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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1276, 10 June 1884, Page 2

The Committee of the Ashburton Racing Club met at the Olnb’s room last evening. Present Messrs Parnell, Crisp, Quill, Thomas, Hewson, Denshire, Thomas, M. Friedlander, A. Harrison, and Dr Leahy. On the motion of Mr Crisp, Mr Purnell was elected Chairman of Committees for the .year. The Chairman and Secretary were authorised to settle an account rendered by Mr Braddell. It was resolved to let the racecourse to the Hunt Club for the purpose of holding steeplechases on the 7th August at the usual charge of L 25, and that the Racing Club make a donation of LlO 10s to the funds of the Steeplechases. The Secretary was directed to enquire from Mr P. Campbell if he would act as starter to the Club. The following sub committees weie appointed :—lmprovement: Messrs M Friedlander, Crisp, Drs Leahy, and Rosa; Finances Messrs Thomas, H Friedlander, and Dr Ross. Mr J. C Dolman waited upon the Committee in reference to the fence between his property and the racecourse. The Secretary reported that this fence had been very much damaged by the ,recent occupier of the land'now owned by Mr Dolman, and that the Club had repeatedly repaired it. The matter was referred to the Improvement Committee. The question of top dressing the course was discussed at some length, and it was eventually resolved that Messrs Stiti and Winter be requested to confer with the Improvement Committee in reference to top dressing the course, and that the Committee report at next meeting. The annual meeting of the Mount Somers Licensing Committee was held et the Road Board office, Mount Somers, yesterday at noon Present Messrs Walker (in the chnir), Peache and M*ofarlane. The, police reported favorably upon the two hotels in the district. Mr Bood, of the Mount Somers Hotel, and Mr Tisch, of the Alford Forest Hotel, asked the Committee to grant them accommodation in place of hotel licenses. The Committee intimated that they were unable to do this, but would grant renewals as hotel licenses, and recommend the Colonial Treasurer to reduce the fees from L 25 to L2O.

The meeting of the County Council adjourned from laat Friday until to-day was further adjourned this morning until Tuesday next. The Ashburton hounds met at the N.E. Belt on Saturday. There was a larger attendance than usual, and the sport was fairly good. Soma time ago it was reported that Sir Julius Vogel's Committee would provide special trains to enable electors to attend that gentleman’s meeting on Friday. We have been requested to state that although Sir Julius intimated that he would be prepared to bear the cost of such a facility, his Committee find that it would be a breach of the Corrupt Practices Act, and the proposal has been abandoned.

Our own correspondent writes :—The first of the winter series of entertainments in aid of the funds of the Methven Library was held in the schoolroom on Friday last. The room was literally packed to the door. The programme consisted of songs and recitations by all the local celebrities, and each item was. received with rounds of applause, encores being the rule of the evening. Without being invidious there is one gentleman who, under the non de plume, of “ Billy Barlow,” deserves more than a passing notice. He entertained the audience to an original political address in poetry, as a candidate for the suffrages of the electors of the Ashburton district, and afterwards in .the same poetical strain gave a brief resume of the progress of Methven, and finished by presenting to the County Council and Road Board a very original and scientific stormwater schema. After the concert the room was cleared, and the lovers of the light fantastic toe tripped it to the music of Messrs Gibhriat and Harper, until the “ wee short hours ayount the twal,” were reached.

, No one can be sick if the stomach, blood, liver, and kidneys are well. Hop Bitters keeps them well. Notice.— [Advt.] Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or any other neuralgic pain speediiy yields to Baxter’s AntiNeuralgic Pills. The most vexing problem of the day is how to dress well on a small income. This can be solved by paying a visit to H. E. May and Co., of Christchurch. They are now selling the balance of a very large purchase made from the trustees in the estate of Messrs Hudson, Ridley and Co. at actual landed cost, kindly read their advertisement which appears in our columns. See the goods at the prices there mentioned, and you will be more than satisfied that they are far below the ordinary trade prices.— [Advt.] • The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or coimterfeited. 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 beea 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 thg people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B Many others started nostrums put up in simi lar 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 w< Te label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in th glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and ch ,mists are warned against dealing in im ta- ... lions or counterfeit 1 ' 1

A man named Fredk. NiclO-a c m mitted suicide in Oastle street, Uunedin last evening by taking laudanum. Uo had been- drinking heavily, and wa* brought home drunk during the day. Hi called hia wife into the bedroom, arid bidding her good bye drank the laudanum, which she thought was wine. He afterwards came out into the kitchen, and smoked his pipe, dying nearly two hours afterwards.

