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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1018, 6 December 1883, Page 2

Mr Levestam, M. H. R., addressed the Nelson electors last evening, and «as accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. Our readers will be glad to hear that there is a possibility of Mr E. G. Wright again consenting to stand as representative in the County Council for the Ashburton riding. Several influential requisitions have been signed, asking him to come forward again, but it is not yet certain whether he will consent.

The steamer Kawatiri, which was ashore at Westport on Tuesday, got off yesterday. Not the i lightest damage was done. In the cricket match b. tween Ashburton and Hcrorata, played at Selwyn yesterday, the visitors tcuecl a victory by three wickets The weather was very windy. The meat which was being frozen at Wellington for shipment by the Triumph numbers 4 500 carcases of mutton, and this will be shipped by the steamer Victory, due there in a few weeks. The body of a man, much decomposed, was found last Friday on an island in the east side of Olutha river. It is supposed to be the body of John White, bettor known as •* Brogden,” who threw h’m elf into the Molyneux at Ettrick on October IGth of th ; a year. Mr Steele, who was burned while making steeline at Mataura, on Monday, died yesterday morning after great suffering He has left a w dow and family of five in straitened circumstances. Mr Steele was formerly printer and paper bag maker in a small way in Invercargill. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. (Limited), Christchurch, have received the following London telegram, dated December 4th, 1883 : —Wool—The sales progress firmly. Crossbred market slightly easier. Up to date 104,000 bales have been sold. Frozen meat—Market firmer.

At the Court this morning, Hosannah Hill, a very old offender, was fined 10s with the alternative of4B hours’ imprisonment, and Mary Cunningham was ordered to pay or go to gaol for 24 hours. J. Goughian, who had been remanded since Saturday last, was at the request of the police discharged. Sergeant Felton stating that he anticipated the accused would be re-admitted into the Home. Mr Baddeley, R.M., was on the Bench. Yesterday the weather was to say the least quite as cold as that generally experienced during a Mew Zealand winter. During the afternoon a very heavy hailstorm came on, and lasted some considerable time, and during the night a severe frost made sad havoc with the early beans and potatoes, if n <t more serious damage to the fruit trees and the flower gardens. The cry is now, when may the summer be expected. A cricket match was played yesterday between the High School boys and an eleven of the Ashburton County Club, in which the latter proved victorious in the first innings by 19 runs, the sco es being Ashburton, 60: and High School, 41. Caygill made 32 in good style for the winning side, and Patching, with 10, was the only other player who reached double figures. For the boys F. Fish (21), was the only one who made any s and against the bowling of Quinlan, who took seven wickets for very few runs. At the annual meeting of the subscribers to the Chertsey Library, held on Tuesday, the following gentlemen were chosen as a Committee :—Messrs Mangham, Todd, Patterson, Childs, Gray, Wilkinson, Downie, and McDowell, At a Committee meeting, held afterwards, Mr Manghan was elected cha'irmau, Mr Todd secretary, and Mr Patterson treasurer for the ensuing year. After a discussion on a proposal to sell the present building and build a new one on the section recently granted by Government to the library, which was deferred for further information, the meeting adjourned. The Ashburton Borough School Committee held a special meeting last evening, when there were present Messrs J. Orr (chairman), St Hill, Reddin, Sparrow, Mayo, and T. Sealy. A let’er was read from Mr Wright, M. H. R., offering to provide a special train for the school children’s picnic, and also to throw open his grounds at Windermere for them. The kindness of Mr Wright was acknowledged, and the 14th instant fixed on as the date of the outing, the Committee to LlO for the treat. It was decided to recommend Miss Olark to the B >ard, to fill the vacancy in the teaching staff of the school, and after discussing a reported case of pilfering, which it was resolved to further enquire into, the meeting adjourned. The following letter has been received by the German Cons j! at Dunedin from the Consul in Sydney:—“Sydney, Kovember 7th, 1883. Sir,—The increasing importance of the expert of fresh meat from Australia to England has been noticed in the agricultural paptra of Berlin. His

