The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1883.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1005, 21 November 1883, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1883.

During the caretaker’s temporary absence from the Town Hall yesterday, some person or persona abstracted a pair of roller skates belonging to Mr Elston. A reward is offered, which be seen on referring to our advertising columns. Rewi has expressed himself to the Native Minister as favorable to the construction of the trunk railway from Te Awamutu to Wellington, via Taupo. He is quite willing, on his part, to see the land surveyed and passed through the Court, but is strongly opposed to the sale of any portion of it. He is willing to see it leased on reasonable terms, but not sold.

At the meeting of the new Otago Harbor Board yesterday a motion was carried by nine to four to do away with permanent committees, and deciding that all main questions of finance and works should be dealt with by the full Board, sub-committees being appointed to deal with matters of detail. The amount of the L 200.000 loan which will be available after paying all liabilities will be L 105.000.

At a meeting of the Wesleyan Sunday School Committee held last night, it was reported that the sum of L3l had been received as a result of the recent anniversary services; the expenses connected therewith amounted to Ll 4 15s, leaving the very satisfactory balance of Ll 6 6s. The office-bearers for last year were reelected, and a Committee appointed to devise a scheme for raising funds to erect an infant school, a plan of which was laid before the meeting by the superintendent. Enquiries made regarding the letter alleged to have been written by the Maori members to the Aborigines’ Protection Society, have elicited the fact that it was written in Wellington during the session by a European named Maoßsth.. A copy of the letter has since been offered to the Press for publication at the modest price of twenty-five guineas, but did not meet with a purchaser, it was alleged the money was required by the Natives, but Major Te Wheoro denies having ever authorised anything of the kind, and further wishes to contradict the statement cabled from London that the letter charged the New Zealand Government with preventing Tawhiao from visiting the Queen. At the R.M. Court this morning, three men named Charles Wedge, Thomas Montague and Joseph Williams were brought up charged with having been illegally on the premises of Thomas Quill. 1 hey were further charged with having been drunk and disorderly in a licensed house. They pleaded guilty and said in extenuation that they had taken too much liquor, and had gone into the stables, where they were found by Constable Smart, in mistake. Mr Baddeley sent Montague to prison for three days, as he had been before the Court before, and the others were each sentenced to two days’ incarceration. For being drunk they were each fined 20s, with the alternative of 4S hours’ imprisonment. W. B, Compton was brought up on remand, charged with having embezzled the county funds, but Mr Purnell for the prosecution asked leave to withdraw the charge, as he did not intend to offer any evidence. Leave was granted, and the prisoner discharged from custody. There is now no doubt (says the St. James’ Gazette) that President Arthur narrowly escaped capture during his recent visit to Montana. An informer has revealed to the United States authorities that sixty-five armed and well-mounted men, led by five Indians, assembled at a small village on the frontier of Daootah and started thence for Yellowstone Park, with the intention of their lying in wait for the President and his escort. The conspirators were of opinion that if they could kidnap General Arthur, and carry him off into the fastnesses of the Rocky Mountains, they could safely defy the Government, and detain the prisoner until his friends or the Union, or both combined, should agree to ransom him ; and they would probably have succeeded in their scheme and obtained half a million dollars for their prize if the President’s plan's had not been changed at the last moment. Troops were sent in pursuit of the desperadoes, but as soon as the members of the band realised that their expedition was destined to be fruitless they separated, and all traces of them were then speedily lost. A meeting of the Committee of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at Christchurch yesterday afternoon, when Mr Haydon’a protest against the School of Agriculture and Mr Clarkson for the Lyttelton Times Company’s prize for bacon fur hand jide fanners, wore uphold, and the prize, therefore, will not bo awarded. A protest was received from Messrs Booth, Macdonald and Co. against Messrs P. and D. Duncan in the implement classes on the ground of alleged bias on the part of Mr Webster, one of tho judges, and also that Mr P. Duncan and Mr Webster had been examining tho exhibits of tho former on the morning of tho show before judging, and had also visited the werks of Messrs P. and Duncan to seo the exhibits intended for the show. In support of the protest two witnesses were examined. On the other side it was proved by several of the members of Committee that Mr Webster was not on the ground when he was said to be examining the exhibits, and Messrs P. and D. Duncan both emphatically denied the other allegation. Under these circumstances, the Committee disallowed the protest, expressing regret that so serious a charge should have been made against one of the judges.

Thanks to gross carelessness on the part of a workman engaged on Messrs Orr and Co.’s new building in Eaa 1 ; street, Mr W Martin, clerk of the Court, was somewhat severely injured this afternoon. It appears that Mr Martin was passing when a chisel whizzed through the air and struck him on the leg, inflicting a deep cut. The chisel belongi d to a man working on the building, and it flew out of his hand with the result stated above. Dr Rosa fortunately happened to be close at hand, and he sewed up and bandaged the injured limb, but it will be some time before Mr Martin will he able to walk comfortably.

Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing children will cure the child, and benefit themselves by taking Hop Bitters daily. See. —[Advt.]

Thick Heads, heavy stomachs, bilious conditions—Wells’ May Apple Pills—anti-bilious-cathartic. Sd and is. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. i Holloway s Ointment and Pills.— Diseases of the Bowels.—A remedy, which has been tested and proved in a thousand different ways, capable of eradicting poisonous taints from ulcers and healing them up, merits a trial of its capacity for extracting the interna! corruptions from the bowels. On rubbing Holloway’s Ointment repeatedly on the abdomen a rash appears, and as it thickens the alvine irritability subsides. Acting as a derivative, this unguent draws to the surface, releases the tender intestmes from all acrid matters, and prevents inflammation, dysentery, and piles, for which blistering was the oldfashioned, though successful treatment, now from its painfulness fallen into disuse, the discovery of this Ointment having proclaimed a remedy possessing equally derivative, yet. nerectly painless powers.—[Advt.