LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1965, 9 October 1888, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An old angler m the South strongly advocates the acclimatisation of grayling.

A monßter eel weighing 171 bs has beens caught m the Avon at Ohrißtoburob, noar the Armagh street bridge.

It is probable that the Empross Victoria will spend the summer m Scotland at Abergeldie Castle.

There are monogram stookings m New York selling for £50. They come high, but some people will have them.

Mr T. K. Maodonald has announced his intention of contesting one of the Wellington constituencies at the next election.

The "New Zealand Herald" says that around Eaitoke thousands of kakas are swarming; they are so numerous that they are knooked down with sticks.

A oanal across Italy is being planted, to connect the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. It will begin at Fano.

During the month of September the estates of 23 deoeased persons were placed under charge of the Publio Trustee. They varied from £1 to £2500.

In Auckland, according to Mr Witby, an old lady went to see the English football match, beoause it was many years since she had seen an Englishman.

Wells' Hair Balsam.— lf gray, restores to original color, An elegant dressing softens and beautifies. No oil nor grease. A tonic restorative. Stops hair coming out; renpthfDs cleanses, heal scatys, 3

A St. Louis firm is building a copper s^eam kettle for a firm of brewers whioh will require from 70001 bs to 80001bs of oopper for its construction.

Mr Westgarth ia charmed with New Zealand, and is inclined to regard it as the very garden and paradise of the eaith. As regards the bad times his impression ia that we have seen the worst.

Prinoe Louis Ferdinand, of Bavaria, haß passed his final niedioal examination, qualifying him to practice aß a physioian. This is the seoond member of the Bavarian royal family who has joined the medioal profession.

The eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales has found an eligible husband, but announcement of the matoh is postponed beoause Parliament is not m a frame of mind to grant the usual dowry.

The moa nowhere 1 A fossil egg m the Paris Aoademy of Sciences measures 34J incheß one way, and 29 inches another. The original ib supposed to have been the egg of a bird three times as big as an ostrich.

A sample of platinum has been found m a claim below that ocoupied by Hood and party m the Main Creek, Mahakipawa. If this metal is found m payable quantities a fortune is assured to those embarking m puoh an undertaking.

On September 7 the week's run at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine was :— Ore treated, 2031 tons; bullion produced, 887 tons; silver, 96,8290z. Six furnaoes have been continuously m blast, producing the highest yield on record.

Mr Clifford, formerly Conservator of Forests m India, has taken a twenty-one years' lease of 1.400 acres m the Mount Burr (South Australian) foreßt reserve, for the purpose of wattle cultivation. He will plant lOOOaoreß this year.

The anoient Egyptians have never been equalled for their skill m the manufaoture of perfumes. Some of the ointment preserved m an alabaster vase m the museum at A! n wick still retains a pungent odour, although its age oannot be less than 3000 years.

The new dock just placed m the tower of the Glasgow University is a tremendous affair. The main wheels of the striking and quarter trains are 21in m diameter. The weight of the hammer that strikes the hours is 1201bs, and it is lifted lOin. The St. Bathans correspondent of the " Otago Daily Times " writing of a reoent gale up that way piles it on pretty tall. He says that " the gravel m the main street war dashed about with such violenoe as to emit a continuous array of iparks I " The new criminal code of Italy, just promulgated, abolishes the death penalty for murder or any seriouß crime. It substitutes therefore imprisonment ; for life. The first ten years is to be solitary confinement of hard labor.

The Great Eastern is still intact and it is just barely possible now that instead of breaking it up the monster craft will be altered for service m either the cattle or bulk petroleum trade. There are those m London well versed m vessel-managing who think the steamer can be made to pay. The "Preus" reports that a man named Adison, a patient at the Sunnyside Asylum, made his esoape from the institution about half-past twelve this morning. Ho had on only a shirt at the time he made his esoape. The police were communicated with, and went m search of the fugitive,

The latest arrangement m Paris for a bride's wedding at home is a floral umbrella, a large affair, where she and the bridegroom stand as under a oanopy. It is composed entirely of white silk, and covered with white roses, lilies, and lilies of the valley, and haß a fringe all round of ferns. The effect is very novel and beautiful.

