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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1496, 24 March 1885, Page 2

The Government have decided to re open the works on the Waiau road to provide work far the moat needy of the unemployed. . At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning Mr Robert Alcorn, J.P., dealt with the following offenders :—Thomas Norman was charged under the Police Offences Act with having created a disturbance in the Salvation Army barracks du'ing service It appeared from the evidence that the accused, with others, had made a noise during i he service of the Army last Sunday, and on being very properly remonstrated with by the Captain replied in an insolent manner and otherwise disturbed the proceedings. The accused was fined 10s and costs, with the alternative of twenty.four hours’ imprisonment — A first offender, for drunkenness. was fined 5s and costs with the alternative of twelve hours’ imprisonment. Daniel Hyan, charged under the Police Offences Act with vagrancy was remanded until Friday next. Mr Gudsell reports on the water races on Saturday last as follows : —Dobbin’s Ford to Kyle, all dry ; Kyle to Seafield, three running, three dry ; Seafield to Seaview, four running, two dry. Miss Genevieve Ward and Mr W, H. Vernon, supported by a very superior company, will open at the Oddfellows’ Sail, to morrow evening, with “ Forget-ma-Not.” On Thursday evening “Nance Oldfield ” will be produced. We hope that Ashburton play-goers will show their appreciation of this talented company. The Borough Oouncil have recommended the Railway Department to run the excursion from Ashburton to Christchurch and Lyttelton on Wednesday, April Bth, Should the recommendation be acted upon, the day selected will be proclaimed a public holiday in Ashburton.

No practice of the Ashburton Orchestral Society will take place until after the production of “ The Messiah ” by the Ashburton Choral Society on Good Friday.

We again remind intending exhibitors that applications for space in Jthe New Zealand Industrial Exhibition must be made to Mr 0. Braddell, Secretary to the iooal Committee, not later than noon on Monday next. The annual tea and concert in connection with b the Star of Alethven Lodge, 1.0. G. T., will be held in the Methven schoolroom, on Friday, 27th inst. The annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Ashburton Permanent Building and Investment Society will be held in the Arcade Chambers, Burnett street, to-morrow at 4 p.m. Mr Joshua Tucker having withdrawn his candidature, Mr Thomas Quill has been declared duly elected to fill the seat in the Borough Council vacated by Mr William Leggatt. In connection with the fete to be held in Christchurch on Friday next in aid of the Andalusian Relief Fund, the Railway Department announce that Saturday return tickets to Christchurch will be issued at Ashburton, Waikari, and intermediate stations on the 27th inst., and will be available for return up to and including 30th inst. The North Canterbury Board of Education having deo!ared the election of the Winslow School Committee, held on 27th January, null and void, a meeting of householders will be held in the district schoolroom on Wednesday, Bth April, for the purpose of electing seven householders to form the Committee. At the inquest held on the body of the late Mr John Bennett, yeiterday, the jury returned a va/diot of “ Accidental death,” adding a rider referring to the condition of the road. A full report appears in another c >lumn. “Madam, may 1 kiss these beautiful children V inquired Uncle Dick Oglesby, as he leaned over the front gate. “ Certainly, sir ; there is ho possible objection. ” “ They are lovely darlings,” said Uncle Dick, after ho had finished the eleventh. “I have seldom seen more beautiful babies. Are they all yours, marm V The lady blushed deeply. “Of course they are—the sweet little treasures ! From whom else, marm, could they have inherited these limpid eyes, these rosy cheeks, these profuse curls, these comely figures, and these musical voices.” The

iadv contijijied blushing. “ By-the-bye, inarm,” said Ucole Dick, “ may I bother you to tell your estimable husband that Richard J. Oglesby, Republican candidate for Governor, called upon him this even-

ing ?" “ Alas, good sir,” quoth the lady, I have no husband !” “ But these children, madam you surely aF e not a widow ?” “ 1 feared you were mistaken, sir, when you came up. These are not my children. This is an orphan asylum!” —Chicago Neios.

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A'.other unfortunate.—Again we niu.. the attention of our readers to the fact that a ,£2,424 stock pf Clothing and General Drapery, in the estate of Dennis O’Copnell, trading in Lyttelton and Cristchurcb, now bank-

rupt, was purchased by H. E. May a Co., of the Hall, High stiee', for 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 secnre a speedy clearance.

The funeral of the late Mr John Bennett will leave Wakanui, at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Members of the Star of Ashburton Loyal Orange Lodge are requested, by advertisement, to attend the funeral. There should be great joy among the dairymaids, for a French scientist claims to have discovered anew and expeditious method of making butter, which is thus described ;—“The milk or cream is placed in an isolated vessel, and by means of two electrodes immersed in the liquid an electric current is established and kept up until the entire segregation of the par-

tides of butter has been effected. A dynamo-electric machine of 40 elements is said to be sufficient to get the butter out of 45 quarts of cream or milk in five minutes.”

It is not often we hear anything of the mission at New Norcia, in West Australia ; but Lady Broome, who has just visited it, speaks of the work which is being done there, in her Letters to Guy,” in very enthusiastic terms. “It is impossible,” she says, “ to imagine anything more devoted than the life these good fathers lead, or more encouraging than the result of their mission work of about thirty-five years. Perseverance, kindness, and infinite patience have worked a change like a miracle. One saw the result of it all during the long pleasant day spent in visiting schools and workshops, going into the neat comfortable cottages, and finally sitting down to watch a capital game of cricket between the natives and the lay brothers, pxoat of whom were Spaniards or of Spanish descent.”

A North Island exchange says : —Those whose names are not on the roll should see to it at once. It is not impossible that there may be a dissolution next session, and it is the duty of every elector to have his name on the roll, so that he may exercise his vote when necessary. The publicans of Melbourne are attempting to boycot the Age because of its utterances on the drink question.