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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1494, 21 March 1885, Page 2

Mr Joseph Ivess, J P., presided at the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning and dealt with the following cases :—Geo. Cox, for having been drunk while in charge of a horse, was fined 40s and costs, with the alternative of 60 hours’ imprison---xnt.—J, Franklin, a very old offender, nj '-- . drunk in East street, was for having ■ w { t jj alternative of fined 60s and costa, 7 days’ imprisonment. The third annual meeting of the Can* terbury Frozen Meat Company was held in Christchurch yesterday. Mr John Grigg, chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The statement of accounts showed a net profit of L 2.937 14s Id as the result of the year’s operations, and the report, which was adopted, recommended a dividend of 8 per cent , and a transfer of sufficient to the reserve fund to raise it to L 2.000. In another column appears notes from Southland, contributed by a Southland farmer, who for some time was resident in the Longbeach district. Drowsiness, biliousness, pains and aches, and ague, Mop Bitters always cures if nia eby American Co. Read. Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or any other neuralgic pain speedily yields to Baxter’s Anti Neuralgic Pills. “ Bucmj-t'AiiiA.”—Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. I truggisls. The N.Z. Drug Co. j General Agents. 2 I 'I hat husband of mine is three times the I | man he was before he began using “ Wells | Health Kenewcr.” Druggists. The N,Z j • Drug Co., General Agents. 2 j'

Mr James Ashbury, ex MP. for ci Brighton, England, who recently gained la some colonial notoriety by an address to ai the Kingite natives, has purchased from p Messrs Ellis Bros the estate, h Southland, comprising 26,399 acres of a< freehold, for about L150,00J. Some par- T uculara of this property appear in “ Notes h from Southland” contributed to this “ issue. w At a special meeting of the Wabanui '* Road Board, held this morning, the reso- >' lutiuns in reference to the Road Bridge c rate, adopted by the Longbeach Road e Board at its last meeting, were endorsed. 0 Messrs Craighead and Co., in a charac- ' teristic advertisement appearing in this k issue, announce that although war is still 1 uncertain, we should be prepared for any emergency. ! A meeting of gentlemen interested in jthe formation of a Football Club for Ash- j burton, will be held at Quill’s Hotel, this evening at 7,30. The annual general meeting of the Ashburton County Hunt Olub will bo held at Quill’s Hotel, on Tuesday, March Sis*’, at 8 p. m. A cablegram received this afternoon announces that a severe engagement near SuaUira took place yesterday between the English troops and the rebels under CLman Digna. The rebels were completely defeated and driven from all their positions w-th heavy loss. Mr Thomas Bullock offered a number of town sections and other properties for sale at the Arcade this afternoon. The only sale effected was that of Ashburton T.S. 837 at L3B. It is probable that the proposed excursion train from Ashburton to Christchurch 1 and Lyttelton will, as recommended by His Worship the Mayor, run on April 7th or Btb, but the precise date is not yet * fixed. [ The Committee of the Tinwald Race 1 Meeting will meet at Scott’s Hotel this evening at 8 o’clock. To-day we had the pleasure of examint ing the clock recently erected by Mr MurT ray over his place of business in East street. A description of the time-piece J will appear in slate" issue. Hop Bitters gives good digestion, active . liver, good circulation and buoyant spirits, t, Get the only genuine American’s Go’s. 1 Reid. , “ Rough on Rats.” —Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, nnts, b« 1-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists, - The N.Z. :> 1 " Go., General Agents. 2 Ai other unfortunate.—Again we must draw , the attention of our readers to the fact that a ,£2,424 stock of Clothing and General Drapery, in the estate of Dennis O’Connell, tra- - oing in Lyttelton and Cristchurch, now bankrupt, was purchased by H. 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 seenre a speedy O clearance.