A Scotch mother m Philadelphia was a deliphted: speotator the other day, when her fifteen bods danced the Highland Fling together at a Scottish picnic Another Philadelphia woman is the mother of twenty-two children, all m good health, and still another is called mother by twenty-three sturdy sons and daughters.

A Dunedin firm has oontraoted with the Henley Dairy Factory Company for the supply of 2000 lbß of butter per month, for twelve moDths from Ootober Ist, m 7ib tins, at Id Id per lb net cash, delivered m JDunedio. The Bsmn firm also offcra this faofcojy company Is per lb for any surplus butter they may have after delivery of the foregoing 20001bs per month. ««K«"ig

A peculiar inoident of history is the fact that two Jews of Bagdad have bought the entire site of the ancient city of Babal, the great Capital of Nebuohadnezzar. The purohasers are two brothers Effendi, one of whom was eleoted member of the Turkish Parliament, whioh was convened m 1878. It is remarkable that two Jews have become the heirs of the gardens of Semiramis and the palaces of Nebuohadnezzar, or what is left of them.

The women scientists of the day are carry, ing off the honors of genius and learning. At Cornell University five fellowships were offered as prizes this year, and three of them have been captured by girls. Miss Mary A. Widman got the fellowship m mathematics • MiBS M. M. Wardwell that m architecture ' Miss Julia W. Snow that m botany. The best Sophomore mathematician at Cornell is a girl,

Cardinal Manning has just delivered a remarkable disoourse, reported m the " Tablet," m which, among other things, he giveß a very gloomy picture of London and the disintegration of human sooiety m these latter days. He says :— •• London is a desolation beyond that of any city m the Christian world. Four millions of human beings, of whom two millions have never set their foot m any plaoe of Christian worship ; and among these two millions God only knows hpw few have been baptised, how few have been born again of water and the Holy Ghost. London is a wilderness. Jt is like Rome of old— a pool into whioh all the nations of the world streamed together and all the sins of all the nations were continually flowing. Suoh is the London of this day."

The number of editors who are worried out of existence by the " intelligent " oomp. is something appalling, and we have grave feara of being counted m. Sometimes, perhaps, we worry the " intelligent " m our turn by hieroglyphical M.SS., but it wasn't onr fault yesterday. Writing of the Jubilee Memorial we wrote, and for ones) wrote it quite plainly too, that the amount m hand " represents so small a sum that no very ambitious projeot can be entertained. " And it duly so appeared m the proof, but though the uentenoe, as set up, both suited the writer and the reader it didn't .suit our •• intelligent " friend, w^o deliberately " dis"-sed the word " ambitious " and substituted " ambiguous " m its stead. Our opinion of the propriety of the unauthorised substitution haß already been expressed m language that was deoidedly not ambiguous

A meeting of thp Committee of the Ash* burton Tradesmen's Raoing Club was held at the Commercial Hotel last evening, Mr J Purchase was appointed Seoratary. The date of the Club's meeting was fixed for Thursday, December 87th. The following programme wbb decided upon {—Hurdle Eaoe Handioap, 25 soys., XJ miles ; Maiden Plate, 20 soys,, 1 mile ; Ashburton Plate Handioap, 40 soys., 1^ miles ; Handioap Tima Trot, 25 soys., three miles; Ladies' Bracelet Welter Handioap, 25 soys., one mile* Flying Handioap, 25 soys,, six furlongs; Haok Race, 10 soys., four furlongs • Consolation Handicap, 10 soys, seven furlongs. The amount given m stakes is an inoroase of 20 soys over that given laßt year, and it was deoided that the entrance and acoeptanoe fees should nofc be inoreased. A Bub-Committee waa appointed to wait on the Ashburton Baoing Club with reference to obtaining the use of the oourse for the forthcoming meeting.

