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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 990, 9 July 1883, Page 2

There will be a meeting of those favorable to the establishment in Ashburton of a branch of the Blue Ribbon Army held this evening in the vestry »f the Wesleyan Church.

Our Resident Magistrate appears to have suffered serious inconvenience this mo King, as a telegram from Gisborne informs us that the house in which Mr Price was residing was burnt to the ground.

An inquest was held on Saturday, touching the death of Alexander Stuart (son of Rev. Dr. Stuart, the widely known and much esteemed Presbyterian clergyman of Dunedin), who was found dead in bed. It was shown that a large quantity of cyanide of potassium was in his stomach He was taking borax for a sore throat, and the two things were in exactly similar phials. The j iry found that death proceeded from his accidentally swallowing poison. The deceased had retired to bed in splendid spirits, and was shortly going to New South Wales. He was a surveyor, aged twenty-seven. The Committee appointed to arrange for a visit from the Otago hounds have succeeded in obtaining some excellent country for this week’s sport. Mr John Smith will t&ke charge of the hounds on their arrival by express this evening, and officiate as huntsman during their stay. To-morrow there will be a private meet, for which passes and directions may be obtained from members of the Committee. On Wednesday the meet will be at the North Town Belt ; on Thursday there will be another private meet ; on Friday the neighborhood of Digby’s Bridge will be the trysting place, and should sufficient inducement offer there will be another run on Saturday. We have been requested to remind gentlemen who propose taking part in these runs, that money is required for the sport, and they may either pay their subscriptions in the field or hand them to Messrs Friedlander, Saunders, Hutchison or Cargill. Followers should also bear in mind that they are mainly indebted to the land owners for their sport, and avoid unnecessary injury to fences and crops. A horrible accident occurred in Blenheim on Saturday. A loud report was heard at the back of Mr John Smith’s tinsmith’s shop by two persons who at the time were standing talking on the footpath in front of Smith’s premises. On hearing the report they went across the street, and as they were crossing a son of Smith’s ran wildly out of the shop and down the street. They at once entered the shop, and seeing nothing in the front part went in the back room, where they found a young lad lying dead on the floor with a pool of blood near his head. His body was doubled up in the earner leani <y against the door in a sitting posture, his head between his legs. On examination it was found that there was a wound of a ballet on the left side of the face, about an inch and a half from the left eye and an inch from the nostrils. Frank Smith, brother of the deceased, states that the gun was brought in at dinner time by a settler for repair. He put a cap on it to try it, and then thinking he would try another gun standing close by, which had been brought in about six weeks ago, ha lifted it down and put a cap on It. Just as he cocked it, his brother John ran across from the opposite side of the back shop, and as Frank pulled the trigger his brother received the charge it contained full in the face. Throwing the gun down on the bench, and stupefied with what he had done, he rushed out of the shop towards home. Biliousiness, drowsiness, jaundice and rheumatism, Hop Bitters removes easily. See.— [Advt.] 3

Wells’ “ Rough on Corns,” —Ask for Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.” Quick relief complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. 3 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. Ail 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.]

Holloways Ointment and Pills.— Outward Infirmities.—Before the discovery of these remedies many case of sores, ulcers, &c., were pronounced to be hopelessly incurable, because the treatment pursued tended to destroy the strength it was incompetent to preserve, and to exasperate the symptoms it was inadequate to remove. Holloway’s Pills exert the most wholesome powers over the unhealthy flesh or skin, without debarring the patient from fresh air and exercise, and thus the constitutional vigor is husbanded while the most malignant ulcers, abscesses, and skin diseases are in process of cure. Both Ointment and Pills make the blood richer and pmer, instead of permitting it to fall into that poor and watery state so fatal to many laboring under chronic ulcerations:—[Advt.]