The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1882.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 824, 21 December 1882, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1882.

Harvesting. —Various parties advertise in this issue for tenders for harvest* ing.

A Fatal Fight.—News to hand by the Wakatipu from Sydney states that a little boy has died from injuries caused by his being induced to fight another boy at North Shore, and was afterwards thrown ifito the Water, causing peritonitis.'* The Late Joseph Saunders. —At the inquest at Wellington, yesterday on the body of Joseph Saunders, senior, who was found dead in the harbor on Tuesday last, a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence wai returned, viz., “ That death resulted from drowning whilst suffering from an apopletic fit.”

Property Tax Statements.—As some misunderstanding exists as to the date on which property tax statements should be rendered, we have been requested to state that, in reply to a query from Mr Wilkie, the Commissioner telegraphs that the time for rendering statements expire! yesterday, and owners should send them in at once.

Detective Kirby. —Detective Kirby returned to Timaru from Melbourne yesterday, bringing Patrick Kyan, his wife and daughter, arrested there on a charge of conspiring to defraud creditors. Detective Kirby it was who was instrumental in the capture of Shepherd. He is undoubtedly “ getting his name up ” as an active and intelligent officer.

Government Land Sale at Pats a.— The Government land sale at Patea yesterday did not attract many peop’e: Ten lots were taken up on deferred payments in Momahaki block at prices ranging from LI to L 9 ss, according to size and quality. (Jaah lands sold readily, and whenever th?re was anything good offered competition was brisk. About 40 lots were sold from LI to L 8 5a per acre.

An Auckland Divorce Case. — k telegram from Auckland says The Auckland divorce case of J. S. Willcocka and, Forder was fixed yesterday by Judge Gillies for the ensuing civil sittings. The petitioner is a tea-dealer, and the co-re-spondert a clerk. The scandal was first dealt with by Good Templars, Mr and Mrs Willcocks taking partin an entertainment given by the Sir Henry Havelock and other Lodges.

A Dangerous Delicacy. —Pome halfdozen youngsters in one of the suburbs of Dunedin were seized with vomiting yesterday after eating between them threepenny worth of Persian lolly, a compound which is being retailed at the street corners by a Turkish-looking individual. It is supposed that it must have contained some poisonous material, or at any rate something too strong for the stomachs of colonial youths. Probably the police will prevent its sale until it is analysed.

The Suspected Murder at Auckland. —Acting upon permission given by the Presbyterian cemetery trustees, Superintendent Thomson had the bodies of the late Hugh A. Hamilton and his infant child dis interred yesterday morning and conveyed to the morgue. Dr Gnldgbro m>de ah examination, there being also present Dr Walker and Dr Dawson, Superintendent Thomson, Detectives Strathern and Walker, and the undertaker who interred the bodies. The press requested permission to attend the examination, but were refused admission. The body of Hamilton was in an advanced state of decomposition. The preliminary stages of the examination disclosed facts that have not even been suspected, and that will, when made public, intensify the painful interest which is concentrated upon the case. The fracture of the skull was found to be more extensive* and serious than had been anticipated.

