LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2587, 1 December 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Complaints are being made :<» w°i the spread of Bathursfc burr—the of °* Wool growers. As notified elsewhere by advertisement, Mr E. G. Wright's committee meets this vening at 7 o'clock. '

Mows than 1900 Berlin, Germany, storekeepers, mostly dry goods men and grocers, have now signed the agreement to close at noon on Sundays and holidays. Emigrants arc returning to Europe m large numbers from the Argentine Republic, finding the country at present m too chaotic a condition to settle m it. MrH. At, Stanley will divulge at a lecture on Tuesday, m London, the atrocities committed' by members of the rear guard of his i expedition. The poet Queen of Roumania, who is sbjouring m Wales for her health, is making studies of West scenery and character, which • will figure m a new novel on whichuhe is at work. Mf 3. G. Ward has been returned unop posed for Awarua. Mr James Carrol has been returned for the Eastern Maori district, and Tamati Parata for the Southern district. Strawberry farming pays in' England.' From, a single strawberry farm at Orphinston the, proprietor got 500 tons of fruit, an amount which, at tewopence a pound, represents a turnover of more than £9000. " What are you going to do when you are a man '! " asked a gentleman of a four-year-old toddler. After a moment's thought: " Well I guess I will be the father of some other little boy." , Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the C4erman who commands the British army m Ireland, weighs 308 pounds. It m hard to find a horse to carry him with any grace or comfort. The Oamaru Harbour Board has decided to cut up the Otematata run into six amall runs. About 2000 acres of the property is suitable foe cultivation, while the balance is described a a iir3t-clasa grazing country. •Mr J. CL Williamson has, says the "Daily Chronicle/ tried to get Mr and Mrs Kendall to, make a tour of the colonies, and offered them £6003, but they declined on the ground that a provincial tour m England was more profitable. The Kai tangata Coal Company distribute between £700 and £800 m wages fortnightly. Our B&lc\uth& contemporary says that "a good; mac i and a boy can cam from £12 to £14 m a fortnight, and no miner worth his ' salt makes less than 10s a day." A chui eh parade of the United Friendly Societies, took place at Christchurch on Sunday afternoon m the Cathedral, which was densely crowded by the members. Bishop Julius preached. This is the first gathering of the kind held m Christchurcch for many years. .Mr. C. Bates, of Temuka, was knocked down hy his runaway horse on Friday morning, '.' the wheels of an American waggon passing over him. He received several, injuries. The horse continued its career as far as the Temuka riverbed, where it jumped over 'a terrace and capsized the trap, which was "badly smashed, but the horse was uninjured. The French law of compulsory division of' lands has resulted -m there being now m Franc c 50,000 proprietors owning an average of 75G • acres ; 500,000 an average of 75 acres ; 5,000, 000 of 7r} acres. There are 1,087,081 holdir tgs m Prussia under 3A acres ; between 3-\ an d 20 acres, 609,828 f from 20 to 200 acres, 389,823; while m the Kingdom of PrusiStia there are only 1180 landowners liable bo to rated at £1500 a year. Tl*e opponents of vivisection, the "Daily Newes'" correspondent m Vienna telegraphs, will be disgusted to hear of an experiment which took place m an hospital there on October 7th. A little dog was made insensible, fastened to a board, and when his heart had been laid bare an instrument called an episcope was applied, which threw a magnified picture of the dog's heart on the wall opposite, revealing to the eye 3of all present every movement of the heart. The expcrimentilasted half an hour, and, according to the professor, was a successful demonstration of the movement of the living heai-fc, and is therefore of the greatest value to the students of. medicine. Shortly after the publication of Tennyson* famous poem, "A Vision of Sin," the laureate was somewhat startled to receive from Mr Babbage, the renowned arithmetician, a letter which ran as follows :—" Dear Sir, I find iii a recently published poem from your pen entitled " A Vision of Sin " the following .unwarrantable statement:—'Every moment .diesamiin, Everjr moment one is born.' I need hardly point out to you that this calculation, if correct, would tend to keep the sum-total of the world's population m a state of perpetual equipoi ;e, whereas it is a well-knowii fact that the said sum-total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that m the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: ' Every moment dies a man, And one and a sixteenth is born.' I may add that the exact figures are 1.167; but something must of course be conceded to the laws of metre.—l have the honour to be, sir, ycurs sincerely, C. Babbage." A return has recently been prepared m England 'which shows the astounding pro-' ductiveuess of small holdings as compared with large farms, even when the latter are cultivated on what is known as the "high farming" principle. The number of small allotments of less than an acre was 455,000, and each of these small allotments almost supported a whole family of operatives, or, m other words, about 280,000 acres provided nearly the whole of the food required by two and a quarter millions of people—with the exception of a little tea, sugar and flour required by each family. The number of small holdings, other than "allotments," is 410,000, each of which not only sustains large families but': annually disposes of -large quantities of produce m the shape of vegetables, poultry, eggs, etc. In the daytime and m the northern hemisphere, when without a compass but with a watch, a person may arrive at an approximation of the meridian points by the following process, the exact reverse of which holds good m thisthe southern hemisphere : Point out the hour hand of the watch to the sun and the south is then exactly half-way between the hour and the figure XII. on the watch. Suppose for instance, it is four o'clock: point the hand indicating four to the sun, and two on the watch is exactly south (north; m the southern hemisphere). This method, of course, only applies between 6 a.m., and 6 p.mi, and ia only mathematically correct on March 21 and September 21, but is sufficiently correct for anyone adrift m a boat or bushed. „. Hollow ay's Ointment and Pills. — Notable Facts.