The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas t Prevalebit. THURSDAY, DECEMEBER 11, 1884.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1402, 11 December 1884, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas t Prevalebit. THURSDAY, DECEMEBER 11, 1884.

Farmers, dealers, and others Interested are reminded that the sale of live and dead stock, at Mr Tickle’s homestead, Methven, takes place to-morrow, commencing at 12 noon. The Rev Abraham Riding was committed for trial at Auckland on three charges of Indecent assault. Bail was fixed at L4OO. The Auckland Harbor Board has decided to remit the annual pilotage charges upon vessels’ masters or mates who hold “ exemp ion certificates. C. B. Hoadley and Co. held their first Napier wool sale of this season yesterday, and report a large attendance and good competition. The clips were representative, and the catalogu i consisted of three hundred and seventeen bales, the whole of which was cleared. Greasy half-bred realised 9£ per lb, and crossbred up to B§l per lb. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company also held a said of three hundred and ten bales, similar prices being realised. A meeting of the Winslow District School Committee was held in the schoolroom on Tuesday. Present Messrs Johnson (chairman), Harris, Grace, and Lovitt. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Letters were read from the Board of Education relative to salaries and other matters. The master reported that the number of children on the roll is 32; the average for the p; st month, 24 3. He also brought several minor matters under the notice of the Committee, which were left in the hands of the chairman to deal with. On . the motion of Mr Harris it was decided to close the school for the Christmas holidays on Friday, December 19th, the Chairman to arrange for the distribution of prizes to take place on that date, and to re-open the ..school again on Monday, January sth, 1885. After passing accounts and dealing with some unimportant business, the meeting adjourned. Mr Charles Callis, secretary of the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, is in Christchurch, and has had a satisfactory interview with the President of the Industrial Association and some other manufacturers. It is probable Canterbury will be strongly represented. A Company for running a railway to the Hutt Racecourse has been successfully floated, all the shares being taken up. The Otago Cricket Association has decided that it will be unable to put a team in the field against the Aucklanders unless the latter get the status of a representa- . tive team from their Association. Failing that, Mr Dixon wilt select a strong eleven to play them. The Otago Laud Board have resolved to hold an inquiry into the alleged dummyism on deferred payment holdings on run 106, Waitahuna West. A man named Richard Whitley, employed by the N.Z L. and M.A, Company, was seriously injured by falling from a train at Kensington, near Dunedin. Ho attempted to jump off before the engine stopped. The quarterly meeting of the South Rakaia Licensing Committee was held yesterday. Present Messrs Lyttelton (Chairman), Allan and Chamberlain. The police report was read and reflected great credit on the three hotelkeepers in the district for the manner in which their business had been conducted. Mr Laar son applied for a transfer of license for the Ohertsey Hotel from G, J. Russell. On account of the license produced being for 1883 instead of 1881 (the solicitor’s mistake) the application was adjourned for ' a week, the temporary license to hold good in the meantime. Renewals were grated to A, J. Howell and S. Compton for the South liakaia and Railway Hotels. The meeting then adjourned. We know that there is nothing on earth equal to Hop Bitters tis a family medicine. Look for,— {Advt.J That husband of mine is three times the man he was before he began using “Wells Health Kcnewer.” Druggists. The N.Z Drug Co., General Agents. 2 Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or any other neuralgic pain speedily yields to Baxter’s Antb Neuralgic Pills. Christmas presents free of charge.—Last a l year we are-informed that over 9,000 presents cl were given away during December and tiie X* early part of January by H, E. Mav & Co,, ** The Hall, Christchurch. This year they are doing the same, and this is how they do it bi Every customer is presented witli a ticket equal de lo lo per cent, on the amount spent by them; al io that /f you spend do you can choose ca inything up ,tp d, if L 5 is spent a 10s di present will be given, if £3 a ijs present, if hi a 2s present, but if you only spend Ope to shilling you will get something. And evety an ime you come duri g this month of December ul< ,nd up to January the 6th you will get a pre* cai ent. If you do not wish to spend a lot of Oi noney in one day’s shopping you can get jour Dc ickets for what you have spent, and so on wl ach time you come, a id then get one ready the andsome thing equal in value to all the tickets chi ou bold,—[Advt.J ' ad

The entertainment to bo given on Boxer ni.ht in tha Town Hall, for the benefit of the New Orange Hall Fund promises to be a great success. Mr Sidney Wolf has charge of the musical arrangements, and in addition to a concert he intends producing an operetta, entitled “ Prz?s and Blanks,” which, we understand, has never been previously given in the colony. The operetta Is a musical setting of the well-known farce “The Lottery Ticket,” and Mrs Hodge, who made so decided a hit in “ Pinafore,”. will appear in the leading part, the other characters being sustained by well-known local amateurs. The steamer Oreti, which went ashore on the West Coast some months back and was re-launched, going on to Wellington for repairs, (s now ready for sea again. The operations of re-launching and repairs cost LSOO, and the vessel is said to be better than when first built. The trial trip yesterday was satisfactory, the steamer going a knot faster than before. A reduction is being made in the Bailway Audit Department. The fact is that nearly two audits have been made here, but one is dispensed with, and this will largely decrease the work in all the railway departments throughout the colony, as it will do away with the duplicate returns now necessary. This change will lead to half-a-dozen clerks being discharged, but will not affect the efficiency of the Department. The Hon Mr Ballance returned to Wellington from Wanganui yesterday morning

