LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1338, 16 August 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rimutaka's trial shipment of apples was an almost complete failure. The funeral of Mr Andrew Schriefc, of Sowbum, was the largest ever Men there for a number of years. 1 A single California county ha* .48&railes of irrigating ditches, constructed"ata cost of £600,000. Mo::e than half of the entire cultivated area of Great Britain is now occupied by permanent pasture. The Otago Central A. and P. Association promise £IOO of prize money at the annual show, which will be held at Ophir on Nov. 15. . ... . At the S.M. Court, Blacks, last week, -William Hill had to pay £3 10s firielahajf 1 19s costs for allowing Us dogs to worry sheep helonging to John Pitches. At Bulls-one settler has been fined 2d a beadon 14S0 sheep and another 4d a bead on 350 sheep with costs for failing to dip their sheep as required by law. Advance Otago. -Mr A. Purdie. N.A.,>; graduate of Otago University, has just been appointed Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Ballarab School of Mines. The Vincent Horticultural Society is in a flourishing condition. It has a membership of 135, and a credit balance of £27 lis to start the year. At last show there were 482 exhibits. , •, T The Rugby Union has suspended a pfayerfor two Saturdays because it% struck an opponent in theTaieri v. Green island match, and two other players who aS spectators us.-d insulting language to a referee. At the meeting of the Social and Debating Club on Tuesday evening, the suhjept of the evening will be an essay on " Bimetallism," by Mr J. Law, jun., the critics being the Rev. J. M'Cosh Smith and Mr Lundon. At the ordinary meeting of the Naseby Borough Council on Monday evening, • the business transacted waa unimportant. Accounts amounting to £sl 2s lid,were passed for payment. '-'"'' Cuhlistg shows signs of revival both at Bannockburn and Cromwell, at both of which places a few games have lately been played. An effort will be made to form a joint club, and to get stones from Home before next season.

The mail from Denniston to Westport was robbed last week, and £l6O, £lls of it belonging to the Postal Office, the rest in registered letters, was abstracted. No cine to the robber is discovered. The seal is said to have been unbroken. The shipping companies have agreed to charee Id per lb. for frozen meat during the summer months and fd daring the winter. The reduction for the latter months is with a view to induce freezers to grow winter feed, and thus equalise the shipping during the year. Thompson and Co, Dunedin. have begun to bott e the mineral waters of the Wairongoa springs, which are close to the Otago Central Railway and a short distance above the Lower Taieri Plain. These waters are pronounced equal in qualify to those of some of the most famous European spas. A labgb and representative meeting of Crown tenants, held at Ophir on August 7, unanimously decided to ask the Government by petition for the remission ofVa year's rent. The drafting of the petition'was entrusted to Mr R. Gilkinson. ~"..'. We hear that a conversazione will take place in Nolan's Hall, St. Batbans, about the middle of September, in aid of the funds of the Presbyterian Church. A most elaborate programme is being prepared, comprising songs and recitations, by some of ©or most poplular local artistes. A committee of ladies have undertaken to provide ample refreshments, and a most enjoyable evening is anticipated. *"' * -J At the Fire Brigade Station on Tuesday evening Dr Church gave the final-lecture on ambulance, the subject being " How to carry the sick and wounded.?. Thesattendance was rather small, but those present took a great interest in the proceedings, and at the conclusion of the lecture _.an hour's practice of the different methods of carrying was put in. Arrangements are being made with Dr Shields, of Hyde, to conduct the examination of the class,'and a number of those who have attended the meetings"intend to go up for examination. Every evening until the examination, Dr Church will be at the Fire Brigade Station at &30 to:>£ive members of the ambulance class help in th.e practical work. ■ -_ ' : ,

Thk temperance bodies'are quickly mating their Toices heard, at public, meetings in different parts of the colony in opposition tq certain parts of the Government Liquor Bill. Last Wednesday a temperance convention representing 26 societies mot at Gore. were passed there and also at other places condemning-,(l) the three-fifths majority, theissue being placed in the hands of two-fifths of the voter?,.(2):the complication of the voting papers, (3) the injustice of .counting., prohibition., votes against reduction, when; the, former is not carried. The annual report of the J. G. Ward Farmers' As-ociatiun show* a credit balance of .£6516 )7s 3fi.- from which the directors, propose to pay 7 per cent, dividend, 3*par cent, boons on gods purchased. 10 percent, refunded on commission charged, 3 per cent, bonus on salaries of staff, and transfer £2OOO to the reserve fund. During the year large brick stores for wool and grain have baeat Gore and Invercargill, while tha volume of commission husiueai in grain wool, und stock has been much greater than in any previons year. . Is a paper oh " Humours of Parliamentary Reporting" in -Mncmillan'a. the fallowing incident-is related—" Thar* ia a wA\ authenticated story current in the import**!-*.' Gallery of a strange freak of a telegraph clerk' in the twntmWibnlof ;tha! eport of a Parliamentary speech by Mr Foster to a daily paper iu.Bradford.. The. ■iibject of the. speech wa* education; the vord ' children ' was frequently used, and, for the sake of brevity, tha clerk substituted; ' kids,' trusting that the alteration would be corrected by the operator at the other end of the wire. The message, however, was not onlv written, but printed jnnt-aa it.waav" transmitted. Inißgine the faces of the Right ffonourAhle i-entlcmaii s constituents when they read next morning, ' You know of Wordsworth's profound saying, "The •kid' is father to the man." I need *ot dwell on the vital importance to the community of imparting a sound, moral, and secnlar education to ' kids' in their impressible years. It is for the. ' kids ' that this Bill is introduced, and, asking the TlooMty' remember that the * kids' of this generation will be the. fathers and mother* of the next, i c«nfi.'entlj appeal to it to Mjporl our proposals." * " : •■ : '*"f'

• ■I'HK defence of Sottierville for the killing of Herbert at Mastsrton was directed to proving■ him' insane. It was shown that there was insanity in his family, ar.d the medical evidence, including that of Dr. looks of the asylum, strongly supported the plea of' insanity. The jury took that view of his'condition and brought in a verdict of "Not G lilty," on the ground of insanity. We have good reason to believe that, for a very considerable time, a prohibited person living.not a, hundred miles from Naseby, has teen regularly supplied witli strong drink, to injury of his health. We are glad that the pr)lice are quietly inquiring into this case. We believe that the hotelkeepers have.been hoodwinked iu the matter, and now that their attention is called to jt we trust they will make strict inquiry aS to the destination nf any liquor bought for consumption off their premises. A corbespokdent of a French farming paper • gives ch, e following directions for rapidly.fattening swine. He says: Take a handful of barm, and dissolve it in a glass containing warm water, addi g some handfuls of'bran or coarse flour, as well as a .certain quantity of cooked or crushed apples. Aft-er carefully mixing the whole leave it tor.-a night. The next day, as soon as fermentation ha 3 taken place, add some handfuls of this mixture to ih« ordinary . rations of the pig. Care should be taken to leave a small quantity of the mixt re to be used' instead of the barm, to which, add warm water, flour, and some potatoes. The next day proceed as before, and at the end ot six ct even three months, the pig thus fed will have arrived at a fat stage with the quantity, of nourishment consumed re-, •-atively small."