LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2244, 4 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

London has 7000 miles of Btreotß and 76 miles of public houses. Bullfighting is getting 0 foothold among Frenoh amusements. Thibet is said to be the only oountry m the world not open to missions. Pigeon flying is growing to be an absorbing amusement m England. The busineßß premises pf MeßsrsFriedlander Bros and Henry and William Zander will be oloaed to-morrow, it being the Jewish day of atonement, In the year the people of London drink 200,000,000 quarts of beer, and consume 600,000 oxen, 2.000,000 sheep, 200.000 oalves, and 300,000 awine. Buioide among German offlaera increases shockingly. During May twenty-three shot tbemaelvea, and the number for Jane was larger still. Nasir*ed'Peen, Shah of Persia, was so pleased with Mrs Alice Shaw, the lady whistler, that be gravely proposed to buy her and take her with him to Persia on his return. The national debt began m the reign of William 111, who, m 1602, borrowed a million at JO per cent, on the security of the liquor duties, for the purpose of carrying on the war with France, Professor Hioton will give an exhibition of horse taming at Williams and Bland'a horse bazaar to-morrow and Monday evenings. The North Island paperß spoak very highly of Professor Hiokton'a ability as a horse tamer. The reporb which appeared lately m the papers that Mrs Heron, an American missionary m the Cores, bad been oondemned to death, has been denied by the American Minister there. A meeting of the Aehburton Hospital Board was held yesterday. It was deoided to jjftve a report made by Mr K. Bird of the atftto gt tQ e walls of the Hospital. The audits^ bajanpp sheet was laid on the table, and may now J59 jDapsoted by any ratepayer. Hypnotism is now frequently pmployed at the Hotel Dieu Hospital m Pa?ia to fac/ljate _ - ; nal operations. One woman, hyp&Qtieed »j^,f .""*« will, saying that she preferred oX n cLm,cba^ gaify during a gng and dangeioua operation. At the meeting of the fidudaiidll^ Board yoßterday it wbb reported that Mr BSgUali had been appointed master of the Normai Model Sohool, Mrs Rowe sewing mistrfißß at Rakaia, and Mr J. Watson master of the Mount Somorß school. The Fire Brigade held a wet practice last evening, the steam lire engine beiDg taken to the sump at the corner of East and Peter Htreetß. The practice was a very satisfactory 1 one, and demonstrated very dearly the value of the increase lately made to the water supply. The postal tubes between Dover and Calais ("two m number) will be a yard eaoh m diameter, and the letters,, etc, will be conveyed by a little railway with oarß capable of carrying 4501 b m weight. No parool of greater weight than this will be taken, and the ooat is estimated at the modest figure of £1,000,000, On Sundays, when on tho Imperial yaohfc, Kaiser William oflioiateß himself. The crew is drawn up on the quarter-deck, and m front of a provisional altar, oovered with tho war ensign of the German navy, the Kaiser reads, m a ioud voice, a sermon, and oopoludes the service with some collects and tho foot&'B prayer^ Mr It. Wood, the well known violonist of I'imaru, is, it will be seen by announcement elsewhere, prepared to 4aJtce pupilß m Asbburton, which he will visit periodically, com* monoing on Friday next. $tfr Wood's capabilities aa a violinist, and as a teacher of the instrument ore well known, and he should < have no lack of pupils. : "Bouoh on Piles."— Why suffer Pileed Immediate relief and comple ouro guarant eer Aak for Rough on Piles? fiure c«re for itobiog, protruding, bleeding, or aoy form 0

Messrs Collins and Oo notify froeh supplies of building and fenoing material and coals. 1 The Rink will be open to-morrow as usual. ! Those who intend taking part m the ooming ■ Carnival are requested to give m tbeir namea. Tbe most solemn fast m connection with , ; the Jewish religion aommenaes this evening , ; at 6 p.m. and lasts till 6 p.m. to-morrow. , This is the Yom Kipper, or. the Day of Atone j ment, j At a meeting of Diooesan Synod at Nolßon 1 on Thursday a Cathedral Chapter was ap- 1 pointed. Tho Rev E. de Berdt Ho veil, the ' incumbent of St. John's, was appointed Dean, and Revo's H. W. St. Hill, Arohdeaoon, ■ Samuel and W. L. Williams, Oanonß. : The great temperance lecturer and evango- ' I list, Mr Matthew Burnett, is at Rookhampton, >■ and is addressing orowded meetings m the •' ' Sohool of Arts. He is induoing many to take the pledge, and ore bo leaves it is expected that his roll of nawly enlisted total abstainer! will number