LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7828, 22 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Bates's weather forecast as telegraphed to-day is as follows: Westerly strong winds to a gale; rain is probable; the glass will rise, but will fall again after twenty-four hours. While driving to Ashburton from Fairiield one day last week, Mr Andrew Young was thrown out of his trap near the saleyards, and received injuries to his face, shoulder and arms. He is making steady progress towards recovery under the care of his medical adviser. - A statutory first offender, who was arrested in a state of drunkenness on the Ashburton railway station yesterday, was charged with the offence before Mr H. Davis, J.P., at the Police Court this morning; also with breaking a pane of glass, valued at 65., in the railway refreshment-rooms leased by Mr William Bryant. Defendant pleaded guilty to both charges, and said he had no recollection of breaking the glass, which must have resulted by accident. William Bryant stated that defendant broke the glass, but not intentionally. The Bench ordered defendant to pay the cost of the pane of. glass, and fined him ss, or fortyeight hours' imprisonment, for being drunk. fa Some very good yields of grain has been recorded in the Lowcliffe district this year. Eainey's machine, which has just finished threshing, threshed for Mr E. H. Dobson fifty-eight (58) bushels of wheat per acre, and for Messrs W. H. Price, and D. Boyce 66 and 68 bushels per acre respectively. On Million's Wairuna estate eighty (80) bushels of Garton oats per acre was threshed early in the season.—Our own correspondent. Cheap Motor Cycles.—G. H. Carson's stock-taking sale commenced on Friday. June 11th. There are, among other bargains, several good motor cycles at prices to suit all buyers. One or two of these are, Triumph, 2 h-p., £10; Clement-Garrard, 2 h-p., £10; Minerva, 2 h-p., £20; Minerva, 2J h-p., £27 10s; Bichrone, 2 h-p., £27 10s; F.N. 4-cyl., 4i h-p., £57 10s (cost £75). See the new N.S.U. 3 h-p. latest model, £65. Wo have also an old style Bonz Oar, £25, with really good engine, 5 h-p., water cooled; suitable for portable for driving shearing machines, etc. Come in early and see these bargains.—Carson's Garage, Tailored Street, 6 116

A second crop of pears was gathered from a Kopuranga orchard on June 5, saya the Wairarapa Age. Mr Elliott, whose liouse was destroyed last night by fire, was burned out at Dromore about two years ago, and on that occasion he was a heavy loser. Everyone is agreed upon tfie Jtohrt that the .lat? is an .expensive business After the fire last evening the members of the Fire Brigade-aßout twenty in number-wer<j invited by Mr Ji. Gresham to liis home, wliefe he provided supper for thamr This kindness was much appreciated ty the .firemen. Mr John tjie.weli-knovm Ashburton horse-breeder, will' leave for Melbourne in the course of a .few days. Ho will take with him a shipment of toteen Clydesdales mostly young mares, sevei'al of .which he recently purchased from Mr Barton Wood, of Ashburton, and Mr R. Ronnie*• of Tai Tapu. Mr Small intends to enter his horses for the Melbourne A. and if.. Association's annual_ parade. The Navy League annual report just issue! Shows that the British Navy. ia now more efficient in gunnery than ever before. In the "Wy. gunlayS test" an excess of 1392 misses over hits in 1907 has, in 1908, been turned into an excess of 643 hits over nussesa net gain or o«ff 8000 hits.-.. The figures for the light qiiifck-faring . guns are equally satisfactory, and there has also been a marked, improvement in the battle practice returns for all classes of guns. The Shire horse is as highly, prized in England as the Clydesdale in Scotland and Australasia. At a sale or Shire horses, the property of the late Earl of Egerton, the first six animals realised 6930 guineas, one entire fetching 3700 guineas. The total, sales amounted to £9709. . Sixteen colts and stallions averaged £845 9s/iy,M ld £five mares and fillies averaged £208 6s. I A centipede, about six inches long tumbled out of & bn* of bananas on to the band of. a fruiterer lii Cblotnbo street, Christchurch, on Saturday night. The bananas had been.received from the Cook Islands. The extraordinary tenacity ,mth which these creatures cling to life is slioWJi toy, the. fact that the centipede's head was. c'itt 6ii\ when it was discovered at 9. p.m. on Saturday, and the body was still very much alive, and able to move its many feet at 10 o'clock on Monday. "I am father surprised," said a farmer to a Wairarapa Dfily. Times reporter, "that farmer's don't grow more peas than .they do; tind ufee 1 them for their stock." Peas its a fo6d. for pigs were, he said, always .unequalled, while they were particularly suited to lambs. "Lambs," he continiMt very enthusiastically, "thrive splendidly on them. Not only do they grow fat, but they put on meat, the flavour of which it is hard to beat." Our correspondent .-state. that a meeting of the. Lowcliffe , Scli6ql Committee was.licit! on. Monday, the, 14th instant. Present—=Mes§r§ Read, .Price, Jewell, and Norrish. Mr A. Beul was sleeted chairman, in the room or Mr B. Fountaino, deceased. Feeling reference was made to the death of the late chairman, and on behalf, of the committee a letter of condolence was forwarded to Mrs Fountains and family in their sad v bereavement. At the City Police Court atjDunedin on Monday, before Mr WiddowSon, S.M., James Nicholls, A.8.. on the I barque Lakemba, pleaded guilty to stealing nine bottles of stout from the fore hold of .the vessel while at the wharf. The captain said that accused had gone, there with an unprotected light, wnicli Was ddiigerotis, arid no doubt the practice 1 eatlsSd mfihy. fires at sea. Accused was committed for sentence. On a second charge of stealing thirty bottles of beer and 731bs of ■candles during the voyage from Wellington to Dunedin, accused pleaded guilty, and elected.to be dealt with summarily. He waa remanded until the first charge had been dealt with by th eSupreme Court. .. ; .