LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1949, 20 September 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is now not a Waterloo offioer left m I the Britißh array. I We are requested' by the Esv Father Binsfield to mention that Mass will be said ' at Methven on 3uuday next at 11 a.m. ( Dr Macgregor, the Governor of British New ( Guinea, was onoe a ploughman m Aberdeenshiro. &> ! .The rumor is revived that Prince Albert i Victor, the British heir apparent, ia to marry , the Princeß3 of Anhalt-Doasau. Napier is the place for sensational sermon 0 . The latest title is " Kissing, all the World Over, Biblioal and Otherwise." A wife m Adelaide lately put m a petition !or divorce on the ground that her husband was a •• natural born fool." Mr William M'Millan has been elected unopposed a? a member of the Aabburton County Oounoil for Mount Hutt Biding, vice Mr John Holmes resigned. The Dunedin correspondent of the Naaeby paper says that half of Dunedin is to let. At the present time there are actually 2000 houseß and Bhops tenantless m the suburbsThe football match arranged for Saturday between the Canterbury College and a local team has been postponed, as the former, owing to an examination at the College, will not be able to send a team. Child : Does the Lord take the papers ? Mother : No, my ohild. Why do you ask ? Child : Oh, I thought he didn't, it takes out minister so long to tell him about things. — ; 11 Youthß' Compannion." A correspondent of the " Otago Daily Times " strongly advooates the cultivation of New Zealand flax, as the present price of the fibre is likely to be maintained for Borne years. The Rink de Paris will be open this evening as usual, and from and after tonight the Grand March will be practised at. 9.30 on eaoh ocoaaion that the Bink is open until the date of the Carnival To-morrow evening at||7.3o there will be a Maypole practice. The centenarian, Mr L. L. Dewis (an old resident of Dunedin) attained his 105 th year 1 less than a fortnight ago. He resides at , Sandhurst, and has full possession of all his , faoulties. His youngest daughter (Mrs Joseph Moss, of Dunedin} goes over shortly ts see him, and the old man is joyfully anticipating 1 being able to proceed to Melbourne to meet , her. 1 Frenoh geologists estimate that the ' gradual sinking of the soil of Brittany, j Normandy, Artois, Belgium, and Holland ia j not less than seven feet a century. At thia rate it is calculated that m about seven ' centuries all the Channel ports will be i destroyed, and Pans itself tvill beoome'a i maritime city. In another ten centuries it is } predioted that the Frenoh capital itself will ' have beoome entirely submerged, exoepting perhaps, that the tops of the Pantheon, of I the Aro de Tnomphe, and other monuments ' may be discernible at low water by*the people who will be living. r i Recently it has been stated m London that , butter oarried Home m a frozen state does ' not answer. Thid is not confirmed by the J experience of Captain Barlow, of the Tainui. That gentleman (says xhe « Ohristohuroh l Press ") took with him, on his laat trip, a box 3 of fresh separator butter, manufactured at , Longbeaoh. Before leaving it was placed m f the irozen chamber at Belfast, and on the I voyage Home was kept m the refrigerating I chamber, bo that it must have been m a t frozen atate for more than two months On arrival Home it was taken out of the chamber and used for several weeks, and np to the *• last day it remained m a perfeotly sound i condition. } A new "Bluebeard" has turned up at I Oolombes, near Paris. He is a man about I 50, and is well off. He subjeoted hiß wife to } a long and systematic course of illusage, . whioh ended by the suioide of the illfated woman, who flung herßelf into the Seine from 1 the Argenteuil Bridge. His next wife was I treated m the same manner, and after having . been meroilessly mutilated by him, and shut up for 33 days m a pigstye, she esoaped from his clutohea, and succeeded m reaohing her father's house, where she soon succumbed to her injuries. He also caused the death of ihenia"UgTitgrtJonroy nis tirat wife. — When Sangor's cirous arrived at Kendal recently, a letter was awaiting one of the labourers, aoting m the capacity of a groom, to the efleot that there had been bequeathed to him by a deoeased relative a fortune amounting to £40,000. The young man could not at first realize the truth of the pleasing announcement, as the money was from a source he had little expeoted, but it proved to be correot. It appears that the fortunate groom belongs to a good family, and reoeived a superior education, Like many other young men fond of horses, the f aaoinations of a oirous life attracted him, and he has been m the service of Mr G, Sanger for some time. At a meeting of the Dunedin Benevolent Trustees it was stated that a man named Theodore Baker had died m the Institution, on whioh a member said that he did not know what the certificate gave as the cause of death, but he put it down to oiroumlooution. It was stated that the man had come down from Cromwell with a letter from the Resident Magistrate. It was found he wag suffering from inoipient oataraot m the eye, and required medical treatment* The Ohair. man of the Benevolent Trustees had tried to get him into the Hospital, but he was refused admission, and hq wag taken to the Benevolent Institution. It was decided to bring the matter before the Charitable Aid Board. Says the " New Zealand Times " the reoent alterations m the tariff of this colony are being felt m several ways. One faot is brought under our notioe m oonneotion with one of our looal industries. The woollen mills at Pioton are now running day and night to keep pace with the orders coming m. One effeot of the tariff is that the Company are now paying £100 a week m extra wages, and the price of their goods has not been advanced m any way. The new tariff may be, m the minds of extreme Freetraders, a very objectionable measure, but the faot of the extra £100 a week being paid m one industry alone m wages, and the artioleß produoed remaining at the late rates, oertainly shows, m a praotioal oommon-Bense manner, that it has increased the amount of employment without raising the price of the manufactures. The old proverb "Better late than never," has just been illustrated by a striking modern ioßtanoe. Ninety-seven years ago Borne person, unknown by name, poßted m Paris a number of the " Gazette Universelle, directing to " Monsieur X ,m Morges, Switzerland," but the newspaper did not arrive at its destination until last week. It appears that the • Gazette,', whioh had been waiting for delivery ever since January, 1791, had got mixed up with a bundle of other newspapers, and was found with its cover and addreßs still intaot amidst a heap, of rubbish m a garret. The finder conscientiously sent it to the Morges postmaster, by whom it was as conscientiously forwarded to the . present representative of the X family still living at Morges. So unique a speoimen of postal integrity deserves to be exhibited m a postal museum, or would not be out of place amongst the ouriosities m the newspaper Museum at Aaohen. Tho bost medicine known is SANDER and SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects m coughs, colds, influenza, etc— tho relief is instantaneous, Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndioates all over the globe, are its patrons; Read the official reporta that accompany eaoh bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The offioial reports of medical olinios and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne ; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam— all these are authentic doouments, and, as suoh, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various oases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, eto : Burning of the right hand through the exploßion of a small oil stove. The epidermis on the yolar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year-old patient waa completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand; The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle finger was coaled, The wounds thus contracted healed m three weeks 1 under daily applioationß of jGuoalyptio Extract i dressing, The patient bas.retglned the full ugq d {fat b»nd, T _(Aajt,)— * j