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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 937, 8 May 1883, Page 2

The Auckland Education Board has resolved to pay the expenses of country members.

Up to the present time forty-one ohi 1 - dren have been boarded out from the Dunedin Industrial School. These are all under six years of age. “Captain” Ted Wright, of the Salvation Army, is about to leave Auckland for Christchurch to open one of the theatres there for services.

It is stated that an official inquiry is about to be held into the circumstances connected with the burning of the Waihengo Hotel about two months ago. Facts which have transpired are said to bo of a suspicious nature. The repairs to the Ashburton bridge are being pushed forward, and at present the men are engaged in re-planking certain portions of the decking. This prevents dray traffic passing over, and it is notified that at nights the bridge will be entirely closed until the 12tb inst. The Governor left Auckland for the Waikato yesterday, accompanied by the Hon. Thomas Bussell. He first visits Taupiri and Woodlands, the Waikato Land Association Station, then Hamilton and Te Awamutu, and possibly Cambridge. The visit will extend to Friday. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, whilst a number of men belonging to the various ships in Dunedin harbor were proceeding down the export pier, John Abbott fell overboard. The police hearing the cries proceeded to the spot, and alter some difficulty Constable Fleming rescued]Abbott, who commenced an assault on the constable, for which Abbott was fined at the Police Court yesterday morning.

The New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised of the arrival of the British King at Rio Jauiero on May 2, all well The frozen meat was in fine order. The company has chartered the Cunard steamer Catalonia, of 4,851 tons, 4,0C0 horse-power, to sail this month, following the lonic. She is 430 feet long, 43 feet beam, and was built on the Clyde in 1881. She is of great speed. The saloon accommodation of the British Queen is being rapidly taken up, several through passengers from Sydney going by her. Anumber of berths by the lonic are already taken. George W. Minter, who was charged at the last criminal session of the Supreme Court at Dunedin with embezzling funds of the New Zealand Insurance Company, his employers, and was acquitted, was brought up at the Dunedin Police Court yesterday morning on some fresh charges. It was stated by the prosecution that since his former trial Minter has been given every opportunity of explaining the irreregularities appearing in his books, but he had not attempted to do so, and the company therefore felt compelled to proceed further in the matter. The accused was committed for trial.

Writer a London correspondent:—The criminal libel action which Lord Lonsdale is bringing against Mr Yates of the World tor hinting that he had run away from his wife with the daughter of a popular peer will, people think, end rather seriously. No names were mentioned in the paragraph, but at the preliminary proceedings the Judges showed they considered that his lordship was sufficiently clearly indicated The person who sent the item to the World is a lady of title well known in society, and as Mr Yates has in a most cowardly manner given up her name, she will certainly bo called at the trial. Lord Lonsdale, it is understood, would prefer accepting an apology to the esclandre of public proceedings, but the father of the lady implicated declines every description of compromise.

Sir Arthur Gordon is not the onl> unpopular Governor. The Whitehall lleview says :—“ The year of grace 1832, will henceforth be known as a jubilee year in the British colony of Hongkong, because towards its close an announcement was issued that Sir John Pope Hennessy was to be removed from what we hold to be his misgovernment of that colony, and given an opportunity of rightly governing Mauritius. It was n->t thought likely—despite all assurance to the contrary—that Sir John Pope Hennessy would return to Hongkong to take leave of the colonists. Had he done so, he would only —such is the disfavor in which he is held out there —have had the chance of shaking hands with himself, and his henchman, Mr Tonnochy, who has “ acted ” in every official capacity in which it was possible for him to act. Whether Sir John will in future try to hand back Mauritius to the French, as he has tried to hand back Hongkong to the Chinese, remains to be seen. But it is clear that there must have been some very wicked fathers in Mauritius three or four generations ago, that their sins, by this new appointment should be visited on the children. Sir John Pope Hennessy has not been a colonial success. As a Governor he has been a failure. He was a hapless failure at Labuan, a helpless failure at Bahama, and a hopeless failure at Hongkong-

The Ashburton Debating Society held a meeting in their room in the Arcade Chambers last evening, whan the President, Mr C. Hogg, gave his opening address, which was listened to with interest, and was afterwards criticised by several of the members present. There was a good attendance, and there is reason for believing that this session of the Society will be a successful one.

