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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 960, 4 June 1883, Page 2

The cable is interrupted on the Turkish route beyond Busreh. The Debating Society will hold their usual meeting this evening, when land nationalisation will -form the subject of discussion.

On Saturday night a four-roomed cottage in the lane Off St Albans lane, Papan ui, was burned. It was insured for LIOO in the London and Liverpool and Globe, and the furniture for L6O in the same office.

At a large and influential meeting, of stockowners and others held in Christchurch on Saturday, it .was resolved to establish another Refrigerating Company, to be called the Interprovincial Freezing and Storage Company of New Zealand. A limited provisionary directory was appointed. The Licensing Committee »f the Borough held their annual meeting to-day, and as not a single objection was laid by the police the whole of the licenses applied for were granted. The Committee, however, refused to extend the time for public houses to be allowed to keep open to eleven o’clock.

The Town Hall will be occupied this evening by Rainer’s well-known panorama of the American War. Considering the success which has attended this entertainment throughout the present tour af New Zealand, there should be a good attendance to-night, as the season is a short one. A special attraction will be a grand dist -ibution of valuable gifts. There was a very good attendance on Saturday at the exhibitions of horse taming given by Mr John Dewe, especially in the evening. Mr Dewe explained his method of repdering the horse submissive to his will, and illustrated his theory successfully upon two unbroken colts belonging to Mr Horaersham. The audience appeared to be perfectly satisfied with the entertainment.

The Auckland publicans charged with a breach of the Adulteration of Food Prevention Act by mixing brandy and spirits with water, got off, the informations being dismissed. The Magistrate held that the English Act fixed the limit at 25 degrees under proof for brandy, whiskey, and rum. The reduction in the present cases being only 22.9 degrees, no fraudulent intent had been disclosed. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received the following telegram from its London Office, dated 31st May, 1883 “ Frozen meat, per British King—The consignment of frozen mutton, per British King, has arrived in fairly good condition, but some carcases are a little doubtful, and sixty have proved to be bad. A portion has already been sold ac an average of 6£d per lb for mutton, and 8d per lb for lamb.” A fresh, and to England in particular, a somewhat startling proof of the commercial enterprise of Belgium is furnished by the gigantic scale upon which the Antwerp Docks are being reconstructed. Since 1830 forty-nine millions of francs have been spent in improving these docks, and now the Belgian Government has sanctioned a further grant of two and a quarter million pounds for their enlargement into what will bo practically a new port of enormous extent. The quay is to bo two miles long and about 400 leet wide, while the waterway will be 1,150 feet wide, with a uniform depth of 28 feet. The line of quays is to be covered with granaries and warehouses, and it is estimated that space will be afforded for the berthing of 50 Atlantic steamers at once. The increase in the trade of Antwerp, which has been four times as rapid during the past forty years as that of Liverpool, fully justifies this immense outlay in developing its resources. The Duke of Wellington once said that whoever held the port of Antwerp “ held a pistol at the head of England,’’ and Napoleon concurred so completely in this opinion that it was he who took the first step to extend its shipping accommodation. The opening of the St. Gothard Railway places Belgium in an extremely favorable position with regard to traffic from the East for England and America, and, even as it is, Antwerp has interfered to a very large extent with Liverpool in Atlantic carrying trade. There can be no question that the completion of the new works will still more seriously affect the prosperity .of the great Lancashire seaport.

Harrington, of Riverton, not having Implied to Hearn’s previous terms, Bearn now offers to row him three and a half miles in Wellington Harbor for LIOO a aide, and to allow L2i for expenses. An application to the Appeal Court by Mr F. Shaw to have the name of Mr W. S. Staite, formerly of Palmerston North, restored to the Rell of Barristers and Solicitors, was opposed by Mr Chapman on behalf of the Law Society, and was refused.

The Albion Company’s battery at Terawhiti being now nearly ready, while the tramway for conveying the stone from the mine will take several weeks to complete, the Company has undertaken to crush 200 tons of stone from the Golden Crown Company’s claim as soon as ever the battery is in working order. One of the awkward results of Oostley’s bequest (says the Auckland correspondent of the Otago Times) has been to partially dry up the strovm of local benevolence. It is believed that it will take a twelvemonth to wind up his estate, and in the meantime some of the institutions benefitted find a difficulty in keeping a running order, as subscribers fail to see why they should continue their subscriptions in the face of the magnificent bequests coming to such places. The Costley bequest will be somewhat different from most of such trusts, if - it is efficiently, judiciously, and economically administered. Already a proposal has bean thrown out in some papers, without rebuke or dissent, that action should be taken in the General Assembly during the ensuing session to divert the bequest to the Industrial School, Kohimarama, from that institution to the Girls’ High School. In other words, that the destitute and neglected children be defrauded of that which has been left for them, in order that the daughters of the “upper ten” should be practically “dead-headed” at that aristocratic institution. These are the straws which show how the wind blows; and Costley’s bequest will be a public misfortune rather than a gain, if it enly closes the purses of others and intensifies a spirit of meanness rather than stimulate public liberality and public spirit.

