LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2260, 22 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are now 700 men at wojk on the ' Nicaragua canal. The Hon. Shirley W. Baker, Premier o* 1 Tonga, is jnat now on a visit to Auckland. ' It is said that, so far, tbe average of lambs In the Oatnaru diattiot ia 90 per cent. A contemporary remarks that by the recent royal marriage the Queen baa added a fife to her " Little German Band." Thomaß A. EdisoD, tbe famous electrician, olaima to Deed but four hours sleep out of • the 24. The contributions towards the formation of the new Anglican diooeae of Rookhampton amount to £6500. Tbe looal paper Bays that Mr P. M. Riok" man, of Waimate, haa a flook of Shropshire ewea with 180 per oent of lambs It ia stated with authority that recent sale of thoroughbred yearlings Buenos Ayroß twenty-nine animals fetched £28,000, or* close upon an average ol £1000 eaoh. JSfotioo appears m the " Gazette " that Mr H. B. Seager has been appointed to the ' charge of the Tinwald Post and Telegraph Offioe aa from August 29. Tbe Pompeians oould oaet plaster statuos ■ wholo and hollow at a single oast ; nothing of the kind oan be done m this day and age of the world, [ A Sydney Baloeman announoea that the demand for good useful Baddle and harness horses is greater than tho pupply, and draught horßes are \ikely to rise m value. It is reported that the Russian Government intends to buy all tho Polish railways and transform them into State railways, on aooount of their strategical importance. , Mr Sydney Diokinson delivered a leoture j m Sydney recently on " I'ioturoßquo New , Zealand," wbioh, be said, oorabined the i beauties of Scotland, Switzerland, and IJor- ' way with a climate all its own. A widow m New York, whooe husband fell I j-'o a stream while intozioated and was drowned- baa reoovered subßtantial damagoa from the pu^OW who Berved him with drink. i The English sparrows have fcodOfalag id ! an Amejrioan paper) almost exterminated the . wrens, orioles, and meadow larks, and m five , years more, it adds pathetically, the goose will be tho only native bird left. Letters reoeived by tbe English mail give most favourable aooounts of Mr J; E. Fitzgerald's health. He is described as having | improved surprisingly durina bis trip home, and as being " wonderfully well " Binae he reached England. An exchange referring to a rooont cable, gram whioh announced that the Emperor William " has just sent a pprtrait of himself to the Ozar m oil/ wuntg to knowj whether a " Ozar m oil " would not properly be doß.cr.ibed ai a Oaandioe,

The monibly meeting of 84 8 1 phon'a vjetry ' will take placo thin evening at 8 o'clock a' B the Parsonage. Hero is a feat m shonp shearing : Five men S belonging to South Ltnoashire m the course of five weeks o'ipped the extraordinary number J! of 5000 sheep, and wound tho wool as well* ! tl Thia wos regarded as a very smart pieoe of ? work. ll " There dooa not appear to üb," aaya the a " Dunoilin Horald, "to be the slightest hope C I that the Exhibition will be even m a forward s stato inside on tho 26th of Novomber. 1 Indeed, it will bo fortunate if the work is c finished by Christmas." I The now Arohdoacon of London has diecarded the gaiters and " smalls " usually B . affeoted by Arohdeaoons of the English \ ohuroh. Tho only mark of distinction he ; wears is a small rosette m the oentro of his tall hat. Next Friday being tba first anniversary of the oonßCoration of St Stephen's Ohuroh a apeoial festival servioe will bo held m the ohuroh at 7 80 p.m , when the sermon will be preuohed by the Rev John Holland, of Ohriatohurob, The last of the series of shilling oonoorts m oonneotion with St Stephen's Ohuroh will be held on Tuesday next, Ootober 29 th, |m the Soholroom at 8 o'olook. The vooalista will ba Mrs Charles Harper, Mrs Gamble, and Mies Kidd ; Mr W, B. Dixon, of Rakaia, and Mr T. D. Aoland. of Ohriatohuroh. A meeting of tho3e interested was held m the Templar Hall laat evening, when it was deoided to form a orioket olub to be oalled the Cameron 9 reet Orioket Olub, first practice to he hold m the Domain on Wednesday next at 2 p.m., when persons wishing to join are requested to give their names to the Seoretary. A new pest has made its appearanoe m Grant County, Indiana, wbioh