LoCAL & GENERAL.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XV, Issue 1575, 8 August 1894, Page 2

LoCAL & GENERAL.

- Nkws fSbom' Oheviot.— Mr sj Haughey | wtites to a 'friend m Southbridge aS follows : — j! It may be interesting to some of my old neigh- j hours to hear something about Cheviot. Well, ! all I can say is, it ia a fine place ;| the land is} very good all round., but at present a carter j would need '^ix horses to bring a bag of; epuds a mile. You'd want to hjive a good: team to go for theloan of an embty dray to) your neighbour. Everybody ia fencing acrossi existing tracks everywhere, and- the roads are; simply awful m consequence. There was sup-| "ppsed to have been , x some, miles of finished load. Anyone could see indications of a vast? quantity of work having been- done, but I would not attempt to put a .name on it . I' will leave that to those ,t?ho are curiousf enough to visit Oheviot, or to those whose( business compels them to drive over them. In such cases they get a variety of names bestowed upon, them,' Some of the names sounded a bit new to me, and I've heard some queer expresr sions mmy time. It took me a week to get up from Waipara, I would not do the samfe pferformarice! for-a -b'puse&iXl 0| furniture, Wfe were stuck and re»stuck. Sometimes we got the dray out only, and at other times we brought part of the road with us. It was 4 puzzler to know sometimes which was comingj dray or road. Eventually, when at the Postoffice, we got 10 horses m, and made about four yards that pull, broke a- lot of- chains, -left the dray sitting with mud to the, bottom m the road, arid Went to camp next day, got th'e things out m small lots, and got clear by evening. Went home then and went to bed, and stayed m for a fortnight. No doubt the roads will . be all right when they are properly formed and metalled, but the enormouß amount of traffic on the' main 'road 'keeps it' m suchia state that it would keep all the meri hi Cheviot 1 repairing it whjlej the. weather is wet. . j Stktjck by Lightning. — T^e Inang^ihua Times etatea tha,t .,. Mr. ,, homestead, on .the (jtrey Ygiljex, waistrn(jk ; by lightning, while the i&upily r at tep. The naila. were drawa^rogo njany parts t the buildings.,,, A.large, J bull.oc^ r chaia i '.wfß fused m parts and the links olean cut m others, !» A tree w.aa fe.U(ed by,J;he Hghto^ng, being cqt through ua ; it by a Bavr/ No injury is reported . to haman life or live Btbck.:? 1r, ..;,,;> v ; : .., 7in .„>:... [ The Midland RailwAy.— The Mayjor of ChristQhurqbifeas r^pe^ed from Mr Gf. W. Russell a letter- acknowledging the ■VediifMoflhis circular jp G^nij^ctjon with the Midla£d^R*U\psyjvi Mr Russell, wlO tio O T»yV&^^-jp&^P»iEiß^ Ire all dome their Deat to promote the liie. The Wuhhr 1^ hti pree*D titx' the! han dg. o£

committee, and-whatever can be done, 1 \o assist PAnferbiJti wlttibe-ddne. j Navr EMPLoYMpxj jio^'TstspKßßi r- * iSome j.relatjfog^.' JingjJißb. prison reeormibjßjvSnbQeja ifrajp^Q^ hy^ w&ich janj inipdrtantapii^nge^iß.^j^e I%'ade m the employment^ :{?jipqnere, .i^Jtja_§Ler *Ma jei y"r goafo *oabum*picfeing y ,w|U~ by^ decrees be superaededhb.y |he,| nnqre pjojft^ablb heaf th» rag!atid!hi»iieoc|f-mjafei|ing, ,apd kifadu "6t wo^b. apply to female as well as maje prisondfrs. One of -tkeltowtiisrpo^aQt^f-Jbftnew regulations ia that rejfl|iag.tp thep|ariaificaHon bf ;the prisoßersfccojding to tpeif 'conduct, i i.-i' A ;' T.BRBjjBLB,!F^ IL.rT^.|3|j1 L. rT^.|3|j 'Blacfcbal! coal mine (tb,e o,rejr) J |;he / pth^ff d"ay, anaan named Janjßß^tejWart^jinyth^oon'ree o^ hiß work was; bapging a tree, throwing something over' 'the cliff, when ,the branch broke, and he was burled into the creek below, falling fully sixty feet. He expired before medic»l;aid could be procured. He had just from Sydney, where he left his wige and family.: OBltfT art.— Major "SCuHyJ who was for many, years m charge of the -Hawke's Bay police district, is dead. Deceased came t;) ! tb;e'cplpp.^ mih the 65fh ifSotitegiment, m whidh'he served for twebtyrone years^. and war subsequently appointed sergeantmajor m the Armed Constabulary, and wbb aont to Napier m 1862. Death.,wasdueto break up of the ey atom, brbught on' by a neglected attack of influebza. Major Sou I ley was about 1 aeventy^flve years of age.' ■' ";' '■. ■' ■■■'■'.. I■■ ' FotJND Dead.-^A 'to'an- whose name is ! unknown, supposed to be a swagger, 'was found dead on Friday morning m the waiting-room of the ' Eai-iwi 1 Trailway station —About eight' o f erock<oh?Saturday (hornihg Thomas Walsh, an old man between sixty and seveaey ye.ar» of age, was found dead under en. ongipo m a yurd m Lichfield Street wesr, ' dhrietchutch.— \Vill?am Tracy was found dead m a wbar^. it Te Aute. buflb.. Deceased leaves |a wife and five children. , .• ,-. j Loes of i ffoß-wEGiAK Sabqub.,— The Ovalttii, f rbm'Fi jiV'r'ep'brts^tii^ to^ul lost of thu Norw€(gian bar<jae Ephialtedi, ' whioh ' was m 'command of Captain' Torkildsen and whioh tailed from Sydney, j bpo&yr for Navaua, with coal consigned to :'tbß! Fiji Bugar Cora pan?. The vessel went' on a reef m thick weather and b?aarae a oial wr» ott. All URnds were taved, The tiphiaites wan part JoaJed with gum Auckland. Two years ago the vessel •uade a record passage of seventy-three -iUyj-l£fliß_WoHiogtQn to New York.

