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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1036, 31 August 1883, Page 2

The Auckland football team have determined to play seven men behind the scrimmage in their match with Otago on Saturday, Arneil playing as one of the backs.

The Otago Harbor Board have agreed to telegraph to Mr Green, M. H. R., that cla ise 11 having been struck out of the Barbor Board Reconstitution Bill, it had better be entirely abandoned. One of the Oxford immigrants brought to Greymouth by the Grafton is isolated in the Immigration Barracks with his sister. He has been very ill, but it is said his condition is now improving.

The projected walking match between Edwards, of Melbourne, and young Scott, of Dunedin, is likely to fall through. Mr Seymour, who came from Melbourne to arrange it, stipulates that it must come off in three weeks’ time, and Scott would not have sufficient time to train.

An accident occurred at Riverview, near Ahaura, in the claim of John Thomas and William Reece. While standing at the head of the claim the bank gave way, precipitating both 60ft almost perpendicular. Thomas was covered up. Keece, who escaped uninjured, obtained assistance. Thomas when extricated was found seriously crushed on the head and back. He was brought down in a canoe to the Greymouth Hospital. In reference to the paragraph which appeared in yesterday’s issue, Mr Deßeere wishes us to state that he fully intended to give his entertainment at ihe Rakaia Town Ball on the date named, but was prevented from doing so at the last moment, through unforeseen circumstances. He was to have appeared at the Tinwald Schoolroom this evening, but will, however, be unable to do so.

The Chairman of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce has received the following characteristic telegram from Mr Fish;— “In reply to your telegram, I utterly deny obstructing your Bill. Neither rayself nor Mr Bracken did so. I believe the measure to be worthless, but, nevertheless, did not obstruct. You cannot, from newspaper paragraphs or lying telegrams, understand how things happen here. Had it not been for our votes the Bill would have been lost.” The Government have issued instructions that all vessels passing Cape Saunders are to be telephoned to Port Chalmers and Dunedin. The usefulness of this provision was instanced in the case of the ship Dunedin from London, which arrived off Cape Saunders at 8 a.m. yesterday, and was becalmed. The news of her being there was telephoned to Port Chalmers, and the Harbor Board’s tug Plucky was at once sent out to tow her round.

A meeting took place on Tuesday evening in the Willowby schoolroom, for the purpose of taking into consideration the advisability of establishing a cheese and butter factory in that district. Mr S. S. Chapman officiated as chairman, and after he had explained, the object of the meeting and the course he had followed, which was approved of, the following resolution, proposed by Mr W. Aitken, and seconded by Mr E. Horsey, was carried :—“ That considering the season was so far advanced, the factory should stay in abeyance until Feburary next.” It was also resolved to call a meeting some time in the month of March, as by that time the settlers in the district would be in a better position to know whether it would be advisable to proceed with the factory. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the meeting.

Mr Rochfort, Government Surveyor, engaged in the survey of the central route of railway, via Murimotu Plains, has been stopped by the natives near Mangamueoa, and turned back. The party were surrounded and taken prisoners by the natives, who seized their instruments. They were kept in arrest several days, at the end of which Mr Rochfort and an assistant were brought down the Wanganui river some distance, and warned not to return, and threatened that if they did so they would be shot. It is said the affair arises from a misunderstanding. The natives in question did not recognise the authority of Major Kemp, from whom Mr Rochfort took a letter to pass through the country. Mr Rochfort has come down to Kennedy’s, six miles up the river from Wanganui, and has telegraphed to the Government for instructions. It is understood that Mr Rochfort had got through the Rangitua Government block. When he was stopped ho had only eight miles more to finish the survey. 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

Oh, how refreshing, palatable, and reviving is 1 a draught of cool water, with Hop Bitters in it, to a fever patient. See.— [ADVT.]

The Government has sanctioned the plans and site of the proposed ocean steamers jetty at Lyttelton. During the month of August there were registered in Ashburton 27 births, 4 marriages, and 9 deaths. The date of the next sitting of the District Court in Ashburton has been alteredfrom theSth to the 7th September.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Waste Lands Board, a license to prospect for copper and tin in the Alford Forest district was granted to Messrs W. fl. Gundry and E. Eeddin. About eighty delegates were present at the Temperance Conference in Christchurch yesterday. They passed a resolution to form a political association to be called the Canterbury Temperance Union. The following are the Hospital statistics for the past month :—No. of patients in the Hospital on the Ist inst., 9 ; admitted during Jtbe month, 13 ; discharged, 8 ; in the Hospital on the 31st, 12 ; deaths during the month, 2; patients treated, 22.

The sitting of the B. M. Court this morning was very short, about a quarter of an hour sufficing to transact all the business. The only case adjudicated upon was an undefended claim, Pauling v. Sutton, for L2 lls, for which judgment was given by default. To a layman the ways of the law are often strange, and an instance of this was given in the R. M. Court this morning. Mr B ddeley pointed out that it had been lately ruled in the Supreme Court in the case of a judgment summons, that it the defendant resides out of the jurisdiction of the Court, the plaintiff muse send him the wherewithal to enable him to answer the summons. Whatever might be the opinion of our Resident Magistrate as to the justice of such a provision, ho had no other course open to him but to follow the ruling of the Supreme Court, and a case in which the conditions referred to had not been fulfilled had to be adjourned. The Pall Mall Gazette gives the result of a contest between the local School Board and the parent of a child who bad been expelled from the school for wearing the badge of total abstinence, as follows:—The issue of the contest was doubtful until her father summoned up sufficient strength of mind to write to the Education Department on the matter; but from that time victory inclined to her side. The officials at Whitehall wrote to the School Board that the wearing of the ribbon was not a sufficient reason for exclusion from the school; but all they received was an answer that but for an informality in the by-laws he father would have been summoned for not sending his child to school, and the information that nine more children had been sent home for donning theobnoxious blue ribbon. The Department at once sent a peremptory intimation that if the children were still refused on these grounds the annual grants would be withdrawn, and the members of the School Board would be liable for the expenditure. At this decision the three who insisted on the ribbon being discarded resigned their places on the School Board,- The possibility that they might be called on to pay for their unwisdom was too much for their courage.

Messrs Wilkin and Co., in conjunction with Messrs Friedlander Bros,, announce in this issue that they will sell a number of sheep lat the Ashburton yards on Tuesday next. Mr A. Harrison will sell a quantity of bottled ale to-morrow.

The County Council notify that certain water races, with their branches, will be shut off for a week, from Thursday next. These races include such races on the Ashburton Rakaia Plains as were not closed between 23rd and 29th of the present month.