Highness Prince Bismarck is desirous of gaining some information about the development of this k in lustry up to now. In order to make the information which I have been callei upon to furnish as complete as possible, I have the honor to rccjuest you kindly to favor me with a detailed report on the subject. In particular, I beg you to minutely the price of the meat in New Zealand, the cost of transporting it to England and eventually to Germany, and the coat of the procedure for preset, ing it.” A remarkable paragraph appears in the Indian news of the London papers :—“At a meeting of the Bombay University,” it is stated, “ it was proposed by a Brahmin that in the regulations the pronoun ‘ he ’ and its derivatives should be deemed to denote either sex. An Englishman seconded the motion, whicli was carried without a division.” Applied to the statute-book of a kingdom, and not merely to that of a learned body, this short canon of interpretation would effect one of the greatest revelations in the world. It has been said by one of the ablest advocates of women’s rights that in this country in laws imposing duties and liabilities “ he already includes both sexes, while in laws conferring privileges it is constructed in its strict sense. Be that as it may, thinks the Pall Mall Gazette, the action of the Bombay University foreshadows the sense in which it will certainly come to be construed, and that at no very distant date, in the laws of progressive communities. A meeting of the Mount Somers Road Board was held on Tuesday last. Present—Messrs Peache (chairman), Macfarlano, Mcßae, Walker, and Kdson. The minutes of the previous meeting were re id and confirmed The overseer having read his report, he was instructed to have the necessary works completed. A letter was road from the Mount Hutt Road Board re the re-forming of the Alford Forest road from Methven to Soland’s road. It was resolved, in the opinion of the Board, the expenditure is unnecessary; and that they will be obliged for an amended estimate ; at the same time they would point out the necessity of the road being put in the same state of repair. It was moved by Mr Macfarlane, and seconded by Mr Walker —“ That no new work be undertaken by this Board until after next harvest, unless absolutely necessary. A letter was read from Mr Trumble re the formation of a road to his farm. Resolved— “ That the Clerk be instructed to wiite and inform him that the Board will take the matter into consideration when Mr Ryan (ois tenant) will explain what is required,” It was resolved that a panel bo erected across the road leading fiotn Valetta to the Spread Eagle Hotel, an the south side of the river. It was moved by Mr Walker, and seconded by Mr Macfarlane, that a copy of Mr Wilfred Badger’s Statutes of New Zealand be ordered for the use of the Board. A letter was read from Mr Macfarlane, Mesopotamia, re repairs to roads, and it was resolved that he be offered the ouiq of LlO towards doing the necessary work*. Several accounts were passed for payment, and the meeting adjourned.

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The Waitaki, at high water yesterday, I endeavored to haul the Triumph oft', and j moved her some ten feet, when greater efforts were postponed till last night. The engineer of the Triumph came up to town for the purpose of obtaining certain necessary appliances which will be required on another attempt which is to be made to get the steamer afloat. They secured a number of pipes, which are to be utilised in connecting the refrigerating apparatus with the forehold, so that it can be pumped full of air. They deft for the vessel in the steamer Blanche shortly before noon. Workmen were busily employed all day in making decking, which has been laid down over the forehold, as securely as possible, and it was also intended to cover it with a coating of cement, which would greatly assist towards making it air tight. Pipes having been laid fin ’ the hold and connected with the refrigerator, the engineer proposed to pump the apartment full of air, which would of course drive the water out of tbe hold and lift her up. At the same time two kedges which are lying out astern will be hauled up, by means of machinery, on board, and it is anticipated that the next effort will prove successful in removing the vessel from her present dangerous position. The attempt was to have been made last night. Another favorite illusion (says the Pall Mall Gazette) has received its death blow. Arctic exploration, even when most successful, is but a gathering of Dead Sea apples. The North west passage is discovered only in order to demonstrate its uselessness, the myth of an open Polar Sea, with a circumpolar continent inhabited by happy men who live behind the north wind, has vanished into thin air ; and now Professor Nordenakjold announces that his successful expedition into the interior of Greenland finally dissipates the hope he has so longentertained of discovering oases of fertile land behind the ice belt on the coast. *' Over the whole inland there is ice. ” Greenland is no green land, as the explorer had hoped to find it, but in very truth a desolate wilderness of eternal ice It must have been a melancholy task fur the fame as traveller to destroy hia own hypothesis, and instead of achieving one of the triumphs of acientifi prediction, to register hia own mistake, but that is the fate, more or less, of all arctic explorers. Even the North Pole, when it is retched at last will probably add but one more item to the long list of the disap ointments which have awaited all travellers in the frozen seas.

Says this morning’s Timani Herald : A. man who looks like a Kanaka, but who may be a mulatto, create I some stir in town during Tuesday night. Where he cmie from is not known, but ho told one person ho had walked overland from Liverpo 1 and showed him h s boots to look at the mud on the n. Ab ut six o'clock yesterday morning he was found in a private residence on La Jren’a terrace. The maid servant, on getting up, heard some one moving about in the front room, but thinking it was the master of the house took no notice of it. Shortly afterwards on entering the ro m she was frightened out of her life at seeing a dark complexioned man coolly siltin' at the window with a telescope in his hand. She rushed to her master’s room singing out “There’s a black mm, there’s a black man in the house !” The owner of the house donned his breeks and proceeded to the front room, where he found Mr Black Man sea'el as described. On asking him what, he was doing there the intruder replied bo had been told to go there, or some such expression, The gentleman lost no time in ejecting him by the forcible application of his foot On returning to the room he found a garment, which is usually described as “ nameless,” hanging over the back of a chair, and on asking the maid what it was doing there, she replied—- * Please, sir, it isn’t mine : it’s the black man’s.” After this, we believe the fellow, who must be a lunatic, visited another house in town, and quietly turnedinto bed. On the girl going to clem up the room she was considerably startled at seeing Blaokie’s head on the pillow. It is needless to say he did not rest there long. Last evening word was brought in by a shepherd from a hut at the back of the Levels that a man who was shouting and yelling had gone into his hut and taken possession of it. As it was evidently the same individual who had been playing pran vs in Timaru, Mounted Constable Phi lips was despatched about 10 o’clock to look after him. Ho is a man apparently about 25 years of age, sft 6in in height, and shabbily dressed. It is to be hoped, for the comfort of the nervous portion of the community, he will soon be “ run in.”

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