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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 953, 26 May 1883, Page 2

It is suggested that a testimonial should be got up to Sir G. M. O’Rorke, in recognition of his services in obtaining a University for Auckland. The chess tournament, in Dunedin, by living figures dressed in character, was a great success, the hall being crowded, and the whole imposing spectacle passed off with a hitch. It is understood an action will be immediately commenced in the Supreme Court to compel the Otago Land Board to issue the licenses in the recent sale of deferred payment land at Straih-Taieri. The Building Committee of the St. Stephen’s Sunday school have resolved to call for tenders as speedily as possible for the erection of a suitable building on the Church reserve. Alternate tenders for wood and brick will be invited.

The Governor and party leave Auckland to-day, per Hinemoa, for Gisborne and Napier, en route for Wellington. The whole of the Volunteer force has been ordered to parade as a guard of honor.

Charles Adams, arrested on Thursday on a charge of larceny, escaped from the Auckland lock-up early yesterday morning. He climbed up the closet roof, thence to the roof of the buildings, and dropped into the street. There are four charges against him. A deputation interviewed the West Coast Railway Commissicn at Christchurch yesterday, and gave the approximate annual consumption of coal and timber in Canterbury, from data furnished by the Collector of Customs. The timber was shown to be 20,355,800 f t; laths and shingles, 327,800 ; and sleepers, 42,804 ; besides seven cargoes from Tasmania, particulars of which, were not supplied ; coal, 90,000 tons. Subscriptions towards the piaiuforte for the Old Men’s Home are slowly coming in, Ll 5 10s 9d is the amount at present in hand or promised. This sum is composed as follows : —Collected by Mr Harris, L 5 10s 9d ; Mr George Gould, L 5 ; Mrs Charles Clark, LI; Mr Joseph Clark, LI; Mr Samuel Barker, LI; Hon. J. B. A. Acland, LI; and Dr Trevor, LI. About Ll 7 more is required to purchase an instrument which Messrs Friedlander Bros, have very generously offered to supply at cost price.

The football match between the Inver cargill team and the Dunedin Football Club came on Thursday at Dunedin on a very sloppy ground. At the start the Dunedin team were the favorites, but before many minutes’ play were over it became evident the teams were very evenly matched. Spills were very frequent, and afforded amusement to onlookers. In the first spell the Dunedin secured a couple of marks, but Taiaroa failed to kick a goal on either occasion. After the last try, by very smart work Invercargill worked the leather down to their opponent’s goal. Before Dunedin had realised the position they had secured a touch, but no goal was kicked. In the second spell Dunedin made determined efforts to win, but every inch of ground was contested. Just before time was called Dunedin secured a touch-down, but no goal was kicked, and the match ended in a tie.

A meeting of the Ashburton Coursing Club was held last evening at the Somerset Hotel, when there was a large attendance of members. The stakes in the Birthday meeting were paid over to the owners of the winning dogs, and all other accounts iu connection with that event were settled. It was resolved that the last coursing meeting of the season should bo held on July 11, and that it should be open to dogs from all districts, the entrance fee for the all-aged being fixed at L2 2s, and for the puppies at LI Is. A cordial vote of thanks was passed to the Hon. John McLean and Mr Donald McLean, for the permission so kindly given to the Club to course on the Lagmhoijestate. It was also decided to request Mr Chatteris to act as judge at the next meeting. 'the Club is in a very good financial position, having a balance to their credit of over Ll2, after paying off all outstanding liabilities. ■ In a tent erected opposite the railway station, Mr John Dewe gave an exhibition of his powers as a horse-tamer last evening. There was a limited attendance, probably owing to the want of publicity given to the announcement of the visit. Mr Dewe gave a long account of his system of horse-taming, which he said was characterised by kindness and persuasion, no methods which could be considered cruel being resorted to. The animal operated on last evening was not an unbroken colt, but Mr Dewe assured those present that it was none the less difficult to handle. He then proceeded to place straps round the fore legs of the horse, which quietly submitted to the operation, and after a struggle it lay down. The experiment was interesting enough, but the audience was evidently of opinion that it did not prove much, as the horse was already broken in. Mr Dewe, however, announced that he would this afternoon try hia system upon a colt that had never been handled previously, and he assured the people assembled that he would be successful in taming the animal in a very short space of time. Some of the Westmeath’s immigrants left Auckland for the Thames on Thursday. They complain very bitterly of the imposition they were in a number of into before leaving England. They complain that a regular system of blackmail levying was practised on them while waiting in the Barra ks at Plymouth, They state they were not allowed to leave the depot in that port upon any consideration, a truck shop being set up inside, at which they are bound to purchase such things as only j were necessary before going from the vessel. Another fraud Which they are indignant concerning consisted in some officious individual overhauling all their packages, and insisting that the passengers could not be allowed to take with them for the voyage anything in the shape of extras, which they had provided to supplement what the ship allowed them. These plpcials declared it was against all rule to allow these comforts to go on board, and in consequence many of the passengers were deprived (robbed, they s?y) of many little matters which, while not very" valuable jh tfreipselyes, would have been deemed a treat during their long voyage ; the things were loft, perforce, behind at Plymouth, and b .camo the property of the harpies who prey upon inexperienced immigrant*.

