LOCAL & GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 765, 31 May 1884, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Quebn's Birthday passed off very quietly in Naßeby. Messrs H. Wilson aud D. Barron have been elected Auditors for the Borough for the ensuing year. The annual meeting of the Athenteum subscribers will be held in the Library on Wednesday evening next. It ia now stated that Mr Pilliet, member for Stanmore, offers to retire in Sir Julius Vogel'a favor. Nubar Pasha, Prosident of the Council, insists that all Europeans shall bo dismissed from the positions they now fill in the Ministry of the Interior. Wb direct attention to an important clearing sale to be held at Ewnbura Station, on I2th Juno, by Mr Inder. The «%le is worthy the attention of farmers and businesimen generally. Mu M. W. GaEßir addressed the electors of North Dunelin on Saturday evening. His address contained several items worthy attention. A vote of coulideuce in him wa# passed. A TYPOGRAPHICAL error occurred last issue in our Serpentina correspondent's remarks re the new quartz-reef lately :ii»eov«i'«d t'lcrr. The width of t lie reef was given as averaging " 10inches." It should hare baeu 20 inches. A son of Mr D. Messent, of Upper Kyeburn, met with a naßty accident, at Naseby, at the beginning of the week. It appears that the wheel of a dray ran across his foot, but fortunately, 10 far as we oan learn, did not Bmaah 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 oil Wednesday evening, tenders for supplies were opened and dealt with as follow :—Groceries, William Jacob ; bread, John Dawson ; coals, Robert P. Hotting ; funerals, James Mitchell; drapery, N P. Hjoning; meat, B. and B. Indur ; milk, James Hore. A DANCB in connection with tho Naseby Oddfellows' Lodije was held in the Town Hall, Naseby, last Monday evening. About 30 couples were present, who tripped the light fautastic with much zeal till early ou Tuesday morning. Mr Hall was M.0.; and the music was supplied by Mr Deaker (violin.) Telegrams have been received from Souakim,stating that messengers have arrived there from Berber, who report that the ooantry northward of Khtrtoum is in a state of comparative tranquility, and thak tho rebellion is nowhere serious, except in the immediate neighborhood of Shendy. Ahrangemekt3 have been mads for holding a series of t'oruightly entertainments during the winter. AIL the available talent of the district will be enlisted. The cills-of-faro 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 tho 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 Juue. The Illustrated N.Z. News says :—The will of the late Mr Edward Tobias George, of Naseby, has been proved under £2,100. By will, dated 19th January, 1882, he bequeaths to his sons, Edward Tobias, William Robert, and to his daughter, Emily Louisa, £SO each, and tho sum of £lO to tha widow of his late brother, William Robert (the amounts to lie paid out of the proceeds of his policy of insurance). The rest of bis real aud personal estate he devises to hi» wife, Winifred Agnes, absolutely. He appoints his s»id wife, Winifred Agnes George, and Mr Walter Inder executors under the Trill. Hollow ay'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 cliups, cliafes, scalds, bruises and sprains, it is an invaluable remedy; for bad legs caused by accident or cold it may bo confidently relied upon for effecting a sound and permanent; euro. In cases of puffed ankles,erysipelas, and rheumatism, Holloway's Ointment gives the greatest comfort by reducing the inflammation, cooling tho blood, soothing the nerve; l , adjusting the circulation, and expelling the impurities. This Ointment should have a place ill every nursery. It will cure all those manifold skin affections, which, originating in childhood, gain strength with tho child's growth. Hyduiotapuia or urn-burial, which presupposes cremation, has been vindicated in Wales ; for at the Glamorganshire Assizes recently Mr Justice Stephen pronounced ere.nation to be perfectly legal, if conducted so &s not to be a nuisance. A railway has taken & few acres of near Bury belonging to Lord present viilue being merely nomiggif Tho railway offered £IOO an acre for the land ; the earl demanded £2OO ; and the jury has awarded £I6OO for these 15 acres, which have hitherto produced their o;vuer only a, nominal agricultural rent.

Mb Booth's temperance mission in Sydney is wonderfully successful. Hundreds are r signing the pledge and adopting the blue I"" ribbon. Of one gentleman who took the pledge, his friends said they would be willing give to fSOO if they could be aisured of his being able to keep it. The last French survivor of the battle of Trafalgar has just died at Gruissan (Aude) at the advanoed age of 96. This veteran, Henri Blanc, was on board the French line-of-ba tie ■hip Mon Blanc, which had all her masts ■hot away at Trafalgar, and surrendered wli.'n ■he wai in a sinking condition. Blanc was a prisoner of war in England for seven years. 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 telegraphic purposes. The wires are being run under the level crossings, to make the circuit continuous. It La stated that the experiments go 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 ■carce in some districts. A. correspondent, who from hi» 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 m a similar position. As may readily be supposed, with flour at 10J to Is per lb, money has become scarce, and some of these men are almost penniless. Anctheb opponent to the «oheme for flooding the Sahara (a London paper says) has developed himself in a calculation that it will take some thousands of years for the ■water to flow and make the inland «ea. Caleulaticg the delivery through a caail IOOf 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 sattles tin question as 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 twentytwo years that have elapsed it has nearly doubled. This is mere than the rate that had been anticipated, and the question of the exhaustion of the coal supplies will come to the front soon; for there is ground for tlia belief that we are now raising 163,000,000 tons of coal yearly. The Emperor of Germany, now in his eighty-eighth year, is not the only oldest inhabitant. On his hunting trips he frequently meets some hale old peusioner who fought in the war of liberation, or marched against the French at Waterloo. The severe military discipline of Prussia does not seem to ihcrten the lives of her subject*.