LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2897, 13 February 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A select committee has been appointed by the New South Wales Assembly to inquiie into and report upon the Picturesque Atlas jQompany, limited, and their actions for law against .cjjents. The' prohibitiomsisi pA «California net ■having at * the "recent election polled £ per cent of the total vote cist are, legally,, debarred from a position oh the ballot pipers Used ii>a«T? jfntAire elections. The lost ground, , bowevCf- W ty woOj^ped by petition. It i* alleged that the ? 9sb9f nrecreyention and charitable aid will absorb the W&ole of the rates of flreymouth this year, leaving" license fees to provide far street maint«napce } salaries, etc. The cost of fipe prevention in Westland for the past year aroQunte4 to £27,892, ot which £20,915 was insured and £14,639 salvaged. Mexico has » population of 10,(X)0,000, of whom 0,000,000 are of unmixed Indian blood and 2,500,000 mixed blood. The former '4^e, to iS t?P.ts an(l purposes, as they ' wafchrep a»il"'s> vbttlf .ce^turipa ago, when , (!ortez led his baud of adventurers ps. jtriujiiph , through the land. These Tlaxcalww yeip never"subjugated, but became Hernandos allies against the Aztecs. The following paragraph relating to the H^tiie luavkct will be of interest to Canterbury farmers. It i£ from an English paper of a date late in Peicembjer;—',' \»/heat tcu«h«d the lowest price on record in rome of the South Lincolnshire markets a few days a«o. One farmer was offered 2is per quarter for a very fine sample, and another only made 22a Gi. The latter was said to have been off a ten aero field, which only gave a total yield of twenty-flVe (juwten.

A few drops of rain fell this morning, and ah oppressively hot forenoon followed, the glass falling rapidly. About half-past two a terrific southerly butter came up, and enveloped the town in clouds of dust. At the height of the storm a team of three horses with a dray . bolted from Messip Rollitt and Co.'s store, West street, crossing the line and galloping up East street. The wind would test the building slacks. The roof of the Central Hotel was partly stripped of iron. " An advertisement by the Department of , Agriculture directs attention of m those interested to the.fact that the Dairy Industry Act comes into force on March 1. Dairykeepers and exporters of dairy produce .-hotild make themselves acquainted with ; lit; provisions of the Act. ■The "Gospel of Peter," which has been recently rescued from oblivion, demonstrates that the four Gospels were in existence at the time claimed for them, and,.as an English contemporary remarks, even "the maligned fourth Gospel in particular has been driven back practically to the very date and authorship which the orthodox tradition ascribed to it from the first.

