LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Canterbury Art Sooioty are m posßessian of a oredit balance of £673. A Chinese firm m Palmereton North a week or two ago sent away about six tons of dried fungus. Tenders are wanted for draining and ploughing at Longlands, and Bame olo3e on the 21st instant. South Australian women do not wish to stand for Parliament. There are enough old women m Parliament already. The Duke of Cumberland and his sister, Princess Frederioa, have become reoonoiled after an estrangement of nine years. After all, the old-fashioned meter by moonlight is about the only one that has stood the test of time aud the experts. Queen Louise of Sweden is threatened with a return of the oanoerous trouble wbiob nearly took her life a year ago. In 1830 the naval estimates of Prussia did not exceed ;£120,000, those of the German Empire now amount to £12,500,000. Another mining Bwindle, based on a show of specimens, was recently perpetrated m Melbourne* Thousands are crowding into Melbourne to see the Exhibition, and the land and property boom continues as fastjand furious as ever. The Rev Mr Wills, of Opotiki, on one Sunday evening lately, during his sermon, reoited " The Charge of the Light Brigade." Six of the subjoctß whioh interest the world to-day are Blame, Boulanger, Balf our, Battenburg, Bulgaria, and Bismarok. The Sultan of Moroooo has just conceded to a Belgian company the right to build a railway from Mequinez to Fez, forty miles. The Sultan of Zanzibar has a German wife, and m ooneequenoe Germany has obtained valuable concessions denied to other nations. England is about to Bend two more men of-war to the Mediterranean. The peaoe of Europe requires close watching just at present. A Waipawa brahma is credited with having the other day laid an egg weighing just on four ounces, measuring 6£ inches one way, and 7| the other. At the R.M. Court this morning, before Messrs D. Thomaß and R. Aloorn, a man named Neal was onarged with wife desertion. He was remanded, till Thursday to be dealt with by the Resident Magistrate. The " Opotiki Herald " says that it has cost the County Council of that distriot £163 to spend £153. The Highway Board during the same period have expended £75, and it ,has cost them £53 11s 8d to do so. Sir Robert Stout, m a letter to the Dunedin " Evening Star," asserts that by not adopting the polioy of the Stout- Vogel Government the colony has lost hundreds of thousands of pounds aud thousands of oolonistß. A Justioe of the Peaoe m Dunedin writes : — "If the proposal of the Conference of Australian Judges that convictions of prisoners m other colonies were placed before the Court at the time of trial, Butler, who was tried for the murder of the Dewars, would have been kept m gaol all his life, instead of beiDg turned loose on sooiety three years henoe. New South Wales is m advance of all the colonies m the matter of teohnical education. The Sydney Teohnioal College coats £17,000 a year. One thousand nine hundred and thirty pupils were enrolled m 1887, and the average cost of each was about £16 per annum. Some oomplaintß are made that the range of work is at present too wide. There are some 66 subjects taught, amongst these being dentistry and pharmacy. A publio trial of Messrs P. aud D. Duncan's new digger plough was held at Methven, yesterday afternoon, m the presence of a very large and representative gathering of farmers who had come m from all parts of the district. The trial was held m a paddook at the back of the pound. The land operated upon was a pieoe that had been down m grass for several years. The plough made good work, and the implement was very favorably I commented upon by many of those present, j Even a Judge of the Supreme Court thinks the escape of Jonathan Roberts a fair subject for a joke. At the Old High Sohool Bovb' dinner m Dunedin, Judge Williams, alluding to some obaoure question m ancient and modern history, said he had never been able to ascertain where Achilles was when he was hidden among the women — (laughter) ; he did not know what song the Sirens sang; nor could he tell where Mr Jonathan Roberts might be — (great laughter). Mr D. Thomas hold the first of a seriea of quarterly auction Bales m the township of Methvon yesterday. There was a capital attendance of buyers and on-lookers, and the numerous lots brought under the hammer were disposed of at satisfactory prices. Prom the success that attended the inaugural sale, Mr Thomas is sanguine that the quarterly auction of live and dead stook at Methven will be duly appreciated by those having surplus stock to dispose of, and there seems every probability of outside buyers being attracted m encouraging numbers. The Victorian Government soheme m eonneotion with the expenditure of £10,000 on teohnical education is speedily assuming a definite form. The scheme provides for the employment of experts to visit the agricultural centres and impart instruction m teohnioal subjects. At present it is proposed to immediately employ some gentleman with a wide acquaintance m the cultivation of fruit trees, and the preservation or utilisation of fruit. A specialist m vitioulture will also be employed. Saya the " Rangitikei Advooate " : —As phowing the effect of tho firmness of the frozen m*JS»fe jpa&rket at Home, the next bix steamers of th^S^pc^Albion Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company to leave the colony, have the whole of their meat epaoe fully taken up. The carrying capaoity of these vessels combined will be equal to> about 195,000 oaroasßes oi mutton. We learn that most of the consignments are on graziers' aooount, and the bulk of the space has been secured for the South Island, A terrible thing has happened m America. There a woman has had her tongue slit m order to cut a cancer out of it, and all her friends, with the exoeption of "her husband, were m a terrible state for fear she would lose her speech, They were mistaken. She only gained it. She can talk now on two different Bubjeotß m two languages, and what is ,more, she talks incessantly, because the two tongues are vying with eaoh other to get m the last word. Her poor husband's hair turned grey during the first twenty-four hours. An authority on the timber trade informß the correspondent of the " Daily Times " at Wellington, that the operations of the big Kauri Company are likely to be of great benefit to the Southern ports of the oolony, and also to certain districts m tho North. The company's monoply of Jthe ;kauri trade will bring into prominenoe rimu aud maitai, whioh aro plentiful m parts of Otago and Southland. A largo mill owner of Wellington has received large orders for these timbers both looally and from Australia. Prom all ho could hear, rimu and maitai will prove a formidable competitor to kauri.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1922, 18 August 1888, Page 2
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