The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1883.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1035, 27 December 1883, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1883.

The installation of the officers of the Somerset Lodge, E. 0., takes place tomorrow evening at the Masonic Hall, Tancred itreet.

A special cheap excursion train is advertised in this issue by the Railway Department to leave Ashburton on January 2nd. Intending visitors to the Industrial Exhibition will be enabled to travel from hero for 5s first class, and second class 3s 6d. Mr John McLachlan is a candidate fur the vacant seat ot Selwyn, in the House of Representatives. It is very probable another candidate will bo brought forward to contest the seat with Mr McLachlan. Our Waterton correspondent writes as follows:—A cricket match was played on Christmas Day on the Waterton Estate between the Waterton and Flemington Cricket Clubs, the former winning by 8 runs. The playing on both sides was ex ceptionally good; the bowling of Fleraington being counterbalanced by the fielding and batting of Waterton. There was a very large attendance, and the clubs were entertained at a lunch by Messrs T. Taylor, Smith, Moses, and Holland. Rt Petersburg (says a correspondent in Russia of the Sydney Morning Herald ) is the scene of horrible r estruotion by fire. At first these fires, which devour whole parts of the (own, were considered as the effects of the proverbial Russian carelessness ; but they are breaking out at the rate of three or four a day, and invariably in the moat likely places to cause great conflagrations, the police are up in arms to catch the malefactors. '1 here are great misery and poverty among the lower classes caused by the closing or destruction by fire of numberless factories, and the workmen out of employment are convenient instruments in the Lands of such people, whose interest lies in ruining the country. In this slow way the Nihilists think they have more chance of success than by employing personal violence, and though there is no absolute proc f of their being at the bottom of the present misfortunes, the work is too neatly done not to be attributed experienced hands. Nothing can be imagined more heartrending than the sight of the great areas destroyed. The people sit on the ashes, surrounded by what they have been able to save. Hundreds of children are without shelter. Charity is busy, no doubt, but all rich people are abroad and inaccessible, and the number of sufferers is too great to be relieved by the means on hand.

To produce real genuine sleep and childlike repose all night, take a little Hop Bitters on retiring. Look for.— [Advt. ] Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup —lnfallible, asteless, harmless, cathartic ; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation., is at druggists. Moses. Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. Gorged Livers, Bilious conditions, const i pation, piles, dyspepsia, headache, cured by “ Wells’ May Apple Pills.” 5d and is boxes at druggists. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney General Agents for Australasia. 2 Holloway’s Pills. Liver Complaints.—The digestion cannot be long so seriously disordered without the derangeraentjbeing perceptible on the countenance. These pills prevent both unpleasant consequences ; they improve the appetite and with the increase of desire for food, they augment the powers of digestion and assimilation in the stomach. Holloways Pills deal most satisfactorily with deranged or diseased conditions of the many organs engaged in extracting nourishment for our bodies from our various diets—as the liver, stomach, and bowels, over all of which they exercise the most salutary control. By resorting at an early stage of this malady to these purifiying and laxative Pills, the dyspeptic is speedily restored to health and strength, and his salbwness gradually vanishes.—fAdvt.l