LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2311, 21 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

• The Prinoe of Wales is said to have reoal'ed Prince Albert Viotor from India. ' . The wife of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge ib reooveriDg from her illness. Mil? Myra Kemble, an Australian aotress> haß made a successful debut m London. The Farnell Oommieeion is to report m February, Piokford and Undrill m their new advertisement call the attention of our readers to their Btook of furpitura and goods suitable for the present festive season. Vinoent Dangan, who paid Miss Phyllis Broughton £2500 to settle the breaoh of promise case, has married a daughter of the Marquil of Abergayenpy, H.M.S. Orlando, now at Sydney, sails for Dunedin on 6th January. She will visit liyttelton, Wellington, Nelson, and Auckland, afterwards proceeding to Hobart. That was no doubt a fortunate railway aooident — fortunate that is for British diplomacy — of which the 3hah was the victim when m Russia. He still believes the Russians attempted to take his life. From the just issued Russian repot t, it seems that Nasr*ed-Din, having crawled out of the carriage and having embraced little Aziz, who was yelling like mad, sat down by the roadßide for two hours and refused to budge. When the engineer oatue to apologise his Majesty would not listen, but conveyed his expectation that the driver, stoker, and the ohief engineer himself should be immediately exeouted. As this could not be done, bis Majesty started off m high dudgeon on horse, back, and could only be persuaded to enter another train about twenty miles farther on. The proposals of the English Government re King George's Sound and Thursday Island embraoe forts, harraokß, and armament, with the establishment of a permanent force at each post. The amount contributed by England will be m ail £26,460. Western Australia is to contribute £5000 to the cost of fortifying King Gnorge's Sound, and thiß amount has already been agreed to by the Government of that oolony. The remaining colonies, on the basis of population, are set down as follows : —Victoria, £2795; New South Wales, £2760; Queensland, £993; South Australia, £802 ; Tasmania, £374 ; New Zealand, £1556 ; total, £14,300. The ooßt of fortifying Thursday Island is larger. The total anjopnt to be levied on the oolonies is £17,100, distributed as follows : — Victoria, £5059 ; New South Wales, £5054 ; Queenskid, £1804 ; South Australia, £1458 ; Western Australia, £196 ; Tasmania, £681 ; New Zealand, £2828. The annual cost of maintenance at King George's Sound ib estimated at £3113, of whioh Western Australia ib to pay one-fourth. New Zealand's share will be £441. The annual charge of maintenanoe at Thursday Island, where a larger force is to ba stationed is £4807, of whioh New Zealand will have to find £795. The maintenance, as well as the primary dost of guns and works, is divided according to population. The Government is m possession of the details of equipments of forts, and the number of the garrisons, etc., but deem it inadvisable to allow particulars to be made known. Statutory pepjaration.— l, Franz Eobbe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, m the colony of Victoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on the 25th June, 1877, my Boh Alfred, six years of age, was accidentally hurt with an axe on his knee. lat once took all pains to Beoure medical assistance. However, m epite of all efforts, on the 27th Augußt, 1877, the opinion was given by Dr MacgiUivray that an amputation of the injured limb had become imperative, m order to paye life. At this junoture I called OB Messrs Sander and Sons, proouring some of their Extract of the I Eucalyptus Globulus, and by the application of £he same I bad the satisfaction of seeing my son within v fortnight out of all danger nd to-day he is reooyered. I may just add ha it was when the oriels had been reaohed that the Extract ef erred to was first applied. And I make this solemn declaration,- etc — Fbahz Embb. declared at Sandhurst, m tl|e flolonyof Yiotori.a, Australia, this seventeenth (1 flay of October, oue thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven before me, Moritz Conn. J.P.— <Ady*s) ( 0 Boron 8K PiLBS~Wliy EjifEer PUcb? Ini mediate relief and complete euro guaranteed Ask for Rough oa PUosi Bore oqro for itchinei protradiug, Dlwding, OT any f or >o of ?U«e, '