several hundreds. He has visited Mount Morgan, and has been very suooeßful among tbe miners. At Laeken tbe King of tbe Belgians ÜBhered the Shah into the great hall where stood the Queen and her numerous ladies in-waiting. " Your harem, Sire ? " inquired the suaoessor of Feridoum the Glorious. The King, astonished and amused, did not reply ; whereupon Nasir-ed-Deen, regarding the mature age of the ladies, added m an undertone, " You will soon have to renew it, won't you ? " The Prince of Wales showed himself very particular aB to the selection of the charger whioh the Emperor William was to ride at the review held m his honor at Aldershot on Augußt 7th. One of the surest animals m the Queen'B stables — Ereilia, a bay mare of splendid build, was chosen ; and she was sent with the troops at Wormwood Sorubbs for several days m order to booome accustomed to the sound of firing. The Ashburton Fire Brigade at a meeting held on Wednesday evening resolved to send a team to compete at the demonstration to be held m Wellington. The sum of two guineas was voted as the Brigade's contribution towards ereotiog a monument to the memory of the late Captain Page, of the Wellington Fire Brigade. An invitation to tbe opening oeremony of the Dunedin Exhibition was reoeived, and probably several of the members will avail themselves of it. The usual weekly session of the Star of the East Lodge, I 0.G.T., was held on Wodnes. day evening, about 160 members and visitors being present. The Lodge opened at 7.30 p.m. Bto E. Parkin, V.T., presiding. Four oandidates were iDitiated.oneiadmittod by olearanoe and two proposed for membership. Songs and recitations were given by Sister Welob, and Bros Elmsley, Rodda, Sawle, and Weloh, after which the Lodge was closed m due form by Bro Thomas Soott, 0.T., at 9.45 p.m. A oonferenoe of representatives of the Shaw S twill and New Zealand Shipping Companies have agreed to arrange for three extra steamers tor eaaa Company, having a carrying oapaoity of 38,000 Bheep and 100 tone of dairy produoe m eaob vessel, Wool rates are to remain aB last season. Wheat freight ib left an open question at present, aB shipowners seem anxious to demand higher rates than last season. It was also agreed to extend the present mail contract for one more year. Negroes inorease far more rapidly than do whites, and thus there ib no small reaßon to fear that the whole of the Bouthem States may praotioally fall into the hands of a halfeducated oolored population. To realise what this means we must remembnr that one of the moßt appalling things about tbe condition of Hayti iB the faot that men Bnd women belonging to the eduoated olasses, and possessed of a fairly thiok veneer of oultivation, indulge m eeoret m the most hideous , practices of barbarism.—" Spectator." , There left from Euston ou July 25th fifty one boyß from Dr Barnardo's House for Liverpool, en route to Canada, being tbe third 1 party of emigrants for the present year, and ' making m all 400 obildren sent during 1889 1 up to date, Sinoe the homes undertook the ) task of training children for emigration 4050 boys and girls have been plaoed out through 1 their agenoy m homes m Canada and otbor ' British colonies, and with hardly any exoop- \ tion these have, it is reported, oontinued to lead useful and honorable careers m the land of their adoption. Quito a stir has been created m Amerioan learned circles by the announcement that the town of Baffalo has at length proved the truth of Darwin's theories of producing the veritable " Missing Link " — in faot several of them. It appears that several skeletons were . turned up m the oourse of some excavations ' at Buffalo, and they Beem to be half ape, half human. The find was considered so ; extraordinary that a local savant was hunted up, and he, after examining the remains, proclaimed them to be the long sought miss- ' ing links. A Booial gathering, m honor of the birthday 5 of Miss E. Elston, took plaoe at the Oddfellows' Hall last sight at whioh about 35 r oouples were present, including visitors from j Ohristoburoh and Timaru. The hall was f tastefully dooorated for the ocoaßion, and a word of praise ib due to Mr J. Hilgrove under whose supervision the supper table was c arranged. Songs were given by Messrs ' Scott, Piokford, and J. and W. Baxter, and a > duet by the M»BBes Boyle, and daqoing was kept up with unabated vigor until the small ] hours. , A lady residing at Dorbisoh, near Kolin<| m Bohemia, where she owned considerable property, was buried a few days ego, after a 1 brief illness, m the family vault at the looal f