The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1921, 17 August 1888, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thia season's lamb is being retailed in butcher's shops in Inveroargill. The wages paid by the sawmillinß firms in Victoria amount to close upon £550,000 a year. A proposal to restriot the granting of victuallers' licenses to naturalised subjeots, haß been defeated by 46 votes to 2. The sudden death of an athlete is reported from Goulburo, the cause being the bursting of a bloodvessel through over-exertion while running. Two horses were reoently sold from a pound in the North Island the other day to a butcher, one for three shillings and the other for sixpence. There has been a fall in the prioe of sausages since. There is a young lady in Taranaki, a Miss Hail, who is constantly breaking her right arm. The limb has just been aooidentiy fraotured for the fifth time, eaoh break being in a different place. Say3 the " Taieri Advocate " : — In the report of the Ashburton race meeting a hurdle racer, rejoioing in the name of Jonathan Roberts, figures. This animal was not quite so good as the real Jonathan ; for it had to be content with third place. At last Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, has been hanged. We are glad that we have heard the last of that criminal. He has been almost as expensive to newspapers as the late Emperor of Germany, and not half so interestng.— Exchange. The young man, Frederick Collins, who was nearly suffocated along with two others by the fumes of coke at Riohmond, near Ghristchurcb, is slowly recovering consciousness after being insensible for about forty hours. His condition is Btill precarious. Glasgow will soon be the second oity of the United Kingdom. Its boundaries are to be extended so as to include a number of populous suburban towns, and it is estimated that it will then have a population ol nearly 800,000. In conneotion with the rcduotion of the railways vote by £10,000, it Bhould be men* tioned that, in aooepting the amendment to that effect, the Premier distinctly renewed his pledge that in effecting the consequent retrenchment, no salary under £150 per annum should bo touched. Another problem about as villainous as that concerning the hen and a half has been propounded. It is this : A tells the truth three times out of four ; B tells the truth four times out of five ; O tells the truth six times out of ' seven, What is the probability of an event which A and B assert and C. denies. Apropos of Waterloo, there are only two living pensioners &f t — the venerable Earl of Albermarle, now in his eighty ninth year, but siill hale and hearty ; and General Whitooats. Lord Albermare gave his usual Waterloo reception on Tuesday, entertaining some 200 old friends, inoluding his octogenarian brother Admiral Eeppel. Tha tea used at the banquet at Wellington on Saturday was grown and prepared in Auckland. It made a very fair liquor ; a tea expert would desoribe it as " a dean, thin liquor with fine aroma, pleasantly pungent and with decided malty flavour ; not quite so brisk as an Indian tea, and resembling a new season's Kaisou Congou." At the Borough School yesterday afternoon the distribution of prizes awarded for diligenoe took place. The distribution was made by Mr A. Cook, member of the Sohool Committee. Prizes were presented to the following pupils:. — Standard VI., W. Bundle, A. Orr, E. Moss ; V., J. Purchase, M. Tresize, W. Palmer ; IV., S. Bonnington, W. Burns, F. Oraighead, E. Tannahill ; 111., F. Tuoker, G. Pass, E. Miles, B. Atwell ; 11. , G. Scott, R. MoEeage, Jane Olayton ; 1., S. Arthur, Annie McDonald, M. Worner, B. Smith, B. Minnie. The usual meeting of the Band of Hope in connection with the Wesleyan Sunday School, Tmwald, was held on Wednesday evening. There was a large attendance, the Rev J. T. Burrows presiding. It is very encouraging to notice in connection with these meetipgs the large number of parents and friends of obildren who attend, and the great interest the ohildren take in performing their parts. A very marked improvement is notioeablo in the way they sing, reoite, read, and sustain thejr parts in dialogues. Very muoh credit is due to those who take so muoh trouble and interest in preparing them, but they must feel very rnuoh onoouraped by the suooesa whioh attends their bftorts. The programme was an exceedingly good one, £.vory item being rendered with credit, and when all do so well it would be invidious to mention any pne in partioular.

