The Ellesmere Guardian. SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XVI, Issue 1639, 30 March 1895, Page 2

The Ellesmere Guardian. SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895.

The attention of persons interested m th« formation of an Amateur Trotting Club m this district is drawn to an advertisement iv this issue. This class of sport having become defunct here, it is hoped the public will attend the meeting end practically assist the promoters, i An Omission.— In our aeeoanl of the harvest thanksgiving services at the Sedgemere church, we regret to say that the names of the Misses Seaton were inadvertently omitted from the ladies mentionec ac having »o tastefully decorated the chnreb m celebration ot the ocoasion. Spobtsjiek Take Notiob.— Two addi tional notices to sportsmen appear m tbi> issue. They are warned not to treapase> on I the Wedderburn Kstato, or on Mr R. B Willies Siiifhbridoje and Ditn^n la| properties. Mr Heybourne, Little Rakaia, has I also a notice to trespassers. | Land fjb Sale. —Mr Tyler i» ofEerin* for Ba>e 20 acres of. land, m grass, at Stonej <iv lev, near Noufhbridge. Mfl9Sß^ Uameron and Co. announce th arrival of their first instalment of new wiuter Kooda, For particulars see adver

The Fiji Times save that when the Fij cein of qnoketem returned m tlieTavjuni, ' ■h.i ship was gaily decked with flags from «>-"h mastheads, and as she made fast, rockets were fired off by Captain Smith n honour of the cricketers. All the ncKoters speak m very high terms of the wc-iooine accorded to them at all part»Vof theif tour. ; Deaths. -A schoolboy n^med Qerbert iilly, attending the Mount Greya ichoal, died suddenly on Tuesday from hf a-t disease while play ing.~ James Butler *^ed twenty-four, dropped dead m the street at Auckland on Tuesday afternoon of heart disease. — Margaret Dallas, aged eighty-two years, fell m a house at Biv*rton, on Monday night, and broke her neck. The woman and two others had been : drinking. LeAßb ot fSLANj>B.i--The Antipodes, Bounty, Enderbv and Rose Islands were put up for lease by auction at the Land Office at Inveroargill last week. Bnderby and Rose, which contain 1600 acre*, fell to the bid of Mr T. Moffet at £5 p«r. ■in num. No offer was made for the other islands. Thb Auckland Museum waa entered burglariously on Monday night and all of the ooins, a collection valued at hundreds of poandv, were stolen. Aq entrance was fff acted by breaking a window. There is no clue to. the burglars.'

The Dull Timb».— When the unemployed question was under discussion at ihi Selwyn County Counoil on Tuesday a member remarked tbat the worjdng man who was m employment wbb oatter off than the farmer m the present times. He (the member) bad recently returned from a visit to Dunedin and thq , Taieri, where things were worse than they are here, and tbere was .some talk of reducing the labourers 25 per cent. He knew one man who had a great number of clients and who used to get 8s 6d, 9s and 10* for hit on I led ewea. He lately pot about 4000 on the market, and got only 3* each for ihem. That same gentleman flaid hia expenditure would have to Buffer accordingly. At present &a unpleasant epidemic affecting the stomach of patients is going the rounds of this district (says the Tapanui Courier), and a large number of people have Muffered from it. Dr de Latour considers that the thousands of carcases of pntrid rabbits after the Pollard poisoning have been 'the cause of the epidemic, and th*t the land owners should De compelled to gather and bnry the poisoned rodents. Mb Walker, of the New Zealand Alliance, speaking at Dunsandel, quoted the following figure* from Government returns : — At the last General Election 220,082 persons voted, of which 129.792 were men and 90,290 were women. At the local option poll 122,234 persons voted, of whom 74,372 were men and 47,862 were women. A liquor option vote on the day of the (General Election would Bfford a much* more genuine expression of the public mind, whatever the result might be, Even ia Ohristcharch 1,657 less women voted at ttie local 'option poll than at the General Election.

