LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1926, 23 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A ball in connection with the Aahburton Orange Lodge will be held on Friday, A.ug- 31. j Only one oorreot answer has as yet been received to the hens and egga problem. It is estimated by the " Auckland Star '' that the Canadian doctors took £30,000 from New Zealand. A statue to Shakespeare is to be erected in one of the most fashionable and artistic parts of Paris. At the meeting of the Ashburton Presbyterian Ohuroh Musioal and Literary Sooiety this evening a discussion will take place on the works of Charleß Diokens. The rose trees in the Natural History Museum in Paria are now in full bloom. There are 850 different varieties of hybrids, 60 of the moss species, and 150 of tea roses. The number of passengers who travelled between Franoe and England during the month of July, via Dover and Calais, waß 24,400, an increase of 2067 on the corresponding month of last year. The eooial gathering in aid of the funds of the Ashburton Guards will be held od Friday evening. In addition to a number of more than usually interesting items, the Boaelle Bros, have promised to give a performance on the Roman Bings, It U reported that the Maori tribe who own some healing hot springs at Rotorua have spent over £10 on a cable message to Queen Victoria, inviting her to come out and bathe her afflioted leg in the curative waters of New Zealand. Bather a remarkable occurrence took plaoe abont 25 miles from Marton a day or two ago, namely, the capture of a deer by the Maoris. Some natives were pursuing a wild pig on the Otairi block near the Bangitikei River, when they saw a fine deer rußh aoroßß their path. As they preferred venison to their muoh-prized pork, they at onoa gave chase. Alter a short run, the deer tumbled over a high cliff and broke its legs, and thus became an easy prey to its pursuers. The usual weekly session of the Star of the East Lodge, No. 62, 1. 0.G.T., waß held in the Templar Hall laßt night ; Brother Arthur Paterson, W.C.T., presiding. The attendance of members numbered over 70 ; 5 candidates were proposed and 6 initiated. Brother J. Price of the Robo of Springburn Lodge was present, and will, as appears elsewhere in this lßsue, conduofc a good Dissolving View entertainment in the above hall this evening, when he will exhibit a series of views exemplifying the " Evils of the liquor traffic." •• General " Booth made some remarkable statements the other evening in the City Temple. Among other things he said that When he Bent his " captains " to New Zealand -they had 20s when they landed, and began operations immediately, and at the end of twelve months they had an income of £10,000 a year. Iu one week he had 105 young men and women offer themselves to go as missionaries anywhere, with no guarantee of salary. Give him the use of the meanest building in London— he did not care how degraded the i neighbourhood— and after a month he would have the meetings full and paying their own expenses. i Says a Northern paper :— The lines of the farmers are this season cast in pleasant plaoes, as they used to put it in Palestine. Mutton is fetching satisfactory prices, wool has gone ap, butter is as it should be from the dairyist standpoint, and to orown all the clerk of the weather his adding is quota towards the general prosperity. Contrary, too, to established precedent the grass has never oeased growing this winter. There is something horribly out of joint when, with, a climate worth, in a financial sense, millions more than almoHt any other in the world, and every other material neoessary to prosperity, we are yet moaning about depression. If we do not recover this season, with all these advantages oonspiring in our favor, we certainly never shall reoover. If our readers will refer to our advertising oolumns they will aee announced that Mr W. H. Warren will read Diokens' •• Christmas Carol " this evening at St. Stephen's Sohoolroom. The charming story of England's most popular writer of his day, is replete with oharaoter, pathos, and humor. Like all Diokens' works it " points a moral," and we have the authority of the press for saying [ that Mr Warren presents it in a manner at once vivid and interesting, and enlists the sympathy of his audienoe throughout the whole time taken for its rendering, a matter of little less than two hours. Speaking of Mr Warren the " Manawatu Times," of Feb. 2nd, says : — "It speaks volumes for the ability of the reader that he was able to oonvulse his hearers with laughter and the next moment to reduoe the na to tears." The chair will be taken