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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tbe " Rangitikei Advocate " suggests that the Jubilee of tbe Oolony should be rendered memorable by the establishment of penny postage throughout New Zealand. On Sunday next, being the first Sunday m the New Year, Mass will be oelebrated for the first time by the Rev Father Ohastagaon m tbe new oburoh at Methven. The "Hawke's Bay Evening News" saya that Bishop Suter is " one of the finest preaohers, most ardent workers, and genuine Christians m the oolony. With the inorease of added money of the Melbourne Gup to 10,000 soys, it has been deoided that the seoond horse shall receive 2000 cava, and the third horse 1000 soys from the stakes. The anniversary tea-meeting and concert of the church of S.S. Philip and James, Waterton, takes plaoe this evening, the tea oommenoing at 5.30 and the oonoert at 8 o'olook; Miss Annie Romberger is said to be the firet woman dentist m America. She has a praotioe of twelve years' standing m Philadelphia, out of whioh she makes an annual inaome of £1200. j The business of Messrs A. and F. Pears is, it i. stated, to be turned into a limited liability oompany with a oapitalof £1,000,000 and the shares will soon be offered to the publio. Sir Obarles Russell's preßtige has been enhanoed to suoh a degree by the skill be baa displayed before the Parnell Commissioners tbat the number of his briefs threatens to become unmanageable. A convention between Russia and 'hp Vaiioan has been signed by M. Isvolski. the Russian representative, and Cardinal liimpolla, the Papal Secretary of State. In aooordanoe with this convention, the Propaganda has appointed five Russian bishops. Tbe " Wanganui Herald " states that Mr H. D.BqII willoonte3t the Hutfc seat at the next general eleotion, and that he aspires to tho Attorney-Generalship. The same paper states that Sir Frederiok Whitaker is so seriously ill as to be at {times quite incapacitated for tae transaction of business. To-morrow being New Year'a Day and the day appointed for the Tinwald raoe meeting, a train will leave ABhburton for Timaru at 5.35 p.m,, and run one hour and fifty minuteß later than the time-table times of tho ordinary afternoon train on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, stopping at all stations. 1 By the will of the late Mr John Martin, Adelaide, m addition to other bequests, the following have been made to religioas 1 denominations for mission purposes ; Oburoh of England, £2000 ; Congregational Union, £2000 ; Poman (Oatholio, £1000 ; Wesloyan, ! £1000 ; Baptist Union, £1000. Tbe population of Switzerland is not muoh ' than half that of London, Aooording to the o^?" 1 * 1 -"tlmate now published it $ 2;934,055. W The Z?.™ •?•*■»» j*. h J 3 ow ° landlord, more than 300,u_? of -^J. ff "j 1 population being owners of land. Yet tut. «?_!!"' gration from Switzerland is very great. Within the past eight years 70,000 have gone beyond the teas. In the same period the total number of Swisß who have left the Republic, inoluding those who have settled m France 1 and other European States, m calculated as ogt fer ?hott of 180,000, {

