LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1931, 29 August 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

» ■ ■ - ' ! Mr Glover is announced to deliver an address at Rakaia on looal option to-morrow evening. From the fact that this gentleman's lectures have been much appreciated elsewhere, he should have a good meeting. Mr George Jameson, looal agent for the Hornßby reaper and binder, has handed us a oopy of cablegram received from Grantham, to the effeot that the demand for the above machine is so great that it has been necessary to keep the hands on overtime. It is stated that Mr Cowen, the oonduotor of the Exhibition Orchestra m the Melbourne Exhibition, relies entirely on his memory, never having any musio or notes before him. Considering the variety and oharaoter of the musio performed, this is truly wonderful. A London cablegram m an Australian paper states that it is announoed that Mr Fitzgerald, a nativa of Australia, is about to marry a daughter of Baron North. The expectant bridegroom (sayß the " Evening Star ") ib the first native Australian admitted to a matrimonial alliance with the British peerage. The " Star " congratulates Australians generally on the absence on their part of an ambition to contract patrioian marriages, and oomments m terms complimentary to colonial ladies on the rebuffs they have frequently administered to aristooratio heiress hunters. In charging a jury m Philadelphia the other day Judge Biddle said m substance : " The history of publio morality m regard to lotteries is quite curious. I have a lottery ticket issued as far back as 1761, to aid m building a ohuroh at Oxford. That ohuroh was afterwards presided over by a brother of President Buchanan. At that day lotteries were oonßidored legitimate, and were almost aa frequent as apotheoary Bhops Bre to day. But experience taught us that they were demoralising, and stringent laws had to be passed against anything m the semblanoe of a lottery. At the present day lotteries are held only by two classes of people— very religious people and very bad people— and, strange to say, the most difficult thing is to eradicate them among the good people." Sir George Grey was true to his old prejudices against Canterbury last night. A sum of £10,000 had been sanctioned for the purpose of este Wishing labor settlements m Canterbury. The item was objeoted to, and though it had been passed, was last night reconsidered. Among its strongest opponents was Sir George Grey. He professed to believe that if the Government were allowed to spend £10,000 on labor settlements m Canterbury, foreign companies, and the owners of large estates would grow wealthy on the strength of _ it. The eloquence of Sir George prevailed, and the item was struok out by a majority of two. This is a fact that the working, men of Christchuroh should bear m mind, the next time Sir George comes along on a stumping tour on behalf of the great uncreated. — " Telegraph," August 28, An improved method of distributing oil on the waters haß been patented m Germany. It consists of a rocket to whioh is attaohed a cylinder filled with oil. Several interesting experiments have recently been made between Bremen and New York with it. In one the rooket was fired to a distance of 1500 feet. By the explosion of five rockets at a distanoe of from 1200 to 1500 feet from the ship, a space of 1500 to 2000 square feet of water was oovered with oil, and the waves were at once smoothed. The rooket was fired 900 feet against a gale. The importance of the invention to deep water sailors consists m the certainty of |explosion of the rocket at a sufficient distance to leave the vessel m calm ' water during a gale. The invention is Baid to have been purohased by the North German Lloyd. Mr Labouohere m " Truth " saya : —A friend writes to me from Venice that inconceivable distress prevails there among the working classes, owing to the low rate of wages. Skilled tradesmen, who work hard for twelve hours a day, bix days m the week, can only earn 9s 6d to 14s per week. Clever wood-cutters average 223 per week ; clerks m private employment get 5a to 10s ; those m publio offices, 10s to 20a ; and even those m the higher posts gets only 255. The average Government pay to post and telegraph functionaries ia 15s 6d per week, from whioh income-tax haß to be deduoted. Women engaged m lace and bead work, if industrious, earn 4s 5d to 6s. A daily governess, employed six hours every day, is paid 15s to 18s per month. The wages of agricultural labourers m the province of Venioe average 3s to 4s 9d a week. The people yearn for the old Austrian days, when wages were higher, and there were practioally no taxes, A terrible tragedy took plaoe at South Terraoe, Adelaide, when Charles Lawrence, an acoountant, shot three of his children dead, and then destroyed himself m the same way, Lawrence had acted as an aooountant m the office of his brother, who is seoretary for several mining companies. He had been unwell for some time, and his wife came to town to say that her husband was not able to go to the office. On her return she found the house shut up, and had to enter through one of the windows. There, to her horror, she found two of their children, aged five and three respectively, lying dead side by side, shot through the ohest. In the next room the grief-strioken woman found her little daughter, aged eight, lying dead, shot m the same plaoe, and her husband lying dead beside her, with a bullet through his heart. The revolver with whioh the terribly tragedy was enacted was found under Lawrence's corpse. The monthly 'meeting of the Flemington Gospel Temperance Sooiety was held on Friday evening last m the Schoolroom, when waa a large attendance. The Rev A. Blake was m the chair,, and stated that the Qrganising Agent of the New Zealand Alliance had named Tuesday, Sept. 4th as the time of his visit, and they might expeot him on that date. The meeting was favored with the