Christmas Song. —The music and words of “ Our New Zealand Christmas Song ” has been beautifully photographed, cabinet size, with a pretty view of Otago Harbor, encircled with ears of corn and flowers. The following is the chorus of the song : “ A merry Christmas may it be, And that from shore to shore ; May plenty reign within your hall, And grace stand at your door.” This beautifully-executed card is got up for Is, obtainable at H. J. Weeks’ Music Depot, Tancred street, where there is to be seen a fine collection of pianos by Brinsmead and other well-known makers ; also, the famous Smith American organs. 88,000 of these organs having been sold is a sufficient guarantee. The celebrated pianofortetuner, Herr Otto Schweers, will pay his regular visit very shortly to attend to customers only. Orders can be sent to the Music Depot.—[Auvr.] Sir Julius Yogbl. —Sir Sulius Vogel was entertained at a banquet last evening at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin. The Mayor of Dumdin presided, and between 200 and 300 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Of course speech-making was the order of the evening, and Sir Julius made a tolerably lengthy speech. Referring to the immigration policy, he said that in speaking at a banquet in Melbourne the other night, he had stated that he believed that New Z -aland as a whole, had made veiy fair progress during the time of its colonisation, but he did not consider that the Australasian Colonies as a whole, were so far forward or developed or were so prosperous as they ought to be, and he attributed the cause to the fact that they had not maintained immigration. He had been told that the working classes objected to immigration, but speaking from old recollections he had found the working men in this colony were sufficiently intelligent, and it the question was properly placed before them and it was explained that, while immigration would bring more competition into labor market, it would also bring at the same time a larger demand for labor with it, their opposition would cease. Newspaper Enterprise. —Just now, says the Figaro, speaking of the Egyptian war, by the best available route the London dailies have to pay seven shillings and twopence per word for their telegrams. The lowest average of the daily papers is one thousand pounds per week ; and the Standard account is probably much higher. Newspaper correspondents cannot telegraph in " skeleton ” from the seat of war. Even in full their messages are likely to be supervised ; while a "skeleton” telegram would stand no chance. In the ordinary way, " great battle is about to be fought at Jericho. The general has gone to the front with the brigade of Guards,” would figure across the wires as " Great battle—directly—Jericho—General gone with Guards,” thirteen words being saved out of twenty-two. But in Egypt, except from certain leading centres, this is impossible. Even taking the " skeletons ” with the full telegrams, a column of leaded messages in a daily paper averages from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds. Had the Egyptian war lasted a ye if, the total sum spent, altogether extra from ordinary expenses, wool 1 have amounted to upwards of fifty thousand pounds. War is a benefit to a rising paper which needs to make its name, but it is a dead loss to an established journal. Newspaper managers have refused to send some of the best of their long-winded men, and have preferred to rely for their war telegrams on correspondents who possess not only enterprise hut business tact. The leading provincial dailies arrange with the London dailies for " first editions.” In Scotland both the Glasgow Herald and the Scotsman send engines along the line between Glasgow and Edinburgh very early in the morning. The Glasgow Herald has the sight of all the Standard telegrams as they come in at night, the Scotsman of all the telegrams in the Daily Telegraph. These are quoted to the various newspapers, but large sums are paid annually for an early yiew of the telegrams. ,

Found man named John Molvoy was found dead in a watercloset at the back of .the South Star Hotel at Blenheim yesterday. An inquest will be hdd. V

Acknowledgment. —The master pf the Ashburton Home wishes to acknowledge, with thanks the receipt of 501bs floiSr, fruit, etc., for Christmas pudding, from Messrs Friedlander Bros., 2s 6d from “ A Friend,” and LI from “Farm Laborer/’ towards the Christmas treat for the inmates.

Domestic Servants. —At yesterday’s meeting of the Geraldine County Council Mr Talbot referred to the scarcity of domestic servants in the district. He feared immigration at present was not supplying this very necessary want. He suggested memorialising Government, and asking them to depute a lady ho go Home for the purpose of picking out suitable girls. He believed 4,000 or 5,000 girls might easily be got, and the country could easily absorb that number. The Council authorised the Clerk to write to the Colonial Secretary on the subject.

Concert by the Christchurch Cathedral Choir.— We understand that the Rev W. H. Elton, preconter of Christchurch Cathedral, is taking twenty members of the Cathedral choir —seven men and thirteen boys—to Dunedin for a fortnight’s holiday. In order to defray expenses he intends to hold a series of concerts at the principle centres of population. The first of the series will be at Ashburton on Monday, January 8, at the Town Hall. All who have heard the Cathedral choir sing will be sure of a good programme excellently rendered.

Sunday School Gathering. The fourth annual gathering will take place on the last Sabbath of the year, in the Town Hall,land is expected to be the largest yet held in Ashburton. The total number of children will exceed 700, and the following schools will be represented :— Anglican Church: Ashburton, Tinwald, Elgin, 250 ; Wesleyan: Ashburton, 140; Presbyterian; Ashburton, Tinwald, Flemington, Wakanui, 217 : Primitive Methodist : Ashburton and Seafield, 84 ; Unsectarian, 56. The service will be presided over by Mr Fooks, and the Revs. O. Standage, A. M. Beattie, E. Scott, and J. Nixon will take part, and it is expected that the service of praise will be very good, in a musical sense that is.

