The Ellesmere Guardian. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1891.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 886, 11 February 1891, Page 2

The Ellesmere Guardian. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1891.

Tbe discovery of an outcrop of coal is the Puhipuhi forest, Auckland, by two gum diggers is reportedr. Advices from Central America report that' war ' between Guatemala and Honduras is imminent. ' ' A thunderstorm and heavy fall of rain took place on Saturday m the Waikato district. Cppsiderable damage has been done to the har ( vssfc there. The Yen Archdeacon G-ovett was thrown from a carriage at New Plymouth on Friday afternoon, ' and seriously' hurt. Bis right arm was broken m two places. A sev6?6 thunderstorm is reported at having occurred at Suva, Frji j on the 23rd January. Several horises 1 were bjiown down, and some people were injured, but none of them seriuusly. An Auckland telegram says that the dead bodies of: two children, victims of the Tarawera eruption, the son and daughter of a chief named P-uetio. have been discovered at Wairoa, near Botorua.. A special meeting of the Selwyn Country ConnciJ was he'd on Monday. Present — Messrs D. (Chairman), H. W. Peryman, B. Westepra. J, G, Murray, W. Bcag, T. H. Anson,' V. P,unl"P. and J. Rennie. An apology was reeled for the absence'of Mr T. York. r J ho following .vaterchjirKes for er.ch 100 acres were : — Malvern, Waii-6ka.Greenc]u!e districts each ; Xl ; llororata aod"BlnjX, £1 ; Ellcf- : uur<> and Hnldon, £1 2s'6d, flfi mutter jf the Waitnakariri "district rate «/at : Jeferred to a future meeting, pending the •^floidW* »Pjf,(j|\e concerning the! '— "<*fl§£o #iltn6ure's pase, which had |o be apporin... | P«rympn p ?§ ngUcg H UJVu.,.,