The Premier has telegraphed from Hobart \ that he is improving m health. ? The annual distribution of prizes at the Aahburton High School takes plaoe on Monday next at 7.30 p.m. John Burns, the leader of the dook strikers ib related to Robert Burns, the great Scottish bard. A lady paraohutist dropped at Wolverhampton, from a height of 4000 feet, and landed gracefully m a fluid, the desaent ooouping ten minutes. The Christmas number of the New Zealand "War Cry" is to hand. It is a 16-page issue' profusely illustrated, the front page having an excellent woodout of the staff offioers m this oolony. The Aoting-Premier has received a cable suggesting Hobart for the plaoe of the Federal Conference meeting. Mr Mitohelson favors the suggestion and thinks it likely Sic Harry Atkinson will represent the colony; A colonial claimant to the Caithness peerage has appeared m the person of Mr W. B. Sinclair, Gunnedale, Now South Wales, whoaa father emigrated to Australia nearly forty years ago, and, it is alleged, was the nearest relative to the late Lord Caithness. At the annual meeting of the subscribers to the Destitute Men's Home, Ohristohuroh, held on Friday, it wsb reported that during the year 14,331 meals been given away, 14,484 beds made up, and work had been provided for 200 men and boys. An Australian (who has been m California) now on a visit to this oolony says the pumioe deserts of the North Island would grow the wattle and the olive to perfeotion. Wattle bark is worth £12 a ton at Home, and a good olive field is a gold mine above ground. The Dunedin correspondent of the "Presai. wires that he has the best authority for saying there will be no dissolution during the recess, but that Ministers will meet Parliament about the usual time, and that the Treasurer will be able to show a substantial surplus. On Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year's Day Telegraph offices which open to the publio on Sundays and holidays will be open from 9to 10 a.m. and 7to 8 p.m. On Boxing Day those offioea which are olosed to the publio on Sundays and publio holidays will blbo be opened from 9 to 10 a.m. We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt from Mr George Wotherapoon, who is directing the Australian tour of the " Little Lord Fauntleroy " Company of a copy of the Little Lord Fauntleroy Galop with title page handsomely illustrated with portraits of members of the Company, who, we under* stand propose shortly to visit New Zealand. Among the pictorial oalendars, the arrival of whioh from day to day at our offioo from various tradesmen marks the advent of Obriatmas and the approaoh of the New Tear, one of the best is that issued by Mr A. W. I Bandel), fruiterer. This is embellished wlji a very handsome chrome representing arM English, a Sootoh and an Irish lad m the T National aostumes, linked arm m arm, with the appropriate legend beneath, "United we I stand." A Dutch apotheoary has just taken out a patent for a novel automatio machine m the I shape of a wooden figure formed like a man. | The figure will be oovered with compartments labelled with the names of various ailments. The sufferer has only toplaae a pieoe of money m the compartment upon whioh the name of bis illness is insoribed, and forthwith will appear a pill or powder suited to his case. The maohine is oonßtruoted upon the same principle as the ordinary automatio ohooolate and bonbon maohine. A Dutoh paper prediots a brilliant future for this very original doctor, who asks no fees and pays no visits. Some time ago a man was brought into Albury, New South Wales, suffering from diphtheria m a most maligant form, and was admitted to the looal hospital, where be subsequently died. One of the nurses oontraotdd the malady, and whilst Bbc was m attendance on the man she was permitted ;o visit the eohool of arts and other publio plaoes. The disease has since broken out m several plaoes, one being a publio school. The outbreak m the latter plaoe is alleged to have been brought about by allowing the body of a man who 'reoently died from the disease to remain some time m the vicinity of the school whilst en route to the cemetery. .!