gr ' f J Among the list of ' gentlemen awarded ,tjie hqgora which are customarily distrifou ed on the Queen’s Birthday, the name of Professor von Haast occurs. That gentleman will now be privileged to write the letters O.M.G. after his name

It is notified in a Gazette published last night that his Excellency the Governor has summoned the Hon. Jas. C. Richmond, of Nelson, and John Willis Barnicoat, Esq., of Nelson, to the Legislative Council or New Zealand. Another candidate for the Bruce seat has come forward, Mr John McNeil, Mayor of West Harbor, being mentioned as likely to stand. He contested Dunedin Central at the /last election. Mr Horace Bastings was requested to stand, but declined.

A meeting of Thompson, Strang and Company’s (of Dunedin) err 1 ; L ora was held yesterday morning. The liabilities are L 12,161, of which L 1,601 are due to

Home firms. The assets are estimated at L 14,703. It was agreed to assign the estate to Mr Young, of Messrs Sargood’s, and Mt Strathan, of Messrs Butter worth Bros.

A young man named James Hagan, who

was out shooting at the Upper Suit on Tuesday, in company with another youth, is missing. He separated from his friend in search of pigeons, and has not since been seen. .Search parties are still out. The youth who went with Hagan into the bush declined to accompany either party, and some comment has been excited in the township by his action. Hagan, who is about sixteen years of age, is a good woodsman, and hardly likely to starve to death in the bush, almost every foot of which he is well acquainted with. A presentation was made to Mr Wheeler on the 18th inst by the Willowby singing class, over which he presides. It consisted of a very handsome family Bible, a metronome, and b&ton for use in the class. As his instructions last year were given gratis it was only reasonable that some sign of appreciation of his efficient services should be forthcoming. The testimonial was handed over by Mr Chapman, accompanied by appropriate remarks, and Mr Wheeler suitably replied. The class commenced the season’s practice on Wednesday evening last. There was a marked falling off in the attendance at the Town Hall last night, when the Little Treasure Company gave their second performance. The items of the previous night were repeated, both the comedy and the farce being appreciated. The local topical song specially hit the fancy of the audience, and the interpolated ditty in the second act was loudly re-demanded. To night there will be a complete change of programme, Miss Amy Horton appearing in a round of her

famous impersonations, and Messrs Crook and Horrace contributing special items, the whole to conclude with a farce. The entertainment promises to be an excellent one, and we expect to see a crowded house.

The private residence of Dr Lemon, Superintendent of Telegraphs at Wellington, was successfully illuminated with electric light on Thursday night, this being the first private house in the colony into which this light has been introduced. The apparatus used consists of Siemens’s shunt dynam >, which will run twenty-five lights each light 20-candle power, and will accommodate itself to every lamp which is cut out or inserted. Swann’s incandescent lamp is the one employed in the present instance. The plant has been specially imported by Dr Lemon at a coat of a little over L2OO, and, with the exception of regulating the engine (one-horse power) indicated, the whole has been fitted uo by Dr Lemon himself. It is believed that thj I'ght will be found quite as cheap as gas. Dr Lemon considers that the Siemens’ dynamo machine is the most powerful generator in the market. A gas engine is employed to drive the machinery.

