The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevsalebit TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1246, 6 May 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevsalebit TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1884.

A Wellington telegram states that the Wanaka, with the English mails was expected to arrive there about 3.30 this afternoon. She leaves for Lyttelton shortly afterwards. We have been requested to call attention to Mr Lublow’s new advertisement appearing in !®another column. Those wishing to be clad well and economically need not go beyond our own town Judging from the limited attendance at the meeting convened last evening in the Arcade Chambers for the purpose of forming a musical society, the project scarcely promises to bo so successful as it deserves. Mr Joseph Ivesa, M.H.R., was voted to the chair, and after he had explained the objects intended to be served by the proposed organisation, a motion that an Ashburton Philharmonic Society should be formed was carried by the meeting. The election of officers was then proceeded with and resulted os follows; —President, Mr J. Ivess, M.H.8.; Yice-President, Dr Trevor and Mr Baddeley, R.M. ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr Jones; Librarian, Mr Andrewe?; Committee, Messrs Dolman, Stephenson, Paul, Branson, Farley, and Gundry. Mr Wolf was appointed musical conductor, and was also elected by a considerable majority over Mr Dolman as stage director. Mr Shaw was nominateeLlor the latter office, but declined to stand. The rules t‘ at had been prepared for the Society were read, and it was decided to refer them to the Committee for consideration, to report to next meeting. A vote of thanks to the Chairman closed the proceedings At the Police Court th’s morning, be-

fore Mr R. Alcorn, J.P., John Anderson was fined 10a for drunkenness, with the usual alternative. John Murphy, alias Dublin Jack, a well-known character in the district, was brought up on a charge of he pless drunkenness, and a further information was laid against him, for being a . vagrant. He was remanded to i huraday next. A sharp shock of earthquake is reported to have been felt at about 2 15 on Sunday morning at Methven and Alford Forest. The direction was from the South to the East.

The first of the series of Sixpenny Entertainments takes place this evening in St Stephen’s Schoolroom at 7 30 p. m. A strong feeling of dissatisfaction is

being expressed throughout the Hokitisa district at the lengthened d-lay m the case of Donoghue, who was tried an 1 sentenced to death about two months ago. A large requisition is being signed, asking the Mayor to call a public meeting to give expression to popular feeling on the subject. Several of the leading business men visited the Ross reefs on Sunday, and crushed stone there, obtaining payable gold. They brought a parcel to town and crushed it in the presence of over forty people with the same result. Fif# teen leases are pegged out, and twentyfourth interests were changing hands yesterday at Ll 5. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following cable from their London branch, dated 3rd May, 1884:—Wool —Competi. tion is increasing, and the market is firmer, except for lamb’s wool, which has declined Id to l£d per lb. Home buyers are purchasing freely. Up to date 35,000 bales have been sold. The lists closed on Ist inst. The following have been adopted as the planks of the Otago Trades and Labor Council’s political platform :—l, Land nationalisation, (as a moans to this) that in future Crown lands be disposed of by lease only ; >2, the abolition of pensions ; 3, cessation of assisted immigration ; 4, legalisation of the eight hours system ; 5, extension of hours of polling to 8 p. m ; 6, a progressive land tax and a tax on large incomes; 7, local government reform ; 8, reform of the jury law by payment of all subpoenaed jurors; 9, Government regulation of workshops; 10, reform of the Factory Act; 11, encouragement of loc 1 industries; 12, local op'.ion ; 13, elective Upper House; 14, seamen's franchise; 15, abolit on of plural voting. The Council appointed a Com ■ ittee to consider the advisability of running a newspaper in the interests of the working men, and have decided to again call the attention of the Minister for Justice to the continuance of the evil of Justices ot the Peace interested in shipping deciding cases brought before the Port Chalmers Bench in which seamen are concerned.

The brig Rio Grande was insured for L 250 in the South British and LI,OIO in a Sydney office. She will be a total loss. , „ - ~~lfds proposed to ask'Sir-J. Yegel 4(f contest the vacant seat for the Eist Coast. Mr Rees will also be a candidate for the vacant seat. Sir G. M. O’Rorke has received the resignation of Mr Allan McDonald. It had been posted in Auckland, but there was nothing to show in whose hands the resignation had been since Mr McDonald had left the colony. A shipment of tinned meat of Messrs Hellaby, of Auckland, has been sold in London to a German house for use in the German army. The meat realised in a dull market 4|d per lb. In the New Plymouth Supreme Court in the case of Burton, whiih occupied the whole of yesterday, the jury brought it. a verdict of “ Not Guilty," and the Court adjourned. Burton will be further charged with an attempt to commit fraud on an Insurance Company. The New Zealand Refrigerating Company have received a cablegram from their Loudon agents, dated 2nd inst., to the effect that their mutton, ex Fenstanton. was being landed in excellent order, and realising an average of fid per lb. Jas. Milne, of the Criterion Hotel, Invercargill, was charged yesterday at the local Resident Magistrate’s Court with permitting gambling at half-past one on Sunday morning in his house, the game being hazard. The players swore that they were only practising with the dice, and that Milne was not aware they were in the room. The Resident Magistrate ruled that the police had not proved that Milne knew that the men were gambling, and dismissed the information.

The steamer Kangaroo, which was wrecked off Cape Campbell on Friday, is owned by the Westport Colliery Company, and is insured in the National office for Ls,qOo> the whole of which, with the exception of L 250, has been reinsured, so far as is at present known, at the Wellington office of the Company. 'ihe mail which was on board the steamer was lost. No attempt will be made to raise her, in consequence of the uncertain weather and strong tides generally prevalent at the spot. A preliminary inquiry was held before the Collector of Customs at Wellington yesterday afternoon, when but little fresh evidence was adduced.

An old man named Alfred Hawley was found early yesterday morning in the railway station at Woodside, Wairarapa, in an unconscious state. On examination it was found that one of his wrists was severely cut, and that he was also slabbed in the left side. On regaining consciousness Hawley said he had committed the deed himself with a sheath knife, which was lying at his side. No reason for the rash act is assigned. At Gisborne a man named Horan has had his nose takon clean off by a falling branch.

Sir George Gray left Wellington yesterday per steamer for Lyttelton. He speaks in Christchurch to-morrow evening, and in Dunedin on Saturday evening. Sir John Ure, late Lord Provost of Glasgow, Lady Ure, and their daughter, were passengers by the Tarawera from Melbourne, and are staying at Invercaf gill. It is proposed in the Palmerston district to raise a popular subscription and obtain an oil painting of Mr Stout, for presentation to him in recognition of his services on the Land Board. A seven-roomed house in Tuam street east, Chriatchnrch, occupied by Messrs Whitley, father and two sons, with their families, was burnt last night about seven o’clock. It was insured for Ll5O in the London and Lancashire, and the furniture of one son for L 25 in the same office.

Mr Montgomery, M.H. R. for Akaroa, addressed a crowded meeting at Christchurch last night. His speech was largely a recapitulation of that given by him at Akaroa. He quoted Hansard to prove his farmer statement that Sir Julius Vogel had said that millions of the first loan had to be expended to purchase support from Members of the House. He denied that Otago and Canterbury had had their fair share of expenditure. He exp r essed himself in favor of a local government for each ia'and, with a federal government sitting at Wellington. A motion to the effect that he was worthy of the confidence and respect of the electors of the colony, was passed almost unanimously. A motion declining to express confidence in him as a leader, till the electors had heard Sir George Grey, was negbtived by a considerable majority. Thick Heads, heavy stomachs, bilious conditions —Wells’ May Apple Pills—anti-bilious-cathartic. Sd and is. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. i