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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A flax mill at Kelao has been dismantled a.B the proprietor could not make it pay, A few football enthusiasts turned out on the Domain on Saturday afternoon and had soratch game, which was fully enjoyed. Burglars are at work m Cbristchuroh, and people are advised to look to their back doors , being securely fastened. The Royal University of Ireland lately conferred the degree of Master of Arts on five young women. A subcommittee of the Ashburton Hunt Club haß been appointed to see about a Buitablo course and arrange matters for holdiug a point to point steepleohase. The Chinese Government, m gratitude to the memory of General Gordon, has deoided to ereot memorials of him on the scenes of his victories oyer the Taeping rebellion. Li Hung Chang is the principal mover m the matter. A young woman living at the Place de la Nation, Pariß, has just adopted a novel mode of putting an end to her days. She filled her small bedroom with-flowers, and when her mother went to call her m the morning she found her dead. The Salvationists held a special serv: oe yesterday on the oooasion of the funeral of the youug daughter of Mr Parkin. The proceedings were conducted m accordance with the Army's ceremonials, and were solemn throughout. Several attemptß at burglary have ooourred at Chrißtohuroh lately. Treleavan's corn store was entered, and an attempt made to , open the safe. The house of a dootor was attempted to be broken into by a man who was heard, but escaped by jumping off the the baloony to the ground. The Sacred Cantata, " David the Shepherd Boy," whioh is to be given m the Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow evening should draw a good house. The principals and chorus are m fine voioe just now, and that the splendid music which is m the Cantata will be accurately and expressively interpreted we have very little doubt. The Waitaki County Council has deoided to join with that of Maniototo to urge the Government to construct the Dansey Pass road as a oolonial work. The Council by a majority of one deoided to expend the £500 voted by the Government on the road via Livingstone, and the unemployed m the Waimate distriot are to be put on at stonebreaking until the oounoil is ready to proceed with the road. Owing to the fine weather last week (reports the " Tapanui Courier ") farmers were busy getting m their seed. Trees m the orohards are now budding, flowers m the garden are blooming, and a very early spring has set m. On Sunday the weather was quite summerlike, but the barometer indicated a change. Rain commenced to fall early on Monday morning, and slopped farming operations m the meantime. A meeting of the Ashburton Cricket Club was held on Saturday night. The opening of the season was fixed for Saturday, September 29th. It was deoided to lay down more turf at the pitoh m the Domain, and the purohaae of a mowing machine was authorised. A Ground Committee was appointed consisting of Messrs A. Fooks, C. Strange, G. Andrews, and T. Sawle. A number of matches have already been arranged, and as subscriptions are coming m freely the Club bids fair to have a moßt successful season before it. An as'ute Wanganui lad of some nine summers happened to.play the truant from school one day last week, and his parents refusing to give him a written excuse, the young oolonial hit upon a somewhat novel plan of lightening the punishment whioh he knew was awaiting him. • Enoasing himself m three pairs of trousers the young hare boldly sallied forth and took his punishment without wincing m the least, after whioh he joyously related the suooess of his plan to the evident delight of his playmates, who now avow that they will go and do likewise. A gentleman writing from Los Angelos, California, to a friend in t Auckland says: — "Things are not looking quite so rosy m South California as when you left 'Frisco. In fact the boom has gone down to a very low ebb. In San Diego the bottom has gone out of it altogether. I just wish I could send you a file of Dun's commercial reports. The contents are a ghastly string of failures and assignments. One failure alone—The Tram, Cable, and Ferry Co. —reaohed the respectable sum of £47,000, and as for the small fry, their name is legion. Hora things are not quite so bad, but still bad enough. One of our papers, the •' Times," has the courage to tell its readers the truth when it says that thj land sales now are not one-fifth what they were twelve months ago. In the course of his sermon at the Wesleyan Church yesterday morning on the subject of foreign missions, the Rev Mr Buttle quoted statistics showing that with the exception of Queensland the New Zealand Church was the smallest contributor to foreign missions, the amount being a little over £350. The whole amount contributed by all the churches could be set down at about £10,000, and this he considered a paltry sum alongside the amounts devoted annually to raoing stakes, and to theatres. Compared with the £500,000 whioh passed through the totalisators the sum devoted to mission work was srhall indeed. The faot that the Wesleyans had missions to the Maoris to support would account for the comparatively small amount devoted to foreign missions by their churoh. In a lecture lately delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Mr Preece stated that on a fine summer's day the sun expends an average of |one horse-power on every 30 square feet of the earth's surface m the latitude of England, or 1450 horsepower per acre. This great gift of energy is neither utilised nor Btored by man at present, though Nature presents us with sorqe of it m waterfalls and flowing streams. The sun itself haß been more generous. Ages upon, ages it shone with resplendent glory qn a grand luxuriant J^ora of a uniform but flowerless character m a climate warm and damp. England formed part of a tropical jungle or swamp, where grasses, mosses, ferns, and sedges, Coniferra, Arauoaria), Equisetaoeaj, Sigillarira grew and flourished, perished and fell m situ, to be oovered up by the following geological formations and compressed into those grand Beams of coal that form now the prinoipal sourbe of England's greatness and wealth. At the last meeting of the Waikaki County Council it was stated that Oamaru merchants reported that 8502 tons of prodqqe h,a.d been oavted. to thejr respective stores during the year from plaoes within a radius of 12 miles of the town. It was resolved to draft a memorial to the Government on the subjeot. The •• North Otago Times " reports that Mr Thomson said the railway oould not haul grain for less than 3s 5d a ton for 10 miles. "Farmers had nothing for their horses to do at the time, and it was no use harassing the Government on the subject. The Chairman said the great question was to take the traffic off the roads, whioh caused a large expenditure for repairs. Mr Jsdale said he knew of farmers who were oartinp their stuff past three railway stations. Mr Thomson said it was oheaper for his firm to cart to Maheno railway station and rail into town than to oart. Mr Borrie said it was not the charge on grain oarried 10 miles. The oharge for five miles was about the same as for 10 miles, and this was the anomaly.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1929, 27 August 1888, Page 2

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