At a meeting of the Auckland Board of Education, tho Chairman said the Grafton School Committee now reported on the charges brought against Mr Talbot, of this school, and forwarded evidence. The report had a tendency to exonerate Mr Talbot. He thought the best thing they could do would be to refer the evidence to a Committee of the Board to report upon. Mr Goldie thought the Board should make the charges public, i t might be thought these charges were of immorality, whereas they were not. The Chairman said there were other matters in the report besides Mr Kennedy’s charge, and whether they were against him or not, the preliminary consideration of the evidence should be by a Committee of the Board. Mr Dargaville objected to these charges being allowed to hang over Mr Talbot’s head. He could ay the evidence entirely disproved the main charge by Mr Kennedy. The motion for the appointment of a Committee was agreed tc. Mr Dargaville was proposed to act, but he declined, on the grounds that ho had very strong convictions that Mr Talbot was being persecuted. Mr Moss said he had a strong conviction that Mr Talbot was being persecuted. Messrs Luke, Hibbs, McKenzie, Goldie, and the Chairman were appointed a Commute. Some discussion then took place on the master for the Grafton school. The matter was deferred till after the report of the Committee on Mr Talbot's case was received. Mr Moss drew attention to the important influence that had been exercised on the last election by a wideawake and powerful Society. Mr Goldie said this was the first year the Orange Society had taken action > egarding the election, hut the Grafton election was not influenced by the Society. All the members at present on the Committee had been there for three, two, or one year, and the last was a recent arrival there. The Chairman of the Ashburton Cheese and Butter Factory has received the following communication from the Colonial Treasurer, in answer to a deputation, which waited on Major Atkinson when he was here ;—“ >ir, —Referring to ths address which I had the honor to receive from the Ashburton Cheese and Butter Factory Company, Limited, upon my re-

cent visit to tha factory, in which certain representations were made of the hardships the Company suffers from the nature of the conditions imposed upon competitors for the bonus offered by the Govern-

ment for the production of cheese and butter on a large scale, I have the honor to inform you that since my return to Wellington I have brought the subject under the consideration of toy colleagues, and the conclusion arrived at by the Government is, that sale of the products in question in local markets is not the object the Government had in. view in offering the bonus, as there are numbers of farmers who have generally kept the market supplied without any bonus whatever, Tre object aimed at is the creation of an export trade in articles which could be made here to a much larger extent than would be required for local consumption. IVJoreover, if the manufacture of the articles under the American system without the condition of export were all that is wanted, the New Zealand and Australian' Land Company is already in advance of the Ashburton Cheese and Butter Factory Company, having, in December, 1881, made a claim for the bonus, but withdrew it partly because of the condition of sale in a foreign market; stating, however, that their claim was withdrawn only in respect of the bonus then offered and not for that now advertised. From these remarks you will gather that the Government do hot, I regret to say, think it desirable to make any alterations in the terms upon which the bonus is offered in the direction desired by your Company.— I have the honor to be, etc., D. A, Atkinson.”

So as t«o as pduible to get rid of tuna small bir<Ja mrosanoe, the County Council has rsso ved : to distribute poisoned grain to suoo.farmers as require it, instead of selling ib-'ap was at first intended. A notificaticmjto that effect will be found in another column. •

Encouraging reports continue t) be received 'ht Gisborne from the South Pacific Petroleum Company’s works. The Poverty Bay jSenzfd .protests against the Christchurch shareholders prohibiting the Southern Cross Cornea- y’a manager .from furnishing information to the local press for the information "of local shareholders. A curious story is told by'the Melbourne correspondent of theHawke’s Bay Herald. A boy, aged ten, became desperately enamoured of a 1 ull grown burlesque actress in that city, and, to prove his devotion, he stole a valuable locket and chain, and waited at the stage door to present it to the object of his adoration. Before accepting the gift, the lady’s curiosity prompted her to inquire who had sent it, and the gushing declaration which followed must have astonished her. The Bench ordered the boy to be severely flogged by his father. Writing of the recent election on the West Coast, the Inangahua Times remarks :—The figures at the last election were—Weston, 739 ; Reeves, . 516; McLean, 59 —making a total of 1,314 The total number of votes polled on this occasion was larger than was expected, and gives a good index to the interest felt in the contest. It will be seen that Mr Wakefield obtained majorities at five out of the eight polling places in the Grey Valley, the total votes in that portion of the electorate being—Wakefield, 415 ; Shaw, 343. It is also worthy of cote, as accounting in a great way for the disparity in the voting at Orwell Creek and Little Grey, that Mr Wakefield did not visit the latter place at all, owing to preaauie of time, and was only in Orwell Creek twice, and then at night time, and therefore had no opportunity of meeting the electors privately. A considerable number of the members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives^and leading mercantile men, in response to-the ‘Mayor’s invitation, met at Wellington yesterday, to consider the action of the Canterbury Railway League in seeking to divert the money voted for the extension northward of the Middle Island Trunk Railway to s line to the West Coast. The Mayor quoted at length from, the proceedings of the League, and /the': meeting was addressed at length by Mr Travers and Sir W’ Pitzherbert. The latter insisted that any diversion of the ifaoney allocated for ihe extension of the Main Trunk Railway would be a scandalous breach of.public faith. It was bn-the- strength’of-a’tlunk line from Invercargill to the Bay of Islands that the public works scheme, and its debt of twenty-two millions 1 were accepted by the people of the colony, and no deviation frpm this should permitted, On the motion of his 1 Worship the Mayor, seconded by the Hon. John Martin, the following, resolution unanimously agreed to: “That* any diversion of the funds allocated to the construction of the Middle Island Main Trunk line would be improper, and at variance with the general scheme of public work ’’ On the motion of Mr Duthie, seconded by Mr N. Reid, it was resolved to send copies _of the resolution to each member of the* Legislature j»nd 'Government.

