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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 918, 16 April 1883, Page 2

A farm in North Taiari has changed hands at the long price of L 33 10s per acre.

Mr Laishley, the new Chairman of the Auckland Board of Education, has announced as his new platform that the Board and the School Committees shall rule, and not the Board officials. The company formed to work the tailings in the celebrated Gabriel’s Gully, Tuapeka, where Gabriel Reid first discovered gold iu 1861, is doing well. Its returns for the last fortnight was 70oz. The following are the tenders for the Hillsborough station contract, on the Christchurch and Lyttelton branch :—Accepted—W. Swanson, Christchurch, L 712. Declined—P; Hyndmarch, Christchurch, L 764;; Greig and Hunter, Christchurch, LBOI ; F. Greig, L 1,094 ; T. Anderson, Christchurch, L 1,450.

The yacht Diamond, while sailing down the Wellington harbor on Saturday afternoon, was struck by a sudden squall and capsized. Those on board were Messrs Simpson and Bishop, and also a lad aged ten, the son of Mr Harris, proprietor of the New Zealand Times. . All three were rescued, though young Harris, who was kept afloat by Mr Simpson, was insensible when taken on board a boat that put off to their assistance. After careful treatment, however, he came to, and is now quite well.

The inquest on the Dane named Henrich Longford, who shot himself on Wednesday, was held on Saturday. The wife, after giving details of the occurrence, said she had been having some words with her husband about a young woman whom he kept company and corresponded with, and she supposed he was troubled iu his mind in consequence. She blamed the woman for the trouble, for ho was a very quiet man. The night deceased shot himself witness accused him of writing to this woman, and told him if he did not atop corresponding with her she (witness) would leave him. He promised not to write to her any more. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased com.mitted suicide while in a state of temporary nsanity. The total eclipse of the sun on the 6th May will last six minutes, and a longer one will probably not occur within the next 100 years. It will be partially visible in many places, but few will see it in its entirety, as its path lies almost entirely through the ocean, touching land nowhere but at a little island in the South Pacific called Caroline Island, which is out of the track of any established commerce or travel. The French Government has determined to send an expedition to that island ; it is almost certain an American party will go thither, and it is more than probable that a grand international gathering of astronomers will take place at Caroline Island to take part in this scientific quest. In the course of a speech delivered in Auckland on the occasion of a trip round the harbor on Friday, His Excellency the Governor said that he had often heard of the harbor of Auckland, i f s splendid position and its magnificent capabilities, and he had also in like manner heard of the beautiful scenery about Auckland, and it was no figure of speech to say that the reality was far beyond anything he anticipated. He considered that Auckland was one of the finest ha bora in the world. He also noticed with approval the foresight shown in the plan of the dock, which was capable of as much extension as may be desired. He was likewise glad to see so many industries set aflo it in this harbor. He instance! the Sugar Refining Company established there and the Meat Freezing Company which was about to commence operations. Seeing the position that Auckland occupied in respect to Australia and the rest of New Zealand, taking these facts in conjunction with its splendid harbor, and looking at its position in relation to the South' Sea Jslands, and also the admirable position which makes it so advantage mi as a naval station, His Excellency considered it to be impossible—and posterity will be able to judge whether he was exaggerating or not —to foretell how high would be the ultimate destiny of the splendid harbor and city of Auckland. The whole party proceeded to visit Mount Victoria (the signal station). Most minutely did his Excellency enquire into the bearings and nam '8 of all the different headlands and islands that lay stretched out before him to seaward, making frequent reference to charts to assist him in his enquiries, and after making himself master of the position, he said that the North Head could be made into a very strong point of defence against any hostile movement against Auckland from tne se»wsrcl ; but in his mind, Mount Victoria was the strategical position of the greatest value. " ,

Theis*aieri racep.had'tto be postponed, on Saturday, owing to the bad weather. , Mr 1 J. Tait writies to us, aa follows : “ Permit me to correct 'a wrong report, which appears in your issue of the 13th, regarding the issue of the Poppy Stakes on Thursday My dog ( Mai den Ci y) Was not scratched, as you state, but divided the stakes with Eundoora and Kiss me Quick. ”

A telegram from Victoria, British Columbia, which appears in a San Francisco paper, states that the workmen are getting out T timbers for the construction of an floating cannery and fish oil refinery.' ft will be 140 feet long, with 32 feet beam, and depth of hold eight feet amidships and nine feet forward and aft. Powerful machinery to propel the raft and capacious tanks and retorts for use in refining the oil and cooking the fish are already built. The vessel was to be launched and ready for action by April, and to haake her first foray among,the oolachams on the northwest coast. These fish are rich in oil, and make excellent guano. After the oolachams, the lordly salmon intere-ta in the vicinity of the Waost and Skeena rivers will be attended to. Later in the season the establishment will be moved to the mouth of the Fraser river.

