The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prevalebit. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1055, 21 January 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prevalebit. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1884.

The Carbine match, Dunedin Naval Brigade v, Bspidgle, was won by the former with 643 to 534.

A slight shock of earthquake is reported to have been felt in Christchurch at 20 minutes past five on Saturday afternoon. An entertainment will be given tonight at the Old Men’s Borne. The public will, as usual, be admitted free, and there will be a collection for the Home Library. The programme is an excellent one. The chair will be taken, by the Rev E. A. Scott at 7 30 p.m. punctually. The Wellington City Council having determined to cut off the supply of water to the Government unless they paid the full amount of the account due by them; the Government paid on Saturday morning, and the water was consequently not cut off.

Mr J. Marshall, of Auckland, stepped in at the last moment and secured one of the highly-bred yearlings which the New Zealand Stud Company were sending to Sydney. This was a yearling brother to Necklace, by Musket out of Locket, and the price was 300 guineas. While Mr Seymour George, M.H R., was practising at a shooting gallery at the Onehunga racecourse on Saturday, the gun burst in his hand while being fired, blowing off a portion of the left fore-finger and injuring the base of the thumb and rest of the fingers. The police took possession of the weapon. Dr Walker happened to be on the racecourse, and attended to Mr George’s injuries. It is expected that the manufacturing works of the Caswell Sound Marble Company will be in full operation by the end of May next. The cargo of marble brought to Wellington by the s. s. Kangaroo list week is now lying in the company’s yards, and has been examined by a number of gentlemen interested in the development of the industry. The marble is of a beautiful white color. Mr Cox, of the Geological Department, has pronounced the marble to be of good quality. An inquiry was opened at Auckland on Saturday morning, before Mr Seth Smith, R.M., and Captain Frater, Nautical Assessor, on the application of Robert Thompson, Collector of Customs at New Plymouth, tor the purpose of investigating the casualty which occurred to the British ship Douglas at Airedale Reef on her passage from Onehunga to Waitara, on the 6th November last. The information stated there was great carelessness on the part of the master, Captain Chas Bonnor, who was at the wheel at the time of the accident, in steering for a false light, although the ivght was bright and cloudless. Mr Hudson Williamson, Crown solicitor, appeared for Mr Hill, and Mr Tole for Captain Bonnor, and on Mr Tola’s application the inquiry was held over till Saturday next.

The return of j the number of criminal cases dealt with at the Wellington Resident Magistrate’s Court during the past year shows that 1,363 males and 268 females were either summoned or taken into custody on various charges. Of these 254 males and 46 females were discharged for want of evidence. The following shows the number of cases under the different headings :—Dismissed on their merits, 63 males and 5 females ; committed for trial, 31 males and 5 females; summarily convicted, 1,015 males and 212 females ; fined, 696 males and 58 females; imprisoned in lieu of fine, 267 males and 84 females ; peremptory punishment, 127 mates and 45 females ; whipping, 3 males ; bound over to keep peace, v* males and 3 females; orders made, 73 males and 22 females. Amongst 1,631 cases disposed of there were 436 cases of drunkenness, 262 under the City by-laws, 174 for vagrancy, 94 for larceny, 73 for common assault, 45 for wilful damage to property, 65 under the Shipping and Seamen’s Act, 69 under the Dog Registration Act, and 42 under the Licensing Act. On Saturday evening at 5.30 o’clock John Phillips, a resident on the Kaiapoi Island, was thrown from his horse at the bridge on the north road at the j unction with Rice’s road, receiving such injuries that in spite of medical skill and unremitting attention, he died at 6 a.m. yesterday. Deceased has been for two years in the employ of Mr T. Pashby, and had left work about 3 p.m. and ridden to Kaiapoi for supplied of meat and bread. On his return it is presumed his horse, which had been some time foundered, slipped on the planning of the bridge and fell. Deceased’s head, which had struck some hard substance or on the bridge railing, was seriously fractured at the temple. The horse was much cut and covered with mud on one side. Mr L. Giles, a farmer, who was returning from Christchurch market, saw the horse fall, and drove up to decease 1, and Mrs Fraser, of Kaiapoi, driving up at the tune, also rendered assistance by going for help and obtaining restoratives. Phillips was removed insensible to .Mr H. Davis’ house, where .every possible attention was shown to him. Dr Chiltpn attended, and subsequently Dr Ovenden. It was found necessary during the evening to remove a portion of the skull that pressing on the poor, fellow’s brain, but he' npvep rallied or gained consciousness. Deceased, who was unmarried, was a native of Buchan, Scotland.

Mr D. Oliver, of Westerfield, informs that he saw the much-'alked-of comet at nine o’clock last night. It was in the western sky, about fifteen degrees above the horizon. The tail was scarcely visible without the aid of a glass. We have not heard of the comet being seen from Ash burton, though no doubt there have been many star gazers on the look-out for it. An accident happened to a man named McConnelley on Friday last whilst coming out of the Alford Forest Bush with a load of timber. McConnelley, who is in the employ of Mr .Black, contractor, was in the act of whipping one of the leading horses, when it let out with its heels, hitting the unfortunate driver on the left cheek, and inflicting a nasty gash, but fortunately breaking no bones. McOonnelley was taken to Ashburton-, where Dr Ross attended to him, and he is now progressing favorably towards recovery. The Ntw Zealand Times very much regrets to leai n that the well-known lecturess on social matters, Madame Lotti Wilmot, lies m a most precarious condition at the house of sdr Morret, of the Lower Hutt. The whereabouts of Madame Wilmot were quite unknown to her Wellington friends till Thursday evening, when she wrote to a gentleman in the city, informing him that she had for the past six months suffered the most acute agony, and for the past four months she had been confined to her bed. In a most pathetic manner she writes:—“ If I have any friends, I need them now. lam here, I fear, on a deathbed.” The following is from the Harbinger of Light : —“ We have it on the authority of a gentlemen long resident in Melbourne (whose name and address we will furnish to anyone desirous of making confirmatory inquiries) that his house has been for some months past the scene of strong physical manifestations, which have been witnessed by himself and five other persons, in the full blaze of gaslight. Loud knockings have been heard in various parts of the house, on the room door, the walls, and the glass of the window, for which they were unable to discover any ordinary cause A bell which was never used, the wire being broken, was repeatedly rung. The knockings and the bell-ringings both responded intelligently to questions. Movements of various articles of furniture also took place. One evening the chair went up the chimney as far as it would go, then tumbled over on the floor, no one being near it. On another occasion a pillow came flying down the staircase. It was taken up again and repla ed, and a search made, but without success, for any person playing pranks. On coming down they were followed by two pillows and a bolster. Some one went partly up the stairs, and threw them up to the landing, when, on turning to comedown, a pillow was thrown at his head. A towel also came flying down, glided some distance along the passage. On one occasion, whan knocking came on the room door, oia person took hold of knobs on each side to see if he could discover their source The knocking*, however, came as before, close to his face, the gas being full on.

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