LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1947, 18 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

+ Tho •' Chrietchuroh Press " hears of large BfileH of frozen meat m Wellington nt 2\d per lb, frozen and m bags, free on board, * . I The " Western Star " Bfiyß it is reportoi that another largo nugget haß beon found m tho Longwood, cloao to where the Arethusa was picked up. The latest Frenoh rifle has a ball bo small that a aoldior can carry 220 rounds. It shoots with a new smokeless powder, and its bullet pierces a brick wall eight inches thiok at 500 yards. Since the " St Jamca Gazette " was started m 1880 tho estimated loss to its projector is £100,000. The " Pall Mall " thinks tho proprietor has found that supporting Tory interests is expensive work. Blondin, the celebrated tight-rope performer, is at present on a visit to tho United States, where he is performing. His last vißit to America was 27 years ago, when ho crossed, tho Niagara falls on a rope. It is said that nothing will bo done towards Ailing up tho vaoanoy m the Supreme Court Bench until all the Ministers aro baolc m Wellington. This means that it will be well on for the end of the year before the appointment is made. Smoking amongst women seems to bo creeping into fashionable circles m the United States. Several society bellea smoke the daintiest of pipes, wotth about £20 apieoe. The pipe is the size of a small meerBohaum, and it is made of gold Bet with garnets, emeralds, and moonstones, the mouthpiece being of onyx. The " Taieri Advooate " haa tho following : — " Typo " aays journalism has a weird and wondrous fascination, though aooompanied by loss and tribulation. Ivess the irrepressible is again m the field, canvassing for a pro* jeoted paper to be called the " Sydenham Evening Post." A correspondent from Hinds wriies: — A most auooeßsful social tea meeting was held on Friday evening at the residence of our School Mistress, who, moreover, gave the tea, the prooeeds to be devoted to Hinds Wesleyan Ohuroh Trust Funds. After tea a most cdjovable evening was spent m various amusements, while other friends contributed songß. Nearly everyone remarked how thoroughly they had. enjoyed themselves. A writer m the " Daily Times " says that he pens his remarks to encourage the " noble art " of angling. Wo cannot Bee anything noble m jagging a barbed hook into the gills of a fish, dragging him out of the water and then letting him gaßp till he dies. An old party named Isaak Walton used to call angling the " gentle art " ; if somebody had oaugbt him by the gills with a fishhook be would have bad a different name for iiahing. — Exohange. An extraordinary eoeno took place recently m East Wiokham Ohuroh, Kent. The trustees of the local sohool having deolined to allow the use of that building, the Easter vestry was held m the cburob. During the proceedings a quarrol took place between the two overseers, and they had a fight m the body of the ohurob. Sides were taken, and nearly all present were engaged m wrestling with one another. Tho efforts of the Eav J. M. Benzon to quell ,the disturbance wore futile. The belief regarding the last piece of oako takes different forms. In Yorkshire it depends upon the plate. If a young lady takes the last pieoe while the plate is standing upon the table near nor, it is said that she v to die a spinster at a good old age ; but if the plate is handed to her she is to havo a handsome husband with not less than £500 per annum. In Gloucestershire, it is said that if a girl takes tho last piece she will either, marry a widower or die m the first year of her married life. By an Order-in-Obunoil the following feoa are fixed under " The Coroners Aot Amendment Aot 1888 " : — To the coroner or justice holding an inquoßt, £1 Is; mileage one way, Is 6d per mile. To medical witnesß, £1 Is. For making a i>oxlviortcm examination £3 Bsj mileage of more than two milcß away from the place where the inquest is held, one way per mile Is Gd. To the holder of a publican's license on whose premises shall be reoeived any dead body for the purpose of an inquest, JEI. One meets with odd things m tho ladies' papers nowadays. '• Have you ever heard a girl Bwoar?" askod Madge m "Truth," writing of an outdoor f£to on a muddy day. " It is a surprising circumstance, but I could not help laughing at tho very full-bodied exclamation that. a whifco muslin girl utterod with vehemence when she pluged her Suddo shoo '.into a pool of liquid mud. What an object that shoe was ! She got a nowspapor from somebody to take off the thickest of the mud with, but I think the Bhoe looked rather worse after the operation than before." Polydore de Koyser.Lord Mayor of London, Booms to be a most remarkable man. His eccentricities arc almost startling. Not long ago he inspected the boys of the British naval training-ship Warspite. During big address ho told tho boys that his wife would take great pleasure m giving each ono of tb,om a shilling, whioh he hoped " they would keep throughout their future lives as a souvenir of (he oooasion." Peoksniff romarked that if England expected every man to do his duty, England was tho most sanguine nation on earth. It Lord Polydore expeots every boy on the Warspite to keep his shilling, he is the most confiding man m tho world. The other day the "Lyttelton Times" mentioned the receipt of a huge hen's egg, but Blr J. 0. Bell, of Aahburton, has shown us samples of hia honnery \yhiol} quite put our Ohristohuroh contemporary's speoimen m the shade. One of the eggs exhibited measures six and a half inohes by seven -and a half, and four of them of the same size would make a pound weight. The largo egg was laid by a blaok and white Houdau fowl ; and altering the conditions of the now famous puzzle, we understand that these particular fowls of Mr Boll's lay two eggs m three days. The egge are well shaped, and are admirable eating. The prioe of milk for the ensuing season at