The Daily News says :—“ The interesting question for the moment is not the problematical trial of strength between Liberal and Conservative, but the actual quarrel between Conservative and Conservative. We might suggest in the capacity of unconcerned looker on, just as friendly or otherwise to Lord Salisbury’s claims as to those of Sir Stafford Northcote, that the attempt to elect a supreme leader of a great party is not likely to be very successful unless the leader has already virtually elected himself. Herein we fancy is the great difficulty of the Conservatives. No one can deny that the leadership of the Opposition at present is in a condition of uncer-. tainty and decrepitude. Sir Stafford Northcote is not in good health, and in any case has not enough of the fighting quality in him to make an ideal leader of Opposition. To be a political leader' a man must, above all things, be interesting. He must attract followers to him; he must make them believe in his nerve, his resource, his purpose, his energy. We do not see how the condition of things ivould be made much the better by nominating' Lord Salisbury to the absolute leadership of the Oonser-> vative party. Whatever his warrior gifts he cannot display them on the real field of battle. The constitutional struggle must always be fought out in the House of Commons, and we do not see that under present conditions—for Lord Bandolp Churchill does not yet suggest that the time has come to look for a leader from below 1 the gangway—the Conservatives can get anyone better than Sir Stafford Northcote.”

All your own fault if you remain sick or out of health, when you can get Hop Bitters. Read. —[Advt.] Parents do not use vile drugs or nostrums in your families, but use pure Hop Bitters. See and read, —[Advt.] Wanted Known—That J. Meech is importing all his own goods, which enables him to sell cheaper than any other furnishing house in Ashburton. He has every class of furniture to suit all parties, from the kitchen to the drawing-room. All kinds of cutlery, crockeryware, fenders and fire-irons, iron beadsteads, carpets, table cloths, matting, and druggetting. A variety, of tinware and other cooking utensils, etc. A splendid lot of Vienna chairs in walnut and maple. Feathers, flock, horsehair, and wool for furniture and mattrasses—in fact every article for house furnishing. Owing to facilities afforded to him, enables him to sell cheaper than if in East street. Furniture exchanged, and parties selling out will find that he gives the highest price for furniture. All kinds of furniture repaired; practical workmen kept. Agent for the celebrated Dunedin blind-maker. Spring window rollers kept in stock. Carvings - and turnery sold to the trade, —J. Meech. Note the address, next Bullock’s Arcade.— [Advt.] The Stranger in London.—That the Great City will ere long be hardly recognisable by its former denizens, all the world has heard. The visitor passing up the Thames now finds his eye gratified by the many edifices recently erected. As it reaches the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises over him on the right hand the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower-crowned works of Messrs James Epps and Co., both phases of Italian architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of the far-reaching business energy of the nineteenth century, for it has resulted from such means that the annual issue of each has come to be estimated by millions. During the last year, the number of copies of the Times is estimated at 16,279,000, while the number of packets of Epps’s cocoa sent off in the same period is computed at 14,749,695. The latter is a large total, when if is borne in mind that in 1830 the consumption of cocoa throughout the whole kingdom was but there then existing no preparation of it such as this, which by the simple addition of boiling water would yield a palatable drink. Truly time may be said to work many changes.—(Advt.)

Holloway’s Ointment and Pilis.— Glad Tidings.—Some constitutions have a tendency to rheumatism, and are throughout the year borne down by its protracted torture. Let such sufferers bathe the afflicted parts with warm brine, and afterwards rub in this soothing Ointment. They will find it the best means of lessening their agony, and, assisted by Holloway’s Pills, the surest way of overcoming their disease. More need notbes said than to request a few days’ trial of this safe and soothing treatment, v >y which the disease will ultimately be completely swept away. Pains tthat would make a giant shudder are assuaged without difficulty by Holloway’s easy and inexpensive remedies, which comfort by moderating the throbbing vessels and calmng the excitednerves. — Advt.