A public examination of a number of b»nktupts was held a t Dunedin before Judge Williams yesterday. His Honor, contrary to the practice of Judge Johnston, allowed the Assignee to appear without counsel.

The statement .of assets and liabilities in the insolvent estate of W. and G. Turnbull and 00. was filed in the Official Assignee’s office at Dunedin yesterday. The total liabilities are L 63,723 ; the unsecured debts being L 30,203 ; and the secured debts L 33.620 ; and securities are valued at L 38.764; and the total assets L 51,372 ; the deficiency is L 12.321. The Hobson County Council passed a resolution that the County in connection with other Counties north of Auckland ask the Government for 200 acres for a model farm, on which to place a small class of immigrants expressly skilled in serioiculture and the cultivation of subtropical products, for the purpose of imparting knowledge to settlers as to the best mode of carrying on these industries, and that the Government be petitioned for Mr Federli’s removal to the Survey Department, Auckland, in order that his knowledge and advice be available. The Now Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, have received the following cable message; London, June 7. —- Ruapehu, s.s,, sailed from Madeira, en route for Wellington, on June 4th. Mr Allan Mann’s flour and oatmeal mill at Woodside, Outram, in Taieri county, together with a large quantity of grain, was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. Only the water-wheel of the mill was saved. The building was valued at LISOO, and was not insured. It is calculated that about L 660 worth of grain, the propervy of Messrs |Dackens and {a few other persons, was burned. Mr Dackens has an insurance for L3OO on the grain, and estimates his loss at L 350 over that amount. The mill was the property of Mr Mann, and leased by Mr Dackens at an annual rental of Ll3O, and with a purchasing clause of LISOO. On Friday and Saturday the kiln was rather heavily fired, and it is presumed that as the fire started in the kiln, -thfe wood work must have ignited. An insurance policy for LIOOO existed on the mill till about six weeks ago when it lapsed. At-the Christchurch Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Margaret George, licensee of the Heathcote Arms Hotel, was charged with failing to. provide accommodation as required by the Licensing Act. The prosecutor deposed that he had applied for a tea and bod, and had been told by the barman there was no tea, and no beds in the house. He admitted he had been sent by Todhunter, of Vincent and Co., brewers, who own the hotel, and cannot get possession. All the furniture was sold off recently. The case was dismissed with costs against the informant, the Magistrate saying the machinery of the Court was not to be used for the furtherance of private ends. A seven-roomed wooden house at Avonside, Christchurch, owned by Mrs Stephen Harper, a widow, and occupied by James Denham, grocer, was burned down last night. The house was insured in the Liverpool, London and Globe for LIOO, and Denham’s stock was insured for L3OO in the Victorian. Denham was absent when the fire broke out, and the cause is unknown. Later particulars of the fatal fire at Springfield state that after, putting the two youngest children to bed, the eldest boy, twelve years old, and another went out, leaving in charge a little girl of five years, who says while ■unh»oing~-l>a»-a towel caught fire from the candle and ignited the building. The insurances are L 175 in the Standard office, and L 75 in the Australian Mercantile.

At the Invercargill Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday Thomas Robison, aged sixteen, apprentice to a hairdresser, was committed for trial for feloniously entering the premises of Scott, fruiterer, adjoining those of his employer, and stealing goods. The shops had one outer door i.j common, inside of which was the door of each shop He had had to attend to the baths on Sunday, and a key of his master’s, that opened Scott’s door, he had been in the habit of keeping himself. Scott deposed that for two months' past he suspepted some person was in the habit of entering the shop between Satur- ' day night and Monday morning, and in consequence of that suspicion he handed over the key to Detective Bde. On Sunday morning the detective went into* the shop, locked the door after him, and entered a room behind the shop and remained there. He heard someone on the premises of Peter’s adjoining, and five minutes afterwards 'accused entered Scott’s shop by the front door. Ede moved in his chair, causing it to croak, and accused, attracted by the noise, came to the door of the room and saw him. When charged with the offence, he admitted having taken two sticks of chocolate (produced) and said he had obtained the key with which he opened the door in the towel room of Peters’ establishment. It was a spare key, and had not been used by Peters for any purpose. Mr J. 0. Brown, M.H.R. for Tuapeka, addressed his constituents at Lawrence, the central toWn of the district, on Saturday evening, and received an unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. He propounded a scheme to rid the colony of centralism, suggesting the formation of three States —one with the capital at Dunedin or Christchurch, the other (including portion of the Middle Island) with the capital at Wellington, and the third with the capital at Auckland. At the East Coast nomination yesterday the shorf- of hands was as follows : Rees, 58; Locke, 38; Gannon, IS. Mr Bees was the only candidate present, and made a long speech, stating the Government party were doing all they coaid to keep him out of the House. Mother Swan’sworm Syrup. —lnfallible tasteless, harmless, cathartic ; for feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipation. is. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. 3 “ German Syrup.” —No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup, in 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’ will cure them. The result has been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Gi to your Druggist and ask what they know about it. Sample Bottles 6d. Regular size 3s. 6d. Three doses will relieve any case.— [Advt.]