A shipment of 100 tons of antimony ore arrived at Wellington from Endeavor Inlet yesterday. It will be sent home by sailing vessel. Yesterday Waring Taylor was committed for trial on two other charges accusing him of misappropriation of trust funds.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received , the following cablegram, dated London, December 9th, 1884 :—Wool : Market unchanged. Wheat: Market quiet. Adelaide ia worth 36a 6d, and New Zealand 31a 6d per 4961bs ; Tuscan, 33s 6d ; Adelaide, f.a.q., ia worth c.i.f. off coast, 34s 6d per 4801bs. Adelaide wheat, to arrive, iron ship new crop, is worth, c.i.f. 34 s6d per 48l)lbs, January bill of lading. Tallow : Market quiet. Mutton is worth 345, and beef 33s 6d per cwt. Leather : Market quiet. Best sides ate worth ll£d per lb. Frozen meat : Market sluggish. * Mutton, weighing per carcase 70 to 75lfas, is worth s£d per lb. t We are.informed that the cricketers at Chertsey are making the most strenuous exertions to secure a bumper house at _ their entertainment to morrow evening. An Ethiopian farce—the scenery and pro- _ perties of which have been got up regard- - less of expense—has been in rehearsal for some time ; and as the young amateurs have taken the utmost pains to render themselves familiar with the stage business, and become letter perfect in their respective roles, there is every probability that it will run smoothly and prove a pronounced success. The dramatis part of the entertainment will be preceded by a miscellaneous concert of vocal and instrumental mus c. The i ance music will bo in Mr and Miss Gates’ well-known style. There has just been completei in a railway engine shop at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, a locomotive, which, it is anticipated, will be able to pud a train on the New York division of the Lehigh road at the rate of 80 miles an hour. The engine, we are informed, weighs nearly 100,0001 b, and the tender, when filled with coal and water, 70,0001 b. The engine, it is slated, will develop from 1,490 to 1,500 horsepower. The great speed expected wiih this engine is raid to be attained by constructing the cylinders with the steam and exhaust entirely independent. This is done by using fewer plain slide valves (known as gridiron valves) on each cylinder. The valves are worked by a peculiar arrangement of the valve gear, in which the motion is taken from the connectingrod, and working entirely on true centres ; there being no sliding surfaces, the steam valves being independent of the exhaust, and vice versd, and the point of out-off or expansion can be obtained without the corresponding back pressure and over compression, as in the link motion. The point of compression can also be changed without altering the point of cut off or expansio i, so that the same sized cylinder will give much more power at a given pressure than can ba obtained by the link. To get the full benefit of this, the engine carries IGOlbs boiler pressure, the boiler being constructed of steel, especially for the purpose. It has butt-joints, double rivetted with 54 inches for its smallest diamster.The fire-box is II feet with 236 two-inch tubes, the total heating surface being 1,378 square feet. The grate area ia 37 square feet. The engine is also fitted with ah independent steam pump and heater for feeding the boiler, so as to put in water at nearly the boiling point, the heater being under the boiler. The pump being independent, can be run when the engine is standing and just fast enough to keep an even gauge of water when running. The arrester is so arranged that all the sparks are thrown down into a box, forward of the smoke arch, and are there carried to the end of the run, and dumped the same as the ashes. The spark arrester has been in use for soma time, and has proved satisfactory. We have received a further supp ! y of sheet almanac i from local tradesmen. Messrs Dimant and Ooe’s contribution is a capitally executed picture of an Irishman’s arrival from the fair, mounted upon a complacent looking donkey, and carrying the r suits of the day’s bargaining, I which, from a suggestive looking band-box b.aring the name of Messrs Dimant and , Coe, and the gratified expression on the equestrian’s face, have evidently been of an eminently satisfactory character. Mr Taylor’s almanac bears a representation of a cornfield, in which a number of men are engaged with the picturesque but superannuated scythe gathering a promising; crop of wheat. Messrs fdrr and Co. have selected aa their illustrations “ The Donkey Race ” and “ The Dancing Lea- ' son.” Both pictures are excellent pro- ‘ ductions, and will be a very acceptable present to this firm’s large circle of customers. “ Buchu-Paiba.” —Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. Druggists. The N.Z. Drug Co. General Agents. 2 August Flower.—The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than 75 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 longue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, Ipw spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of august flower. This valuable medicine has cured thousands id thousands of sufferers, and is known in all vilised countries. Two doses will relieve iu. It costs only 3s 6d a bottle. Sample ittles, 6d.—[Advt. Holloway s Ointment and Pills combine th sanitivc and sanative powers in a high gree—by the former term is understood their ililv tn nwsprvp health. hv the latter their I

capability to restore health. With these remclies at hand no invalid need be at fault to guide rimself or hetself safely through the many trials o which everyone is subjected during our long iij<j qfttiiTtes inclement winters. Coughs, colds, ilcerated throats, diptheria, whooping cough, an be successfully treated by well rubbing this )in;ment upon the chest, and by taking the Pills, during damp foggy weatherasthmatical sufferers rill experience the utmost possible relief from he inunction of the ointment on all tenderhesled persons will save endless misery by dopting this treatment, —[Advt. ]

