Local and General.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 910, 16 May 1891, Page 2

Local and General.

| Tbe nsa?! reading matter wiP be found : oo our firit an'i fourth pages. Monday b«ing Whit Moooay, will be : observed as a Bank holiday. < Three hundred cases of New Zealand apples, ex 8. a. Mamnri, realised from ten to sixteen shillings per case m London. Mr H. M. Lee, Clerk of the local R. M. Courts, has been appointed to fill the va oancy m the Supreme Court, Wellington caused by the death of tha late Mr Cisson. A boy of ten, named John Smith, ..who lives at South Kakaio, was run over by a dray on Thursday. Sin leg, over Which the wheel paiseii, was to badly cru'shnd that it is feared amputation may be necessary He is now being attended to m the Chvistchurch Hospital. j Football matters will be lively for the cextfbw weeks. On Saturday nest the Southbridge club plays Leeston; a jfortnight later, Lincoln College. TheLeeston club meets Merivale on the 25th; on the following Saturday, Lincoln College,, and on June 6th, Linwood. \ _ On the night of the 13-14 th, the thermometers registered a greater degree ot cold than we have experienced forsome time. In several of the dwellings about tfou'hbridge a thin film of ice formed ovur water, even i'r occupied bedrooma, arid m outhouses, ice fully an eighth of an! inch thick was formed. On Thursday evening. Herr Hartz gave an exhibition of his skill as a prestidi'gicaceur m the Town Hall, Leesron, ther6 being a good attendance. His various feats of legerdemain, etc., were skilfully per formed, some of his illusions being el ver ly designed and carried out. At the close of the entertainment a number ef * prizes ' were distributed amongst the audience. On Monday next a contingent of (qdios and gf ntlemen from the A«hburton Tennis Club will journey to Souihbridge to try conclusions with cor local players. Miss Reef, the champion lady tennis player of New Zealand, will be one of the number and we expect to see some very interesting tennip. Soutbbridge will be represented by Rev. E. Whitehouse, Dr. Withers, , MoßKrs Frame, Gates, Myers and Willis. A vbry serit)7iß accident occurred at Doyleeton yesterday morning, whereby an aired .voiuun mimed Ellen Magninnuss Riiffj-ied painful, and possibly fatal injury. The victim, who is very old and feeble, lives (|iiiio tilotu-. Sho has mors than once been placed m a Home, but always-left it, preferring her solitary lift. On Friday morning, as *ho was lighting her, fire, h-t\ kerchief became ignited. In lior alaroi, she rushed outside, and her cloihinS was speedily m a blaze. Brf ore the neighbours could get to her assistance ehe was shock-' ingly burned about the breast ,Dr Q&o. Goeaet was speedily m attendance and applied the ÜBual remedies, but it is' feared that the shock to the aged and enfeebled frame will have a fatal effect. { •