LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3086, 23 September 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nominations for the Timaru Trotting Club close on Friday, September 29. Nearly 300 claims have been filled in by women in the Timaru electorate. Induction of Rev George B. Inglis on Wednesday at two o'clock—Presbyterian Church; tea meeting at six.—Oddfellows Hall. Up to date over 1200 women's claims for eniolement for the city and suburbs of Dunedin have been lodged. The verdict in the Petone fire ease was " incendiarism," but there was no evidence who did it. £5 5s is the reward offered for information likely to lead to the conviction of the cur who cut the tyre of Mr HunmbeH's handsome and valuable bicycle last week. Mr V. H. Revell, ex R.M. An/i churchwarden at Westland, and subsequently R.M. in various places, who came to reside at Timaru a few months ago died suddenly yesterday afternoon, aged 64. He -was a brother of Mr T. Revell of Ashburton. The Christchurch registrar of electors received between five and six hundred claims from women yesterday. Two hundred have been received received from Kaiapoi, and fairly large numbers from Lyttelton, Rangiora, and other centres, A young man named George Dysart was shot through the side of the neck at Courtenay on Friday through a gun which had missed fire suddenly going off. The wound is serious but not dangerous, and tlie escape from death wcs very narrow. The body of a man, about sixty years of age Mas found on the North Waimakariri, below highwater mark' yesterday. The hands and feet were tied with cord. He is supposed to be E. M. Betts, a solicitor who has been missing from Wanganui. The first portion of the large* building for the Government Insurance Department, next the post office in Wellington, having been completed, the work of dismantling the remainder, preparatory to completion of the block, has .beguo. It will be the largest brick building in Wellington. The Old Provincial Hall, which forms part, will be preserved, but surrounded with brick. A farmer in the Oamaru district gives the " North Otago Times" some information regarding the quality of some kinds of wheat to resist smut. Last season he had a paddock of wheat, a quantity of red chaff having been mixed by mistake with the velvet seed. The red chaff contracted smut freely,|while the velvet was almost free. The crop as a whole was injured materially by the admixture of the red chaff, because it was apparent that had it not been there there would have but little or no smut. According to the " Times' " Paris correspondent, the Cairo correspondent of the '•Debats" says the Egyptian Government has just addressed to the representatives of the six great Powers a note to the effect that it has been decided to make $ gift of a portion of the mummies of the Hi&h Priests of Ammon, found two years ago in Upper Egypt, and now at the Ghizeh Museum, to |the museums of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Roma. These mummies are to be divided into six lots, ard to be drawn for by each of the Powers. The Waimate Sports Association intend to hold an athletic sports gathering and procession on October 12, in Victoria Park, Waimate. Prizes are offered to the amount of £60, and on the programme is an open race, the Grand Labor Association Handicap of £10, to be ran in three heats ;—IOO, 220, and 4-10 yards. There will also be two open bicycle events of three and five miles, for which the prizes are £3, £1 10s, and 10s ; and £5, £2, and 10s; also a one mile race, for which the quality of the prize, cash or trophy, will be dependent on which class of riders send the most entries. For this race first prize winners in other events are barred. Besides the events mentioned a liberal programme of other sports is provided. An entertainment was held on Tuesday evening in the Town Hall, JVayfield, in aid of an organ for the Presbyterian church. The building was crowded. Mr J. J. Bates presided. Songs were rendered by Misses Cree and Doyle, Messrs Whitelaw, Dickie, Broad, Bees, and McLeary. Mrs Rainer and Miss Roberts favored the company with musical selections. A recitation was given by Mr Restell and a reading by Mr Brown, Rafter which the farce "Box and ! Cox" was played by Messrs Whifcelaw, Beckett, and a lady amateur. The Chairman then thanked all who had rendered assistance, and after the singing of the National Anthem the guests separated, and the |3§r£orm/?rs repaired fco the schoolroom there to enjoy «* wn^P^F W"ich bad ijeea very kindly and considerately prepared by Mrs Kellahan. Holloway's Pills.—The Great Need.— The blood is the life, and on its purity our existence depends. These Pills thoroughly I cleanse the vital fluid from all contamina--1 tions, and by that means strengthen and invigorate the whole system, healthily Sstitmiiaie jjlcggfeh organs, repress overexcited action^ and estoajylfCh the circulation and secretions tftroughßuifevery part ;pf she body, "The" fcalSathici 'liaturecjf BPollbway'a Pills'exems^'^irvellbus- 'power in giving■, tone to debilitated aadi nervous constitu 1-j tions. These Pills remove ail obstru^iioj^s, ' both in the bowels aad elsewhere,• and av6 on that account, much sought for promoting regularity of action iv young females and delicate persons who are naturally weak, or have UQtfl «W»e £au*e become SOj