The Ashburton Guardian. Manga Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1062, 28 January 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Manga Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1884.

0 ho Tarawera arrived at the Bluff yesterday morning after a most successful passage round the Sounds. They had glorious weather throughout. The Victorian bowlers were badly beaten by the Dunedin Club on Saturday. The game ended at 5.30 with a total score for Dunedin of 135, Victoria 96. Dunedin led all the way. Bis Excellency the Governor arrived at Bluff on Saturday from Invercargill. Accompanied by Major Eccles and Major Cautley he inspected the site at Tewaise Point, chosen by Major Cautley to erect a battery. They proceeded to Stewart’s Island and the Sounds at 4 a.m. yesterday.

It has been discovered that the Wellington magistrates have for a long time past been imposing penalties of under 20s for drunkenness, while the lowest legal penalty is that sum. Last year there were 140 more convictions for drunkenness than in the previous year, whieh is attributed to a large number of arrivals by direct steamships, who get on the spree on landing.

Croat interest was taken in the Dunedin Bicycle Club’s sports on Saturday afternoon. The principal races were the One Mile and Ten Mile Championships of New Zealand. These resulted in fine contests between Langdown, of Christchurch, the present champion, and F, A. Cutten, ex-champion. Cutten, the local man, won both events, Langdown winning the Five Mile Race. Cutten was not a competitor in the last event. The “ Captain ” of the Salvation Army was assaulted at the door of the Oamaru qarracks o it> Saturday night as the services were about to commence, by six or seven young roughs. There has been a sort of ill-feeling on the part of the roughs to the “ Captain,” and it culminated in an attack on his person. The police arrested one of the assailants, and he will be brought up at the Court to-day. Some peculiar disclosures are, it is said, expected *o be made when the case comes on.

The natives had no meeting at Alexandra on Friday, awaiting Kewi and Paul’s arrival. Tawhianga interviewed Tawhiao yesterday. It is rumored he wanted Tawhiao, Rewi, and Taonui to join in a telegram to the Queen, expressing their disapproval of Mr Bryce’s action re the surveys of the Maniopoto land, and so intercept any despatch from the Native Minister to the Homo Government. Mr Sydney Tawhianga, it is believed, will take this opportunity of canvassing for himself against next general election. The session of the Wesleyan Conference on Saturday afternoon was devoted to the consideration of the state of religion in the churches, The annual returns showed 5,622 members and 1,300 additional communicants, Sunday scholars 16,866. The total attendance upon public worship was 56,122. A long conversation took place, in which several members of che Conference took part, after which a resolution expressing gratitude to God for the largest increase of church members and hearers ever recorded in any one year of the church’s history in the colony, was passed, and ordered to be printed in the minutes. The events on the Wellington regatta programme, which ware postponed from Tuesday last, were got oft on Saturday afternoon. The weather was fine with a fresh north-east wind blowing. The volunteer boat race was won by the Petone Navals. The handicap yacht race was won by the Sappho (Bmin), The Pet (7min) a bad second. The Gamma won the second class yacht race by fully four miles. The ships’ boats go-as-you-please race was won by a crew from the ship Margaret Galbraith. The coasters’ race was struck off the programme. Hop Bitters gives good digestion, active liver, good circulation and buoyant spirits. Read larger.— [Advt.] That weakness and lassitude so frequent in fast-growing children may be easily remedied by a few doses of Hop Bitters. Read.— Advt.] “ German Syrup.” —No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup. Tn three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed free of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup \yifi cure them. The result has been that Druggists in every towi> and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggist and ask what they know about in. Sample Bottles 6d. Regular size 3s. 6d. Three oses will relieve any case.— [Advt.]

We would remind our readers that the annual election of a School Committee takas place ibis evening in the schoolhouse.

At the Police Court this morning, before Mr Baddeloy, R. M., two men named Wm. Wilson and Alexander Smith wore each fined ss, with the usual alternative. In the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday morning vhe case of Regina v the Hon John Martin, M.L.0., was heard before Judge Richmond. It was a suit brought to recover LSOO damages in respect to a small piece of land forming portion of approach to the Hutt bridge, which, it was alleged, defendant has many years ago sold and conveyed to the Provincial Government, but the conveyance •of which not having been registered, the defendant has since obtained a title to the land under the Land Transfer Act, and re-sold it to another party. All the evidence on each side was taken, and the law points were adjourned for argument in banco.

