LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2254, 16 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tasmania ia going to roßtriot the lioonee ! allowed to lawyers m oroßß-examining wit- , nesESS. ; The profit aooruing from the British post- , offioe last year was nearly £3.000,000. 1 It is estimated tbat there are from 85,000,000 to 28,000,000 Methodists m the world. The present Frenoh Bepublio haa lasted longer than any Frenoh monaroby established sinoe the Revolution, The kangaroo oan jump to a height of 13 or 14 feet with the greatest possible eaße, and 1 although considered a harmless animal, ia a bitter enemy when at bay, seizing its viotim — whether man or dog— round tha neck, either ripping them open with bis bind pawß or drowning them m a water hole. At the B.M. Court this morning before Mr D. Thomaß, J.P., Charles Bishop for having been drunk was fined 10s and oosib, and was ordered to pay Is, the amount of damage done, for smashing a window m Green Lane, ' Hampßtead. Joseph Hioboleon for drunken- ' noBB was fined 10a and ooste. The 10th Ootober (says the " New Zealand Herald ") waa the forty-seventh anniversary of the arrival of the first Sootaoh Bettlers m Auckland, m the ships Duchess of Argyle and ! Jane Gifford. Theße immigrants oame from , Glasgow, and were our first. A few still survive m the oity and some m the oountry. American mail news states that ono Franklin a wealthy old merohant has burnod 30,000 dollars m greenbacks and Govorniuont bonds to prevent his wife and eon getting them. The wife ifl bring a divorce aotj on against him, and bis (ton has given him great trouble. To revenge himself upon them he crawled tut of bad m a feeble conditioned destroyed tbe money. Here are a few examples of the rate of pay of women m London : — Making paper bags, 4Jfl per thousand ; possible earnings, 5s to 9a per week, Button-holes, 3d per dozen ; po.Bfjible earnings 83 per week. Shirtß, 2d, esbh worker $ndipg her own cotton ; oan get six dona between 6 am. and 11p.m. Sicksewing, 6d for 25 ; possible earnings 7s per week. Fill-box making, 1b for thirty-six gross ; possible earnings Is 3d per day. Whipmaking, Is per dozen; can do a dozen per day, Trousers finishing, 3d to 5d each, Soding own cotton ; oan do four per day.- Shirt finishing, 3d to i& per dozen, There ia to bela revolution m the shearing business m Hawke's Bay this season, bo three of tbe largest runs ore going to shear by steam by means of Wolseley'o patent apparatus The Waipawa correspondent of the " Napier Telegraph" dates that Mr Haetie (Milbourne) will run SO maahinealp Mr Gollan (Mangatarata,) 27 ; and Mr O. 24. It is estimated that an equal number pt men will be employed aa formerly, bub they will have to be of the more expert and careful kind, while the old-fashioned sundowner will have no ohanoe. It is expected that so muoh wool will be saved as will pay the oost of the machines, itself no trifle, m the first soason, With roforenoo to the oonfessjon of the murder m the Otepopo bush, mado by a man m London, the " North Otago Times " says ; — " The Oamaru polios have made enquiries, but have failed to obtain any confirmation of tbe man's statement, It might bavo beon possible, ho * ever, for two men employed m the Otopopo bush putting timber to ceaßo work without oooasioning any enquiry. Ia those days men oame and went, and but littlo attention was paid to' their movements ; and if Btttih ft Grime was oommitted both men must have" be-5D grangers, whoso disappearanoe ooousioned ria remark^ ?t may be, however, that the praotioe pi opium,oatlng liZ2 unhinged the man's mind, and that he has oonfessed to a crime he never oommitted." They havo been having a monster baby bdow m Melbourne which turned out a perfeat goldmine for the promoters, Our' correspondent m that oity writos thus about it : — " Of course the baby show was the event most talked about last week, and it may be safely prediotod that it will not be ,the last oxbibibition of the kind held m Australia. It has been a wonderful suooess, financially and otherwise. A syndicate, composed of bix gentlemen, started the affair with £50 eaoh. They are said to havo divided £3000 amongst them aB profit upon the transaction, and I believe that figure to be quite within the mark. There is some talk about another b^by ahow, to be held m the Exhibition building at Sydney, if arrangementa oan bo made for it." The following is told aB a reminiscence of the oomposor Laobner, lie was out walking with Sohubert one day when the two wero ' met by a famous basso j/ro/iint/o, who was ] even moro famous as a boro than as a bass. ' Not Horace's boro on tho Appian Way muck ' moro closely to tho pool than Iho basso to the ' tvionoomposers. At last iboy suggested to their enemy that ho should lako up his : pofition on the top of a little hill they had ' roaobed, and sing some of bis famous liedtir ' while they would go a little way off and ' listen to bis noble voipe as it floated down the ' hill eide and echoed among tho troes. xho 1 singer, ovorjoyed, acoeptcd the proposal, and, ' like another Orphous, proooedod to oharni i tho trees and the brutes, while the deceitful ' composers artfully worked their way down tho ' bill aide and returned home. \ Thb best Remedy for Indigestion.