The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1882.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 626, 3 May 1882, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1882.

Police Court. — There was a clean sheet at the Court this morning. Masonic Concert. —A meeting of the committee will be held oiv Friday next, at 8 p. m., in Mr Guudry’s office, to arrange for the forthcoming concert. Mas llajibson. An announcement with 10 crcnce to the mission of Mrs Hampsou in Ashburton, which commences next week, appears in this evening's paper. Laborers’ Strike. Some twenty laborers on the reclamation contract for the Dunedin railway station site are on strike for 7s a day. They have been offered Gs Gd. Horticultural Society. —This everting the annual meeting of this Society takes place at Mr Jones’ rooms. As important business is to bo transacted it is hoped there will be a good attendance. The Weather in the South.—A Dunedin telegram under yesterday’s date states that the weather now shows signs of clearing up. No damage is reported, though up to noon to-day the rain was constant. The. train on the Outram branch lino, Taieri Plain, was unable to get through this evening, the lines being under water in some places to the depth of about a foot. Tenders. —Advertisements interesting to builders, ploughmen, earners, and laborers appear in another column calling for tenders for various works, including a stable, four miles of fencing, etc., for Mr Morrow, Hinds, and ploughing 240 acres of turnip land for Mr. John F. Tick ell, Methven; carting twenty tons of straw and erecting a timber shed for Mr R. Lancaster, butcher, of this town.

A Daring Robbery. —At the Dunedin Police Court yesterday, a married woman named Elhsa Whittel was charged with the theft of LIG worth of jewellery from a private house, in the daytime. Ehe went to the house, the door of which was open, and walked in. A little girl happened to open the inner door from the back apartments at the moment. The woman asked some question about a house to let. The girl answered it and went back, and the woman, before she went away, is alleged to have helped herself to jewellery from one of the front rooms. The accused was remanded. Personal. —lt will be remembered that some time since Mr T. M. Jones, of Seafield, met with an accident of a most painful kind. While attempting to step on a grindstone —only about a foot from the ground —to look for some sheep which were on another part of the property, his foot slipped, and falling to the ground Mr Jones, who is of rather stalwart proportions, broke his leg so badly that, although now some time since the accident occurred, it will be a long while before the sufferer will be aide to get about again. The many friends of Mr Jones, however, will bo glad to Icar.i that tho possibility of the leg having to bo amputated is not now contemplated, and he is progressing towards recovery as quickly as can, from the natino of tho injuries, be expected.

Jewellery Sale. —Messrs 11. Matson and Co. yesterday hold a large sale of jewellery,' etc., at Christchurch, and, although Mr Walton, tho well-known knight of tho hammer, succeeded in eliciting very good prices for the goods ollered, some of the lots, as might have been expected, at such a largo sale, were quitted at figures, which hardly tallied with the vendor’s notions of tho value of tho goods; consequent on this (says a contemporary), a little excitement was caused by tho proprietor giving practical expression to his disgust, when only 2Gs wore ollered a ladies’gold watch, by casting it to the ground and crushing it beneath his foot. An idea of the number of lots that changed hands may be formed from tho fact that, with the exception of ton minutes for refreshment, the sale lasted from eleven in the morning till close upon five in tho afternooon, when tho sale was adjourned till eleven o’clock this morning.

Postal Midis for the Australian colonies and United Kingdom, per Te Anau, close at the Bluff on Friday next at noon. Poultry Show. —lt has been decided to hold a grand poultry show in Christchurch at the Exhibition building shortly. Local Option. —lt will be seen from an announcement elsewhere that the local option poll for the Ashburton district is to be taken at the Temperance Hall, Tinwald, on 7th June. The Recent Fatal Fire.— At the inquest held at Masterton on the charred remains of Smith, his wife, and two children, on Monday, the jury returned an open verdict. A skull, supposed to bo Smith’s was found; his wife’s skull is missing. Horse Sale. —At Dunedin yesterday, Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold a draft of eighty draught and other horses from Mr John Grigg's Longbeach estate. The prices realised were considered highly satisfactory. All offered were sold at prices ranging from Ll 3 to L 42.

