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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1397, 5 December 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton side school will be opened on Monday next, under the charge of Miss Stewart, the newly-appo nted mistress of the school A gener J meeting of the shareholders of the Ashburton Woollen Factory Company will be held at the Arcade Chambers, on Monday, 15th instant, to ccnsider the propriety of volutrarily winding up the Company. It is currently reported that the gentle man recently referred to in the Ashburton notes published by the Lyttelton Times as ‘ * chucker out” to the Tmwald Town Hoard, has instituted an action for libel against the paper. The funeral of the late Mrs Trevor will take place at Geraldine to-morrow. The contract for conveyance of mails by direct steamer is for a period of five years. The contract time for the voyage is forty-two days on the trip Some, and forty-five days outward. The contract with the Union Steamship Company, for the distribution of the mails, is not yet signed, but it is expected to be so in the course of a day or two. The difficulty as to despatch of letters alternately by San Francisco and direct steamer having been adjusted does not relieve letters via Brindisi from the additional charge sanctioned by last Parliament. The Gazette notifies the appointment of G. F. Hewlings to be Registrar of Elecfors at Lyttelton. A. P. O’Callaghan to be member of the Canterbury Land Board. The reguladons for the formation of a special settlement are gazetted, The Committee for Industrial Exhibition are also gazetted, and number 100. Christmas presents free of charge, —Last year we are informed that over 9,000 presents were given away during December and the early part of January by H. E. May & Co., The Hall, Christchurch. This year they are doing the same, and ihis is how they do it : Every customer is presented with a ticket equal to 10 per cent, on the amount spent by them, I so that if you spend Lio you can choose anything up to Li, if L 5 is spent a 10s present will be given, if L 3 a 6s present, if a 2s present, but if you only spend One Shilling you will get something. And every time you come duri g this month of December and up to January the 6th you will get a present. If you do not wish to spend a lot of money in one day’s shopping you can get ) our tickets for what you have spent, and so on each time you come, and then get one ready handsome thing equal in value to all the tickets you hold.— [Advt.] “ German Syrup.” —No other medicine in r he world was ever given such a test of its h curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup, n In three years two million four hundred thou- v sand small bottles of this medicine were dis- tl tributed Jree of charge by Druggists in the p United States of America to those afflicted with tl Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, w Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat n and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof tl that German Syrup will cure them. The re- 13 suit has been that Druggists in every town and n village in civilised countries are recommending w t to their customers. . Go to your Druggist w rnd ask what they know about it. Sample g bottles 6d. Regular size 3s. 6d. Three cl will rplipvi) unv fATiVT.I I ti

This evening meetings will be held of ;he Wakanui Sports Committee, Ashbur;on Racing Club Committee, and the

Somerset Lodge. To-morrow meetings of the Winslow Sports Committee, Alford Forest Sports Committee, Tinwald Town Board, and Wakanui Road Board will be held.

