburton Counly ; C. J. Harper, 65 aores, Ashburton County; fleorge Gould and Duncan Cameron, 45 and 40 aores, Ashburton County; Alford Estate Company, 22, 10J, and 23A aorea, Ashburton County ; Wm Fitzgerald, 11 aoreß, Ashburton .County; Donald M 'Lean, 2 aores, Aahburton Cpunty'; Joseph Wharton, 20aores, Geraldine County; Ponald' M'Lean, 50£ acres, Mackenzie Country; Joh^ Boyle, 19.9 acres, Ashburton County; E. Q. fright 15J aores, Ashburlon Opunty. Several applfgajtjoDs reoeived for parfcß of the run land were ordered to stand over for a report as to whether |the land was river-bed land. The Reoeiver of land Revenue reported instalments "of deferred and perpetual lease pay'm.e£.tg m arrears, and order was given to notify defaulters, requiring payment. Reports were received from fcho rangers on various settlements, and considered. Action was I ordered to be taken as the cabes required. J

Major Steward has again been relieving the Chairman of Committees during the Maori stoDewalling debate.

The tender of Mr P. Pawoetfc at £176 12s .has been aooepted for protective works near Boundary Road, Hinds River.

| It is stated that nn inventor has patented a ■ machine for holding a Bheep while being I shorn,

Every exhibition has a name. The one m Melbourne is to be known as " The Auetra* leries."

Lord Randolph Churchill has a racing filly called L'Abbeßso do Jouarre ; the English jockeys call her Abscess on the Jaw.

Lord Charles Beresford, the Reformer of the English Navy, iB a clean shaven young man with a faco like a potboy — at least 80 an irreverent London paper says.

In connection with tho Watorloo Cup Coursing Meeting at Dunedin the Railway Department announce excursion fares on the 13ih, 14ih, and 15th August, and the tioketß will be available up to the 20th. As the meeting ha 3, however, boon postponed doubtless the Department will make alteration accordingly.

Long live the mystio brotherhood J The largest sum ever collected at a charity dinner is announoed. It was received at the oentenary festival on June 7th of the Royal Masonic Institute for Girls. The sum was £50,000.

It is said that Lady Colin Campbell ib writing a volume of reminisoenoes. If Lsdy Colin tells the truth and the whole truth m her book, its appearanoe should cause no email sensation m London sooiety.

We ("Wellington Press") are informed that an action for slander is going to be brought against a resident of Wellington who is alleged to have made accusations of improper oonduot against two little girls attending a publio sohool.

The Irish Exhibition now being held In London has been nicknamed the " Shamrookeries, There are a good many paste-board shebeens, and the ruins of Blarney Oaßtle are m oard-board, henoe the niokname Is both witty and appropriate.

Beferring [to the Kauri Company, the "Wellington Times " says :— ••• The inaugura. tion of this vigorous enterprise manifestly means the initiation of a final * olearing off ' process — it means the beginning of the end, so far bb the kauri is oonoerned.

A West^ Coast paper, speaking of the probable inorease m the mining industry through; the working of the auriferous beaob.es, says that the ground taken up for this purpose fand held on speoial claims or licensed holdings, extends along the ooast for 150 miles.

Mrs Shaw, the Amerioan Whistling Lady' is reaping a fine harvest m London. Her charges are 25 guineas for whistling three songs, and she is full of engagements. Many ladies are learning whistling, and oibillants are likely to be plentiful next season. Mrs Shaw is young and very handsome. Rinkomania is still very strong round the colony. Every little township has its rink, and the publioana ar9 growling loud and deep. They can take heart, however. The mania won't last long, and there'll be a big lot of cheap skates on hand very soon. — '• Napier News." On Friday the licensee of a public-house m Ohristohurah was charged with allowing an unlawful game— to wit, " A shilling m and the winner shouts" — to be played on the licensed promises. The case was dismissed. The evidence went to show that dice throwing was going on when the constable came m, but no money had been oolleoted. Speaking of the Oanadian-Paoifio railway by which he travelled, Mr Melton Prior, of the " Illustrated London News," says :— •• It is a fine road. I did some sketches of it. It Bkims over trestles and ourves around mount-

ains m an extraordinary manner. At one place I Baw four tunnels at one time, and fanoy a glaoier 1300 feet fchiok, and a mountain |a mile and a half high m one view. That's worth seeing isn't it ? "

