LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2267, 30 October 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The •« Torouka Leader " records a oatoh of moaster eels m tbe Oaapi river on Monday. . Four of them weighing 501 b. It takes three weeks to perform a marriage ceremony among the upper classes m .Japan, and it is generally oonceded that the olergymanearnß bis fee. The Napier breakwater is now m 30ft of water, and the end of the wharf m 25ft. In a few weeks tjma there will be QOOIc of berthage for steamers drawing 18ft of water. The Sou. 4 * 1 Australian Government have made an arranged b J t wWoh an engine driver who runs his trains' «>* * Wo . y J a * B without aooident will reoeive a bonu'b OI #10, At a meeting of the Lyttelton Presbyterian Churoh last night a praotioa ly unanimous resolution was adopted to send a oall to the Rev James H. MoKenzie, of Wallaoetown. Oanon Ootterill met with an aooident m Christohuroh yesterday being knooked down by a hansom oab. Tbe venerable gentleman was stunned and shaken but it is not anticipated that the offeots will be Berioti3. The Governor reached Otira, at the foot of tbs famouß Gorge, on Monday evening via Lake Brunner. The weather fortunately was then fine, and it seems probable that the journey up the gorge will be made unJer favourable oiroumstanoea. At Ohristohuroh on Tuesday a man named Charles Newton was oharged with stealing a black mare, valua £3, the property of Cornelius O'Connor, of Aahburton, on 7th Maroh, 1889. He was remanded till Nov. 4th , The Queen is, it is said, absolute mistress of four European languages viz Frenob, German, Italian and Spanish. She is also well acquainted with Gaelio and Borne years ago i successfully studied one of the Native languages of her Indian Empire. Magistrate—" So you insist that you took the ohiokens only as a joke, How far did you take them ?" Prisoner—" Why, yer wusship, I just oarried 'em horne — about a mile,'' Judge—" Well, that's catling a joke too la*. You'll have thirty days." Lady Tbyra (reading catalogue of an art exhibition): Two doga, after Landseer." Lady Myra : "But where is Landseer? I don't see him." Lady Thyra; "Why, surely you don't suppose he would stay there with those ferocious looking brutes after him. ' | know I shouldn't if I were m his place. " j

A child who had just mastered her oateobism confessed herself disappointed beoauae, she said, '■' though I pbgy the fifth commandment, and honor my papa &q4 mamnia, yet my days are not a bit logger fa tfra land, because I am still put to bed at eeven'o-'olook; — " Times "of India.

"So you have got twins at your house," said Mrs Bepumbe to little Tommy Samuelson. "Yes, ma'am, two of 'em." M What are you going to oall them?" "Thunder and Lightning." "Why, those are strange names to oall children." "Well, that's what pa called them as soon as he heard they wera Jo ;tbe house."

The " Napier Telegraph" says that a terrible lot of rubbish ia to be Bent to the Dunedin Exhibition, There is to be an educational annexe, and the Bohoola of the oolony have been invited to send the children's oopy- books to it. A big parcel has accordingly been made up by the Napier and Gisborne schools; Fancy, how interesting it will be to the visitors to looji oyer oopy-bpoks 1

A epeolal meeting of the shareholders of the Union Insurance lOo'mpany at Obristr ohurou on Tuesday unanimously resolved that the company he registered under the Companies Aot 1882, and thp Pire and Marine Insurance Companies Aot, 1889, as & company limited by shares, under* the name pf £he Union Fire and Marine Insurance! Oorppany (limited).

A London correspondent says : — Amongst the undelivered correspondence of a curious character mentioned m (he PostoiasterGeneral's report for the preeent year, was a plum pudding (still quite good) m a tin mould which bad been sont out to Australia three Garietmases ago, and failed to reach the lad

-^om it was addressed. The same report afrit™ tha* tbe * eduoticn »» the parcel poßt Saito Aostta^ and New Z '*™* *<» ** f» an iuoreaso of 40 £? ™ m m ' 0Q V*™ 1 * sent.

