The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1883.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 931, 1 May 1883, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1883.

The Ashburton High School broke up for its first vacation to-day. Mr J. L. McDonald, storekeeper, one of forty six applicants, has secured the appointment of Secretary to the Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association. The miners at Walton Park Colliery, who are on strike, assert that the best workmen can make only 9s or 10s per day cf twelve hours.

Charles Sullivan, who was sentenced recently, at Invercargill, to twelve years and two floggings for rape, has received the first instalment of the latter part of his punishment. It was inflicted by a person who was imported for the purpose, and was acutely felt by the prisoner. The following are the weights for the Grand National Handicap at the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase Meeting :—Clarence, 13st; Canard, 12st 61b ; Quamby, list 81b ; Bateman (late Katerfelto), lOst 111 b ; Overdraft, lOst 51b ; Kosciusko, lOst; Barbary, lOst. Sir W. Jervois has expressed an opinion that the Waitemata-Manukau Canal, to cut the Auckland isthmus is not a work of pressing necessity, or essential to the prosperity of the city. His Excellency has visited Whau and Tamaki Creeks, at the points where they approach the Manukas Harbor, but has not come to any determination as to which would be the best route for the canal. He does not see that the construction of the canal will bo of sufficient importance at present as to warrant a large sum being spent on the work.

Our Chertaey correspondent writes : “ Cannot the Ashburton bakers who supply our local storekeeper here with bread send a more presentable sample of the staff of life than they have been forwarding for a considerable ,time.’ During the press of the harvest time—when there was necessarily a greater demand—the quality of the bread was, as a rule, simply execrable through station dampness. Since then, there has been very little improvement. Bakers will find it a suicidal policy to send bread to the ‘ kintra bodies’ of Chertaey that would be rejected by the citizens of Ashburton ; we pay an extreme price for the bread, and we have a right to expect a much more satisfactory article.’’

The doings of the Salvation Army came prominently under the notice of the Bench in respect to two cases heard at the Dunedin City Court yesterday. In one instance two men were arrested and punished for intending' to disturb the proceedings at the Temperance Hall, on Sunday afternoon. The other case was that of a subject who had been converted and got drunk directly after the service was completed. Holloways Pills.—Nervous Debility.— No part of the human machine requires more w-tching than the nervous system—upon it hangs health and life itself. These pills arthe best regulators and strengtheners of the nerves, and the safest general purifiers, Naue sea, 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 •f the stomach, abdominal distension, and overcome both capricious appetites and confined bowels—the commonly accompanying signs «f 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 state, unless seme such restorative be occasionally taken.—[Advt.]