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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 970, 15 June 1883, Page 2

At a public meeting at Geraldine it was resolved to form a Cheese and Dairy Factory with a capital of L 5,000. The prospectus has been issued in Timaru of the Royal Flour and Oatmeal Mills Company, with a capital of LAO,OOO. 4 very influential provisional directory has been appointed. The Gazette to-hight announces that Major Thomas Vivest Shephard, late H.M. Leinster Regiment, is to be Major in the New Zealand Militia, and Adjutant of the Thames, Auckland, Wairoa, and Poverty Bay Volunteer districts. A man named Bub, a theasrical agent, said to be husband to Madame Cora, the illusionist, was found dead in bed yesterday morning at the Governor Browne Hotel, Auckland. An inquest was held, and a verdict of apoplexy returned. At the Otago Harbor Board yesterday, Messrs Kincaid, McQueen and Co., local founders, wrote, offering to take the whole responsibility of altering the big dredge, and of dredging the bar 200 ft wide to a depth of 24ft at low water, foi L 18,500. The offer was ordered to be considered by the Works Committee. The Engineer reported unfavorably of the proposal to build a bridge across the harboi o Waverley. A shepherd on a run near Lake Wanaka committed suicide by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. He went out mustering, and fancied he could see people coming after him with spears. He ran away and fell over a precipice, and afterwards becoming more frightened cut himself with the knife to put an end to his life. He lay out all night in a severe frost, and was found alive by searchers. He was brought to Cromwell Hospital, but died. His name was John Oswald Stewart, a native of Glasgow, and he was well educated. He got remittances, which led to his drinking, and a drinking bout is believed to have been the cause of the act.

At the Timaru Harbor Board yesterday the Engineer’s report showed that Priestman’s crane dredge was lifting sand at the rate of 240 tons per day, and is rapidly increasing the depth of water along the wharf. The progress made during the month with the breakwater has been alow, owing to the continued heavy seas. The Harbormaster reported that six vessels had been despatched to foreign ports during the month—four being to the United Kingdom, and two to Adelaide. The question of increasing the rates of landing and shipping cargo to vessels lying outside the breakwater was brought up, but postponed, it being stated that only very heavy tonnaged vessels could be chartered at present. A letter was read from the Bank of New Zealand, re Heating the loan. The Board dealt with it in Committee, and afterwards passed a resolution, “ That the Board is of opinion that considering the security pledged, the loan ought shortly to be placed at the minimum fixed, and must decline to make any reduction. ” J

: 5 The-cablegram recently published announcing that Mr Archer, the AgentGeneral for Queensland, has left for Brisbane is erroneous. The message should have read that the new steamer Archer, belonging to the Queensland Steamship Company, has sailed for Brisbane.

A meeting of settlers is called at Napier to consider the rabbit question. The furry pest is not yet in the province, but has spread to the rabbit fence on the Southern boundary, and it is feared it will make its way round the fence if further preventative measures be not at once taken.

The Wanganui Herald declares that the chief agent of the Government Life Insurance Department draws a salary of L 450 a year, and a bonus of a quarter per cent, oq all insurances effected. His bonuses during the past r-’iarter are said to have amounted to over LI,OOO. At a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce and consignees interested in regard to the goods shed fire, several speakers (including the Hon. W. H. Reynolds) expressed the opinion that the Government was liable as common carriers, and also through having neglected to take proper precautions against fire. A Committee was appointed to ascertain the position of the consignees in regard to fire, and take legal advice if necessary. The following resolution was also carried: —“That our representative in Parliament, Mr H. S. Fish, jun., be requested to apply to the Government to have all wooden sheds in the Railway Department now erected and about to be erected removed at once, and strong stone buildings substituted for the protection of merchants’ goods.” A trial of one of Hornsby’s patent gorse cutters took place on Mr Hunt’s farm at Wakanui this afternoon. The machine did its work with entire success, and there can be no doubt that it is a great economiser of labor. When we say that the machine did as much in a quarter of an hour as an ordinary man would cake a day to get through, it will be seen what an advantage the possession of a cutter would be to anyone whoso property is fenced with gorse hedges. The mechanism is apparently simple, the wheels that work the knives being set going by the motion ef the machine as it travels, along the hedge. These knives, by an ingenious contrivance, will cat both sides of the fence and will also do the necessary topping, as it is possible to set them at any angle. Only two men are required to work it, one driving and the other managing the knives, and the clean manner in which the fence experimented on to-day was cut was evidence that the machine will do all the patentees claim for it. Mr F. Ferriman is the agent in Ashburton for this gorse cutter, and there should be a good demand for them from the farmers and settlers in this district.

The quarterly meeting of the South Rakaia Library subscribers was held in the Library yesterday afternoon. Mr Hardy was in the chair, and only a limited number of subscribers attended. Mr Liddy moved—“ That in the event of vacancy occurring in the Committee, and a failing to be filled up at the quarterly meeting, that the Committee be empowered to fill up such vacancy till the next annual meeting.” Aiter discussion, the motion was passed. A Committee meeting was then held, Mr Hardy stated that he had bought a number of new works for the Library, subject to the approval of the Committee. It was decided to accept the books. Mr Hardy’s offer to give twopence per lb for the old papers was accepted. It was proposed by Mr Oxley, and seconded by Mr Mutter, and carried, that subscribers tickets be not transferable. As for a considerable time some evil disposed persons have been in the habit of purloining papers from the table, and one of them has been detected, it was decided to post a notice in the Library to the effect that should the same or any other party be found out again, a magisterial enquiry will be the result. Accounts for LlO 14s 9d were passed for payment; and it was stated that the balance in the Bank was L 9 8s lid, and the rents due Ll2 10s. The meeting then adjourned. A gaol bird of considerable experience was brought up at the Police Court this morning, in the person of one George Brennan, who was charged with being drunk in a public place, and also with stealing a quantity of tobacco, valued at 15s, from the shop of Mrs Florence Thompson, in Mooxe street. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner must have e itered ivirs Thompson’s shop, and seeing nobody about helped himself to some two pounds of the narcotic weed which was lying on the counter. By a curious oversight he failed to provide himself at the same time with a pipe, and he tried to borrow that necessary article from a man he met in an hotel, offering one of his numerous plugs “ by way o’ chop, swop, barter, or exchange,” as the poet puts it. Subsequently he got drunk, and the constable who found him in that state on searching him discovered an unusual quantity of tobacco upon him, and after considerable enquiry it turned out that Mrs Thompson was the only person in Ashburton who sold that particular brand. The case was fully proved, and Sergeant Felton detailed a long list of convictions against him, the last being only a day or two ago at Christchurch, when the Magistrate ordered the police to see Brennan outside the precincts of the city, and the latter came on to Ashburton. The Sergeant suggested that the compliment and the criminal should be returned. The prisoner made a pathetic appeal to the Bench, giving an assurance “ upon his honor as a gentleman ” that he would sign the pledge if let off this time, but either from a doubt as to Brennan’s gentility, or from a belief that the abstention from strong drink should be compulsory rather than optional, he was sent to prison for a period of four months.

Remember Hop Bitters never does harm to the smallest child but good, always and continually. See and read.— [ADVT.] Purify the blood, cleanse the stomach, and sweeten the breath with Hop Bitters. Read. [A DVT.]

Holloway’s Pills. —The chiefest wonder of modern times.—This incomparable medicine increases the appetite, strengthens the stomach, cleanses the liver, corrects biliousness, prevents flatulency, purifes the system, invigorates the nerves, and re-instates sound health. The enormous demand for these 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 are the prolific sources of the extensive curative range of Holloway’s Pills. [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.]