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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1030, 24 August 1883, Page 2

Owing to the inclemency of the weather the sale which was to have taken place at Dundas to-day was not held. It has been postponed to Friday next. A proclamation in the Oazette declares Fiji no longer an infected place. By Order in Council importation of cattle is prohibited except from the Australasian colonies.

The Government admit their liability as common carriers for the Dunedin railway sheds hre, and offer to let all claim* be decided on their merits. Mr Hannay, assisted by legal advice, is investigating them.

A number of men who, through Mr Turnbull, M.H. R., petitioned Parliament to remove them to the North Island, yesterday refused work at 6a a day, offered by the Immigration officer at Timaru.

The Winchester and Orari Hotels, about seventeen and twenty-one miles respectively from Timaru, were broken into on Tuesday night, and a large quantity of liquor, etc,, stolen from the bars of each. No arrests have been made yet.

The Pioneer and Koh-i-noor Companies have combined to send a pr ospecting party of six to dig for larger crystals at Alford Forest. The party is under the command cf Mr Jacobsen. The Waste Lands Board have deferred issuing more prospecting (mineral) licenses or leases till after the receipt of instructions from the Secretary of the Goldfields Department. A meeting of settlers in the Wakanui district was held last evening in connection with the Canterbury Linseed Oil and Fibre Company, Mr D. Wilson was in the chair, and Mr Davis having explained the working of the company, it was resolved that in consequence of the small attendance, owing to the inclemency of the weather, that another meeting be held at an early date next week. The accident through a trap backing over an embankment at Pembroke, Lake Wanaka, resulted in no fatality. Mrs Hassing, one of the occupants, had both jaws fractured, her face dreadfully cut, and other severe bruises, and Mr Austin had his leg broken. The other three occupants escaped with little injury. The party were returning from participating in the opening pleasure trip of the new steamer the Odore on Lake Wanaka.

The folio wing are the names of the teams to play in the football match between Ashburton and Rakaia to-morrow, on the ground of the latter :—Rakaia : Bailey, Baldwin, Coward, Carieton, Evans, Hussey, Irvine, T. Jickson, Rollitt, Reid, Roberts, Trafford, Tickell, Lampard and Wilson ; emergencies, Story and Dixon. Ashburton : A. Fooks, Lechner, Brett, Colfey, E. Fooks, Fleming, Hugonin, McKobie, Hepburn, J. Fooks, Pauling, Bradley, Jephson, Maud and Blaney; emergencies. Field and Leitch. The local men are reminded that a brake will leave the Somerset corner at 12.30 sharp, when they are all requested to turn up punctual to time, so that an early start made be made.

A detailed list of shipments of frozen meat from Otagr has been published. The total number of sheep sent since February, 1882, is over 62,000, The N.Z. and A.li. Company, who on more than one occasion chartered a ship for themselves, have sent over 18,000, five owners have sent over 3,0n0, two over 2,000, and seven over 1,000. Altogether there have been 57 shippers. Quite a trade in done amongst shareholders in the Refrigerating Company in selling the space allotments at a premium. For instance, there were over 100 applications by shareholders for space in the British King. As yet only 47 shippers, and 130 applications are already made in the case of the British Queen. At the Christchurch Police Court yesterday, George Fuller, well-known in this part of Canterbury, was charged with having no visible means »f support. Inspector Pender stated that the accused was just out of prison, where he had been sent for creating a disturbance at the Ashburton Old Men’s Home. He had given himself up to the police, was quite helpless, and had no means of living. The accused said he had been out here for ten years. Shortly after his landing he had a paralytic stroke, and had ever since been an inmate of the Home. The trouble he got into there, which caused his expulsion, was not caused by him, another man had knocked him down with a stick. The master of the Home improperly blamed him for the disturbance. The master had a down on him, and there was no use complaining to Mr March, who would no listen to him. His Worship remanded the accused for seven days, directing the police to make inquiries as to the facts of his case.

The inhabitants of Ashburton were roused from their slumbers last night by the fire-bell ringing an alarm between 11 and 12 o’clock. The night being clear it was soon seen that the direction of the fire was the N.E. Belt. It turned out to be a three-roomed house owned and occupied by Mr P. Twoomey. Owing to the stiff wind which was blowing at the ttme, the building was soon burnt to the ground, and before the brigade arrived all efforts to save anything were futile. It appears that the occupants of the house retired to bed at the usual time leaving everything apparently safe, and that the fire was first discovered through one of the children being awakened by,the smoke. Mr Twocmey states that the insurances are L7O in the Union on the building and L4O in the South British on the furniture. He estimates his loss at L3O over and above the insurances. Besides nearly all the wearingapparel, Mr Twoomey lost Ll2 10s in money.

The plaintiff in the case of Johnston v. the Otago Land Board, in which the Supreme Court at Dunedin decided against the application for a mandamus to issue a license refused for suspicion of dummyism, has given notice of appeal. The case will be re-heard at v\ ellington in November.

Tempeiance clergymen, lawyers, ladies, and doctors use Hop Bitters, as they do not intoxicate, but restore brain and nerve waste. Advt.] 9 “ Rough on Rats.” —Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. 2

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 10s, 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 given for furniture. Note the address—Next Bullock’s Arcade, Ashburton.