LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2282, 16 November 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Germany will strengthen its army to koop pace with that of Franoe.

Thero are said to bo more than 1)500 lobacoonistß' shops m London,

Bibles cannot bo printed m Madrid fast paough to moot tho demand for them m Spain.

At Lyons and Qtbor French cities tho oars are run by compressed jiir. They oover eight or ten miles per hour.

A public meeting m connection with tho weekly half-holiday is called for Monday evetoiug at eight o'olook at tbo Oddfellows' Hall.

A Zulu magazine has jub): been started by the Trappiat Fathers of Natal. It is designed to oonvey religious and secular instruction to their native converts.

It ia stated that Mr Hislop has derived mnob bonefit from hia visit to tho Hot Springe m tho North, and that ha will be baok at bis post m a day or two.

It has beon discovered that a mummy can be doalt with so ao to produce a rioh pigment much deßirod by paiotprQ; Hence a Pharaoh m the form ot paint i#ay, m these degenerate times, do duty on canvas.

According to the " Silesian (Ja?.eUo," sooialiam is rapidly growing m Germany, Jn 1882, Berlin had 24 sooiotios, now it baß over 100. In 1886, Bavaria had 1021 eooietiea with 58,000 members; now it has 2200 EOoietioa, with 122,000 membora.

A meeting of tbo Direotors of the Kaiapol Factory waa held on Friday. It was dooidod to olobo tho Faotory until the log m preparation by tho Union ia submitted to and considered by tho Board. The Managor was instruotod to writo accordingly to tho Soorotary of the Union;

The Hail way OommisEionors announoo that m conneotion with tho Oamaru A. and P. ABBooiation's Show roturn tickets to Oamaru, nvS'tabto ti!l Nov - 251 b» will bo iß » u °d at OhrißtohitT 0 ' Waahdyke, and intermodiato Btationa on tho -22! h ftn d 2lßt infant.

Wo observe that Mr W. Montgomery, formerly 11,11.11. for Akaroa, who baa uJC" m England and on tho Oontinont during tho past two yoare, is on hia way out to tbo colony by the b.b, Dorio. Mr, Mr?, and Miss Fitzgerald nro also paaaongors by tho samo boar.

The "Oamaru Mail" romarka that the news that Bank of Now Zealand sharos are now selling at £11 ia good nowa indeod, 'JLhis means that thoy aro at a premium of £4, a prioo wbioh shows that tho London capitalist baa atill oonfldonoo m tho institution and tho colony.

Aooor3ing to tho Athonroum, an interosting dieoovery hue been nmclo m India — nothing lobb than tho lost books of Euclid, of whioh a Sanskrit translation is said to havo beon found m Jeyporo. Mr 11. 11. Dhruvn, dolegato of HH, tho Gaikwar, is to road a papor on the subjoat boforo tho eighth International Oongrouß o! Orientalists of Stookholm.

Mr and Mra Maoksy havo strange notions oil " how to bo bnppy though married." The Bonanza King of California lives m iho groat silver Jund where he raado his pilo, whioh ho continues to augment. His wi/o has spent most of her time during iho ltißt 1C years ia Paris and London* Bho has just started for a month's visit to her husband, and. at the eafl ol tbat time will return homo,

