The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1889. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2262, 24 October 1889, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1889. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The RevE. A.Soott will oonduot service I m the Beafield Sohoolroom on Sunday next, j a at 3 p.m. I c Diphtheria is Baid to be prevalent at Wai-iti I ° a suburb of Timaru. One death so far has I* resulted from it. 8 The oommon house fly baß been Very frequently referred to of late aa a oarrier of infeotious disease., It seems that they oarry on their feet the germs of disease. An anoient aqueduot, unruined and fit for present use, has been diaoovered close to Athens. It is m the suburb toward Hymettus. Central Asia will soon boast of having the { electric light, Russian Engineers being busy with installations at Bokhara, by order ot the Emir, The " New York Times " London cable sayß the Kaiser proposes to make the Ber.in Court the moßt brilliant the oentury has seen, imitating the first Napoleon m Franca. A Bombay newspaper announoes two maniages, m one oase the bride being 2 year. and m the other 15 months, whild the bridegroom was 30. It is stated that a secret consistory held at the Yatioan at the end of June, deoided that the Pope should leave Rome as soon as he reoeived positive information from a friendly I power that a war waß imminent m whioh Italy would take part. Acoording to the Dnjevnik, a pape r published at Saratofl, Russia, there is living there a man who is one hundred and forty years old. Hiß name is Daniel Samoiloff, and he was born at Saratoff m 1749. Mr Ballanoe has reoeived a requisition from Napier with 300 signatures, asking him to addre.s a politioal meeting there. He has deoided to aooede to the request, and will speak there on the 30, b Ootober. In the bankrupt estate of a solioitor m the North Island, a dividend of a penny and a mite has been declared— the first and float division of bis estate. Southland has been exporting oata to Melbourne, to get them m before the inoreaee of duty on the 24th inst., at suoh a rate that the stooks remaining will not be more than 30,000 Backs, the smallest supply held at this season for many years. Writing of the Midland Railway the "Lytteltoh Times" says that m the course of a week or so tenders will be oalled for the construction of a portion of the line at the Springfield end— about six or seven miles m extent, A millionaire named Thomas Monaban who died m Australia the other day was one of 360 poor emigrants who Bailed for that oountry from Ireland m 1839. The vessel be took paßßßge m was m auoh an unhealthy condition that ninety of the passengers died •a the voyage. An extraordinary diving fest was aooom* plished the other day at Blackpool North pier before a number of spectators. The weather was boisterous, but Miss Annie Johnson essayed the task of staying under water longer than 2min sl£seo, whioh ranked as the record achievement. She stayed B__in lOseo, whioh is 18|ssob longer than the time made by Lurline some years sgo. Miss Johnson is 19 yearß of age. The weekly se.-ioD of the Star of tbe East Lodge, No. 62, 1.0. G.T., was held m the lVmplar Hall last evening, Bro T. Soott 0.T., presiding. There were about 90 members present, inoluding visitors. One oaudidate was admitted, and one proposed for membership. A large amount of business oame before tbe Lodge for consideration. It may be mentioned that this Lodge is about to contribute another orioket olub to our town, one being m couise of formation. ■ The Lodge wbb olo.ed m the ÜBual form by the O.T, at 10 p.m. It ia satisfactory to learn that MajorGeneral Edwards Bpeaks m unqualified praise of the New Zealand defences, so far as he haß seen them, snd also of the permanent , foroe. He was pleased with the turn out and appearance of the Wellington volunteers, who p.rnded for bis inepeoiion to the number of 514, tho D Battery Artillery going through big gun drill, and the Navals through submarine mining drill and signalling. Aooom panied by Mr Fergus, he left for Dunedin dir.ot yesterday wbeqoe he will return to Christohurch m time to maet His Excellency the Governor. Among the bridal gifts presented to the Princess Alexandra of Groeoe, one is j sufficiently ourioue to merit Bpeoial notice. It [ia a neoklaoe consisting of about a dozen gold coins whioh were found m a Greek tomb m ! Egypt, all dating from the period of the Ptolemys. Thopgh $000 yearß old, or thereabouts, they are still bright. If the friends of Her Boyal Highnesß had sent to Ashburton however they oould bave been supplied with still more anoient money. Mr H. Zander who is an enthusiastic numismatist having among his splendid oolleotion (whioh goes to tbe Exhibition) Hebrew ooiu of shortly after the date of the Exoduß. Mr John M'Lennan, of Oroua Downs, near Foxton, Wellington, furnißt.es the subjoined returns of 1483 sheep sent home by him last April, per b.b. Aorangi. They afford most convincing proof m favor of meat freezing, and should help on the establishment of tha works at Long. urn ; — 494 oaroases mutton, weighing 32,763!b5, realised £693 14s lOd ; 989 oaroases mutton, weighing 02,G851ba, £1465 ; fat Bold m the oolony, £72 Jss fid : skins, £185 3a 4d; total, £2110 13s Bd. Oharges : —Consolidated rate covering all expenses m London, £179 6s; freight and primage, £639 7s 6d; marine insurance, £61 7b 9d ; freezing and bags, £176 18b lid ; Milage and driving, £78 8s; total, £1144 3a 2d, Net return, £1278 10s6d— 17s2d a head on the station. A Mr Lawrenoe, a resident of the Ttfapeka district haa lost his life aa (ho result of a gorse prickle entering his linger while engaged m dipping a fenoe. The wound at firßt waß not considered of sufficient seriousness to merit attention, but m the oourao of a few days it became troublesome, oausing aoute pain, and BhowiDg a tendency to inflamma. tion. Eventually the finger was amputated but too late, and tho patient finally died of blood poisoning. The " Waimato Times " referring to the above mentions another instanoe of poisoning by gorse m the oase of Mr Bippingale, a resident of that district. In this ouse also the gorse pioklo entered the finger, whioh soon became very painful, tho whole arm swelling to an enormous bizo. The other arm then beoame affected m a similar manner, and as tho poison had apparently gone through the bpdy, the patient beooming very low, little hope was enlortained of bis recovery. However, under the watcbttjl attention and skill of the surgeon (Dr Nioolls) who attended upon him, the patient, after two months prostration, gradually oame round, without amputation being resorted to, and be has beep able to be about for somo time past.

Wo aro n quoaied to ufk friends a' tending ' <he funeral ot the late MrPermain to-morrow to bring their hymn books with them. Tho annual dedioation festival at St Stephen's Church takes plaoe to-morrow. There will bo Holy Communion at 8 a.m. •md full evening sorvioe at 7.30 p.m., when the B .v John Holland will prosoh the sermon. The church will be deoorated for the oooasion aud a collection will be made for the Fabric Fund. The railway department have, we understand, made liberal arrangements m oonneotion with fares to Ashburton on the date of tbe A. and F. Association's Show, so that I thero should be every induoement to attract an influx of visitors,