The Ashburton Guardian. Manga Est Veritas et Prevalebit TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1310, 22 July 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Manga Est Veritas et Prevalebit TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1884.

On Friday last a party of officers of the Ashburton Orange Lodge, consisting of Bros. Nelson, Oonnoly, Hampton, Rountree, Elliott and Wilson, left here and proceeded to Sptingburn, for the purpose of opening a Lodge in that district. Bro. Nelson held a dispensation from D. G. M. Bro. Gebbie, and the following officers of thefnewly formed Lodge were duly installed to hold office till next month:— Acting W.M., Bro. Nelson; D.M., Bro, T. Campbell; secretary, Bro. Cook; treasurer, Bro. Hobson; and chaplain, Bro. Hart. The foundation of the Lodge was celebrated by a ba|J held in the Springburn schoolroom, which was attended by about forty couples, who kept up the dancing till an early hour in the morning. The brethren from Ashburton and Methven started for their respective homes at about 4 a,.m- > having enjoyed a very pleasant time. John AY. Busby, of Upton Downs, Awatere, was prosecuted by the Sheep Inspector at Blenheim yesterday for neglecting to clean 21,600 infected sheep. He was fined the minimum penalty of 3d per sheep, or a total of L 260 19s fid. The Resident Magistrate remarked it was more Busby’s misfortune than his fault.

1 he fine is not to be paid until after mustering.

The Upper Rangitata Hotel was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The insurances are—Lsoo on the building in the Royal, and on the stock and furniture L2lO and LSO respectively in the National. The loss over and above the insurance will be about L3OO. Mr H. S. Fish has issued a writ for L 5,000 damages against Mr H. J. Walter for alleged libel contained in a letter which was published in yesterday’s Otago Daily Times, charging Mr Fish with corrupt practices for some years, challenging an action and naming his solicitors. During a sudden and severe southerly gale which came on about midnight on Sunday last, the ketch Owake Belle went ashore on Riverton beach, about two miles from port. The crew got safely ashore, and at the last accounts, there were hopes of getting the vessel off. The deck cargo has been washed overboard. The ketch is insured for LSOO in the New Zealand office. Allusion to the general elections was made in the course of prayer offered up in .the Wellington Wesleyan Church on Sunday night by the Rev VV. C. Olliver, The rev gentleman expressed a hope that the men rsturned to Parliament might be honest and upright persona who would attend to their duties. He prayed that those with impure minds might be prevented from occupymg positions where harm could be done, and concluded by asking that none but those who had the best interests of society at heart should be rewarded with the confidence of the people. John McLeary, machinist at the Nelson Evening Mail office, has been arrested on a charge of arson. On Friday night an old unoccupied house near the railway station was discovered to be on fire, but was extinguished by a few backets of water. On Sunday night a light was discovered in the home. The neighbors sent for a constable, and effected an entrance by means of the window. It was then found that a hole had been cut in the scrim lining and a candle placed therein surrounded by hay, over whioa kerosene had been poured, a bottle containing about a pint ha i been left close to the candle. The hay was just igniting when discovered. The accused was remanded, bail being refused. In the Timaru District Court on Saturday in the case of the New Zealand Grain Agency v Hedley, for wrongful distraint on land held by A. Wilson on Seadown, judgment was given for the defendant with costs. Plaintiff’s chief contention was that clause 35 of the Property Laws Consolidation Act 18S3, abolishes tenancies from year to year founded on payment of rent merely, and plaintiffs counsel argued that payment of rent only was evidence of tenancy. Judge Ward cook this into account, and his Honor spoke strongly of the action of the consolidating Commission in interpolating new enactments info Acts supposed to be mere condensations of old laws. A rule nisi was granted in favor of John Cherry, Adelaide, calling upon the trustees in Patrick Ryan’s estate to show cause why his proof of debt, about LI,OOO, should not be admitted. An order for security for costs, LSI, was granted. The cabmen and the Auckland Tramway.