A. letter from St Petersburg states that the young Empress will probably change the whole aspect of the Russian Court, and □ot rest until she has made it as much like the English as possible. The Empress is reported to have declared that »he cannot leid a 'life indoors, that she must be allowed to take as much exercise as she please*, must see life m the streets, etc. It is, therefore, expected that the Emperor and will often be seen m St. Petersburg. Much influence is attributed to the Prince of Walos, to whom both Emperor and Empress look up. The Emperor especially has repeatedly said that the life of the Prince of Wales was exactly what he should like his own life to be. He i? very friendly with the Duke of York, and asked the Prince to try and induce his son to stay some weeks with him. The Prince of Wales is supposed to have said that the young impress wop Id no doubt want to have her husband all to kerself during the honeymoon, but that the Duke of York woul'i soon return for a long stay, perhaps early m th* new Year. SaYB the Cluiha Leader : -During a conversation with a rabbiter the other day he informed us that wiih steady work on ordinary w ground a man can earn about £100 a year at killing rabbits. . His earnings if or a number of yearn past had averaged from £115 to £120 a year. Ho says there is a tair Hvine througbont the country for hundreds of the unemployed if they were seat to destroy rabbits, but that they would 'have to work for their money early and late, as the eight hourg a day system would not do. Thk Mo9sbarn correspondent of the Southland Times states that the swamp Turkey has taken to killing the humble bees presumably fot the sake , of their honey. The turkeys have been observed to catch the bees od the thistle- flowers and bite {off the patt that holds the honey, leaving the rest of the bee uneaten. The bumble beea are now so nuuerous thct all tho swamp turkeys kiU'will not make much difference.

j Texdebs.— The Ellesmere Road iscard are inviting tenders for 160 chains of ehingling (m two lots) on the Tramway Hoad, and for cleaning out about 80 chain* of Ludeman'B Drain. Intending tenderers may see the specifications at the Board's office, Leeston, and tenders must bs lodged with the chairman by two o'clock on Tuesday next. Kiluncey School.— Friday next is the date fixed for the entertainment m aid of: the prize fund of. the KHSinchy pchool. A fa t are of the evening's amusement will bd a perfoimanee by the Leeston Minstrel LVoupa, and the whgle is to he concluded by a dance. Should toe weather prove 3oe we have ne doubt the affiir will prove a great success. The charge for admission haa been fixed at the moderate price of Is 6d. Proposed m England to send butter iirect to consumers through the parcels post. Japak's Leading Soldibm. — A war correspondent;, writing after familiar associations with Japan's leading soldier?, says : —'•The Japanesu officers are a mixture of the French officers and the German sous >fficers. They live right among their men, ileep near them, eat the saraa food m sight of all, expose themselves to all kinds of linger and hardship. No wonder the loidiora have the greatest confidence m hem I I found every Japanese general I iiat to be bra^e, geoerou9, kind, polite, ready to give his life for bis flag. When he detailed hiitorv of tue ntn of some if these men is written, it will, uadoubt< «<Hy, call ftmti tha ndroimUon of the

m9 El T X ' fl * reat « rand fa^er died . 102, his grandfather »t 103 amd h« father is 90 year, old Jd Sh mfn R ? eDf7 , Thwn P >OD -Myi that no ff *nl«- ' Co * tort f^ the starving .«3r wby ** ut m - «•* T^cSfn 011 a^ SB^Water Supply 7ltll of Ohristchurch ha. The Young Czar HHoboi o boU a ,'« t0 have a If°i!? a v b i ?'? VeD theQe »»<"> Emperor or Mr Vanderbilt posses*. Says Modern **«*:-* The most spleadid ,fSfa wniota bwever been boift will be finished at Copenhagen m a few i m . i t - v "£ f u or tbe °z« Nicholas 11, anHa cbl ed the Standard. It is 425 ft long (the Polar Scar ,„ only 350 ft), and posseisel two powerful engines of 10,000 horseuower, which will allow the vessel to m ike a meed- of 20 miles an homiv Tb» crew of the Standard will, be complied of 20 officers and 350 rion -commissioned !s* S ori ' , Th * interior » with th» furnitare of the aaloon* and cabin., wUI not hive its equal m the world.^Tht, I veesel ha« cost 10 milliow of fra«og and was commence.l dariag the late Gnr't viait to Denmark. The Standard will be ". Uanched, accord :ng to tho orders of- : th«V.' .Bmperor Nicholas, «* tbtf 19th of next March, the birthday of his father w