A football match will be played on the Domain to-morrow between teams reprepenting the Ashburton Club and the Woollen Faotory. Play is to oommenoe at three o'clock sharp. Plant and machinery for a staroh faotory to be established in this distriot by several capitalists has been ordered from home, and we are given to understand that ere long the faotory will be in full working order, and capable of turning out a sufficient quantity of staroh and other necessaries of a like description to supply the whole oolony. " Greentick " in the " Eeferee " says : — The United Canterbury Coursing Club has not yet paid over the Sapling Stakes to Hazelwood, as there is a dispute as to the correctness of his pedigree. I hear that the Club (who, by the way, I am glad to learn, come out a bit to the good after their recent operations) will hold a meeting a fortnight after the deoision of the Dunedin Waterloo. I The " Musical Monthly " for August is to hand, and as usual ia full of interesting news to lovers of music The style, printing, and general excellence displayed in the 14 Monthly " deserve a word of praise. As a supplement this month there is enolosed 11 The Gar'bineers," words and musia by Walter Maynard, and ♦' We'd run them in," by Offenbach. An odd ooinoidence has been pointed out by the London correspondent of a Liverpool paper anent the funeral of the Emperor Frederick. He was born on the anniversary of the battle of Leipßio, where, on Ootober 18, 1813, the French were defeated with so muoh slaughter ; and he was buried on the anniversary of Waterloo, the historic day whioh ended the Frenoh Empire, and soldered the Anglo -Prussian allianoe, for whioh the new Emperor seems to care bo little. The story is told in Ohristohuroh of a horse whioh was remarkably fond of egg, and cherished great affeotion for a hen whioh laid in his feed box. The fondness of the horse for eggs is oommented upon as novel, but any horseman knows that horses onoe they get a taste of eggs eoon cultivate it. Where fowls are in the habit of laying their eggs in mangers horses soon oome to dispose of the eggs, and with evident relish. Large quantities of building stone continue to oome down from the Mount Someru quarries. A Melbourne building contractor, writing for a large supply quite recently says : — " Mount Somers stone is getting into favor here, and justly bo, as it is something like stone. It ib being used very muoh in Collins street, and quite puts our looal stone from Stawell in the shade." Both Mr Stocks and the New Zealand Stone Company are very busy quarrying out largo orders for Melbourne firms. America oan now claim the coolest and most audacious thief on reoord. The latest story from that land of big things tells how a Conneotiout professional walked quietly into a bank, took off his hat and coat, hung them on a nail, put on anjoflice coat hanging close by, and then walked into the rear room, whioh contains the vaults, The djreotors were holding a meeting, and one sat in front of the door, blocking the passage. The thief politely asked him to move, and when the obliging director did so, the man went through the door way, picked up the two largest bags of gold in sight, ooolly walked out with them and was seen no more. In reading this tale one is reminded of the comment of Mark Twain on a blood curdling tale which he has just heard from his Italian guide, "Splendid legend. Splendid lie. Drive on." The Waimate and South Canterbury Harrier Clubs combined this year onoe more, •and held a very good Hunt Club Meeting at Summerleas, on the banks of the Pareora. The events were all well contested. For the light weight steeplechase Mr Mitohell's Nero, from this distriot, oarried off first honours in handsome style, winning a most oxoiting contest very oleverly, Mr Balfour'e Juggler being second. Mr Lewis rode the winner. Out of 12 nominations ten hunters sported satin for the piece de resistance of the meeting — the Ladies' Bracelet. The race was a first rate one, and resulted in Mrs McGregor's Nero being again the first to catoh (he judge's eye. The horse ran exceedingly well, was in tip-top form, and when called on responded in a most game manner; Mr Lewis again rode carrying 13st The •' Timaru Herald " says : — The win of the Braoelet fell very cold, and several people were rather disappointed at a more cordial welcome not being extended to a s'ranger, one too that is said to have followed hounds well in the Ashburton district. 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