LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1930, 28 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Last racing season £515,000 passed through he totalisator m New Zealand against £509,000 for the previous year. Recent statistics show that Germany has a surplus of 1,000,000 women. War is the last thiDg Germany should seek. It is said the FrinoeßS of Wales indulges m milk baths* As one of the crerne do la creme Bhe ought to be quito m her natural element when taking her bath. The champion meanest man is the husband who placed file poo^et bgojc m a mQuge-trap, so that his wife could not get at it jn the early morning without liberating a mouse. Russian newspapers are forbidden by law to use exolamation points m their artioles.— Hip 1 hip 1 ! hurrah 1 1 1 for the freedom of our Fresß 11 ! 1 A Wellington paper states the breakage of glassware at the great banquet on Saturday waa immense. About 150 tumblers were burst b,y the Etrength of the JooaHy maje ale. It haa juat been discovered m .Austria thai one of the four State exeoutiqnera ia a woman. She is large and muaoular, has a heavy Voice, and hap adjusted (h.e nooses fof twopty-six viotims, * ■* Stoate and weasels are eald to be aooli, matizing most rapidly and " satisfactorily," and are olearing out the rabbits. Ferrets are slow and sluggish, and die off m large numbers from distemper and poißon. Hollowav's Ointment and Pills.— A frequent cause of gout and rheumatism is the inflammatory state of the blood, attended with bad digpstipn and general bebility. A few doses of the pills takteh m tjnie are an effectual preventive again-t gout and rheumatism Anyone who has an acttack of either should upe Holloway's Ointment also, the powerful action of which, combined wrh the operation of the pills, must infallibly effect a cure. These pil's act directly on the blood, which they purify and improve. Having once subdued the severity of these diseases, perseverance with the ointment, after fomenting the affected joints with warm brine, wilt speedily relax, all stiffness, and prevent any permanent Contraction, ' '

The Pope is said to have oompleted a book on the social condition of the working classes, supporting the dootrine that the State should be the arbiter between employer and employed. On dit (says an exohange) that at the next vestry meeting of a ohuroh at Ghriatohurch the question is to bo raised as to whether a ohuroh warden can consistently be a member of a Jockey 01 ub Committee. The betting just cow ib m favor of the Jockey Club i winning. It is stated that the amalgamation of the " Australian Timeß " and " Anglo-New Zealander " with the " British Australasian " would take effect m London early m July, and the new issue will appear on Wednesdays instead of Fridays, A one-month.old child, eon ol Mr A. Smith, manager of the Lake Heron Station, died without having been attended by a medical man, the state of the roads to the Lake during the late severe weather precluding the services of a dootor being obtained. Mr Felton being out of town to-day, it ia not known whether an inquest will be held, but it is hardly likely suoh will be the case. Yesterday witnessed another of those lightning changes towardß whioh our weather has sometimes a tendenoy. The day was beautiful throughout, but about seven o'olook the wind blew up a gale from the south-west, and was soon aooompanied by torrents of rain, which continued during the greater part of the night. There was a heavy fall of snow at the hills, the carriages of the Mount Homers train ooming into town this morning with a thick ooating. The Rev Father Ginsty m the " Catholic Times " cautions the public against an impostor who travels around selling pictures avowedly for the benefit of the Magdalen Asylum. No one whatever is authorised to either oolleot or reoeiva money m any shape or form on behalf of the institution. Mr D. Crawford, of Wairoa South, has called the attention of the " Auokland Herald " to another anomaly m the railway tariff. He recently got down half a ton of seed potatoes by train from Tamahere, a distance of 74 miles, and was charged at the rate of 23s per ton, but had there been two tons the charge would only have been 10s 8d per ton. The carpenters of Melbourne have commenced an agitation for a reduction m the hours of labor. At present they work forty, eight hours per week. Their programme now is—" That forty-four hours shall constitute a weeks' work, and the waged to be Is 4£d per hour ; overtime to be paid at the rate of— first two hours, time and a-half; after that, double time." The " Pahiatua Star " learns that a working man m the bush near Eketahuna out one of his big toes off on Monday whilst bushfelling. He was by himself, and afer binding the wound up, he started with the aid of two sticks for the township. On his way he was met by two men who wanted to know what was the matter, when the injured man coolly put his hand into hia vest pooket and produoed the toe. We have to remind our readers of the concert whioh is fixed to take