A Paris Exhibition stage beauty is going o enter the harem of a Turk. A man hearing that a raven would live two mndred years bought one to try it. The London Homcapathio Hospital proposes ;o build new premises at a cost of £30,000. There will be as usual a short servioe m St 3tephen's Ohnroh thia evening oommenoinfe v a quarter past eleven. We have lo acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the Union Steamship Company's lime (files for January. Reoently the Peterhead, Sootland, polioe made the capture of a thief after a chase of nine miles by bicycle. A 'speoial train for the Timaru Caledonian Sports will leave Ashburton on tbe morning of Thursday, January 2nd, at 7.10 o'olock eturning from Timaru at 5.35 p.m, The companionship of the ."Mail" and "Guardian" acknowledge with reciprocal good wishes tbe kindly New Year greeting of the oompanionßbip of the Ohristohuroh "Press." Tbe range of the Mannliober rifle waß proved again m a startling manner tbe other day when an Austrian soldier was killed by one at target praociae at a reputed range of V over two miles and a half. A.S. writes m a Home paper:— "ln a recent issue I notice that you mention three men as having worked on one farm for a united period of 120 years. I know of a farm m a village m Bedfordshire where Beven men are now employed who have beagl working there for 35, 36, 51, 53, 59, 60, and 66 years respectively. A Frenoh paper notes that the members of a distinguished family of Limousin, when about the age of twenty, develop a round tuft of white hair over the forehead, albeit the reßt of their hair may be blaok, brown or red. The portraits of their anoeßtora for many generations past show this distinguishing mark, of whioh the descendants are hot a little proud. A well polißhed glass rod, rendered luminous throughout its length by a small eleotrio lamp at one end, is used by two Vienna physioians for illuminating from the outside some of the oavities of the body, suoh as the larynx and the nose. Placed against the skin of the throat, it lights up the interior of the larynx b ttf_ciently loc surgical operations. . The " Taranaki Herald " Bays : — Many of the orops m the Waitara diatriot have Buffered severely through the late dry weather, although the late rains have done a wonderful lot of good.- A very early harvest is expeoted. Grass is very Bhort for the time of the season, although not too late to be freshened up again by the more than welcome showers that have fallen reoently, American maohinery is m some respeots unsurpassed, snd yet the United Kingdom exports over £11,000,000 worth m a single year to less than £2,000,000 sent from the United States. Great Britain exports m a like manner £26,000,000 worth of iron and steel apart from maohinery ; while the United Stateß exports leas than £2.000,000 worth, and imports nearly £8,800,000 worth. A oonviot reoently esoaped from a prison m Mexioo. The bloodhounds, whioh are kept m that oountry for the purpose of tracking runaways, were m this case of no use, for the prisoner had provided himself with a few pounds of snuff, whioh he scattered on the way. The hounds soon desisted from the . Bearoh, and oould not be induoed to start! again. . I Mr Robert Adair, one of the oldest newspaper men io England, died at Maryport on J Out. 12th. He was 78 years of age, and was { for a long period proprietor of the "Maryport i Advertiser." Mr Adair was the oldest stamp distributor m the United Kingdom, having been appointed sixty yeara ago by the poet ' Wordsworth, when the latter was head of that department. Soene— A Polioe Court. — Constable : " And the prisoner Baid, yer Honor, as how somebody 'had blown the gaff." — His Honor : " What does that mean ? " Constable : " Why, given him away, yer Honor."— His Honor : "And what may that mean ? " Constable : " Why, rounded on him, air."— His Honor : '• I am etill ignorant of your meaning, my man." Constable : " Why, yer Honor, ho meant as how somebody had peaohed on him — squealed, yer Honor." Hia Honor decides to Bend for a " Slang Dictionary." An Englishman visiting Lake Tahoa asked a native if there waa good fishing m the lake, "Ob, yeßl stranger." "What kind of fish do you oatoh here ? " "Oh I all kinds, stranger." " What did the largest fish you. ever oaught here weigh ? " " Wall, stranger; we don't take no weighing maohines when we goes fishing ; and I am an honest man, and wouldn't like to Bay how muoh that last trout . I oaught would weigh. But I tell you, stranger, that when I pulled that fish out of the water the lake went down a foot." The will of the late Mr W. H. Nevill— of Nevill's aerated bread fame—which has appeared, does not adequately represent the property of tbis distinguished man. According to the " City Preßs," one who knew bim intimately says that, m addition to the personalty of £288,000, there are freeholds and leaseholds whioh may be said to represent £60,000, and a little prior to bis dea'h he disposed of property approaobing a quarter of a million. In addition the business, speaking m round numbers, may be worth £300,000 or £400,000, bo that the total would reaoh about a million sterling. An Athens correspondent of a Home paper reoently telegraphed: — In spite of the proclamation of martial law, the arrival of reinforoements, and the action of Ohakir Pasha, anaroby still reigns m the Canea distriot, if the reports received here are to be believed. According to them, the Mahommedans are accused of digging tbe bodies of Christiana out of their graves and committing other abominations near the various towns iv that neighborhood. Bandß of Christians and of Mahommedans continue to make raidß and ferocious attaoks on one another, destroying crops, vineyards, and dwellings. In the > distriot of Kiasmo five Christians ate reported to have been killed, An agitation is now taking plaoe m Manitoba whioh is likely to cause some excitement among the French-Canadians. The members of the Government of the provinoe m question have pledged themselves to introduce legislation m the next Parliamentary session abolishing the use of the Frenoh language, whioh is now permitted m conjunction with English, m the debates, and m offioial publications, It is also proposed to do away with the separate sohool system, under whioh Oatholios are entitled to have Bohools of their own, m any distriot where their religious belief may be shared by the majority of the inhabitants. The avowed object ia to make the eduoational system undenominational. *' Truth," whioh is a good authority on suoh matters, gives us some rather suggestive I details as to the present condition of the Emperor of Russia." Considering the interests that depend even on the Emperor's whim, thß situation iB not without its graver Bide. •The Emperor," says "Truth," "is, as I hwe often before remarked, m constant dicad of assassination, and this state of ever present fear, added to the hereditary melancholy of the Romanoff family, has bo utterly shattered his nerves that for days together he ia praotioally not responsible for hia aotions. The Emperor smokes inoeßßantly, and not only endeavours to sustain his spirits by oopious libations of ohampagne and brandy, but oMate he has taken to drugging J himself with ohloral. j Writing of Mr Maooabe's and Madame ] Minnia'a entertainment whioh is to be given i here on Monday next, an Australian oontemr porary says :— " We oan assure all tbe purists that tbis show is highly moral. It is dangerouß only to vest buttons and ill-set bustles. We never laughed so muoh m our lives, and we have seen and beard some good things. Anyone who oan sit unmoved before suoh finished acting and dramatic skill rpuat be an undertaker, or live next door to one. Macpabe's imitation of Russell was a splendid exhibition' 'of musioal talent and hia ventril'oquioal efforts ~ are something wonderful. The Magic Statue introduced a series of surprises. Mdlle Miopia personates a new kind of Galatea, who faspinatps the College Pygmalion. She danoed a Highland fling with charming grace, also a Spanish danoe, and fetched the house, whioh insisted on an enoore, The entertainment m its • _. " Vo,, aoteirs and quick transitions, is yaried ou- -*««,„ and nlggerisms. free from all vulgar*..— Rough en Catarrh.— Corrects offensiv, . odors at once. Complete cure of worst chronic I cases ; also unequaled as gargle for diphtheria I throat foul breath]

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2318, 31 December 1889, Page 2

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2318, 31 December 1889, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2318, 31 December 1889, Page 2

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