LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 6668, 9 September 1905, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Exports of the Ashburton. Christoharch and Timara grain markets will be found on the fourth page of thiß issue.

Pbrsosaj.,—Mr C, A. Simmers, M.A.head master of tfce High. School, returned to Timaru yesterday after a nine months trip to the Home Country. Mr Himmers looks pamarkably w,ell after his long holiday, and is .apparently restored to health.

Hmjg DpiifG.—4. party of gentlemen from Ohristcfrurcb together sriisfe Ashburton friends engaged in a bare dyive iii the Lagmhor district on Thursday, tfre day's Combined bag totalling 284 head.

WrNr-H^OBl! Weather Report?.—Mr A. oSS. meteoroio^oal otaer ,er ,at Windjmore, reports that during *»«!«* » n '«" »t Winohmore on 7 days, thetotan..! 1 D3IIJs iinch 10 points. Thd heaviest fall was recorded on the 19th, when 29 points fell, and the lowest on tfco 2nd, when only 9 points was registered. Tb# other, days on which rain fell were ;—3rd (11 points), sth (12 points), 10th (10 points), 23rd (17 points), and ?Bsh (2# points)..

The Labour Mais:bt.--"H: business is good, how is it you can't pny ?" queried Mr Wray of a judgment debtor at the Magistrates' Court yesterday. "Ashburton is a prohibition district, and must be a very good place You can't spend your money in liquor." tf Jfo, and T never did," responded the dabtoy. " Plenty of work ?" further asked the Magistrate, .. " Sometimes," said the defendant, " and then plenty of men to do it,"

I Weather Forecast. -—Captain Edwin wirfia as follows : — Strong winds to gale .from between north-east and east and I south jglass rise; rain probable, and I weather colder.

Musical Festiva l—The secretary of the Orchestral Society (Mr Robert S. Stock), will be pleased to receive the names of all those who wish to take putt in the musical 'festival' when "'The Messiah" will be rendered.

Nitrogen Fixing BactebiA.—With the object of educating farmers in the use o' the nitrogen fixing bacteria, for leguminous Crops, the Government Agricultural Department is sending out on request email packets of clover seed inoou'ated with the culture. Farmers who take the trouble to get these samples are expected to observe the resulti carelully.

PoiiiTiOAr,—Mr W. S. Maslin, who is a candidate for the A6hbarton eeat, will address a meeting of electors in the Oddfellows' Hall on Friday evening next, at 8 p.m.—A good attendance ot Mr John Studholme's supporters was present at a meeting held last evening for the purpose of discussing details in connection with the forthcoming Election. A large amount of routine business was transacted. Mr Stndholme, who wns present, announced thst he would address the electors at the Oddfellows' Hall at an early date. A meeting to form a Ladies' Committee will be held in Miss Graham's office on Tuesday at 2.30.v

A Good System.—ln Norway on pay days saloons are closed and savings banks open until midnight. Servant girls hire for half a year at a time by contract at registry offices ; there is a telegraph box on every street car -- you write the message, pat on the rignt number of stamps, drop it in the box; tanners can borrow money from the Government at three per cent, there are practically no illiterates; the average wage earnings are eighty eight dollars a year; there are more reindeer than horses, more sheep than cows. Export of Sheep—By the Wimmera yesterday, Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co, shipped 200 English Leicester ram hoggets for Melbourne., The Mararoa will also take close on 200 sheep for Australia. A consignment of 100 two-tooth Shropshire rams from Mr Arthur Chamberlain's flocks is being shipped by Messrs Field and Eoyds (c Sydney, and Messrs Pyue and Co. will have 80 English Leicester rams (from Mr C. W. Reid, Windsor) on the same boat for Sydney. The export of sheep to Australia has been very steady since the beginning of August. A Debt Cask. —In answer to an application made by plaintiff's counsel for an adjournment of a month in a judgment summons case at the Magistrates' Court yesterday, so as to allow defendant to pay the remaining portion of the money, Mr C. A»-Wray, S.M., paid that Buch an adjournment, with concomitant payment in driblets, was not within the spirit of the Act, Action in such debts must be of a decided nature one way or the other. Mr Buchanan said the application was for the convenience of the defendant, who was willing to pay, -and"had- already paid a portion. He recognised that an adjournment was wrong in principle. The Magistrate Raid it seemed to savour of the plan of keeping the sword dangling over a debtor, but, if the adjournment was at the defendant's request, he did not know that he would be right in refusing it.