Mr MeltoD Prior, artist of the " Illustrated London Newß," has a Btaff of three men aaalbllug ixIUX to <to aKatiUllca uf Molbuu.no c*»i the Exhibition for the journal whioh he represents. Mr Prior has illustrated nearly every war m recent times, and has been through the Zulu, Ashantee, Egyptain, and RussoTurkish campaigns. He boasts of having •• dove " thirteen wars m thirteen yeara*

The " New York Herald " prints telegrams from the leading wheat centres of the United States, showing its immense shortage. The estimates of this defioit is from 50,000,000 to 80,000,000 bushels m four of the leading states, and California's decrease is placed at 50per cent. Ohio, Miohigan, Indiana, and Illinois show A decrease of about one-half of the usual crop, that of Illinois being estimated at 20,000,000 bushels at the outside.

Mr Reddin, well known m Ashburton, and who for some years ocoupied a position on this journal, is evidently having a lively time m Queensland, whither he removed on leaving here. An exohange says :— Mr Reddin, the editor and proprietor of the " Charters Towers Times," horsawhipped Mr Kitohiner, editor of the " Herald," on tha 28th ult., on aoeount of a certain paragraph published m the "Herald." Legal proceedings are threatened.

Cornell University haa, saya the New York correspondent of the "Sunday Times," organised a department of journalisn with Professor Smith, a veteran newspaper man, at its head. Students will be taught how to colleot and write out the news, and how to comment upon it editorially. Professor Smith will not as managing editor, and detail the pupils to the work of the various departments of the newspaper. This is the first department of the kind injiny educational institution. ,

The enormous distance Buasla is behind the times m the matter of providing for the intellectual wants of her people iB evident from the faot" that the first public readingroom m the Musoovite Empire was opened only the other day m the oity of St. Petersburg. The room is oonneoted with a good library; to which books have been contributed by some public-spirited citizens. Admittance is free, and permission is «iven to borrow books for reading at home. The new institution is named after Pushkin the novelist.

Members of the Aahburion Hunt Club wil 1 be sorry to find that the meet of Mr John Rutherford'B Timaru Harriers, whiob has been advertised for Tuesday nest at Tipwald Hotel, is unavoidably put off for this year. _ We are, however, requested to draw attention to an advertisement appearing m another column informing members that the local hounds will meet at Tinwald Hotel on Tuesday next, 14th instant, at 11.30 a.m., instead. Aa this will be the dosing meet of the season (no doubt there will be a large attendance.

Arrangements are being made by the members and friends of the Primitive Methodist Churoh for a tea, entertainment and Bervioe of song, entitled " The Pathway of Life," to be given' in the Oddfellows' Hall next Thursday. The musical part of the programme is being got up under the leadership of Mr Ray, assisted by a good ohoir, and a number of well known instrumentalists. The connective readings of the servioe of song will be given by Mr J. E. Buohanan, and the oatering for the tea is jn the hands of Mr 0. Pavis. Judging by the suooess of a similar effort 'lost yjjar, and ttye length" and yariety of the programme that js bejng prepared a large gathering Is confidently anticipated.

An enterprising writor m the " Norwich Argus " haß jußt been making a computation whioh gives Isome startling results. He has discovered that, if permitted, pigs will live till from 15 to 20 years of age ; that they commence brooding when they aro from nine to twelve Imontho old f and (that from one pair only m tab years, allowing only six to litter, male and female, upward of 6434,838 pigs would be obtained;' that is to ( 'say/that if, instead of throe aoroa and a 6ow, a country man Btartad wjth some 1 acres' and a'pair of pigs he might, ft the course, djt'ttfn years, count thejr progeny by miflfons. ■ '

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