• A meeting of ratepayers of .the Mandeville and Rangiora road district was held at the Fernaide schoolroom on Friday evening, to consider the proposal of the Waimakariri-ABhley Water Supply Board to borrow £31,000 lor irrigation purposes. There was an attemlance of fifty. It was resolved, with only three dissentients, "Thatthis meeting supports the Board in their proposal to raise a loan of £31,000 for the purpose of carrying out their Rock Ford irrigation scheme." A French scientific agriculturist has made a,series of remarkable experiments with potatoes, in one of which he obtained a yield of no less than 42 tons of tubers per acre. He selected the boat and soundest seed potatoes, ploughed the land very deeply, and manured it heavily. He also steeped the potatoes for twenty-four hours in a solution made by dissolving 61b of saltpetrß and 61b of sulphate of ammonia in twenty-five gallons of water. Then he allowed them to drain and stand for twenty-four hours for their, buds to swell before planting them. General Booth for a long time has been endeavouring to find a gold miae, and now one of his soldiers has sought aud found, not a gold mine, but the next best thing— a silver and copper mine. It is situated in the state of Arizona, on the slopes of the Huachuca Mountains. Members of the Army are working the claim and making it day. Two rock-crushers and a FrewVanner concentrator are being used. The concentrates, it is stated, are worth £60 per ton in copper and silver, and sufficient ore is in sight to run the works for three years. It is the intention of the local executive to establish \ Salvationist Colony at the mine, which is in a very picturesque part of the mountains. : Lord Hopetoun rode over the Longbeach estate on Friday, and was greatly (.leased with what he saw. In the evening herejoined Lady Hopetoun (who had not accompanied him to Longbeach) at the Levels. This morning the pirty arrived at Ashburton by train, and again divided, her ladyship being met by Mr Wagon's carriage and driven to Corwar, and his Lordship and suite being met by Mr Duncan Cameron with saddle horses and riding to Springfield, from whence they will go on to Corwar tonight, One of the riding party had a little adventure just at the start from A.»hburton, his horse, evidently a hard-mouthed sort, bolting with him down Bast Streets— fortunately without accident. The Waitara Freezing Company have pub] luhed th« following particulars relative to the cost of aeiv ting poultry to England: — •'The total cost of freight, primige, freezing, and insurance on poultry will be2d per lb on the cross weight, including the case, as that will require freezing too. This does not include the cost of package nor of paper to wrap them m, but it does include the cost of picking. ' AU the poaltry is to be delivered at VYattara p'uckeJ, drawn, and ready for freezing. We will prepare packages and charge coat on'y. The charges cover all expenses up to the arrival iv London; For distributing them there it will be necessary to appoint tin ugeiu., who will make his own ol.ar •; w« cannot fix tha here. If sent to arrive »bout May good prices will be realised ; it is expected as much as 4a and 4s 6d a bird."

During the past week there has been .some trouble between the Cjrisiohnreh master builders and journeymen. The latter demanded Is per day rise in their w*ges, bring the minimum up to 9*. The masters met oh Friday and received a communicati >n from the Carpenters' and Joiners' Association, ptating - that they had resolved to cease work unless this advance was granted. The masters drew attention to rule 6 assigned by the presidents of the Carpenters 9 and Joiners' ai.d Builders and Contractors' Associations, on May 16, 1891, providing that three months' notice must be given. The men held a meeting on Saturday night and reported that apart from other considerations the majority of the masters had conceded the men's requests ; heuce no further action will be taken as it is expected that all will join in making the concession. A series of several meetings, conducted by th« Salvation Army, began on Saturday evening, The leaders of the Army in what ia known as the central district, to the number of about fifty, arrived by the two eveoiag trains on Saturday evening, and were received by the members of the local branch of the' institution. A large crowd of people assembled to witness the " arrival of the troops," and a short open air meeting was held on the street between the post office and Mr Gamble's premises, at the close of which a procession was formed and marched down East street, by Havelock street, to the barracks. Another meeting, largely attended, was held in the barracks, and the series was continued on Sunday, large attendances being the rule. In the evening the meeting was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, which was crowded in every parr, and jbhe. services were continued till nearly ten o'clock. Thp services throughout were of the usual character, and were marked by even greater enthusiasm than that which is co well-known a characteristic of Army worship. This evening the meetings will be resumed in the barracks, and to-morrow evening a special gathering will be held, "an Indian durbar," at which East Indian dress will be worn by all the soldiers, and a 'dresses will be delivered by two of t\\e Army's Indian missionaries. The music, bath vocal and instrumental, at) all the meetings wag of a better class than Ashburtqn people are accustomed to hear from the' Salvation Army, HOIAOWAV'S OINTMKST AND PlLl^.— The combined ill effect of over crowding, sedentary occupations, and monotony of life ara | only too well known to those who hare to pass the best part of. their lives laboring in factories and crowded workrooms. The compii)sory gonfinement weakens the general health and induces chronic constipation, in, digestion, and various forms of akin diseases. Holloway's remedies are of priceless value '■ persons of this class, for they can be ueed without entailing loss of work, being purely vegetable in their compositions, and consequently act without harshness on the most delicate system. The experience of more than forty years proves that no means surpass Hollo way's remedies for caring bid legs, bad breasts, pilta, and wounds gf all kinds,