Ashburton Guardian Megna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1900. Local arid General.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5059, 9 March 1900, Page 2

Ashburton Guardian Megna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1900. Local arid General.

%* On the first page to-day will be found War Item-. Unfit to be at Large —A man said to be in an adv«r,c d stage of deluium trem-ns, was painting the town red tie other day, and evei.tually was given a shake down in the i lock-ap. A woman the worse for iiquor was i also making a nuisance of herself j A Generous Employer.—Mr John Grigg j showed his sympathy with the Tiuwald Patriotic demonstration on Thursday, in a very practical m*nner, by giving his employees a holiday fur the occasion. It is said that this meant knocking off upwards of 300 horses for the day. Burned tj Dkath—A son of Mr Frank Cresaweli, Nelon, aged two or three years, was burnt to death in a field at Richmond on ! uesduy afternoon. The father was burning stubb c, when the child wandered to the ft lines, and his clothes ignited. He died on the spot.—Press Association telegram.

Obituary—We much regret having to chronicle the death of Mrs David Millar, of Hindß, who passed away, after a long illness, last evening. The deceased lady had many friends in Ashburton and ihe county, and much sympathy is felt with Mr Millar and his family. The funeral takes place on Sunday at 2 30.

Frozen Meat Market—A Napier tekgram says:—Messrs Nelson Bros, have received the following cable re the frozen meac market Colonial Consigning and Distributing Company to day. Beat Oantetbury 3id» Dunediu and Southland d^i, Napier and North Island 3d, lamb, first (quality 4| 1, second 3fd.

Convalescent—When responding to the invitation to take the chair on Wednesday, at the meeting of the Education Board, Mr Weßton said it gave him pleasure to announce the partial restoration to health of thtir Chairmai'. Mr Reonie ha 1 been ibla to sign some papers in connection with the Board's business, and it was hoped he would be in his seat at the next meeting. On the motion of Messrs Perryrnan and Bnddo, it was decided to send a letter of condolence to Mr Rennie, with the hope that he would very early be able to resume his responsible duties.

Licensing Matters—The Geraldine Licensing Committee, at ics last meeting on Tueeday, passed the following resolution :— " That the memJ}fi^*<rf**rtreT Gerahline Licensing Be.T^n",' ab this their last meeting, desire once more to draw the atteution of the Governn.-flnt to the great iacouvenience caused by the'necessity of personally n.eeting for temporary and occasional licence?, aw priJvlSed by section 20 of the Act of 1895, and that it is doubtful whether the district hereafter can be represented by at y *v* town members, owing to the stringency referred to."

Payable Tbamways—Tha electric tramways in Sydney are already exhibiting extraordinary results. On the George street Hoe, which was only recently opened, no K.BB than one million and a half tickets were sold in one month. The average daily takings on th a section have ranged between £205 and £210, while on Christmas Eve no less than £5359 was taken. The estimated annual number of passengers arriving or departing from the Redfearn railway station who travelled by the eleofcrio trama was stated Dt 8.7C0 OCO, whilst only 700,000 have availed themselves of the steam trama.

Tub Heko &v Ladysm[t«—The Press saya:— One of the quickest r>> d smartest pieces of woi k dose in New Zealand was canieil out by the lithographic staff of the

Piysi G> mpany, in the coloured picture of

Hir George White, which appears as a Bupj.lf merit to tha Weekly Press of the 7th

inst. The news of the relief of Ladysmith only reached Chii-1 hurch on March 2, and the coloured eupp'emenb of the hero of Ladyimith was rea'?y on the eveniDg of the 6 This p'cture was printed in seven clours, and as the first edition nearly consisted of

25,000 copies, ib will be appurents thu

175,000 printings were completed in the short space of four days, in addition to the artist's woik. We have seen the pioure. ft is equal to some of those tumei out by the belt ( fficea in England. Hk Wanted A Good Peknywobth - The other evening a newsboy was calling out in Cathedral .-quare, " 'Truth !' 'Truth !' latest edition, ' when a mau stopped and asked if bheie were any news. "Oh! yes, ' replied the boy, " all the lat^et news of the war!" " How many men killed ?'' " Two or three." The man thuu said, " It's nob worth while buying a paper to see that." The boy looked up into the man's face and replied sarcastically, " Look here, mister, do you want a bloomin' thousand men killed every evening for a penny ?"

I Crown Landsfor Settlement—The Commissioner of Crown Lands notifies that the

Pareora No; 2 settlement will be open for application on Thursday, March 22ad, inst, The settlement comprises some 8064 acres of first-olaes agricultural land, situated on the north side of the Otaio river, near St Andrews, and contains some of the finest cropping and grez ng land in Soubh Canterbury., The land is subdivided into thirty-two farms at rentals ranging from 7a 3d to 11s per aore. During the month of April the Puuaroa, Pap&ka, and Raotawiri settlements, South Canterbury, will b» offered for settlement.

