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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 849, 23 January 1883, Page 2

Licensing Committee. Although the time for closing the list is fixed for the 25‘h inst., no nominations for the local Licensing Committee have as yet been received. This is a matter of considerable importance to the district, and burgesses would do well to bestir themselves. The Peninsula Election.—The election of a member for the Peninsula took place yesterday, and resulted iu the return of Mr W. J. M. Larnach by an overwhelming majority. The numbers polled were ; —Larnach, 667 ; Donnelly, 182 ; Moran, 138. Majority for Larnach, 485.

Art Union of London. —Wo are requested to remind those of our rqjdora who desire to become subscribers to the Art Union of London, that the last day for receiving subscriptions in Ashburton is on Thursday next, the 25th inst, Mr J. M. Cambridge is the local agent, and will be glad to give all the information required.

Lecture.—The third lecture of the series to be given by Professor Fraser was listened to attentively by a fairly numerous audience at the Town Hall last evening. The subject was “ Body, Brain, and Mind,” and the lecturer treated his subject with great clearness. At the conclusion of tlie discourse, a number of phrenological examinations were made. The next lecture will be delivered tomorrow evening.

Accident. —At about seven o’clock last (■.veiling as Mr Powrie and a friend named Alexander Malcolm were driving through Ashburton the horse shied at a bicycle that was passing at the time, causing the trap to come in contact with the verandah post in front of Mr Lancaster’s butcher’s shop. Both shafts were broken, and the occupants of the vehicle were thrown out, but, beyond some severe bruises, they were fortunately not much injured.

The North Island Crops.—A telegram from Manaia says : operations are going on briskly throughout the district. The weather is favorable for jgrain, but not for grass crops. The former about Hawera and Normanby are larger than ever befo e known. Mr Caverhill, an old Canterbury settler, has about 1,000 acres of wheat, oats, and linseed. The yield of wheat will probably average 30 to 40 bushels, oats 40 to 60 throughout the district. If the weather continues dry, gaaziers will suffer severely, this long spell of drought being unprecedented on this coast.”

Prohibition Order.—At the Police o*urt this morning a prohibition order, under the provisions -of the Licensing Act, was made against John Murphy for, the districts of Ashburton, Mount Somers, Mount Hutt, and South Rakaia. Police Court. —Two men rrere brought up this morning, before Messrs R. Alcorn and T. Bullock, d.P.’a, charged with drunkenness. Thomas Brogden was fined 10s, with the alternative of 24 hoars’ imprisonment, and John Murphy was discharged on the payment of 9s, as expenses incurred for his detention. James Riding was again brought up on the cfurge of a ealing a dog, and was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.

Salk of Otago Runs. —On the 27th February the leases of sixty runs in Otago, comprising nearly a million and a half acres, will be offered for sal 3 in Dunedin. The runs vary in area from 300 acres to 71.740 acres, the upset rentals from under to 5d per acre, and the tenure from five to twenty-one years. About 80,000 acres of land will also be offered for sale in blocks of 500 to 5,000 acres on “ pastoral deferred payments,” the upset price being LI per acre.

Diamonds in Auckland.—ln connection with the alleged discovery of diamonds in Auckland, it is stated that Courtney, a returned diamond miller from South Africa, has had an interview with Douglas, and examined a number of specimens in his possession. Courtney says some of the specimens are diamonds of fair quality, though small, but the gre iter number of the white stones he pronounces to be white carbon in the process of formation into diamonds. He urges Douglas to try and arrange matters with the owner of the land, and raise a prospecting party to test the district, and otfers to j in it.

The Resident Magistrate.—The following letter has been written to the Town Clerk for presentation to the Borough Council, but owing to a misconception on the part of Mr B addell it was not read at last night’s meeting :—“ 10th January, 1883. Dear Sir, —In reuly to yours of yesterday, I desire to say that whilst I recognise the necessity for the attendance of a Resident Magistrate at the Ashburton Court more frequently than has been the case since Mr Wood was removed, yet I am not aware of the grounds upon which the Borough Council demand that a stipendiary magistrate shall reside in Ashburton or its suburbs. I shall therefore feel obliged if you will furnish me with copies of the letters and petitions which the Borough Council have forwarded to the Minister of Justice upon this subject, and if the reasons given in support of the claim appear sufficiently cogent, I shall have much pleasure in endorsing the Council’s application.—l am, Sir, yours faithfully, Edward G. Wright. —Charles Braddell, Esq., Town Clerk, A-hburton. ” Holloway's Pills are strongly recommended to all persons who are much reduced in power and condition, whose stomachs are weak, and whose nerves are shattered. The beneficial effects of these Pills will be perceptible after a few days’ trial, though a more extended course may be required to re-establish perfect health. Holloway's medicine acts on the organs of digestion, and induces complete regularity in the stomach, liver, pancreas, and kidneys. This treatment is both safe and certain in result, and is thoroughly consistent with observation, experience, and common sense. The purification of the blood, the removal of all noxious matter from the secretions, and the excitement of gentle action in the bowels, are the sources of the curative powers of Hollo way’s Pills.