The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1271, 4 June 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1884.

As intimated by a telegram which appeared in our last night’s issue, the Dunedin Central Licensing Committee yesterday granted all applications for midnight licenses. One publican, who had only applied for an eleven o’clock license, 011 intimating that he would have applied for a midnight license had ha thought it would have been granted, was placed on the same footing as the others. The Sydney Morning Herald of May 29th, has a full account of the match played by the New Zealand Football team against the Cumberland County on May 27th. The play of the New Zealand representatives is referred to in most eulogistic terms, and the report conclude* as follows: —The run of the day was mr’e ty '! aiaroa, who, getting hold of the ball, cleverly dodged about ten of the opposing side one after another, and amidst great excitement, obtained a try, giving W, V. Million an easy chance of kicking a goal, which the skipper of New Zealand did not miss. This brought the game to a close, the visitors having scored 33 points, or 4 goals and 7 tries, to their opponents’ nil. The New Zealanders played in fine form, their accurate passing and strength an 1 the concerted action of their forward players being greatly admired by those present. Wuere all played so well it would be invidious to single out any one of the victors for special mention, but it must be said they played a most unselfish game, and were ably handled by the captain, W. Y. Million. On the other hand the local team betrayed a sad want of knowledge of the game, and hence their opposition was of a very feeble character.

The second meeting of the Sheffield Coursing Club was commenced at Darfield yesterday. The first round of the President’s Cup, in which Mr W. Zander’s blk and w b Fairy Queen is engaged, was completed. The Ashburton representative won her course easily, beating Mr D. Mitchell’s blk b Lucy. A meeting of the Longbeach District School Committee was held in the Main School on Monday evening, all the members being present. Mr W. J. Steward, M.H.H. for Waimate, wrote enclosing a copy of the Act be intends to bring before the House of Representatives during the coming session, and it was discussed by the Committ e. Correspondence was read from the Board of Education confirming the appointment of the two masters —Mr Andrew Malcolm, who will commence duties at the Main School on the 12th inst , and Mr Arthur Bramley, who has already entered on his duties at the Side School. Firewood and coals were ordered to be supplied at each school. Several other matters of routine character were attended to, and after passing accounts amounting to L 23 10a lOd for payment, the Committee adjourned. Mr and Mrs Mackay have been selected from a large number of applicants for the positions of master and matron at the Ashburton Hospital. Mr Mackay has had a very large experience in English hospitals, and his testimonials indicate that he is exceptionally well qualified for the post to which he is now appointed. Mrs Mackay is also a professional nurse of considerable experience, and has been recaitly engaged with her husband at the Sunnyside Asylum, from which institution they bring excellent credentials.

We regret to learn that Mr Foster, manager at Shepherd’s Bush Station, met with a somewhat severe accident on Friday last. A number of friends were at the atation- to celebrate the return of Dr B. Moorhouse, from England, and two sweepstake steeplechases were included in the festivities. Wiiile competing in one of these races, the horse ridden by Mr Foster fell and rolled over his rider. Mr Foster received a very severe shaking, and remained in an unconscious state until Sunday Afternoon. Mr Doppin met with an accident during the same race, and was stunned for some time. Dr Moorhouse attended to the two sufferers, and they are now both progressing favorably. The South Rakaia Library Committee mot on Tuesday evening. Present— Messrs Hardy (Chairman), Mutter, Clark, Oxley and Broadbent. Mr Makeig wrote apologising for inability to attend.—lt was reported that the amount cleared at the late concert in aid of the building fund was Ll 7 17s 31, and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Broadbent, the secretary, for his indefatigable labors in connection with the affair.—lt was resolved that some substantial token should bo given to Miss Sharp, as a slight recognition of her services at the .hall.—Votes of thanks were passed to the ladies and gentlemen who had assisted at the concert.—The Chairman stated that plans for additions to the building had been prepared, and the contract Net to Me Bdington for L 54 ; the work now in hand and was to be completed in about three weeks.—The meeting then adjourned, and the annual meeting was held, a considerable number of subscribers being present, —Mr Hardy took the chair, and reported that the cash at present in the Bank was L 54 7s 2d ; rent due, Ll2 10s, and overdue subscription some L 5 10s, making a total of L 72 7s 2d.—lt was resolved that in future the annual balance sheet should be made out up to 3Xst December.—Mr Hardy was elected president and treasurer. Mr Broadbent was reelected secretary. The following gentlemen were appointed Committee-men — Messrs Clark, Mutter, Reycraft, Oxley, Makeig and Evans. A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the meeting to a close.—At a Committee meeting held after the general meeting, accounts amounting to Ll 6 13s were passed for payment, and it was resolved to have another entertainment and cencert in aid of the Library Fund, on Tuesday, Bth July.

Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or any other neuralgic pain speedily yields to Baxter’s AntiNeuralgic Pills. will be paid for any case that Hop bitters will not cure or help. Doubt not. See. —[Apvx.]

Wells’ “Rough on Corns.”—Ask for Wells’ “ Rough on Corns. ” 7)4d, Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. Holloways Pills.—Nervous Debility. No part of the human machine requires more watching than the nervous system—upon it hangs health anti life itself. These pills are the best regulators and slrengtheners 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.]

