The Ashburton Guardian. Manga Est Veritas et Prevalebit THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1436, 22 January 1885, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Manga Est Veritas et Prevalebit THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.

A meeting of the Ifarly Closing Association was held last evening, but the business was merely of a routine character. Mr Charles Clark f-old by auction in Christchurch on Tuesday last, on account of Mt VV. Wilson, 30ft frontage on High street, occupied by the building of Messrs Hobbs and Co The property was sold, subject to an existing lease of 44 years unexpirod, ground rent LSOO per annum. The price obtained was JL7.750, equal to L 258 6s 8d per foot, the highest price yet piid in Christchurch for freehold land. We are given to understand that the Hub-Committee appointed by the Ashburton Racing Club to draft a programme for the Autumn race meeting have completed their task, and that their suggestions will be considered at a meeting of the Committee to be held on Tuesday next. It is quite time the intentions of the Club were before the spotting public. The ship Hurunui sailed from Port Chalmers at noon to-day for London, with a cargo consisting of 4,000 bales of wool, 46 bales of sheep-skins, 35 bales of rabbit skins, 2 bales of basils, 260 casks tallow, and 167 packages, the total valued at L 84.555. A public trial of Samuelaon’s reaper and binder took place at Rakaia to-day. A banquet will be given at the Commercial Hotel this evening to Mr S. S. Revans.

The Committee of the Ashburton District School held a very animated meeting last night. The Inspector’s report, and the master’s explanation were considered at length, and the Committee expressed themselves as satisfied with the latter. ’

We would-again remind our readers of the Eemenyi concert which will take place at the Oddfellows’ Hall to-morrdw evening commencing at 8 o’clock. Mr Frank Weston, the energetic business manager of the company, has sent us the following programme of the performance ; —l. piano solo, Mr Isidore Lackstone; 2 aria, Miss Hattie B. Downing; 3. song, Mr Rudolph Himmer ; 4. violin solo, Herr Remenyi; 5 piano solo, Mr Isidore Luckstone; 6 ballad, Mias Hattie B. Downing ; 7. violin solo, Herr Remenyi; 8. song, Mr Rudolph Hemmer ; 9. violin solo, Herr Remenyi; 10. duetto, Miss Downing and Mr- Himmer. Daring the very prolonged sitting of the School Committee, held last evening, we h id an opportunity to inspect one of the class books, “ Modern Geography,” used in the school. This publication purports to have been issued in 1881, and might have been expected to contain a tolerably recent notice of the colony] in which we reside. However, it is responsible for a number of statements, so imperfect and ant’quated, that we are astounded to find it in the hands of colonial children, accredited as an authority on the geography of New Zealand. The Modern Geography states:—“ The population of New Zealand is 258,663, of whom 55,000 are aborigines. . . . The colony is divided into nine provinces. . . ,

Kelson, on the west coast of the Middle Island, is a thriving manufacturing town , . . The population of Christchurch is 7,000.” A line and a half is devoted to a description of the Ohriatohuroh-Lyttelton railway gives the reader, as it was probably intended to, the impression that it is the only public work in the colony. We trust the scholars at our public schools attain a little later information on some other subjects. We are pleased to learn that the difficulty between the Ashburton Borough Council and the Ashburton Fire Brigade has been settled. The Brigade have handed to the Council the annual grant received from the Canterbury Fire Association, and the Mayor has undertaken to see the usual subsidy paid to the Btig.de Professor Lio Medo delivered his promised lecture at St Stephen’s schoolroom last evening. The audience was a very sihall one, but the subject chosen by the Professor was handled in a thoroughly able and interesting manner. We understand that the Professor will lecture at Ashton to-morrow evening, when we trust our counUy friends will display more interest in an important subjact than our fellow-townsmen have done.

Purify the blood, cleanse the stomach, and sweeten the breath with Hop Bitters. Read —[Advt.] I skinny Men.— “ Wells’ Health Renewer restores health and vigor, cutes dyspepsia, im potence, debility. The K.Z. Drug Co. General Agents. I “ German Syrup.”—No other medicine in the world was ever given such a test pf its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed Jree 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 Svrup 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 6d. Regular size 3s. 6d. Three doses will relieve any case.—fAlwr.] A Oliver unfortunate. —Again we must draw the attention of,our readers to the fact that a ,£2,424 stock of Clothing an’d General Drapery, in the estate of Dennis O'Connell, trading in Lyttelton and Cristchurch, now bank, rupt, was purchased by 11. E. May & Co., of the Hall, High street, for .£954, or only a little over one-third of its value. H. E. M. and Co. are now selling it at half the marked price, which surely ought to secure a speedy clearance. Holloways Ointment and Pills.— Outward Infirmities.—Before the discovery of these remedies many case of sores, ulcers, &c,, were pronounced to be hopelessly incurable, because the treatment pursued tended to destroy the strength it was incompetent to preserve, and to exasperate the symptoms it was inadequate to remove. Holloway’s Pills the most wholesome powers over the unhealthy or skin, without debarring the patient from-fresh ah /ind exerejse, and thus the constitutional vigor is husbanded while the most malignant ulcers, abscesses, and skin diseases are in process of cure. Both Ointment and Pills make the blood richer and puier, instead of permitting it to fall into that poor and watery stale so fatal to many 1 laboring under chronic ulcerations —[Advt. 1 :