Weils' Hair Balsam. — If gmy, restores ° original colur. Au eiegaqfc dressing, ecftena and beautifies. No oila or graasa.- A Tonio Restorative. Stopß hair coming oat, strcugtbi enni oleaosfls, beftls icalp

A. now E.j^i:ii»l p,r_.vey<iril, tho '• Bjaion Trauß'jript " dtn'oe, aoataiaa a group of severn tombstones. Sis m_rk the graves of tho wives of one mad. The seventh is that of "Bluebeard" himself, and oentaina the Bimple, but most appropriate epitaph, •• Best, weary pilgrim."

The marriage of the Prinoe3S Louise to the Duke of Fife ia regarded with much disfavour at the European Courts. Emperor William abstained from sanding his congratulations, and the bride's unole-in-law, the Czar of Russia, wrote expressing his indignation at the ••mesalliance," and adding that such marriages here ruinous to the caste of royal houses.

When the Earl of Bradford was brought before Lord Loughborough to be examined upon application for a statute of lunacy against him, the Chancellor asked him, "How many legs has a sheep ? " " Does your lordship mean," answered Bradford, " a live sheep or a dead one ? " "Is it not the Bame thing?" said the Chancellor. "No, my lord," said Lord Bradford, "there is muoh difference. A live sheep|haa four, a dead one but two. There are but two legs of mutton ; the others are shoulders.

The Seaolifl correspondent of the " Lyttelton Times " reports that as the express from the North was approaobing the Waikouaiti river on Monday evening, the bridge was discovered to be on fire. The train was at once pulled up, and the stoker and guard having auoooeded m extinguishing the flames, the train proceeded after a short delay. The hot oindqra from the engine of a previous train had' evidently caused the planking; to ignite. :

In 1878 there was but one steam vessel of 3000 tons. At the present date there are' m the United Kingdom 330 of 3000 to 1 upwards of 8000 tons gross, with an aggregate tonnage of 1,301,201, averaging 4000 tons eaoh. According to Lloyds Register four more were added up to April last, at whioh date there were m foreign countries 188 steam vessels of above 3000 tone, of whiob 48 ranged from 4000 to 6000 <ons, France owned 68, Germany 33, the United States 20, Spain 17, Italy 15, other countries 25.

A. Buohareßt correspondent sends particulars of a very painful ooourrenoe which haa taken plaoe at Eustendje. In the . military hospital there a soldier was under treatemnt for hydrophobia. While the surgeon was making his inspection this man sprang quickly upon him, seized bis hand, tri- it-, and held on with so much force that with difficulty the soldiers m attendance could Bhake off the madman's grasp. The surgeon went at once to Bucharest to put himself uuder treatment at the Institution for Bacteriology. The wound m the hand is considerable, and the case is being regarded with muoh interest m the medical world.

Mr Joseph. Hatch, has j .at ahi_>pa& byVhiß Bohooner Awarua from Lyttelton to his! sea elephant station on the Macquarie Islands a steam boiling down plant. He keeps ten or a dozen men on the main island to oatoh and boil down sea elephants, a strange kind of seal that looks like an elephaiV with his legs and trunk amputated. The men shoot these

oreaturea when they oome aßhore, out them op, and boil down their tbiok blubber. Hitherto the reduotion has been done m pots over open fires, and the use of a steam apparatus is expected to reduce the labor and the oost, aB fuel has to be " imported," as well as all stores for the men's use.

The "Timaru Mail" says that: Mr a. P. Sunnaway, m that town, has been for some time past manufacturing cod-liver oil from oodfish obtained m the harbor. He has now succeeded m produoing an artiole of the first quality and purity, and has had it subjected to the pharmaoopoaia test, with the most satis* faotory resnlts, the preparation proving equal to, if not superior to, the imported artiole. The locally produoed artiole is taken direot from the fresh livera of the fish before deoonv position haa set m, and is free from the objectionable odour and taste of some samples of the imported artiole. Mr Sunnaway will send a sample of the oil to the Exhibition*

The usqal monthly meeting of the Tinwald Wesleyan Band of Hope was held 'm the Templar Hall on Friday evening, and despite the unfavorable weather there was a large attendsnoe. The Chairman, Rev Mr Burrowa, after addressing a few encouraging words to the young people, oommenoed a very lengthy programme, whioh waß admirably carried out by the ohildren. A dialogue termed "The Irish Schoolmaster " by the boys and one by Annie Meharry and Annie Lewis are worthy of speoial notice, 4 duet " What are the wild waves saying?' by Mrß Williams and Miss Lowe, was much applauded by the audienoo, as also several hymns by the ohqir, Miss Bishop presiding m her usual efiioient manner. This meeting closes a very Bucoeßßfu) series pf Band of Hope entertainments.