— 1 Norton's CAMomiie Pills are confidently 1 recommended as ?. simply remedy for indiges- j tion, which is the cause C { nearly all the « diseases to which we are subject Norton 1 strenßtl^ner of the Umt\ stomach," ast as a powerul tonic and grntle aperient, are mild „ hu 1. M m bofllcS at IS »»»«. 23 Od, J I

\ Tbere are about 29,000 locomotives m the / United States. r On nn average every person m England eaves 3d daily, The banking business m the Australasian colonies lnst year shows a turnover of £179,620,000. The Frenoh War Offioa has adopted tho use of bioyoles. Four volooipedea are to be attached to each regiment of infantry. Hungary 'b Primate has aa an inoome ot ' £80,000 a year; while three other Austrian ■ Cardinal Arohbishops have between them , £135,000. ' Dr John Hall is called the " millionaire i proaoher "m Amerioa, and his marriage fees f Rro eaid to have amounted m sis months to j £6000. Mr Stroetor, at th« Royal Society's oonver- ' anzione, exhibited a braoebt of rubies and > diamonds valued at £5000, and a single 3 diamond worth £10,000, * London will Boon have an underground 1 railroad worked by electricity, and tho time 'X ooouphd m oonveying a passenger to Keni nington Oval— a distanoe of two miles — will be ten minutes. v Chemist : " What's the matter now, Pat ? I told you to put the powder m a paper tube, 0 put it m tbe horse's moutb, and blow hard." 1 Fat : " I put the powder m the ohube right . enough, sorr, an' put it m the horse's mouth ; I but, begorra, eorr, the horse blew first ! I A Frenoh soientist has been producing _ artificial emeralds by fusing eilioa, alumina, | and gluoina, with traces of oxide of ohromium > with aoid molybdate of lithii, at a temperaII tare of from OOOdeg. to 700deg. for fifteen c days. c Melbourne, which consisted of thirteen c huts, and was known as Beargrasß, at the ft time oi Queen Victoria's accession, is now i olaased as the seventh city of the British a Empire, coming m after London, Liverpool, >t Glasgow, Manohester, Birmingham, and it Oaloutta. 6 Two centuries ago not one person m 1000 j y wore woven stookings ; one oentury ago not j jy one person m 500 wore them ; now not m person m 1000 is without them ; yet William Lea, tho inventor of tbe stocking frame, * could get no one to patronise his invention, " and died of a broken heart. 16 An inorease m the number of youthful it euioidea is reported from all parts of Europe. g The Bolf-destruotion of youths from 12 to 16 .„ 18 not at all uncommon, but the youngeßt rj euioide ever heard of, m all probability, was '" an Austrian youth aged six years, who ie drowned himself m order to escape a flogging. »B It appears from the Year Book of the ie Ohuroh of England that m 1875 the number , B of persons confirmed m England was under 138,000, white for 1888 the corresponding total was over 217,000, an inorease m thirteen years of nearly 58 per oent, which is four times as great as the growth of the population. Japanese auotions are oonduotod on a novel ac plan, but one which gives rise to none of the It- noise and oonfuoion which attond euoh sales m Britain. Eaoh bidder writes his name and lt . bid upon a slip of paper, whioh he plaoes m a box. When the bidding is over, the box is opened by the auctioneer, and the goods m deolared tbe properly of the highest bidden Tonsorial Artist : " You vant to try some of mine patent hair tonio ; your hair has got "j thin on top already." Customer : Why don't 3< * you try it on yourself ? You're balder thon I am." Tonsorial Artist: "Ya;butl rebroL 3 cent ' beforo using.' Look at dot barber py )d der next chair; he rebresents • after using a two bottles.' Ye know our peezoea, ain't it ?" ~~ Marlborough must indeed be a country of 31 wonderful resources. The " Express " has 9r tho following: — On tbe farm of Mr Daniel Draper there has just beon discovered an Ir oyster bed which yields a prodigious orop of >g fish. The delighted proprietor is now bringis ing them m m cart loads m salt water from $c the Boulder Bank. * p ' A chemist was called up at two o'olook tbe other morning by the ringing of the night bell. On opening the door he found a damsel, id who told him that she was going to a pionio 7 that morning, and was out of rouge. The m impudent druggist turned her off with tbe >d assuranoe that he hadn't the stook to oover a P cheek like here. '" The newest personal adornmont takes the form of hairs from the tail of the Afrioan m elephant. These hirsute appendages, made )0 J into watch guards or bracelets, with gold is embellishments, are striotly the fashion. Tbe i. elephant ib just now the most valuable animal at under the face of tho aun. Not only are hi.