LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7240, 27 July 1907, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Captain Edwin telegraphs as follows : Moderate to strong easterly winds; glass probably fall; tides moderate Lambs are appearing in small numbers in the Ashton district. A poll to constitute Gisborne a fire district was carried by 49 to 7. Fifty trucks containing 600,000 ft of timber came down the Otira line on Wednesday for shipment. This constitutes a ; record for one clay. There is an epidemic of measles at present in Waihi, and the East End school has been closed in consequence. Au Auckland telegram states that Sidney O'Neill, of - the buckjumping combination, was fined £3 for blackening the eye of Sidney Luella, the down. Iv 1899-the amount sp^nt on charitable aid-in New Zealand was £93,070. The following year it fell to £77,602, but it has now gone up to £103,^/^. The amounts spout by the principal boards last year wore: Auckland £17,001,, Wellington £14,228, Ashburton and North Canterbury £Ib,oUJ, Otaco United £15,393.

The class in wool-sorting will be started again on Thursday next in Messrs ' Friedlander Bros.' grain store. An ] advertisement appears in another co- i lumn. It has been stated more than once that men in search of employment are not always ready or willing to go to the country. Recently the Labour Department wanted 18 men for the Riversdale-Switzers railway, and succeeded in getting only nine.

The steamer Rippingham Grange, which trades between English and New Zealand ports, lias been fitted with wireless telegraphy apparatus.

In order to show what progress can be made by pupils in the 'friscp system of dressmaking, Mrs lliifisejl, .instructress at the Ashbnrton Technical School, will hold an exhibition of the work done by the students at. the classes on Tuesday next, from 6 to o and 7to 9 p.m. All interested are cordially invited to look at the work, and admission is free.

The Rev W. L. Salter, who ; for threo years Was pastor of. the Baptist labernacle in Ashburton, has resigned his pastorate of the Waihi Baptist Church, of which he has been in charge for the past six months. Mr Salter has informed the Waihi Daily Telegraph that he has taken over a farm at Athrenee for himself and his sons. Probably, after the farm is well established, Mr Salter will devote a good deal of his time to the general evangelistic work to which he is attached.

Interesting information keeps coming to hand regarding the great struggle which is taking place in Burnett street at Strange and Co.'s Agency. Mi Sandrey, With, his staff greatly remiorced, is slashing prices dotfn, and fifty (50) cases of rare bargains direct from headquarters, Christchurch, are being added to the Ashburton stocks.. G eat preparations are in full swing to allow the present shopper a ™^ c °P£°£; nity to buy up-tcwlattt goods at niouer saving prices. Strange s stock-taging sale (now so long waited for) is tamed to open on Tuesday next, July 3(kh. Come, if only to compare our prices. /-U Last night a cantata was given in aid of the Home and Foieign Missions of tiie CiiUi'cli of Christ, and resulted in the collection of » sum of £4. + lur. Manifold presided, sad referred to tho great need of ligU> foreign nations. Recitations were gi.en by Misses luwood, Jessie Moo.- Doris William*, Norah Pearson, fl.-ary Osborne, Anna ■ Watkins. Ethel ll:>rvev, Ruby Jamieson; BelUt Blah', -iimh Williams, and Masters 'Donald Smitli and Samuel Baxter. Eight boys and eight girh took part in a march and drill, whicn was well pofformed. A very interestin" portion of the entertainment was the entry of the six non-Christian nations and their conversion. The ladier, representing tho nations were: Misses Johns (China), Brown (Africa), liiwood !, (Japan), Johrisoii (Turkey), Hansen (InI dia), and Dent (Islands of the Sea). i Miss Lillie Palmer acted as leader. The lio;ht-bringers were : Misses Moody, ■ Smith", Cooper, Osborne, Williams and Knox.

At the Auckland Police Court the other day, an old oii'endef for" di'tliikfcnness was* brought up once more. Mr Kettle said there was only one thing to do. He imposed a sentence of three months' imprisonment. "Three, months!" exehumSd the offender; "why I only came out on Friday.. This is too much of a good thing, this is." The amount subscribed to date for the-memorial" on Marsland Hill, New Plymouth, to the soldiers who fell in the Taranaki Maori war, is £250. A beautiful white heron has taken up its quarters among the water hazards of the fiaiclutha golf rinks. ThO heron is now practically extinct, and the visitor to Balclutha is to be protected. The Clinton correspondent of the Free Press says that the purchaser of the Clinton block of the Clydevale estate has disposed of it, with the exception of 800 or 1000 acres, which he retains for himself. It is reported that he made a profit of close upon £2000, The profitable nature of sheep-farm-ing, amongst small flackowners is yiell shown by a Leithiield farmer's return for the past season. From a flock of 203 ewes ho had 268 lambs, including 65 twins. He sold the whole of the lambs at an average of 16s lOd each, and for the wool off the ewes was paid £86, the total return being about 30s per ewe. Some annoyance was caused at the Church of Christ cantata last evening by boys throwing stones on the galvanised iron roof and walls. Mr Manifold remarked that they did not intend to prosecute; they.relied on the moral sense anad sense of fairness in the public to check such wanton annoyances, and make the offenders ashamed of their conduct. At the Waihi Police Court lately, a man named Sellon was proceeded against by the Railway Department for breach of the by-laws by refusing to pay a fine of 6d, imposed on account of his purchasing his ticket on the train. The defendant, who was a passenger from Waihi to Waikino, subsequently received 1 a note asking for payment from the Railway Department, but this he ignored. He was fined 7s, and ordered to pay the 6d and Court.costs, £1 8s 6d, making the cost of his experience £1 14s, to tyhicii had to be added his solicitor's fee.

