LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2261, 23 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a decided movement m Mezioo on the part of English and Amerioan capitalize m the dirsotionof acquiring sugar estates. There aro nearly six million aores of waste land m England whioh are capable of being oultivated. It iB stated that railway travelling is safer m India than m any other country m the world. A committee of soientißts and philosophers, Italian and foreign, has met at Milan with the objeot of instituting a new National Ohuroh. This morning before Major Steward, J.P„ a reapeotable looking man pleaded guilty to a oharge of drunkenness. This being hia first oflenoe he was oautioued and discharged. The amount of tbe Hospital Sunday Fund to be distributed among the London hospitals aud infirmaries this year will amount approximately to MO,QOO. About three thousand brakes haye boon invented and patented. One of the latest is doßoribed ac beautifully simple m ita working. Push a button and the brakes are set on tbe entire train. It is stated that Mr John Stitt, storekeeper, of Opunake, is again moving m the direotion of getting satisfaction from Te Wbiti on a judgment summons for over £150, for goods sold and delivered. Sheep worrying has beoomo so prevalent at West Oxford that the farmers have formed an BBsopiation, and eubsoribed liberally, for the purpOßO of taking steps to secure tbo deteotion of tho oflondmg dogp, and t|ao prosecution of their owners. The business formorly koown as the Ash* burton Bakery and latterly as the Ashburton Bread Oompany has changed hands. Mr Charles Grubb, who, for some time past, has managed the (businoßß, has now taken it over, and will m future oarry it on on bis own account. At the meeting of tho Vostry of Bt Stephen's held last evening it wbb resolved that Mr Horace Gatos be appointed organist and ohoirmaster. It waß also decided that tbe annual gardan party should be held at Mr Ferrimao's gardens on Monday, J)egerobor \ v , During his reoont visit tho Emperor of Germany was amazed at tho exhibition pf England's wealth and power, and condmened m set terms tbe persistent oroaking about her naval and military position gs intensely misleading to foreign powers. Tbe Bteamor Jubilee, wbioh arrived at Lyttelton yosLerday, brought a prize Holstein bull ooneigned to Mr J. Grigg, Longbeaoh. Tho animal was forwarded from Melbourne, and as soon as the vessel got alongsido, it was taken to Quail Island to undorgo ils torm of quarantino. It is with great regret that wo reoord the doceaso of Mr George Permafn whioh occurred at his roßidenop, near the North Roll, tbia morning, Pn ths previous day ho bad undergone the amputation of one pf hia logs, and owing to the oondition of tho patlept'B hpalth the operolion proved fatal. Mr Pormain bas been resident m Asbburton for many years and until reoently was engaged m the milling . business, having been employed at tbe Canterbury mill singe Us p#.abliibm»nt by Mr i ga«ndir»,

A Horinl w der the auspiocs of the Ashburton Foresters Lodge will be held this I evening m the Odd/allows' Hall. ' On Sunday next tbe Rev Father Ohastagnoo ! will aelobrato Mass at Bakaia and Vespers at Ashbunoa at the usual hours; and on the) Sunday following, Nov. 3rd, ho will celebrate 1 • Mass m tha now ohuroh at Methven. Un'iort,nker : '* What kind of trimmings will you h'wo on the ooffin ? " Widow : \ " None whatever. A plain oasket. It was trimmins that killed him." — Undertaker; " What ? " Widow ; " Yes. Delirium trimmins.'' The weight of tho groat Brnoke-oloud daily hanging ovor tho city of London has been computed by Professor Roberts at 50 tons of •jolid carbon and 250 tons of hydrocarbon and oarbonio oxide gases for eaoh day of the year, and is valued at £2,000,000 per annum. A patient gontleman who collects statistics brings out Bomo figures to help the causa of poaco. It soems that from 1852 to 1677 war killed 1,058,000 people, and wbat is still moro wonderful tho killing of eaoh man cobli moro thnn £2000. Tho total ooßt was £2,413,000,000. One of the Jargost hauls of trout evor taken out of tho Waitaki by a single angler waß on exhibition at Oamaru on Friday last. Tho fish (the " North Otago Timeß " says) woro taken by Mr M. Allan, and numbered thirteen, ranging from 21b up to 12._\b. The Waitaki is evidently well stooked with fish this season, and it only requires a Buitable day and a steady hand to secure a haul. Tho " North Otago Timos " says '.