LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9234, 21 September 1900, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Orchestral Society's concert' to-night. Tijh Education Board have decided to offer 10 senior and 10 junior scholarships to be competed for this year.

The next English and European mail via, San Francisco will close at the Nuseby pos*; office on Thursday, the 27th day of September, at 10 15 a.m. On Lord Salisbury's reccommendation the Queen has been pleased to assent- to the Duke and Duchess of York visiting Australasia in the spring of 1901."

Monday o man George Cummock was charged by the Police with being drunk on Raturda}'. He was convicted and discharged. A 1-ROCLAMATroN dated Balmoral, Sept. 17th, declares that on and after January Ist next the bix federating colonies o? Australia will he united under the name of the Commonwealth of Australiu.

There will be no sitting of the District Court next week, there being no business to transact. The applications of various ban it ni pts for dischur/jo will come on at the next sitting of tho court.

The Borough Council have again planted a hedge of young laurels around the top of the Recreation .Reserve. This is the second time this has been done. -On tho last occasion they were trampled down and destroyed before they'got a chance to grow. It Ls to be hoped aletter result will atteud tho present effort to beautify the'ground.

At the meeting of Jthe .Education Board on Wednesday Lower Kyeburn .school was granted half cost of fencing £3-17s and Upper Kyeburn school £2 10a for a new stove.—A petition from .19 'settlers in Lauder asking for the removal of the school to a more central position was re» ferred to the inspector for a report.

On Monday afternooon Messrs P.. and 11. Law met with an unpleasant experience while driving into Naseby. At the top of the Bullarnt Hill the horse they weie driving took fright at a perambulator and ran down the steep bank on the right hand. Before reaching the bottom the trap capsized, and threw the occupants out, giving then) a severe shaking. Tbe vehicle got considerably damaged. Ok Monday evening Mr Lightfoot's littfe" gill in falling ofTa chair managed to pull the lamp over on top of her. It caught (ire and set the clothes of the child in; a blaze. > Fortunately, her father was close at hand and extinguished the flames before they hurt her, and threw: (he lamp into tho crate where it burnt itself out. The Fire Brigade with their usual promptness appeared on the scene, but their services were fortunately not requited. Mas Sullivan,- of Blacks, was received into the Hospital here on Wednesday suffer* ing from Bevere injuries -to her head, lb appears that the children picked .up an old dynamite. cap > and brought it'Uiomo. No one in the house knowing, what.dfc was, and Icing apparently usuless, it was thrown into the 6re. Very soon an "explosion oc- ; curred, with the result above, stated, . A .- piece of brass struck the pupil of. the eye;"'" '- and it is probable that the organ "will "have, t. to bo removed. The sight is-^tariyrate'''. '-',"5 destroyed. ' f*jKM'"' / 'j Koolibaii is invaluable for. snliinß »nd .jf bruises, neuralgia, ~ hcartachOj^umbago,,/ -f'Z .cures-all rains, ■-. *\~Vv ■ ; ?^iyrt