LOCAL AND GENERAL.
n~ ♦ Stone throwing is said to be a too common amusement of tho, bojs at Wellington. A youngEter of Bix had ono of his eyes knocked out by a etouo thrown at him a day or two ago. Ono Nardyz, a Greek resident m Philadelphia, is given as tbe originator of a statement to the effeot ' that gloves made from human akin are being Bomewhnt extensively manufactured, m France and Switzerland, and that ho had himself possessed slippers made from the same material. An Oamant paper says that great as the benefit will bo to woolgrowers and shearers from the introduction of the sheep shearing machines, a far greater boon will be conferred upon the poor Bheep. Vinitors to the late chow* will have observed how neatly tho merino wethers exhibited by Mr Borton werei shorn. Tbe wool waa cut off very evenly, and close up to the Bkin, and yet not a Boraton on the ekin could be Been. The tar-brush. with . whioh shearers used to daub skin cuts is not required where the shearing machines arc usbed. ' Elixirß of life, as the "Hospital" point gi I out, are dangerouß things "to meddle with; j Without going into the realm of fiotion and quoting the fate of Mr Rider Haggard's j heroine, an inoident recently reported from America may be quoted. A dootor m Ken- , tucky prepared a doße of elixir of life accord- ! ing tp the formula of Dr Brown-S6quard recently publisbed> He injected it into a deorepit old negro, who presumably wished to be joung again, Within a short timo thp iii>gro died, tho sjmptom3 being thoso pi blood poißOGJng. The doctor fled, and, as. nothing had bean he&rd of him, id ig supposed that the negro* ftieuclfl have revenged i»B flefttU on $be {tootofc /
The next San Franoisoo mail will oloae at \ A3hburton on Friday, 29th inst., at 6 20 p.m. / Money orders for this mail must be obtained ' before 3 p.m. on Friday. In regard to the remarks appearing m yoatordsy's issue upon the new mail arrangement tot the Hiliß dis'rio', we are informed that mails for Springburn will continued to be carried each evening from the railway. Station to the Post Office, arriving at tho latter plaoe at 6.45 p.m. daily. A Temuka man had an unpleasant experience laßt Thursday. He was outting flax on tho rifle range, when a bull came up behind him without being noticed and tOßaed him completely over its back, From what he can recolleot the bull appears to have knooked him about for some time, as he subsequently found himself about . three chains from, the starting point, with the bull- Btandirig near, it having tirod of that form of aaausoment, or lost eight of him among the gbrse. ""''' '" At the R.M. Gourd this morning, before Mr R. Aloorn, J.P., and Mr H. Friedlandsr, J.l v .,' Robert Johns was charged, under the Po ioa Offences Act, with having beon guilty of dis- ■ orderly conduct while drunk, m the bar of the Tinwald Hotel. He was fined 60s and ooats 7s, with cho alternative of seven days' ioi-l prisouinont. — Thomas Logan was similarly; charged, and m his oaeo a conviction was' ontered up, and for having assaulted Thorn*.-?* Highstead he was fined 403 and costs, with' tho altornaiive of seven days' hard labor. — A : man who admitted having been drunk while: m oharge of a horse was oonvioted and; ordered to pay costs. . A recent letter from Odessa states that ■ never within the memory of the oldest British resident there had euoh intolerable beat prevailed m this region of Southern Russia as at the date of wrMng. Deaths from -BUQBtroke ooourred almost daily, even' among the native laborers. For ten days the thermometer never registered less than 144 < degrees at noon. One day it was 130 m the shade. On one day alone 21 oaßes of. bites from rabid dogs were reoived at tho station, ' and during 20 days no fewer than 33 oases of hydrophobia ooourred within tho city, and were treated by Pasteur's system of inooula-v iion, Tha " Melbourne Argus," speaking of the deßJtatoh of. the result of the raoe for the Cup, says : — " As is ou6tomary, a special effort was made to have the reßult of the prinoipal raoe of the day forwarded to New Zealand as quickly as possible. Tho line was kept oloar for the purpose, and concurrently with the shout of the thousands who proclaimed Bravo a3 the winner of the Gup of 1889, tho victor's name was being sent along the eleotrio wires by the fingers of the operator. The mossago reached Auckland before the horse and jockey entered the enclosure leading up to the weighing scales, 00 that it might bs said that the result of tbe great raoing event of the year; was known as soon ia that far-off city as it was m Melbourne." The age of highway ohivalry 'is not yat dead. It survives m the Western praries and m the breast of a footpad who boars the prosaio name of Smith. What Claude Duval was to the vehicular traffio of the coaching days Smith has been to tho rolling stock of the Santa F6 railroad. The other day, however, he