LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2827, 19 November 1892, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday, the jury at the inquiry ihto the pawnshop fire at Wellington returned an open verdict, The steamship Arcadia, by which Mr E. Gatea, Grove Farm, is returning from England, arrived at Albany yesterday morning—three days before her due date. Mr H. M. Jones, of East street, notifies that he intends clearing out a large portion of his stock in order to make room for new goods. As the sale only lasts for about three weeks an early call would be advisable. A concert in aid of the Church of England organ fund and a dance fof the school funds will take place at Hinds next Friday A very largo number of tickets have been sold, and hS vocalists from Ashburton are assisting, the attendance will probably be a record. At the Resident Magistrate's Court Timaru, on .Friday, a man named O'Brien I an old offender at Ashburton and Balolutha I w aß .fe,cd 10s pr.4B ijoure' Imprisonment for I drunkenness. He was very rude in Court I and said he would "take it out." ' I We regret to have to record the death I this morning, after severe illness of some I duration, of Mrs Moller, wife of Sergeant I Moller, chief of the Ashburton police, with I whom .and his family much sympathy is I felt in their bereavement of good wife arH I mother, Mrs Moller was fifty-two years of I aSeI The Land Tax will be payable on DecemI ber 7. Notices and particulars of assessI ment will be posted on November 23. The I tax mayjbe paid at the Commissioner's office | m Wellington or at any postal money order I office. It is not intended to make the Income Tax payable before the latter part of I January. - ■ I la ye terday'a article on the silver coinage I question, the figures relating to the source I of the gold coinage of the Empire for the If^ eighteen years should have read as I follows :—" The London Mint, supplied 137.38 per cent, the Melbourne Mint 35.72 per cent, and the Sydney Mint 26.90 per I cent. I The sale of two Shropshire Down ram I hoggets at the (Qhristchurch Show for 100 I guineas-Httamely, a V commended " for 30 I guinaaH and an "unnoticed" sheep for 70 I guineas—was erroneously credited by us I to Mr F. M. Rickman, Mr T, E. Upton I being the breeder and vendor of the sheep in I question. Mr Rickman did not exhibit in I that class. I The cricket match between Rosa and I Hokitika, played at Ross a fortnight ago, I had a unique result. Hokitika scored 23 lin the first innings. Ross then went in I and for the loss of one wicket scored 105. I The Ross captain then declared the innings \ closed and the Hokifcika team going in for a second innings scored 25. The total soore * wag therefore Hokitika, two innings 48; Ross (with lose of one wicket in one innings) 105. A meeting of those interested in the j formation ofaOish Cycling Club was held last evening. Nineteen gentlemen were present. Jt' was decided to fo,rm a plub to be called the Ashburton Pash Amateur Cycling Club. Three delegates were appointed to act for the club cm the New Zealand Cypliatp' Union. Election of offi. cers was held over till thp next meeting of the club. Mr Albert Oraighead was elected Secretary pro tern. v I The privileges for the Spring meeting of the Ashburton Racing Club, next Wednesday and Thursday, were sold to-day at the Arcade, by JVf r R: $r'riedlander (JPriedlander Bros) as follows i^No } booth, £11, J Henry, Commercial Hotel j No 2 booth, £17, H; Dads, Royal Hotel; Confectioner's booths £2, Mrs Ranger; Shilling stand, £J W. de B. Compton j Sale of fish 103, J. H* Jewett; Horse-yards, £1, W. Baker—all per Hit*"; tile Sale totalling £65, To owners of grain stores the following paragraph from the " Mark Lane Express " J may be of service ;—-"< La Fermier' states that an American filler, having occasion to preserve some salt in his granary, placed the sicks in a place where the cracks of the planks were filled with weevils and lame, and was astonished not tp find any of these insects some months afterwards. Acting on this fact he dressed all £lje plages where weevils existed with strong salfc water and they disappeared." * I A story was told the other day about the Queen having depidpd thi*t only teetotallers are to ba employed a§ her household servants. Of course her Majesty has n^ade I no such restriction. There is a much batter story (says a London paper) which is new i and quite true, and illustrates the sym- 1 pathetic thoughtfulness she has for those in her service. A courtyard, overlooked by the windows of her Majesty's private rooms at Windsor, used to be swept everj' morning by in qH 'man, who had had the jab for I fifteen years. He disappeared, and the firat to notice his absence was the Queen, who, asked what had become of him. She was told that he had been dismissed for having come home drunk. Her Majesty at once revoked the sentence, and had the old man re-instated. She considered that dismissal yas £99 severe a punishment after fifteen years? service, and l that a warning would be iu<j|cient, • ' ' '5 y

A general meesing of the Asbburton County Hunt Club will be held on Wednesday next at eight p.m. The rival steamers Warrimoo and M&raroa are racing each other from port to port up the coast. On Wednesday afternoon they left Otago harbor tor Lyttelton within a few minutes of each other, and broke all previous records for the passage by merchant steamers. The Mararoa's time from heads to heads was eleven hours twenty-one minutes, and the Warrimoo's eleven hours twenty-five minutes. A Wellington telegram informs us that the two vessels arrived there yesterday morning after taking exactly the same time— eleven hours twenty-one minutes—on the run from Lyttelton. At the -monthly meeting of the Committee i of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce ] on Friday, a letter was read from the Secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' and Country Settlers' League, calling attention to the hardship to farmers and other country settlers of charging txchange on cheques paid to Government and railway officers in country districts. After some discussion it wax resolved to reply that the matter had been before the Chamber on former occasions as far back as 1886, and the strongest efforts had been made, in conjunction with other Chambers, to get exchange charges remitted, but up to the present without success. The Chamber would address itself to the Railway Commissioners with a view of having the exchange charges abandoned.