LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1939, 8 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At South Dunedin the lodies are to the front m matters munioipal. Three fishermen left Auokland on August 16th m an open boat, to fish at the Thames, and have not since been heard of. The County Council has determined to take the necessary steps to obtain a poll of the ratepayers upon the desirableness cf tapping the |Rakaia, to inoreaae the supply of water m the raoes. The Cabinet has decided tjiafc any tiye Councillor whcTis abaent from two successive sessions of Parliament shall have his seat deqlared yaoant. A meeting of the Asbburton Bowling Club, for the election of offloera and general i business will be held this evening at 8 o'olook at Mr P. Thomas' office, West atreet, The Wellington citizens are all by the ears, bocauso the Borough Council have imported a rubbish destruction at a cost of £4000. The peoplo evidently prefer to retain their rubbish to having it destroyed. One councillor who was returned unopposed the other Aaj was nominated by two ladies. As our ladies havo allowed the nomination opportunity to pass, they should not forget the eleotion whioh takes plaoe shortly. Land settlement is progressing rapidly m Auokland. The yillage JHomegtead and Speoial (Settlement sohemes continue to work well, while land under other regulations is being rapidly taken up. We are informed that Mr W. M. Brooke has given a case of his Perfect Sheep Dip, value 70s, as a special prize at the forthcoming A. and P. Association Show, for the best sample of home-made soap. Competition, to be confined to sheepownera or their wives resident m the Asbburton County, Show takes plaoe on 2nd November. At a meeting of the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals Hooiety m Ohriatohuroh, the Inspector reported that be had oautioned sixty* two persons for various aotß of cruelty. The praotipe of tying a horse bohind, a oart with too short a- rope r waa tfeing Abkfed,. Twenty^ three' of 'the cautions 'were for" cruelly carry, ing and handling poultry, and I}£ horses •^mjped, pa eqspjoioa of feitfog wouqdP.

King Osoar of Sweden recently called on the Pope, and instead of kissing his hand as i ia the ouetom, kissed him soundly on both cheeks, to the surprise of the courtiers. It was the greatest shook the traditions of the ] Vatioan had reoeived since General Grant ! Bhook hands with Pius IX , and said, " How do you do, Hir? " Queen Viotoria is quite well posted on current literature. Every new book of any i prominence is at onoe sent to her. If she ifl attracted by its title, it is read to her by come maid of honour m waiting. During the morning the Queen always lißtenß to several columns of the " London Times." She has a great liking for newspapers. A meeting of the Ashburton Domain Board was held yesterday. Present— Messrs E. G. Wright (chairman), D. McLean, A. Harrison, J. Orr, and T. Bullock. A quantity of business wqb transacted, and the following notioe oi motion was given for the next meeting : — 14 That the expediency be considered of the Board recommending the Governor to hand over the control of the Domain to the Borough Counoil." The suitability of the Hampshire Down breed for producing rapid-growing mutton is well known, and an exemplification may be seen at Mr James Taßker's butoher's shop m East street. There are on view at his Bhop some sheep by Hampshire Down rams out of first oross ewes. Though only eleven months old, and store sheep, they are m the pink of condition, scaling on an average 65 lbs eaoh. They were grown by Mr Max Friedlander. Mr W. H. Warren, the well-known and popular reader, will again visit Ashburton on Tuesday next, m the proseoution of his Life Insurance business, and he will give a reading of selections from the works of Ohas. Dickens at the St. Stephen's Schoolroom on that evening at 7.30. The faot that there 1 will be no charge for admission should prove a further inducement to those who appreciate Oharles Dickens, to take advantage of suoh an opportunity as will then be afforded of hearing his inimitable delineations of oharaoter, ao faithfully pourtrayed. i The proposal, which was brought for- , ward the County Oounoil, to cut a floodwater drain along the Timaru Track to the 1 Ashburton River, to relieve the Tinwald and ' Wheatstone districts of storm water, was negatived yesterday, the objections to it being . that the Upper Aahburton Road Board, which has the aontrol of the road m question, withheld their oonsent, that the Oounoil might get involved m trouble with landowners, and < that the proposed drain would not answer i the purpose contemplated. > The regular meeting of the Tinwald Gospe [ Temperanoe Sooiety was held on Wednesday , evening last m the Presbyterian Ohuroh. In the course of the proceedings a short paper ' was read — " Reasons why lam an abstainer," '' written