Local and General.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 928, 22 July 1891, Page 2

Local and General.

The body of the late J. Hayhurst, of Te iiiika, who died tlioro ab^n' two years ago, was e^huuiml yester.l iy. Some martling developments are expected at h : inquest. A Oatit/e buys:— Mr Pnrnell having refused to piiy Captain O'Bhea'n costs m the recomdivorco ens- 1 , has bo^n sarvad with a notice m bnnkruptey. The coats amount.' to about a tb.ousn.nd pounds. A story comas fiom Paris, on June 23. that Mrs Lang-ry, tho actress, m a misunderstanding with her l ateat admirer, Mr Abinglon Baird, hud bath her eyes blackened. B'linl struck the woman twice. In another col win Mr C. T. Burgess «f the Beehive, announces that he has purchuseri a special lot of traveller's samples from a well known house. They comprise a large variety of plain and fancy drapery and having; been bought at a very low price, will bo offered to the public at corresponding rates. The Salvation Army's Centra! Labour Bureau at Christohurch ha 9 done satisfactory wark m the fii'3t m >nth of its exist- i ance. The names of over 300 men have been registered as seeking employment, nnd work, mostly of n temporary character has been found for about eighty oE that i number. Some excitement was caused m Leestonj on Saturday evening by a trotting match!" on the road between a distrioc horse and j one from tho Olmstohuroh side. The 10011 ; horse was altogether out of it. The ownarH rode themselves, ani worked almost as J hard as th« horaoa. : MpSaltiel Nathan, Medical Eleo'rician^ of Christchurcli, is now on a visit to Sonthbridge, and can b°> con«ult*d at Mrd nogartb'B, St John Street. Mr Nathan i» sole agent far the famous Flora Elecrrio Bolt, of which report speaks favourably.; appointments can be made by letter 0^ ;■ personally. [ Serious complaints ara mtde against the 8011 th African Company for neglecting to provide a proper equipment for the Maehonaland expedition. The country is alloged to l>e full of gravefl, fifty deaths havin? occnrr«d at Bundi alone. A\ Fort. Victoria 152 out of 160 police ara on! thu sick list. SttNSA.'rioN hue beei occasioned inCanaida; by the discovery that the late Sir John; Macdonald has bequeathed a large block; of shares m the Canadian Pacific Railway Company m trust for his wife. This discovery largely dispels the confidence of hia friend* that the late Premier never used his position to enrich himself . ' Most of you,' said the Bishop of Peterborough onco to some candidates for ordination, 'ought to avoid aotion m the pu'pit. I shall never forget a raw-boned irish curate I once hod, with hands like logs of mutton. I can Hoe him still preparing for a grand peroration, and leaning over the pulpit with outatratohed, dependent palms, as he exclaimed, ' Pawa, vm brithren— paws I ' The Japanese are so proud of their first Parliament that they propose to commemorate iiti opening by erecting a huye -nnnolilh on the highest spot m Tofeio. In Japan such a monument is erected with ■.pecial care and consideration , to get an . .•norinouH block nf granite and put it on end with nn inßCiiption is not the Japanese idea. The main purpose ib to find a stone shaped hy n 'it n re and chance m such a way as to do m some degree emblematic of the object to be commemorated,