threatens to destroy the wheat, oato, and rye crops. It is » small green bug or parasite that attaohoa itself to the base of the grain, and suoks the life out of it. It is believed that tho baokward crops will be utterly destroyed. Reports from adjacent counties indioate that the parasite is widespread. The late King of Portugal, Dom Luis 1., was born m Ootober, 1838, being the eon of ■ the late Queen Maria 11. and of the late . Prinoe Ferdinand of Saxe-Ooburg. He boooeeded his brother, King Pedro V., m 1861, The heir-apparent is Prinoe Carlos, Duke of 5 Braganza, who is twenty-flir years of age. i The House of Braganza, to which the reigning dynasty of Portugal belongs, dates from the I commencement of the fifteenth oentury. 3 Until very lately there lived at Liverpool, N.S.W., a very old man, who used to relate how, one fine morning, maddened by hunger, ? ho and eleven other prisoners of the Crown 3 broke into tho oommisaariat stores at LiverJ pool and Btole a quantity of oatmeal. They were all tried by court-martial, and he alone oi the dozen escaped oonviotion. The other 3 eleven were hanged one morning on the 5 green m front of Brewer'B Hotel, 3 It ia stated that on August 12 th at Coosat, a t village near Athlone, Margaret Muloohill, 100 i- years of age, gave evidenoe at a ooroner'a 0 inquest relative to the death of Honor a, her twin Bister. The old women lived together, 0 and on Saturday, when Margaret went to 7 market, she left Honora at home m good r health. On returning Bhe found her lying r dead on the aofa. Death had resulted from r failure of the heart's aotion. The boys and lads resident about Waterton have latterly bean giving considerable annoyy anoe to worshippers at the Wesleyan Ohuroh at D that plaoe by assembling about the poroh during , servioe time on Sunday evenings, and oreat* " ing a diaturbanoe by loud talking and shout- ;° ing, eto. They are advised to desist from I- this prooedure lest they bring themselves into 3. trouble, as the law provides for a penalty 0 B £5 for Buoh oonduot, with the even more un- 1 , pleasant alternative of imprisonment. At a village aohool not many miles from Lt Canterbury a preoooious boy being aekod to W parße the sentence, " Mary, milk the oow," c went on accurately till he oame to (he last ; s word, when he said, "Cow is a pronoun, feminine gender, third person singular. Bid '• stands for Mary." •• Stands for Mary ? " tt asks the master m astonishment. " Yes, l- sir," responded the urohin with a grin, " for , B if the oow didn't stand for Mary, how could j Mary milk the oow ? " — " London Booiety." jf A aoeptioal young aollegian confronted an old Quaker with the statement that ho did not j believo m the Bible. Said the Quaker: d " Does thee believe m Franoo ? " •• Yeß ; for >r though I have not Been it myself, I have aeon 0 others that have. Besides there is plenty of . oorroborativo proof that Buob a oountry does n exist ." — •♦ Then theo will not believe anything I y thee or others have not seen ?" "No ; to be 0 sure I won't","—" Did thee ever see thine a own brains?" "No."— "Ever see anybody that did?" •• No."— " Does thee believe thou hast any ?" The young man was seized with Q a fit of silent thought, 0 The many friends of the Riv G. Barolay c will regret to learn that he has resigned tho >f pastorate of the Presbyterian Ohuroh of 1- Geraldine. The reasons assigned are— That the diatriot is too large for one person to attend to, that Mr Barolay is anxious for a '» rest after hjs long period of labor, and that y oiroumßtanoeß connected wif:h the late fire II may compel Mb takiug a trip to the Qld _ Country, Mr Barolay haa labored m the South Canterbury district for the past twenty a five years. His present parish extends over 0 a very large area of oountry, from the saa on 1. the Bouth, and toe Rangitata river on the .1 east, and also embraoea the whole of the Mackenzie oountry. Mr Charles Egeson, meteorologist of Sydney Observatory, who has for some time past been highly suooessful m forecasting weather j changes, reports that the evidenoe that we are ! on the eve of a most inauapiojous oljmatio change is to him overwhelming, and he ie prediota the reourrenoe of the terrible three years' drought of 1827-80. He points out 1 jf that the weather conditions leading up to that drought