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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1400, 9 December 1884, Page 2

Amusement loving people in Ashburton will have plenty to satisfy them during the present week, as in addition to the Juvenile Opera Company, who open in the Town Hall to-morrow, the Oddfellows’ Hall will bo occupied on Wednesday by the Clark and Hyman Minstrels, of whom the Mortheru press speak in terms of high praise. The first candidate (Mr G. S Graham) for the Government Insurance Board was nominated yesterday.

August Flower. —The most miserable heings in the world arc those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than 7f per cent of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects; such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness, palpitation of the heart, heart burn, waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable’ taste in tj.c mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, etc, Gc to your druggist and get a bottle of august flower. This valuab e medicine has cured thousands and thousands of sufferers, and is known in all civilised countries. Two doses will relieve j you. It costs only 3s fid a bottle. Sample j bottles, fid, —fAuvr, I

Hearn, the sculler, left Wellington yesterday for Riverton, where he contests the match for the championship. There is but little betting on the event.

It is rumored that Mr Thomas Bracken and Mr P. Galvin are about to start a weekly paper in Wellington, something after the style of the Saturday Advertiser. Mr Galvin possesses the necessary plant, and opeiations are to be commenced in about six weeks’ time In the meantime Mr Bracken will m-ke a lecturing tour through Otago, returning to Wellington a month hence.

The Colonial Secretary and Mr G S. Cooper, Under-Secretary, will leave Wellington on their tour of inspection of hospitals, etc., next weak. The South Island is to be visited first.

Wellington will be represented at the Fire Brigade competition at Dunedin. The installation of Mr R. Friedlander as Mayor of Ashburton, will take place at the new Council Chamber, at noon on Wednesday, 17th instant. The memorandum on Federation and the South Sea Islands by Sir Julius Vogel was not sent to the Agent-General, but forwarded by Ilia Excellency the

Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

A twelve-roomed house at Redclifls, Taradale,'Hawke’s Bay, owned by Candy, was burned down yesterday. The loss is about LI,OOO. The building is insured in the Victoria for L4OO, and the furniture

in the Northern for LIOO. The tenant was in Namier effecting further insurance at. the very time the bourn was burning. Ho had hardly left the agent’s office when the news reached him, and he wont bach to give up the receipt and to get the premium back.' The fire was caused by sparks from the kitchen chimney falling on the shingle of the roof. The Coptic arrived at Napier yesterday. She is being loaded at the rate of 3,000 carcases of mutton per day, besides other cargo. We are informed by Mr Baddeley that some time ago he applied for the work advocated in our issue of yesterday to be done in the Resident Magistrate’s Court grounds, and has been assured that it will shortly be put in hand. The Borough Council met last evening for the first time in their new Chambers at the Library Building. The premises appearj-in every way adapted to the requirements of the Council, and certainly have the advantage of being more central than the old Chamber. The Gisborne Supreme Court sitting opened yesterday. T'icker, alias Marshall, got two years for bigamy ; Tutu, a native, four years for forgery. No bill was returned in the case of an old woman for attempted suicide. The Judge made some strong remarks on the futility of preferring these charges. Charles Ball was committed for trial at the Blenheim Supreme Court on a c arge of attempting to commit felony. Bail was granted, but was not forthcoming. A cablegram having been received from London to the effect that the Investigation Committee of the Consolidated Telephone Company re-affirm that Sir Julius Vogel, one of the Directors, enriched himself by means of the Company, and endorses the advice of counsel that a law suit should be instituted to reoovei the enormous profits made by him, the Colonial Treasurer has requested the Press Association to state that he cannot believe that the Committee have made the statement attributed to them by the London correspondent, and that he emphatically declares such statement to be utterly false and libellous. The quarterly meeting of the Choral Society was held in St Stephen’s schoolroom last evening, when there was a large attendance of members. The Secretary reported that the Society had at the Bank a credit balance of Ll 9 13s Id, and this sum would be further increased by the current quarter’s subscriptions which were now due. The liabilities of the Society only amounted to 4s. A statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the recent performances of “H. .S. Pinafore” was submitted and considered satisfactory. The following wore elected members of the Society :—Mrs Craighead, Misses Corsbie, A. Gates and L, Patching, and Messrs J. McLean Dunn, II A. Pickford, E Cox and F. Fiowors. Messrs A. Fooks and Salek were appointed to fill vacancies o i the General Committee, It was decided to give a concert in January, a d further suggested that with the cooperation of the Orchestral Society the “ P rates of Penzance” be put in rehear sal for production during the nights of the Autumn Race Meeting. Messrs Gundry, Wolf, Craighead and Paul were appointed a Sub-Committee to interview the Orchestral Society to ascertain their views on the matter. It was resolved to ask the Orches ral Society to join the Choral Society in a picnic on New Year's Day, and Messrs Wolf and Stephenson weie appointed a Committee to mak« the necessary arrangements. The meeting then adjourned till Monday next, when the usual weekly practice will be held.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Industrial Building Society, the rep rt showed interest and bonus equal to 11 per cent. The Rev Abraham Riding was taken yesterday in charge of Detective Twohcy to Kaipara, to answer a charge of indecent assault before the local Bench at p ahi, to which plica he has been remanded. The New Zealand Shipping Company, Limited, have received advice from Hobart of tho arrival there at 2 a. on tho C;h instant., of the R.M S. Raikoura, having made the fastest passage on record, viz , 36 days 18 hours’ steaming from Plymouth. In latitu le 45 south, longitude 86 east, a slight mishap occurred to the machinery, otherwise the passage would have been accomplished in considerably less time. The n.M.S. Kaikoura is due at Port Chalmers on Wednesday, and will oe dispatched from the colony on 20th inat. with the first of Her Majesty’s mails under the csntract just concluded with the Government.

