LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3035, 26 July 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Up to date, 231 rewspapers have been registered in New South Wales.

An apicultujriit near Woodville expects to make £100 a yea* from the proceeds of his bees.

There were 10,152 births, 3«51 deaths, and 2017 marriages during the June quarter in Mew South Walei.

A housemaid named Martha Bell Russell dropped dead in Melbourne the other day from the effects of tight lacing.

A large fresh water lake is reported to have been discovered 30 miles from the Coolgardie goldfielJ, West Australia.

A hard-working man, who has recently been on "the spree' at InvercargiH, succeeded in "knocking down" £90 in three weeks.

Th« Ashburton Cricket Club's annual general meeting will be held this evening at 7 30. The business to be brought forward includes election of officers for the ensuing season, the desirableness of forming a South Canterbury Cricket Association and re improving ground, and full attendance U requested. Intending members are also twrited to be present.

At tfae South Rakaia R.M. Court on Tuesday, before Messrs Hardy and Oxley, Justices of *4w Peace, William Stubbs was fined 5s and costs &H* 9d), for being drunk and using insulting lang«age ; and on application a prohibition order for twejye months was granted to have effect in the So»th Rakaia Licensing District, Dunaandel, South.bridge, and Leeston.

An information was laid on Saturday in the Christchurch Court, against the licensee of the Crown Hotel, Sydenham, for selling drink without a license. This action is fasing taken by the prohibitionists, because uecteps have been taken by the police. The fiaee-wiU^omeon for hearing at the Resident Magi**"** 1* Oontt on Monday, the 7ch August. At a meeting of the Ctoawil of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, the wanaggr reported that the parent salmon, in Btoek for some time, were not so prolific this year, and in view of their becoming fewer he thought it might be wise to give them thair Ktwriy. The young salmon ex Kaikoura were wb doing «o well as could be wished * considerate** number of them dying from deformity ofthe ,^#bilical sac. A resolu* tiou was carried that tbe.ep^ojrt in a frozen state af any game whatever aftp^d be ptoMbkfced, and the law ahould be bo amended as to entirely prevent dealing with Native or Imported game, frozen .pr ptherwjsp, out of season.

A Tasmanian solicitor named Hudson, after apologising for attributing unjust conduct to Mr Justice Doods, has been sent to gaol gor a month and fined £50.

For shooting a certain very obnoxious i Uingo ;at Donald, Victoria, a man got £6 from the Wild Dog League, £2 from the Shire Council, and £2 from a revengeful settler. i

The draining of the Malcerna Swamp by the Manawatu Railway Can^any has resulted in the wai er being reduced by three feet, and in another year the land will be available for occupation.

From a return of passengers arriving in the colony from Australia, it appears that in the year ending March, 1891, there were 10,694; in 1892 there were 11,629, and in 1893, 18,694—the total being 40,917.

The Bteamer Waitapu, which went ashore near Patea, was launched over the breakwater into the Patea river this morniag • She will reach Wellington on Friday and undergo repairs. She haß sustained some, though not serious, injuries.

On the date of the suspension of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, pending reconstruction, there was held on the New Zealand register 49,998 shares, representing a paid-up capital of i 127,832 10s.

In Christehurch on Monday evening, an appropriation of £300, in connection with No. Four Industrial Building Society,

was drawn by share No. 80. This ia the seventh appropriation representing £2200, which has been made during the last four weeks.

An up-country schoolmaster in the Weiington district, writing to the Education Board as to his inability to forward some returns, says he was detained by floods, and only reached the railway station after sailing for about four miles down the main road in an open boat. We regret to have to chronicle the death of Mrs Walter Lawry, of Springston, the mother of the Rev S. Lawry, of Ashburfcon, Deceased was well known in the Seafield district, where Bhe resided with her husband for some years. She was a lady of high Christian character, the very example of whose life was a continuous sermon in itself. The imports of gold in Sydney for the last

six months amounted to £2,197,058, the

exports £873,884, leaving a net amount of £1,323,174 within the colony. If the local production be added, the figures imply that there is an increase of the gold supply within the colony of New South Wales of £1,500,000.

A return has been ordered showing the total amount of money expended during the last three years by each of the Education Boards of the colony in payment of travelling expenses of its members, the amount paid to each member, the distance at which each member resides from the place of the meeting, the number of board and committee meetings each member has attended, and whether travelling to such meetings by road or rail.

At a meeting of the South/Rajkaia School Committee held on Monday evening in considering the celebration of Arbor Day,'Mr Cxley stated that both the Road and Domain Boards had met him in a most liberal manner, and that on August 4 half an acre of land on the West Town' Belt would be read> for tho children to plant, and besides fencing in and digging holes the Domain Board had promised a of deciduous trees. The B>ard of Education would find pines, efco., which would be useful for sheltering the young trees fro-n heavy winds. It was decided to ask business people in the township to close at noon on Arbor Diy, and a subcommittee was appointed to make arrang irateats for the children's outertainnwnt. Addresses will be given by Mr Lyttleton (the Chairman of the Board), ilia Rev J. Holland, and others. It is to be hoped that the affair will become an annual one, and that all the district will take an interest in tree plaafcing and put in an appearance on Arbor Day at one o'clock,