LATEST CABLE NEWS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2842, 7 December 1892, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS. HOME AND FOREIGN.

[per pkbss association.]

(Received December 7, 10.30 a.m.)

Last Saturday the mother white swan at the Domain hatched out three cygnets from a neat of five eggs. The mother has taken 3 charge of the cygnets, leaving the old gander to try his luck at hatching out the remaining two eggs The Garden Party at the Parsonage was threatened with bad weather about noon today, but the rain shower, which lasted only > a few minutes, served to lay the dust and i cool the atmosphere, and was succeeded by brilliant sunshine. The grounds will be open till nine o'clock this evening. The Melbourne telegram relating to the opening of the trial of the Directors of the Anglo-Australian Banking Company, as received by us, made the Crown Prosecutor say that the tfank had started with £3710 capital; what he did say was that " the institution had started in 18SS with £37 10s capital." While Mr T. Trevurza's horse and trap were standing opposite Mr R. Alcorn's shop door on Tuesday afternoon, the horse, taking fright at the railway engine, bolted down the street. Turning the corner at Havelock street the wheel of the trap caught the street wheel guard and the trap was upset, and the horse thrown down. The animal was picked up by the bystanders, not any the worse of the accident, but the trap will want the blacksmith's and coach builder's attention to a very considerable extent. On Monday an enquiry was held at Hempstead School by Messrs Alfred Siunders and J. V. Oolborne Veel, Commissioners of the Board of Education, into charges made I against the Headmaster by some of the teachers. Mr Malcolm elected that the proceedings should be public, but only two or three besides the teaching staff and the members of the School Committee were present. The taking of evidence occupied the whole day. The evidence was very contradictory, and the decision will not be announced until after the next meeting of the Board. This Best Remedy fob Indigestion— Norton's Camomile Pills are confident recommended as a simple remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases, to which we are subject*, Norton's Pills, with justice called the ' Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach," act as a powerful tonic and gentle perient, are mild in their operation, and safe under any circumstances. Sold in bottles, at 1« l£d, 2s 9d, 11s, by all medicine vendors throughout the warld.

OBITUARY.

London, December 6. The Bishop of Salisbury Charles Wordsworth, is dead.