The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1883.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1046, 12 September 1883, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1883.

A child named Ellis, three years of age, was drowned in the river at Silverstream, near Timaru, yesterday, while playing

with other children.

Mr J. A. Caygill was yesterday admitted by His Honor Mr Justice Johnston as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court on the application of Mr Wilding.

Mr W. Redmon 1 and Mr Walsh arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Zealandia. TheirJ movements are undecided yet. They will probably leave by the Tarawera to-morrow for the kouth, going, it is said, to Dunedin direct.

At a special meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors yesterday, Mr Wakefield gave notice of motion to the effect of transferring the Christchurch public library over to the City Council. Dr O. Batchelor and Mr Hugh McNeil, a well-known cricketer, will play lawn tennis for Dunedin against Mr Dargaville and Mr McDonald on Saturday. Today they play Messrs McDonald and Wilkinson, flso of Auckland. On Monday the inquest was resumed at Invercargill on the body of the infant lately found ai Woodlands. No additional evidence was forthcoming, and the jury returned the following verdict : “ That the body of the said mala child was found in some water, with marks of violence thereon, but how or by what means it came to its death is to the jurors unknown.”

A boy aged between three and five years, was killed in King street, Dunedin, at the St David street crossing, at about a quarter to four o’clock yesterday afternoon. His name is Bradley. The deceased was running across the road from a dray, and did not jsee the steam motor coming, and before the driver of the latter could pull up the boy was knocked down and killed instantaneously. Englishmen are beginning to own some pretty large farms in the United States. Sir G. Reed ha,s 2,000,000 aerqs ; Earl of Dunmore, 100,000; Karl of Dunraven, 600,000 ; Duke of Sutherland, 400,000. The Earl of Airlie’s estate owns 30,000 acres in Colorado ; while a rich English corporation has invested 2,000,000d01s in ditching and irrigating a large tract of land in that State.

The claimants for the L2OO reward, offered by Mr Deans for the capture of the offender who fired at him about 18 months ago, brought their case before the Su-

preme Court at Christchurch yesterday. The case was adjourned in order that the matter might be settled otherwise in the meantime. There are no less than eight claimants for the reward.

The mate, cook, and two hands, cimprising the crew of the schooner Dunedin, now at Greymouth, refused to go to sea in the vessel, one the ground, as they allege, that she is unseaworlhy, and making too much water. It appears that the crew are shipped by the month, and have not signed articles for this month. There is some difficulty in getting them to go to sea, and it is not easy to get a crew at Greymouth. The Harbor-master got the vessel pumped out, and after being allowed to stand for an hour found she had made an inch ani a half of water. He pronounced the vessel seaworthy, but the crew still declined to go in her. She has about 100 tons of coal on board. There appears to be no power to compel them to go to sea.

The premises of Delley and Moir, upholsterers, Dee street, Invercargill, narrowly escaped being set on fire sometime between Saturday night and Monday morning, through the ignition of a bale of straw in an adjoining shed. How the heap caught fire is not known, but it is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Early on Sunday afire was alsodiacovered at a vacant house in Yarrow street, the property of Lawrence Finnerty. A constablegot in by the window and extinguished the flames. ,He found that a hole had been burned clean through the flooring, and that near at hand was a heap of kerosene-soaked scrim rags and paper. An investigati n showed that through the floor of the porch behind the house two small holes had also been burned, and the surmise is that, with the object of making assurance doubly sure, the intending incendiary had started the fire in several places. An advertisement appeared in a Napier paper lately, announcing that “ dancins wi h refreshments during the evening ” would take place pn a certain date in a country town hall. A resident wrote protesting against this programme :—“ If we are expected to dance with refreshments and not with living glowing youth and beauty it will be a failure. This will be very much to be deplored, because the proceeds are intended for a most charitable purpose. Our beauties do not like the idea of a dance without a man. They do not ’ike to trip ‘ the light fantastic toe’ with an arrowroot biscuit in one hand and a slice of cold ham in the other. Our gentlemen * mashers ’ are seriously wondering what kind of good things they will be required to dance with—whether they will be expected to dance a Scotch reel with a bottle of whisky for a pan nor, or will it be necessary to \yaltz round the room hugging a little darling pork pie.”

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Volunteers are reminded that to-mor-row evening the first drill of the season will be held, and there should bp a good attendanco, as the quarterly inspection takes place on the 24th. The short Snider rifles have not all been distributed yet, but they can be obtained on application to the Captain. The Oddfellows’ Hall was again well filled lash night, when the Merry Moments Company gave their second and final performance in Ashburton. The laughter and applause were hearty throughout, and every musical item was encored. The Company left by the express for Tiraaru, where they will play this evening. There is a probability of them paying another visit to Ashburton when they have concluded their southern tour, and we are sure they will receive a hearty welcome. There was great excitement in Dunedin over the arrival of Major and Mrs Barker, of the Salvation Army, from Melbourne, last night. An immense crowd assembled at the railway station, from which the visitors were driven to the barracks headed by a brass I and, with torches blazing. The procession was accompanied by a large number of larrikins, hooting and yelling. As the barracks were approached rotten eggs wore produced and thrown at the Salvationists, and for about an hour there was a tremendous commotion. Some women fainted in the crush, and others were crying from the rough usage they received. The police eventually managed to clear the streets. A dinner was given at the Town Hall, Rakaia, yesterday evening, to Messrs McKerrow and Mann, the partners of the well known firm of R. McKerrow and Co, who are retiring from business.. Some 60 or 70 persons were present, including most of the leading residents of the district. and apologies were read from several others. Mr E. S. Coster, J. P., occupied the chair, and Mr J. Lambia the vicechair. A first-class dinner had been provided by Host Howell, of the South Rakaia Hotel, and excellent musical arrangements had also been made. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk, followed by “ The Ashburton County Council,” “The South Rakaia Road Board,” “Our Guests,” “ The Pastoral Interests,” “The Farming Interests,” “The Mercantile Interests,” and many others. _ Rousing choruses and recitations enlivened the speechifying, and the company did not break up till past two o’cloc < in the morning, while long after that hour some of the more joyous spirits might have been seen and heard indulging in Terpsichorean and vocal exercises to the accompaniment of the bagpipes and violin. The whole affair was a marked success. We are unfortunately compelled to hold over our detailed report.

A meeting of the members of the Borough Cricket Club takes place at 7.30 this evening in Mr Jones’ rooms, Baring square. Mr J. Wilkin’s celebrated entire horse Quamby will travel in this district during the ensuing season, paniculars of which will he found elsewhere. —Mr Geo. Gordon’s horse Python will also travel throughout the district thi- season.

We have been obliged to hold over Mr Andrew On’s business announcement, which will appear, however, in to-morrow’s issue.