The Sydney Morning Herald, in an article referring to the singular outburst of violent crime which has been witnessed in Australasia recently, says “We can sum up a list of crimes committed within the last month such as have seldom in modern times shocked, and injured, and insulted humanity. We have seen cases of cruel murder followed by determined suicide, of rash murder co'umittfed • by’ a girl—we have teen schoolboys plotting to wreck trains and destroy many human lives ; youths shooting men jdpwnbeV cause ‘ they were alive,’ dr because it was better fun than rabbit shooting ; also a father mutilating his son with a square of cedar board; and we h’Sve heard of the larrikin element—insolent, obscene, offensive, and in - maqy cases .practically triumphant. ' The law,” it' proceeds, “ may do its best, and should and must do its best; but there is touch to be done which is as far beyond any legislation as is religious conviction or sceptical denial. Certain it is that we have not looked.tp,

our schools enough. We have not recognised that we must teach morality as we teach aritmetic ; that the child and the man is one-side i and eccentric Without it ; as likely to break off at a tangent, and with much annpyance and destruction to others accomplish ,its own ruin, as to move with regularity upon the broad social plane,: rising or progressing by legitimate paces in equitable ways. The State must look to its schools in the matter ; and, taught by many terrible ’ examples, surely the people might be expected to look to their homes,” We learn from our WillOwby correspondent that there was a large gathering of the children and their friends on the 18th inst., the occasion'Jhsing the , distribution of prizes ani the ' school treat. A large number of prizes were distributed to the winners in various genres and races which were indulged'in.' The tea, provided by Mesdames Dalton, Gray, Grice, Hayman, Hawkins, Heasley, Horsey, hfanson, McKenzie, Smithies, and Low, was an excellent one. On returning to the schoolroom, after a ranpible in the moonlight, an entertainment was given. The chair was taken by Mr S. S. Chapman. The singing class of the district, under the guidance of Mr Wheeler, its leader, gave some selections, and recitations also occupied a very conspicuous place, there being a keen competition for two prizes kindly given by Mr 0. Martin, of Winslow. Messrs Harding (of FJeraington), and Mr Aitken, junr., acted as judges, and confessed themselves very much gratified by the excellent way the pieces were recited. It was somewhat difficult to award the prizes, which were, however, carried off by Sarah A. Hayman and Elsie Low. There were standard, good conduct, best attendance, and great progress prizes; also prizes for needle work. They were awarded as follows :—Moses Hawkins, 1 ; Emily Hayman, 2—in Standard V. Frank Ha wkins, 1; Alice Hawkins, 2—in IV. Rhoda Osborne, 1; Mary Smith, 2; Margaret Low, 3; Harry Hayman and William Grice, equal for 4 —in 111. Thomas Hayman, 1; Annie Williams, 2 ; Isabel Martin, 3 ; Elsie Low, 4—in 11. Frank Grey, 1 ; Sarah Parish, 2 , Charles Beach, 3—in I. Betsy Grice and George Grice, best attendance. Sarah A. Hayman and Moses Hawkius, best conduct. The sewing prizes were distributed to the following ; —Standard V—S. Low, 1 ; S. Hayman. 2. Standard IV.—A. Hawkins, 1. Standard lII.—R. Osborne, 1 ; Mary Smith, 2. Standard ll.—Ada Smithies, 1 ; Anna Wilson, 2 ; Isabel Martin, 3. Standard I. hate Smithie l , 1 ; A. Heasley, 2. The Inspector’s report was read, and iu it he stated that “ the results showed the same careful instruction as in former years.” Votes of thanks to all concerned terminated the proceedings. Holloway’s Ointment ancf. Pills combine both sanitive and sanative powers in a {high degree—by the former term is understood their ability to preserve health, by the latter their capability to restore health. With these remedies at h«nd no invalid need be at fault to guide himself or herself safely through the many trials to which everyone is subjected during our long and ofttimes inclement winters. Coughs, colds, ulcerated throats, diptheria, whooping cough, can be successfully treated by well rubbing this Ointment upon the chest, and by taking the Pills. During damp foggy weatherasthmaticalsufter'efs will experience the utmost possible relief frqtn the inunction of the ointment on all tenderchested persons will save endless misery by adopting this treatment. —[Advt.]