NOTES FROM METHVEN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1308, 19 July 1884, Page 2

NOTES FROM METHVEN.

* [ From our owjst Oo rrespon'de vt. J The Methven Amateur Minstrels, assisted by a number-of gentlemen from .Ashburton aud Bakai i made their dehM in the schoolroom! M-nhven, on Friday evening, with an entertainment on behalf of the pianoforte fund. As the object of the entertainment may appear ambiguous to some of your reiders, 1 may state that two of our leading townspeople bought a piano for the use of the community, the purchasers to bo repaid by the proceeds of entertainments, etc. Our newly started Minstrels have every reason to be gratified with the support they received on Friday, and the audience should be as well satisfied with the entertainment. The _ first part of the programme consisted of a chorus oy the whole troupe, local jokes, and conundrums, especially relating to electioneering matters, from Messrs Johnson, Bonos, and Pompey, after which Captain J. West marched his awkward squad on to tha stage and put them through a series of military manoeuvres, evidently to their own satisfaction and to the amusement of the public. After an interval of ten minutes, Mr West gave a stump speech in favor of Good Templarism, but from his frequent references to his beer can it was evident that ho did not practice what he preached. Where everyone exerted themselves to please the audience, it would be invidious to particularise any of our local talent, still our visitors, Messrs Dimaut, Cullen and Andrewes, of Ashburton, and Mr Barrett of Rakaia, deserve more than a passing notice for the valuable assistance they rendered to our newly established local minstrels. Mr J. Jackson, Chairman of the Road Board, presided, and his smiling countenance was a sufficient guarantee for peace and quietness. After the entertainment the room was cleared for dancing, and the lads and lassies of Methven kept this part of the entertainment up until an early hour of the morning. Mr Carter played the accompaniments and contributed much to the success of the gathering. The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it of positive proof that the remedy imitated is is the highest value. As soon as it has been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, aud 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, Ik, and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to mat e 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 ” vyere used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same “I s Hop Bitters. .All such ; pretended remedies dr curbs, np matter wljat their style or name is, and especially those with the word “Hop” or “Hops” in their ] Ijame or in any way connected with them or j their name, are invitations dr counterfeits. Be- ( ware of t))em. Touch none of them. Use f nothing but genuine American HOp Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the ' wl ; te label, and Df scale's name blown in 1 th glass! Trust nothing else. Druggists and ( ch,mists are warned against dealing in imta 1 ions or counterfeit? 1