The Directors of the Woollen Factory desire it to be known that as the building is now completed, money is wanted to liquidate the debt in connection with the contract. It will be necessary, therefore, that calls for shares in arrears should be paid off forthwith, as otherwise the Directors will be compelled to take legal proceedings to enforce payment. The Nelson Colonist says: —It appears that the Canterbury m’.' u erß, Ministerialists as well as those of the Opposition, are joining together on the question of the West Coast railway. A resolution in which these members concur has been passed, affirming in effect, that the vote for the extension of the Main Trunk railway to this part of the colony should be perverted from its purpose ; that the northern portien of the colony is to be left without public work# or railways to develop its resources, and that the trade of the interior of the country, and a portion of the West Coast shall be diverted to Christchurch by the construction of a line the expense of which is to be borne by those it injures equally with thoso who are to derive an advantage from its completion. Our worst predictions of an unholy alliance for objects of greed following the passing of the wretched Representation Act are likely to be verified. Might is pitted against Right, and thero is danger that it may prevail. The Government are showing a disinclination to proceed with the works in the Nelson district, and Major Atkinson has been bidding amongst the larger towns of the south, and it seems that he has been successful. At the present time Nelson is powerless to thwart the attempts to rob her of her birthright, but it is devoutly to be desired that an opportunity may arise, and that speedily, for turning the tables on her despoilers. Our Alford Forest correspondent writes, under date of Saturday :—“I hear from all sources that since 1868, no such flood as that which has just taken place has been experienced in onr district. The rain began to fall on Saturday last, at 9 a.m., and came down in torrents, without any intermission, for five days. Taylor’s stream and Boyer’s stream soon overflowed the low-lying land, causing much damage to fences and roads. For two days the weather cleared, gradually giving us hope of our having a chance of ascertaining the extent of the damage done, and of drying our clothes ; but on Friday evening the rain began again, and there is no sign at present of it clearing up. The land being so thoroughly soaked, wa can expect nothing but another heavy flood if the weather do not clear soon. The bridge which connects Springburn and Alford Forest has suffered, two or three of the piles having been damaged and their packing washed away, and all traffic over it is suspended. The trains have been stopped between Methven and Rakua, the mails having to be carried by coach. The farmers in our district are much to be pitied, as so much grain was already threshed and bagged, and on the ground ready to be carted away. The stacks not yet threshed must also have suffered much, and as for the straw, little indeed will be left of good quality for cutting into chaff. The soaking rain will no donbt make sad havoc among the root crops. It is true that most of our land having a good fall, should the rain cease it would dry quickly, but where the land is flat and there is no fall I fear the root crops will suffer much. The prospects of a plentiful harvest were so good, and our farmers looked a few months back so hopeful, that it is disheartening for them to realise the wreck of their hopes, and I fear that in many instances 12 months’ hard work will give very little return.”

Holloway’s Pills. —The sudden changes, frequent fogs, and pervading dampness sorely impede the vital functions and conduce to illhealth. The remedy for these disasters liss in some purifying medicine, like these Pills, which is competent to grapple with the mischief at its source, and stamp it out without fretting the nerves or weakening the systeml Holloway’s Pills extract from the blood al, noxious matters, regulate the action of every disordered organ, stimulate the liver and kidneys, and relax the bowels. In curing chest complaints these Pills are remarkable effective, especially when aided by friction of the Ointment on its walls. This double treatment will ensure a certain, steady, and beneficent progress, and sound health will soon be re-established. —Ad vt.