place on Thursday evening, at the Oddfellows' Hall, the proceeds of whioh will be devoted to the Convent Schools. A large number of tiokets have been sold, and it is expected the audience will be OD9 of the largest seen m Ashburton for some time. The programme, whioh has already been advertised, is of exceptional merit. Mr J. H. Brooks, who has the management of the mußioal department, has been bard at work at the rehearsals, and a thorough suooess can be anticipated. I hear from Borne that the Pope is much embarrassed as to the disposal of the wines which he received as jubilee offerings, there being upwards of 100,000 bottles ; and a still more puzzling question has arisen as to the embroidered slippers, of whioh there are no fewer that 30,000 pairs. There are many thousands of chasubles and stoleß, whioh are to be distributed among poor churohes m various parts of Europe, and several hundreds of French statues of the Virgin, who is usually represented as a jolly buxom female, and of eaintß who have anything bat an ascetio appearance, which will be given to ohurohes m Central and Southern Italy.—- Truth." In dress as m everything elnn the G.O.M. let doming if not original. One day it is his collar whioh is the cynosure of all eyes; another, we are all wanderingjat the airiness of his summer suit ; whilst on yet a third the creamy hue of his " pot " hat attiaots general notiqe. This last week Mr Gladstone has been eleotrifying Parliament with a novel kind of outer Bhell. It is neither what tailors would call " a fashionable Inverness " nor is it a " Chesterfield," but a weird combination of the two — i.e., a short, close-fitting garment, overshadowed by a huge Jehu cape. To sco the veteran statesman stalk into the lobby with his new overcoat on, and a bulky " Gamp " umbrella under his arm is delight* ful. He oarries a sort of political " ozone " with, him, which heartens up waverers and stimulates believers. General Boulanger is thus sketohed by the Pari3 correspondent of the " Leeds Mercury : " — M. Boulanger does not altogether come up to the standard of a hero. He ia not like Saul, a head and shoulders above his fellows. Once more, we are driven to wonder at the speotaole of a great oountry being carried away by Buch little men. Boulanger is not quite a little man, though he appears rather below the medium height. If the truth must be told, he is somewhat ordinary m his appearance. His ia not a face one would turn round to gaze at. Careful m his appearance, with well-brushed ' hair, Boulanger might be mistaken for one of his barbers or oalioo admirers. His expression [is keen, but at the same time be has a dreamy distrustful look on becoming " the cynosure of curious eyes.' 1 A wonderful family, the late members o! which would seem to have discovered the elixir vitas, or Borne means at least of considerably rivalling Methusaleh, has, writes the Paris correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph," just been brought to the notioe of the public by a statistician, who makes centenarians and longevity his special branch of sooial soienoe. The seat of this remarkable family was at Tarbes, m the Department of the Hautes-Pyrenees, where its last survivor, Joseph Ritas, has departed this life at the comfortable age of 118 years. Ritas was .born m Spain on August 21, 1770. Hiß father lived to the|age of 111 years, and his ( brother died a few yearß ago at the age of 114. The mother and paternal unole of Ritas were equally long-lived, having far outstripped the allotted span of ordinary mortals. Neither his wife.' however, nor 'any of hjs Children Burvive him. He did not marry qntil he attained the age of SO. The " Nelson Mail " referring to the deoease of Mr Tesohemaker, says he was among the first of those who took up sheep runs m the Otago Province. He purchased sheep m Nelson m 1854, and drove them overland to a country a little south of Oamaru. The journey oooupied between two and three years, and bristled with difficulties and dangers from start to finish, not the least among them being the crossing of the {or. midable rivera or the, wa.y, especially those' I eoyth of Ghrjßtohurch, m some ingtaric.es the sheep having to be taken over oq rafts constructed of flaxstioks. The success whioh Mr Tesohemaker ultimately aohieved was j certainly well earned for the hardships en* countered can scarcely be appreciated m these days of comparative luxury, while the fortitude and patient perseverance manifested m < their, endurance, and the energy and pluok, [required to overcome the many obstructions wet wjtb,, were such a,s to mark him a pioneej? eetfler oj th,e fruytype.. :|< * ■"***» We clip the following important testimonial from the "JHaw«.rr* Sferouxy" (N.8.W.) of the 30th Maroh. ft needj go comment ;— '• lsr John Lpveday, oj the Bull* Mountain, i writes to us that after suffering for four years with acute gravel, he haß experienoed almost complete relief by using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extraot. He says seeing the said Extract ad?ertised m the • Illawarra Mercury,' his intense Buffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr Hosking, ohemist, of this town, and that the use ol it gave him great relief at once. He states that between the lQth March' instant, when he Obtained the firgfc botyleof-tqe extract and the lQth, the uge pf thftt medjoine continued to afford him relief, to whioh he had been a Btranger for four yearß. