News in Brief.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6427, 21 November 1904, Page 2

News in Brief.

A concert will be held at Eiffelfcon on Friday next.

A new electric lighting plant is for sale, cheap. Letters should be addressed to " W.T.," Mail Office.

The balance brought forward by the St. Patrick's Day Sports Association from last year was £% Is lOd, not £U Is lOd.

Inside a larga eel which was captured in Mastorton a few days ago was found a whole trout about lft in length,

Fitzgerald Bros, won £12 6s in prize money at the Oamaru Show with their jumping horses, Napoleon and Daisy.

There were 21 deaths through cancer in the colony during the month of October, and 26 due to phthisis for the same period.

Mr A. Budd, caterer at the recent Timaru A. & P. Show, lost £75 by the venture, owing presumably to the wet weather, which militated against the attendance.

The Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Wednesday, 30th November instant, in celebration of St. Andrew's Day.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report the sale of Graham Bros.' Korari farm, at Winchester, to Mr K. Brookland, of Pareora, at a satisfactory figure.

It is stated that the Implement Combine have expressed their intention of including T maru, in future, in the list of shows where implements are not to be exhibited.

In this issue Mrs Constable announces that she has taken over the Fruiterer's and Refreshment business lately carried on by the Misses Murphy, in Burnett Street, and solicits a fair share of the public patronage.

The local agency of Messrs Morrow, Bassett, <nd Company commenced this morning to fit up the coming season's " McOormick's," of which they have a full supply on hand.

Major Albiston, of the Salvation Army, Wellington, states that ifc has been definitely fixed that General Booth will leave England for New Zealand on Tsth March of next year.

From a small but belect flock of ewes, the property of Mrs Welsh, of Gorge Road, the increase this lambing was 201 per cant., of which 198 per cent were tallied after tailing.—Wyndham " Farmer."

During the temporary absence of the librarian from the Newtown Library one day last week someone went into his office and abstracted from a drawer about £8, which the librarian had intended to gay over to the city treasurer.

The number of schools and other public buildings destroyed by fire in the colony during the past ten years was 120 the total amount of loss caused by such destruction being <£60,00 D. Public buildings with a few exceptions, are not under any insurance fund.

A medical practitioner at Masterton notifies by advertisement in a local paper that owing to the expense and time entailed in connection with outstanding accounts he ha 3 decided to close his books. After this month all persons desirous of consultation must be prepared to pre-pay consultation fees.

A woman named Christina Lawson, who arrived in Uew Zealand 25 years ago, has been convicted on no fewer than 140 occasions, mostly for drunkenness. She was fined 10s, in dafault 48 hours, at Christchurch last week.

"The Briton hates the Boer and vice versa, the Kaffir hates both Boer and Briton and vice veraa, and everyone loathes the Chinese," runs a letter from South Africa. " The country is outwardly quiet, but trouble may come in a year, when, according to promise, some sort of self-govern-ment will be conceded. In Capetown aloiif there are 1300 men on relief works. Dur fcjin is the same, and Johannesburg nnd Pretoria are infinitely worse, for in addition to the unemployed BritUhors there is an army of worklesa Boers."