LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 2420, 31 July 1891, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In our report of Mie civil linsiue&s at the R.M. Court yesterday, m the case cf Zander v Makeig, the defendant was A. Makeig, not F. Makeig as printed. There was three inches .of enow on the carriage roofs of the Mount Somers train this morning, when the train drew up at the Ashburton railway station. An Oaniaru constable bowled out an oat stealer by putting small scraps of paper with his own writing on, m a bag of oats, and finding these scraps among cats on the thief's premises. During the past year the land (Boards o( the colony disposed of ] 00,222 acres for cash, more than twice an much as the previous year, 35,081 acn s on deferred payments, and 290,248 on perpetual lease. Colonel M'Kie, the "champion evangelist" of the Salvation Army, accompanied by his A. D. C, Staff Captain Plank, arrived at the Bluff by s.s. Te Anau on July 27. The Colonel has held a successful campaign at Invercargill, and comes on to Dunedin for a week's meetings there. A simple principle respecting railway rates has been set forth by the North Otago A. and P. Association :—'lf stockowners are able to drive stoclt cheaper tjian they can truck them the charges are excessive; and the same remark applies to the carriage of grain and wool." The Rev J. M. Simpson, who occupied the pulpit of the. Presbyterian Church here some Sundays ago, was on Thursday ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and inducted to the charge of the Sydenham congregation. The Public Petition Commmittee of the House of Representatives, reporting on the petitions nl jhe $yd.enham hotelkeepers whose licenses have' bgieri refused by the local Licensing (Jomuuttee, said—f''J:'here being a Bill before the House dealing with ! the subject, the Committee has no recommendation to make." The Salvation Army, which has hitherto published a separate " War Cry " for each of the Australian colonies, is about to merge all jbhose jouvnajs into one, to be published at Melbourne, I?hfs wJU fc^lfp the fhapo of a sixteen page paper,'profusely illustrated, and absolutely devoid of advertisements; and all for one penny. It will start with a circulation of over 100,000 weekly. The number of visitors at Rotorua hot springs last ystty.', frtyiW %U paitsof the worlJ, was about 250 Q. £'22f was iakei) fchpi\o m bath fees. A better return is n)adp by the Hanmcr springs where the fees received totalled £228. The number of baths taken at Hanmei? plains was 6437, at Rotorua 10,442. Considering the r-^lqbtiyje uosp of the establishments, Hanmer makes by far the better showing. At a fully-attended meeting of the Stamping Committee, Held on Wednesday last, the Bishop asked the ;idyic,e «f ph f j Cqnnnittep as to what steps, if any, shojulil be taken iy the inattet- of tfoe Oiyorcfi ljill now before the Legislature. I'ijft (L'o;ninitj/ee,' after a brief discussion, advised thai hjs /^Q^ljjp should draw up a petition to both Houses of the Legislature against the Bill, and cause copies £q be circulated for signature as widely as possible throughout the diocese. His Lordsln'p cordialLy eoqspfiL&li. A Bhaujcful pro'secutipiji for alleged larc.fcuy was conducted nt> tije Melbourne Police Court recently, A doctor ©£philosophy ai)d master of arts, warned- Worner Qe'tif I brought up on a cliarge of gtsajjng a book valued at 2s the property of the trustees °f the Public Library. It appeared thafc Mr Ooki had p»^chftS(.id it from a man m the Carl ton Gardens. " It'o WSS near-sighted, but on getting home he saw fcliaf jtlj^ had come from the Public Library, aria nWjfc tfoy i-QQk it to the library, explaining how he caine'by the book, gave it up, and left his name aikl address. When he took the book \.o the library he jpap thanked very warmly for his zeal m looking t the property of the trustees, fifs c^ungel' wi|>lied .bencli coiji'ld make an order to prevent '*tUe ti&as ibei&s; reported m the papers. Mr I'anton— do that, but Mr Oejci will be repiesentf i\ aw the victim of a niostVgregioris bluuler." The qase «ras dismissed, but jyir Oeki had to pay Ujs owjj cpsti

A oauous of the New South Wales Labor) party m- the new Parliament has decided to recognise legitimate labor members, and have picked thirty-six as: belonging! thereto, but they will have nothing to do with others who profess a desire to accept the labor platform, but will not belong to the party. From Ashburton (Western Australia) comes a story of the discovery of a man named Hannon, down a Avell, after he had been there nineteen days. It is stated that he fell inco the well, and had had no food and very little water. When found he was m a delirious state, and he is now under medical treatment. Messrs P. Cunningham and Co., c" Christchurch, have received a cable message from London, with'reference to their shipment of potatoes, as follows :—" Your potatoes have arrived' m fairly good order, but we estimate will not nett after paying freight and other expenses at this side, more than about 22s 6d per ton. The Right Hon A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has sold his Highland estate of Strathconon to Mr Coombe, a well-known brewer, for £110,000. The estate is mostly a deer forest, though it includes some sheep farms and small" crofts. It covers 72,000 acres, and its annual' rental is set down m the valuation roll as amounting to £3583. 