THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

Chinese Curiosities. In an article entitled “ Chinese Curiosi ties,” published in the “ Pall Mall Gazette,” the following, bearing on a peculiar characteristic of Chinamen, occurs: —“ To secure the comfort of their families or the gratification of their hate, and in some cases the furtherance of justice, men are found who willingly offer up their lives to gain their ends. A wealthy criminal condemned for a capital offence finds no difficulty in purchasing, with the consent of his judge, a substitute, by paying an agreed-upon sum to the family of the vicarious victim. It was commonly be lieved that the men who were executed for participation in the Tientsin massacre played the part of the real culprits at the block that their relations might enjoy their ease for the rest of their lives. And it is not an uncommon thing for a man to commit suicide at the threshold of his enemy’s house in order to involve him in a charge of murder*. But strange as these instances appear, there lately occurred a case in the neighbourhood of Soochow, which is even more incompre hensible. At a place called Ts’ung Ming, two neighbours had for some time lived at enmity, and had resorted to every means in their power to vex and injure each other. At last it occurred to the more inventive of the two that if he could per suade his father to commit suicide he might charge his enemy before the man darin with having so persecuted the old man as to have driven him to destroy him self. The grotesqueness of the idea was only equalled by the success that it met with. To the proposal—how made we are not told —the old man assented, and in due course * shuffled off this mortal coil,’ leaving the stage clear for the second act. The next scene opens in the magis trate’s court, where the orphan charges his enemy with the constructive murder of his father. So far everything went smoothly for the intriguer ; but, unfor tunately for him, in the trial which fol lowed, the accused was able to produce evidence which placed the whole matter in its true light. Then followed a rever sal of positions ; and the orphan took his place in the dock on the double charge of having persuaded his father to commit suicide and of having brought an un founded charge against an innocent man. Matters had been already made so plain that there was no need of a long trial, and the self made orphan now lies under a richly deserved sentence of death in the Soochow gaol. ” Guess Not. Axeltree Jones said he arose to defend the American nation from the aspersions of the Canadian press. He had lately read in a Canada paper that this nation was living too fast, and that he must soon become bankrupt. Such unwarranted attacks on his native country thrilled him with indignation down to his last bunion, and if the press of the country would not resent them he would. “ Livin’ too fast!” as he repeated he drew himself up, “ I hez worn dis same paper collah free weeks. Am dat livin’ too fast 1 Heah am a west ober ten y’ars ole by the almanax ! Am dat dressin’ to kill ? Look at the red woollen patches on dese black pants an’ tole me if it looks as if this nashun was death on sto’ cloze ! Livin’ soo fast! Why de worry ideah am posturous! Am ’taters biled wi’d de hides on an’ pieced out wid bacon an’ co’n-bread livin’ too fast'? On behalf of the American people I protest ! On be half of dis nashun I warn de Stait of Kennedy dat we can’t be sassed beyond a certain pint. When dat pint hez bin passed dar will come a demand for gore an’revenge !” The speech was received with great ap plause, and Satisfaction Rice next took the floor and said : “ Civil war an’ its horrors am to be de plored and shunned, but if she must come—if we mus' resort to the force of arms to preserve our honor, den let us re sort ! Let us gird on de armor of right an’ march forward wid brave hearts. He who sasses this nashun sasses the Lime- Kiln Club.” It ws then resolved that this nation was not living too fast, and that Canada had best beware, and the meeting adjourned. “ Detroit Free Press.”

