The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1370, 3 November 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1884.

Air Oorrie Johnston will hold his closing service this evening at the Orange Hall and at Wakanui on Tuesday evening next.

The rainfall at Cherftßy for October was 2'54 inches.

Letters for George Adams, Patrick Connelly, Mrs D. Hyland (2), John Linklater Mrs Stephens, and G. Taylcr aie lying unclaimed at the local Post Office, having been received from places beyond the colony during the month of September. The following are the vi f al statistca fothe Borough of Ashburton for the month of October Births, 31; marriages, 7 ; deaths, 9.

On Wednesday and Thursday next the Ashburton 0.0. will play a match with the Hornrata C.C on the local ground, play beginning at 1.30 p.m. The following will represent Ashburton:— L. F. Andrewea, Caygill, Cox, Denshire, A. Fooks, E, Fooka, Grigg, Leahy, Marsh, W. .simpson. and Thomas Emerg-ncie —Flesher, Kay and Death.—At the sanie time and p'aco a team of boys from the Hororata Public School will play an eleven from the B -ys’ High School. The American harvest, great as it is, can hardly have time to produce a boom in trade on that continent so early as the fall of the present year. Chicago is a point which, above all others, ought to feel an impulse from the abundant yield of the soil round about that contra! market of the Western crops; but a reliable description of the state of business arriving from Chicago describes it as still under the paralysing influence of the last ban\ing panic—in May, that is. The question with wholesale houses, wa are told, “ is not how much they can sell to a man, but how much that man can pay for. ’’ Farmers, moreover, are reluctant to sell crops at present prices ; and as yet the general desire is described as being a _desire to liquidate rather than to enter into fresh business. —Pall Hall Budget, sfch September, 1884.

A meeting of the Committee offlthe Methven Racing Club was held on Saturday evening, when the Secretary reported the arrangements he had m id® for advertising, and his action was approve I of. The sub-committee appointed to select the most suitable course asked for an extension of time to bring up their report Several of the members expressed the

opinion that the distances for some of the races should be reduced, and ultimately it was decided that they should give notice of their intention to move that such alterations be made. Notices of motion having been handed in, it was decided that a meeting be held on Wednesday next, to consider the same.

The anniversary of the Primitive Meth .dist Church was held yesterday, when there was a large attendance at each of tho services. The Rev Mr Clark, of Geraldine, preached eloquent and instructive sermons, appropriate to the occasion. The tea and public meeting in connection with this church are fixed to take place on the 19th instant.

The service of song “ Billy Bray ” will be given in the Newlands schoolroom on Thursday evening next, by the choir of the Ashburton Primitive Methodist Church.

On Wednesday next the ordinary monthly meeting of the Orange Lodge will be hold at 7 pm. There will, no doubt, be a large attendance of brethren as the W.G.M. (Middle Island) Bro. Anthony Mills, has promised to preside After the meeting, a select ball will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, commencing at half-past eight, for which a largo number of tickets have been sold. The musical arrangements will be under the baton of Mr Sidney Wolf. A Naval Artillery Company has been formed at Oamaru, and so many applications were received for enrolment that the majority of the corps had to be balloted for. Over 150 applications were received. Mr F. N. Robinson, of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has been elected Captain.

The actual time taken in the transmission of the result of the Victorian Derby was two minutes, according to the official statement of the difference of time between the two colonies,

The New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, have received the following cable message dated London, Ist inst.: —Kai koura sailed from Madeira tb-day; Tong.riro is loading for Port Chalmers; Lytte'ton and Wellington. Norman Macleod has sailed for Lyttelton, and the Waimea for Port Chalmers.

The Otago Hussar sports were held on Saturday at Forbury Park and were very successful, the weather being splendid. The principal horse race was won by Billy, with Molly Bawn second.

There are 282 entries for the Otago Amateur Athletic Club’s sports, to be held on Saturday and Monday next. At a late hour on Saturday evening a newsagent, named George Hartley Walker, residing at South Dunedin, was received into the Hospital, having attempted to cut his throat on Thursday last. The wound is a slight one. and it is expected that Walker will soon recover. He says he was not under the influence of drink when he committed the act, and is a rry for what he has done.

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This evening our advertising columns con tain a large price list from one of the leading drapery establishments in Chris church, and, we are confident visitors to town will do well by giving them a call. The r stock is large and well assorted, confining all the novelties of the season and a grand assortment of general household drapery, men’s and boys’ clothing, hats, shirts, ties, and scarves. The ladies’ show room is well worth a visit, being well stocked in millinery, mantles and underclothing of a large and varied description, d prices that are bound to effect a speedy clearance. H. E May & Co., The Hall. —[Advt.]

Can it be (says the Law Journal) that no less functionaries than the law staff of the Treasury have fallen victims to a legal pitfall to which lawyers have before been known to succumb 1 According to a letter published last week, the Crown has come into a windfall of L 146,000 on the death of a Mrs Blake. This lady had in her posa siion for safe custody certain jewellery belonging to another lady who lived with her as companion. The Solicitor to the Treasury, it is stated, is satisfi d that the jewellery belongs to the lady in question, but refuses to hand it over on tho ground that the claim is barred by the Statute of Limitation. The notion appears to be that a person who has a chattel in his possession for six years o tains a title to it by the Statute of Limitation, just as a squatter may obtain a title to laud under the Statute, But there is, in fact, no statute giving title to chattel through lapse of time. The lady in question had a continuing cause of action against Mrs Blake down to the day of her death. The Statute of Limitation would have prevented the lady from recovering more than six years’ damages for the detention of the chattels, but would confer no title whatever. The idea that a bailee of chattels who can put off the claim of his bailor for six years may call the chattels his own is a preposterous view of the law.

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