1 Repeated thefts having taken place m a grocer's shop at Denny, a policeman was locked mon the premises. On a man's head appearing from the cellar below, the constable made a premature effort, to seize him, and the thief escaped through a window which was much too small for the bulky policeman to squeeze himself through. A little girl thirteen years of age is reported by the "Dunstan Times" to have behaved with unusual presence of mind on discovering a. fire at the cottage of Mr Williams. The flames had a good hold of the scrim and paper. She removed the two children from the bed, threw a bucket of water over the fire, then jumped on the bed and beat out the flames, but not before the lining of tne room was completely burnt out. The house was insured m the National Office. Mr T. White Parsons, landlord of the Mitre Hotel at Lyttelton, was picked up on the footpath m front of his hotel before ten o'clock on Thursday morning unconscious, with a fractured jaw,: and bruises on his face and arm, and severe wounds on his arms and right knee. He afterwards became partially concious, but was unable to tell how the injuries had been caused. He is m a critical state. The Christchurch Parnell memorial demonstration took place on Thursday evening at Lancaster Park. The attendance was estimated at over 6000. A procession of fire brigades and band* matched through the town to the park, where sports were held by electric light. At 9 o'clock rain came on, not soon enough to spoil the attendance though it spoiled the sports. Tomorrow night there is to be a social gathering m the drill shed m connection with the eight hours movement. The " Tinaaru Herald " says—" A rumour has gained currency m town that .the result of the analysis of the remains of the late Mr Hayhurst is nil so far as confirming the suspicions which led to the analysis being made is concerned. We, however, attach no importance to the rumour, as it is most unlikely that Professor Black, or any one else engaged m the examination, would talk about the results before telling the coroner's jury what those results are. We, however m common with everyone else, hope the rumour will prove well-foundeJ." The commiosioH appointed m South Australia to report on the best means of giving effect to the resolution of Parliament for adoption of the eight hour system m the public service recommend that continuous day pay men work 48 hours per week ; the heads of the departments to decide the hours of work, and that the men not continuously employed by contractors for Government service, other than works of construction, may be free to make their own arrangements subject to prevailing trade regulations; overtime m all case 3to be reduced to a minimum. The additional cost of adopting the eight hours system throughout the service is estimated J|at £49,000 per annum Newspaper readers, says the " Pall Mall Gazette," ate often angry or sarcastic (or both) at misprints. Perhaps- they will be more charitable if they consider the twelve conditions under which, says another contemporary, a newspaper may be expected to come inlo the hands of the public without, any printer's errors. They are.•--!. When the contributor has written correctly. 2. When he has written the correct tiling distinctly. 3. When the compositor lias only the correct letters m the different cases. 4. When he does not take the letters from a wrong case. 5. When besets them correctly. G. When the " reader " corrects every error. 7. When the compositor corrects the " rough proof" properly. 8 When the "reader' reads the corrected proof attentively. 9. When the compositor corrects the second proof properly. 10, When tie revised proof is carefully " read." 11. When the " reader " has sufficient time to do this. 12. And when a dozen other circumstances work together for good. The story of the enormous fortune accumulated by Mr CunlifFe Lister (one of the last " birthday peers") is, remarked the "Pall Mall Gazette " recently, one of the romances of "Fortunes made m Business." "Going one day into a London warehouse, he came upon a pile of rubbish. He enquired what 'it was, and was told it was waste silk. What do you do with it ?he asked. Sell it for rubbish, he was told. Mr Lister bought it as rubbish at a half-penny a pound, and turned it into gold. He discovered, that is to say, how to use silk waste for the manufacture of plush and other such stuffs, and this discovery was the foundation of his second fortune. R's first fortune wag made by his invention of a wool combing machine. Mr Lister, besides being the proprietor of the largest industrial establishment m the world owned by one man, is now one of the largest landed proprietors m the North of England. In 1883 he purchased the Swinton Hall estate, of 22,000 acres, and m 1887 the Rivaulx Abbey estate, of 10,000 acres. 1 The combined value of these two estates is said to be £1,180,000.