On Tuesday evening a cottage, adjoining the site occupied by the Spreadeagle Hotel previous to its destruction by fire some months ago, was burnt. The fire was first noticed at 7.15 p.ra., and no clue has yet been obtained as to its origin. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, E. Barclay charged under the Vagrancy Act, with having attempted to pass a valueless cheque for Lsl Is 6d, was remanded by Mr Bullock, J.P., until tomorrow. To-morrow the adjourned monthly sitting of the District Court will occupy the Courthouse, and the usual weekly sitting of the Resident Magistrate’s Court will be held in the large room of Messrs Matson, Cox and Co’s store.

The Christchurch Fire Brigade will send a team of five men to the firemen’s competition in Dunedin in January. The Ashburton Brigade will probably also send a team, but a final determination has not yet been arrived at. The Sydney Mail , in an article on the frozen meat trade, pays a compliment to New Zealand : —“ The energy, care and skill of the persons engaged in exporting frozen meat from New Zealand have, after a prolonged effort, succeeded in completely overcoming the prejudices of Eng-

lish consumers. Frozen mutton now occupies the first position in the London market, being actually sold at prices higher than those obtained for tbe Home grown article. The shipment by the e.s. Tongariro, which arrived in London early this month, sold at 7£d per lb. This is a great stride, and should encourage the exporters to persevere and enlarge their operations. Suon news, too, is cheering to the pastoralists of Australia, who now plainly see a reliable outlet for their surplus stock. Fortunately droughty seasons are the exception not the rule. The time may not bo far distant when fat stock of good quality will again bo plentiful. With Great Britain as a market, the boiling down pots may be cast aside." The net sum realised by the recent festival held at Tinwald in aid of St. Andrew’s Church is about L 6, which will probably be devoted to the Sunday School. The Rev Mr Garbett requests us to convey his thanks publicly to Mr and Mrs Clark, who, with their family, did much towards the success of the festival,

especially in regard to the decoration of the building in which the concert was held. We inspected this morning at Mr Maddera’a establishment in Havelock street one of Foster’s Uhem cal Fire Engines, manufactured by the Chemical Fire Engine Company of Boston. The engine is 20in high, 30in long, and 12in broad, and contains a tank capable of holding about twenty buckets of water which is carbonised by the admixture of a patent preparation supplied by the manufacturer. It is claimed that a gallon of this fluid possesses extinguishing power equal to twenty-four gallons- of ordinary water, and experiments recently made in London in the presence of the Lord Mayor and other gentlemen interested in the subject, proved conclusively that water impregnated with carbonic acid gas by this engine was successful ia overcoming a conflagration which an ordinary steam fireengine had failed to subdue. The motive power is provided by the presence of air, which is easily pumped into a small chamber provided for its reception. The supply of water and pressure can be removed without interrupting the working of the engine, and we think such a machine as we have under notice would prove a very useful auxiliary to the engine of our local brigade. In addition to its utility as a fire extinguisher , it is admirably adopted for window and carriage cleaning, garden watering, and a variety of other useful purposes. Mr Maddern’s ea'abliahment contains a number of other varieties which will well repay a visit of inspection.

A great sensation was caused in th® Melbourne City Police Court recently by the disclosure of how an amateur lady detective (a Mrs Madden) dogged the 'ootateps ot a “ swell-mobsman ” until she landed him in gaol. Mrs Madden, a young, slender and pretty brunette, said, “ I have seen the man evidently trying to pick pockets in Ballarat, in Dandenong and on the lawn at Melbourne races on Cup Diy. In Ballarat he attended the Bishop’s consecration in the Roman Catholic Church He was among the ladies He knelt down most devoutly. While the throng of them were coming out they had to brush past him, and I believe he tried their pockets. I actually found him at the hotel table for dinner. I warned the landlady and said, ‘1 am sure that man is a pickpocket. ’ In Dandenong, at the railway station, I saw him operating upon a lady’s long velvet mantle. He had his finger crooked. I seized him by the wrist in the very act. He said, ‘ You’re too smart, you know.’ On the lawn at the races on Cup day I saw the prisoner. My purse was stolen. I cannot say whether he took it, but I challenged him. I took hold of him and some persons ga'hered round. The prisoner knelt down and begged and prayed that I would lot him off, which I did.” Detective O’Callaghan deposed that Lucas is an experienced London swell mobsman and a Western Australia expiree. Mr Call sent Lucas to prison for twelve months.