• A meeting of the Ashburton Sports ! Association was held last evening. [•Present —Messrs P. H: Cos (chairman), E. T. Norris, H. E. Curtis, J, D. Stewart, T; McDonald, L. G. McDonald, T. M. Clarke, F. W. Seldon, and the secretary (Mr W. H. Little). A letter was read, from the Ashburton Rugby Union, offering a certain amount in full payment of the arrears in rental to the Association .regarding the rent of the Domain playing grounds and pavilion charges. It was moved, seconded, and carried —"That the offer bo not accepted, and that the Rugby Union be written to a.nd requested to pay the full amount within thl'ee days, failing, which legal proceedings will be instituted for the recovery of the rent due." An amendment that the offer of the Rugby Union be accepted was supported only by the mover and seconder. In the early part of last year J. Usher, who was convicted and, sentenced at Auckland to five years' imprisonment for a series of burglaries in that city, made his escape-from the Waiotapu prison tree-planting station. Efforts to trace his whereabouts were futile, and it was assumed by the police authorities that he had made his way to either America, South Africa or Great Britain. Finger-prints of the escaped criminal were forwarded to Scotland Yard, together with such particulars as might assist in his detection. A few months ago a man was apprehended on a charge of housebreaking at Bournemouth, England, and a subsequent examination of the fingerprints forwarded by the' New Zealand police authorities pointed to him as the person who had given the slip to the warders at Waiotapu. To clear up the matter of his identification, Detective Cassells, of Wellington, left for England via Sydney on Friday. ' A Pendarves correspondent writes as follows: A concert was given in Mr W. •Jameson's shed at Pendarves on the evenii:.<; of June 4th, in aid of school funds. Mr John Watson (the chairman) presided, and there was.a good attendance. The programme was a full one, and solos, duets and quartets were pleasingly rendered by Mrs .H. Chapman, Misses Anderson, Sinclair, Richards, and Messrs H. and W. Chapman, while Misses Harper and Sinclair gave pianoforte selections. . Miss Creswell and Mr H. Ellwood delighted the audience with their performances on their violins-, accompanied by Miss Harper, who was also accompanist throughout., A dance followed the concert, and the music was supplied by Mr H. phapman (of Timaru), Mr Brown acting as M.C. At the close, hearty votes of thanks were accorded to the performers, who had all come great distances; to Mr and Mrs Jamieson; and to all/others who, had assisted to make the concert a success. Asked by a representative of the Otago Daily Times what were their impressions of Australia compared with Now Zealand, Monsieur St. Dyktor and his friend, Dr. Thoff, two French gentlemen who are touring the dominion, and to whom this query was put,, replied: "Well, Melbourne and! Sydney are the biggest towns, but we think that in time New Zealand will be superior, because the average of progress here is very much higher. People are very nice in civility in Australia, but not so nice as in New Zealand. We have enjoyed New Zealand more than we have Australia," said M. St. Dyktor. 'When I approached Dr, Find-1 lay, who is a. very high personage m j this country, he received me in a very! friendly manner, although it was the first time he had seen me in his life. When I go in Europe to a Minister I must go at least in evening dross;~with white tie, white gloves, and silk hat; but here I went to him in my ordinary I clothes, as I was walking, and he re-1 ceived me very kindly, kept me about two hours, and invited me the next! day to a reception. This was more! friendly than in France, even though:' it is a Republic. Tilings hero are very! democratic—no ceremony at all." _ A Watch that gives its owner en-' tire satisfaction—L. S. 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Scarlet fever has again assumed a | mildly epidemio form in the borough of Masterton. Three oases from various parts of the town have recently been removed to the fever hospital at Lansdowne*, A mining engineer, writing^ to a relative at the Thames, states that some discontent exists among the dredging experts who left New Zealand for South America owing to,the failure of courts to enforce the agreements which they made with tn«? representatives of the concession holders'. At least one<clergyman in the fit Jit Valley has a distinct vein of humour. In a sermon recently rie said that it was " fortunate St. Paul did not live in these days, for, if he had, theil, Histead of his beautiful epistles, posterity would have had nothing but a collection of souvenir postcards as mementoes of hk apostleship." "It's no£ the customer's body that the., tailor haffto fit; it's Ms head," was the philosophic remark of a faifof at the tailoring trades' dispute in Christ-. I church the other day. I One of the best stories told regarding [Mr Header, Harris, K;C : , who died i recently, aiid who was widely known j on account of liis religious work ; is that concerning a burglar who -visited i his house. So keen was the general admiration of the fraternity for 1. Mr' Harris that a few days afterwards a" deputation of "real burglars" waited upon him, expressed their sorrow, and added: "He wasn't,.a real burglar, sir, or he would never flkve robbed you." Mofor Car Owners.—Try R. D. Johnston" ■ forj repairs, tyres, etc. Mbtorine Cylinder. Oil, 4s 6d gallon. Dunlpp and Michelin I'yfes .10 p^er cent lower than any other trader in Ashburton; all sizes in stock, fitted ffee of charge, while you wait. Agent for "Talbot" Cars and "Triumph'"' Motor Cycles. Inspection Invited. 6