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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 836, 8 January 1883, Page 2

R.M. Court. —This morniiig three first offenders were brought before his Worship the Mayor, charged with drunkenness. They were fined 5s each, or 24 hours’.

Phrenology. —Professor Lio Medo, who has been well patronised during his stay in Ashburton, announces that he will give his first lecture here ia the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. Full particulars of the entertainment will be found in another column.

Sporting. —ln consequence of Mr Isaac Thompson’s horse Steel Dust being recently disqualified by the Ashburton Racing Club from running on the local course, the race which was to have taken place there on Wednesday, has been prohibited by the Club, and the contest will, we are informed, be determined at Wakanui at ton o’clock on Wednesday morning.

The Bookmakers Grumble. The Auckland bookmakers complain that the i settling over thejSummer Meeting is the i Worst they have./ever known there, for, although they ,have lost L 2,000 between j them, the public still owe them L7OO. ] During the week succeeding Boxing Day, | Lyons alone paid away L 950, lost principally through Welcome Jack’s win in the j Auckland Cup. .The Frozen Meat Trade. The Otago Refrigerating Company have arranged with the New Zealand Shipping < Company for steamers to load at Port Chalmers in April and June, each vessel to take 9,000 carcases. There are already applications from shareholders for space for 34,000 sheep, and it is expected that before the list is closed the total applications will not be far short of 50,000. . Evangelistic Service. —An evangelistic service was held in the Town Hall last evening, commencing at eight o’clock. The attendance was very good. Messrs H. M. Jones and J. B. Buchanan delivered f Tcible addresses, and the Revs A. M. Beattie and 0. H. Standage, with Mr W. Gavin, also took part in the proceedings. Several of Sankey’s hymns were sung during the evening, Mr Weeks manipulating the piano, accompanied by Mr George Savage on the cornet. A Solicitor’s Business Defined. —The new Supreme Court Act, permitting solicitors to do what was hitherto expressly prohibited, namely, carry on actions on behalf of clients on commission, or on a percentage of the sum recovered, the Otago Law Society have decided to apply the principle generally to other business, and have passed the following resolution :—“ The Council of the Law Society recognise - the following as part of the business of a solicitor ;—l. Negotiating Loans on commission. 2. Buying and selling properties on commissien. 3. Collection of rents, interest, and other moneys on commission. 4. Management of companies, including insurance companies. 5. Land and estate agents’ business generally.” Opening up of the King Country— The owners of land in Waipa Valley, above Alexandra, have lately held a meeting and agreed to ask the Government for a sitting of Native Lands Court to decide on titles. The necessary documents were brought down to Auckland by Mr R. A. A. Sherrin, who had been telegraphed to by the natives to come up and see them. He delivered the papers to Messrs Dignan and Armstrong, who ere authorised to take the necessary steps to procure a sitting of the Court. The natives are anxious to have their land put through without becoming involved in any way with comp <niea of speculators. The area of the block is estimated at 40,000 acres, and it comprises the very best of the King country. Mr Sherrin had an interview with the Premier on-Saturday, and an application for a sitting of the Court will bo made immediately. The American Railway King. —The American reading public are just at present being amused, excited, and instructed by the extended comments that are made upon some recent most remarkable utterances of the great “ railway king,” Mr William H. Vanderbilt. That mast interesting and useful agent of modem newspaper work, an “ interviewing reporter,” having got access to his American “ Colloasus of Roads,” as scribes love to call him, plied him with questions until his temper became ruffled. Vanderbilt was then asked if he did not run hia trains for the public benefit, and testily feplied, “ The public be . What does the public care for the railroads, except to get as much out of them for as small consideration as possible ? I don’t take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody’s good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move we do it because it is our interest to do so, not because we expect to do somebody else some good. Of course we like to do everything possible for the benefit of humanity in general, but when we do we first see that we are benefiting ourselves. Railroads are not run on sentiment, but on business principles, and to pay, and I don’t mean to be egotistic when Isay that the roads which I have had anything to do with have generally paid pretty well.” Equally earnest was the millionaire in char icterisingthe “anti-monopolist,” when the industrious interviewer asked his opinion of their movement. Mr Vanderbilt said “It is a movement inspired by a set of fools and blackmailers. To bo sure, there are some men interested in it whose motives are good, if their sense is not. When I want to buy up any politican I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable. They don’t come so high.” It is natural that this interview, coming at the time and in the way it does, and dealing with various delicate railway questions in the most positive way, shoul I have created a sensation. It is the talk of the hour, and probably the angriest of all the critics are the antimonopolists. i