The Electric Light.— The “Saturday Review” thinks very little of Mr. Edison’s recent experiments with the electric light if we may judge by the following sen tence : —“ In our opinion Mr. Edison’s pretentious announcements are as little justified by the fact that he has satisfied himself as to what is the best form of carbon to use in the ordinary and well known incandescent method of electric lighting, as a candle manufacturer would be justified in announcing that he had completely solved the problem of domestic lighting, because he had devised a slightly improved candle wick.” AN UNPLEASANT ADVENTURE. ( Continued .) I was horror-struck ; and remembering what the old woman had said about Mick’s readiness in using his knife, could not but feel that I had had a narrow escape from a similar fate. Tom’s fall instantly sobered the party, and they gathered round him with terrified faces ; Mick and Barney alone were unconcerned and defiant. The old woman had run out into the byre, screaming “Murther, murther,” probably without knowing how awfully true her words were. “ Och Mick, och Mick,” the men cried, “ye shouldn’t ha’ struck him like that though ye were scrimmagin’. ” “ An’ what did he aggravate me for ? ” said Mick. “Why did’nt he do what I tould him ? ” “It’s no rason for using the knife, Mick, ye’re always too ready with it,” said one of them; but a savage scowl from Mick, and a hurried motion of the hand towards the fatal knife again, made the speaker draw back, and the ferocious leader of the gang was reproached no more for his murderous deed. * There was no help for it, however, and they consulted together what was to be done with the corpse. To my horror, they decided on putting it in one of the beds, till, as they said, they were ready to start, and then I heard them bringing it to the bedroom. I crouched down as close to the wall as I could. I had no time to get under the bed ; but when they came in I was instantly discovered, and dragged out into the kitchen. “ What brought you here, I’d like to know ?” shouted Barney, roughfly seiizng me, and with anger and fear visible in every ing us, havf you ?” I replied quietly that I had been over taken by the snow storm on the moun tains, and being kuite worn out, had sought shelter in the cottage. I added that I had been no spy on their move ments, and that I was quite willing to pay handsomely for my accommodation. I did not mention the cld woman, fearing to get her into trouble with her savage friends. “ A like story,” sneered Barney ; “ an’ how did ye come to pick out this house of all the others 1” 1 I replied that it was the only one X 1 saw. Mick, meantime, had entered the room. 1 “Ye sarpent,” said he, “do ye think i wt-’il jist believe that'? I’ll tell ye what ye 1 are ; ye’re a Sassenach spy, so ye are, an’ 1 ye’d hang us ivery one if ye could.” ]

“ That’s jist it,” said Barney. “Do ye think we’ll be afther lettin’ you carry tales on us to the castle of Dublin, an’ gettin’ us hung up at next 'sizes !” Expressions of approbation followed on all sides, and it was evident they medi tated violence. In vain I protested my innocence of all intention of becoming ac quainted with their proceedings, and pleaded that I was only a benighted traveller. “ Ay, ay,” said Mick, “ jist so ; out of the snow ye came, did ye ! Faith, and ye had better have stayed in it; we’ll let ye know what bein’ in the snow is, so we will.” They tied my hands tightly with a handkerchief taken from the neck of one of them, and effectually gagged me by stuffing another filled with tow into my mouth. Then they brought me into the kitchen, and Mick went round from one to another whispering. That they meant to take my life was evident; but how I could not then make out. They bound my hands with twisted hay-ropes, took the door of the hovel off its hinges, and, placing the corpse on it, Mick and Barney guarding me, the other men took up their fearful burden, and we set off over the snow. It had ceased falling, but lay deep on the bills, forming immense drifts here and there. It was a bright moonlight night, and I could see below me the light of a town shining, as I walked between my savage guards to my unknown death. The party stopped at last near a small thorn bush, evidently a familiar landmark. Two of them taking the corpse by the arms and two by the feet, they swung it slowly but with increasing energy back wards and forwards a few times, and on Mick crying “ Now,” suddenly let it go. It fell head-foremost on the snow about eight or nine feet from them, and instantly disappeared with a dull loud sound. “ How do ye like that for a cowld bed the night ?” laughed Mick savagely to me. I turned pale and shivered with horror as the truth burst on me. There was a deep and steep gully in the mountain side ; it had been nearly filled by the drifting snow, but its edge was accurately marked by the well known thorn-bush ; they were going to throw me in there along with the corpse, to perish in the snow, which often lasts for weeks in such a gully, notwithstanding any amount of thaw. Had my hands been tied with an ordinary rope it would have betrayed the murder, but the hay would be rotted and washed away by the wet before I could be discovered ; it would then seem as if my murdered companion and I had fallen by accident into the snow, or if his body was still so far undecayed as to show his wounds, it would be supposed that I was his murderer, and had fallen in along with him in the struggle. I had some thoughts of pleading for mercy, and offering them a bribe to release me ; but I had been an unwilling spectator of Mick’s deed, and I knew they would never consider them selves safe if I was at large. I had not much time for these reflec tions, however, for they hound my feet as tightly as my hands with an additional piece of hay-rope which they had brought for the purpose, and then Mick, as being one of the strongest, himself helped to take me up. As they began to swing me, one took the gag out of my mouth ; a’few wild despairing shrieks escaped me, and then a short flight through the air, a dull shock in the snow, and I sank down into the cold soft drift.