at eight p.m. We hope to record a good attendance. The " Leeds Meroury " gives the following account of an heroio aot by a curate : "At Morton, near Gainsborough, the mother of three ohildren of tender years fell ill of smallpox, and was eventually removed to the Smallpox Hospital. No one of the neighbours volunteered to oare for the woman or the children, and the authorities did not deem it their duty to interfere with the children. Under these distressing ciroumstanoeß . the Rev E. Keene, curate of St. Paul's, showed that he has the true oourago of a hero. He visited the woman's oottage for several days, doing the housework, and dressing and giving food to the ohildren, and putting them to sleep. Then, when the woman was removed to the hospital, he took entire charge of the house. At length his example stirred several ladies into action, and the ohildren are now placed out among friends." The following cablegrams have appeared recently in the Melbourne papers:— Mr George Sturge, the well-known philanthropist, has bequeathed many thousands of pounds to London charitable institutions. — An explosion has ooourred at a fireworks faotory in Wandsworth. Three persons were killed on the spot, several were injured, and a portion of the building was wrecked. — Colonel Sowerby, of Pateridge Park, Luton, has baen killed by his favorite stag,-— ln Montenegro no less than 40,000 persons are dependent on charity for subsistence.—" The Times " has been compolled to answer to John Redmond's complaint of unfair treatment. Amongst the Home Rulers and their sympathisers the explanation of " The Times " is considered weak, It is full of virulent abuse of Mr John Morley, M.P., who characterises " The Times " conduct aa infamous. — The death is annonnoed of Mr Frank Harrison Hill, editor-in-obief of the " London Daily News," at the age of fiftyeight years. In Belgium agricultural education is given by means of speoial teaohing in various agritultural subjects, given at certain middleclass sohools, whioh are selected by the Government. This speoial information ia imparted by leoturers appointed by the Government, and comprises the elements of plant and animal physiology, the composition of spils and subsoils, the praotioal cultivation in land, the composition and relative value io manures, the management of stook, and other Bubjeots neoessary to give an elementary knowledge of agriculture. To the pupilß who distinguish themselves in the examinations upon these leotures the Government award prizes. Courses of leotures upon elementary agriculture are also provided for the young men and farmers by the Government in the evening, during Deoember, January, February and March. Prizes, in the shape of books, are given by the Government, who nominate and pay the leoturers,

The Storm-Water Committee of the AshI barton Connty Council will meet at Methvan on Monday nest, at one o'clock. A point to point steeplechase is being arranged by the Ashburton Hunt Club, and is likely to come off on the Ist of September. Lord and Lady Alfred Ohurohill are in Ohriatohurch at present. Lord Ohurohill is unole to Lord Randolph Churchill the English statesman. The Maoris of Matipahi (Bay of- Plenty) are reported to be ploughing a large area of land this season. They work in their shirts alone, 88 they find trousers too hot. It is said that Mr Brace, tha advooate of the bachelor tax, is to reoeive a testimonial from the Rangitikei spinsters in recognition of his efforts on their, behalf. The authorities have been on the look-out for oanoerous animals among the stook sold in Addington market, but diligent searoh has not revealed the presence of any diseased stook. The "Illustrated Australian News" for August is to hand. It oontains views of the Melbourne Exhibition, also a supplement on "Previous Melbourne Exhibitions." The paper, as usual, is well filled with interesting matter, and on the whole theeketohes are good. According to the " Manawatu Times " eaoh paper on the coast givea away £150 to £200 a year in gratuitous advertising. It adds : If good works would work out salvation news* paper proprietors will have front seats in the 11 sweet by and by." The New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, . have reoeived the following oable message from their London office, dated 18th inst. :— R.M.S. Aorangi arrived all well at Rio de Janeiro to-day. Frozen meat in good condition. Whitebait have oommenoed to make their annual appearanoe in the Waimakariri and other Northern rivers. At present they are Boarce and" dear, but in a week or two, in spite of heavy freshes, they will again afford & plentiful harvest, especially