LOCAL AND GENERAL
A large emigration from Scotland is now going to Chili. A store m Atlanta, Ga., has been built entirely of paper. A proseoution hue arisen out of the Oamatu eleotioD, one Edward Piokeit being oharged with attempting to vote twice on that oooasion. Oatholio pilgrimß from America to the Holy Land have decided to rebuild the ohuroh and convent of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. Tbis is the highest peak m Palestine. The Empress Frederiok has given £300 to the London Hospital for Diseases of the Throat. This sum represents the proceeds of the sale of " The Life of the Emperor Frederiok." The " Press " has received information o* the disoovery of a large ooal deposit within 2} miles of the Ooalgato railway station. It is dosoribed as " literally a bill of ooal " the ooal being of exoellent quality, The "Warsaw Courier" states that some days ago there was terminated at Warsaw a lawsuit whioh has lasted four centuries. The subject of litigation was a piooe of uncultivated ground of forty acres between the estates of Orlowo and Podlowo, whioh wbb claimed by the two proprietors of them. The suit was j oommenoed m 1490, and was curiously enough brought to an end by amioable arbitration. In Ghristohuroh on Thursday afternoon a female ohild of Mr Robertßon, baker, Victoria street, playing m the Btreet, waa run over by a borpe &nd cart driven by a Chinese market gardener, who instead of stopping, drove homewards at a brisk rate, The obild'a ohest was completely crushed,' and Ufa waa extinot m a few minutes. The polioe followed the Chinaman and arrested him. ▲ oarions robbery has been committed at tbe South Brisbane brepoh of the Queensland National Bank, The amount taken is £3800 m gold and notes, none of wbiob is identifiable. The money is supposed to have been looked up m the safe at night, and on the teller going to it next morning it was found to be missing. The safe was still looked with no sign of having been forced open. There is no sign of any burglary having been oommitted, and the whole affair is unaccountable. Fields whioh atfd already rod with sorrel ehoud be ploughed as soon aa possible m order to prevent seeding, la most oases excess of sorrel indicates a deficiency m lime or potash required for growing good clover. The application of these materials will seoure a olover oatoh whose growth will smother the sorrel while young. It is this effect of theße alkoline manures ia oausing olover growth rather than the direct effaat of the alkali m oorreoting " sourness " of the soil whioh rids it of sorrel. A dressing of stable manure will sometimes have the same effect as lime or potash. A conoert m aid of the school prize fund was held m the Schoolroom, Elgin, on Tuesday evening, and was one of the most BUcoeflEful ever held there, ljlr John Ooohrane, the Chairman of the School Committee, pre -ided, and m a short speooh stated the object m aid of whioh the oonoert was held, and the pleasure wbioh it gave him to see so large an audienoe. Musical items were oontributed m exoellent stylo by the following ladies and gentlemen: — MisßosKidd, Gates, Mrs Olaridge, Messrs Gates, Lane, Miller, Kersol, Stevepson, Woods, Bateman and Jamioson. At the oonolusion of the oonoert a danoe whioh was largely attended was held. Reoent Singapore papers report an extraordinary case of smuggling at Sourabaya, m Java. A ObineEO passenger having died on board a junk whioh was anchored m the roadstead, the health officer of the port went off and, after viewing the body, gave the neoessary permit for burial. The master of the junk then came on shore and ordered a large coffin of the usual Chinese kind. During the early hours of the morning the orew with the coffin landed, and the funeral procession passed along tho streets amid the i burning of saorifioiftl papers, beating of gongs, and the oth^r oustomary demonstrations of eorrow. Qne of iho crew walked m front oarrying the burial permit. Afterward? tbe fumral party went back to tho junk, Villon immemediately put to sea. In the middle of the 1 day Bpme Natives found an empty coffin m the road close by the Gbineso aemetery, which not only smelt s'rongly of opium but also bs/1 '•nail partioles of the drug adhering to its sides Castom bouse authorities found the maker oi* * ho ooffin » wh ° identified it as the one supplied to £r master of thd junk, and the dead body of tbe Chinaman waß washed aßhore soop afterwards, so that it was clear that he bad been thrown overboard and the burial permit mod to enjuggle on shore a largo flcflJo foil oloplUß,
Mr Ga;;r-/e F. Soou reoived a fow day.i ago , jiom North 0 nterbury one of the hnndaoineßt n tlo ponic a that we have ever Been It. is re ally a miniature raoehorse, showing great quality, his head nnd neck eepeoially being perfect. Ho ia named Ali Baba and oomes of good s'.ook, beiDg by Mr O.Djimpier Orossley's famous pony Priaoe Charming, from the pony maro Pearl, now well known as the property cf Mr Montague Levin, of Ghrißt-obui-oh. Mr So tt announces by advertisement that Ali Baba will ba at thestud this season for a few marea. Cinon Farrar made an important statement the other dny. He said the only way for the Anglioan Ohuroh to reaoh the maasos was to found a system of ohuroh monastic orders. Tho proposition is as follows: Monastics orders should be established all over tho kiagdom. There must be the genuine foundation of the threefold vow of obedience, oha3tity, and poverty among its members — obedienoo, i.e., submission to the rule; chastity, oolibaoy, for those partioular lines of work m the ohuroh; poverty, v truo renunoiation of