A deputation representing the Manawatu County Council waited on the Premier and Minister of Public Works at Wellington, on Saturday, to urge the necessity of placing a sum on the Estimates next session for a railway through Manawatu Gorge, extending from Woodville to the Foxton-Taranaki line. The deputation earnestly pressed upon the attention of the Government the desirability of pushing on this important work as speedily as possible. The Ministers received the proposal very favora ly. The Minister of Public Works expressed a strong conviction of the importance of the work, and fully recognised the necessity 6f the Gorge line as an essential link in the trunk railway system of the North Island. He intimated the opinion that the railway ought to be»constructed without delay, and he promised that a rote for that purpose would be placed on the Public Works Estimates next session, and that the Engineer-in-Chief would be immediately instructed to pul in hand the needful surveys, etc, forthwith. The Premier concurred, and the deputation having expressed satisfaction wjth the Ministerial assurance, withdrew. The latest - phase of “ the Native difficulty ” in New Zealand is of the seriocomic order. Simply put (says ‘ Zamiel ” in the Auckland Star) it resolves itself into a difficulty which their chiefs experience in carrying on their time-honored practice of polygamy. Wahanui, a chief of great “weight” and influence and wealth, is just now prostrated from the effects of a little domestic “ difficulty ” of that kind. Though already quite sufficiently married, the obese chiefUin the other day took home a new wife to his harem, whereat the “ boss ” female lifted a war-club and flattened the old fellow’s bump of ama iveness with it. Even the Maori King, as I lately saw from the papers, has to succumb to the spread of European ideas among the native women, who, used to doing bravo deeds on the field of battle, are proving as valiant' in the field of Cupid. More power to their strong right arm, says “ Zamiel,” and may they keep on in their civilising, humanising and levelling career 1

Yesterday afternoon at a quarter past four a fire broke out at the corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes streets, Christchurch, in the premises of Mr Lezza, the confectioner, The alarm was given from the adjacent box by Messrs Whitehead and Painter, who live close by. They saw a dense volume of smoke ascending from the building at the rear of Mr Lezza’s house, in which his manufacture was carried on. The place seemed to be all on fire, and little could be done to extinguish it pending the arrival of the Fire Brigade, but a strong posse of neighbors was soon at work getting furniture first from the burning buildings, and afterwards from the houses on either side. These were socn

threatened, for the fire increased rapidly, and when the engines arrived their full strength was devoted to confining the fire to the confectionery building first attacked and the five, roomed wooden house adjoiniug it, which was by this time ablaze. The chemical engine was quickly at work in the road, while the Deluge and Extinguisher were stationed at the Barba does street bridge. After about twenty minutes the latter engine was unfortunately disabled through the breaking of a tube in its boiler. However, the efforts of the Brigade were rewarded with success, neither of the adjoining houses being injured. The police were quickly on the scene, and had plenty to do to keep off the dense crowd that assembled. The house was insured for L3OO, and the stock, n aohinery, fittings and furniture for L7OO, all in the Victorian office, but some of this is re-insured. Some suspicious circumstances appearing, Salvatore Lezza was afterwards arrested by detective O’Connor on a charge of arson. Oamaru, remarks the Mail, is at present honored with the attentions of seve ral notorious characters, whoso presence is calculated to produce prophecies of robberies to come. It is therefore not pleasant to reflect that the Salvation Army for several hours each night monopolise the time and attention of the small body of guardians of the public peace allotted to the town, and consequently the property of law-abiding citizens is placed at the mercy of a set of theives. yhat such a condition of things should be necessary—if necessary it is—does not speak much for the Army or a section of the community, and it amounts to this ; That, owing to the adyent of the Salvation Army and the consequent growth of larrikinisra, the taxpayers of the country will either have to provide the funds for the maintenance of a greatly augmented police force or their goods and chattels, if not lives and limbs, must go unprotected. We confess that we are by no means impressed with the justice of the present course, and fail to see on what ground the Salvation Army can, for protective purposes, claim a monopoly of the police, The “Captain,” however, thinks otherwise, and during tne course of last night’s meeting declared that he was not going to remove from the hall people whose presence and behavior were distasteful to him, and added that the police were paid to do his dirty work. To say the least of it, this remark catno with an ill-grace from the local head of an organisation which claims that its special mission is to preach unto all men love, peace, and goodwill, but whose presence in the town has doubled the work of the police and made their positions decidedly unenviable.

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