K A .Boifri^G .AdoiDBNT.— The fltbiog ,Bma,gk |Lily wi«<foand gank off Tataro.! Smi^*^ I*^*1 *^* by a y° UQ< ? oian named' William B«rry,;of Nortbcote, who had with him a young paan named Princn son of Mr Prince, of Mesari Prinoe and Davy, bootinakeri, Auckland. It is believed that tbe men are drowned. ' - A j SUKPRME I FOB THE NATIVB3.— A -piqgirjapoqcnrrtnce to^irtj^aaiiPe&inaka j oa Thorßday last, according" to the Taranaki Herald. A nktive woman of tome afternoon waa jup^edlo. ixave given op xbe natives j»tfarer|d frora.airoaaftefS'for If^g^^Qh^rldarmMufnl, according bosed coHJt^whoa Jo the, astonishment md terror J of A ri 1 4e fl irfeliS It7IM1 t 7I M woman iprang up aqd JDokedrflrotmjib.ei: although n the vfljuge is a4y§ t jo,^ftve%een very great, owing r toihe i^ea, that thpra win somethmg^iirplriMtttrd Munni tfwakenj °%%%dypE^fs^m^e^^%fae? |a oartife^ w^ itill'ey'flefif 'kyeburtf'b^ his 'Sf^Sft,^!^^ * k'ttto Barry W»a^On 7l tH f e eaki' tfeiJif"t^ifl-> qaeirotffißriVy'SdiJe^Bfpw^'-b^tif of tbe ketch Gratitude, vrtii'U\fr ttWki"^ wkar£-a£,Jhb BEdff iiipod. tbe bulwark of the vesuel and was— fatally injured, the medicak eyjdenee «iw»B!u^aA)(il«wi|h wbb caused by the shock, by the wetting,- and tiy'&xCßstiye' flridkioj^ j Bat ft>r theiattor, the doctor thought/that ©town would bj(rj^ recovered. A verdict to that effect was returned, with a rideH /that] ihiej deceased was served with drink-while intoiioated, and that Ahe. police ehonld,ion ; tbi/?iand all other occasions, take—atepa to bring tbe cffendetfß j toDfinatic&ouji&BOjNgi jA^ftfA.* widower, and leave* yj&ree children. He. . watja 4uperior ; map, fop ,mauy t y^ftra m £h,e Peninsular and Oriental Company 'a service. lni! O#jPGßA»*-iOLA' M*N.^-iErota Lonflon Punch— ./«,,- tti6iG.mU.tif New Zealand;*., h '< >„ '> j i

. f, a ' j&t'-'eigh ty ;t»ndh angerably y onng, , j j * „-: i Once more m our ancient, but free, land j lf (,'<l«' present m person and tongues. Oh, putriote hearty, superior 4o party, j Don't let him-agftin go away ! i Sure Red.ißlue'jind Buff have raised shindvj .■-.-.enaughi .; „v „. ; ..,.. Let's try j;or a change (Sir George) Gbby? ;