LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2288, 27 November 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

5 The new fortifioatioos of Paris have coat , £150,000,000. A writer m " Blaokwood's Magazine " argues that anoient Borne had probably 4,000,000 inhabitants i It will require 40,000 oensua-takera to gather the statistics for the United States census m 1890. A Wanganui lunatio the other day made for himself a decootion of loaves whioh he ' thought wore koromiko but which proved to be tutu. Be still lives, and is now botter 1 versed m botany. It is Btated that one of the banks m Ohtistohuroh has arranged to pay the travel' Jing expenses of their olerka to the Exhibition, and to provide them with quarters during their visit to Dunodiu, The total quantity of ooal now annuaVy handled within the limits of the metropolis ia ; upwards of 12,000,000 tons per annum. Within the last 30 years the ooal consumption of London has moro than doubled. The phonograph has been turned to a now aae to record Bounds given by the heart and lungs under ausouHation. This should be invaluable m oonßultation, as a true account of the patient's condition pan bo Bent tp a doctor at a distance! The great ooefc of luminous paint has so far prevented its extended use. An Austrian firm has, bowpver, improved on the present method of manufacture, and announces that it will be able to sell it at %3 per lb r so that tbia drawbaok will not bo removed, The local solicitors last week memoralisod the Minister for Justice to increase the frequenoy oi the sittings of the Distriot Court m Ashburton, but without suocoss, the Minister for Justice being of opinion tbat the business is not sufficient to warrant the holding of monthly sittings, The ways of wjotjoneors m different parts of the world vary greatly, fn England and Amerioa the seller bears the expense of the gaje, but m France the purchaser bears the i c °gt> b VQt Cent being added to his purchase, {n flollund it (a ejill worse, the buyer being required to pay JO pur pent additional fdr •he expenses ol the sale, The A.'Utrian Government, whioh oontrolu the tobacco u^dt), made a great financial loss by raißing the pf.' Ofl of cigarp. In Vienna alone 35,000,000 fewer qi£*W have been sold, with a corresponding increase* m the consumption of cigarettes and pipes. In all the locs amounted 10 710,000 florins, A church made ol past Bessemer steel has just been constructed by an irop works at Hennegau m Germany.' £ts destination U the island of Mania, where frequent earthquakes render a brick building unsafe, The weight of this stool church is 1600 tons, and it will, it is thought, from calculations made, be oapable of resisting earthquakes of a very i severe nature. ] Bigid Sabbatarians ought to go to Servia. ] I The Metropolitan Michael has succeeded m | getting & law passed by whioh every kind of business is strictly prohibited on Sundays and { on all Holy Pays of the Orthodox Ohurob. Thuß trado is stopped pn IsO days m the | year; and a tradesman recently caught m. i fringing the law by selling a pennyworth of rice on a ohuroh holiday was fined ££, The abandanoe of remains of the mammoth t m Siberia is almost incredible. Middendorff i reckoned that at least &90 pajbrs of tUßkjp bad i been put upon the market yearly during jtho i last two oentuiioß, and from personal obßsrva.- ] (ion Nordenekjold is inclined to regard tbi3 1 estimate as too Email. It thus appears that 1 m the recent modern trude useful tusks of i more than 20,000 of theee animals of past < ages have been oolleotod. I B. J. Pis (of Linley and Dix, theatrical { advertising agents, Wellington), arrived m ] Ashburton last night to make arrangements < for tho appearanoe on Monday and Tuesday next of Kingsloy, Tracey, and Denio, Musical Comedy Company. Judging by tho crowdod houses this company have boon drawing m i the North Island, and the reputation they ■ J bring with them, a great treat ia m store for I ' tbe lovers of mueigul comedy. *

Miß3 Clara Hamilton, who cornea here wi'h a hl 8 d reputation an a vooaligt, will appear at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening m her entertamment " Twa hours at Hame."

Tho British naval programme for the future 13 onkasaJ. I a addition to the thirty-eight warships of one kind or another now m oonBtruotion, seventy more are to be laid down at ? °°?t of £22,000,000, making 601 warships Dj XuJjL*

Tha London correspondent of an exchange aays .-—There must still be considerable projudioe against New Zealand oheese m the London market, as I hear that one of the largost buyers rochristenß and sells all his as American. I am going to enquire into the why and wherefore of this presently.

At the R.M. Court this morning George Webßter was brought up on remand charged with the larceny of a suit of clothes. The pohoe said that as the result of iuquiries instituted by them they had ascertained that the goods the aooused was oharged with having stolen were his own property, but that he had himself to thank for the position he found himself m, owing to the uußatißfaotory aocountß he gave when ho was arrested! the other day for drunkenness. Tho t>ooused was disoharged.J

All the Inveroargill butohers, save one, advertise, disclaiming having purchased the two cancerous bullooks at tho Baleyards laßt Tuesday. The exception. S. A. Palmer writes to the •« Daily News" admitting having done so, but says only one had oanoer, ana that he boiled down for tallow and bone dust. The other had a slight swelling on the jaw, suoh as bullooks often have. He declares the high prioe he gave, £4 2s 6i for eaoh, wbb duo tojj mpetition, the price starting at 30s eaoh He further Btates that a good bullock waa worth the price of both. • The result of the travelling dairy m Viotoria, as Bhown by the report ol the Government superintendent, is that there are now forty factories started m that colony, and twelve creameries are now being , fitted up to work m connexion witn tho Fresh Pood and Storage Company m Melbourne. This company propose to convert cream into superior butter, for looal consumption m hot weather. The greatest trouble connected with the faotories seems to be the diffioulty experienced m getting good managers, and the superintendent recommends the establishment of a dairy farm at whioh young men and women could be taught properly the business of dairying.