The attraction announced for Thursday night at the rink is a one mile handicap race for a pair of skates. Messrs B. Ede, J. Clark, T. Williams, M. Scott, and G. Jephson has been eleoted Commissioners of the Tinwald Town Board.

The " New Zealand Times " hears cf a splendid stroke. of business done m Melbourne by the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Sooiety. A year or two ago the Sooiety purchased a oouple of seotionß m Collins Btreet and held them until the other day when the •' land boom " was at its height. Then the management decided to sell, and purchasers being ready and willing, the Sooiety netted a olear profit of £90,000 on the original price of the sections 1 That was a " haul " and no mistake.

The Sohansohieff patent battery, for the eleotrio lighting of railway carriages, has oome under the notice of Mr Maxwell, the General Manager of New Zealand Railways, who is making enquiries as to whether it accomplishes all that is claimed for it, with a view to seeing whether it could be adopted on the New Zealand Railways. It was recently tried m the carriages on one of the lines of the London and South-Western Railway Company, and is stated to have been highly successful.

At the B.M. Court this morning, before Mr W. C. Walker, J P., and Mr R. A loom, J.P., Mary Druey, for lunaoy, was committed to the Sunnyside Asylum. — John Lewis was charged with the larceny of a suit of olothes, valued at £3 10s, from John Vance, at Waihi ; with the laroeny of a watch and ohain, valued at £4, from the dwelling of William Nolan, of Geraldine ; and with the larosny of a shirt and other artioleß, valued at £3 15s, from the dwelling of Henry Moßae, of Geraldine. He was remanded to Geraldine on the three oharges.

Here is a way of getting people, if possible, to realise the enormous amount of money spent yearly on drink m the British Isles. It is based on last year's drink bill, whioh was £124,952,680, and is publishod m a slip form by Mr J. Cook : " Weight m sovereigns, 978 tons. Time to count it, without ever Btopping, at the rate of one sovereign per ieoond-^-8 years, 11 months, 21 days. The height of a pillar if the sovereigns were placed face to faoe— ll6 miles, or a gold rope reaohicg from Carlisle to Liverpool. The length of a chain if the sovereigns were placed edge to edge— l72s miles. Out of the amount spent, 35 sovereigns could be placed on each letter m the Bible, and leave a balance of £126,880."

A telegram from Roeburn, Western Australia, states that a nugget weighing 103oz 2dwts has been found by a man named Naughton. It consists of about 90oz of pure gold, the remainder being quartz, and waß found about four miles from the original workings of Pilburra Creek, to the westward of White Quartz Hill. The disooverer saw it lying on the surface. At the scene of the disoovery there are indications of a splendid reef. Several magnificent specimens were brought m, from which gold protruded m large lumpß. Naughton was walking from Mallina to Pilburra, and on kicking the nugget over found it was one mass of gold. It is rumored that a muoh larger nugget has been found, the particulars of wbioh are being kept quiet.

We dip the following important testimonial from the " Illawarra Mercury " (N.8.W.) of the 30th March. It needß no oomment:— ♦' Mr John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that after suffering for four years with aoute gravel, he has experienced almost oomplete relief by using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extraot. He says seeing the said Extraot advertised m the • Illawarra Mercury,' his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medioine from Mr Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at onoe, He states that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of the extraot, and the 19th, the use of that medioine continued to afford him relief, to whioh he had been a stranger for four years. Mr Loveday writes also that he has found the Eucalypti Extraot a cure for rheumatism as well as gravel. He requests us to publish this information through the •Mercury.' We have muoh pleasure m complying with Mr Loveday's request, whose word oannot be doubted, and who can have no object m view other than a pure deaire to benefit Buffering humanity."— (Advt.) • 2