by an adult member, and another on i the same subjeot, by a junior. They were referred to the Committee for their opinion. . Several took part m a very creditable manner m readings, reoitatione, and songs, serving 3 both to instruct and amuse the audience, r There was a large number present, and the , programme was a very enjoyable one. The Rev A. Blake who occupied the chair, stated 1 that Mr Glover, although unable to give an • evening to Tinwald at present, intended doing ) so on his return North. l The present lambing Beason, Bays the I " Hawke's Bay Herald," promises to be unL usually good, losses being few, thanks to the t genial spring weather we ara experiencing. On Monday nine of Mr F. Sutton'B stud ewes, i dropped sixteen lambs, there being one t instanoe of triplets, five of twins, and only i three singles. Feed ia also coming on grandly, , end if severe frosts do not come, the spring bids fair to be the most prosperous for years i past. Those who believe m Maori prognosti- ; oations as to the seasons will be interested to , learn that the natives propheoy a very mild . spring, basing their belief on the faot that the ' inan-ga have already gone up the streams. < In Ashburton so far we believe the lamb crop , will be very prolific though we have not I heard of any speoial lines. The necessity for walking exeroise has been f impressed upon a Wellington teacher, who , wanted a school residence attaohed to the sohool. The teacher had to walk three miles 1 to dohool, and this did not suit his book, and , the Chairman of the Eduoation Board pointed , out that Bryant, the poet and journalist, although over 80 years of age, and well able to afford a carriage, always made it a practice 1 to walk between his reaidenoe and the soene i of his labours, finding that the exeroise was , most beneficial, and observed that with suoh an example at Dalefield the master oould not feel the Board were dealing hardly with him m asking him to walk between his sohoolhouse ■ and the township of Oarterton every day. , Several other members of the Board agreed with the Chairman, and it was deoided not , to oreot a residence m the present state of : the finances. . i A meeting of the Ashburton Aoolimatisation Sooiety was held at the Secretary's office : on Friday. Present— Messrs Crisp (m the ohuir), Jameson, Moore, Shury, and Quane. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, it was moved by Mr Shury, seconded by Mr Moore, that the regulations as to issuing licenses be made the same as the Christohuroh Sooiety's. After some discussion, it was resolved that the license for adults for the season be £1, and that the lioenses after the 20th Deoember be 10s for adults, that youth's licenses (for boyo under 16 years of age) be 10s for the season and after 20th Deoember ss. 16 was considered that as perch fishing begins m December, and the Domain ia now fully Btoaked, the large inorease m the number of licenses sold, would fully compensate the Sooiety for reducing the prioe. Hardly any of our numeroue publiospirited sooieties (says "dt James' Gazette") is more successful than the anti tobaooo association m meeting with the exceptions whioh are neoessary to prove the rule it seeks to enioroe. There is now living at Tarbes an old gentleman who has smoked every day sinoo he was fifteen to the value of 2£d. He is m exoellent health, and on the 21st of Augußt next he will have completed his 118 th year ; bo that at a moderate computation he has so far blown away about a ton and a half of (obaoco. And when the quality of, the tobaoco whioh finds favour m the Pyreqees iB borne m mind the oaße is rnqre than ever a striking exception to the sound rule that the weed is noxious and unwholesome. M. Joseph Ribaa— that is the name of this confirmed smoker, who has yet time to sea the error of his ways— has outlived and outnumbered the years of a father, mother, brother, and unole, none of whom spent less than 111 on earth. The "Oamaru Mail" pays: — Mr Robert Mitohell, who left Oamaru m the Tekapo on her last trip to Calcutta, m charge of a number of horses, has returned to the colony m the same vessel. Mr Mitchell looks all the better for his trip, and is more buoyant than ever; though he speaks, m, anything hut complimentary termet of the Indian oity, and, indeed, of any pn.it of India that he saw. He was struck with the Bystem of slavery under whioh the native;servants live, and was privileged to have what was oalled by the oognoscenti an attaok of cholera, which he, however, quiokly dispelled, though numbers of personß were dying m Calcutta^ of. th,e dread disease. Mr Mitohell was gfyd to get back to Qtagq again and Amongst the Qtagans, whoae language and customs and ourrenoy are more m his line than (hose, of the Eait, and where, though we are sometimes squeezed into a condition of financial discomfort, we have a climate that inspires us. with hope for the future and vigor to wort out our own destinies. ■* ' Certainly the Most Effeotive*l|<lEDlOlNE m the world is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Teat its eminent powerful effeots m Coughs, C/ilds., Jnfluenza, eto, the relief, is faqitajitaneous. Thousands, give th,e mp.st gratifying testimony. Read this certificate :— •• 24th April, I§B§.