LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3093, 2 October 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr George Robett Tyl§p has been elected Lord Mayor of London. A, Michigan mine filled with water and 37 miners were drowned. The French Government have declined to exempt priests from military service on the reserve list. The British revenue for the half-year ending tq-day 3 shows a decrease of £1,500,0Q0. "'" Female electors are reminded—and male electors, too, for that matter—that the main rolls close on October 5, and any claims received atter that date will have to be placed on a supplementary roll. Rev G. B. Inglis began Irs duties as pastor of the Presbyterian .Church on Sunday. There were large congregations at both services, aud the eloquent sermons of the now minister justified the congregation's choice of a preacher. Mr Inglis still suffered to some tzten!; from a cold, and this prevented him taking the Wakanui service that day, but it is hoped he will be able to preach in the church at Wakanui gejfc Sund.ay, -•■ **ieflß Of engraving may be Saen on A ne*. t —«L«.ttd«lLf and Preston's the window of Mess^ _. Htrii (tmesshop in Burnett street. The ..^ ■> tion was executed by Mr Landells, ana denotes the style of the firm and other details. The "Express Cycle Works "is the designation of the establishment, and if a sample machine which is at present on view is a criterion of the firm's work they should meet with success in Ashburtoa,

Since the Electoral Bill has become law over seven hundred women have been placed on the roll in the Ashbutton electorate. ' Over one hundrei of these were recorded on Saturday. About five hundred women have been registered for Rangitata. For the month of September the vital statistics for Ashburton were—Births, 25 ; deaths, 9; marriages, 4 ; for the quarter ending September 30—Births, 70; deaths, 28 ; marriage.-!, 11. At the conference of delegates from the country racing clubs held at Geradine last week Messrs Hugo Fiedlander (A.R.C) and Peirpoint (Geraldine R.C.) were appointed delegatts to the next metropolitan conference to be held in Wellington. Mr Robert Kennedy, the Scottish vocalist, is a victim to t;he bank crisis in Melbourne, and has filed his schedule. He had put his savings into Mr James Munro's Real Estate Bank, and to escape the crushing call liability, he has had recourse to insolvency. The Ashburton Cricket Club held a successful practice on Saturday. The favorable weather had enabled the caretaker to get a very good pitch, and as a consequence very good form was shown by some of the older players. Sides were chosen by Messrs Denshire and E. Andrews, resulting in a win for the former's team. Four new English Humber bicycles, ordered through &lr Mercer, the New Zealand agent, arrived in Ashburton on Saturday morning. Two of them are racers, one for Mr Daly being a very light and elegant machine for track racing, and one for Mr Burns being a road racer. All four are admirably fini&hed. Professor Miller, in Melbourne, has succeeded in his attempt to break the world's record at dumbell lifting. Daring the course of an evening he put up two dumbells, aggregating 29ib weight, 5000 times without resting. The performance of this feat took him a fraction leas than 2hr 31min. As Mrs Capon, of Lauriston, was driving across a paddock at Winchmore on Saturday last, the axle of the trap broke, and in getting clear of the vehicle Mrs Capon unfortunately broke her leg. She was brought down to her mother's (Mr Good's) house at Allenton, whereDr Tweed attended and set the fracture. At the mayor's ball in Melbourne this year, for the first time for ever so long, there was no Bit-down supper. People could not believe it, and hung around the corridor leading to the supper room as of yore about eleven o'clock ; but, alas, there were only " light refreshments." Claret filled the place of champagne. What a contrast to the palmy days of Sir Benjamin Benjamin. A very striking object-lesson on the riches of the Coolgardie goldfield was given to the Melbourne public the other day, when £17,000 worth of gold from Bailey's Reward claim was shown in the window of Mr W. Drummond, jeweller, Collins street, There were 36050z of bar gold and 801b of specimens, estimated to contain GOOoz of gold. The specimens may be described as quartz in gold rather than gold in quartz. The trotting rnatoh between Osterley and Mystery, which has been attracting so much attention in Melbourne sporting circles of late, came off on the Richmond course, and the Agricultural Show verdict was confirmed, Osterley being returned the.winner. He won two straight heats. As was anticipated, the Australian trotting record for a mile (2min 29^ec, made by Mystery) was broken—Dsterly, who trotted throughout without skip or breik, cutting out the ■list nee each Lime in 2min 25sec. The American record for a mile is 2min 43ec, aud was made by Nancy Hanks. Mystery was only beateu by a neck in the first heat, while in the second heat she broke down. Last Monday evening the Greymouth ladies were thrown into quite a flutter of excitement over the arrival of three female Celestials, one being the bride of Young He, a Greymouth merchant, together with his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Referring to this interesting importation the " Grey River Argus " aays :—" The Herald came in sooner than was expected, as she made fast to the wharf about a quarter-past midnight, when a covered trap was iv attendance into which the little party ensconced themselves. They were in Chinese costume, though their hair was dressed in European style before the fringe came into vogue, and one of the young ladies was modest and rather pretty looking. Quite a crowd of lookeis'on was present, but the natural curiosity to see the new arrival was kept within reasonable restraint. It was pretty clear that the feet of the Chinese ladies are better adapted for show than for purposes of locomotion. There were only three women in the party. No rime was lost, as they drove off as soon as the party settled down in their seats.