LQCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3018, 6 July 1893, Page 2

LQCAL AND GENERAL.

, + : , Bitger, the well-known amateur hurdle 1 racer, has left Wellington permanently for Melbourne. We notice that the D.I-C, who are always adding to their Christchureh premises, have taken up those lately occupied by Messrs Sargoo/l, Soih and hwen, which will be used a? furniture show rooms. An advertisement relating thereto appears elsewhere. i A determined opposition is being shown in Wellington to the proposal to borrow £9000 to^nake a ,recreation ground in the Botanical Gardens. A committee is be|ng organised to prevent the carrying »of the loan at the poll. In the Supreme Court at Cbristchurch, yesterday an application was made for a writ of certiorari directing the quashing of resolutions of the licensing committees in Sydenham district, granting licenses to the ( Crown, Southern Cross, and^Sandridge hotels. After argument, Justice Denniston reserved his decision We remind our readers that the concert in aid of the jßlgin school prize fund takes place to-morrow (Friday evening), and from what we can gather promises to .be a very successful affair* The concert will be followed by a dance, to which ladies will be free, and for which good music and refreshments have been arranged. A drag will leave the post office, Ashburton, for the convenience of visitors at 7-15 sharp. At the Sydenham Poultry Show on Wednesday the following Ashburton competitors were prize takers:—Black Minorca cockerel —J. Tasker 3 and very highly commended, j Golden pencilled Hamburgh cock or cockerel —E. E. Tasker 1 and 3. Golden pencilled Hamburgh hen or pullet—E E. Tasker 1 and 2. Black Hamburgh cock or cockerel —E. E. Taßker, 3. Black Hamburgh hen or pullet—E. E. Tasker. Black Hamburgh hen or pullet—G. Anderson. Gold or silver Poland hen or pullet —G. Anderson. I As an instance of the necessity for regulating the carriage of poisons and dangerous chemical goods, the " New Zealand limes' says a shipment of what purported to be. grease was received from Hamburgh, and put on board a vessel for New Zealand. During the voyage the consignment broke loose, destroyed all the cargoin its vicinity, and reaching the iron plates of the vessel to corroded the heads of the rivers that it was a wonder the ship did not founder. The socalled greaße was really muriatic acid. J. Chae. Harrison, M.D., a gentleman who has been winning golden opinions from the press and public throughout the colony, and who enjoys a wide reputation at Home and in America, will deliver his first lecture to men only at the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday night: Dr Harrison's lectures art highly Bpoken of by the press, and by none in warmer terms of praise than the " Otago Witness." The lecture on Monday night will be free, but a shilling will be charged for admission to the one on Tuesday night. Mrs Longshore Potts, M.D., who in to make her first appearance here next Monday afternoon in a lecture to women only, is not only an able, scientific woman, but a brilliant and eloquent speaker. The "Court Journal" says:—A large audience composed of the elite of London society was present, Dr Potts was dressed in a rich costume of black velvet entraine, trimmed with lace and jet, with old Irish point stomacher and cuffs, with diamond ornaments. She wore a Marie Stuart cap, from which gleamed a magnificent solitaire * * * Her lectures are delivered with an esprit that charms the listener. Monday'■ lecture sill be tree. The spell of showery weather experienced over all but the most southern parts of the United Kingdom rather more than a week has been followed by a renewal of the drought in all its former severity, and for the past four days no measurable quantity of rain has fallen in any part of our island. In London the drought has now continued for seventy days, the total amount of rainfall for the last ten weeks being.only 052 inch, or considerably less than one-seventh of the average. Since March 6 the aggregate amount in the metropolis has been less than two-tenths of an inch, while in many other parts of our southern counties it has been even smaller than this. At the North Foreland Monday was the forty-eighth consecutive day without rain, whilst at Hurst Castle the period of absolute drought extended over as many as fifty-one days. In the United Kingdom, since the beginning of March, there have been only ten days with an absence of rain over the entire kingdom; but there have been twenty other days on which only three, or less than three, stations have been affected. On six days out of the twenty the rain has fallen at only one station out of the thirty from which daily reports are received. In the south of England the agricultural lookout jsjbeeqmiiig very serious. -" Public Opinion,' May 12, A curious case, and one interesting to dentists, has recently been decided by an American Law Court. A dentist of Minneapolis had made a set of teeth for a resident in the town, and though apparently the work was satisfactory, the patient declined to pay the bill; consequently he was sued and judgment obtained for a seizure of the unpaid for teeth. The judgment notwithstand. ing, the man refused to give them up, and the sheriff hesitated to employ force, lest he should be charged with violating the personal rights of the citizen. Moreover the teeth being firmly fixed iv the debtors mouth, to take forcible possession of them was no easy matter. Consequently, the court was asked for further instructions. The dentist's attorney argued that the defendant should be ordered to surrender the teeth, and that, if he failed to comply, be should be arrested for contempt of pours. On the part of tha defendant, however, it was argued that the teeth having bepome part of his person, the court had no more right to drag them out of his mouth than it had to tear off one of his limbs* The Magistrates were unable for a considerable time to see how to act. Ultimately, however, it was ruled that the un-paid-for teeth had become part and parcel of thp defendant's anatomy, and that while J used and worn they werg pot subject to levy j #ad sale* _____, mmmmmmmtlo .