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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1029, 19 December 1883, Page 2

The Christchurch Resident Magistrate, Mr Beetham, has ordered the police to prosecute John Cutler for perjury. The annual distribution of prizes to the scholars attending tho Ashburton High School takes place on Saturday morning next. A notification from the Secretary which will be found elsewhere invites the parents and friends of the boys to the ceremony. The Port Chalmers Town Council have passed a resolution urging upon the newly-constructed Harbor Board tho expediency of proceeding with the construction of the proposed graving dock without delay. , I'pww’d ß LIO,OOO property tax was 1 paid yesterday. Remittances not bearing • the post-mark of December 15 will be • charged with the ten per cent penalty, and immediate summonses will be issued for all arrears. The new Dunedin Corporation salt > water baths at Port Chalmers wore for- ■ inaUy opened by the Mayor yesterday. After speeches, the Mayor and several . Councillors donned bathing costume, took a header, and swam round the enclosure. » We have been shown a splendid sample 1 of oats of tho Canadian kind, which have been grown at Mr David Johnston’s farm, Wakanui. From the appearance of the t grain we should svy that it will yield 60 or 70 bushels per acre, and the crop will be ripe in about 12 days. A Wellington telegram states that the Hawea, with the Ban Francisco mail, . arrived there at 2.25 p.m. to-day, and the Wanaka with the Southern portion sailed at 3 15 p.m. With favorable weather : therefore the mails should reach Ashburton by the express to-morrow. A Church of England tea meeting was • held last night in the Dunedin Garrison - Hall. The speakers were Bishop Neville, 1 tho Rev Mr Jervois and the Rev Mr ; Fitchett. It was announced that another , similar gathering would be held on Jan. j 17th, when addresses would be delivered by His Excellency the Governor and the ’ Primate of New Zealand. ’ The Committee of the Ashburton Rac ing Club met last evening and transacted : a large amount of business connected with ■ the Autumn races. The draft programme i was considered, amended and ordered to [ be submitted to p meeting on the 31st inst for adoption. The Canterbury Caledonian game prizes were presented yesterday afternoon, in the shape of handsome and valuable cups 1 and medals. Speight received the prize for the five miles walking handicap, A. Scrimshaw for the 100 and 400 yards, Langdown for bicycle races, Robert Manro for the two mile race, and David ; Campbell for the champion piper. Our Rakaia correspondent writes : “ A serious accident occurred at Rakaia on Tuesday afternoon. As tho Rev. E. E. Chambers was riding home his horse’s leg got entangled in a rope to which a horse was tethered. The rev. gentleman’s horse fell on top of him. |Dr Ross, from Ashburton, was sent for and found there was an injury to the spine, and some of the muscles were torn, and a very serious shock to the system. Mr Chambers will be confined to his bed for some time, and will probably feel the effects of his accident for years. Owing to this accident the parish meeting called for this evening will not be held. - The reprehensible practice of tethering horses in Rakaia is not always confined to private sections, but often the roads arn used as a tethering ground to the danger of all riding or driving. Although wo have a poundkeoper- and a constable the township is overrun with horses and cattle, and strange to say although this nuisance exists the Road Board do not take the matter up and put a stop to it.” About a quarter past five o’clock last evening an accident happened in front of the Crown Brewery, Christchurch, by which a boy nine years of ago, named James Glen, son of Mr J. <<lon, fishmonger, Manchester street south, lost his life. It seems that Mr Glen had left the boy sitting in his cirt while he went into the gate of the brewery'. A few minutes afterwards he was alarmed by seeing his son fall out of the cart and slip between the body of the vehicle and the wheel. Hurrying outside, together with Mr Louisson and several men employed at the brewery, he found the boy lying on the ground apparently lifeless. Dr Beyle was at once sent for, and arrived about five minutes after the occurrence, but his services were of no avail, as the unfortunate lad’s neck was broken. He was, it appeals, subject to epileptic fits, and is supposed to have been taken with one and fallen out of the cart. The horse, it may be mentioned, was a quiet one, and did not atte rpt to run away when the boy fell. The body was removed to Mr Glen’s house immediately after the accident. To produce real genuine sleep and childlike repose all night, take a little Hop Bitters on retiring. Look for.—[Advt, j That indigestion or stomach gas at night preventing rest and sleep, will disappear by 1 using Hop Bitters. Read,—[Advt.] Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup —lnfallible, ! tasteless, harmless, cathartic ; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation, is at drug- > gists. Moses, Moss and Co,, Sydney, General 1 Agents. 1 “ Rough ON Rats.”—Clears out rats, mice, 5 roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, 1 skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers. 7 yi d. Drug- s gists. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General c Agents, i I

At the Police Court to-day, before Mr Baddeley, II M., a respectable-looking old ! woman named Nelson was brought up charged with drunkenness. The Bench inflicted a fine of sa, and at the request of Sergeant B'eiton, who said the accused was at certain periods much given to drink, a prohibition order was taken out against her for twelve months. Subsequently Mr Caygill made an application for a re-heating of a case Robinson and Townshend v. Johnson, in which judgment had previously been allowed to go by default. Mr Crisp opposed, and after hearing counsel, his Worship refused the application. The other side, however, said that if the money were paid into Court they would consent to have the accounts examined by a competent man, and would abide by his decision. Mr Baddeley characterised this as a very fair offer, and Mr Caygill accepted it.