In Sydney on Saturday night a mysterious murder ooourred, the victim being a youDg single man named Henry Blaokburn, It, occurred at the corner of Riley and Devonshire streets, Surryhills. During a Blreet row, m which the decoded had become involved, he was stabbed m the left breast. Ho wus heard to ory, " lam Btabbod. I was stabbed by that man there," pointing to one of two men who were soon running away, and almost immediately dropped dead. The police have not yet found out who inflioted the wound, but a butcher's knife, with whioh the mischief was done, was found on the spot. This is proved to have been stolen from a butcher's shop m the neighborhood, but no traoa can yet be foind of the murderer.

Jersey Island, the place from which we obtain the favorito Jersey oow, is a small spot of land. If squared it is 6} miles oaoh way. Yet tbia little island has a population ot 60,000 human beings, and over 12,000 oattle, and has had that number for the last twenty years, for tho census of 1861 gives 12,037. And yet they export on an average annually 2000 head. Eoughly speaking, on this liuloieland they manage to support; one head of kino to every aore, while m England there is only one head to every ten aores ; therefore, m proportion to its size, Jersey exports as many cattle every year as England contains. If England were to export cattle at the same rate, her whole stock would bs Bwept away m a single year.

A former Minister of Eduoation m Victoria with the prooaia name of W. 0. Smith, is remarkable for the size of the boots ho wears, of whioh many jokes have been made. Here is the latest:— The Stqok Exchange was disturbed m a singular manner, and the oldest bands, couluu't understand it, Blook 14 South Broken Hill went suddenly up, so that a repetition of the Eouada fiatco was feared, liumorß of big purchases ordered by wire from Ballarat were floatiDg about, and the market was as unsteady as the House m an all-night sitting, A broker who keeps hia eyes skinned set himself to solve tne mystery, and he found that the origin of the riso was a telegram from a well-known and gallant legislator m the golden oity to a friend m Melbourne, whioh had m some manner loaked out. The message simply was : " Buy fourteeus— urgent." The friend was interviewed and asked point blank : — " Are you inatruotod to buy Block 14 for the Colonel ?" "Blook 14 be hanged!" was the zeply. " The Colonel aeked me to buy a pair of boots.* Ani m ha'f an hour tho market had recovered its equilibrium.

It is shown by statislio3 that the dire disease oanoer ia on tho increase. Dootoia tell ue that, too ; and they also know of singular incidents m oonneotion with the trouble. Here is one :— -Some women were ia solemn oonolnve, and the incidents of the latest death from oanoer cropped up. A woman had received a blow. A email lump developed at the Bpot, which she took no notice of for a time, bul at last went to a doctor. It was oanoer; she was too late, and died two or three months later m great agony. The facts were of course dilated upon, and no particular notioe was excited when one of the party suddenly rose, bade the others Rood afternoon, and left. She went straight to a medioal mun, and told him how she had received a blow some six weeks previously, and that a small lump had formed. He examined it, and at once Bent for his medioal ohum. They both examined it, and concurred m opinion, and without more ado exhibited ohloroform to the woman, and when eho oame to held up before her astonished eyes a small sao.like object. » You are saved," they said ; " this is the germ of oanoer ; you are just m time, the roots have not yet escaped from it." The rest may be imagined.

4- curious point m oonneojion with i judgment summona was raised m Ohrißt qhuroh en Tu'eeoay, A money lender namei Stranaghon took out a judgment summoni against one Davip, but no oonduot monoj was tendered the debtor. The Magistrate Mrßeetham, said that the Aot stipulated thai the oreditor should pay the dobtor's oxpeneeE to enable him to oomo before the Court, and until that bad been done the Oourt could nol prooeed to hearing. Ssranaghan replied thai Mr Justiae Donniston had decided that when the oreditor waa prepared to prove the debtor'a ability to pay Mb (the debtor's] presence wnp not necessary, bo that it wae not neoesa'ary to tender oonduo( money. Mi Beethara said thia r^adjog was quite new tc him. Ho aeked lor information from eeyeral members of the Bar who were present, bql they seemed to know nothing about it, though it appeared to be admitted that if suoh a deoioion had been given it was not unsound, becauso all that a judgment summons called on a oreditor to do was to prove to the satisfaction of the Court that the debtor, sinoe the judgment, had been able to pay his debt, This was said to be quite possible, though it obuld only happen under peculiar oiroumEtanoes. Mr Beetham said he would £biak over {,he point. S'ranaghan, however, failed tp prove the debtor'a ability and got an adjournment.' ' '.'''■ Certainly the" Most Efleotive MEDICINE m the world is SANDER and SONS, EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Teat its eminent powerful effeots m Coughs, Colds, Influenza, etc, ; the relief is inßtantaneouß. Thousands give the moßt gratifying testimony. Read thiß certificate : — " 24th April, 1885.— Messrs Sander and Sons,- It is with the groaiest oi pleasure I testify to the exoollenoe of ygur Euoalypti Extraot, Saving bad inflammation of the bpne of the leg, whioh come on after a Bovore attack of low' feyGr, I was attended by Dr J. Boyd, who had made otrenuous efforts to save my leg, but withoue success. He found it nooessary to amputatt my limb. Having heard m the meantime of Lhp wonderful ourea worljod by the Euoalypti JiiXtraot, I obtained a bottle, and the extract had not been applied more than an hour when I began to feel greatly relieved. After apply. Ing the o*traot every four hours tor nine or ten days % was out of al| danger. I would persuade all who may be (ifTeotpfl with any Mioh dißeaßo to give tho Eucalypti jjxtraots trial, and I am oonvinoeij that they will find it the most wonderful 0 ( modioineß,— Yours etc. E.J.Ooknow, Wattle street Sandhurst' »(Advfc.> g '