Local and General.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 957, 31 October 1891, Page 3

Local and General.

Thb English Mml should be here on Tuesday. The Tonguriro left Hobart on Thursday afternoon. Mrssrs Eilbride and Hanna are the successful tenderers for the additions to the Southbridge school. Their price was •£319. . . . Messrs Huddart Parke's steamer Cppgee defeated, the Union Con pony's' Rotomahana m a run from Laujjcenton by five minutes. There was great excitement on boihi vessels. Qbnbbal Booth arriv d m Ch'i6tchurch on Thursday, and was accorded a magnificent reception. His open a'r on i indoor meetings were thronged, acid hid addresses were enthusiuatitally received. Ijr consequence of the revolting crimes which bave taken place m Berlin recentl} 1 , tho Wilnam has directed that! the= strongest repressive measures betaken m the. iinterests of morality. ; Air ingenious patent, by which water for domestic use can bo boiled m forty -five seconds, hag baen developed m Auck* land and been taken up by a rtrong syndicated Agents ere being sent to Australian - 11 A WOMAN, and her children were murdered 'under atroo'ous circnm (a ices m Texap, and "a negro who was supposed to have competed .the deed was captured by a mob, of a thousand people and burned alive at the' stake. BVa printer's error, m our report of the prizejjis't at the ; Ellesmere Show, it was statad that.T. Blyth was highly commended ia'' ; th'e ( ''shoeing' competition. It was 1 Thomas Walker whose work earned the h. e,,.car4.;; : v „. ..-. :i -. . : .. . THBOId Oak-Lodge, No 174, of Druidsy held; its for thigh tly mealing on Wednea-, day>laßt./ Brb McVinnie, A.D., presided. The -main item of.businabS was iha initiation iof four new members, for whom the customary ancient rites were p.-rforund. Titt/New York Court o£ Appeal has renjlisreVl. void the TiidenTruat. This was a Trust erected by the will of the deceased millionaiie, Tilden, who left the bulk of his property $o. truces for the foundation of a great free library m New York. New York will now have to go without its library. < ; v, ;: . ; . ; ., , : - . . .... :, i On Thursday eveiiing.the Committee of the Ellesmere Caledonian Spcinty met at the Hotel. A. large amount f ; bußineea ; was transacted! m conuect;#a witlv / the forthcoming sports,- and subcommittee b were appointed (o attend tot he ground^make arraogementa for tho ball, and others matters. It waV decided to let the liqptha, etc., by auction. Of Wednesday evening Professor M B. Lye gave his phrenological lecture m the Little Rakaia schoolroom. There was a good audience, the room being we' l rilled. Mr Lye was m capital vein, and kept his hearera ilaughiog with him from tlio com- • mencement of his lecture/ to the very end* tHe gives his entertainment m Killinchy on Taesday. - Thb entertainment announced by Mr Hugh Brunt for Wednesday evening, was, owing to the unfortunate illness of Mr H, Brunt, postponed. A reference to out advertising columns will show that on Tuesday evening next Mr Brunt will b* glad to see as many people as the Hall will hold. He has a high reputation as entertainer, apd a couple of hours fun many be looked for. This evening a ma!oh atDraughto will benlayed-in, the Qrapge Hallj Leoatpc, between" players' representing Killinchy aud Leeaton. For the latter place Messm Brook.Jßl.apkler, A> Baraetr, . Curator., J. Denald, Johngton, Plant, McVinnie, Malcolmson, Bummerville, Hemy, Young, ancf Wbodham, will play. Tho match commences promptly at half past seven, and the players are specially requested to be punotual. Edision-b invention is being applied to railways, and under hia system three stationary engines will bo adequate to control the whole of the traffio on the New York Philadelphia line at whatever rate of speed is desired. It is proposed to run electric trains betwef-n Milwaukee and Chicago during the. World's Fair. The rails will he utilised for transmitting; tbe olestric currents, and the whole system can be worked with perfect safety. A B«T named George Joseph Beasly, aged fifteen, was charged at the Chriatchurch Police Court on Thursday, with the larceny ot a wach. Beasly, who is on exBurnham boy, was employed near Leeaton, and on Tuesday visited the Show. He there stole a watch, valued at£l, from the stall of a woman named Johnston. He was convicted, end ordered to come up for judgment when colled on, his master having expressed his willingness to take him back. An unuiual obstacle to preparing land Hettiemeni was referred to the Land Board luvorcargill, The Clifden run, west of Waiau, falls m March nex',and it is neces wry that surveyors thould get on the land t> i ropare It for small settlement. Mr R Tapper, the present lessee, refuses to allow the survey to proceed till he. goes out* This would throw the land idle for monthe The Board seemed to think that it could not force an entry, and it wai deoided to ask Government tor instinctiooa v there may be other similar cases,

Mb SfiERA, one of the members for Aucßlund City, addressed his const! v n'n at St Jameß* Hall. His speech was pi< cipally a review of the work of iln session Tie defended the Payment of Meinlieiß Bill, and rrgretted that a land tux pure ami eiinple wa^ not imposed. Dr Liishley, nmidet s< line disorder, opposed tho vote, when Mr Sliera rose and informel the meeting that he and other ni.mhpra hnd been asked to try and obtain tho Order of KCM.tt, for Dr Laisldey, but i hut ;hey Ind Jejlinel to do bo. Di* L'U-mley speaking amidst uproar, said that li 3 knew nothing whatever of thin circumstance.