-—Numerous oomplaintß have been made lately that tho buttor reaching the shopß m Oamaru is of so inferior v quality that the dealors are unable to sell it at tbe prioe they pay for it. One grooer was selling butter at one shilling per 31bs, and now the prioe to be paid by the grooers for butter will be from 3d to 7d per lb, aooording to quality. As one sign of a ooming influx of people ot some means to New Zealand (says the Hawke's Bay Herald ") it may be mentioned tbat nearly all the saloon aooommodation inthe NbW Zealand Shipping Company's steamers has been booked months m advanoe. Not very long ago the Oompany was willing to make all kinds of oonoeseionß to fill its vessels, but now the reverse is the ot.se. The following are the dimensions of H.M.S, Marathon, whioh is under orders for theße waters :— 29so tons, 17 feet 6 inches draught ; armament— 6 6-inah 5-ton guns, 10 quiokfiring guns, 1 light gun, 8 machine gunß ; 9000 indioated horse-power, 19} knots speed on trial trip on measured mile ; can steam 8000 mileß at 10 knots *, 400 tons of coal m bunkers. She waß launched m 1883. We find the following m an exflhanga :— "The outter Ethel, while near Altborde'a Islands, was towed four miles by an enormous shark whioh had been hooked. When killed it was impossible to lift the whole trunk but the head was brought to Adelaide." If that isn't a whopper (the yarn *ao moan — not the shark), then all we oan say is that it's a mighty good imitation. The following Btory iB told of Lord West* bury. Tho counsel for a fraudulent banking oompany was demonstrating that tbe directors wero very religious and oould not therefore be guilty ot the oonduot imputed to them. "Their proceedings always commenced with prayer." "Who offloiated?" inquired the judge. "The chairman, my Lud; be always began with 'Lai us pr*y.'" " Did he spell it with an *a' or au * c ? '" j was the judioial rejoinder. The following is from the " Akaroa Mail " : , —On Saturday Mr William Ourry brought us a speaimen of underground butter. On Friday 1 morning he buried some four pounds of oream i 10 inobes under the surface, and on Satur* ■ day, twenty*four hours later, dug up the , Bame. When brought to the light a lump ' was found, whiob, on washing, yielded over i three pounds of exoellent butter, of wbioh we * aan testify the exaellenoe from personal , experience. The 41bs of oream was first put . m a oalioo bag and allowed to drip, then put ' m an ordinary saok to keep it clean, and ' buried, as before stated, m olean soil some ten ) ioohes undor the surfaoe. I Waimate has lately been visited by an j almost unpreoedonted amount of wind, and . the orops are beginning to feel ita bad effeots. 1 In many places tho soil has been blown away from tho crop, loaving tho root quito bare, and ' been deposited m gulließ, covering oonsiderablo arose with soil, and burying all vegeta- , tion sometimes a foot doep. Sovcral orops of ' wheat through the gorga have been seriously ' injured by the wind, and lund that had been , broken up and harrowed for turnips has m some oases been almost blown flway. Bain is badly wanted, and farmers are complaining m all directions of the extreme dryness of the 1 soil. > Wellington eooiety has been earthquaked 1 by a terrible soandal m one of the loading ■ ohurohes. A young lady, aged about thirty, a prominent member of the ohuroh, and moving ' m the best sooiety, has found it nooeßßary 1 to take a trip to Sydney, where she will stay > for a few months. She was engaged to bo married to a well-known publio man, but her , present oondition has, of oourse, broken off , the engagement. An offioial of the ohuroh was brought to book on Saturday night m oonneotion with the affair. Ho admitted the 1 oharge, but said others wero implicated m the trouble, mentioning tho names of several prominent men. The news of the soandal oame like a tbundorolap on sooiety, and the affair is now the sensational talk of the town; The very latest land funniest whim is the wearing of the yellow garter (says the ''New York Sun.") Just one garter, not two, you understand, and it muat be worn just above the left knee. The other stocking may be , wrinkled disconsolately over the shoo or be fastened m plaoe by any one or all of the mysterious devioes known only