WHIBKET lIBTILLATIOK.— The New' v Zaaland Times advocates the local disOW lauoa of whiskey ai a new industry that* wril stimulate the growth of v barley, and quotes the past advocacy of Mr Alfred Sannders, M.H.8.. who is described v •'a staunch teetotaller." In support of the., contention the editor does not quote the evidence taken by the Victorian Tariff Cimmhaion as to the enormous loss of revenue to that colony by the production ' of local brandy. ..-,. „v . r ' Pigeon-Shooting.— The Commit««e of 4 'he Prevention of Cruelty to Aaimalt^r Society, Wellington, has resolved to ask Sir R. Stout to introduce a Bill into Parliament to prohibit pigeon shooting matches. Export of Stock —By the Wakatipnwhich left Welliogton for Sydney, Mr J Borrow*, of Brooklyn station, Wairarap* shapped sixty flock and sixty stud BomDoy Marsh raran, to be placed .on the market there at an early date.. He also intends, about July, to make a shipment of 400 live •heep for tbe London market. <

Ik Want or Fdnds.— At tb« Board of BdaoatioD meeting on - Thursday, Mr Mr Peryman pointed oat that between £3000 and L4OOO were at present urgently needed for the erection V of. :!n>aßter# house. The anthorigad expenditure is noW lillOO m exces« of money available, and, it has been decided to apply to GoVern-* noent for an advance on account of next years* building gramt. ■■■■■■■■■-.: ..<: Fire Spoiling a Picturhsqub E»tatb. —Sir W. Buller's property ai Papaitongo Lake, which had been famed for its beanty and piotuesqwenesß, was considerably damaged by fire last month. Sir W". Bailer sued a farmer named Jilleit for L4OOO damage*, on the plea that the fire> was caused b? his burning off fallen bush. Witnesses for the plaintiff depoied that ths estate waa largely spoiled at a residence by the rarages of the fire m the bash, which formed its main charm. On« stated that half its value was gone; another said that he would have been glad if Sir W. Buller'a position to give £1000 to prevent -vhat had occurred. The jury, after a trial extending over three days, returned a verdict on Wednesday for the defendant with costs. Fatal Accidents. — Jerry Sullivan, formerly of Palmerston Nortb, was killed at Apti on Wednesday through a fall of eartb. — The body of a yonng man, inpposed to be that of Henry Deary, a discharged Steward from the steamer Omapere, waa found floating m the Dunadin harbour on Wednesday morning. Mr Charles Tippet, a very old resident of Baonockburn, wa» drowned m his dam on Wednesday. He was subject to fits acd is supposed to have fallen m w£en seizsad with one. '~ '■■■■< ; i^?> Our MKMBBR.~Mr W. H, Montgomery addressed the electors of Ellesmere at T«i Tapu on Tuesday evening. 1 Thera was a fair attendance. Mr T, §cClartn»y was voted to the chair. Mr Montgomery* address was similar to those delivered by him elsewhere, and at its close he received a voto of thaDks and confHenjee on ths> raotien of Mr Rainey. A vote of thanks only, propoted by Mr J. Q. Murray, of Green park, received small support. Maobi Parliament.— Th« Native delegates assembled m the Maori Parliament at Botoraa have, on the suggestion of Mr H. Heke, M.H.R,, and Patera te Puknatua, of Rotorua, deoided to do away witb the Maori Parliaments, and the loaders «f the people are devoting their energies to the establishment of a Confederation of the various tribea m New Zsaland, so that their grievances, especially with regard to the land law», naay receive more attention from the Parliament at Wellington, i Thr landlord of the Like Forsyth Arms Hotel, Little River, has been *fined £10 find coste, the conviction also to be endorsed on! i> license, for allowing drunkenness on his lioenied premises and serving a man while tinder the inflaenoe of drink. Sincb the beginning of the year no lees than 470 factories have been registered ia Auckltmd, the largest figure it is believed, of "Bny town ia the colony. Ows farmer on Banks' Peninsula has harvested 200 bags of grass-seed from bis Und of 50 aoree, being four bags to the aore. He sold the yield at a price of £5 pet acre. Its htrvestiog cost him £40 without nis own labor, so that leaves him £220 for himself.

