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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1533, 6 May 1885, Page 2

On the occasion of Mr W. G. Wallace taking hm leave of Tinwald to take charge of the Southbridge Di trict School, a few friends waited on him and Mrs Wallace yesterday afternoon to ask his acceptance of a small token of their esteem. Owing to the suddenness or his departure, no time had been allowed for calling a public meeting. In the name of the Presbyterian congregation, and as the result of a few hours’ effort, the Rev A. Blake hoped • Mr Wallace would accept of a copy of Farrar's Life of St Paul (a recent edition with maps and illustrations), and for Mrs Wallace a lady’s wo<}f basket. Mr Blake said they recognised Mr Wallace’s readiness to assist in the work ol tjre congregation, the >'abbath School, and the Temperance Society, and would follow him to his new sphere with best wishes for his comfort and success, and with prayers for his continued usefulness. Mr Wallace suitably acknowledged tha gifts. The workmen employed in three of the boot factories in Christchurch went out on strike yesterday. Tha local Bootmakers’ Society desired to rats® the tariff of wages in the larger factories to a par with that in force in some of the smaller factories. Messrs Llghtband, Allan and Co., Suckling Bros., and O’Brien and 00. are the firms at present concerned. The demand is one for an increase of wages, and it is not considered likely the employers will give way. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr Robert Alcorn, J P,, two first offenders were each fined fO and costs for drunkenness. Don’t Die in the House. “Rouugh on Rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, Jackrabbits, gophers. The N.Z. Drug Co., General Agents. i Holloways Ointment and Pills.— Diseases of the Bowels.—A remedy, which has been tested and proved in a thousand different ways, capable of eradiating poisonous taints from ulcers and healing them up, merits a trial of its capacity for extracting the internal corruptions from the bowels. On rubbing Holloway’s Ointment repeatedly on the abdomen a rash appears, and as it thickens the alyine irritability subsides. Acting as a derivative, this unguent draws to the surface, releases the tender intestines from all acrid matters, and prevents inflammation, dysentery, and ■ piles, for which blistering was the old- i fashioned, though successful treatment, now ‘ from its painfuhress fallen into disuse, the dis- ! covery of this Ointment having proclaimed a i remedy possessing equally derivative, yet, per- ] fectly painless powers.—{Ad vt. <

The annual meeting of ratepayers of the Rangitata Road District will be held at the Road Board office, Lismoro, to-mor-row. A meeting of the Committee of the Ashburton Racing Club, summoned for las' evening, was adjourned till .nday evening next. A full report of the annual meeting of ratepayers of the Mount Somers Road district, and of the ordinary meeting of the Mount Somers Road Board, appear in this issue. The Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade met last evening, the Captain (Mr J. A. Caygili) presiding. The resignation o‘ Fireman Barrop, who is leaving the district, was accepted. e The report of the Committee was read and adopted. Two new members were proposed for election, and it was resolved to hold extra practicas to make the Brigade as efficient as possible. The election of the monthly Committee concluded the proceedings The local postmaster has received a telegram stating that the San Francisco mail was expected to leave Wellington by the Hawea about 4 p.m. to-day. The Ashburton portion of the mail will probably be delivered by to-morrow’s express.

A public meeting, summoned by His Worship the Mayor, will be held in the Borough Council Chambers this evening at 7 o'clock to consider the formation of a Reserve Corps for Ashburton. Evangelistic meetings were conducted in the Tinwald Hal on several evenings last week by the Revs D. McLennan (Pleasant Point), T. W. Dunn (Pnkekohe) and A. Blake. Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather the attendances were encouraging, and considerable interest was shown in the services.

A public meeting of householders of the Rangitata district will be held at the residence of Mr James Coskerie, to-morrow,

at 2 p.m., to fix the boundaries of a new school district, to be called the Upper Rangitata district, and to elect a School Committee for the said district. The Rev T. W, Dunn lectured to a crowded house at the Oddfellows’ Hall last evening on “ Sweethearts, or matched and mated'” Mails for the Australian Colonies, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe via Melbourne close at the Bluff per Manaponri on Friday, Bth inst., at noon. This mail is due in London on June 29.

The annual general meeting of the church officers and members of the parochial district of Longbeach and Mount Somers was held yesterday at the Temperance Hah, Tinwald. There was a large attendance. The Hon W. S. Peter occupied the chair. The statement of accounts for the past year was read and adopted. The Secretary (Mr Ward) was authorised to write to the Standing Committee re special offertories. After some discussion it was re solved to guarantee the minimum sum of L2OO for the clergyman’s stipend. Several gentlemen expressed regret that the forms of the Synod should require a guarantee to |be signed at all. It was the opinion of those present that every effort would be made to pay the full stipend as hitherto. The guarantee was then apportioned as follows, viz—two-thirds payable by Longbeach; one-third by Mount .Somers. It was decided that the Locgbeach parochial district be divided into three subdivisions as follows:—(1) Waterton, to consist of Longbeaoh, Ashton and Fleroington ; (2) Windermere, to ojnaist of the school districts of Hinds, Winslow, and Willowby; (3) Tinwald district, to enclose the remaining parts of the Longbeach dia tiiot The Secretary was instructed to make out half-yearly statements of receipts and expenditure, and to have the same affixed to the church doors in each district. A vote of Thanks to the chair Was passed, and the meeting adjourned.