to the initiated, but tbe left one ia held firmly by a band of yellow oijk elastio, with a ribbon roaette of the same shade, and the oorreot and proper I thing is to wear it night and day ror six I months. The yellow garter's origin is I shrouded m murky uncertainty, but its signification is known to every girl who possesses it, and this its oharm:— Any girl who wears a yellow garter above her left knee ia Bure to be engaged m less than six months. The garter mußt be given to her by a friend, ahe muat not make It or buy it, and it haß never beon known to tail ot its purpose but onoo, and tben the owner was wearing it on the wrong extremity, or rather the right one inßtead of the left. Just wherein lies its potency belongs to the etbios of the e.oterios of g'rlhood, but the girls all wear them. ftome of (he Sydney polioe oourt solioitors are Bquabbling again on the everlasting question of touting. Business is pushed very hard outside the minor temples of. justice. For instanoe, a man m trouble is approached by bis would-be adviser. " Got any money ?" asks the adviser, "No," says the client. " Woll, have you got awatoh ? " enquires the enterprising attorney, "No, pawned it," replies the olient, " Well, bave you got the ticket?" "Yes, got the tioket." "Well, that will do " — and then the tioket having been handed over, tho professional gontleman prooeodß to jot down his instructions on tbe baok thereof. One morning, years ago, an old woman ascended the witness stand, and while Bbo waß being sworn mysterious quaokings were heard to prooeed from boneath her well.worn red shawl. •• What is that noißO " sternly inquired the P.M., who having been up at Ibe olub till 4 a.m., had a head on bim and felt very norvous. "It's only this," said tho old woman, throwing, throwing baok her shawl and holding up to the view of the Oourt a pair of fine fat duoks. " I had no money, yer wortohip, and Mister— —-(pointing to her oounsel) said ho wouldn't take up me oaBO until I guv him a pair of birds. Exchange, We olip tho following important testimonio from the " Illawarra Moroury " (N.S.W.) of the 30th Maroh. It needs no oommont :— •• Mr John Loveday, of tho Bafli Mountain, witmos to us that after suffering'' for four yearß wiih aoute gravel, ho has oxperiohoed' almost oomplote relief by using Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extraot. He says seeing tho said Extraot advertised m the ' Illawarra itferaury,' his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottlo of the medioino from Mr Hosking, ohomist, of this town, and that the use of it gavo him groat roliof at onoo. Ho states that betwoon tho 10th Maroh instant, when ho obtained tho first bottlo of tho extraot, and tho 19th, tho übo of that medioine oontinued to afford bim relief, to which ho had boon a stranger for foqr ye&ra. Mr tovoday writes also tbat ho baa found tho Euoalypti Extraot a euro for rheumatism ub well as gravel He requests us to publißh this information through the « Meroury." We have muoh pleasure m oomplying wjith Mr Lovedoy's i request, whose word cannot be doubted, and who oan have no objeot m view other than a P"™ dMiw to benefit Pflwipg humanity,"-- 1 '

Some of the members of the Synod, says f tbo •« Auoklend Star," are exercised m tluir/ 1 minds because of tbe spread of Mo-monism ' amongst the Maoris. Tbe matter waß referred :to by tho Rev Mr Beatty. Some liots were ; related by Mr W. J. Speight, who stated ihat ( at one village ha had viuted the whole of the Natives were Mormons, and had two white missionaries amongst thorn. Thoy had a little churoh, which was aB far as he oould see the only painted building m the neighborhood. The Natives went to ohuroh regularly and Mormonißm appeared to have a firm bold on them. Ho considered that it was to bo regretted that they should be allowed to lapse into this state after thoir own ministers had been labouring amongst tbem. Bishop Oowie suid that tho Mormon movement had blbo reaohed some of their own Natives m tho Waikato. Keating's Cough Lozenges cure Couv,hs Asthma, Bronchitis Medical testimony states that no other medicine is so effectual jin the cure of these dangerous maladies, Onr Lozenge alone eives ease, one or two at any time ensures rest, For relieving difficulty m breathing they are invaluable, They contain ', no opium nor any violent drug, Sold by all Ch mists at is I rs 6.1 each.