presence of friends from Ashburton, Mr Colyer giving an amusing reading entitled " Paddy the Piper ; " Mr Kingston contributing two songs, " Sailors on the sea," and and Kingston giving a duet, the " Larboard watoh." With all these the audienoe was greatly pleased, and Mr Hardley gave an excellent recitation on "Abstinence;" Mr Robert Gilmour giving an amußing reading " Launoh the lifeboat ;" Miss Kingston gave a song, "My Brilliant and I," and Messrs Colyer entitled "Advice to young men about to marry." Songa were also contributed by Messrs James Osborne and W. Dakers. Votes of thanks were moved by Mr Harding, and a Bupp.es,sful meeting was brought to a olosp. ' • • a -- Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— A frequent cause of gout and rheumatism is the inflammatory state of the blood, attended with bad digestion and general bebility. A few doses of the pills taken m time are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism Anyone who has an acttack of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the powerful action of which, combined with the operation of the pills, must infallibly effect a cure. These pills act directly on the blood, which they purify and improve. Having once subdued the severity ol these diseases, perseverance with the ointment, after fomenting the affected iojnts with warm brine, will speedily rglax aiystifjness, and prevent any permanent

The Clothing Factory has an announcement of importance to patrons. Wednesday, 19th Sept., has been definitely fixed on by the Caledonian Society as the date when their annual oonoert and ball will be held. The Yankeaa are systematio even m the matter of naval nomenclature. The big armoured vessels are m future to be oalled after the States, the cruisers after the cities, and the gunboats after the principal battlt» fields of the Revolution, Mr Elston, who intends opening the Skating Sink on Thursday week, has m hand a fine assortment of skates of the " Henley " and " Winslow " patterns. The former is the latest and best thing m roller skates whioh has yet oome from America, and are taking well with the rinking world. Two looal graziers, who have tried dosing lambs affected with lungworm with gum j leaves, report the result satisfactory. The i lambs are penned a few hours until hungry, and boughs of bluegum are thrown m, when they eat the leaves, and eucalyptus oil is believed to permeate the system and disagree with the lungworm.— "Ha wera Star." The Ashburton County Hunt Club will hold a point to point steeplechase on Wednesday, September sth. The race is to be a sweepstake of 1 soy, the first horse to receive .75 per cent, and the second horse to reoeive 25 per cent, of the stake, Entries are to be made with the Secretary at the Commercial Hotel, before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4th. Particulars are advertised. The " Wairarapa Star" says:— Our Tenui correspondent writes, "Jonathan .Roberts, whose escape produoed auoh a profound sen* Bation, got off on board a vessel bound for Peru whioh Bailed from Lyttelton about six weeks ago. He had a brother working on one of the stations here, who drew a big cheque— over £60 I believe— went off to the South Island and scoured a passage as stated for Jonathan. Sir Alfred Stephen has for fifteen yeara drawn £1820 a year as a pension for his services as N.S.W. Chief Justice, a total of £27,300. When m 1873 the ex-Chief took a pathetic farewell of the Bench and Bar he stated that he retired to make way for younger men, as he felt that Nature denied him very few remaining years. Yet he has outlived his successor, and not a few of the lawyers who assembled to bid him farewell, and he looks as if he had a good many years left, although he is 86. The following story is told by a writer m the " Auokland Herald." It seems incredible, but the truth of it is vouohed for; — A woman m this city was visiting a neighhour, who was nursing an infant eighteen months old — it was unweaned. at all events. Well, the infant began to cry for something, and to the horror of the visitor, the mother deliberately lit a oigarette and inserted it between the ohild's lips. " She cries for it, and I let her have it to pacify her," said the mother. Further inquiry showed that a ten year old son had frequently been sent by his mother to take the child for an airiog. On many of these oooasions itflseemed that the youth smoked cigarettes, ond had aotually taught his little infant sister to take a whiff. The boy admitted this himself to his mother. The best medicine is Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extraot. Test its eminent power* ful efieots m ooughs, colds, influenza, etc. — the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the moßt gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy and medioal syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Bead the official reportß that accompany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports of medioal clinics and universities, the omoicial communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne ; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam — all these are authentic documents, and, as suoh, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various caseß treated at the clinic of Schultz, M.D., Profesßor, etc. — '• C.8., 24 years old ; congestional abscess on the thigh. Incisions 13 made m two places. Although Listgr's dressing was applied, the secretion became, two days later, very copious, and had adopted a foetid, decomposed character. The temperature rose enormously. In oonsequenoe the dressing was removed, and on its place were made during the day-time repeated irrigations with Euoalypti Extraot. The offensive foeter disappeared very soon, the fever abated within a few days, and the patient recovered after the lapse of several weeks. In this instance we must not lose sight of the fact that the latter treatment, saved the patient's life.' — (Advt.) , 3