The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
I Mrs William Eattenburg, of Tempe, Gooke'a 1 River, Queensland, has had " quadruples." Major Jackßon, member for Waipa North, was m Ashburton yesterday on his way south to see the country. An Algerian correspondent referring to an execution whioh took place at Boria, saya :— An extraordinary experiment waa made on tfae.a.o.afiold. As the head fell from the guillotipe a dojjtor to,ok it up and spoke a few words, when various njovementa of the man's eyes and mouth Beemed tb'/shojy that the words had been heard and understood. ' The " Speotator " supplies its readers with a brand new copybook sort of definition of thajword "jookey." "A jookey," it says, " is. as a rule, an undersized but pluoky lad •?£° ?'s?* immature horses m useless races for gambler^ t# bet about." This sentence, says a c,ontempoj:a;ry f frppprvea to find a place jln the next collection of Ijtferpry gpms. One ot the JJondon paperp referring to thp late action agajngt the "Times" by Mr O'Donnell, says:— "By the action whioh the proprietors of the "Timea" have tajken m tbia matter, and by the fearlessness with which they have exposed what they believed to be the complicity of the leading Nationalists of the moat terrible nature, they haye .cjonp a noble servioe, not only to jjournaliEim, fyu,t t ( 9 jfheir country." The miners' strike nt will do good to New £!ealund m more "ways titan one. There is a grfiat dearth "of shippingH^o %ad wheatj nof pnly m New Zealandj But m! Victoria, and ftyyth Australia as well. At! least 200,Q00 tons' pf last season's wheat crop ■ have yet to be exported, and it jb probable i that many of the vessels unable .to get .goal at ■ Neweaf tie will re*4ily a.qoept ,wh,eat oharter^ for the United KiogiJpffl, Keating's Cough Lozenges cures,coughs asthma, and bronchitis. Medical testfrnpny states that no other medicine is so effectual m the cure of these dangerous maladies. One 1 lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bed- ] tijne enures rest. For relieving difficulty of ' breathipg.t^y invaluable They contain 1 ao opium or aiy .yiolei^t drug. Sold by all ] cbcwieU m tics is i|4 and §9 $d ca^b, 1 1
Owing to pressure on our space we have to hold over leading and other matter. At the R.M. Court this morning, before Messrs Alcorn and Harrison, Joseph Berg, an inmate of the Old Men's Home, was committed to the Hunnyside Asylum for lunaoy. At a meeting of the Committee of the A. and P. Association held yesterday afternoon it was resolved that the Annual Show should be held on Friday, November 2nd. We understand that Mr George Jameson has purchased Mr 0. W. Turner's grain and agenoy business at Rakaia, and Mr Dixon, of Ashburton, leaves m a few days to assume the management of the Rakaia business. There is (eaya a Home paper) at present m the possession of Andrew MoKeand, of Dumfries, a curious creature, whioh ha got from a party of English hawkers. The animal m question remains as yet unnamed (notwithstanding men of considerable zoological, abilities have examined it), and l answers to the following description : It is larger than a rat, and not so large as a rabbit, haß a mouth like a hare, hair like a goat, the ears of a cat, the feet of a mole, and moves like a hedgehog. It is stated that the fruit-growers of California recently imported from Australia a oonsigment of a species of •• bug " whioh has been found to be useful m the Australian fruit gardens, as it preys upon the inseots whioh are bo detrimental to the well-being of orchards. The consignment appears to have satisfied the Oalifornians, as they wish Oon. gresa to sanction the importation on a large soale. If with the •• bugs " the Americana could take a few thousands of their surplus rabbits, the Australians would have no objection to inoreaee their lists of exports, On Monday evening laßt, previous to his meeting m the Oddfellows' Hall, Mr Glover, G.W.C.T., held a session of the Grand Lodge. 1.0. G.T., m the Templar Hall, when thirteen members of the local subordinate Lodges reoeived the Grand Lodge Degree. Afterwards Mr Glover gave instruction m the unwritten work of the new rituals lately issued by the E.W G.L. A very able address was given, m whioh he congratulated the Lodges on the strides they had made, and showed m what way the subordinate Lodges oould be worked successfully. A vote of thanks to Mr Glover oonoluded a very suooessful meeting. Some .time ago a cablegram from Sydney mformed us that a swindler, disguised as a Persian priest, had riotimised many people, and that at the trial the money found on him was, by order of the Judge who heard the case, to be distributed among oertain oharities. A telegram m the " Melbourne Argus " says : — "Johan Abrahams, who was recently sentenced to Bix months' imprisonment for obtaining money by falsely pretending that he was a Persian priest collecting money to build a