How far I may have sunk through the yielding snow I know not —it seemed several feet; but I stopped gradually and without inconvenience, and found myself resting on my side in a bed fitting ac curately to the shape of my body, and hence singularly easy ; moreover, after the first few moments, I was not even cold ; the snow, being a bad conductor of heat, formed a very warm and comfortable covering round me. Overcome by fatigue, and knowing that I was in no immediate danger, I positively fell asleep, and must have slept some time, when I was roused by falling still further into the gully. The warmth of my body was melting the snow —I was sinking still deeper into my grave. I knew that such drifts in deep ravines lasted for many weeks. If I called out, no one would hear me : and should a cry by any accident reach the upper air, it would only serve to make the fact of my being alive known to my foes. I gave my self up for lost. Death stared me in the face. Deeper and deeper I sank at intervals during these two days and the intervening night, listening meanwhile to the trickling of the little stream formed of melted snow which ran down the centre of the gully, and which appeared not far from me. I was completely buried in the snow, owing to the continued drifting by the wind, and only the small passage which the warmth of my breath kept free remained to main tain my communication with the upper world or with the vital air. I tried to be as patient as I could, alternately rengning myself to my fate, and then again trying to hope for some chance of release. Towards the close of the second day— for I could distinguish the light from the darkness by means of the aperture—l ex perienced a sensation, after one of those short sudden descents that I have men tioned, caused by the melting snow giving way under me, as if something sharp were pressing into my right shoulder, which was undermost. Wriggling a little, so as to relieve myself from it, I made it worse, and then became aware that it was a sharp piece of rock on which I was leaning. I had sunk to the ground, or nearly so, ap parently not far from the centre of the gully. A gleam of hope shot across my mind. Might I not manage to cut the hay-rope which bound my hands by means of friction against this same sharp rock 1 Working and pushing, wriggling and turn ing, with great difficulty I got myself for ward through the snow till I brought my wrists against the piece of rock instead of my shoulder, and then slowly and labori ously commenced rubbing the hay-rope against the sharp edge. It was weary work, behind my back, and under a weight of snow. The hay was very tena cious, and friction had not so much effect on it as it would have had. on a hempen cord ; but by degrees I managed to insert little sharp points of the rock between one or two of the straws and the rest of the rope, when the former were of course broken without any difficulty. It was necessary, moreover, to cut the cord in two places, so effectively was it tied round my arms, but at last my toilsome work was accomplished, and I found myself free.

To work my knees up through the snow and release my feet was an easy task com pared with that of setting my hands at liberty, and now, at length, I began to have some definite hopes of surviving my entombment. Luckily the ruffians had left me my pocket-flask and sandwiches, and to satisfy the excessive cravings of hunger was my first step. How intense these had become, I think no one can know who has not been in a similar situation, and the knowledge that I had food about me cer tainly did not tend to diminish my ener gies. Having demolished my sandwiches with great relish, and also made a libeial demand upon my flask, I set to work in earnest, scooping away the snow above me with my hands, and working it behind me like a terrier dog in a hole, or a mole burrowing his underground passage. But it would not do : my weight pressed down the snow behind tighter than that which was above me, so that I had soon a cham ber as high as I could reach, and further progress upwards was, of course, impos sible. It then occurred to me that if I could run a level in the downhill direction X must soon come out in the light of day, and on this track I accordingly set to work, for although the exercise kept me warm, the fatigue was very great, and my hands were torn and lacerated with the sharp 1 pieces of stone and fragments of thorn |

