LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 2419, 30 July 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Froniautle is to lie made a post of call for the Orient line of steamer.s The winning number? of Mr J. L. Hi:g's Art Union will be found m our advertising columns. Widespread destitution prevails m Bmba le among the unemployed, who number several thousiuids. . The inquest m connection with the alle^ ed m.vi ici.n; case against Mary Jane Aiiios vas •j.djfiurnetl tiil August 7, as the woman '.s still unable to appear. The Oamaru Licensing (^tninittec have drawn attention to the fact that there is no provision for filling the place of a chairman of a Licensing Committee if he die or resign. During the past twelve months there have bejn many deaths m and around Palmerston North from cancer. From all accounts the cause may be traced to imperfect supervision m the matter of diseased meat and bid milk.

One-third of the students m Europe, it is said, die prematurely from the effect of bad habits acquired at college, one-third die prematurely from the effects of close confinement at their stHclies t _a!Hl-the""oFKet: tliird goveni,Jßi}rop"e; The Right Reverend the Bishop of Ciiristchurch will preach m St. Stephen's Church ou Sunday next, August 2, at both the morning and evening services. He will also administer the riie of confirmation at three o'clock m the afternoon. Men only will be admitted to the confirmation service. The opening performance of the Williamsons Juvenile Opera Troupe at the Piincef-s Theatre, Dunedin, on Wednesday evening w.is an unqualified success, and the repie:° sentation of the Mikado compared favorably with any adult performance witnessed hi New Zealand. The " Picturesque Atlas" agents are having a bad time of it m Southland. Quite recently they had to pay for a hired bugoy which disappeared at Wir.ton. At Lumsden the driver they engaged took them all over the country, but failed to point out the house of a single victim. At Balfour the harness ofj the hired horse and buggy has disappeared. The "Mauawatu Standard" says the system adopted by the Railway Department iv lettyig the supply of sleepers m small contracts, is largelj benefiting the settj.:r< m the Manganne district, who are obtaining profitable employment, m splitting and carting sleepers for the railway, and clearing their land at the same time. lijl the Supreme Court, Ciiristchurch, yesterday, Mr Justjcp Denniston refused tie motion for judgment fop plaintiff or a new trial m the case of Bank of Australasia v. Rcyncll, an action m which the bank sought to recover IMOOO from Reynell, on °ii» guarantee of the late J. 11.(,* reason's over, draft, which Reynell resisted on the ground that he intended to sign a guarantee for £500 only, and that (jiressou fraudulently misrepresented the guarantee as beiu" for that amount. Don CHaijidjo Vicuna, the President elect of Chiji, J3 a* n%» #f vast wealth, who lias lived bis whole life iv f^ll yiew of tlie Chilian people, wlio has ably and honorably held many successsive . portfoljios, and against whom those opposed to President Ralmaocda have nothing stronger to urge than that he is not one of themselves. "The TiuiQs'j}" Santiago correspondent says that Senor ;s one of the ablest men m the Republic. Whilst at Palmerston t^e otlijei' dq.y we (M&l'tQn "Mercury") had a look through Sj rG. (Jfub>/rf hlsowib factory, and found a iuui,iber of hands busily engaged m tJjie manufacture of biscuits of' various kujcls, ))*e \vere rather surprised to find such j#acianciy erected m such a iieu'ly«3stnbUsh@'d town as Palmerston North. Mr d'rubb has all pllO latest iniprovenieuts m machinery for -$M?«VsP*d oxecutioi) of his work, ami he has the repirtttfQn of turning out first-dags articles.

With reference to the cable messago from .Sydney that a new shipping Company was being formed there to trade with New Zealand, commercial men m Ciiristchurch scout the idea, as there is no single shipper m Canterbury associated with the movement. Robert Shilling, who a few days "ago sued Mr Grant, of Hawke's Bay, for £16, the amount of a dishonored cheque, alleged to have been signed by the latter, ■ has been arrested on a charge of forging the instrument. At a meeting of the Wellington Phibsophicnl Society on Wednesday evening tho following resolution, v liioh is to ba forwarded to tlie Government, was passed :—That, m the opinion of the Society, the establishment of a. well-equipped expert Agricultural Department is of urgent necessity to New Zealand. The man William Davey, who has been victimising tradesmen by means of forged and valueless cheques was brought up nt Sheffield on Welnesday, before Mr George Rutherford and Dr Meadows, J.P.s, charge 1 with fivejcases of forgery, aurl was sentenced ,to two months imprisonment on each of three charges, and three months each on the other two, or twelve months m all. After the lap3e of many years public interest m the famous Tichborne case has been revived by a new minor as to the whereabouts of Sir Roger Tichborne. It is i statec now that he is now an inmate ot a lunatic asylum at Parramatto, near Sydney, and the rumor is so far credited that Warder Carroll of the Ballarat Gaol, left the other day for Sydney for the purpose of determining the identity of the suppositions Tichborne. Warder Carroll formerly served m the regiment of which Sir Robert was an officer, and at tho time of the original trial was one of the principal witnesses, his evidence being taken on commission. The correspondent of a contemporary is responsible for the following :—" The irony of fate could not much further go than that which, overtook a Queeus'and unionist shearer. He was the leader of the gang which insisted on a hotelke'eper discharging his Chinese cook. The cook was an uncommonly good one, and the Barcaldine police had their eye on his services. As soon as John found himself without a billet the police engaged him. In the meantime the unionist had"delivered an harangue of a seditious character, for which the police arrested him. And the first thing that unionist, knew when he got into gaol was that he had to chop firewood for that Chinese cook." The '' Bruce Herald " says :—The Glasgow " Weekly Herald " has been m receipt of the Bruce " Herald " as an exchange from time almost immemorial. We have profited much by .the exchange and most sincerely express our gratitude. The extent to which our contemporary Ins profited by the constant receipt of the " Herald " and no doubts many other colonial journals, is illustrated by the following, ''which appeared m a recent issue :--"There arc two prosperous irrigation settlements on the banks of the Riv«r Murray, NW Zealand—Mildura m Victoria and Renmark m South Australia." - - Last, night, at a general meeting of the Chriftchnrch Chamber of Commerce, at- ] tended by thirty-one members, a resolution was unanimously passed—" That m the Chamber's opinion, the Government's taxation policy will check tho progress of the colony by destroying trade through lack of confidence, discouraging the introduction of fresh capital; by compelling the banks, through the crushing nature of the graduated scale to withdraw capital from the colony ; by discouraging tho establishment of such factories as cannot be successfully carried on except on a large scale ; that the result will be most disastrous to all classes of the community, especially to wage earueis, through the rapid shrinkage of the fields of employment; that the Chamber urge Government to modify their proposals m the direction of withdrawing the contemplated restriction on the agricultural and commercial industries of the conniry."