An Extraordinary Accident. —This morning’s Lyttelton Times gives an account of a most extraordinary escape from what might have been a frightful death, which happened to a man named Thomas Powell, a carter in the employ of Messrs Murray and Forbes, waggoners, at Waikari. The firm have this year contracted to carry the wool from a station in the Awatere district, in Nelson, a distance of over 100 miles from Waikari, across some of the roughed country it is possible to get a waggon over. On New Year’s Day Thomas Diamond, a driver who has been in Messrs Murray and Forbes’ employ for a great number of years, and T Powell started from their camping ground in the Yarra creek, not far from the station, and were proceeding down the Yarra, sideling into the Acheron river with two waggons carrying twenty bales each. The road along this creek is cut cut of the side of the hill, and at the w dost place does not exceed nine feet in width, which at some of the short turns that exist on the lino of road makes it very dangerous for the traffic. Diamond took his waggon and load safely over the worst point near the creek, but he had considerable difficulty in so doing, as the rubble had formed a mound on the track which lifted the wheels from the road. Powell, however, in attempting the same had the misfortune to find that the edge of the roadway gave way under his waggon wheels ; and the waggon began to turn over. Powell saw at once that he could do nothing to save the waggon, so ho made a leap and landed amongst some big stones. Just as he foil, the waggon came on him ; but ho, being bstween two largo pieces of rock, was only confined in a space large enough to hold him. His right arm was struck by a part of the waggon as it went over. Diamond, when he saw the upset, at once stopped his team and went to his mate’s assistance, under the impression that he was killed. He was surprised to find him in the enclosure, and by degrees he managed to remove the waggon (in pieces) as well as the wool bales. When Powell was uncovered, the only injuries he was found to have sustained was a flesh wound on the right arm. Diamond and Powell at once set to work to get the waggon righted again, and the horses not being injured, the matter was soon arranged and the teams started. Powell drove his team to Waikari, excepting over the difficult parts of the road ; and on arrival at Waikari on Friday he went to visit Dr Morris to have his wound thoroughly attended to. The distance from where the accident occurred to Waikari was fully 75 miles, and yet Powell, with one arth, drove the team of six horses, only obtaining the assistance of his. ; mate at any of the most critical points on the road. The horses, strange to say, received no injury whatever; but the waggon was greatly knocked about.

Stock Sale.—We 'would remind those interested thaf theetocksa’e at Tinwald will be held toj-mhirow. ' Trb San Francisco Mail.—Up to the time of our g dog to press there was no news from Auckland of the arrival of the San Francisco mail, which is due to-day. A Good Work.—The ceremony at the laying of the foundation of the new orphanage at Dunedin, which is being built by Bishop Nevill, was held on Sattrday. It is intended to accommodate sixty children, and is situated at Bishopsgrove, where it will be carried on under the superintendence of the Bishop and Mrs Nevill.

Discovery of a Skeleton. The Timaru Herald states that information was given to the police at Temuta yesterday morning that the skeleton of a man had been washed up oa the beach near the mouth of the Arowhenui river. Constable Burke proceeded to the spot described, and there found a complete skeleton, which, by its appearance, must have been in the vater some considerable time. There was nothing in the way of clothes or other appendages to give a clue to its identity. It is possible it may bo that of one of three men—McDonald, Falgar, and Gardiner—who lost their lives on the occasion of the shipping disaster on May 14th last year, and whose bodies were never recovered Gold Workings on thr Sfa Beach.— On most of the sea beaches south of the Clutha, towards the Bluff, payable gold is found, and at Waikawa and Waipapa parties of miners have been working for years. The Southland Times states that a party of six men have for many , months past been working on the shore at Bushy Point, about half-way between the Bluff and the Mataura River, and have, notwithstanding considerable labor in pump-* iug water for washing, obtained, on the average of each month’s work, not less than 15s per day. The ground, or rather beach, has in some instances been washed three or four times. When a patch is exhausted, the party move a little further on, the deserted ground being left until after a heavy south-west swell has set in. The party then return, and the. area is gone over again, with the result of not less than 15s per day on the average of the month, and there appears to be no end of this kind of working.

Colonial Jewellery. —During the examination of witnesses by the Tariff Commissioners with reference to the jewellery trade (says the Age ) and the manufactory of colonial gold jewellery, it was elicited by Mr Tucker and Mr Bosisto that a wide spread system exists of manufacturing “ colonial gold ” articles of a very inferior quality to that which the public ’ generally are supposed to obtain. “ Colonial gold ” jewellery, well known by its rich color, is often a delusion and snare. Unscru-

pulous makers palm off instead of 18-carat

a mixture of metal in which the real quality is perhaps hot over 8 or 10 carat,: and Me Schafer, a manufacturer, stated that the public only find it out when endeavoring to realise on selling their purchases. Mr Aronson, of the . firm of Rosenthal and Aronson, manufacturing jewellers, agreed with Mr Schafer that a “ Hall Mark ” should be at once established, similar to that used in England, so as to protect the public and the honest makers. Under that system a mark would be placed by the Mint upon all articles of silver and gold jewellery up to the standard quality, and the absence of such a mack would place the purchaser at once upon his guard. This reform has frequently been promised by various Treasurers, and it is % piece of practical legislation that has been too long delayed. Holloway’s Pills. —Weary of Life Derangement of the liver is one of the mos dangerous of diseases, and the “most prolific source of those melancholy forebodings which arc worse than death itself. A few doses of these noted Pills act magically in dispelling low spirits, and repelling the covert attacks made on the nerves by excessive heat, impure atmospheres, over-indulgence, or exhausting excitement. The most shattered constitution may derive benefit from Holloway’s Pills, which will regulate disordered action, brace the nerves, increase the energy of the intellectual faculties, and revive the failing memory. By attentively studying the instructions for taking these Pills, and explicitly putting them in practice, the most desponding will soon feel confident of a perfect recovery. —[ Advt.