Local and General.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 63, 27 July 1868, Page 2

Local and General.

Xnuniwoun Btjimiw Baptist Cimjiioh,-— Thin Church will very Mhorlly bo open for regular divlno wornhlp. The congregation l);l(l a prayer mooting In It I'wt evening, liYaxton, — A, mooilng wilt bo held at Uilh place to-night, to oonuldor the qucmlJon of tho drainage of tho Uanglora Hwamp, and to memorial Izo tho Gunomi AHucmbly on tho nubject, l.'our.riiv Bnow,— TntciidhiK cxHlblfoi'H are reminded (hat fiiKrloH imwt bo mado (it Wllnon and Alport'H rooms, boforo flvo o'otocki on Wodnonday next, In ordor tlmfc the* catalogue may bo prepared by Ibo comml 1.1 00. v^lt-'l.'iri-j Oovkhnmiwt Do.MAiN.—NotwUbfllandlng Iho ' oxnrosH order agalnat tho iidiulhhloh of dogn Into tho domain, Homo peoplo liirtluli upon their accompanying them, Tho Board, however, can wry easily put a Hl-op to llil« l'opi'obo.iislblo pi'iujtlmi, l>y making an oxfimpltt In oiio or two liwliiikksm. I'Mtuiio-rNUiiMONiA.— Wo lira JnforiTiod by Mr Jlui'HL 1 , liiH])ootor, under tlio Dljioiihod Oivtiilo Act, I'liivl' tlio fowAi wliloh wiw on Friday liwit ropoftwl to Imvc died on tlio Drain Koad from thin dliwiwo, diod f.rom gonoml debility, tlio animal having boon a weakly ono from lt;i birth, and lately running on v(>ry poor feed, %jr.u,»\vi«M, ])Yax Com tan v,— A number of Hluii'clioldci'H and ollimi'm drove up to tlio mllln, lv ono of Cobb and Co'h d(7ig*»»roiir-lu«liand —on Baturdiiy last, for Ilia purpono of liiHpocting Iho workiii and formnlly Inking over Uio uddltlona that Inivo rcotiiitly boon carried out by Motwi'H Nlnultt and Co, the. c.oiitt'iWitoi'H, Tlio now miuihiiiory v/iih madoat tlio foiuulrloH of Mr John Aii(lurnoii, and Mommi'm Newton and Harncfi (on Mr Nlnnln' jialont), and orocicd nfc (ho mllln by Nlhiilh and Co. Tho Hlmi'ftboldoi'H tiliido a ooinpluto liinpoctlon of Ui« work, and o.vpi'OHHod (boll 1 onllro MitlHfautlou at tho mannor in which 1 1, had boon oxooutod, At. tho proHont timu tho work of llax (Itcmhliik I* bolng carrlod on by tho company, and tho mauiifao.Liiro of rojio by Mohhi'h Ninnlii and Co| and between the two a largo number of perHontt find employment. Tim imcciilallou Ini'i been no far remunerative thai. It Ih Intended lo lm:rcii*o the upbore of opcmtloiiH; mid by the time tho proponed okloiihloim are completed the company will be in a poMltlou lo iiU'onl (tinploymont to a eoiiMlderablo number of boyn a« well an men, vI'\)OT»Ar.r«~A flcr iioveral dlHappolntmontH (Tie lov(!i'rt of Uilh game were enabled, by the (Ine weat'ier of Saturday la«t, to rcMiiino play. The return match between roHldentH in the northern and mmlhern portioim of. tho city wiih to have been played, but the former iniiMlei'lng eoiiHldembly Hli'onger than the latter the Intended programme 'wa^ departed from, and a gumu between pick-up fddeH Mitb.illtnled, Mcmmi'm C. H, IHiiklilon and A, Olllvler were deputed loniileot the contentlug nldeM, and ])liiy (ioimiKsiKUid shortly after three o'clock, There were In all about forty on lli(! ground, and iilihough during (lie early purl, of the game the weather wan itoiuowhat too warm for n proper enjoyment of tho irnort, yet It wn« entered Into will) the grcatcHt zohl, by all, and oii-oh goal wan determinedly oontOMted, Mr IMaklHton'M Hide Hiicceodcd, after about half.au-liour'H play, In placing tho Unit goal to their credit, but their opponent i e,\hlhl(ed more care in the second, and ho watchfully did each guard tho winning po'it, that the eaptahiH wore compelled to call time after about; two hours' play, without victory bolng obtained by cither