It is hardly necessary to romind our" renders of the Comert and Date* which takes place on Friday, ui.der tho auwpicaa r>£ the Elleswoi-o (Julocloiiaa Society..' H*ull pailicolan -p eir m d'ir fld/ertiaing '•nllimtlß. General B)oili U expected id Ifave' London thin m >nb, -vn\liia toiir of in j Hpofi'ion rnnnil Mm »v >.rl '. FT > will touch at Caje Colo v, tiiid e» wjl i-r- c ed fc» Australia via llojhui. lie is duo itt Auckland nn or about October 20(h. Had iii ii l prt'si nt arranjj'-d will conduct: nc-et-in,iH(it A tick lurid Wellington, Chrinr?bnrch mid Djnedin. Tue dum'ion of hin stay m Now Zealand will lia about three weeks. On , iiif Wiiy, Ivtcjk^q Eng a/d be will innpeot: I lift indiiin^alvalion Army. One of tbe longest nn I most f-ital '>P thoKH i'nuiily fi'.u la. which .Jiiva di graced tlio S Hitliern States has jut. come to an end. The |El a* f)»'l*i«t and M'O»y», of West Virginin, after >hobtin< ■6-ich other down for many yearn wlt'i d ciniutin.; effdot, liuve become nconod id, and cli-j trwaty of ■ rjciici is In bo ratifl <d by (he mitring i of Auron Htitfield and\\li>H M' J.»y, fill iwd b ! y a grand biirbccnip. The woo ler is that any oE tho Hathelds or M'oo\s are b'UI alive to be ice moiled, ar^l that, being alive, any two of , ihern ln.ve got naar enough to enoh o h -r to make proposals of marriage possible, One o£ iheprty working on Hie Govern- ' inent relief works a'' Makauri givas a d ileful neoonnt of the c mditi m of the inch there. Ho says that bin experience lead« him to (he conclusion that a man would be better dead limn working on the r.lit f worka. The 'h-irdahip attending Ui>oq (jumping m llih bofth m winter is not what he complains of so miic!> as the huqi'l pries pad to tlie : man, by the.G>.^ ininent for tl.oir work, Oneg'ißgi after working hirj . for Hcven WBBka, hit only to dravy 5 I p^r man after p'uyintf for tnc.ker. .; Mr 11. H.'Hayt«r, Government S'ati«t, has issutd a return giving the population of Au^tialia, hh Hhriwn by cenfitiH, aa fMlowß:— Victn.ii.l, 1, 140,405; New S .nth Wales, 1,134,207; Q-ia.-nalarid', 1 393,938; J3onth .Austral in, 320,006, \Veßt,ern AuaIra'ia. 49, 835 , total lor the fiv j CJ denies, H. 038,391. The population of ISisnvinia he irivoH as H'J.GGT, ;'nrid of New Zetland iib 626,830. Tim total pponlation of Australia is. 3,811.88^i Aj^"nidara>»bf I^r crease igexpecfedin '(I»<rN*«Sw 8 >utn vValbl fiaureß when all . the .final; returns jar.a 'cna^e i»p but it it is noLexpected that they jwill equaltkpse of Victoria. ; -" .• . ! Truth, odih'rriehtirg on fire statement m the Sutkltiy- Times of Sydney riegfirdra^ petty tyranny/i on warships m :Auatralitti arid espe^iaHy- on tho RLn»dov .», .ursjea ithat tho allegations should receive. prompt , and pmp'.tatic denial, or that the vessel ; should be recalled for inquiry, and examples nooestary to save hpn;j|ir of tha navy be made of thong guilty ot t ,mißHße of their positions. UnJeBS Ihei«lißo!qaure3 aa to what took place on the Egeria and , Ringdove can be denied, the dayß of the British pquadron iniAustralia are numbered. .: I i. / ..: ■■'.'/ . .\i • Cdstom offiberii m Au^t^alia ha v*e given ■■' «o the Chinese tho palm for smuggling since the ttoamship Giithrie returned to Sydney from a lonaj excursioa tr'lp. One umial hiding places had been searched m. vain. Ther« were' no cigarn,' tobraiico, or opium stowed away m the forepeak under tons of tho -ship 1 ! cabl«. 'Evert the ventilator m the mainmast held .nolhln?'Contraband. But at last, on clow inspection of the cooking (jall^y, the officers,discovered that the rice pans on the firo wera underlaid; with tobacco, j lintssuppnal to be fr-zzling m the ov.*n were composed of cigars, and m tho cook-room wh it appeared tobeejrg'i and silt were, realty stores of the products of Havana. ■■'•;' , ; Thk Marquis of Salisbury', speaking at the United Service Club, reforred to the one-man -one- vote, and considered it waa unfair to attack the oldest franchise m tne country. He expressed delight at the strong hold the doctrine of Imperialism had taken on the public mind, and he mentioned that the agrarian agitation m Ireland had become a clerical conspiracy. In the course of his speech, the Premier said he was nnable to .satisfy, curiosity as to when a general election would take place. _ The Government waa finxionH to abolish illiterate vcterw, aiid would reconsider the question of extending the franchise to women. He also expressed the opinion that the cause ' of Home Rule had made no progress since 'the last election took place.' (