LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1354, 29 September 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, who ia making a tour of the world, is expected to visit New Zealand in November.

Within the last month the Reefton mines have paid over £3500 in dividends. Not bad for a “ poverty stricken ” country.

A work that wil' be read with interest by racing men of New Zealand is likely to make its appearance at no very distant date. Mr Henry Redwood is at present engaged in writing an account of his racing experiences.

There is a law in Switzer’and that compels every newly-married couple to plant six trees shortly after the ceremony of marriage. The trees ordered to bo planted on wedding days are the pine and weeping willow, and on natal days the birch.

Let us be thankful (says an exchange) that we can get reasonable good jam from Hobart and Nelson, and hope that our grocers will not be prevailed upon to patronise any of Yankee manufacture. The American Analysi f which ought to know, says that there is plenty of jam made in Now York, which is a very good imitation of raspberry, the materials of which are—oil of vitriol, impure glucose, algine, aniline, and raspberry ether.

Vincent Wallace, the composer of Maritana, Lurline, and other well-known operas, was, 36 years ago, working in tho bush near Sydney. Hearing of the successes of a

brother artist, he suddenly made his appearance in the above city as a virtuoso of the pianoforte and violin, after which he gave concerts throughout Now Zealand aud America with great success. Finally settling in London, ho firmly established his claim as a composer by bringing out his most successful opera Maritana.

After a somewhat chequered career, the Great Eastern seems at last (says the Uomt News) to have a fair chance of a green and useful old age. Her debut at Liverpool as a floating temple of amusement has proved so successful that she is to become a peripatetic variety show under the rogis of Mr William Holland, who will take the nautical drama under his protection, and afte rsteeringhis ship to victory on the British coasts will finally take her to the colonies, where she will serve to remind our friends from Greater Britain of their 1886 experiences at South Kensington.

A meeting of the South Rakaia Sports Committee was held in the Library on Tuesday evening. Present—Messrs J. Turner Buchanan, Pyke, Hardy, Oxley, Bruce, Beycraft, Limber, Miller, Rountree, Primmtr. and Childs. Mr Hardy was elected Chairman. The question of rules was gone into, and there was a long discussion as to the advisablencss of having an open race. It was eventually decided by a considerable majority not to have an open race, but to confine the district to the South Rakaia and Mount Hutt Road Board Districts, and five miles north and ten miles west of the Rakaia river. Programmes for horse races and athletic events were arranged, and the meeting adjourned.

The Auckland Herald's Matamata correspondent telegraphed on Tuesday afternoon that vast columns of steam could be scan rising that day to a great height over Ruapehu, and it appears as though the mountain is in active eruption.

Judge Ward (says the Oamaru Mail) ia to receive the game salary as that paid to Judge Gidies, whoso place ho is to temporarily occupy (£I2OO a year). But it is, we believe, probable that he will be permanently appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court.

The balance-sheet of the Waiareka Dairy Factory for the year ending 31st August last, presented at a meeting of the Company held on Monday evening, showed that the loss to the Company upon the previous year’s workings amounting to £SOO, had been made up by last year’s operations, and over and above this sum there was a profit of £IBO upon the year’s transactions. There was a sum of £35<5 to carry forward. The best known remedy is SANDER and SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, cold, influenza, etc. —the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the King of Italy, and medical syndicates all over the globe ore its patrons. Read the official reports that accompany each bottle. We have no occasion to offer rewards in proof of the genuineness of our references. The official reports of medical clinics and universities, the official communication of the Consul-General for Italy at Melbourne; the diploma awarded International Exhibition, Amsterdam all these are authentic documents, and, as such, not open to doubt. We add here epitome of one of the various cases treated by Siegen, M.D., Professor, etc.: Burning of the right hand through the explosion of a small oil stove. The epirdermis on the volar and palmer side of the hand of the thirty-year-old patient was completely separated and lifted up as far as the joint of the hand. The likewise lifted nails were hanging loose, and half of the phalanx of the nail of the middle linger was coaled. The wounds thus contracted healed in thtee weeks under daily applications of Eucalypti Extract dressing The patient has etaiued the full use of hand.—(Advt,

Entries fertile annual horse parade under j the auspices of the Ashburton A. and P. Association close to-morrow, A rumor was current in town yesterday that a boy was struck by lightning during the thunderstorm on Monday evening, but as i far as we have been able to ascertain it has very alight foundation. At Wellington during the storm a flash of lightning struck the maintop-gallant mast of the barque Sophia R. Luhrs, lying in the harbor, and out away about 2ft of the pole bearing the weathercock. Three men who were on deck at the time were knocked down and rendered insensible for a time. The Master of the Old Men's Home desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of 7s poundage fees contributed by Mr Thomas

McKay. A lecture on “ Impressions of England,” the first of a series of three, was delivered in St Stephen’s Schoolroom last evening by the Rev H. C. M, Watson, of Christchurch. The attendance was not very large, but those who were present amply testified their appreciation of the lecture. The proceeds will be devoted to the Sunday School Library Fund. The next lecture will be delived on Tuesday week by Mr T. Oates, who has chosen for hia subject “ The history of caricature and the grotesque ia art.”

The following characteristic incident, writes a correspondent of the Dunedin Evening Herald, occurred on Saturday night last. Scene, pavement in front of Wain’s Hotel. Two gentlemen in close conversation. A little ragged urchin, without a cap, touches one of the gentlemen and says—‘ Would ye look after my bag there till I run down and see if the oar is come ?’ Gentlemen (heartily) —‘ All right, my boy ; but where’s the bag ?’ • It’s o’er in the gutter there.’ Gentleman—‘O, well; I’ll look after it for you-' Boy ran oft as hard as ho could. Our informant has a good laugh at the gentleman in charge* chaffing him with having got a job. Presently the boy comes back and seizes his bag. Gen" tleman in charge says—' Come here ; where have you to go ?’ Boy—‘ Bottom of King street.’ Gentleman —‘ Poor boy ;’ takes out his purse and gives him a coin. Other gentleman to boy—‘ When you go home you can tell your father that the Premier of New Zealand looked after your potatoes.’ Boy—‘My father is dead.’ Ere at omnes."

The Oamaru Mail expresses astonishment, as well it might, at the (act of Californian onions finding a market in New Zealand. “ We are astonished,” says our contemporary, “ with the knowledge that onions are im» ported from California and elsewhere for the use of this community—to a district possessing land of the rarest quality for the perfect growth of this common vegetable. When it is mentioned that these imported onions fetched about £l3 per ton wholesale, the neglect of our farmers to cultivate a few acres is inexplicable.”

Mr Malcolm Graham, who has recently returned from Kimberley, writes the Grey River Argus from Sydney as follows :—“ I am fully convinced from my own observation that 70 per cent, of all who went to Kimberley are from New Zealand; and if it turns out a failure, that New Zealand will suffer more than the whole of tfie other colonies. Putting it at a low estimate, I reckon it has taken 70,000 golden sovereigns out of New Zealand.”

The bore of the Southern Cross Petroleum Co., at Gisborne, is reported to be down 1365 feet in solid rock, with oil and gas showing in the bore.

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