Germany has voted £10,000 for exploring Africa. Sixteen residents left Invercargill on Friday for the Ta&manian silver mines. The petroleum experts at New Plymouth . have now sunk 320 ft, and they consideer the indications very satisfactory. Sir George Grey telegraphed to thei Government on Saturday, consenting to act on behalf of New Zealand at the Federal Convention. Professor^ ,Honken, of Cambridge, has made successful experiments for the cure of anthrax m sheep, with an iniection extracted from the spleen of rata mixed with 20 per- cent, ofglycerinef A Brisbane auctioneer claims to have discovered a cure for consumptiou and cancer, and he intends to erect a plant capable of treating 10,000 patients. Ho has offered his specific to the Queensland Government for £25,000. . Mr K. Staplep, bootmaker, Kilbernie, was thrown out of a trap on Friday night, nsd died of concussion of the br£iu on Saturday morning. His wife was also injured, but the other occupants escaped. A little boy, aged seven, named Eonna r will, was drowned m the Hokitika river on Saturday afternoon. He was sitting on a pile, fishing, and fell into sixteen feet of water, where there was n. strong current. The body has not yet been recovered. ( The coal export for the week ended Satday for Westport was 43.75 tons, On Friday :1427 tons were loweied from the mine. The Greymouth coal export last week was 5479 tuns, the largest week's export from that port. The Woodyille, Horticultural Society has decided- to support the action of the Cantefbury.Fruit Growers' Association in'iasking the Minister for Agriculture to ;take steps to prevent the importation of frait fronicblonioß' or districts infected with. the codlin moth into clean districts of wkiah this is one.. . , ; The Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia m his budget estimates the revenue of that colony for the year at £439,000, and the expenditure at £401,000, leaving a balance sutticent to meet the interest on the new loan at the end of 1892. The public debt of the colony is £1,284,000. i. j :' ■■ • • The yield of wheat this season m South Australia is far below expectations. The deficiency, which is largely due to locusts, represents three or four bushels to the acre, to the value «f nearly a million sterling. The total yield is estimated at 12,374;000, with an average of a trifle over 6£ bushels to the acre. After making the usual allowances, there will bo available for export about 235,000 tons. Thomas Betts was charged at Eakaia under the railway bye-laws on Friday with driving a vehicle on the Rakaia Bridge m front of a train, thereby delaying the train and committing a breach or. the bylaws, tie was also charged with resisting the bridgekeeper when attempting to stop ' him. W. H. Shephard, the bridgekeeper, and W . Joidon, the driver of the train, gave evidence. Accused was admonished, and fined £1 and 14s costs. News has been received from Milford Sound that a young man named William Quill, one of Mr Simpson's survey party on the Milford-Wakatipu track, is missing. About Jan. 10 Quill was sent to plant a flag on a hill some miles from Greenstone, taking with him five dayß' provisions. He not returning, search was made, but there was no trace of him. When the Tarawera left the sounds a few days ago there was no word of him, and now he is thought to have been lost m the bush or to have met with an accident. On Jan, 19, Mr Herbert John Faviile son of Mr John T . Faviile, of Sel wyn street, Sydenham, was accidentally drowned m a branch a branch of the river Richardson, at Donald, a town m Victoria. He was thrown from his horse, and before he could be rescued from the water was quite unconscious. Every effort was made to restore animation, but all was unavailing. He was highly respected and much esteemed for his quiet and unassuming manner. He was born at Lyltelton, and was twenty-two years of age. An inquest was held at Wellington on Saturday, as to the cause of the death of Malcolm Fraser, an expressman, who, it was alleged, succumbed to the bite of a katipo spider. Dt Ewart, medical superinteqdent at the hospital, who made a post-mortem e^amipatjon, said, "m his opinion, death was due to the bite of a spider, the man being m a bad state of health at the time. The active ca.use of death was erysipelas, buc that, m his opinion, was brought about by the bite. In answer to $he jury, Dr Ewart sajd there was blood.poiaonißg, The jjury returned a verdict that death was due to erysipelas, as a consequence of the bite of a katipo spider. The Wellington correspondent of our Gloucester street contemporary, says that the feeling m the Empire City over the failure of the drainage board is one of great disgust, and re mar It's: "Only 1347 ratepayers said "No" yet the poll was a failure. Though 2290 votes were recorded, there are 5770 votes on the roll. You will see at a glance why the thing did not come off. What galls us is that there are 5,00 absentee ratepayers and only one polling place. The outcome will be an agitation for the amendment of (he Act, not to the advantage of absentees, and for the multiplication of polling booths. That being a matter whioh concerns all boroughs and local governing bodies, we are expecting that your attention will be drawn to it for the purpose of giving instruction to your representatives, local and general. At the Invercargill police court on Friday a man was charged with travelling first-class on a second-class ticket while accommodation was available. The information was dismissed an a point raised by counsel that it did not state that the defendant did it "knowingly and wilfully." Besides thil counsel contended that the charge 6hould have been laid under section 158 Public Works Act, 1882, and not under tlie railway by-law, as the Minister had no p,ower to make puch a by-law, thnt tiven if he had ihs by-law provided for th poyijient of coats, as well as a penalty o! £10, provided by section 145, which the Minister had no power to dj. Mr Rawson, Jt XI., ttdmi'tto'l the latter point was a nice •ijii< t'fjfit- <Ji.suiiKHed tha information on the .first-mentioned po. ; nt. The same defendant' 'was 'fined £ I 'anil costs for threatening the ghard -with yioienoQ for taking ticket, ;

Sir William Fiizberbert, K.C.M.GL, died nt his residence Lower Hutt at 2.40 on Saturday afternoon. The deceased gentleman, who was m his eighty-third year, suffered from Bright's disease. A project is on foot to cohnect Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario by a ship railway. The cost is estimated at 12,000,000d015, half of which will be raised m United States, mostly m Chicago ; a quarter m London, and 1,500,000d0l m Canada, while the Dominion Government is expected to supply the remainder. The project is said to have the support of Secretury Blame and Premier M'Donald. Fully 400 miles between Chicago and Liverpool would be saved by the direct water communication obtained. Nearly 66 miles of route have already been surveyed, and the most necessary cash has beeb pledged. It is within the bounds of possibility that before the Channel Tunnel is built the Straits of Dover may become dry land ? The question is suggested by the reports of the men-of-war which hinve been taking soundings on the south and east coasts this summer. A survey of the English Channel 6hows that, instead of a bottom evenly sloping from west to oust, tongues of shoal water, more or less parallel to one another, and forming between the shoreß of England and France. On the eastern littoral the shoaling is even more rapid, many patches and banks off the Kent and Essex coasts adding to their size at the rate of a f oor a year.