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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1408, 18 December 1884, Page 2

The meeting of the South Rakaia Licensing Committee yesterday lapsed for want of a quorum, only Messrs Lyttelton and Chamberlain being present. Mr Caygill applied on beha'f of Mr »T. G. Russell for a duplicate license for the Chertsey Hotel, the original being lost. The meeting was adjourned till Monday next at noon. A generai meeting of shareholders of the Mont d’Or Goldmining Co. was held at Ross on Tuesday evening. The report and balance-sheet was read and adopted. The gold returns for the last year’s operations amounted to 1,2700 z 4dwt Bgr, valued at L 4,836. The net profit for the year was L 2.492 15s Id, which, withL33o 10s fid brought forward from last year, amounts to L 2.823 5s 7d. Of this LI.BOO has been paid as dividends, and L 1,023 5s 7d carried forward. The appearance of the mine continues very promising, and shareholders are confident of increased yield. The Prince of Wales Goldmining Company, Ross, washed up on Tuesday for three weeks, with a result of 90oz 14(fwt. Owing to the insufficient water supply through the dry weather, the time actually engaged in procuring the above result did not exceed twelve days. Large returns of gold are anticipated from the various mining centres by Christmas A circular issued by the Government respecting the hours of attendance of Civil servants is now going the rounds of the departments. The regulations are very stringen f , and compel each officer to sign attendance on his arrival at -“the office in the morning ; but should he be later than 9 35 he will lose his chance of doing so, and the day will be counted as if he was absent. At the end of each month| the number of hours of attendance of officers will be made the subject of a report. Mr C. F. Keyworth has, it is understood, been appointed Assistant Secretary, New Zealand Exhibition, We have to draw attention to a business notification from Mr Robert Murray, watchmaker and jeweller, which appears elsewhere. Those of our readers washing to invest in Christmas presents of jewellery, etc., should certainly visit Mr Murray’s establishment. Messrs Fitzherbert and Newman, M.H.R.’s, waited on the Minister of Public Works yesterday, asking that a number of holidays be allowed to railway employes, known as workshop hands and platelayers. T n reply, Mr Richardson said the men referred to would receive three holidays in the year, viz , Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Queen’s Birthday. On those days they will receive full pay. It will be goo 1 news to Ashburton playgoers to learn that there is ovary probability of Miss Genivieve Ward, one of the greatest actresses of the day, and whoso progress through the colony has been one round of triumphs, visiting Ashburton. The precise date has not yet been fixed, but it is anticipated that the visit will take place during March next. Sir James and Lady Prendergastarrived by the Waihora on Tueadry, from England, also the Hon M, Holmes. No word has yet been haard of Fitzgerald, who is wanted for the Northern murder. A reward of LSO is announced. On Tuesday, Robert Sparrow and Andrew Henderson, of Dunedin, were charged with using dynamite in the Kaitangata Lake for the purpose of taking trout. The witnesses for the prosecution could remember nothing. One witness said he might have Deed iq a boat, but could not remember who phe were in it. The K.M. in dismissing the ease com mented on the peculiar forgetfulness of

the witnesses. An Auckland fionthern Cross, dated

20ih February, 1852, has been found, showing under the heading “ Sydney shipping," the departure of the Osprey, Captain Honoyman, for Valparaiso on the 19th January of that year. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limhed, report that their third sale of the season, held at the Christchurch Wool and Grain Warehouses yesterday, passed of moat successfully. There was a good attendance, and the biddings were marked by great spirit

throughout, though the oat ilogue was of unusual length. One hundred and ninetysix bags and 1,679 bales were catalogued, but owing to the suspension of goods traffic on the railways for Tuesday’s holiday, many lots did not reach store in time tq receive the attention of buyers, and 85 bales ware not submitted. The bags were all sold, and of the 1,595 bales brought to the hammer, 1,031 found buyers at the prices i particularized below. Prices ranged as follow:—Greasy merino, to ,9d; half-bred, 6£d to crossbred, s£d to B£d; pieces, 2d to locks, Id to 4fd; scoured merino, to 17|d; halfbred, 6|i to 14|d; crossbred, 6d to 10| 1. Take Hop Bitters three times a day, and you will have no doctors’ bills to pay. Sqe.—

Advt.] “ Buchu-Paiba.” —Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. Druggists. The N.Z. Drug Co, General Agents. Z Toothache, or any other neura™c pain speedily yields to JJavter’s Antj* Neuralgic Pills. Christmas presents free of charge.—Last fear we are informed that over 9,000 presents were given away during December and the :arly part of January by H. E. May & Co,, Fhe Hall, Christchurch. Phis year they arc loing the same, and ihis is how they do it ; Every customer is presented with a ticket equal o 10 per cent, on the amount spent by them, 10 that if you spend Lio you can choose uu to Li, if L 5 is spent a xos .nytaiuj, • a 63 present, if iresent wdl be g..w.„ spc nd One a a 23 present, but if you 0...„ ~ drilling you will get something. Anclcvc, me you come durl g this month of December nd up to January the Olh you will get a bread. If you do not wish to spend a lot of roney in one day’s shopping you can get your ckets for what you have spent, and so 01; ich lime you come, and then get one really andsome thing equal in,value to all the tickets au hold,—[Advt.]