to the industrious Maori. We are in receipt of a pamphlet entitled "High Churohmen and their Rights," a parish Btory founded on faots, written by a " Layman." The little work deals with one side of the question which has been raised over a oertain English Ohuroh in Dunedin, where Ritualism was alleged to have been praotised. We have reoeived Messrs Joseph Pison and Oo.'sprioe list of chemical fertilizer!! which have suoh a wide celebrity in the agricultural world. From the notices given of these celebrated manures, we should judge them to be of special value to farmers. Many in this distriot, we believe, have tried them and they have proved to be as good as stated. The "Dunedin Herald" upholds the Beamen in their dispute with ship owners in Sydney. The "Hawke's Bay Herald" condemns as unjustifiable tha action of the Sydney Maritime Union and says : — " They are threatening to paralyse the shipping trade of half a hemisphere, simply beoause they suspeot others of doing that whioh they themselves boast of doing. When the Goptio left Lyttelton on the evening of March 31st, a splash was heard as of some one falling overboard. Twelve days later a body was found in the harbour, and identified by two ex-stewards of the steamer as that of MoAlister, one of the crew. It was buried as MoAlistor's body. It is now ascertained that he was not drowned but disoharged in London on the Coptic's last trip. Says the "Napier Telegraph ": —Thosa settlers who forwarded frozen mutton by the s.B. lonic through the North British and Hawke'a Bay Freezing Company will do well should last quotations keep up till the arrival or the steamer at London, where she is due in ten days. We hear of one oonsigment of about six hundred carcasses, whioh averaged over 901b5., and the Bhipper calculates that with skins and fat he will net nearly 30s a head. Says the " Napier Herald " : — As showing how likely it is in the future that the products of New Zealand's temperate olimate will be largely exported to Australia, we may mention that the tendenoy to that end is already displaying itself, and would become more marked if production were on a larger and consequently cheaper scale. Reoently a Southern firm who wished to export seed peas to Australia applied to Messrs Fulton and Southwell for some, and 14 bushels, all that oould then be obtained, were sent. The firm wrote back expressing pleasure at the quality of the sample, but regret at the small quantity and high prioe. The firm wanted 100 saoks. In the House on August 3rd, when the Postal Estimates were being disoussed, Mr Walker called attention to the fact that the Postmasters of Ashburton and Rakaia had suffered Berious reductions upon not too excessive salaries. He also said, alluding to several anomalies, that the Premier was introduoing a new principle into the settlement of salaries. If old officers were in a position where their work was not worth their salaries, he was going to reduoe them. That might be very good ; but he was applying it to the Post Office, whioh was a self-supporting branch of the service, and he would like to know whether he was going to apply it. to the other branches of the service. A teaoher in one of our publio eohools has been much annoyed by truanoy, and has recently enforoed the rule that her soholara, on their return to school after any absence, must bring her a note stating the full oause of auoh absenoe, and the oxaot length of its duration, said note to be in the handwriting of parent or guardian. The following is a note brought by one of her pupils after a two weekß' absenoe : — " Louisa was absent monday, please excuse her. Louisa was absent toos« day, she had a sore throte. Lousia was absent wensday, she had a sore throte. Louisa was absent thuraday, she had a sore throte. Louisa was absent friday, she had a sore throte. Read this over again lor the next week."-—" Harper's Bazaar." Hoixoway's Pills And Ointment are remedies which should invariably be' taken by travellers in search of health, pleasure, or business. Many deleterious influences are constantly at work in foreign climes, tending to deteriorate the health ; these and the altered conditions of life will entail on those who travel the necessity of carefully attending to early symptoms of disease, and they will find the use of these remedies to be highly necessary, the action of the pills being purifying and strengthening, and of great service in cases of fever, ague, and inflammatory diseases, whilst the ointment is a sovereign cure in cases of piles, bad legs, bad breasts, wounds, and ulceis. Holloway's remedies do not deteriorate by change of climate, j