Nominations for tho "Mayoralty for the enouing year oloso on Monday at noon. Fifty-fivo thousand seven hundrod # and fi'ty barrels of petroleum wore burned m tho Kattondijek Dook Sheds at Antwerp m oonßC* quonoo of tho explosion. The value iB about 1,500,000fr. Mr B, Turnbull, M.H.E*, haß bo far recovered from tho soriouß illnosß v/hioh has detained him at Wellington einoo the olo3e of tho seaaion that ho is expeoted to return to Timaru by Tuesday's express. Mmmmmmm A thiriy-inoh main used for natural gaß at Pittsburg wao being tested recently under presßuro from comproßßed air, when it exploded, tho fragments of tho debris being hurled among a orowd of workmen. Two tnan were killed outright and fourtoon injured, several of them fatally. There are nearly a million moro woman than men m tho United Kingdom, but tho disproportion botweon what are oallod ladios and gontlemen is muoh greater. If wo took tho familiar phrase, tho " uppor ton thousand" m its literal signification, we ohould find on analysis that it inoluded GOOO of the softer box to 4000 males. At Kirkeswald roaently the people mot to appoint an assistant and BUooossor to thoir ministor. This is how the "Glasgow Herald " concludes its report of tho meeting : — " After a suooossion of uproarious soonop, a motion for adjournment was oarriod by a majority, The meeting broke up m indescribablo uproar, the Moderator making an ineffectual attempt to pronounoe the benediction. The regular woekly meeting of tho Dawn of Peaoo Lod(?o, 1.0.GKT., was held m the Templar Hall on Thursday ovening. Tho Lodge opened at 8 p.m. Bro A. Mulford presiding. Aftor tho disposal of the usual routino business the Lodge wont into harmony when songs rendered by Bros Weloh, Pearson, and Ibell and a reading by Bro Gt. Soott brought a pleasant evening to a oloso. Tho Lodge was dosed m due form by Bro Mulford at 10 p.m. But one member of tho lato Fathor Damien's family survivoa. — His father died m 1874, Bhortly after he took up his rosideneo m Molokoi. His mother, a deeply religious woman, passed away m 1886. The Bhook she oxporienood m learning that hor bolovod and heroic eon had fallen a violim of leprosy was more that she oould bear at her advanoed ago, and she survived it but a Bhort time. Tho only living member of the family is Father Damien's elder brother, Louis, a priest, who Btill reßideß m Belgium. The annual Caledonian gathering at St Andrews this year promises to be a great suooobs to judge from tho numbers of entries for the handioap ovonts. These are as follows : — 44oyda (looal) flat raoa, 8 ; 1 milo (looal) flat race, 7 ; lOOyda (open) flat raoe, 17 ; 440 yds do, 11 ; 440jds hurdles, 9 ; 880 yds flat raoe, 11 ; 200 yds Boys' race, 6; 1 milo flat raoe, 8 ; 2 milo walk, 8 ; 1 milo amateur bioyolo moo, 11 ; 3 miles do. do: 7 ; 5 miles do. do., 6 ; 100 yds flat race (looal) 9. A sorioua fire ocourrod at Sydenham at halt, past throo this (Saturday) morning by which a twelve-roomed houso, inoluding a shop, ocoupied and owned by Mr Downie Hill ; a four-roomed oottago, belonging to the same owner, and oooupied by 8. Tomple ; and another of six rooms, owned .and oooupied by Mr Jones, were entirely destroyed. O.her buildings were endangered, but the efforts of tho Brigade were suocoßßful m confining the fire to those montioned, Tho " Tapanui Courier " says :■— " From Balolutha nearly all the sheep for Burnside market and the refrigerating works ate now driven by road instead of rail. We are informed that tha Hhoep can bo landed m better condition by this old fashioned method, and at a third of the cost ohargod by tho railway. A meeting of graziers will be held m this diatriot to consider the advisability of sending fat Bheep to market by road, as at present the cost of railage from Tapmui is £5 per 10Q, and they oould bo sent |by road for less than a third of that sum, At the Resident Magistrate's Court at Oxford, on Thursday, baforo Mr O. Whitefoord, sovon informations wore laid against four persons for cutting timber on Crown lands at Oxford. Tho proueoution was conduoted by the Grown Prosecutor for Mr Baker, Commiesioner o/ Crown Lands. Fines were entered against J, Booth, £75 ; M.Lioo, £30; J. Shaplin, 40j ; and Mrs Peham, £12 30a, for tho eevoral offonoes* Coblb m oaoh oaee wero £2 17a, oxoept m Lace's oobo m whioh thoy wore £3 lie. The informations wore laid under the Land Ao^ 1885, Seofion 26, whioh provides for a full penalty of £50 on eaoh oonTiolion.

