The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1944, 14 September 1888, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1888. LOCAL AND GENERAL

A rise of twopence on frozen mutton means £600,000 increased gain to the pastoral interest of New Zealand. So much is Mr Speight, the Victorian railway commissioner, thought of by some legislators that two of them reoently urged on the Government that his salary should be raised from £3000 to £5000, Sir William Fox is expected to arrive m Chiistchurob by Monday next. It is understood that on Tueaday evening he will deliver a leotqre oritioising Mr Saunders' scheme for establishing Government distilleries. The " Wairarapa Standard " estimates that there were more persons present at a boxing entertainment given by Matthewß m the Town Hall, Greytown, on Saturday night last, than attended the various ohurohes on the following day. It is reported that the world-wide known author of " Unole Tom's Cabin," Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, is lying seriously ill. She oompleted her 77th birthday on the loth of last June. She has for the past two years been m very delioate health and not expeoted to survive eaoh winter. She has beep staying for some time past on her erange plantation m Florida. Dr Talmage has been denouncing spiritualism :— " For the sake of man's honor and woman's purity, I say let the last veßtige of it perish for ever. I wish I could gather up ell the raps it has ever hoard from spirits blest or banished, and gather thera all on its own head m one thundering rap of anni. hilation 1 " Not a bad Bpeoimon of Yankee ' oratory. : The "sundowner" nuisanoe (saya the i " Post ") was being discussed by two gentlemen, both sheep -farmers, within the preoincts of the Parliamentary Buildings recently. They ■ bad condoled one with tho other, and had j related to each other their bitter experience j m entertaining the benighted bushman with bread, beef, and tea, until they mutually ( agreed that .'• something must be done, you 1 know," to abate the evil. At length one of ( the squatters said that he could generally tell the real, honest swagger from his spurious ! brother by his eyelids. " You see," said he, 14 1 get the fellows when they ask me for a ' fesd somehow or the other to olose their eyes, ' and if I find the eyelids brown and eun- J tanned I know he is a lazy man, and instead of working he has been dreaming the happy ' hours away m the sun ; so off he goes. "

A girl, twelve years of age, has given birth to a ohild at Ilkston, and both mother and ohild are doing well. A looal medical gentleman deolared that the oase is unprecedented. In connection with the ooourrence a young /man was apprehended under the Criminal Law Amendment Aot. The girl attended sohool until taken ill. Six performing bears were brought to! Dunedin the other day by the Eoto'mahana. Some of the number were exhibited m the streets, and one particularly large ono was the centre of attraction most of the afternoon for crowds of children and a sprinkling of grown-up people, the keepers apparently doing good business. Miss jAgneta Ramsay, who distinguished herself by gaining the only first-claes m the first division of the Classioal Tripos at Cambridge last year, has been married to Dootor Butler, the well-known master of Trinity, and late head-master of Harrow School. The bridegroom is thirty-four years older than the bride. The following football team has been seleoted to play Bakaia to-morrow : — E. J. Fooks (captain), A. Fooks, Oliver, F. Field, Simpson, Edwards, Foley, Graham, Christie,' Dalgleish, Clark, Buohanan (2), Pilbrow, Low. Emergencies, Stewart and G. Clark. The team, with those who intend to enjoy the • trip, are requested to meet at Soott's stable? at half past twelve when the drag will be m readiness. There was a large attendance at the Rink last evening. In addition to the rinking programme the Boselle Bros, gave a very olever exhibition of their skill on the Roman ringß. The performance of the looal clown, Mons. Deroni, added to the general success of the performance, which altogether was exoellent. The Rink will be open this evening for a special practice of the Maypole rink \ dance. Acoording to the estimatoe of the officers of the Geological Survey Department, there arelin the New Zealand coal beds 121,829,000 i tons of workable coal. Mr Park, one of the » surveyors, m a paper presented to the Wellington Philosophical Society, estimated that, allowing for the present rate of inorease of population, and of consumption for industrial pnrposes, the supply already discovered will not be exhausted for the next ninety years. Brother Jonathan was Jonathan Turnbull, Governor of Connecticut under Washington, who had suoh confidence m him that, when m doubt or difficulty, he was m the habit of j saying 44 1 must consult Brother Jonathan." j The name is now accepted as the national American designation. This is the generally ' reoeived origin ; but the term it Beems was j m use long before. In a pamphlet published m 1643, entitled '' The Reformado Precisely , Characterised by a Transformed Churchwarden at a Vestry, London," the following passage occurs :— ,c Queen Elizabeth's monu- ! ment was put up at my charge when the real Government had fairer credit among us than now, and her epitaph was one of my Brother Jonathan's best poems before he abjured the univarsity or had a thought of New Enland." - — Notes and Queries. On Court days we are continually troubled by applications from defendants or aocused persons to leave Iheir names out of the report of the oases. Yesterday afternoon a young man was particularly abusive, because his name could not be altered or suppressed. Caseß settled out of court we do not take* note of, but all cases called m Court are publio property, so far as the publioity of their details are concerned. If any young man j runs up an hotel bill, and has'to be sued for the amount of it and then allows the case to j gothe length of a judgment summons, we think he is not deserving of sympathy by having his name left out. When such people allow oases to come to Court they should be prepared to run the risk of publicity. In the oase we refer to it Beemß tbat our i^ Chrißtohurch contemporaries are more lax m ■ their views on this subjeot, as neither of them mentioned the oase to whioh we allude. If we Bhould concede the favor to one individual it would be injustice to others, and no one has a right to expeot that the details of his , case should be suppressed. The Danes, whose butter is famous all the world over, have lately passed a law forbidding the exportation of artificial butter. This is a prinoiple altogether contrary to what is recognised m Anglo-Saxon countries. The Danes, however, were shrewd enough io sea that the exportation of the fatty abominations, Buoh as butterine and margerine, aa Danish butter, would ultimately ruin the market for the undefiled oommodity, and after a stormy agitation the false pretence has been prevented from leaving the country. Tho unrestrioted export of apything and everything on the part of everybody which Bbtains m America and Australasia does undoubtedly tend to lower prioes to a minimum, A faot whioh advocates of the Government control of butter export m this country have had m mind, but the Danes will not endanger their export trade of two hundred thousand barrels per annum by allowing the export of fat under the musioal name the Danes have for butter.

