The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prevalebit. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1053, 18 January 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prevalebit. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1884.

The Government offer a reward of LSO for information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who broke into and stole any of the stores or provisions from the depots at Sandy Inlet, Enderby Island, and Port Ross, in the Auckland Islands. Viscount Berehaven, now Earl of Bantry, is in Canterbury, and has bought land at Barry’s Bay, Bank’s Peninsula, where he proposes to build a cottage and reside some time,, while recovering f oin the effects of injuries received in the hunting field. The death of his father may, possibly, change his plans. Considerable interest has been aroused in Dunedin by the publication of a letter from Mr Joseph Braithwaite, a wellknown bookseller, resigning his position

as Vice-President of the Freethought Association, and giving his reasons at length. Mr Kobert Stout, the President, publishes a lengthy letter in reply. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s new steamer Aoraqgi, Captain Turpin, arrived at Wellington from London via Teneriffe and Hobaft, at 5.3 > last evening. Her passage, which occupied 45 days, including detentions, has been uneventful. The health of the passengers throughout has been excellent, and no casualties hare occurred. The heaviest hailstorm that has been known in the Oamaru district took place yesterday. The hail was large enough to break skylights, the glass of greenhouses, etc., and did a good deal of damage in this way. The crops, however, are not

far enough advanced to hare suffered injury from the hail, except in one or two exceptional instances. The District Grand Lodge of Free-

masons, E.C., visited Timaru yesterday, on the occasion of the installation of *he W.M. and officers for the year. About

sixty members cf the Craft came down from Christchurch, and there was a large gatheiing of Masons f.’om the district.

Mr F. J. Wilson was installed W.M., D.D.G.M. Bro Thompson performing the ceremony. In the evening the visitors were entertained at a banquet.

The New Zealand Land Native Company had a very successful sale yesterday at Gisborne of a large number of suburban sections just across the river. ihe average price realised was about double the upset total The amount was L 4.967. Mr Poynter of Tasmania, formerly living in this district, was the largest buytr. Some rural land at Matawhero realised from LlO to L 32 an acre, the total being L 631. A number of people from otlur parts of the colony also bought. By a fire in East Invercargill last night two cottages were destroyed. The circumstances are peculiar. The owner, and occupier of the house in which the fire broke out, is an aged man named Yient, a hawker. He and his wife left home early yesterday morning on a hawking expedition, leaviug no one in tho house, and did not return till just as the fire broke out. There was a stock of goods he dealt in in the house, and these, with the furniture, were nearly all destroyed. The effects were saved from the other cottage. Yient was insured for Ll5O on the building, and Ll5O on the stock and furniture in the Norwich Union.

Considerable improvement ia being effected on the railway station premises in Ashburton. The corporation teams are busily employed carting soil, and are making the approaches to the station much more convenient, ,and will no doubt remove the disagreeable lagoons which used to be met with by foot passengers, when leaving the platform hitherto. Of course something more than clay will be required, and it is hoped that the Government will cover the approaches with some good binding metal or asphalte. Ratepayers will be glad to learn that this work is being done at the expense of Ihe Government and not the Borough Council. Young and feeble mothers with frail children will both become strong by the use of Hop Bitters, Read. -[Advt.]

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A trial of the new Cshorne reaper and twine binder will take place to-morrow on the Alford Forest road, on a crop of oats belonging to Mr Ben. Ede. “ Major ” Pollard of the Salvation Vrmy was to arrive hero this afternoon from Oamaru, for the purpose of making arrangements for the opening of the campaign in Ashburton. An accident occurred at Longbeaoh on Tuesday afternoon, which might have resulted very disastrously, but we are glad to say that comparatively little harm was done. It appears that Mrs Archdeacon Harris had gone out for a drive with four daughters of Mr John Giigg, and on turning a somewhat sharp corner the horse swerved, capsizing the conveyance. Ah the occupants were thrown out, Mrs Harris falling underneath and sustaining the most injury. The lady was carried back to the homestead, and Dr Rosa was soon in attendance. We are glad to say Mrs Harris is progressing so fav rably that she will probably be about in a few days, and there is no occasion for her friends to feel any alarm. In connection with a supposed incendiary firejwhich formed the subject of a trial at the present Supreme Court sessions at Wellington, Detective Chrystal was examining some tracks made by a horse neat the scene of the fire, when a storekeeper in the neighborhood interfered, saying they were evidently cow tracks. He began to obliterate the outline with his finger, but the detective stopped him, saying he would not allow the storekeeper to interfere with a track which it was his duty as a detective to examine. Mr Justice Richmond remarked that it was a serious oflence for a bystander to interfere with a detective when examining supposed evidences of crime, because the detective was lega’ly in the sole possession of any evidences of crime while in the act of examining them. A person interfering in such a case as this storekeeper was said to have done, might be prosecuted for interfering with a constable in the execution of his duty. A sultry debate of an hour’s duration took place ai the meeting of the Thames Borough Council last night regarding the action of Mr F. O. Dean, Town Clerk, who recently suspended Mr J. B. Mason, the holder of a number of other municipal appointments, assigning as a reason that the latter had been convicted of assault and severely fined, A very humble apology from the delinquent for reinstatement was received. The majority of the councillors expressed the conviction that the Town Clerk had the authority to suf. pend. Eventually a resolution was carried, accepting the apology and agreeing to the reinstatement. An additional motion was, however, passed affirming the opinion that the action of the Town Clerk in suspending, without consulting the Mayor or any member of the Council, was both injudicious and uncalled for. After the conclusion of the meeting Dean publicly stated Ira intention of giving the necessary six months’ notice and resigning his appointment.

Holloways Pills.—Nervous Debility. No part of the human machine requires more watching than the nervous system—upon it hangs health and life itself. These pills are the best regulators and strengthened of the nerves, and the safest general purifiers. Nausea, headache, giddiness, numbness, and mental apathy yield to them. They dispatch in a summary manner those distressing dyspeptic symptoms, stomachic pains, fulness at the pit of the stomach, abdominal distension, and overcome both capricious appetites and confined bowels—the commonly accompanying signs of defective or deranged nervous power. Holloway’s Pills are particularly recommended to persons of studious and sedentary habits, who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated state, unless some such restorative be occasionally taken.—[Advt.]