Laßt evening's «' Ohristohuroh Tolegraph " says : — A renewed application was madfr.to tbo' North Ouulorbury EdubuTiou JJourU on Thursday for a aide sohool at Allenton, Aeliburton. Tho Board admitted the olaima of tho distriot, and remombored tho promise made that a sido Bchool Bbould be granted when funds wero available. The unfortunate part of tho case waa that funds wero ovon shorter now than when the promiso was given, and tho Board was unablo to provide what would evidently bo a great convenience lo tho younger ohi'.dren of tho settlors m and around Allonton.

Frank Lincoln, tho humorist, is to give an entertainment m the Oddfellows' Hall on Friday evening next ; and possibly at Rakaia pn Saturday evening. We can say of our own personal knowledge that be is without exception the oleycrost performer m bis particular line that we ovor saw or hoard. Ho is oxcruoiatingly comical, and koopa his audienoes laughing from boginniog to end. Ho baa had enormous houses everywhere, and we expect to see tho Oddfollowa' Hall orowded. Everybody who oan by any means go ought to do so, for if laughtor prolong life, as it is said to do, then thoy will all oertainly livo the longor for it, for Lincoln ia so intensely funny that ho would drawn laughter from a Sphinx; Our readers, or at any rate thoso who take an interest m the wheat rnarkot, havo no doubt observed the groat difloronoo m prjoo whioh exists m Sydney between Now Zoaland and Adelaide and Oalifornian wheat. At first Bight (says the " Ohrißlohuroh Press ") it may be 1 imagined that thia ia duo to the quality of the \yhoat itself. It appears to us, however, that this not tho true explanation. It will be admitted, wo think, that an English miller is as good a man of business aa is to be foupd m any part of the world, Tot m England ovr New Zealand whoat sells off coast within 3d to Cd per bushel of Adolnido, and fetohes the same price as Californian, if anything pr6foronoo being given for ours weight for weight. New South Walos millers, either through oxtromo prejudice or for other reasons, makp a diftoronoo m the value of our wheat, oompared With Adelaide, of Is Cd per bushel, • •■ ' i

Some few months ago, at the suggestion of several residents m tho Tillage Settlement of Nowtown, a Bubuib of Ilakaia, a Wosloyan Sunday Sohool was Btartod m that looality, and, {n tho absence of better accommodation, tho ofler of a room m ono of tho settlors' homos was utilised for the purpose. Tho movement mot with so rnuph suoooaa — and tho attendance boing both numorous and regular — it was soon evident that acoommodation moro suitable and oztensivo would havo to bo provided, unloaa tho teaohors were to adopt the undesirable course of refusing admission to pew soholaru. Hooently the ohiidron havo had the novol, and poi altogethor undoairablo oxporlonoe of boing taught (on oalm Sundays) with only tho sky for a roof, tho seats boing arrangod under Bomo sholtcring trees. Hot long ago steps wore* fft k° n wiln a v * ow to oreoting a email building wh»"cu T ouia »-°T iho . im } P. ur POBo of a Sunday Sohool and v l:~ oI W>rsbi D , and tho promoters woro greatly onoouragou »,* ° prompt and liberal manner ia whioh frionds of all oroods subaoribed to the worthy objoor. A Bite was givon by Mr William Stevons, and undor the direotion of Mr It. Bird, tho building, whioh will ooßt about £03, haa been ornoted, Mr Charles Shannon being the oontraotor. Should tho weather be favorablo, a largo numbor of pooplo are ozpeoted to be present at tho Ilakaia Town Hall to-morrow, when the oponing servioca will bo oonduotod by liov J. J. Lewis, of St Albana, ono of tho moat popular of oolonial Woaloyan ministers, and appropriate solcotions will bo sung by a small party of vooalisld Iruta Atjhburton, undor Mr Gamble's leadership. Tho inevitable toa mooting will bo hold noxt Wodnonday, and m addition to the usual attract iona at gatherings of this nature, tho Boy W. Morloy, who is widely known as an ablo speakor, will delivor a popular leoturo. It hna boon suggested that a trip to Bakaia by Aahburton- vmpathisora would be a very pleasant way) ' uponding tho balf-holiday on Wodnosday next. flouau on Hats - Clears out rots, mioe roaches, (Has, anta, bdd-buqs, beetle*, insoota ikunka, jrok rabbits, sparrow*.! gopUm i At