The Maoris in this country (says the Taranaki News) have steadfastly declined to take delivery of ratecards posted to them. When one of these demands arrived there was never a man known by the name of the addressee, and the ratecards never reached their destination. But sin envelope with a big blue; cross, denoting registration,-is always eagerly looked for, and seized with the greatest eagerness. The other day a batch of these landed at a post office down the coast, and there was no difficulty in disposing of them. When opened they were found to contain demands for payment of rates! Mr Ellis, the county clerk, had scored.

A correspondent writing to the Wellington Post states that one large manufacturing firm in Wellington, now employs about thirty men and boys, where, seventy or eighty men were employed. The increase of the duty on imported boots, he thinks, will be in favour of these operatives.

Apropos of the statement by Prince yon BuloW (published in the cabled news of Wednesday) denying that Germany has ambitions for colonial expansion, a quotation from an article in Novoe Yromya, the St. Petersburg paper, is timely. It runs: " With her perpetual fever for armaments, Germany forces her near and distant neighbours to follow her example, and there is no reason to anticipate the end of that^state of things. This folly, which aims at 'the domination of the universe, a mania that is shared by a number of German statesmen, keeps the world in the path of uncertainty."

Mr W. A. Lloyd told an audience at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin, on Wednesday night, that white travellers by Japanese mail steamers had to stand by and endeavour to look cheerful while the Japanese passengers were landed in the tenders. -When that was over the white man got his chance of going ashore. But he must needs go in a second-class sort of boat, along with coolies and other alluring companions. In this, the Japanese are unworthily imitating the white men, who from time immemorial have behaved in that way to coloured men.

"Let them come home!" ejaculated one of the audience at the Dunedin Garrison Hall on Wednesday evening, when Dr Kirk mentioned that there were 1000 New Zealand traders and missionaries in China. The speaker was incessantly interrupted in endeavouring to move an amendment to one of the resolutions proposed at a White Race League meetI ing, and when the Rev. A. Don mounted i the platform to second the amendment, (the interruptions camo thicker s.fcill. Mr Don said that he did not expect to get a hearing, but he would tell those piesent that Mr Lloyd had made a hotchpotch" of things by placing the negro and the Chinaman in the same category. The last part of Mr Don's remarks read | as follows-.—Mr Don: "There are 900,----000 white people in New Zealand " —(Voices: "Nonsense!" and "What a tale to pitch!") Mr Don: "And there *is only one Chinaman to every 360 whites " —(A Voice: "One too many!") Mr Don: "And if 360 Britishers can't stand up against one Chinaman, they ought to go down/'—(Uproar.) :

The Domain weather station registered 2 degrees of frost this morning, and 2 points of rain. Special services in connection with the formal opening of the Church ot Christ Central Mission Hall will beheld to-morrow, when Evangelists Ralph Gebbie, 8.A., of Christclmrch, and W. J. Hastie, 8.A., of Dunedin, will preach the dedication sermons, log opening tea and public meeting will be i held on Monday evening.

.A social evening to bid farewell to Mr H. Diepenheini was held in the Orange Hall on Thursday evening. Mr D Lusk presided, and there was an attendance of about 150 . gentlemen. The evening was passed in speech, song, toast, and story, and a handsome gold watch, suitably inscribed, was presented to Mr Diepenheim.

The well-known Scottish singer, Miss , Jessie Maclachlan, will appear at the Oddfellows' Hall, Ashburton on Monday evening Miss Maclachlan's voice is a rich full soprano, vibrant with feeling and dramatic power. It is not the mere singing, the mere succession ot pure liquid notes that .rouses her audiences, it is the magnetic force of her personality, her. absorption of the spirit of the song that carries the words from the heart of some Scotch poet ct centuries ago to find their echoing note .in the hearts of his twentieth-century fellow-countrymen.

Mr M. Kennedy, who was treasurer in New Zealand in connection with the tour' of Messrs Devlin and Donovan, the Irish Rome Rule delegates, has torwarded to the tteasn:r of each locality the amounts collected m New Zealand The highest amount received was in Auckland, £566 6s-6d; Wellington £545 6. 9d, .Timaru £386 9s, and ■Dunedin £31 A Is 7d, being the next highest on the list. The total amount confronted to the cause in the colony reached the very high figure of £4Udo Is Sd; Hokitika £71 6s 9d Kumara £40 Ss .6d. Reef ton £50 9a 2d, Greymouili £133 7s Bd. The bank charges for remitting the amount horns were £46 Us S; balance, £4888 19s 6d. -Tin ,fiSd£» captured about two was almost equally successful. At the Masterton fish ponds some f>o 000 rainbow trout eggs from Roto-ru"4l-e now hatching out besides 300 - 000 brdwn trout. Five thousand yearling t?out have been despatched to Hawke's Bay. n - At the Arbitration Court, limaru, on Friday, Ml- Alpers, solicitor, maae an appeal to the hrimane sympathies of the members of ths Court, in stating the case for the claimant m the case Bell v Layers. He thought the Court would see something heroic m the man s conduct. He "made no song about it when the accident befel him, and when he left the hospital on a crutch and a stick and returned to the farm he ti loci to make himself useful. Ho sought co save trouble to others, and devised a plan of pulling on his boots with a crook of fencing wire. He could dress himself with difficulty and continually suffered from great pains in the baciv, yet he tried to get work and tackled scraping old bricks at 5s a day because he could do it sitting. He had tried to earn what he could, and had not endeavoured to increase his claim i'or compensation by minifying his earning power. There was something of primitive heroism in his conduct from first to last. As no claim had been made within the statutory time, the Court had to dismiss the application.