h*ve been closely reproduoed during the last two or three years ; and says 18 that the summer upon which we are now entering will probably be exceptionally wet, it that it will be followed byj a dry winter, and 0 that£the drought commencing gix qr nine months from present time will probably extend ipto the middle of 1893. i» It must be very convenient to possess a surname consisting of a Bingle letter of the f alphabet. The Paris papers mention" tbp Q singular case of a oertain Marie whose Bur* name consists of one letter B. Many years - ago there waß a chop kept m the Rue de Q Louvain, m Brusßela, by Tb6rese O; and there is a Madame O living with her two ohildren at Molenbsok, a suburb of the Belgian ' oapital. In the Rue de l'Angle, m the same B commune, lives a Mr 0 with a oiroumflex '»•■ aooent, who is no relation to Madame 0. In 1886 among the Belgian rooruitawaa a young r man nameaO who could not write and signed c hie name With a cross : yet he oould so easily 1 have learned to write his own name 1 In the department of Somme there is a village Oalled 8 V ; m the Zuider Zoo there is a bay oalled P; and Amsterdam had the rjver V, In g China there is a large town of the same brief name. In the Chinese Province of Ho-nan there is a oity called U ; and m Franoo there c is a river, and m Sweden a town, reioioing m a tho name of A. >t . — The best medioine known is SANDER and . SONS' EUOAIifPTI EXTRACT. Testa Ha B iminent powerful effects m poughs, ooldtj, „ influenza, eto. — the relief is instantaneous, Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majoßty tho King of Italy, and medioal i 3 Byndioates all over the globe, are its patrons. 9 Read the offioial reports that aooompany eaoh 9 bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The offioial reports of medioal clinics and < II universitieß, tho offioial oommunioation of the ' a Consul-Genoral for Italy at Molbourno; tho s diploma awarded International Exhibition, a Amsterdam— all these aro authentio dooumonts, and, us such, not open tp doubt. \yo add here epitome of one of the various oases d treated by Biegen, M.D., Professor, oto. : 8 Burning pf the right band through the ex--8 plosion of a small oil sfcovfl. The epidermis 8 on the volar and palmer side of tho hand Of the thirty-year-old patient wad oomplotely c separated and lifted up as far as the joint of . tho hand. Tho likewise liftod nails wore g hanging loose, and half of tho phalanx of the 1, nail of the middle finger was ooaled, The c wounds thus oontraoted healed m three weeks under daily applications pf Euoalyptio Extract dressing. The patient has retained tho full '* use of the band.- (Advt.) X ■' } Rough on Itch. — Rough on Itch cure 3 r shin humois, eruptions, ring worm, tetter, salt B ' rheum, frosted feet, chilblains, fitch* • ivy pol on, barber's itch,

Trie monthly meeting of tbe Mount Hu t Road Bjard waH hold on Thursday. Pronrnt —Mesars McMillan, Johußton, and Uibhs. ' Oorrespondenoe was read :— (1) From Mr Power re hurdles aoross the roads. The Oerk waa instructed to request owners to remove the same. — (2) From Mr Leatb&m re blouob on Prunty's Boad. The Olerk was inßtruotd to write and explain the matter. — (3) From tho County Council declining to tako Bteps to abate the storm water on the Lyndhurst Oairnbrae Boad. Beoeived. — (4) From the samo re road? 4o be closed on High Bank. Tbe Olerk was instructed to take the neoesfary further steps for dosing the roads.— (s) From the Railway Engineer re railway rotid. The Olork was instructed to apply again for some aßsistanoe from tho Bail way Department 1 towards making the road. — (6) From tbe Railway Reform League. Beoeived. — A : petition from ratepayers at Liutiston to ' have certain roads shingled near Lauriston was reaeived. It waß resolved to call for tenders for the work if the outstanding rates \ were paid, and the Board were not oharged for shingle. The following tenderß were aooeptod : - Formation Man's Boad, J. Blaok ; formation Dailey^s Boad, J. Ddvery ; formation Railway Boad, Blackburn Bros, it was resolved to advertise the Board's intention to strike a rato of 3-lOths of a penny m the £ at tho next meeting. . Accounts to the amount of £15 4s lOd were passed for payment. The Olerk was iostruoted to pay one shilling per 100 for birds' eggs.