The Borough rates collected for the current year to date amount to LI, 105,13 s

6d, leaving L2ll 6s 6d still unpaid.

We know that there is nothing on earth equal to Hop Bitters as a family medicine. Look for. —[Ain't.] Catarrh or thr Bladder. —Stinging

.rritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buchu-patba.” The N.Z. Drug Go., General Agents. 3 Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis etc., are quickly cured by using Baxter’s ‘‘Lung Preserver.” This old-established medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by members of the medical and clerical profession. Read advertisement. Wells’ “Rough on Corns.”-—Ask for

Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick reiiaf, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts bunions. The N,Z. Drug Co., General Agents. 3 Christmas presents free of charge. —Last year we are informed that over g.ooo presents were given away during December and the early'part of January by H. E. May & Co., The Hall, Christchurch. Phis year they are

doing the same, and this is how they do it ; Every customer is presented with a ticket equal to 10 per cent, on the amount spent by them, so that if you spend Lio you can chouse anything up to Li, if Lj is spent a 10s present will he given, if L 3 a 65 present, if a 2s present, but if you only spend One Shilling you will get something. And every time you come duri g this nit nth of December and up to Januaiy the 6th you will get a-pre-ient. If you do not wish to spend a lot of money 111 one day s shopping you. can get tour , tickets for what you have spent, and so on each lime you come, and then get one really I h inds mie thing equal in value to all the tickets you hold,—[Advx,]

There are 44 candidates frbtn North Canterbury for the New Zealand University matriculation examination which commenced at Christchurch yesterday. John G. Watkin, who has hitherto held a most respectable position as a builder in Christchurch, was yesterday committed for trial on a charge of forging a promissory note for L 24 At their meeting last night the Christchurch City Council decided to take steps to raise a loan of L 25,030 for 50 years at 5 per cent, for rebuilding bridges, erecting gas lamps, channelling, fire prevention, and for a tramway to the new cemetery. ■

A case of imposition and heartless desertion of a child cams before Mr Beetham, R.M., at Christchurch yesterday. Two months ago an advertisement appeared in a local paper signed “ A. B.G ,” inquiring for some person to take charge of a baby six weeks old. This was answered by a Mrs Allen, and on September 25th last a young woman, who said her nuns was Miss McLocl, called and loft a female child with Mrs Allen, paid a month’s board in advance and said the father, whoso name was Dashwood, would call and sign an agreement to pay regularly for the child’s maintenance. Ho did not

coma on the day appointed, and since then the police could find no trace either of the young woman or the child’s father. Mrs Allen was unable, to maintain the infant,

and applied to have her sent to the Burnham Industrial School. Mr Beetham re

marked this was not the only c so of the kind that had ocou-rad recently. There was no suspicion of collusion on Mrs Allen's part, and he committed the child to the Industrial School till 15 years old. Wo have been supplied by the management with the following particulars of Pollard’s Liliputian Opera Company, which will perform here on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings next. The company was first formed in 1879, since which time it has been necessary to find two new companies ef diminutive performers to succeed their predecessors, who had grown beyond the limit of Liliput an stature. The children at present playing with the company have made the complete tour <f the colonies and performed in Calcutta during the International Exhibition Their Calcutta season extended from October 1883, to January 1884, and during that time they were honored with the patronage of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Viceroy of India, and other distinguished persons. After leaving Calcutta they played in British Burmah, and the Straits Settlement, and returned to Australia in May last. Flies and Bugs. —Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rab-bits, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. 3 Holloways Ointment and Pills. —

Notable Facts. —Intense heat augments the annoyances of skin disease and encourages the development of febrile disorders; therefore they should, as they can, be remove by these detergent and purifying preparations. In stomach complaints, liver affections, pains, and spasms of the bowels, Holloway’s ungent well rubbed over the affected part immediately gives the greatest ease, prevents congestion and inflammation, checks the threatening diarrhcea and averts incipient cholera. The poorer inhabitants in large cities will find these remedies to their best friends when any pestilence rages, or when from unknown causes eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations point out the presence of taints or impurities within the system, and call for instant and effective curative medicines. — [Advt.]