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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1378, 12 November 1884, Page 2

The best periodical for ladies to take monthly and from which they will receive the greatest benefit is Hop Bitters. Read.— [Advt.] 10 “ Rough on Rats.” —Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, btd-bugs, beetles, insects, -kunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists, The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents, 2 “ Buchu-Paiba.” —Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. Druggists. The N.Z. Drug Co, General Agents. 2 Holloway s Ointment and Pills combine both sanitive and sanative powers in a high degree—by the former term is understood their ability to preserve health, by the latter their capability to restore health, With these remedies at h«nd no invalid need be at fault tp guide himself or hetself safely through the many trials to which everyone is subjected during opr long and ofttimes inclement winters. Coughs, colds, ulcerated throats, diptheria, whooping cough, can be successfully treated by well rubbing this Ointment upon the chest, ana by taking the Pills. During damp foggy weatherastnmatical siificrer* will experience the utmost possible relief from the inunction of the ointment on all tenderchested persons will save endless misery by adopting this treatment,—(Advt.J

At a meeting of the Auckland Harbor Board the tender of Pierce Laingan for L 88.836 was accepted for the construction of the Calliope dock. The engineer’s estimate was L9B 675 The tender of Fleming and Stephenson, of london, for a dredge for L 18.350 was accepted. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Frozen Meat and Storage Company Limited it. was hoped that freezing operations will commence in Auckland in February next. !n April the first ship ment would be m -.de Horn :). A Maori wh-tre was burnt down at Tologa Bay, and an old native woman was burnt to doath. Two Mtori women tried to rescue her, but got nearly suffocated.

Miss Genevieve Ward and Mr Vernon opened in Dunedin last night in “ForgetmeNof’at the Princess Theatre to a good audience, though the weather was very bad. The performance was highly successful.

Tho waterworks at Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, were opened on Monday. The Mayor, Mr Reed, was presented with an address and a purse of 50 sovs on the occasion.

A meeting of the Wellington manufacturers is to be held to-morrow evening to consider the industrial Exhibition proposed by .the Government to be held in Wellington, and a deputation will be foimed to wait on the Premier for information en tho subject. At the usual monthly mealing of he Christchurch Presbytery yesterday, the Rev A. M. Beattie laid on the table the plan of a new church to be erected at Flemington, which was approved of. The Rev J. Elmaiie reported that a gift o 5 laud had been made by Messrs J. H.

Twentyman and E. O. Morley, on condition that a building for divine service was erected immediately at Rangitata. The thanks of the Presbytery were accorded to the above-named gentlemen for their munificence.

At R. Wilkin and Co’s annual sale of Tasmanian, South Australian, and New Zealand stud rams and ewes, held at Christchurch yeste-day, there was a good attendance of buyers, and nearly all the 84 lots offered were quitted. One of W. Gibson and Sons’ Tasmanian merino rams fetched 130 guineas, and another 110. Two of James Gibson’s merino rams fetched 210 and 160 guineas respectively. The highest price obtained for ewes was 20 guineas. A t the inquest on the body of Captain

Culmer, of the barque Clyde, on Monday night, the lad Gibson gave evidence that he saw the deceased bleeding very much about the face. A verdict was given to the effect that the c°ptain was killed by a spar striking him. He is to be buried in Christchurch, where his mother resides His Worship the Mayor presided at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, and cautioned and di-missed a first offender for drunkenness.