August Flower.—The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than 75 per cent of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects; such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpitation of the heart, heart burn, waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of august flower. This valuab'e medicine has cured thousands and thousands of sufferers, and is known in all civilised tonniries. Two doses will relieve you. It costs only 3s 6d a bottle. Sample bottles, 6d.—[Advt,

The address of Sir Julius Vogel to H,o electors of Ashburton will be found in our advertising columns this eve.ning. We have received from the publishets of the New Zealand Country Journal a copy of the American Consul’s repoit on “ New Zealand : Her Commerce and P.esources.” The report contains a vast amount of statistical and descriptive matter, which is presented in a very clear and readable form and will he perused with pleasure by all those taking an interest in ihe colony. Consul Griffin is an author of some note in his own country, and this publication will not detract from his favorable reputation. At Flemington yesterday there was a large gathering of Presbyterians and others to assist at the induction of the Rev Alexander Blake to the charge of that district. The service took place in the schoolroom, the Rev A. M. Beatt:e acting as moderator, and the Rev Mr Tout preached. The Rev Mr West ad dressed the minister and the Kev Mr Elmslie the people. Thera was a large attendance at the service, including a number of Presbyterian clergymen from Christchurch- and other districts. A tea meeting was held in the evening, and the well furnished tables wore presided over by Maadames Anderson, Gilmour, Dunn, Prebble, Taylor, CapeWilliamaon, and Fleming, the bachelors’ table being under the charge of Misses Anderson and Taylor. The tea was followed by a number of addresses and musical selections contributed by the choir. During the evening Mr CapeWilliamson, on behalf of a large number of subscribers in the Lnngboaoh district, presented Mr Wallace with a testimonial in recognition of his services to the church.

A united evangelistic meeting will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Wills street, to-night, at 7.30 p.m., when addresses will be delivered by the Revs West, Blake and others.

A coal miner named Thomas Henderson was accidentally killed at the Westport Coal Co. ’s mine yesterday. He was putting in jjropa and loosened a large stone, which fell on his stomach. It took four men t > remove the stone. He subsequently died in the hospital. Mr Fish, M. ELR., was yesterday presented with ah address and a purse of 120 sovereigns from his Dunedin political friends and admirers.

The Suburban Licensing Court at South Dunedin refused to grant any new licenses, and voted LlO towards assisting in putting down sly grog shops. They also decided to bring under the notice of the Minister of Justice a decision of the magistrate that when demanding admittance to a hotel the policeman must notify under which clause of the Licensing Act he demands it.

The correspondent of the Christchurch Press telegraphs from Wellington The news of the dynamite scare in Sydney referred to in the cable messages led to some anxiety here as to whether similar warnings from Home had been received by the New Zealand authorities. On making enquiries this evening, however, I found that r>o intimation of the sort had been received.

A telegram was sent to Sir George M. O’Rorke from Taranaki yesterday, requesting that the Auckland members should call at New Plymouth on their way to Wellington, to see the progress of the breakwater.

Tawhai, M.H.R , delivered an address at the Salvation Army Barracks, Auckland, on Monday night. The South Auckland Licensing Oom-

ittee have cancelled one license for Sunday trading, -and contemplate cancelling another on other grounds. They intimated that they would cancel every license where there was conviction tor Sunday trading. At Waipawa yesterday, J. McGreevy, while getting on a dray loaded with gravel, fell under the wheel, which went over his spine and killed him instantly. His father was present. It is understood that Dr. Newman, the recently elected member for Thorndon, will move the address in repiy. We learn from Wellington that the Premier is still confined to his be 1 by indisposition, and a Cabinet Council was held in his room yesterday. It is, however, hoped that Major Atkinson will be sufficiently recovered to take his seat when the House meets.

At the unemployed meeting, in Dunedin yesterday, the Mayor intimated thet he had requested the Pi-eraier to increase the wages offered to married men to 5s per day, and all present intimated their willingness to work at that price. The City Council and Harbor Board will each take on about twenty men. A reply has been received from the Premier that he will give 4s per day a fair trial before increasing it.

The Invercargill Licensing Committee met yesterday; and fixed the hour for closing all hotels at ten o’clock, with exception of the Albion and Southland Club, which will retain eleven o’clock licenses. The Committee of the Second Ward informed the licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel that the fact that the house was of wood was the only barrier to granting the .extended license to that hotel. ?

The examinations for the Canterbury Board of Education scholarships began yesterday. The following are the numbers presenting themselves : —A, 6 boys, 3 girls ; B, 9 boys, 8 girls ; 0, 12 girls, 8 boys, The Licensing Committee refused to renew the license of the Victorian Hotel, Colombo street, Christchurch, on the grounds that the premises were unsuitable to modern requirements, and very close to another hotel.

The New Zealand Clothing Factory are about to pull down Cashel House in Christchurch and replace it by a threestorey building of brick, with 50 feet frontage to Cashel street and a depth of 200 feet.

Remember that a little Hop Bitters saves big doctor’s bills, and cures when all else fail. Read.—[Advt.] Thick Heads, heavy stomachs, bilious conditions—Wells’ May Apple Pills—anti-bilious-cathartic. $d and is. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents, I Don’t Die in the House. —“ Rough on Rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jackrabbits, gophers, The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it has been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce sudering invalids to u c their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops ” were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word “Hop” or “Hops” in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.