cemetery. Four days afterwards her grand- : daughter was interred m the same place ; 1 but as the stone slab covering the aperture was raised, the bystanders were horrified to { see that the lid of the ooffin below had been raised, and that the arm of the corpse was , protruding. It was ascertained eventually ; that the unfortunate lady, who was supposed to have died of heart disease, had been buried •live: She had evidently recovered oonaoiousr ( ness for a few minutes, and had found i strength enough to burst open her oofQn. , The authorities are bent on taking severe E measareß again those responsible. Bulgaria is at present tbe soene of a very ) fttre ornithological phenomenon. Sfmulta- > neously with enprmous swarms qf lopusts, a 1 very remarkable bird haß invaded the valley 1 of Sofia. Its scientific name is Pastor Jloscut. Its home is m the warm regions of the Caucasus. The appearance of these birds , has given rise tp all sorts of superstitious , interpretations among the popple, for twelve years ago, immediately beforo the Ruseo? Turkish war, a large number of them made ' their appearanoe at Sofia and m the environs of Pirot. Finding abundant food m the ) migratory looUßts, they have begun to build 1 their nests, I A peouliar freak of Nature was shown to us to-day. Among a litter of kittenß given birth to by a oat belonging to Mrß Watkinß waa one most curiously p&Uormed.' The i hinder portion of tbp body from about the middle of the spine dpwnwaras is double, 1 (here being (wo tails aod four hin4 legs; ■ There appear* nothing unußual about the head at first sigh^ but A oloser inspection boows that the animal has two mouths as we* 90 a double set of nostrils. Altogether the , orsature la About as singular looking an object , as oan be imagined, Its mother, who evidontly had no desire $p train up a cix- ! legged kitten m the way young flftta flhould go, killed it immediately after its bir^ij. The best medicine known id SANDER artd SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Tesisito imiuent powerful eu*eats m aougbß, ooids, influenza, eto. — the relief is instantaneous, 1 Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. ' His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical 1 syndioatea all over the globe, are Us patrons. Read the offioial reports that accompany eaoh bottle. We bavo no oooasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The offioial reports of mediaal clinics and universities, the oQloial communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; tho diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam — all these are authentio documents, and, us suob, not open to doubt. We add heps epitomo of ono of th 6 various oases treated by B>Gge,n, M-P-, Professor, oto: Burning of the right Uan,d through the explosion of a small oil etove." Fh'o epidermis ontheyolar and palmor eido of tb>H'an<f bj tbe thirty-year-old patient waa completely I separated and lifted up as far as the joint at ' the band, The likewise lifted nails were bapgin'g looso, and half of the phalanx of tbe nail of the middle finger was coaled. The wounds thus oontraolod healod |n thiffie weeks under daily applications of Eucalyptio Extract 1 dressing. The patient has rttftined the full I piaof thibwd.—(Advt.) } I

The New Brighton Rioing Club have reoeived a reply from the Oolonim Secretary stating that a permit for the working of the totalisator at the trotting meeting on the 12th inst. will be granted. At the R.M. Court this morning before . Messrß Bullock and Thomas, J.P.s, Oharleß I Edwards for drunkenness was fined 5s without coflta with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment, and for having made uso of indecent language m a publio place was ordered to be imprisoned for seven days with hard labor, A first offender for drunkenness was fined 5a and costs amounting to 13s, with the alternative of 48 hours imprisonment. Annie Stanborough alias Stanley for drunkenness waa fined 203 and coßts 7s, or 14 days' imprisonmonfc. h The members of the Dawn of Peaoe Lodge, held their usual weekly session on Thursday evening, Bro Mulford, 0.T., presiding. One candidate was initiated, one admitted by olearanoe oard, and one proposed for membership. Routine business being finished, the members seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly with a » spelling bee," Bro Fnzzel haviog a long list of words with whioh to oatoh the unwary. Time did not permit of the •• spelling bee " being finished and it was therefore adjourned till nex tsession. The Lodge was oloßed m due form by the O.T. at 10 p.m.