church m his native land, has been released on k bail, pending an appeal againßt the sentence. It was proposed to distribute £500 found on Abrahams among the metropolitan hospitals ; but it transpired that the law would not admit of the money being thus disposed of, and it has been returned to Abrahams. A paragraph is going round the Southern papers, m whioh it is stated that about a quarter of a century ago an Auckland man interested m foresting, made some experiments with the objeot of finding out the length of time required to bring a kauri pine to full growth, and his oonoluaion was that the kauri reached maturity m 3000 years. Thiß is nonsense. The kauri is not a whit more slow.growing than any other valuable timber tree. In proof of whioh there may be seem m the Domain a number of vigorous young kauris some 30 feet high and Bix inohes m diameter, whioh oannot be more than 30 years of age. It is not the alow growth of the kauri that has doomed our Northern iorests, but the fires of the gumdigger.— " Auokland Herald." At a meeting of the Cabinet on Monday evening the question of the appointment of Kailway Commissioners was disouseed. From the animated discussion whioh took place it transpired that Ministers are all at sixes and sevens regarding the appointments. The claims of Messrs i Maxwell, Hannay, O'Connor, s_S rd ro Bloh , ard ? OD » Wright, Ferguson, and Stead, were freely canvassed, but there was suoh a diversity of opinion that it was resolved to defer the consideration of the Board until Ministers returned to Wellington m eight or ten days. In the meantime correspondence by cable is going on between the Premier and the Agent-General relative to the Chief Commissionership, and it is thought probable that a suitable man may yet be obtained from Home. Writing to an Araerioan contemporary, Mr G. A. Austin gives the following advice : — l<armerß, breed your horses to none but fallWood, registered draught stallions, having the colts following the dam when you have leaßt work for her to do. Keep none but mares: sell geldings, and breed up m size to the market demands, adding thus to your own wealth and to the commercial interests of the ° oa ° tr y« Invariably use pure bred sires. Remember that five orosses of pure-blood entitles to registration, and that it j is possible m 15 or 16 years to have substantially full-bloods. These horses are ready for the market as soon as grown. No breaking or training or expensive handling is necessary. Draught horses you can raise muoh cheaper than you can buy them. If you doubt this, go and try to buy them." "Atticus" m the "Leader," writing on the prayer at the Exhibition, sayß:— lt i B stated on the authority of one of the Eaeoutive Commissioners that the alteration m the form of prayer used by Sir James Maoßain was insisted on by the Cabinet. Objeotions, he says, were raised by the Trades' Hall Council to the statement •• that all nationa of men were made of one blood." It waß considered that this would be admitting the claim of the Chinese to equality, and that m deference to pubho feeling the prayer was modified bo as to show that " the bounds of their habitation were determined." In the second paragraph of the prayer the expresaion "at the first bid ' ib ÜBed. Many of the thousands within earshot who had settled themselves into Sunday^ morning atti tides were galvanised into aotivity by the familiar words, but they collapsed when they found that business waß not to be done. At the conclusion of the excellent prayer a gentleman was heard to whisper to his wife—" I have nothing under a shilling ; have you got a threepenny bit ? " He could not believe m an " Amen " that was not followed up by the plate.
The "Napier Telegraph" saya:— The Queen was made a proud woman, aooording to the Campbells, when the Marquis of Lome honored princess Louise with the offer of his band and heart. Put how muoh happier must Her Majesty haye been when the Cork bandmaster apologised the other day for not having dismissed his men on their refqsal to play the National Anthem. If there was one that waß irritating the Queen and gnawing into her peace of mind, it must have been the knowledge that those men had not been dismissed, and that the bandmaster had not offered any apology. Her Majesty has not, of course, anything to think about besides the National Anthem 1 and it was a distioot evidenoe of the rebellion m Ireland when the Cork band refused to play that air. It may be accepted now that the eister Isle is paoifted. 1 Whether the bold bandsman has been brought to reason by fear of the Crimes Aot, and the imprisonment of #avitt and the Bedmond brothers, or by sinoere pehitenee, thg cablegram does not Bay. The telegraph ! agent having thought it worth while to oable the noneaenfle, might just as well have immortalised the bandmaster by telling the world his name.
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