OThb Conditions of SERriCE.—The Officer Cammanding the Ohristchureh Gamp on Monday received the following telegram from Colonel Penten, Commandant of the New Zealand Fences, and it was read ouc to the men on parade yesterday afternoon t —" The terms of enlistment for the fifth Contingent are as follows : — For general service in South Africa under Imperial authorities; between the ages of twenty and thirty-five, medically fib, good horsemen and shot?. Engagement for one year or duration of war. They may be posted, on arrival, to regular units of mounted Infantry as requided. . It employed outside Natal and Cape Colony, they will receive pay at the rate of five shillings a day for privates, other ranks at proportionate rates.; Not more than one officer per 100" It will be noticed that the conditions differ somewhat from those previously published, 1 and in order that the men should be under no misapprehension on the matter, Lieutenant Colonel Gordon deoided to have them informed of the alterations. A Generous Company —Its will be remembered that through the generosity of the American Tobacco Company, who gave the tobacco entirely free of coat, the Pnss Company were able to include in the box of comforts which was sent to each member of the First, Second and Third Contingents, a 2oz packet of Old Judge tobacci. The Company have again generously some forward with an offer of a quantity of the same tobacco, sufficient to give each member of the Fourth Contingent a similar packet to I that given to the troopers who have already gone to the war. Besides this, they are themselves giving 3200 packets to the Fourth Contingent, Throughout the war the American Tobacco Company have given proof of great liberality. They give the First Contingent 50,000 Vanity Pair cigarettes, and were the first) firm to present tobacco and cigarettes throughout Australasia to the various contingents. They gave 100 guineas to each of the Patriotic Funds raised in New Zealand, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia. Iq their action in respect to the war in the Transvaal they have bub maintained the charaoter they earned in the AmericanSpanish war, when they sent agents to Cuba to deliver throughout the oamps, hospitals, and warships, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and pipts, besides doing the same in the various camps at Tampa and elsewhere, and the headquarters of the troops throughout the States. It may be added that the Company are giving to the Empire Patriotic Fund, organised in Victoria, a bonus on their; monthly sales of cigarettes in that colony, and intend doing co until the end of the war. In cash and goods they have already given some' £1400 for the benefit of British Holdiors »t the front, and tho«e dependent on them;

An ADAMLKBS EDEN— A blushing maiden j ia Taranuki, who still belongs to the un» - J tached foioe, declares that if the e-iiiHngentß | continue to leave our shores N«w Z s*l nd j will soon be "anAdamless hden." t Buried Treasure-Ib is said that th>i • buried Oity of Pompeii has nob yet yie ded up half of its artistic treasure. At the pro- J sent rate of progress 70 years will eUpse i before it in thoroughly uaee.ri.hed. 1 The Biter Bit —A capital j >ke is rehted of a man who positively made a, fine art of meanness. When travelling, as he very often did, he would keep railway porters busi'y attending to his luggage, su 5 then purp iseiy [defer thu maul -.leseivsd perquisite till the ! starting of the ttaiu n.ado its payment practically impossible. One morning, however, when about t■• j >urney to Birmingham, he executed this mat taavre once too o tec on t'e -bme man. " Daar, dear ! L'm so sorry," ho sa'.'J, astho train gave a lurch forward, ' I q-iite fo'got to get change." " And Ism rale sorry, too, sir," waa the portei'<s dry r - tort, " i quite forgot about that brown portmantay of yours. It's lying, on the platform."

A Rkmabkable Invention—An exchange aays teludii*f.»taph is the name given to the apparatus inveuied by an American for this tf-legraphing of pictures. The picture to be cent is first drawn on tinfoil with a certain kind of ink, which will not easily blur by rubbiug. The foil is then wrapped around a ] cylinder in the sending machine, similar to : the wax cylinder of a phonograph. At the receiving end is a similar device arranged to work synchronously with the sending apparatus ; but instead of tinfoil a sheet of carbon or manifold paper ia placed between two blank sheets of pi per. In the sender a needle or platinum point is mada to trace its W!>y over the surface of the tinfoil, automatically moving down the cylinder a certain distance on the completion of each revolution. Aa this needle comes in contact with the ink lines it is thereby raised from the metallic surface and the circuit is broken. At the receiving end a corresponding needle reproduces the pulsations of the needle in the transmitter, snd, pressing againat the sheet in contact with the carbon paper, traces upon it an impression of the desired picture.