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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1014, 6 August 1883, Page 3

Thirty-three ships left Newcastle (N.S. W.), on a recent Saturday morning. 1 ne of the emus in the Botanical Gardens at Wellington has been killed by dogs. Flogging is the prescribed punishment for the use of obscene language in New South Wales. A foul murder has been committed at Hamilton, Victoria. The body of a mining man named Hillary was found cut in pieces in the garden attached to a hut. The pieces were put together by the detectives, It is expected that the Wellington Harbor Board will be in a position to commence dredging operations about the beginning or next month. The dredge ordered last year from Messrs Priestman Bros, London, arrived by the Catalonia a few days ago, and ta-day a start was to be made to place it on board the punt built expressly for the purpose. The hopper barges are in course of construction, and will not be completed before the end of the month, by which time it is expected the dredge will be ready for work. The dredge is of the same pattern as those in use in several parts of the colony, and is capable of lifting half a ton of silt. Its cost is nearly LI,OOO. The part of the harbor where it will be first set to work will probably be alongside the Queen’s wharf, where the depth of water is not so deep as it once was. The berths at the radway wharf will then receive attention, after which the machine will remove the silt lying alongside the breastwork. The Board have not yet decided as to where the silt will be deposited, but it is expected that arrangements will be made for placing it within the area of foreshore about to be reclaimed at Te Aro.

A Melbourne paper raises a point of interest and importance. It asks, “ Can the proceedings in the case of a man committed for trial by a Police Court be regarded as closed ? If not, the newspapers are liable for action for contempt in publishing them. Surely it is very injurious for a man await ng trial to have all the Police Court evidence published and commented on, as it often is, almost every day. Yet no one thinks < f trying to stop the papers from doing it.” We are not sure that the newspapers could be restrained from publishing such evidence by any legal process, but there certainly are cases in which the publication of the evidence taken at the preliminary trial is very objectionable. When brought before the Supreme Court, the fate of the accused is decided by a jury of twelve men, supposed to be honest and true, but at the same time they are men capable of being influenced by wbat they have previously heard and read. When the Police Court trial has been fully published, and these jurymen have heard the comments and remarks of scores of persons for perhaps a mouth or two before they are called upon to give their verdict, it is next to impossible for their judgments to be unbiassed. At the same time we do not see what can be done to mend the matter. It is, however, worthy the consideration of all who desire to see impartial justice meted out. fine who was a true friend to colonial development, and who was deeply anxious that religious welfare should accompany material progress, has just pass'd away ; says the Home News. To the Rev. Edward Coleridge, who has just died at the advanced ago of eighty-three, is largely due the endowment of a colonial Esta blished Church. At a time when his whole energies seemed monopolised by his scholastic work as an Eton tu-or ha yet found leisure to realise and strive to satisfy the claims of the Church in distant lands. Aided hi this by Solwyn—at that time a neighbor and afterwards an ideal colonial Bishop—he worked strenuously to raise funds for the .enterprise he had so much at heart. His aim was to give endowments to various colonial churches, and provide recruits for the ministry. His efforts were completely successful. He did not hesitate to use his great influence and his undoubted powers of persuasion in seeking subscriptions, and almost alone he obtained nearly L 50,000. A large portion of this was applied to the formation of 5t Augustine’s College at Canterbury, at which candidates for the colonial churches and missionary enterprise are now specially trained. The building itself was the munificent gift of Mr Beresford Hope, but the endowment was defrayed by the moneys raised by Edward Coleridge. The college will always bear testimony to the ardent piety and zeal of its founder, while his name, with that of their “alma mater,” will long be remembered by numbers o ! Churchmen laboring in far distant parts of the world.

Far, 'far better for you than beer, ale, or porter, and free from the intoxicating eflects, is Hop Bitters. Read.- [Advt.] 7 Flies and Bugs. —Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rab-bits, cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” 7>|dMoscs, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. Wanted parties about to furnish to know that J. Meecii is selling all his goods at a sacrifice, being ever-stocked and wanting the money. Drawing-room Suites from 10 ios, warranted ; Good Bed-room Suites, remarkably low ; I 'rawing-room : Fancy Walnut Tables, Japanese Tables, a splendid Inlaid Walnut Sideboard, Mar ie Slab, with I’lale Glass back, to be sold cheap. Iron Bedsteads, Crockery-ware, and every requisite for house furnishing etc. Funerals conducted on the cheapest scale. Practical wor men kept in all its branches. Agent fur the celebrated Venetian Blind Makers, Dunedin. Carvings and Turnery of every kind. All kinds of furniture exchanged and highest price given for furniture. Note the address —Next Bullock’s Arcade, Ashburton.

TOWN EDITION. For continu • tion of reading matter see LOUGH I N Q. TENDERS are required for PLOUGHING and HARROWING 304 Acre* Turnip Lund Tenders close at Bucoleuch on August 11th. The lowest or any tender not necessai ily accepted. JPor particulars apply to DUGALD MACPARLANE, Buccleuch, Springburn. Issued at 4 50 p. in. fourth page. Tenders. Or 8-233 N.Z.L. & M.A. 00. Ashburton.