TELEGRAMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1027, 21 August 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

iPWMS ASSOCIATION.] v 1 The Football Match. ;; .. .. Auckland, To-day. Ajrpqaeat was made by a number of i- Aaclrand members, through Sir Qeorge , Qreji apSihg Mr Shera to allow Davy to k ? ’ join wiV football team, as being .essential Auckland-’ 8 suceess. Mr Shera replied tf;j that business would not permit of it being ;*•*♦•< Fire. ■’ ■ • f i Nbw Plymouth, To-day i Shortly after midnight a fire broke out aii empty house on Poverty Flat. It beKmgafrto’V Mr Weir, who bad recently pSfrchasedJt from Mr Cudlip, and it was y aadergoibg Repairs. ’ Mr Weir is a now v - jWtfleir. (mArecently, caipe Ifom Oanter--I*2oo in the 0 in tWEiW Insurance Secretary. > • ; 1 J|?-i':-T&*MailGftlei:the Secretary of the TaraOo. Carterton,, was arrested'

on Saturday night, by order of the directors, for embezzling between fifty and isixty | ounda. He was remanded until Wednesday. . The Eccentric Clerk. Duukdin, To-day. An information has been laid against 'Newton for destroying the property of the West Harbor Council. The case will be heard on Thursday. , The Rev. Joseph Cook, who posed in Australia as a representative of. Boston culture, is thus referred to by the New York Post : “ There is probably no person professing to be educated who has brought so much discredit upon the American mind as Joseph Cook. His gross ignorance, his incorrect reports of the opinions of foreign philosophers and thinkers, have done much to disgrace the of the country among those whose reputation is worth anything.” A Dunedinite who recently set out on a tour round the world writes from Fiji : «< I got a billet the first week I landed, on a sugar plantation 40 miles up the Rewa River, as storekeeper and hospital attendant. We have about 200 coolies—

Fijians and Islanders—and three white men to keep them in order. There is no fresh meat obtainable here; but we get tinned meat, and make up on bread, biscuits and fruit.. Tams, bananas, oranges, pineapples, etc., are to be had for the plucking. I can’t say I like the lifeC My hut is alive with mosquitoes, lizards a foot long, and iats, and their company is nob-pleasant. We have had rain all the while I have been here. The natives are very lively at night with war dances, in which they keep wonderful time. The women and girls spend the day in bathing in the river. The less clothes you put on here the more you are in the fashion. We drink a lot of Fiji grog, made thus; Two niggers sit down and chew the root into a pulp, then put it in a basin of water, and work it about with their hand till the mixture becomes the color of pea-soup ; then the pulp is taken out, and the drink is ready for use. It’s not bad stuff if a fellow didn’t see the making of it.” Wanted parties about to furnish to know that J. Meech is selling all his goods at a sacrifice, being over-stocked and wanting the money. Drawing-room Suites from A lO lOS , warranted ; Good Bed-room Suites, remarkably low; Drawing-room: Fancy Walnut Tables, Japanese Tables, a splendid Inlaid Walnut Sideboard, Marble Slab, with Plate Glass back, to be sold cheap. Iron Bedsteads, Crockery-ware, and every requisite for house furnishing etc. Funerals conducted on the cheapest scale. Practical workmen kept in all its branches. Agent for the celebrated Venetian Blind Makers, Dunedin. Carvings and Turnery of every kind. All kinds of furniture exchanged and highest price jiven for furniture. Note the address —Next Bullock’s Arcade, Aohburton.