The Dunedin Star says :— " Sinoe the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was established no fewer than 7,000 fu'hers and mothers have, it is stated, b«en convicted of cruelties to their own children, and have been sent to goal for a periou of 1,000 yean for the Bam«. Land for 5 t ETTLjEMSirr.~A meeHoe was held at Rou'h Kakaia on SataH^M etening, when the following resolfflj^B was carried unanimously :— •« 1 hat, m AH opinion of this meeting, it is desirable tIfKH it be urged on the Government that fIH Highbank Estate be purchased and ihroVH open for se'lemenr, providing it can c^H obtained at a reasonable price." It wj^B also resolved to forward a copy of fl^B resolution to Mr John McLaohlan, M.HfIH and reqqeit him to vie hii infiaeo«9 iaJM dirootiop iadiwttti, |HI

J> T"A > ■"*— — Hobsm are cheap m Oregon just now, eleven hundred were bought recently for ' £480. AX extraordinary caie has just come to light at Bolton. A schoolboy had baffled his tearhers a» if be wore deaf and dumb, aud it being impossible to instruct him, be | was .ent to the Manchester Deaf andi ; Dambßchool, After being there «everal 1 months he wai found to fee neither deaf 1 nor dumb, and has been sent baok to Bolton by the Manchester officials. QuißN ViOTOBiA is reported to have ■aid that the only two men who never toadied to her were Mr Gladstone and the late John Brown, and she hated the one and loved tbe other. Queens- atler all, are common clay. FkhtbVio do ' heir best work, ahonld be eaten ekher on an empty stomach, or simply with bread— never with vegetables. In the morning, before the fast of the night has beea broken, th«y serve aa a natural stimulus to the <i>g««tivf organs, It is stated that ihe baying and selling of young boy* ancigirhj, chiefly tbe latter, ii regularly ca.ried on at Tiipolio uudei Turkish rale. , . ,-..•'■= The annual return shows that m twelvr months no fewer t than 12,333 new bouso* were erected in London."/.' Abqhtc 300 organ-f riniifew arrive.in London every Jane from Italy and" leave again •bout October. " A Native meeting is m progress at le Kuiti, m Ibe King CSountry ; LASD FOB Sbttlbmknt.— The Merrivale Jfistate, which the Government has jnst acdtrired from Messrs Elder, Smith and^Co. under the Land for Settlements Acts consists of 9998 acres m western Sdiutblandi and is situated on the main road to- Waiaa, near Clifden Ferry, where a large iron bridge is to be built across the Waiau. The soil is mixed agricultural and pastoral, resting on limestone, and nearly all suitable^or farms of from two to three lundred acres. There is a plentiful supply Of good witer, and fencing materials firewood and milling timber are also abundant. There is also good build iug st»nt m the vieiaity. The Government will get possession about the middle of next month and m about three months sections wiN be ready for^seleCtion on the lease m perpetuity tenure. '

Braiit rAR4LTBiB.- Conan Doyle, Hie physician and novelist, thiaks that brain paralysis will be the horror of the future. Scientists are learning how to tackle almost all the especially fatal disease* of the present and the past, but no one has mado any progress worth speaking of m dealing with paralysis, which keeps steadily increasing as other horrors diminish. Par«*j lysis is the disease that you get through long and agonising research after, ways of curiDg other diseases. Nobody knows exactly what causes it, but it seems to arise from to much hustling as often as from any other cause. Paralysis- is ore of the consequence* of success, and what shall it profit a man if he discovers a dozen entirely new microbes or gets his paper to preßSin good time every night for 20 years, wbt-o at last he finds bis speech beginning to ■get thick, and he has to Stop every now and then because he can't find the word that he want*, and be has a sensation as if the top of his head waa lighter than the lower part of it, and bid tongua has an enlarged and helpless feeling m his n outb, tad he begins to write "by sound," so tbat when he wants to «et down " beginning " he. as Jikely «b not, writes " gehenna" simply because the word* have a faint resemblance to one another ?

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