which were embedded in the snow. The first object I encountered was the corpse of the poor young fellow who had been so brutally murdered, and whose fate I had so nearly shared. Shuddering with hor ror, I endeavored to avoid it in my course; but when I got past it I determined to try and bring it out along with me, and after some hours of patient work I succeeded, to my great joy, in boring my way out to the upper world again just as the first beams of illuminating the eastern sky across the mountain range. I brought the corpse along with me, but of course no further than out of the snow-drift. I have little more to tell. I made my way in safety to a lower and more hospit able region, and on to the next village, where, seeking out the constabulary ser geant, I told him my story, enquiring whether he knew who the individuals were who were addressed as Mick and Barney. “ I rather think I can guess, sir,” he replied. ‘ ‘ Mick must be a fellow of the name of Flanagan, the biggest ruffian on the country side ; and Barney, I have no doubt, is Bernard Ryan, who is well known to be his right-hand man. I shall see after them. ” So I have no doubt he did to the best of his ability, but without effect, for I heard from him subsequently that they had both without question left the country, accompanied no doubt by the rest of the party, early on the morning after the mur der of the young man and their endeavor to bury me along with him in his snowy grave. At the inquest on poor Tom war rants were issued for their apprehension, but they were doubtless already on safe ground in some unknown region. For weeks after my adventure I was haunted by the rememberance of the dangers I had experienced, and would wake in the night with the old falling sensation like that in the snow-drift. My present task recalls it all now, and I have given up walking tours till Ireland shall be in a more settled condition. CONCLUDED.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL B, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburton* - Saturday, April 3, 1880