was taken at a disadvantago by a strong body of polioe, and was made a prisoner. On the road to the lcok-up at Vornon ho managed to jump out of tho railway traio, and, oatobing a fleet mare, got a start of nino hours of hia pursuers, and might easily have found a hidiDg. Smith, however, is a tenderhearted rascal ; and when m the course of his flight he oame aoross a starving woman and child who had lost thoiariolves m the prairie, he lifted them into his saddle, and rode baok twelve miles to deposit them m tank home. While thus engagad he was recognised and pursued, and, as his horse was tired out, he was captured. The "Feilding Star" tells of a cabbage 601bs weight grown at Baaoonefiald, and that an axe was required to split it. The 41 Manawata Times "•« goes one bettor." It writes : — This is nothing. Down Earere way only four will grow on an aare. One resident did get six to grow one year, but tbe sbado destroyed all other vegetation, aud the lesser number is the Fif.> one to plant The cattle there are beooming giraffe-necked through oontinually teaching up to feed on th<3 outer ' leaves. At Aahutßt, two oross out saws are '• required to out the stalks, the timber of which > is utilised for fencing. Striot regard for truih , compels us to Bhow that thero ia nothing m the " Star's " sixty-pounder. Wa might go ' on to mention that the weight of vegetation ' down this way has oaused a subsidence of j land, but it ia uanecensary to record f>iOta [ whioh are bo generally known. Some mesmeric experiments were made at ' Dunedia the other day, about whioh the 44 Duly Times'' speaks aa follows: — Mr i Percy Prooter, who guve mesmerio entertain- , ments at the City Hall about a week ago, had \ a private seance at tb.9 hospital before a ' number of tbe senior medical students. Tho 1 firßt patient experimented upon did not prove tractable, but the aeoond was placed under Mr Procter's influonoe, and a number of experiments successfully carried out. These were ot much the usual churaoter. The patient was then entranced and was ordered to visit the exhibition buildings m the spirit. He announced his arrival there, but complained that ho could not secure admiseion — rather a strange oomplaiut for a supposed disembodied 1 spirit. On being told togo through the walls , he desorioed aomo of the exhibits m the t Maori court and tbe art gallery, but the cor. rectnoßß of theso has no& yet been verified. He was then told to describe tho operating theatre, and while he gave oorreot replies m 1 some oases, m other instances he failed to 1 do 60. . The usual fortnightly meeting of the Help. ' mate Division, Sons and Daughters of Tern* ' poranoe, was held at the Templar Hall ' last evening, when there was a fair attend- . f anoe. Threo new members were initiated, tbe ceremony being conduoted by W. H. Collins, P.W.P. A roport was presented by a Committee appointed to arrange details conneoted with a visit of Mr R. Goad to the ; borougb; Among other matters it was suggested by the Committee that the period for whioh Mr Ooad be engaged extend from tbe 17th to 23rd Dec, that the Oddfellows' Hall be engaged for that term, and that Moasra j Kingston and Gamble be asked to make arrangements for the musical portion of the proceedings* Tho roport was adopted, and a nope expressed that all the Temperanoe Sooieties and sympathisers would use every effort to make the mission successful. Other business pertaining to tho welfare of the Order was diEOussed, and the meeting adjourned. Receipts for the evening wero over £G. The meeting to be hejd a fortnight honoe will be a summoned pne, when important business will be brought before member?, Tho Ehipping trade of Hew Zealand is busier now, Bays the London correspondent of the Auokland "Evening Star,", than it has been for many years. The Kaikoura chut out 100 tons of oargo, and the Dorio, sailing today (sth Ootober), has refused fifty tone. The ship Waimea, now m the Downs, bound to Auokland, had to leave over 200 tons behind, whioil will, however, go forward by the Canterbury on the 15th instant. Vessels bound for Ghristohnroh and Dunedin |re also refusing cargo. The P. aud O. and Orient companies have raised their freight for rough goodß to Sydney to >>oa. Two ruontbtJ ago they were oarrying goods for 'just half this, flbaw, Savill.'and the New ' Zealand Shipping Company report that the demand , for space [for frozen mutton from New Zealand is far greater than they can supply. This state of things, however, is not likely to last long, as several meat-carrying steamer companies are m embryo. Shaw, Savill know this, and by way of being beiorehand, last week launched the first of three steamers intended expressly for this trade. The epeppd id on the stooks, and a third will follow.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2287, 26 November 1889, Page 2
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