LOCAL & GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 765, 29 May 1884, Page 3

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Queen's Birthday passed off very quietly in Naseby. Messrs H. Wilson and D. Barron have been elected Auditors for the Borough for the ensuing year. Thb annual meeting of the Athenaeum subscribers will be held in the Library on Wednesday evening next. It is now stated that Mr Pilliet, member forStanmore, offers to retire in Sir Julius Vogel's favor. Nubar Pasha, President of the Council, insists that all Europeans shall be dismissed from the positions they now fill in the Ministry of the Interior. Wb direct attention to an important clearicfc sale to be held at Ewobura Station, on 13h June, by Mr Inder. The sale is wdrthy the attention of farmers and businessmen generally; Mb M. W. Geeks addressed the electors of North Dunedin on Saturday evening. His address contained several items worthy attention. A vote of confidence in him was passed. A typographical error oocurred last issue in our Serpentine correspondent's remarks re the new quartz-reef lately discovered there. The width of the reef was given as averaging " 10inches." It should have been 20 inches. A SON of Mr D. Mes3ent, of/jUpper Kyeburn, "met with a nasty accident, at Naseby, at the beginning of the week. It appears that the wheel of a dray ran across his foot, but fortunately, bo far as we can learn, did not smash it. In connection with the projected European Conference, it is now asserted that England has accepted the principle of European control of the Egyptian finances, and is now discussing with Fiance the question of the duration of the British occupation. At the ordinary meeting of the Hospital Committee on Wednesday evening, tenders for supplies were opened and dealt with a3 follow :—Groceries, William Jacob ; bread, John Dawson; coals, Robert P. Botting; funerals, James Mitchell; drapery, N P. Hjorring; meat, R. and S. Inder ; milk, James Hore. A dance in connection with the Naseby Oddfellows' Lodge was held in the Town Hall, Naseby, last Monday evening. About 30 couples were present, who tripped the light fantastic with much zeal till early on Tuesday morning. Mr Hall was M.0.; and the music was supplied by Mr Deaker (violin.) j Telegrams have been received from Souakim, stating that messengers have arrived there from Berber, who report that the country northward of Khartoum is in a state of comparative tranquility, and that the rebellion is nowhere serious, except in the immediate neighborhood of Shendy. Arrangements have been mads for holding a series of fornightly entertainments during the winter. All the available talent of the district will be enlisted. The bills-of-f*re will be varied much as possible, and will consist of vocal and instrumental music, recitations, readings, scenes from Shakespeare, and other authors, charades, etc. As the object in view is to afford a pleasant evening, the small charge of sixpence will be made for admission. The first of the series will begin on Tuesday week, 10th June. The Illustrated N.Z. yews says :—The will of the late Mr Edward Tobias Geerge, of Naseby, has been proved under £2,10 J. By will, dated 19th January, 1882, he bequeaths to his sons, Edward Tobias, William Robert, and to his daughter, Emily Louisa, £SO each, and the sum of £lO to the widow of his late brother, William Robert (the amounts to be paid out of the proceeds of his policy of insurance). The rest of his real and personal estate he devises to his wife, Winifred Agnes, absolutely. He appoints his s»id wife, Winifred Agnes George, and Mr Walter Inder executors under the will. Holloway's Ointment.—Go where you may, in every country and in all climes, persons will bo found who have a ready word of praise for this Ointment. For chaps, chafes, scalds, bruises and spraius it is an invaluable remedy ; for bad legs caused by accident or cold it may be confidently relied upon for effecting a sound and permanent cure. In cases of puffed ankles, erysipelas, and rheumatism, Holloway's Ointment gives the greatest comfort by reducing tha inflammation, cooling the blood, soothing the nerves, adjusting the circulation, and expelling the impurities. Thm Ointment should have a place in every nursery. It will cure all those manifold skin affections, which, originating in childhood, gain strength with the child's growth. HydriotaphiA or urn-burial, which presupposes cremation, has been vindicated in Wales ; for at the Glamorganshire Assizes recently Mr Justice Stephen pronounced cremation to be perfectly legal, if conducted so aa not to be a nuisance. A railway has takei a few acres of land near Bury belonging to Lord Derby, the present value being merely nominal. The railway offered £IOO an acre for the land ; V the earl demanded £2OO ; and the jury has awarded £I6OO for those 15 acres, which have hitherto produced their owner only a nominal agricultural rent.

Me Booth's temperance miwion in Sydney is wonderfully successful. Hundreds nre signing the pledge and adopting the blue ribbon. Of one gentleman who toot the pledge, his friends said they would be willing give to £SOO if they could be atsured of his being able to keep it. The la»t French survivor of the battle of Trafalgar lias just died at Gruissan (Aude) at the advanced age of 96. This veteran, Henri Blanc, was on board the French line-of-battle ship Mon Blanc, which had all her masts shot away at Trafalgar, and surrendered when she was in a sinking oondition. Blanc was a prisoner of war in England for seven yoavs. Experiments are being made on one of the American lines to see whether or not the wire fences on either side cannot be used for tel#graphic purposes. Th 9 wires are being run under the level crossings, to make the circuit continuous. It is stated that the experiments so far prove that the thing can be done. Quite a new opening for economic telegraphy here presents itself, especially to railway engineers, and we commend it to the attention of the New Zealand Government, to whom frequent complaints are made of the unfenced condition of the railways. The drought in the west is, states the Brisbane Courier, proving very disastrous to laboring men, as well as to stationholders, and employment for willing hands is extremely scaroe in some districts. A correspondent, who from his letter seems to be a thorough farm laborer, writes to us from Thargomindah that he has had no work for three months, and that there are many mora in a similar position. A.s may readily be supposed, with flour at lOd to Is per lb, money has become scarce, and some of these men are almost penniless. Another opponent to the scheme for flooding the Sahara (a London paper savs) has developed himself in a calculation that it will take some thousands of years for the water to flow and make the inland sea. Calculaticg the delivery through a canal 100 ft wide, 25ft deep, and the rate of flow of four miles per Lour, it seems that it would require thousands of years to fill the Sahara. This consideration settles the question aB to the probable change of climate, for obviously that would be a matter of indifference to us. When Sir William Armstrong first drew attention to the question of the endurance of our coal supplies the production of coal was about 86,000 tons yearly. In the twenty - two years that have elapsed it has nearly doubled, rhis is mere fchau the rate that had been anticipated, and the question of the exhaustion of the coal supplies will come to the froDt seon j for there is ground for the belief that we are now raiting 163,000,000 tons of coal yearly. The Emperor of Germany, now in his eighty-eighth year, is not the only oldest inhabitant. On hia hunting trips he frequently meets eocne hale old pensioner who fought in the war of liberation, or marched against tbe French at Waterloo. The severe military discipline of Prussia does not seem to shorten the lives of her subjects.