At a largely attended meeting held at Wanganui last night the following resolutions were passed unanimously—“ That with the view of establishing a company to open the upper portion of the Wanganui river by means of steam communication, a committee be formed for the purpose of interviewing the Hon Mr Bal- | lance, and ask him what support the project will be likely to receive from the Government.” “ That the Committee inquire as to the probable cost of suitable steamers.” The following Committee were appointed—Messrs G. Carson, F. 11. Jackson, A. D. Willis, Hassol, and I Young. We have been requested to draw attention to the business notification of Mr K. Bevan, which appears in another column, and from it will be seen that he has leased a shop adjoining his present premises, which ho intends opening as a bazaar, etc. From a perusal inspection of the articles, which comprise varied classess, and are marked at prices which appear ridicuously cheap, we should say that a speedy clearance will follow. It will be remembered some two years ago three residents in the Porirua district were arrested on a charge of illicit distillation of whiskey, for which they were convicted and mulcted in penalties of L2OO and LIOO. The parties were liberated on bail on two sureties in each case becoming guarantees for the amount of the fine. Since then their case was brought before the Appeal Court. The Court, upheld the decision of the lower Court, but the amounts have never been paid. Yesterday the Sheriff of the Wellington Supreme Court visited the district and arrested all the principals, along with the sureties, and lodged them in gaol, i wtiere they will remain until the fine is ; paid. The principals, with amounts to which they are indebted, are—George I Taylor (L 267 7s 6d), William Thompson (L 123 4s 2d), Thomas Morgan (U 23 5s ! 2). The names of the bondsmen are—r John Morgan, George Morgan, William i Tay!or,s<Frank Levin, George Thompson, 5 and Henry Thompson. r A heated discussion took place at a r me ting of the Thames Borough Council x yesterday morning on the subject of a representation of the small ward of Parawai. Messrs McAndrew, Chappel and Hume, members of the ward, presented * themselves at the Council meeting and , claimed the right to sit until the resolui tion was actually passed merging the ward ; in another, and also to vote upon such res solution. The Mayor ruled that they v were no longer Councillors, whereupon 1 Mr McAndrew excitedly demanded that he should be allowed to vote, anJ rer peatedly thraatened to obstruct the busit ness until the point was conceded. He y defied the Mayor (Mr W. F. Fraser, i- MH. 8.) to send for a constable to eject t him from the Chamber. As the messenger ■_ sent for one failed to return he taunted the Mayor with being afraid to carry out 1 his threat. After a prolonged debate, the 1 Mayor moved a resolution incorporating Y Parowai with the adjacent ward, which i was carried by a majority of acknowledged if councillors. The obstructing persona, n accompanied by Messrs Kilgnurand Menzie, then withdrew, leaving a bare quorum to proceed with the business. 6 r The master of the Home desires to ac- ' knowledge with thanks the receipt of a **. quantity of buns and cakes, on behalf of the inmates, from Mrs John Grigg, Long1, beach.

The nominations for the election of the Government Insurance Association Board are fixed for the 20th December, and the elections shortly after the new year. At the conclusion of the hearing of the petitions against the county elections for the ridings of Cruahington, Murray and Reefton, his Worship held that the action of the Returning Officers were irregular in not allowing other than those on the roll to vote by virtue of miners’ rights. The elections were therefore declared void, the unseated members being—P. Brennan, County Chairman ; W. Campbell, Roefton ; J. Craig, Murray ; and James Lynch, Bruahington. Full costs were allowed to pet turners in each case. M. de Harven had an interview with the Timaru Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. He will spend several days here, and then proceed to Dunedin, returning shortly. The Dunedin Herald says : “ We under-' stand that it is the intention of the Government to place the charitable institui tions of all parts of the colony on the same footing as far as State aid is concerned as those of Dunedin, that is, that each is to receive a pound from the Government for each pound raised locally.” The two men who were apprehended in connection with the fital assault on Meldrum were brought before the justices at Outram yesterday, and remanded till Saturday, when it is expected the inquest will take place. The first professional medical examination in connection with the Otago University was held on Monday and Saturday last, when Mr William Christie, of Warepa, passed the various examinations. Mr Christie is thus the first medical student who has pasted a professional examination in this colony. Dr MacDonald, the recently appointed materia medica lectur r, has in consequence of Mr Christie’s successful passing commenced his lectures, the cummer season opening Monday last, Mr Wakefield having resigned the editorship of the Timaru Herald has been succeeded by Mr W. U. Triggs, formerly of the Wellington Post. A fatal accident occurred at ten o’clock last night at tne new Prince Imperial minaj Thames. A man named Walter Allan, who was observed about town during the evening, fell from the surface to the bottom of the shaft, a distance of 570 ft, and was there found doubled up ir a truck with his thighs broken, and i frightful gash inflicted on his left tern, pie. The deceased was not seen whet approaching the shaft, the doors of whicl had been left open foi the purpose o lowering timber. We know that there is nothing on earth equa to Hop Bitters as a family medicine. Loot for.—[Advt.] Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or any othei neuralgic pain speedily yields to Baxter’s AntiNeuralgic Pills. The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it .is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of i lie highest value. As soon as it has been 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 the people of the country had expressed the merits of 11. 8., and in ; very way trying to induce su'iering invalids lo use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others starred nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised rames in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops ” .vere used in a way to induce people to believe hey were the same as Hop Bitters. All such iretended remedies or cures, no matter what heir style or name is, and especially those vith the word “Hop” or “Hops” in their lame or in any way connected with them or heir name, aye imitations or counterfeits, iewarc of them. Touch none of them. Use lothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, vith a bunch or cluster of green Hops on tr.c rhite label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in U g I lass. Trust nothing else. Druggists aim i hemists are warned against dealing in imita ions 4* counterfeits. |