The members of the Star of the Hast Lodge, 1.0. G.T., gave the seoond of a serieß of 41 open £odge " meetings m the Templar Hall on Wednesday evening. The attendance was not so large ub might have heen expeoted, seeing that there was no oharge for admission. An exoellent programme was provided, eaoh item being warmly received. Mrs Kingston and Miss Bay presided at the piano. The meeting opened by singing Ode No. I. The following ladies and gentlemen took part :— Overture, Miss Bay ; song, Mr Kingston ; recitation, Sister Manhire; song, Sister Sawle; reading, Mr Potter; song, Sister Hicks ; song, Miss Bay ; reoitation, Bro KingBton; speech, Bro Rev J. W. Sawle; piano, forte selection, Miss Steel; reoitation, Bro B. JHoward ; song, Sister Kingston ; song, Miss Steel ; reading, Mr Colyer ; duet, Messrs Kingston and Oolyer ; reoitation, Bro Norrish. The 0.T., Bro Patterson, urged upon all good Templara to work with all their might m the eauEe of total abstinence, and he urged those who were not members of the organisation to at once join, The singing of Ode 17 brought a very enjoyable evening to a olose. 44 Polypheruus,'? a northern philosqpher, thus philosophises on marriage {—Young men are solemnly and imperatively advised that they must marry only good young women and young women must acoept only good young men. To attempt to follow out this Bapient and calculating idea would very quickly reduce the population of the world ; the scarcity of the material would operate most detrimentally on the warm impure of human nature and fill the world with wanderers seeking that whioh is not to be found. A few of these good creatures exist, but by the time they are found bachelors' would get grey and gouty and maidens would become rather too much of a g/jod thing. But whtfs,t pcience has taught ub what beautiful and Bweet extraota can ba obtained from that noxious oommodity, ooal tar, we neod not despair but that the right sort of prooess may even e.traot almost perfection out of the masher larrikins or the hoity-toity fast female ; we oan live m hope although we die m desperation. The crude material on both sides is abundant, and from, the preoeding illustration it only requires a common, sensible, somewhat soientifio but simple process tp deduce similar results.