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extraot a cure for rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests us to publish this information through the ' Mercury.' We have much pleasure m complying with Mr Loveday's request, whose word cannot be doubted, and who oan have no objeot m view other than a pure desire to benefit suffering humanity."-^

A Government Inspection Parade of the Rifles and Guards will be held this evening at 7 p.m. Colonel Bailey will be present. Up to Saturday nearly a quarter of a million of persons had visited the Melbourne Exhibition since the opening day. Out of two and a-half dozen tumblers pro vided for drinking water from the filters provided for publics use at the Library at Auckland, a solitary one, says the Town Clerk, remains un&tolen, Mr Raven's paper, '• Diversions of a Pedagogue," m " Maomillan's Magazine" contains some amusing instances of mistranslation and blundering by sohoolboys. He has known " Magna deum genetrix." translated " Great governess of the gods," and " Great-grandmother of the gods." It is a pity that the rendering of " Rustious quidam publicoß ludos speotabat," as " A country gentleman was inspecting the National Schools," was open to question m regard to its genuineness. To the queßtion, •• Describe the translation of Elijah," a boy replied, " I do not koow what the translation of Elijah is, but the translation of Mene Mene Tekel ZJpharsin is as follows." A candidate at a University local examination, asked what he knew of Isaak Walton, answered : "'He wrote the "Complete Angler,' and was suoh an enthusiast m his art that he was termed the Judicious Hooker." The Right Hon Sir John Rose, [ P. 0., G.0.M.G., first baronet whose death is announoed by oable, waß born m Canada m 1821, educated at King's College, Aberdeen, and beoame a member of the Canadian bar. He was Solioitor.General for Canada m 1857, British Commissioner for Settlement of Claims against the United States under the Oregon Treaty 1866, Minister of Public Works 1860, and Finance Minister for the Dominion 1869-73. Sinoe 1883 he has been Reoiver-General for theDuohyof Cornwall. He waß created K.C.M.G. 1870, G.C.M.G. 1878, and Privy Councillor 1886. While m London he was a partner m the London banking firm of Morton, Rose, and Co. He was made a baronet, and received the thanks of Her Majesty's Government for his services m a confidential mission to Washington m 1870, to remove certain causes of dispute between England and the United States. His efforts, which were completely successful, resulted m the Treaty of Washington. By the death of Lord Alfred Henry Paget, announoed m oar cables, a familiar figure is removed from London Sooiety. He was son of the firßt Marquis of Anglesey, and unole of the present owner of the title. He was born ia 1816, educated at Winchester, entered the Royal Horse Guards, and retired with the rank of General m 1881, He was Clerk Marshal and Chief Equerry with a short interval from 1846*65, and was reappointed to the Office (which is worth £1000 a year) m 1868. He sat as M.P. for Liobfield (L) 1837-65- He married m 1847 Cecilia, daughter of Mr G. T. Wyndham, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, and haß left several children. Loid Alfred Paget was a very fine, tall Boldierly-looking man, and m his younger days was remarkably handsome. It is an item of Court gossip, retailed by the chroniclers, how there were serious fears at one time that her Majesty, when Princess Victoria had fallen m love with him. Saya the "Taieri Advooate " :— The New Zealand clergymen of various denominations must have had an eyeopener recently when they were informed of the immense amount of money raised m the oolony by the Salvation Army. The Rev Mr M'Kerrow at the Army tea meeting at Mosgiel on Thursday evening asked whether the published statement concerning the Army's revenue was true; and on being replied to m the affirmative observed that he would like to have the seoret of the Army's success imparted to him. Captain Bates, nothing loth to divulge the apparent seoret, stated that the Army "trusted m the efficacy of prayer ; whan they asked the Almighty for money and if it was right that they should have their request granted they goc it." The captain cannot be said to have been m his reply very complimentary to the orthodox denominations ; as impliedly, either they do not have much reooursd to prayer for their wants, or are not deserving receipients of aid " Bucha-Paiba."— Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. At chemists and druggists. Xerapthome Prosscr, and .Co., agents, Christchur h. . „