the Temuka Dairy Faotory has been fixed as follows t — From 3 to 10 per oent. of cream, 2d per gallon ; from 10 to 12 per cont.,24d ; from 12 to Id per oont., 2.Jd ; from 14 to 16 por cent., 2i|d. Tho Sooretary reported that choeso had been made on the Cheddar principle, and it was agreed to havo as muoh of that olass made as possible. Tha Chairman of tho Company stated that he jhad °een Mr Buxton m reference to the high obarges payable to tho railway on oheese m proportion to other agricultural products, and he had promised to Bee the proper authorities upon the Bubjeot. " Does your cow oringe and ourl," asljg the " Now England Former," •• and appear nervous and fidgety when you Bit down to milk her?" Well, not muob, she doesn't. She isn't ono of your shy, timid, bashful oowe. She jußt fixes her eyes on yaoanoy with a glare that will raise a blister on an oak knot, sticks her tail straight up m the air, stiff as a poker, plants three feot firmly on the ground, and then feols round with the other for the milk-pail, milk-stool, milkmaid ; finds thorn; firos them up somewhere m tho blue empyrean and remarking, " Ha, ha 1 " amid the shouting, jumps over a bix rail-fence, and tramples down an aoro of young garden. Don't talk about cringing and curling to a cow that has to be milked wilh a pipe line and a pumping station. Statutory Declaration.— l, Franz Raabot Ironbark, Sandhurst, m the oolony of Viotoria, Australia, do solemnly and sinoorely declare that on the 25th June, 1877, my aon Alfred, aix years of age, was accidentally hurt with an axo on his knee. lat once took all pains do seopre modical agsistanqe, However, \n spite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, the opinion waa given by D,r Macgillivray that an amputation of tho injured limb had become imperative, m ordor to save life. At this juncture I called on Messrs Bander and Sons, procuring Bomo of their Extraot of the Euoalyptus Globulus, and by the application of the same I had tho satisfaction of seeing my son within a fortnight out of all danger, and to-day he is recovered. I may just add that it was when tho crisis had been reaohed that the Extraot referred to was first applied. And I make this »olemu declaration, etc— Fhanz Raaue. Declared at Sandhurst, ia tho oolony of Viotoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of October, ono thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, before [me, Moritg Oohn, 'J.P,-(A,dyf $

A Ladies' Race is announced as the attraction at the Rink this eveninp. Carbine was scratched at ten minutes past twelve to-day for all engagements at the 0.J.0. Spring Meeting. General servants are very plentiful m Ghristohuroh, and labor agents are said to be inundated with applications for situationsA spooial train having on board tho Southern portion of the San Franoisco mail passed through Aahburton shortly after noon to-day. The looal Poßt Office officials Borted and delivered the Ashburton portion of the mail with considerable promptitude. At tho B M. Court this morning, before Mr R, Aloorn, J.P., James Tait was oharged with obtaining money by false representations. He was remanded til Thursday, bail being allowed, himself m £20 and one surety of £20. The reports of tho gold finds afc Mahakipawa aro said now to be wholly untrustworthy. The rumour of 115oz found at Gregg's claim is absolutely falso ; only 15oa or 20oz woro found at most. The Havjlook correspondent of the " Express " has just wired to that effect. At the close of yesterday's business m Synod tho Right Key the Bishop expressed hia intention of resigning the P/iraaoy at the next meeting of the General Synod. In a telling speech bis Lordship thanked those who had worked with him, for the able way m whioh they had assisted him m oarrying out the work of the Diocese. At about halt* past nine thus ended ono of the longest sessions of Synod ever held m Canterbury. Sydney Taiwhanga, the champion Maori atonewallor, is said to be m trouble. He is indebted to the Government m the sum of £93 for the maintenance oi his obildron m the Auokland Industrial Training School. P/essure is being brought to bear on his patriotism to induoo him to " shell out," but be puts forward the good old plea of poverty, and BUggQRtB that the Government aro striving to ruin him because he is a politioal opponent. Some short time ago the Napier Eduoation Board pasaod a resolution that all obildren under five years should be excluded from the public Bchools, and that the Government should be asked to give the Board power to get all necessary information relative to the ages of ohildren Buapeotod to be under five years, without being required to pay the ordinary fee oharged for examining the registration. Tho Minister for Education has informed the Board that they will be supplied with all the required information from the office of the Registrar-General, Wellington, on application being made. This order applies to all other Eduoation Boards that wish to adopt eimi'ar aotion to that of the Napier Board. The people of Dunedin are going m for beautifying their oity and at a meeting of the Committee appointed at the recent meeting of the Otago Institute for the purpose of! taking steps to form an Association for preserving and inoreasing the attractions of Dunedin nnd its neighbourhood, it was resolved to get a requisition to the Mayor prepared and signed, asking him to oonvene a public meeting, for the purpose of forming saoh an Association. A provisional constitution was then adopted for submission to the publio meeting, the objeot of the Sooiety being stated as tho preservation and improvement of the natural beautios of Dunediu and its neighbourhood, and the encouragement of the means of healthy and elevating reoreation for its inhabitants. It is proposed that the annual subscription for members Bhall be ss, and the life membership subscription £33 33, obildren to be admitted as members at a reduced subscription.