- la Brazil co rapid had been tbe growth of republicanism that very reoently the Imporial family had determined to submit to a plebiscite the vital question as to whether or not the people desired an a\ olition of the monarchy. In a publio address at Pernambuoo about two months ago Count d'Eu, who is Generalissimo of the army and husband of the Crown Princess, solemnly deolared on behalf of his father-in-law, Dom Pedro, and, m the name of his wife and obildren, that the entire Imperial family was prepared to purrender the tbrone and leave Brazil as aoon as the nation had, by popular vote, expressed its desire for a republio m lieu of a monaroby. The oase of Gillot v the Governor and Company of the Bank of England came on the other day before Justices Field and Manisty. Plaintiff, a working man, inherited a large sum from a relative, among his possessions being a Bank of England note for £1000. He lost this m 1880J "and the note has not been seen since. Piiantjff sued tbe Bank for the amount, but Mr Justice Denman non-suited him, the Bank contending that they should keep the money until the note was produced. The Court now ordered the Bank to pay the money to the plaintiff, on an indemnity being given them to the satisfaction of the Master of the Court. The assistant president of the Canadian Paoifio Eailway Company has returned from the Clyde, where he has contracted for three ooean steamers for service on the Paoffia Ooean. These boats are to be 6000 gross tons, are to be built of steel, 440 ft long, 51ft beam, and 36ft hold. They will have twin s.orew engines, and are to be fitted with gun platforms, so as to be turned' into armed oruiserß m oase of emergency. Tbe first is to be ready for delivery on Deoember 15, 1890, and the other two a month or two later. The three will be loaded m England, and proceed to Yokohama and Hongkong direoi via the Suez Canal ; there discharge, and reload for San Franoisoo and Port Moody. Tbe cost of the three steamers will be about £60Q,000. One of Sir John Hersohel's numerical problem wae this :— lf, at the time of Cheops, or 3000 years ago, one pair of human beings bad lived, and war, pestilence, and famine had not existed, and only natural death oame to man, and this pair had doubled once m 30 years, and their children had doubled, and so on, how large would the population of tbe world be at this time — oould they Btand upon the earth as a plane? We were sitting at tbe breakfast table when he afifeed {he question. We thought they oould not. »' But if they stood olosely and otbers stood on their shoulders, man, woman, and ohild, how many layors would there be?" I said, "Perhaps throe,' "How many feet of men?" fie apked. " Possibly thirty," I said. "Oh, morel" "Well, we'll say 100." "Oh, more I " Mies Her.Bob.el said, " Enough to reach to the moon." "To the sun." " More, more 1 " cried Sir John, exalting m our ftßtonie^mcn 1 ;" bid higher." "To Neptune," said r ; r. ■ Now you burn," he replied. " Trhts a, hundred times the distanoc ef ffejftimc, and it is iwy iicar. That is my way," said he, "of whitewashing war, pestilence, and famine." A concert and danoe m aid of the Bohool prize fund was held on Monday m Mr H. Harrison's granary, Doric.' The building had been njaely decorated, and presented a very pretty appearance. The chair was taken by Mr John MoLeah. The first part of the concert connoted of musical eelootionß by Mrs W. Harrison, and Mr G. Harrison ; eong by Miss MoMillan, song by Mr W. B. Dixon, song by Miss Walker, reoitation by Mr McOandless, song by Miss Roe, song by Mr Butler, song by Mr Richards, recitation by Mr Story, song by Mj'bb McMillan, song by Mr W. L. Allan. Alter the interval musioal eeleotiorjß were given by Mrs W. Harrison and Mr G. Harrison, pong by Miss Roe, reoitation by Mr Story, pianoforte solo by . Mra Harrison, recitation by Mr McCandless, Bong by Miss Walker, song by Mr Butler, a step danoe by Mr R. Harrison, song by Mr W. B. Dixon and song by Mr J. Harrison. A number of friends' from Rakaia and other p!ao?s helped to make the concert very enjoyeble, Jtt was also financially a success and a nioe sum is on hand for the purpose of purchasing prizeß and supplying amusement for the children. The visitors were enter* ta»ne£ »>ght royally by Mr Henry Harrison with hi s ctiejkomaty JiJw&lUy, and the room beingoleared dancing was kept up till the small hours and everyone went away pleased with the evenjDß/'s amusement,