A porraapondeqt of a I^oma paper who evidently naa a profound disbelief iq the QQM. writes :--Now that Mr Gladstone eeem? pot unlikely to fulfil Lord Palnjerston's prophesy that he would either die m a mad house or ruin his 'oountry— perhaps both—it U not amiss to recall, as nearly as possible, the aoroatio written by the late Lord Derby— G was a giant, a mountaiq of mind ; L a logioian expert and refiod )

A was an adept m rhetoric's art }

D tbe dark spot he had m his heart ; S was the sophißtry whioh led him astray ; T was the truth he bartered away ; O was the oipher his oonsoienoe beoame ; N the new light that enlightened the same ; E was the Evil One shouting for joy ;

(' 4t it, and down with it, Gladstone, my boy.''

Leprosy now exists jn almost every part of the world. Its ravages' are particularly violent m the Sandwioh Islands, m Japan and China, m India, Palestine, Brazil, Norway, and Sweden. There is no oivilised region of the globe where isolated oases . may not be found. In 1870 there were said to be 120,000 oases of leprosy m India, and under native rule there, up to 1815, lepers were buried alive. In the Sandwich Islands there are qow over two thousand oases of lep'rcray known and many more suspeoted. The spread of the disease threatens the extinction of the entire Hawaiian race. In eaoh country where it exists the history of its spread is the same. The history of the Acadian lepers is a perfeofc illustration, Starting from a single case, brought to the land m apme ohanpe way. the presence of the disease is unnoticed j^ntu its virus Ib fairly m the veins of a generatj'pn. The segregation and imprisonment of lepers is then ordered, but it seems almost impossible to s'tay'fhe slow oreeping of the disease among the people.

Writing of Viotoriaa sohools and sohool* teachers our if el bourne oorjreapondgnt says : — " It used to be said at Home tljiat a t Government billet' was the harbor of refuge into whioh idleness, inoompotenoe, and too often ignorance, were secure from the storms and adversities of work-a-day life. It was too true then, and m too many oases is only too true now. The colonies are not free from the same reproagb,, Qae of these cosy harbors m Viotoria appears to be fha State sohopla. According to we lagt jeeporta of iuspeptiori, and to one inspector" who bag done his duty, there are only 20 out of every 100 teaoherfl who ore earning their moneyi These 20 are doing 'eduoational work.' The next 40 are nof doing spoh work, but might he roused and trained to do it. The next 25 will « never be anything bnt fair to" good instruotoro. And 15 out of the 100 should never have teen teachers. We have here 20 oapable and oonsoientioua workers ; 40 idle people who oould, but do not, do efficient wprk ; 25 • duflfera ' ; and 15 utterly worthiest) people, Very oqraforiing intelligence for parents and taxpayers, is \t not ? '

The best medioine known is SANDER nnd SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Tests ?ts iminent powerful effeots m ooughs, oolds influenza, etc— the relief is instantaneous', Thousands give the most gratifying testimony His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates £11 over the globe, are its patrons. Bead the offioial reports that acoompany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references The pfiipial reports of medioal clinics and universities, the pfflclal oommqniQatjpn of the doriSlri-GeDewl *°r fr&ly at Melbbuiffle. the diploma avr«de<J t lQterDationaJ Exhibition, Amsterdam— all iu«se are authentic dooUments, and, as euoh, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of tb.6 various' oases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, eto Burning of the right hand through the ex*, plosion of a small oil stove, The epidermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand ol the thirty-year-old patient was completed , separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, apd half of the phalanx of the f nail of the middle finger was ooaled. The I pounds thus contracted healed Jq three weeks under v*. ll v applications of Duo&lyptip gxtraijt dressing. Toe patient has fttpfced the full i use pi tbe bft»?'— (Advt.) " j i