LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2889, 3 February 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

» The following are the vital statistics for the Ashburlon district for Januaty", 1893 : — Births, 27; deaths, 6; marriages, 8. The returns of the Ashburton Hospital for the mouth of January are—lv Hospital on January 1, 19 patients; admitted during the month, 9; discharged, 13; died, 1; remaining, 14. The Matron of the ifospital wishes to acknowledge, wuh thanks, the receipt of books, papers, and old linen from Mesclames Twenty man, Braddeli, Collins, and Bean; also papers from Miss Mainwaring and Miss Murray. It will serve to show how changed times are in Melbourne to mention that' Sir Mathew Davies' mansion at Toorak is to be let to an eligible tenant at £80 a-year, on condition, however, of the house and grounds being kept in order, which would cost £SJO a-year. The Agent-General is anxious to obtain information of young men about to leave England, and the names and addresses of farmers in New Zealand who are willing to receive cadets, with particulars, of the charges. The Minister of Agriculture is taking steps to obtain the information. MrCarrGlynn, chairman of the Assests Company, intends to form special settle- . inents on some of the company's blocks, if suitable arrangements can be made as to passages and capital Mr Glynn states that he has had a number of applications on the subject in England. , '■

The Supreme Court action, G. C. Primmer v Peter Stewart, is Bet down for hearing at the next sitting of the court at Timaru, next Tuesday. The claim is for £725 damages for alleged malicious prosecution and slander, arising out ot a recent action in the R.M. Court here under The Chattels Transfer Act. Mr Wilding is solicitor for the plaintiff and Mr Cuthbertaon for the defendant.

The following have been nominated to fill the vacancies on the Board of Education caused by the annual retirement of onethird of the members:—Mrs Drusilla Wilson, Messrs T. W. Adams, J. M. Douglas, R. Meredith, J. Munnings, and H. W. Feryman. The various Committees will have to send in the names ot threa of the above list for whom they vote, not later than January 28, addressed to the Secretary of the Board. j The Agricultural Department have received advice from Home that several parcels of New Zealand butter lately; received there are of irregular quality. This is regarded as a serious matter, because consumers will fight shy of the article unless more care is shown. With respect to cheese, the Scotch market will absorb all the Mew Zeaiand shipment, choice Home sorts being scarce, and an advance of 4s to 5s is looked for. The writer advises New Zealand shippers to send goods with all despatch. Believing that the export in the butter trade has been established on a firm footing, the Victorian Minister of Agriculture has turned his attention particularly to the cheese making industry with the object of plaoiug it on a similar basis by opening up a trade with Great Britain in that commodity, as has already been done in New Zealand. To further this object, the Governor in Council will be asked to pass a regulation providing for an export bonus on cheese. A rapid-firing gun recently tested at New Haven by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, fired 900 shots a minute. It is the invention of Messrs Browning Brothers, of Ogden, Utah. The only gun approaching this rapidity is the Maxim machine-gun, with a record of 750 shots per minute. This new basom of destruction has a waterjacket surrounding the barrel holding one gallon of; water. The amount of water is evaporated in one minute, when the gun is in operation. In experiments made without the water-jacket, the barrel would -become too hot for safety in less than half a minute. The ammunition is fed into the breech from a continuous web belt, holding the cartridges in p tckets. An irxjutjjt was hell at Grenfctl in New South Wah on January 16 touching the death of a man namckl vVcst, whofollftved the occupation of a snake charmer. He had been to Like Cowal, where he procured seven tiger;snakes. On the road to Grenfell he stayed at a public house, and soon after leaving it he dropped on the road. His mate, who was with him, tore open his shirt to give him air, and found a tiger snake 4ft long coiled in the man's chest. West was driven to Grenfell, bat died before the township was reached. A verdict of death from snakebite wen recorded. ? The deceased had a large collection of snakes,, and the police were occupied all Sunday afternoon in killing them.

In the District Court, Timaru, on Tuesday, before his Honor Judge Ward, the hearing of 311 application on behalf of the Official Assignee in the estate of D. M. Boss, a bankrupt, to set aside a mortgage of a portion of the bankrupt's property for £3000 to his daughter, Mis 3 Mary E. Ross, was concluded. Mr W. D. Stewart, with Mr Kinnerney, appeared in support of the motion; and Mr T. I. Joynfc, with Mr J. H*y, to oppose it. A great deal of time was occupied with the taking of evidence respecting ancient transactions of Ross, to prove that the mortgage, originally given to his mother and transferred by her to his daughter, was without any real consideration. When the case for the applicant had been completed, Mr Joynfc stated that the result of the investigation was such that he had advited his client, Mi is Ross, not to resist but; to do whatever the Court directed to put the matter on a proper footing. As a matter of fact Miss Ross had never made any claim upon the estate. Her father had put down the €3000 mortgage to her among the liabilities of the estate, but; she had made no claim; On this ground, and as she had been brought into Court, Mr Joynt asked for her costs out of the estate. Mis Honor granted an order declaring the mortgage void, and that there was no consideration for it originally, Miss Rose to execute any document to give effect to the decree, costs of the Assignee to ue paid out of the estate. The argument was begun on Wednesday as to the value of an agreement given by D. M. Ross to protect the moneys of Mrs Josephine Bower in his hands, and concluded pn Thursday* His :Honor Judge Ward decided that it was of no value as against the Official Assignee. Costs were not gifen against Mrs Bower, on whore behalf the document was defended. Another hour was spent in discussing whether Miss Mary B. Ross was eutitled to have her costs, \a ..the sait poncerningithe J^QOtf tao^tgagijon the Arcade, paw out of tne estate." His Honor decided that she was not entitled* There was some talk of an appeal on both questions.

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