Tim Noktuhkn Itivintrt. — Tho Ashley and WalmakiU'lrl huvo almost returned lo their ordinary lovoifl, Niiw Zuat.and TTr.AX. — Wo hiivo rooolvoil a very /lno looking samplo of cleaned llax from Mr Mason, of! Moeiald Downs, Mr Mason declines, In tlm meantime, to give any Information as to tho nwxlo of cleaning pursued by him. Ho simply says It Is expeditious and cheap. Tho samplo is llnor than most wo Jiiivo seen. Tiik Tiinnkii, -Wo understand that tlic works In (ho tunnel aro finished, and that tho workmen havo loft. An online wont through to Lyfctolton to-day, convoying Mr Pntorson, recently appointed by tho Government to enquire Into ami report upon tho works on tho Canterbury railways, and Messrs Dobson, Holmes, and Richardson, Tnw ama/on.— Tho American journals contlnuo to givu. (treat prni.io to Brazil for tho liberal policy that linn promptod hor to throw oixjii the Annwion to (ho commerce of Iho world, With regard to tho probable confleqtionucfl of that measure, ono writer, tho Roy, J. 0. ]i\olchor, status as follows: — Tho opuniiif^ of tho Ainu/on, which occurred on the 7th of Hoptombor, 1807, and by which the great fiver Is frco to tho ilivgs of all nations from tho Atlantic to Porn, and tho abrogation of tho monopoly of tlio const trado from tho Amazon to tho Ulo Grande do Sul, whoroby <ino r ) miloa of Brazilian nenooait aro open to tho vessels of o»"ory country, cannot fall not only to (k'vo'opo tho resources of Urazll, but will prove a fO'oat ben-fll to tho bordering I 1 Ispiuio- American republics and to tho nmrltlmo nations of tho earth, Tho opening of tho Amazon U tho most Mgidflciint Indication that (ho leaven of old narrow, monopolistic PortngiieHti ooiiHorvatlntn him at lant worked out. Portugal would not allow Humboldt to enter tho Amnzon vulloy Inlirn7.il. Tho rcHult of tho now policy 1» bi-yond tho mont mingulno expectation, The exports and Import » for Porn for Oct'dwr ami November, IS<l7, woro doublo thono of 18(11?. Thin Is but iho beginning. Soon U will bo found that It In cheaper for all Bolivia, Peru, Kqundor, ami Now Grunnda cast of tho AndcH to receive thoir goods from and to (iXiku'l tholr indlarubbor, ohlnchoua,&e,, to ll jo United status and Kuropo via tho groH water highway wh'oli disolmrgoa Into the Atlnnllo than by tho long, circuitous route of (Iftpo Horn, or (ho 'lYnno- Isthmian route of Panama, Tho Purun and tho Madeira are hereafter (o bo navigated by steamem. The valloy of tho Amazon In Brazil Is aB largo as tho area of tho United Htnteu omtof: Colorado, while tho wholo va'loy of tho Anmzon In and out of Mrazll In cqunl to all tho Unlfod Stutott omit of California, Oregon, and Washington torrlt iry, and yet tho population Ih not equal to tho Mingle city of Rio do Janeiro or tho oomblnod Inhabitants of Bofilon and Chicago, It, In estimated that a largoi* population can bo maintained In tho valloy of tho Amazon than dsowhoro on thu globo.