Holloways Ointment and Pills.— Diseases of the Bowels.—A remedy, which has been tested and proved in a thousand different ways, capable of eradicting poisonous taints from ulcers and healing them up, merits a trial of its capacity for extracting the internal corruptions from the bowels. On rubbing Holloway’s Ointment repeatedly on the abdomen a rash appears, and as it thickens the alvinc irritability subsides. Acting as a dertvotive, this unguent draws to the surface, releases the tender intestines from all acrid matters, and prevents inflammation, dysentery, and piles, for which blistering was the oldfashioned, though successful treatment, now from its painfulness fallen into disuse, the dis? covery of this Ointment having proclaimed a remedy possessing equally derivative, yet. per? | fcctly painless powers. —[Advt. J

The Sydnty Morning Herald paWakw a long account of the intercolonial /football match between New Zealand and New South Wale?, which ooiiclades as follows : —There cannot be the least shadow of doubt that the best team won, bat no one expected that oar men would hare been defeated in such a hollow fashion—not to /.core a sing e point in one boar and forty minutes. The play proved cither how strong the New Zea'and team were or how weak wore our The New South Wales men played pluokily enough, but they were simply overmatched-in every Important branch of the game, the baoks especially. P. Bayliss, Neill, Belcher, and Dean acquitted themselves in a highly , creditable manner, bnt the heavy and fast forwards of the visiting - team gava them little opportunity of taking tha ball very far away from their goal line. ,W. V. Million (the Allan, Boberts (a splendid dribbler), O’Connor and O’Donnell were formidable quarter-backs, -they ha ving play ed from star t to finish with wonderful brilliancy. Taiaroa, the crack quarter-back of Maoriland, played with'an amount of dash and determination the like of which has not been seen on a football field of this colony. He was here, there, and everywhere, that is, wherever the ball went, and his marvelloas quickness in picking it op, the nimble dodging through tha midst of his foes, and tbe excellent judgment ho displayed in always going in the right direction, earned for him the admiration of both friends and opponents, and the repeated applause of enthusiastic onlookers. The team were expert. in the art of passing the ball. The captain of the team, Helmore, a most resolute player, and Warbrick excelling in that regard. The tackling of tha victors was first class also, Roberts being a perfect demon in that respect. The backs, Braddoo, Warbrick and Ryan, had not much to do, bnt when any of them got possession of tha ball they made no mistake, their long, telling drops being conspicuous features of the play. Among our backs, P. Bayliss, Belcher and Dean distinguished themselves, and Neill and Graham also worked hard to avert defeat. 0. Cameron is also entitled to mention for his persevering pluck at play, while among the forwards Clement, F. Bayliss, and Walters worked very hard, but being badly supported, tbeir efforts were futile against the well organised followers of the opposing side. The weak-spot in New South Wales was in the forward division, and the strength of thel visitors being in tbeir forwards, it can easily be imagined what a rough time the loom backs had of it. • The New Zealand fifteen were ably. handled by W. Y. Miilt m, and’ though they could not be termed a thoroughly organised team, they were so when compared with their undisciplined opponents, whose play throughout (he game, especially in scrimmages, lacked that unity of action which is essential to success agalntit a really good team, like the New Zealanders.

The greatest nourishing tonic, appetizer, strengthener,' and curative on earth—Hop Bitters. See.—Advt.

Flies and Bugs.—Beetles, insects, oaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rab-bits, cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. 3 Mother Swan’s Worm Syrup— lnfallible, . tasteless, harmless, catharic; ‘ for feverishnessrestlessness, worms, constipation.- is at Drug, gists. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents.- J