-) c. caudal hairs worth more than their weight m id gold, but his tueka costs £850 a ton. ld There seems to be no sign of tho limit yet being reaohed for Broken Hill Proprietary y shares. Thoy have now reaohed £00 — equal s, to £600 on the old register— and m oonse>a quonoo it is now proposed to increase them ; from 160,000 to 1,600,000. Originally there 1, were only 16.000, but the price of oourse ;t limited speculation nonce tho division. The c- present prioe makes the value of the mine r nearly ten millions sterling. £ The railway employees held a meeting at '" Ohristohuroh on Sunday morning to discuss ] r tbe oiroular from ihe Commissioners whioh \' states that the provisions of tho proposed Bill ;c will be enforced. It was deoided to oall a pablio meeting on the question, and the g Mayor pf Ohristohuroh has consented to c preside. AH suburban bprougbs are asked to a oooperate, bb the men think that this intere ference is unwarranted, as most of them i. are insured with the Government and are also ) members of Friendly Sooieties. An adjourned meeting of the Bouth Bakaia 8 Library Committee was held on Monday 1 evening. Present ; Messrs Hardy (obairman), 8 Oxley,Liddy, Turner, Cox, end Gee. The > Chairman reported what had been done by 8 himself and Mr Oxley with regard to aqoounts. * On the motion of Mr Turner seconded by Mr 9 Gee the action was approved of. The aotion of the Bub-oomn?ittoe m postponing the 3 oonoort was approved of. Messrs Hardy, i Oxley, and Turner were appointed to arrange t . for .a ponoert and danoe m November. Accounts were paseed for payment. Com. | plaints were made that periodicals were kept j out longer than the allotted time, ft was , unanimously resolved that the Secretary be 3 instructed to carry out the by-laws and if , subscribers refuse to pay off the fines inourred i to take proceedings at the ft.M. Court, 1 A oountey sohool teaoher's life is not all 1 beer and ekittlea: In ono ease where a ' teacher was attending to two half-time sohools ' on eaoh side of a harbor, be had throughout ? the winter to pull from one side to the other, 1 getting po£Sp!2te'y wat through twice ft week, until ho had contracted rheumatism. He r dare not put on waterproof olotbing m pase of . the boat oapsiVing m stormy weather, and thus prevent bjoi from swimming. After he ' . did reach tho shore, be had then to walk or ; ride three miles to the Bohools. Ho prayed 1 ', tbe Board to remove him to another place. : , It seems this matter bad been before the , Board for some time, and it was considered i only reasonable the teachers should have a ' change. 1% was resolved to oonsult tho oom- : mittee as to the advisability of making the , '. eohools full-time sohools, and appojntipg . female teaohers to them, so as to avoid the : | iJBk of life and oxlreme disoomfort involved , m male teaohers pulling aoross the harbor m the winter timo. — " New Zealand Herald." A very odd discovery was onoe made m a i Newbury, NX , cemetery. While clearing up r tbe grounds it beoame necessary to out down ' a large willow tree, which measured at its ; base nuaarly 5 feet m diamotor. When the men were roato po take the tree away it was ' found advisable to out the stump m pieces, 1 on aooountof its great bizo and weight, They ( therefore sawed into it, and af tor cutting about i 15 inohoß from the aurfaoe, at a point scmo 3 ( foot from the ground, the saw grated aoroßS i something bard. Not oxpeoting to find any- ( thiofj but wood so far m tbe treo they made < several more strokes, and stopped only when t they disooverod that jthe pay/dust was oomposed of fine, white powder— in short, marble ' dußt. Tho workmen then eplit tho stump, c using powder and axe until they reaohod the curiosity, which proved to be a marble foot- * stone jin the very heart of the tree. The I fibre or grain of the wood had grown around 1 it, and evidently had boon too poworful for the clone, for it had been broken m two pieces, c and the top leaned considerably out of place. In spite of the utmost oare, bo firmly was it embedded that it was found impossible to remove it without breaking, ap.d th,o memento n — aq consequently not preserved, jr ' n miV a « ~ ° nrßa 0I VO!itao * |: J»d c Dbaf.— A Petßon '*«nrtinir by tt noJße* n the head of 28 yearn »... ' x Hmrlofiomedy, will lend a descrioti "« oi it,