everything beyond food (spiritual and bodily), raimont, and lodging. Money must never come near the order ; its members must never bo muoh aa touoh a ooin. If a , member was sent to a place where there was a small prospeot of his or her rcoeiving friendly invitations, let him beg a meal m tho name of Christ and repay his host with prayer and spiritual inßtruotion. If no house would receive him, let him go to the oaaual ward and preaoh the gospel to the tramps. Every summer (nays the Amerioan correspondent of the " Argus ") brings one or more viotims of the old delusion that an air ship is poeeible. A few weeka since a " Profeßaor " Campbell persuaded that he had found the means to regulaco the course of a balloon with a small electric engine, run by a storage battery, induced a Michigan aeronaut, Hogan by name, and also a " professor," to make a trial of the invention. Hogan aaoordingly made an asoenaion m a large silk balloon, inflated with common illuminating gas. Before he had reached a height of more than 1000 feet a portion of the regulator—a large fan wheel, made like an exaggerated propelier—broke away from tho balloon and fell to the ground. It would have seemed possible for him then to desoend, but he held on bis course, nearly south east from New York, whenoe he Btarted straight out over the open sea. Nothing was ever again heard from or of him. The balloon, without the oar, was sighted drifting, half collapsed, on the surface of the ocean several days after tbe ascension, and eomo 50 miles from tbe nearest land. New Zealand flax has got a hold on the Amerioan market (writes a San FranoißOo correspondent of the " Post") It will ret .m its grip unless you ship inferior or imperfeotly oleanod fibre. Some of the flax that has been shipped to this port has been inferior owing to partial cleaning and to its being out too near the soil. It is probably useless to appeal even to the cupidity of your flax-drc-ssers by telling them that it will pay beßt m the loog run to torn out only a first-olaBS artiole. Thoy will not think of the future, but take obances. The remedy ließ with yourselves however. Lst the various Chambers ot Commerce establish Btandard gradea and a uniform size and atyle of baling for flax, and oompel shippers to adhere to them, and New Zealand flax will aeoure for itself recognised standing m the world's market. In time flax would ba ordered by standard number just as wheat ia ordered by cable at San Franoisoo from London, Sydney or elsewhere. If this is not done, New Zealand flax will not have a recognised place as a merchantable fibre, but will be used, as heretofore, to supplement supplies of hemp and sisal. The present chance for making a permanent place for your flax should not be missed. Baptism m Russia is said to be alwayß performed by immersion. In the rich houses two tables are laid out m tbe drawing-room by the priests; one is oovered with holy images, on the other is placed an enormous silver basin filled with water surrounded by small wax tapere. The chief priest begins by oonseorating the font, and plunging a silver orosa repeatedly into tho water ; be then takes the ohild and, after reoiting certain prayers, undresses it completely. The prooesa of immersion takes plaoe twioe, and so rigorously that the head must disappear under the wator; the infant is then restored to hia nurse, and the saorament is finally administered. In former time?, when tbe ohild had the misfortune to be born m winter, it waa plunged without pity under the ice, or into water of the same temperature. In the present day that rigour has been relaxed by parmiaaion of the Church, and warm water substituted for tho other; but the oommon people still adhere scrupulously to the ancient praotioe m all seasons. On these ocoasionß numbers of ohildren are baptised at the same time on the ioe, and tho cold often proves fatal to them. It sometimes happens, also, that a clild slips through the hands of the priest and is lost, m whioh oase he only exoJaima. "Heaven has been pleased to take tbia infant to itself; hand me another;" and the poor people submit to their losa without a murmur, as the dispensation of Heaven. A Bensation has been oauaod by Bomo very unpleasant revelations concerning an Anglioan olergyman, the Ray George R. F. Nobbs, inoumbent of Luiwych, a Buburb of Briabane. Nobba, whoso father ia a missionary a t Norfolk Island, left the colony two months ago on leave of absence, ostensibly for the benefit of his health, and has not yet returned. Rumora have been for some time ourront concerning tho rev genlloman'a misdeeds, and oiroumatantial details are now published of a number of transactions whioh can only be called barefaoed swindles. Nobba appears to have been ohronioally impeouniouß, and he indulged a good deal ia mining speculations. He not only borrowed money from suoh of hia flook aa could bo induced to lend it, but m several j oases Buoceeded m getting ignorant peraons to trust him, without knowing what they were doing, In one case property was transferred worth neatly £2QQQ, and m another case where the victim was a woman the property was worth over £500, These oases have bsen plaoed m legal hands, but it is doubtful whether the persons victimised have any remedy, as the tranafere, though made ignorantly, were quito regular, and have been properly registered, and Nobbs raised oonr siderable sums on the property before leaving. The details of a numbor of other transaotioDß have yet to bo published.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2258, 19 October 1889, Page 2
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