LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1945, 15 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sarah Bernhardt recently beat the bank at Monte Carlo to the tune of £500. The field of Bannookburn is about to be converted into the site of a coal mine. Paris has bean clouded with dust this season owing to a deficiency m the water supply. An attempt has been made to have the hißtorio gallows tree on Hampatead Heath cut down. Emperor Frederiok died within thirty feet of where he was born and at exaotly the same hour of the day. An exchange says that from various quarters there are signs that the silver produotion of this oolony will out no mean figure before long. A Dunedin lawyer has given a neat description of the late earthquake. He says : "It's only New Zealand shaking off the depression, and waking up." The depression of the times is severely felt by the English ttristooraoy. Many families once opulent are now glad to let their town residences m London to rich foreigners. The Pope is said to have completed a book on the sooial condition of the working olasaes, supporting the dootrine that the State should be the arbiter between employer and employedg Half-and-half of soda and milk is the drink now m vogue m London. They say it waa introduced by John Ruakin, who vouches for its being wholesome for the stomaoh. Henry Villard writes confirming the Btatement that . he ia about to undertake an expedition to the South Pole. Dr Neumayer, a director of the Deutohe Ziwarte of Ham» burg, will qooperate with him. At a meeting of creditors m the bankrupt estate of John Viokery, pork butoher, late of Ashburton, but now of Inveroargill, held at the latter plaoe on Wednesday, Mr Maniaty, oounsel for several of the oreditors, moved that the proceedinga be transferred to the looal Court of Bankruptcy at Ashburton. The Deputy Offioial Assignee ruled that a sufficient proportion of the debtor's liabilities, was not represented to enable such a motion to be carried. The matter would, however, be brought before the judge at the next sitting of the District Court at Inveroargill, An interesting aooount of a reoent performanoe of carrier pigeons oomes from Strasburg. A society called the •' Columbia," established m that town, has organised a service between it and Vionna. Recently a number of pigeons were started from Vienna at five a.m., and the first arrival made its appearance at Strasburg at a quarter-past six on the following morning. Aa the distance between the two localities is 665 kilometres, this bird had trayolled at the rate of more than fifty kilometres, or thirty-one miles, per hour, finding its way homeward as well. The regular aeßsion of the Dawn of Peaoe, No. 364, 1.0. G.T., was m the Lodge room, Templar Hall, last evening. There was a fair attendance, Bro Jones, 0.T., m the chair. A letter was read from the Brighter Prospects Jjodge, If o. 38§, SBkjng the members of the Dawn of peace Lodge to attend the anniveraary of their Lodge on Friday, Sept, 21a i. Bro A. Cook read a paper entitled 11 Pickled Tongues," whioh wae very muoh appreciated by the members, and a vote of thanks was accorded to Bro Cook for the contribution, to whioh he suitably replied. The Lodge olosefl m the usual manner.

Fearß aro entertained lor toe safety of the Bohooner Minima, whioh left Lyttelton for Havelook m ballast on August 30th, with four men on board, and has not yet been heard of. The correspondent of the " Maryborough Times »» writes that grave feara are flnterlTajned; abp,qt toe achtiHner Mimjha (Captain Sinolau) whiah left Lyttelton m fcftlftW last Thursday week, to load timber at Havelook, and has not been heard of einoe. The Clematis left the same port only a few hours before the missing vessel, running through the straits with, very dirty weather, and while brought up at the mouth of Felorus Sound expeoted to Bee the Afitniba (jhqw up eye^y hour. Jt is now considered almost certain that she 'must have capsized during the first night out from Lyttelton. A gentleman writing from Leslie Hills, Mr Dunoan Butheford's station, gives evidence regarding the booming noises, whioh is in* tereßting. He says:— "We m the Lower Amuri have heard |hia bo.qming fqr the la.st two years, but the sound oomea from the soutji -west from the direction of Moqnt Tekoa, \ should desorihe it as heavy bla@tr ing, and at ope time we thqugh,t ft pame down the gorge tvora the rook outtiqg at the upper bridge. As we have heard it oooaslonally since that was finished it oould not be that. With regard to the seismic partialities Bpoken of, they are exemplified m the strongest way at Leslie Hill itself. An old detaohed oob I building as sound at the time the shake took plaoe as when erected, had two ohimneys sent flying through the roof, and the walls cracked m every direotion. The men's huta, not tan phains q#, m a far wowe state 61 repair, with the chimney on the balance, received no injury whatever. The beat medioine known is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effeota m coucho, coldg. ipfluen^a, etc— the relief ia instantaneous. Thbuaa'ndsgive the moat gratifying testimony. Hie Majeßty the King of Italy, and medical syndioatea all over the globe are its patrons. Read the offloial reports that aooompany eaoh bottle. Moaler, M.D., Erof. Greifawald, reports ;— The Euoalypti E.xt>rao(; proved magni|icontly Buooeaßful m very aevere oontuaione, bruißes, epraina, wounda, aoaldIngs, broken ribs, and lirabfl. ("Medioal Journal," Nov., 1881.) In diseases of the kidneys, either aotive congestion or supprea. sion, (urcemia) or albuminuria, dropsy, litlnaaiß, nothing will equal m its aotion Euoalypti Extract, Doses, sto Q drooa. Moslej;, M.J}., Erof., University, Greifswald, reportaj— Diphtheria. Tonsils continually uoherent preaenting ulcers with white exudats. Cured m fourteen dayß, Surgioal Clinio of Prof. M'lntyre, College of Phyaioians and Surgeons, St Louia— Soirrhus of Breaat— Exoiaion. Eucalypti Extraot employed. No IflflWf^Wtf °f dißoolQjfttioo. Cjraa m

