LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2898, 14 February 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wakanui Road Board notifies that :he season for paying for small birds eggs will close on Saturday, 18th instant. A scratch cricket match, in which all players are invited to take part, will be played at the Domain to-morrow, beginning ftt half past one. At the meeting of the proprietors of the Union Bank of Australia (Limited), held in Londou on January 30, a dividend of £1 10a per share, equal to 12 per ctnt, per annum, was declared, and about £6000 was* carried forward. A notification from Mr S. Salck appears in auother column to the effect that he has secured the services of Mr Wilson lately manager for Mm Black, jeweller, and that all orders for repairs entrusted to that establishment have been transferred to him by whom they will be executed. At a recent Land Board meeting at Palinenton an application for land for a cemetery at Ballaßce was objected to because it was on the banks of a river. Mr Hogg remarked tjbat the Masterton cemeter/ was on the banks of the Waipoua River and the trout in the stream seemed to thrive remarkably well. At the Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting at Wellington on Saturday, the athletes associated with Ashburton acquitted themselves well. In the mile race they were first and second with Rees and Leggett; Rees was second in the three mile flat race, and David Matson won the quarter-mile hurdles—the event which won Canterbury the Banner. Colonel Eichbaum, of Pleasant Point, who on Satnrday week was thrown out of his carriage*, and received concussion of the | brain, died on Monday. Colonel Jfichbaum arrived in the colony by' the ship Waipa in ' the month of December, 1878, and having | settled at Pleaaant' Point, soon began to interest himself in all that concerned the! welfare of his community. His long service I for half a century in nearly every quarter of j the globe gar* htm a ripe experience and his | death is sincerely mourned. . The picture which the Art Union of London presents to this year's subscribers I is one of the finest works of art that has , ever been offered to them. It is an etching of Maebeth's (A.R.A.) Royal Academy, {ticture " La|p for the Ferry," and is worth ar more than the guinea subscription, which in addition, to this picture entitles the subscriber to a chance of winning in the drawing for prizss one of about a hundred ot the best pictures which the foremost of | painters have exhibited during the seasou. Subscriptions for the next drawing must be ', handed to Mr J. M. Cambridge by next Saturday. j Mr Maclean, the Glasgow miller now; touring the colony, says that the Scotch are , becoming more conservative. *' We used to be strong followers of Gladstone, but the commercial portion of the community are falling away. They don t like Home Rule. The labor element strongly support it, but the commercial and Bocial world oppose it. I think there is not much fear of Scotland ever demanding Home Hule. We are too closely bound together for that by ties of every nature." The Timaru Harbour Board elections have gone against the ruling majority on the late Bo.vrd, the leading members of the "shingle-shifting party, ' includiug . Mr Acton, Ciairm m for the past five years, being put out. The voting in Timitu (three seats) was J. Stuart 153, W Kvaus 145, J. Hill 138, J. S. Gibson 116. Mr Stiart is a new member. For the Levels (two seiits) E. T. Rhodes 301, J. Sullivan 267, F. Acton 162, J. L Morria 120 ({wo new members in). VVaimate, Mount Peel and Mackenzie are to he heard from, but- those against following the advice of the Kngineer Commissions are in an assured majority. As a consequence of the judgment of the Appeal Court in the Sydenham Licensing case Mr Robert Beattie, a-member of the Licensing Committee, has resigned the Commission of the Peace which he has held since 18S0. In forwarding his resignato the Minister of Justice Mr Beattie says, —" I have no power to traverse the findings of the learned Judge?. At (he same time, from a more intimate knowledge of the questions submitted to us, and of the intelligence, character and proceedings of my fellow eommitteemen than their Honors could possibly have, I am satisfied that we each did our duty in the position in which we were placed. But the conclusion is inevitable: that if the higher powers hold my intelligence and integrity to be below the required standard for a member of a Licensing "ommittee,. I cannot, in justice to myself, think them to be sufficient for the discharge of the publio functions of a Justice of the Peace."