TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1445, 2 February 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

fPBR PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 Sash and Door Company. Auckland, Saturday.

At the annual meel ng of the Union Sash and Door Company a dividend was declared at the rate of 4s per fully paid-up share for the six months ending Dec. 31, making 1i5,941 ; carried forward, L 3,161. The Chairman stated the losses by bush fires were only 1400. LII,OOO was written off lor ascertained and possible deficiencies. The timber stocks reserve stands at 131,600.

The Hospital. Dt Richardson, a member of the medical visiting staff of the hospital, has resigned. He makes various charges against the house surgeon as to bis treatment of patients. A Requisition. Auckland, To day. The requisition asking Sir Julius "Vogel to address a public meeting here has been signed by 700 persons. Suicide. Wellington, To-day. 0A painter named John Stafford White, aged 75, committed suicide yesterday by hanging, himself. It is believed that domestic troubles and drink led to the raah act. Ministerial Party. Westport, To-day. The Premier and party arrived last night. The first stone of the harbor will be laid to-day, and there will be a banquet in the evening. Plre Brigade Demonstration. Dunedin, Yesterday.

All the visiting Fire Brigade teams, except Wanganui, left for their respective homes on Saturday morning by train, and there was a large gathering of Dunedin firemen to see them off. Hearty rounds of cheers were interchanged, and the departing Brigades gave a final cheer for Secretary Robertson, of Dunedin. Out of the recent competitions, the Dunedin and Sontb Dunedin came off with the best record, .they having sceredlS points each. The mode of 'deciding the tie will be arranged by the judges.

Pedestrian. A benefit mi given to Joe Scott, the pedestrian, on Friday and Saturday, in the Garrison Hall, but was poorly at. tended. The principal attraction was a 24 hours’ go-as you-please, for which four started, but only one finished. This was Swan, who did 114 miles. Crofts, of Wellington, retired shortly after 9 p.m., with 110 miles to his credit. Across the street, at the Lyceum, a benefit to Living* stone, the ten-mile runner from Home, was well patronised.

Fan Tan. Dunedin, To-day

last night the police raided a Chinese gambling pien in Stafford street, and arrested twenty-one Chinese engaged in playing fan tan. The cases have been re manded rill Thursday.

* It is announced at headquarters (Korti) that a correspondence has been discovered between a French Journalist in the Mahdi’s camp and a French clique at Cairo, the Mahdi being supplied with full information as to our proceedings, with hints as to the best method of opposing our advance. Opinion. Lord Wolaeley’s interviewer in camp speaks in laudatory terms of him. He nays ;— << It is marvellous to see him. up at five o’clock or before, he is out and about actively till near noon. All the afternoon he works in his room, making work, for others and making others work | he may take an hour’s exercise at five o’clock, then returns to work till dinner time. - To bed, after perhaps a couple of holin'-more intellectual labor, about midnight, and np again before five. He Is never tired, or never shows it. He can ride horse or camel frodi early morning till lath at night without showing punishment, and his personal equanimity and amiability an never upset. But he makes his . influence felt, and already Uiy is discernible a decided quickening up all along the line, which may yet sate the campaign, which was in danger of being wrecked through delays that at the beat wen due to obstinacy where they Wen not diie to wilfnlnesa.”

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A'-pther unfortunate. —Again we must draw the attientiqa of our readers to the fact that a £2,424 stock of Clothing and General Drapery,'' in* the estate of Dennis O’Connell, trading in Lyttelton and Cristchurch, now bankrapt, was purchased byH. E, May & Co,, of the Hall, High street, for £954> or onl y 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; This 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 the highest value. As soon as it has been and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable £unily medicine on earth, many imitations spnmgup and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had' expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suSering invalids to use" their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. a. Many, others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised pairing in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops were used in a way to induce people to believe .they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretepded remedies or 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 thehr-msne, ''are' imitations or counterfeits. Beware,of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing bht genuine American Hop Bitters, Withataipch’or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soide’s name blowp in the g]asa vi T(rnat nothing else. Druggists and chemists are warned against dealing m imita