Pang it at a Water Works. —Mr G. F. Henry, photographer, has taken a very good picture of the scene at the headworks of the water-races, showing the gentlemen visitors who were preset on the occasion of the opening ceremony. The photograph 'b very well executed, and all who were present are easily distinguishable in the picture.

Til r. Lib aa by D eputation. Messrs. Joseph Ward and W. H. Zouch, waited upon the the County County this afternoon as a deputation from the Library Committee, to solicit some help towards the erection of a new Library Building. The Council generously acceded to (he wishes of the deputation, by granting a sum equal to the amount raised by public subscription, not exceeding L2OO, provided the site chosen by the Committee is approved of by the Council.

Sale of Horses. —We have been requested to call attention to an important sale of horses, which takes place at the Ashburton County saleyards to-morrow (Thursday), commencing at eleven o’clock, when a number of really good and useful draughts, light harness horses, and hacks will lie offered by Messrs J. T. Ford and Co., consisting principally of stock from the Lowcliffo estate, and from the late Sir J. 0. Wilson’s Rangitata -station, largo portions of which properties have recently changed hands, necessitating the clearing of the above stock.

Stranding of a Barque —A telegram from Timaru, under yesterday’s date, says —The barque Duke of Sutherland, lying in the roadstead, struck ground this evening and filled with water. She is still alloat, hut the crow have left her. Avery heavy sea is rolling in. She was being loaded with grain, and had over 10,000 sacks of wheat aboard, shipped by the New New Zealand Grain Agency Company, and was expected to sail on Thursday. The vessel was drawing ISft and lying in 27ft The vessel and cargo are fully insured. The Duke of Sutherland is a wooden vessel of about 1,04.0 tons, and owned in London. The crew were taken off by boats of the ship Benvenue (Capt. Macgowan).

Unlicensed Place op Amusement.— At the Christchurch R. M. Court yesterday Daniel Lea and Joseph Goslin were charged with keeping a place for tiro holding of meetings and assemblies, to wit, the Now Gymnasium Mall in Lichfield street west, without having taken out a license for the same. The offence was proved by the evidence of the licensing officer and that of Madame Lotti Wilmot, wiio stated that on Sunday night, April Itiih, she had delivered a lecture in the building. There were donations made by the audience, but 110 admission fee had been charged and she had not paid rent for the use of the building. At this stage it was discovered that a wrong date had been inserted in the plaint, and the case was dismissed.

Maori Deputation to the Queen. — Tawnanga, accompanied by Hare Hongi Haka, son of the famous Honi and Hakena Furore, leaves Auckland by the Albion to-day for Australia. Thence take passage by steamer Cotopaxi from Melbourne for England, to lay a petition on native grievances before the Queen. They take presents of greenstone and whalebone meres, mats, etc.; also baskets of Maori manufacture, and dyed with nitan, koha>, and other pigments, as presents for (he Queen’s grandchildren. Pat ore’s grandfather, old Parrero, pays the expenses of the mission—L3oo. The party will invoke the aid of the Aborigines Protection Society and the Church and Wesleyan Missionary Societies in their mission. The petition to tho Queen, which complains of breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi, is signed by Paorere, Kawiti, Kaingi, Hori Kari, Mongonui Rewa, Wirenui Tui, Te Kiln, and tho three members of the deputation.

Seafield Wesleyan Church.—A meeting was called for last night at the Seafield church, for the purpose of considering matters relating to the Wesleyan cause in that district. The Rev. 0. H. Standage, with Messrs H. M. Jones and 0. Dixon, were in attendance as a deputation from i lie Ashburton Quarterly Board, but in consequence of the very small number of people present, an adjournment was made to Mr T. M. Jones’ residence, where a meeting of a rather informal but interesting character took phice. The principal question under consideration was whether, in consequence of the exodus of Wesleyans from the district during, the last few years, and other causes, it would not bo advisable to remove the church building to a more thickly - populated neighborhood. The matter was eventually left in the hands of the Ashburton deputation, to deal with it in such manner as, after further inquiries, might be thought best.