LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2917, 8 March 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The "Tapanui Courier" estimates that the yield of grain this year will be 50,000 bushels leaa than last year. The Rev C. H. Standage, Wesleyan Minister at Woodend, had hia leg broken by a buggy accident on Tuesday. Members of the Invercargill Borough Council take exception to the Government auditor working at the borough accounts on the Sabbath day. The Canterbury Women's Institute have appointed a committee to make a systematic canvass for signatures to the franchise peti- , tion, which is to be presented to Parliament I next session. ! A good story is told in Germany of a letter which was returned to the General Post Office with these words written by the postman on the envelope :—" The addressee has hanged himself; present address unknown." The twisted wire nail—a cross between a screw and the ordinary wire nail—is working its w»y into popular favour, and is believed to represent as great an improvement upon the plain wire nail as that useful invention did over the old cue nail. The twisted wire nail not only crushes the fibres of the wood leas than the other forms of nail, bnt by its screw shape possesses a much greater holding power than any other forms. Rev Jewinette Olmstead is a congregational misiater in Gustavus (O.) Mrs M. E. A. Gleason is a Baptist minister in Roslindale (Mass.) Mrs 0. R. Washburn is a Universalist minister at Stoughton (Wis.) Rev Ellen A. Copp has a Baptist church at Lansing (Mich.) Key Henrietta G. Moore is a Univeraalist minister in Ohio. The Wellington "Post" states that on the last passage of the ship Waimate from Wellington to London, when two days out, abut thirty icebergs were sighted, ranging about 200 ft high and about a quarter of a mile long. The next day the ship was sailing through them, it being a most exciting time for all an board. Off the Horn bifcter cold weather was experienced. The Waimate is at present laid up, and Captain Canese has been appointed to the steamer Otarama, now on .her way to the colony. A gentleman has just died in Paris who ihust ail hiß life been playing without, knowing it an indefinite number of pratical jokes on his doctors. He did not die of anything in particular, so a post mortem was ordered. When Dr Descouts, of the Morgue, examined the body, he found the heart, liver, and spleen were all on the wrong sides-the heart on the right, the liver on the left, etc. When this gentleman went to the doctors how did they make their diagnoses of his complaints? Dr Descouts has been pressed to go into this matter and see if he can get any information from the physicians of the malformed deceased. But he declines. He prefers to say with a sweet smile that inquiry is not necessary, because it ia clear fcoin the advanced age of the subject th&t he never could have consulted a doctor. An eminent American railway official once declared that the railway workers could, in the event of a serious Labour ciises, block all the American railways within twenty-four hours. It must be supposed, says a Home paper, that the Pennsylvania Railway is apprehending some such contingency, as it is reported to be dismissing nil its employees who are members of any Labour union. It is said, too, that other railways will follow this example, and that, in short, we may expect a general war on Labour declared by the railway magnates of America. We venture to think that such a course is more likely to precipitate thaa to avert the crisis feared. It is a violent, arbitrary, revolutionary act, which no free people can posuibly tolerate. The "railroad kings" are the best friends of the movement now growing to immense proportions in the United States for ending the reign of these potentates by public control and acquisition of the railway system. In New York recently a clergyman was awarded the first of three prizes that had been offered for ihe best essays on how to manage a wife Following is what he wrote, among its other excellencies being its brevity: —•'Manage!" What is that? Does it mean to control ? We manage a horse. We use our superior human intellect to control aii'l guide his superior physical strength so as to obtain the best results. But a wife is not a horsp. When two persons are married tl>e wife is superior to her husband in as many respects as ne is superjqr to, her in others. I* happiness is to be the result of the union the first business of the husband is to manage himself so as to keep Vmself always his wife's respectful friend, always her tender lover, always his equal "partner, always her superior protector. This will necessarily stimulate the wife to be always an admiring friend, always an affectionate sweetheart, always a thrifty housewife, always a confiding ward, Anq this will so reagt upon the husband that his lpve for his wife will grow bo as to make it easy for the husband, with all his faults, to bear with all ■ he infirmities of his " one and only " wife. On the last trip of the s.s. Kanieri from North (says the " Poverty Bay Herald ") the vessel called at a small settlement called Omaioe, in the Bey «f Pleutly, for a passenger, a native lad who was coming to Gisborne to school, and the men from the steamer who went ashore |to bring the young fellow off witnessed the natives of the village hunting him out of the settlement, pelting him with stQne.»,^np bf y/hich qaughthim on the forehead »nd inflicted a nasty gtvsli." The lad told tlio stqry tQ a mssenger. He has been a student at the Te 4,ut£ Kativ'e College, Hawkie's Bay, and haying taken Christ as his Saviour, went back to his natjve home for the holidays, resolved to tgll his. people qi Jesus, The people of the settlement are Hauhaus, wqixld nqt listen to him, and he endured much persecution, even his own mother turning against him. The lad as he left was driven from the pah and stoned, and as he reached the beach and was about to go on board the boat, he held up his Bible triumphantly and exclaimed, "I am going for Christ." The young man has come to Gisborne for theological tuition at the Native College there, and told our informant that he was gofpg to wprk for Gqd. Ep was asked by pn§ on board the vegs^l 'wheTbe,* h§ gojngto fee missionary for Chni» qr Ainca, and he replied that the needs of his owtt people were so great that they mugt be thought of first. There have been several youog natives from Gisborne, Te Aute, and Christchurcb, filled with zeal, doing Gospel work with great success amongst the natives 04 ttje aw" during tbe kolicUySr