On Tuesday evening a general meeting of the Ashburton Hunt Club was held at the Commercial Hotel. There was a good attendance and Mr J. McLean occupied the chair. It was determined to purchase five couple of-hounda, and to hold a Committee meeting on Saturday evening next to arrange for keeping and hunting the pack. it transpired that after all disbursements had been made in connection with last and the previous season L4B remained to the credit of the Club. \t the inquest on the victims of the Rangiora accident, held yesterday, a large quantity of evidence was taken, and the Coroner having aumraed, up the jury re-

turned the folio wing verdict:—“That David Keir and Margaret Morrall were accidentally killed by a collision with a train ; but it was the opinion o! the jury that the signal arrangements at the High street crossing were incomplete, and they suggest that the crossing keeper during the day signal the road passengers with a flag, the color of which be settled by the Department, and at night the keeper be supplied with a lamp for the same purpose ; that the crossing keeper should stand in the centre of the road whilst trains are approaching.’’ The jury also desired to bear testimony to the care and searching way in which Mr Pender had conducted the inquest. Last evening Mr Hughey had slightly improved, but there was no change for the better in the case of Mr McKay. The other sufferers are reported to be progressing favorably. At the Timaru Supreme Court yesterday in the case of W. M. Hatfield v the Hon T. H. Wigley, a claim of L 750 for malicious prosecution, the jury returned a verdict for one fa thing damages.

Mr John Jackson was yesterday formally installed Mayor of Timaru for a second term. We would remind those interested that the nominations for the Winslow races close to-morrow evening. Mr H. N. Abbott of Auckland has received a letter from Dion Boucioault, dramatist and actor, stating that ho expected to leave for Australia either by the next mail boat or its successor. A man named Barron alias Starkey attempted snicide by hanging himself in the Auckland police cell, but he was cut down in time. He was sentenced to 14 days for drunkenness. A complimentary dinner was given to Mr Locke, M.H.R., at Gisborne, last evening. A Rama ’faori, who was sentenced to eighteen months for a bad case of forgery, has, through the influence of the Hon Wi Tako Ngatata, his uncle, and Wi Pere, been released, after serving five months. The other native forgers sentenced at the same time are still in gaol. Tile following tenders have been accepted for the Ashburton Home : Ra'ions and extras, Orr and Co ; medical comforts, Friedlander Bros; fuel, Tucker, Res ell and Go; medicines, C. J. H. Neate; interments, J. A. Persson. At a meeting of the Christchurch South-east Licensing Committee yesterday, the license of the Langham hotel was declared forfeited, as the licensee (Allen) has left Christchurch, and has not been heard from since last meeting. It is almost impossible to believe that so much superstition and gullibility can exist among people calling themselves civilised and educated This remark (writes the London correspondent of the San Francisco News Letter) is called forth by the fact of it being believed firmly and religiously that a document supposed to have been written by Jesus Christ has been found and does actually exist in Cornwall. This letter has been copied and hung in the houses of many Cornish people, who regard it as an incalculably valuable document, possessed of marvellous power. It is stated to be a letter written by “ Our Blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ, and found eighteen miles from Iconium, sixty-three years after his crucifixion, and was carried from the Holy City by a converted Jew.” It has been faithfully translated from the original copy in the possession of Lady Cuba’s family in Mesopotamia. It was found under a great stone, round and large, at the foot of the Cross. Upon the stone was graven : “ Blessed be he that shall turn me over.” The supposed letter is neither more not less than the Ten Commandments of Moses, amplified and interlarded with a quantityof well-known proverbs, I have seen a copy of the original (?), and must confess the fraud (for one with any sense cannot regard it in any other light) is a very ingenious one. Besides the above, the document contains a portrait of “ Jesus, the Son of God,” a list of Christ’s cures and miracles, “King Agharus’s letter to Christ,” “ Our Saviour’s answer,” and Lentulus’s “ Epistle to the Senate of Rome. ” This precious effusion winds up with a description of the Saviour, whom it describes as having hair of a “chestnut fully ripe,” a stature somewhat tall and comely, a reverend countenance His forehead is plain and smooth; h s nose and mouth are so formed that nothing “can be reprehended;” his beard is thick, the color of his hair; his eyes grey, clear, and quick. He is never known to have laughed, but he has often wept. He is well-shaped and straight. His hands and arms are “delectable to behold.” His singular beauty far exceeds all the sons of men, and in speaking he is temperate, modest, and wise. German Syrup.”—No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup. T .1 . 'll* r 1 .1 .1 j i .

In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed free of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them- The result has been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggist and ask what they know about it. Sample Bottles fid. Regular size 3s. fid. Three doses will relieve any case.—FAdvt.l Holloway's Pills.—Weary of Life.— Derangement of the liver is one of the most dangerous of diseases, and the most prolific source of those melancholy forebodings which are worse than death itself. A few doses of these noted Pills act magically in dispelling low spirits, and repelling the covert attacks made on the nerves by excessive heat, impure atmospheres, over-indulgence, or exhausting excitement. The most shattered constitution may derive benefit from Holloway’s Pills, which will regulate disordered action, brace tl;c nerves, increase the energy of the intellectual faculties, and revive the failing memory. By attentively studying the instructions for taking these Pills, and explicitly putting them in practice, the most desponding will soon feel confident of a perfect recovery.—[Advf 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 qf the 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 whiph the'press and the people of the country had expressed the merits, of 11, 8,, and in t:very way trying to induce sudering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the wprd “ Hop ” or t‘Hpps '■ were used in a way to indues people to be|ieve they were the same as Hop Bitters, All such pretended remedies gr cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word “Hop” or “Hops” in their name or in any way connected with them or * are imitations or counterfeits. their name, • a„f them. Use Beware of them, iouen nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, , with a bunch or cluster of green Hops oil the , white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the I glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and I chemists are warned against dealing in imita I tions counterfeits, |