Local and General.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1033, 11 May 1894, Page 3

Local and General.

Mr Forbes, ex-curator of Canterbury Museum, has been dubbed a doctor of lawa by Aberdeen University. Lord Glasgow and party have returned to Auckland from the Dargaville shooting expedition. The total of the bags was 54 brace of pheasants. It is estimated that the Victorian railway returns for the year will show a deficit of L386,000, despite the reduction of the expenditure by L214,000. A discovery has been made, that certain shellfish in the Derwent, Tasmania, are prolific in pearls. Fifteen -hundred gems were gathered from this source by one person in three hours,

Mr Martin, S.M. in Wellington, has ruled that an auctioneer's "dealing talk" amounts to a guarantee. In a case recently before him, where a horse was aold as a four-year-old Avhon in reality he was five, and as sound, when he was suffering from inflammation of the leg, hip Worship gave a verdict for the buyer for Ll6 10s the whole amount sued for, with costs. At a meeting of the Gore Agricultural and Pastoral Society on Saturday it was agreed that Ihe support of the society be given to the idea of intercolonial freetrade ; that opposition be given to the Government interference with the labour market by so-called . co-operative works, and also to the proposed introduction of wood pigeons, which has been to some extent favoured by the Agent general and northern acclimatisation societies. The Balclutha hotel-keepers are counting the houra until the Ist of July when, unless the recent Prohibition vote be upset on appeal, their occupation will have gone. In the meantime, feeling runs pretty high between the two parties, and the publicans, seeing ruin staring them in the face, began to cherish a little resentment against against the cause of all their troubles, and have, gone as far as to imj port their bread from Milton, a distance of 17 miles, rather than deal with Prohibitionist bakers. The license remains at Stirling, a distance of two miles from Balclutha, and it has been suggested that the hotelkeeper there should run a coach at frequent intervals between the two places, ao that the public may be accommodated with their " usuala " at a minimum of trouble. — Licensed Victuallor's Gazette*