At the last meeting of the Nelson Board of Education the Inspector reported on his visit to the board’s school at Karamea as follows : On visiting the schoolroom I found the door locked, the children being taught in the master’s house. A member of the School Committee consented to unlock the school door, on the condition that he should retain the key, to which I agreed, preferring this course to breaking open the door, the only alternative open to me. I then examined the 21 children present, the result being in every respect satisfactory. On my return from a visit to the Promised Land, after the examination of the Karamea school was over, I found the school door again locked, it being apparently the intention of the School Committee to exclude the scholars so long as the Board retain in office the present master, with .whom, ;theiy difference jKehtaj to jbo irreconcileable. " The Board ren! solved t j remove the master from this particular school. The “ Promised Land ” referred to is.the name of an adjoining district, of a most unpromising nature.

We (Thames Advertiser) have seen a letter addressed’ Mr v iAs:thur Mills, M.P., London, to a relative of his residing here, from which the following is an extract am : much ;to lyou for sending mo the newspaper. I had already received several copies of other papers giving Sheehan’s letters."and comments thereon. I need hardly say that all his personalities are beneath my notice, and all'the ‘ facta ’ are lies; f ( hbver travelled anywhere at his expense, and never partook of even a bit of bread of his providing. The ! billy dccakidn on which I had the misfortune to travel with him waa.in a public conveyance, paying my owii fare, from Ohiriemutu to a Vangi at Te Ngae, and there saw him making some seven or eight Maori women drunk with whisky. They were dancing round him, and he was talking"to them in Maori. Afterwards, on our return home, ha packed the inside of the coach with Maori girls, with whom he seemed to be on very familiar terms. J was myself on the box, and, fortunately for me, saw nothing of the man afterwards.” It must have the heart o

that genial smiling knight of the hammer, Mr S. D. Nathan, to see such a number of people at his opening sale of C. R. Church’s drapery stock last Saturday. He commenced by depreoat.ng the unchristian like motives which had actuated some interested persons in the place—as he had heard a rumor to the effect that- the ' sale was a reserved one. He could assure them it was nothing of the sort, as he had positive instructions to sell at;' apy price, and at once proceeded to put this to the test. It would have brought tears to the eye a of the manufacturers, had they seen how the slaughtered article after ' article without the slightest compunction. The sale will be continuedr in Havelock street all this' w ek at auction prices, anct on Saturday next Mr Nathan will again sell by auction entirely, without reserve, as Mr G. R. OfIURCa is determined to take nothing back to Christchurch.— [Advt.] “ Stop, ” gentle reader, and look out, not for : the engine, but for the best and cheapest Furniture Warehouse in this town. Do you want “ a table or a chair,” “ both warranted to wear,” then only buy within your reach, by patronising Mister Meech. Drawing room suites in repp and cretonne, fancy chairs, sofas, and tables, carpets, Venetian blinds, general household furnishings at extremely moderate prices, Fashionable and extremely comfortable Armchairs (the Grandmother’s included) made tp order and in stock. Meech’s Furniture Warehouse, Burnett street, Ashburton. — [Advt.]' : •*••• - Holloway’s Pills. —The chiefest wonder of modem times.—This incon)parabl$ f njedicine increases the appetite, Strengthens the’stbinach, cleanses the liver, corrects biliousness, prevents flatulency, purifes the system, invigorates the nerves, and re-instatessound-health. The enormous demand for th'ese Pills throughout the globe astonishes everybody, and a single trial convinces the most sceptical that no medicine equals Holloway’s Pills in its ability to remove all complaints incidental to the human race They are a blessing to the afflicted, and a boon to all that labour under internal or external disease. The purification of the blood, removal of all restraint from the secretive organs, and gentle aperitive action.arp the prolific sources of the extensive curative range of Hollo.way’s Pills. [Advt.]