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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 837, 9 January 1883, Page 2

Hunt Club. —The committee of the Club having failed in their efforts i.o continue the hunt, Messrs Saunders Bros, have leased their pack of hounds to the Otago Hunt Club for next season.

Maccabe. —On account of illness Mr Maccabe, who gave his final performance at Dunedin on Saturday under great difficulties, has been obliged to take a rest. His appearance at Oamaru has therefore been postponed for a week. Cricket. —The Borough Club will try conclusions with the Tinwald Club tomorrow, on the Domain Ground, commencing at 12.30. The following will represent the local Club: —Messrs Hosking, L. F. Andrews, Amos, G. W. Andrews, Marsh, Purchase, Ivess, Davis, Groves, Crocker and Patching. Emergencies— Davison snd Eastham. A supper will take place at Quill’s Hotel, at 7 o’clock.

A good Shearer. —To shear 194 sheep (says the Wanganui Chronicle of a recent date) in nine hours is a notable feat, and one which to very many persons will seem quite incredible. Yet we are informed that this was done at Messrs Moore and Currie’s Bushy Park run by George Brough, who learnt his shearing in Canterbury, and who is well-known as one of the quickest and neatest wielders of the shears in the Wanganui district. Our New Governor. —Preparations on an extensive scale are being made in Wellington with a view of giving Sir William Jervois a befitting reception on his arrival there. He is expected to arrive on the 18th inst. The Mayor of Wellington, has, it is understood, invited the Mayors of all, the principal towns in the colony to be present at the ceremony. All local Friendly Societies will take part in the proceedings. The schoolmasters in the city have been written to, to arrange, if possible, for a procession of school children, by whom the National Anthem will be sung.

The Salvationists Mistaken eor a Circus. —The Salvation Army in England sent recently three men and one young woman to Bombay. Their landing was celebrated with a public demonstration, the details of which have been sent to England by telegraph. Each of the men wore a yellow coat reaching to the knees, pantaloons, a turban, shawl, and English boots. The woman was attired in a yellow dress and a hat trimmed with ribbon. Bullock carts were as the war chariots of the Army, and, with the young woman beating a tambourine, the procession paraded the principal streets. To the n itives the scene was a source of considerable amusement. They took the four missionaries for circus people, and possibly imagined that the procesnou was a pagea it arranged by the Government to commemorate the victory of Sir Garnet Wolseloy in Egypt. Lambing Down. —A ease of alleged “ lambing down ” came on for hearing at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon. The plaintiff, Patrick Moynahan, deposed that he was a station laborer, and had lately been employed on Rivetsdale station. He came down to town on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and put up at Mrs Harding’s hotel, in Willis street. He was accompanied by a man named George Skudder. His companion suggested that he should leave some of his money with the land'ady, and he gave her L 42, L3O being by an order on Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. He then had LsorL 6in his possession, When he left the hotel, he found it was too late to go to Murray, Roberts and Co.’s place of business, and postponed his visit until the Friday. On that day he got the order from Mrs Harding, and on presenting it found that no letter of advice had been received there. He then returned the document to the defendant, saying thatshe could give him a pound or two if ho required any money before it was honoured. She replied that ha could have anything in the house, but that she would not give him any money on it. Shortly after this he went to her and asked for the loan of LI 10s, but she refused to comply with his request. That night he slept at the Melbourne Hotel. He subsequently spoke to her on the subject, and she told him that she did not owe him a “ rap.” On the Saturday she made a similar reply, but said she would give him L 3 to clear out. On the following Wednesday he went to Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co.’s warehouse, and stopped payment of the order, aftewards proceeding to defendant’s hotel. He asked her to give up the cheque, but she declined. The whole of the L3O was still owing to him. He spent a good deal between Wednesday and Saturday, but did not throw it away. Ho did not think he had spent L 5 per diem ; he would swear ho never asked defendant to cash the order herself. The order was subsequently bashed by Mrs Harding.

Schooii Committee. The ordinary m nthly meeting of the Committee takes place this evening. The annual meeting for the election of Committee, we hear, takes place on 22nd January. Our Own “Forbes.”—Mr Archibald Forbes has a rival in Captdn W. JacksonBarry, who was advertised to make his last appear,nice at Blenheim, the subject being “ A Tour round the world ; Kings and Chiefs I have met; Cannibals 1 have seen. ” Druids. —A meeting was held last evening at the Ashburton Hotel for the purpose of taking into consideration the formation of a lodge of Druids in this district. Mr F. Kilick occupied the chair, and the district president, Mr W. Skinner, having explained the objects of the Order,the following rssolution was put and carried :—“That a branch of the Order be established in Ashburton (if petition sanctioned.”) Mr Smith was elected temporary secretary, and Mr T. Richmond treasurer.

