The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY. JUNE 2, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1269, 2 June 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY. JUNE 2, 1884.

The Committee of the Ashburton 1 County Hunt Club met at Qnili’s Hotel on Saturday evening. Present—Messrs Crisp (in the chair), Stitt, Quill, Saunders Wroughton and Dr Leahy. It -was resolved to accept Mr Smith’s offer to continue hunting the hounds during June and July, and the following meets were fixed for Jane, viz:—7tb, Mr Joseph Hunt’s, Wakanni ; 12th, Mr Andrew Dawson’s, Waterloo ; 21st, Chertsey ; 26th, Winslow. Mr P. A. Read was elected a member of the Committee in place of the late Mx John Carter. It was decided to bold Hunt Club Steeplechases on 'I hursday, 7th August, and a Committee was appointed to draft a programme and report to the General Committee at a meeting on Saturday next. The following return of drunkards arrested and convicted from Ist January, 1879, to 31st May, 1884, was submitted to the Licensing Committee at their meeting to-day by Sergeant Felton : 1879, males 194, females 2, total 196 ; 1880, males 184, females 3, total 187 ; 1881, males 280, females 4, total 284; 1882, males 343, females 7, total 356 ; 1883, males 336, females 14, total 330 ; 1884, males 199, females 10, total 209. We would remind those gentlemen who are willing to act on Mr Purnell’s electoral committee that a meeting will be held this evening in Montgomery's buildings. The choristers at St Stephen’s church appeared for the first time in surplices yesterday (Whit Sunday). The robes were made by the .Ladies’ Sewing Class, Mrs John Grigg finding the material. Letters from beyond the colony are awaiting, the following persons at the Ashburton Post Office, having lain there over a month:—Emil Jansen, James Sinclair, James Stewart, Daniel Raftery. Edgar Bastings, who committed suicide on board the Liotomahana, was the brother ef Mr Horace Bastings, formerly M. H. R. H« was on a visit to Melbourne for the benefit of his health. He had been an hotelkeeper for many years. Robert Reid, chief steward of the Koranui, was found dead in his cabin* at Port Ohalmers at six o’clock on Saturday night. A bottle containing about an ounce of laudanum was found underneath him on {he sofa. Reid appears to have drank heavily at Lyttelton. The supposed cause of death is heart disease: He consumed three ounces of laudanum.

A consignment of 500 sheep, sent from Gisborne by Mr Ciark, through the Loan and Mercantile Company, per Doric, realised 7d a lb in London, the highest price given for any of her frozen meat.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile

Agency Company, Limited, are in receipt of the following cablegram from London, dated 30th May :—Wool : The sale programme has been curtailed by five days. The next sales will comihence on 12tli August, and the fourth series on lltb Nov."

Tb» contractors for the erection of machinerynt Caswell Sound Marble Company have completed the work, and the plant has been taken over, 'the machinery works very smoothly, and gives every satisfaction to the Directors.

Sir Julius Vogel has definitely consent the Ashburton seat, and efforts are be ng mode to form a strong committee to secure his return.

At: the Police Court this morning

Robert Alcorn, Esq , J. P., presided, and inflicted a fine of 20s for drunkenness upon a first offender. Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or.any other neuralgic pain spcediiy yields to Baxter’s AntiNeuralgic Pills. jCsoo will be paid for any case that Hop bitters will not cure or help. Doubt not. See. —[-Advt.] Holloway’s Pills. —Health or Wealth.— No sane person would -hesitate an instant in the choice between these two conditions. Now is the season to secure the former either by restoring dr confirming it. These Pills expel all impurities from the system which fogs, foul vapours, and variable temperatures ingender during winter ; this medicine also acts most wholesomely upon the skin by disgorging the liver of its accumulated bile, vud by exciting the kidneys to more energuic action; ncreases the appetite for food and strengthens the digestive process. The stomach and liver, which most disorders originate, are fully under the control of these regenerative Pills, which act very kihdly yet most efficiently on the tenderest bowels.-—[Advt.] The;-Bad and Worthless

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