—lntense heat augments the annoyance of skin disease, and encourages the development of febrile disorders; wherefore they should, as they may, be removed by these detergent and purifying preparations. In stomach complaints, liver affections, pains and spasms of the bowels, Holloway's Ointment well rubbed over the affected part immediately gives the greatest ease, prevents congestion and inflammation, checks the threatening diarrhoja and averts incipient cholera. The poorer inhabitants of large cities will find these remedies to be their best friend when any pestilence rages, or when, from unknown causes, eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations betoken the presence of taints or impurities within the system, and call for instant and effective cupafciy.e medicines. The best medicine known is SANDER and SONS' EUCALPTI EXTRACT. Test it eminent powerful effects m coughs, colds, influenza, etc.—the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globe, are its patrons. Read the official reports" that accompany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards m proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports of medical clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam —all these are authentic documents, and, as such, not open to doubt. We at^phere epitome of one of the various cases treated by Siegen, M.D , Professor, etc. Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epidermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year jpid wafciijnt was completely separated and lifted up, W f*F as the joint of tb«fr hand. The likewise Hfjted nails wpi'9 hanging 1qos» and half of the phalnax of the nail pi the middle finger was coal rd(.' The wpunds fchus GoHJty^fcß4 |H?a|ed in' three feejss upier 4*iiy appl»pa£isn $f Eucalyjpt : Extract uwtf fteluE**d4gN. *■

In ordar to prevent the. splitting of the Liberal vote Mr G. W.Russell has retired from the Heathcote contest m favor of Mr Tanner. The Czar, v closing the Russian universities,has given his adhesion to the maxim that a little learning is a dangerous thing. The Caledonian Railway Company pioposes to run a .tunnel uuder the Forth, m order to plape its nwl m a position to compete on equal terius with its rival, the new canti-lever bridge. .The Plymouth Harbour Board bonds, due ou the first of last month, have not been met. On this occasion the Ministry did not step m and assist the Board out of its dilemma. A law lately passed m Denmark provides that every drunken person shall be taken home m a carriage at the expense of the landlord who sold him or her the last glass. A tribe of Indians hitherto unknown to the white man, has been discovered in-the Grand Canon of Colorado. They live m a valley containing 2000 acres of land, inclosed by perpendicular walls, 4000 feet hfgh. < - Two swaggers who came from the West Coast to Christohurch on Saturday have repoite 1 that a mate of theirs, whose name they did not kiiow, had been drowned while crossing the river Doubtful. The police are endeavouring to recover the body. \ A fire broke out o» board the steamer Jane Douglas m Lyfctlcton harbor on Sunday morning. An investigation proved that the fire originated amongst.the coal m the port bunker. The fire was speedily extinguished without much damage resulting. ; The Minister of L&nds addressed .ij crowded meeting of the Mataura electors a| Gove on Friday evening. At the close a v^te.of thanks and confidence was lost,;] and an, amend merit declaring he had lost the confidence of the electorate through tl4 unsatisfactory administration of his Goirernmeiit was carried by 58 to 42! - \ ' '"' -* ■'■ An extraordinary case of a man living with a bullet embedded m his heaiicl was re ; . ferred to m the Melbourne City 'Court on Thursday, last, when a young mall named John Ogilvie Was charged with attempting to commit suicide at his lodging^ IJotham street, Ensfc Melbourne, on 10th ; October. Hi nee that time Ogilvie has been tin inmate of the Melbourne Hospital,- but tlio doctors I failed m their endeavours to exlr.ict'the ! bullet, which still remains m his skull. The case is an unusual one, as .the youug man is stated by the medical ojfficers to W, fit to leave the hospital, and it is said* that he intends to return to his friends m England! at once. When these facts were uieu;ti,oned.in the City Court, Mr Fanton, who presided, discharged the accused. ; During the yacht rape at Lyttelton "on Saturday afternoon, tlie open bo4.t Lydd, which was leading for the run home, met with a mishap which was the causejof loss of life. The Lydd was running before the wind, and as there was an uncertain sea the little vessel was swamped, and sthe five occupants of the boat—Captain R. L. Owen, Superintendent of the Sailors' Homei Captain James,* of the ship Auckland, and! three of the sailors of the Auckland, were precipitated into the water. It appears that one of tjhe sailors named Anderson must have lost his. head or got caught in -the; running gear of the boat as he went down j with it. The others swain about until thpy were picked up l»y the yacht Mascottfe. The yacht race was declared off, and the sad fatality cast a gloom over the port on Saturday night. Yes«jrday all the ships m harbour had their flags half-ma st. '