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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1027, 21 August 1883, Page 2

The Dunedin Refrigerating Company will send 7,000 carcases by the Fenstanton in September, and 9,000 by the British Queen in October. The Otago Agricultural Society have been granted twenty acres of the Sandhills reserve. It is within two miles of the city, and will make an excellent show ground.

The Town Clerk of West Harbor (Dunedin) has furnished the Council with a list of the books and papers burnt. They include rate books, valuation rolls, minutes of meetings, cash book, ledger, journal, etc. He says, however, that he is very hazy about what has gone. In the mining case at Dunedin about the Maruia claim, Reefton, in which Smith sued Batson for money paid to him foe shares, his Worship gave judgment for the defendant, holding that he had not to account to purchasers for the money, but to the original owners on whose behalf he sold.

The Rink Club intend giving a second fancy dress tournament on Wednesday the 29th inst, when another distribution of prizes will be made. Mr Henry Zander, the indefatigable secretary, has taken the matter in hand, and if his efforts are as successful as those of last year we may expect to see a crowded house on this occasion.

The Oxford Commission visited the quarantine station yesterday for the purpose of taking further evidence. The doctor was examined, and stated that, in his opinion, the ship was in clean condition. He attributed the outbreak of fever to the germs of disease having been brought on board from the immigration depot at Plymouth. A number of the immigrants complained of the water that was used on board for drinking purposes. An attempt has been made to burn down a woolahed on Benmore Station, Southland, during the last week. The doors were all locked, and on Saturday it was found a side door had been forced open and a quantity of kerosene spilled on the floor and ignited. The Are must have burned itself out, as the wall was charred for some distance up, and some of the boards were nearly burned through. The police are making inquiries. The building was insured. At the Court this morning, before Mr Baddeley, R.M., a man named John Williams was fined 10s, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, for being found drunk in a public place. The same defendant was charged with wilfully and maliciously breaking a door, the property of Mr F. Wilding, and was fined 20s, or to pay the damage 10s, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment, the two sentences to be cumulative. John Brady was also fined 5s and cab-hire 2s for being drunk, with the usual alternative. The Dunedin School Committee are at loggerheads with the Education Board. The Committee declined to go on with repairs, because they had not funds, to which the Board returned an answer expressing regret the Committee was unable to perform its functions, and that the Board would do the necessary repairs and deduct the coat from the Committee’s allowance. The Committee last night indulged in some very strong remarks about the Board’s conduct, and a statement was produced contrasting the expenditure of the two bodies, greatly in favor of the Committee. The result was the carrying of the following resolution : “ That, as the Education Board is at present in heathen darkness regarding the whole financial position and doings of the Dunedin school Committee, we enclose a copy of a return prepared by the Chairman.”

. We learn from an Invercargill telegram that on Saturday two little children, son and daughter of Mr Edwin Kidd, were playing on the main road from Woodlands to Mabel, about 200 yards from their father’s house, and a quarter of a mile from the township of Woodlands, when they found a strange looking bundle in a waterhole at the end of a box culvert. Juvenile curiosity prompted an investigation, and the startling discovery was made that the bundle consisted of the body of a male child, wrapped up in a Dunedin paper and an old rag. The children informed their father, and he telegraphed to the police in Invercargill. Detective Ede proceeded to the spot, where Kidd—keeping the occurrence from the knowledge of the neighbours—had preserved a strict watch on the body. On examination it was found that the body was fully developed, and had probably lived fur a day or two. The skull was fearfully smashed —one portion of it being entirely broken off. The body also bore marks of violence. Apparently the corpse had been in the water for some days, and the wounds had unmistakably the appearance of having been wilfully inflicted. At the inquest Dr Galbraith, having made a post mortem, gave evidence that the body was in an advanced state of decomposition. He supposed the infant was dead three weeks. The injuries were confined to the skull and the wound on the left arm. He did not think it had lived long after birth. He could not say whether the injuries were received before or after death. It had not, when born, been attended by a medical man or by a qualified nurse. No clue is yet obtainable. The inquest was, at the request of the police, adjourned for three weeks.

Poison for dogs is to be laid on the Cold stream Estate.

The Mount Somers Road Board invite tenders in this issue for several items of work. Kilwinning Royal Arch Chap er to-night, at Masonic Hall. Particulars in advertisement. Mr Alfred Harrison will hold a sale on Friday next at the premises of Mr G. Parkin, Moore street, when a quantity of building material and other lines will be submitted to the hammer. “ My wife and daughter were made healthy by the use of Hop Bitters, and I recommend it to my people.” Methodist Cletgyman. read.— [Ad VT.] 9

Tempetance clergymen, lawyers, ladies, and doctors use Hop Bitters, as they do not intoxicate, but restore brain and nerve waste. Advt.] _ _ _ 9 . Gorged, Livers, ,Bilious conditions, constipation, piles, dyspepsia, headache, cured by “ Wells’ May Apple Pills.” 5d and is boxes at druggists. Moses, Moss and Cc., Sydney, General Agents for Australasia. 2