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VACCINATION. By an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, it is made compulsory upon every parent to take his child, within six months of its birth, to the Medical Ofirccr appointed by Government for the district, or to some qualified Medical Practitioner, to have the child vaccin ated, and on the eighth day following to take the child back again for inspection. For breach of this law a fine not exceeding 40s. may be recovered before any Bench of Magis trates. If the child be properly vaccinated, the Medical Officer or Practitioner is to give a certificate of the fact. If the child be not sus ceptible, or unfit to endure the process, another certificate is to be given, which will clear the parents of the consequences. Children, al though vaccinated, whose vaccination certifi cates arc not forwarded to the Registrar of the district arc still liable to a fine of 40s. Inno culation with the virus of small pox is a crime punishable by a penalty of ,£lO, The word “ parent ” means father, mother, or other per son having the care, nurture, or custody of the child. SLAUGHTER-HOUSE LICENSES. “The Slaughter-House Act, 1877,” pro vides that “no license shall be issued in _res pect of any slaughter-house situated within half a mile from the outer boundary of any borough, unless such slaughter-house has been erected, or was in course of erection for that purpose immediately before the Ist December, 1877. If such slaughter-house is within the above described limit, application for the license must be made to the Council of the nearest Borough, II a slaughter-house is within any County, ex cept as aforesaid, the application must be made to the Council of such county. No license, ?not being the renewal of a previously existing license, shall be issued to any person, unless public notice shall have been given by the applicant for the same, once m each week for one month, immediately preceding lime when such application is to be heard.” MOONLIGHT EVENINGS. The Moon at 3 days old shines till about 8 o’clock. The Moon at 6 days old shines till about half-past 10 o’clock. The Moon at 8 days old shines till nearly I o’clock in the morning. The Moon at 12 days old shines from sun down till about 4 in the morning. The Moon at 15 days old is full, and shines all night. The Moon at 18 days old rises about 9 p.m. L and shines till morning. t The Moon at 21 days old rises about 11 p.m. ) and shines till morning. The Moon at 24 days old rises about 2 a.m. and shines till morning. I The Moon at 27 days old rises about 4 a.m. , and shines till sunrise. ) THE HOUSEWIFE’S TABLE. The following is a very valuable housewife’s table, by winch persons not having scales and weights at hand may readily measure the article wanted to form any recipe without the 3 trouble of weighing, allowance to be made for an extraordinary dryness or moisture of the ar ticle weighed or measured : > Wheat flour, 1 pound is 1 quart. Indian meal, I pound 2 ounces are I quart. Butter, when soft, 1 pound is 1 quart. Loaf sugar, broken, I pound is 1 quart White sugar, powdered, 1 pound 1 unce 3 ate 1 quart. Ten eggs are I pound. Flour, 4 pecks arc I bushel. Sixteen large tablespoonsful are 1 pint. Eight large tcaspoonsful are 1 gill. Four large tcaspoonsful are }i gill. Two gills are % P*nt -3 Two pints ate 1 quart. Four quarts are I gallon. A common sized tumbler holds % pint. A common sized wine glass is % a gill. A tea-cup is I gill. A large wine-glass is 1 gill. Forty drops are equal to I teaspoonful. 3 Four tcaspoonfuls are equal to 1 tablespoon -1 ful. j - REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MAR RIAGES, AND DEATHS. Births. —Parents and all other persons pre sent at a birth, arc liable under the Act for s Registration under penalty of £\a ; failing, the 3 occupier of house in which such birth took I place is liable. Births arc registered free up to sixty-two days, day of birth and of registra tion, both inclusive; afterwards up to six months, on payment of Ss, penalty, and after declaration as to truth of particulars being duly made ; and beyond six months only after [ conviction before a Magistrate, and on pro . duction of certificate of conviction signed by | Magistrate or Clerk to Bench, and within one month of such conviction. There are other 1 provisions as to registration of children found exposed, and registration of names within one year of birth. Marriages. —Marriages must be solem nized with open doors, between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon, in the presence of two or more witnesses. Persons objecting to be married by a clergyman, can be married in a Registrar’s office by a Registrar. Persons fdesirous of being married must give notice to the Registrar of the district, and take out a Marriage Certificate; but before doing so, must have resided in the district three clear days immediately proceeding the application for certificate. The fees are for Notice and Certificate, £l 2s fid ; Marriage by Registrar, £ 1; and 2s fid for Copy of Marriage Registrar. Persons wishing to be married out of the dis trict in which they live, can only do so by residing in the district in which they wish to be married for three clear days, and obtaining certificate from the Registrar of that district. And persons living in different must cither both reside for three clear days in the same district, or else obtain two Certificates, viz:—one from the Registrar of each of the districts in which they reside. Any person making false affirmation, declaration, or repre sentation before a Registrar, is guilty of mis demeanour. Deaths. —The occupier of house in which death occurs, and all persons present at a death, are liable for the registration within thirty one days; and failing these, the or person so acting, under penalty of j£lo; but any of the persons liable may depute, in writing, some person acquainted with par ticulars required to attend and register ; and the person registering ML>ST in all cases take to the Registrar the Doctor’s Certificate of Death. In all cases of burial, the Undertaker or person so acting, must return to the Registrar within seven days, the Burial Cer tificate, duly signed by Undertaker and officiating Minister, or two householders pre sent at such burial. Undertakers not return ing such Burial Certificates within seven days are liable to a penalty of *5 : and Clergymen officiating and not signing Burial Certificates are also liable to a penally of .£5. Any person not attending to register, after notice from Registrar is duly given, is liable to a penalty of £2O There are various other provisions defining powers and duties of Registrar, and imposing penalties for neglect in complying with various provisions of th" Act.



TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. For s a l e. One Second-hand Double Demy Tape Printing MACHINE, in thorough working rollers, moulds, &c., complete. This machine has been replaced by a Double Royal Wharfedale, which necessitates removal of the Double Demy Machine formerly used for printing the “Herald ” and “ Guardian,” for hand or steampower. Can be seen and all par ticulars obtained at our office. For a Country Office this Machine suits admirably, as it can easily be turned by hand, for which we have fitted a fly wheel and handle. Phxce £7O. WEEKS & DIXON. Ashburton, January 14, 1879 EMPLOYERS requiring any kind of laborers can engage through Herxid Registry Office, on payment of Is. in ad vanc&



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