— Messrs Sander and Sons,— lt is with the greatest of pleasure that \ testify to the excellence of yourKuoalypti Extraot, Having had inflam- ' mation on the bone of the leg, which came on ' after a severe attaok of low fev6r, I was ' attended by Dr J. Boyd, who had made < strenuous efforts to save my leg, but without < suooess. He found it neoeasary to amputate j my limb. Having heard m the meantime of i the wonderful cures worked by the Eucalypti , Extract, I obtained a bottle, and the extraot had not been applied more than an hour when I began to feel greatly relieved. After applying tho extraot every fo«r h^inlornitttf or ij ten days I was, out of aft danger. 1 'I would l persuade all wfco taay be affected with any }• suoh 'disease to' tfve the Eucalypti ExtraoJj ' 4 « trial, add lam o6n!vinoed 'that th>v''wjUl $n,q v it most wonderful of medicines.— Tours, 1 etc., B. J. Oubhow, \fctylo4ttoet |wdiwat.'>; 1 -7(W') -v - • g j

It is stated that girls ar« breaking stones at the relief works at Mount Eden, Auckland. | It is said that some of the English football team, who intend remaining m New Zealand have obtained situations m one of the Canterbury woollen faotories. Mra Scott, of Ohriatohurob, is announoed to oonduot a seriea of Evangelistio Services m the Sohoolroom, Methven, commencing on Tuesday next, 11th inst., ac 7.30 p.m. Excursion tiokets to Dunedin for the Hunt . Olub Steeplechases will be issued on the 13fh nnd 14th in?t , available for return until the 18th instant, at 283 firat-olasa and 18s 6d second class. A novelty is to be introduced to the public at the Rink de Paris this evening m the shape of an orange race, and as this has not previously been attempted m Asnburton muoh amusement is anticipated. Immediate steps will be taken by the Minister of Lands for the re-organisation of the Stook Department. Drastio ohanges m the higher branches of the department are certain to be made.

At the Land Board meeting on Thursday 0. J. Hawdon'a applioation for fifteen acres of land m Ashburton County, was deferred for inquiry as to whether the land was required for road purposes. The Sydney eorresponeent of the " Aaok* land Star " saya :— " It iB rumourrd that Mr P. J. Fink (of Bent, Fink, and Co., a wealthy firm m Melbourne) will lease Melbourne for New Zealand m a few days with a view of investing over one million of money on oity properties m Dunedin, Wellington, ann Auckland, and agricultural and pastoral lands." One of the most saroaßtio things ever said about the speed of the New Zealand railways was given utteranoe to m a Napier pulpit recently. The preacher had been speaking of the seriouß results that might follow from a deteotive wheel, and then said he did not know what would be the oonsequenoe of a wheel giving way on a railway carriage m a country where the buggies go faster thad the trains. At a meeting of the Sooiety for the Prevention of cruelty to animals, m Ohristohuroh on Friday, Mr W. H. Shaw said that since the passing of the resolution permitting the dehorning of cattle, he had read a number of opinions of agricultural writers that had been sent to him. It was the general opinion that the praotioe was undesirable. An American writer on the subjeot stated it had been found that it effeoted the milking properties of cows and also the quality of the meat. The Chairman of the Dunedin Benevolent Trustees stated at a meeting on Wednesday that as the oountry districts complained of the ta* for Charitable Aid, he had taken out figures for one county and the boroughs of Tuapeka and Lawrenoe and found that m outdoor relief alone they reoeived about £10 more than their contributions. In addition to that the Board had to maintain poor, aged, and diseased people from the oountry, and to take incurables from the hospital. Mr J. Allen, M H.R., is of opinion that there are ores m New Zealand, whioh, if shown at the Melbourne Exhibition, will attract all eyes, nob only from a soientin.o but from a oommeroial point of view, ores of iron and niokel whioh present an interest as great or greater than any other ore m the world. Not only is it a valuable mineral itself on account of the metallic niokel present, but scientifically it is most interesting, as the rooks containing this niokel iron alloy are the only known connecting link between the terrestrial and extra-terrestrial rooks, and they are the first Bigns we have of the presence of diamonds. He believes there is every ohanoe of diamonds and other preoious stones being found on the West Coast.