Eccentric Elopements. —Some ingenious and paintaking statistician has recently taken the trouble to compile a table of the eccentric elopements of the past six months. The season he describes as having been “ active and spasmodic.” Here are a few of them. An elopements at Louisville was frustrated by a small boy, who with a well-directed snowball knocked off the Coachman’s hat. while he was recovering his hat, the train the unhappy couple, were endeavoring to reach started, and the pursuing parents came up. In Illinois a young lady ran away barefooted; h t lover insisted upon stopping to buy a pair of shoes. The delay proved fatal. A lover at Winona was so impetuous that he did not even wait for the young lady’s consent, but lassoed her as she was going to church, and was dragging her away to a justice’s oflics when help arrived. England does not figure very largely, though we find one case in which a man was eccentric enough to run off with his mother-tn-law. At Batavia, FruderickL. Jackson,aged forty-nine, ran away .with his father-in-law’s second wife, a young woman, leaving his own spouse, whom he had shot in the face, rendering her totally blind, and who had been supported, with his family, by her father. One elopement ended in a tragic manner. The lady was pursued by her mother down the railroad track. The old lady, in her excitement, failed to notice the approach of a locomotive, which ran over her and killed her. A man hailing from Wisconsin eloped with his employer’s wife, and left the following note for che bereaved husband:" I have tookedyour woman; but you are welcum to my last week’s wages, which I didn’t draw; and I hoap that squares things. ” The Fancy Fair. —The Fancy Fair at Dr; Trevor’s ground yesterday, was a very great success. Between 500 and 600 people partook of tea in the big tent, which was no sooner empty -of one crowd of visitors than it was immediately filled with another. In the evening three bands were playing, viz , the Ashburton brass band, the Excelsior brass band, and the Church of England drum and fife band. After tea dancing was indulged in, and while some twenty couples were tripping it merrily to the excellent music, others were engaged in the ever popular pas imes of " kiss-in-tho-ring,” lawn tennis, etc., etc. Thus the time passed away as if by mage until the display of; fireworks took place, Messrs W. EL Zouch and Northey officiating. While the crackers and wheels and rockets were blazing the band was playing, and fully 600 people were strolling about the grounds, which at this time were brilliantly illuminated by torchlights, the stalls being hung with Chinese The scene at this time reminded the old Londoners of " Oretnorne ” —Cremorne on a small scale, of course, without the vulgarity that was wont to ,ma k that place of public resort. About 11 o’clock the " National Anthem ” was played, and the united bands marched home by torchlight, followed by a goodly number of the visitors. Notwithstanding the fact that the grounds were thrown open to all sorts of people—for there was nothing like exclusiveness—the utmost good order prevailed, and not a tree or shrub was injured. Dr. and Mrs Trevor worked hard to make the affair a success, and their efforts were ably seconded by the ladies and gentlemen whose names appeared in our last issue. The Rev. Mr Scott, spared no pains to make everything go off well. It is gratifying to learn that all this trouble has not been thrown away, for the proceeds of the fete amount to the satisfactory sum of Ll2i, clear profit, which will be devoted to liquidating the debt on St. Stephen’s Church.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Outward Infirmities. Before the discovery o these remedies many case of sores, ulcers, &c., were pronounced to be hopelessly incurable, because the treatment pursued tended to destroy the strength it was incompetent to preserve, and to exasperate the symptoms it was inadequate to remove. Holloway’s Pills exert the most wholesome powers over the unhealthy flesh or skin, without debarring the patient from fresh air and exercise, and thus the constitutional vigor is husbanded while the most malignant ulcers, abscesses, and skin diseases are in process of cure. Both Ointment and Pills make the blood richer and piner, instead of permitting it to fall into that poor and watery stale so fatal to many abodng under chronic ulcerations —[Advt.]