A Strange Fashion. —The latest vagary in fashion is the wearing of bracelets on the arms and wrists of men. A Home paper says ;—“ Salvini and Rossi wear broad bands of silver, framing medals of St. George, riveted upon their upper right arms. The Archduke Rudolph wears a bracelet of chain-mail; the heavy one which Victor Emanuel wore, with a medallion of St. Hubert, is now used by his eldest son. The Prince of Wales and his next brother have also adopted the custom.” The step from this folly to wearing rings in the nose is not a very long one.

The Retort Courteous. — When two distinguished members of the “long robe ” (says the Christchurch Telegraph) happen to be connected with the same case, the Court visitors are sure to be entertained with those little legal amenities that so seldom crop up. Yesterday a witness in a case of cruelty to animals was asked by Mr Joyce whether the speed of the horse did not depend partly upon its breed. Mr Holmes remarked that he hoped the horses in Christchurch were sufficiently well bred to go eight miles an hour. We should want dookeys next. Mr Joyce : We have plenty of those in Court. We have, retorted Mr Holmes, and the little passage at arms terminated. Stack Burning. — A man named Innes was arrested at the Levels Station yesterday on a charge of wilfully setting fire to a stack of grass seed which was burnt down early on Saturday morning. Innes, it appears, had been working on Friday last and for some days previously at the station, and left there at a late hour on Friday night. Suspicion lighted on him as being the incendiary, and when yesterday morning he returned to his work. Constable Stanley was communicated with. On being arrested Innes confessed to having sat fire to the stack, and said he did so because he had been told smoke was good for liver complaint. We (Timaru Herald) are informed he had previously threatened to burn certain properties in the district.

Thb Hamilton-Priestly Case. — In the course of the Police Court examination in this case at Auckland yesterday, the Crown Prosecutor said an axe had been taken charge of by the police, and submitted to analysis by Mr Pond, the Provincial Analyst, in order to ascertain if there were atiy stains of blood on it. He had examined the supposed blood marks both with the naked eye and with a microscope, and had found there was no blood upon it, therefore the axe would have to be dismissed from the case. He might also state that the blood-stained trousers and the hat of the male prisoner had been examined by Mr Pond with a similar result. Blood was found upon the trousers, and they might be stains of the blood of a mammal, but they were surrounded by some fatty matter, as if blood and grease mixed had dropped on the garment. He thought it only fair that this matter should be stated, as a section of the press had attached great importance to the discovery of blood stains.

The Chinese in America. —The Canadians are getting very unhappy over the presence of the Chinese, who have been imported to build their railway, or to act as “ navvies,” in British parlance. The Young Men’s Christian Association are teaching them English in Toronto, but the bulk of the community is kicking very lustily against the crowds which keep arriving, and are prevented from passing into the United States. The future home of the American Chinaman is undoubtedly Boston, because that city is simply yearning to convert the Mongols. About twenty years hence Boston will probably be known as “ Sam Yup See,” or “ Wing Hong Chow.” About one hundred thousand converted Chinamen of the legitimate chicken-stealing type would form quite an addition ta the Hub ; and when they all get there and ere thoroughly converted, there will be a splendid opening for opium-dealers and dirty vegetablegrowers. Unfortunately the people in Canada are in the same predicament as ourselves. The Chinese are there, and they have to live. It is true that they have come under contracts which provide against starvation, but they break away on the first possible chance, and slide into some industry, which injures the white man. The pro-Chinese advocates claim that the coolies are more self-denying and less self-indulgent than the white man. This is not only a deliberate falsehood (says a contemporary), but it is worse—it is uttered by men whose hypocrisy makes them deservedly worthy of the contempt of their fellows. There are so-called clergymen here and in other communities who call themselves Chinese missionaries. The general public, however, thinks that making boots and shoes would be a more honest occupation than pretending to Christianise coolies.

Holloways Pills. —Nervous Debility. No part of the human machine requires more watching than the nervous system—upon it hangs health and life itself. These pills are the best regulators and strengthened of the nerves, and the safest general purifiers. Nausea, headache, giddiness, numbness, and mental apathy yield to them. They dispatch in a summary manner those distressing dyspeptic symptoms, stomachic pains, fulness at the pit of the stomach, abdominal distension, and overcome both capricious appetites and confined bowels—the commonly accompanying signs of defective or deranged nervous power. Holloway’s Pills are particularly recommended to persons of studious and sedentary habits, who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated stale, unless some such restorative be occasionally taken. —[Advt.]