Co. are ajt loggerheads. The former have been ordered to move from the Queen street cab-stands to make room for the tram-cars but decline to do so, .On Saturday afternoon they obstructed the tram-ljne, and one of the men threw a stone at a car, was arrested, and subsequently fined IDs costs. It is stated the cabmen intend testing in the Court the question whether they can be removed from the cab-stands hitherto set apart for them. John Pitt, a guradigger, was found drowned near Helonsville wharf yesterday afternoon. He was yesterday, and fell off the cutter Warkworth, but was fished oiit. He must have slipped off her deck again on Sunday night. Mr Amos Bun, one of the candidates for Manawatu, laid an information yesterday against Mr Donald Fraser and the members of Mr Fraser’s Committee for alleged bribery. No vessels left Wellington yesterday on account of the heavy S. E. gale. At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday Mr Justice Richmond, in the case of the bankrupt, W. Waring Taylor, made an order for the bankrupt to receive L 3 10s per week from the estate. The body of a man named Daniel Li (del, an engineer, was picked up in the Wellington Harbor on Monday. At the inquest an open verdict was returned. Evidence was given ■ that deceased was under the influence of 1 quor on Saturday, but there was nothiqg to show how he got into the water.

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A Parisian contemporary gives an extrac from a forthcoming volume of memoirs which are, it says, destined to create a great sensation. The passage quoted refers exclusively to Gambetta, and the account given in it of« the circumstances under which he received the wound that eventually caused his death differs in some particulars f ora the version current at the time. Gambetta had, it seems acting on the advice of his friends, made up his mind to marry a rich widow of title (the Marchioness A. Y. ), and as aoon as the news of the impending event reached Mdme L. L , whose claims and expectations were matters of notoriety, she went to the “ Jardins ” in a towering passion. “ You are going to get married, I hear,” were her first words the moment she saw Gambetta. “ I want to hear no more of that,” was the answer ; “I am my own master after all.” He had no sooner uttered the words than she snatched a revolver which happened to be on the chimney-piece (a little weapon with which he used to fire at the birds in the garden) and Gambetta jumped off his chair at the same moment and caught her arm The pistol went off and the bullet struck him in the hand—not in the body, as was rumored at the time. The shot was not meant for him at a.I; nor in all probability had the lady the slightest intention of committing suicide either. The wound was slight, and probably f Gambetta had been properly treated ha would not have succumbed to its effects.

The London representative of the Sydney Morning Herald is evidently in favor of Mr Childers’ proposal to issue new halfsovereigns Ho says:—The supposition that the trade centre can be seriouslythreatened by the lowering of the intrinsic value of the half-sovereign is shown to be false by the fact that very few of these coins are used for exportation. The sovereign will r.emara the standard of English currency as before, with the very material addition that the Government will be enabled, by the profit they derive upon the half-sovereign, to withdraw all the light gold sovereigns from, the market The idea of any depreciation in the value of wages is disproved fcy the example of France and Belgium, whore there is a silvercurrency of about 17 per cent leas value than the gold. Yet wages are invariably paid in five-franc pieces, and the workmen do not find that they have to pay more for the articles they purchase because they pay in silver instead of gold. The fact is, as any elementary book upon political economy would have told Lord Randolph Churchill, that token coins will always pass forHheir nominal value provided the issue of them is kept within due bounds. Mr Childers’ strong position is that previous to bringing forward his budget, he took the opinions of all the leading financiers and bankers in the kingdom upon the .changes which' he proposed to make, and the latter were unanimously favorable to his vie vs. The one grave objection to the change is. that foreign .coiners may cast tokens from half-sovereigns containing 9a worth of silver, and import them into this country, thereby semiring a profit of 10 per cent. But the fact of such an experiment never having been tried with regard to silver —for a shilling contains only 7o per ' cent of precious metal—proves that there is not much to fear in regard to the future of half-sovereigns.

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