New goods are m the windows of the Clothing Faotory, Mr Walter Besant ia a small, animated, bright-eyed and blaok-haired man, fond of the theatre, claret, and a pipe. In Denmark most of the'girla are trained m agriculture. Ia this country the girls take more kindly to husbandry. The Press generally throughout the colony agree that the depression is at last lifting, and that good times are at hand. Bishop Taylor is called by the Afrioan Chiefs, " Old White-Man- Well-Digger-and-Long- Walker." The fine imposed on General Cafferol, implicated m the Prenoh decoration scandal, has been remitted. Writing from Ahmednagar one Rev Robert Hume reports an " unhappy spread of intemperance m the hitherto temperate India." The peaoh trees m the Wairoa district show more bloom thia season than they have done for the last five yeara put together. A clown, while doing a hand-spring m a cirous m Ohioago, dislooated his neok, and received warm applause from the audience. Lord Wolseley has presided over a meeting to consider military oyoling and pronounoed the bioyole a military instrument of great promise. The twentieth birthday of the Gzarewitoh was celebrated by a ball at St. Petersburg, at whioh all the ladies appeared m white and all the men m red. The 80-oalled civilised world spent years m trying to break into China. Now it is making strenuous efforts to keep the Chinese from breaking out. The South Australian Government pro* poße to inoreage the salary of Mr J. E. Brown, Convereator of Forests, from £330 to £750. ■ • Bumour has it, aooording to the "Wanganui Herald," that Mr Maxwell has promised a saving oi £100,000 m the Bailway Department. At the'B.M. Court this morning, before Mr R^Aloorn, J.P., John A. Cowburn, an old offender, was brought up charged with drunkenness and was fined 10a, with the alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment. We are informed that the Christohuroh papers do not publish judgment summons oases, therefore our remarks as to their laxit m a oase we referred to yesterday are beside the question. We mention this m justice to the local representatives of the •• Times " and '• Press," as it has been made to appear that they left out the caae upon pressure, or on purpose. This we are told was not the case ; the usual custom only was followed, On Wednesday nominations were received for the offioe of Commissionera on the Tinwald Town Board. Some of the nomination papers handed m, were, we- understand, not worded m the manner usually reoognised as oorreot, and the Returning Officer thought he could not aooept them. Legal advice, which was subsequently obtained, was, however, to the efleot that the papers were quite m order, and the candidates who had been nominated m due form then withdrew their nominations with a view to the proceedings being oommenced de novo. M, Germain Bapet has just discovered m the National archives two invoioes showing! the personal expenses of Napoleon I. for ki* military wardrobe. Aooording to this document hia famous hat, oelebrated by Beranger and Raff et alike, cost no more than 60 francs ; a brush-up of the same artiole cost him 6 francs. His grey redingote waß worth, aooording to the tradesman's estimation, no more than 160 franos. Both articles would now-a-days be hors do pria, and yet the Conservator of the Museum of the Louvre has relegated them to a garret, instead of allowing them to figure, as m times past, ia the Sovereign's Museum. . A short time ago a movement was started among the parishioners of St Stephens to present the incumbent, the Rev E. A. Soott, with a bnggy. Members of the congregation and others re» sponded liberally, and yesterday a handsome buggy and set of harness were prooured from Christohuroh, and remained during the greater part of yesterday on view at the Aroade. The buggy was inspected by a large number of persona, who greatly admired it. It is doubleBeated with a hood, and can, at pleasure, be transformud into a single-seated vehiole. This morning Mesura T. Bullook and D. Thomas drove the buggy to the pa.raonage where they presented it to Mr Soott, together with a letter explaining the reasons prompting the gift. The intention of making the presentation was not made known to the rev gentleman till the moment of making the gift, the whole affair coming as a pleasant surprise to him. Mr Soott has a good deal of travelling to do, having oooasion to visit, periodically, distant parts of the county, and it was this faot that led his parishioners to determine upon making him the present of a buggy. 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