The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1885.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1543, 18 May 1885, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1885.

A telegram from Wellington, published in our last issue, giving some indefinite conjectures as to the character of Ministerial proposals, reminds us that we are on the eve of the second session of the present Parliament. Although the telegram bears the imprint of inspiration it is neither authorative nor very explicit: it merely assures us that Ministers are doing something, and leads us to believe that they will do more when they ascertain what is possible and what is politic. Hitherto it has been the practice of Ministers during the recess to give some forecast of the measures they propose to introduce to the succeeding session of Parliament, but several members of the present Cabinet have recently addressed public meetings without unfolding any material part of the Ministerial programme. True, we have been promised important reforms and substantial benefits; the legislation of the approaching session has been referred to as of a most momentous character ; we have been told that the question of finance must occupy the early attention of the House, but Ministers have vouchsafed nothing tangible of the policy'they intend to enunciate. Whether they have or have not any definite intentions, is a question we do not propose to discuss just now, but the Premier and Colonial Treasurer having professed a determination to lake the people into their confidence, the absence of any authentic information with regard to the business of next session, suggests the conclusion that the Government are disinclined to divulge their policy until they have ascertained how far that policy is acceptable to a majority of the House.

The cablegrams we publish this evening in reference to the Anglo-Russian difficulty are not in a wholly gratifying tone. ,We are told that the Daily News states that the point of difference between England and Russia on the Afghan frontier question does not involve any essential portion of the agreement recently come to by the two countries. As we have no precise information with regard to the agreement referred to we are unable to value thepoint of difference, but we are ready to believe that the Daily News, a consistent supporter of the Gladstone Government, would regard nothing.conceded by its friends as essential, and we have too much reason to fear that the statement made by the Liberal organ will shortly be followed by an announcement to the effect that England has waived this non-essential point of the agreement. From St. Petersburg we learn that the Czar has despatched a letter of thanks to General Komaroff, together with a diamond-hilted sword ; and from London we learn it is stated in that city that General Lumsden has been recalled at the dictum of the Russian Cabinet. We are not prepared, without further information, to credit the latter statement, but the marked distinction conferred upon General Komaroff by his sovereign will increase the impatience of every British subject to learn something more of the Penjdeh affair and other recent incidents in Afghanistan. At present we cannot review the situation without drawing an invidious comparison between the honor done to the Russian General, and the half-hearted support accorded to the British representative.

Tic-Doloureux, Toothache, or any other neuralgic pain speediiy yields to Baxter’s AntiNeuralgic Pills, “ tayinq” Power.— lt will be interest ing to athletes, and to all who valua the power of physical endurance, to know that at “ home ” and in the sister colonies an article has of late years come into general use, which is very strongly recommended as being an exceedingly plea, aant beverage, and which yet imparts, in an unusually large degree, what is expressively known as “ staying power,”—in other words, nutriment and strength. We refer to Cadbury's “ Cocoa Essence.”

A successful private trial wjaji made this afternood of the apparatus Jfhsigned by Mr David Thomas, and constructed by Mr Bradley, tor street-watering and fire extinguishing purposes. We understand that a public trial will be hold in the course of a few days, and that it is the intention of the proprietors to apply for letters patent for their really ingenious and effective invention. The Committee of the Ashburton Couuty Hunt Club met at Quill’s Hotel on Saturday evening, and arranged tha hunting fixtures for the month of Juno. The Government inspection of the Ashburton Rifle Volunteers will be held at Mr T H Zouoh’s grain store this evening at 7 o'clock. Members of the corps absenting themselves from this inspection without leave will be liable to a fine of L 3.

The Ashburton Hounds met at Mr John Corbitt’s on Saturday afternoon. There was again a large muster of members, and the roads and every other point of vantage were occupied by spectators. A start was made in the large paddock opposite Mr Corbitt's residence where a hare wss immediately found, and at once pointed for the river bed, but after some slow hunting was lost. A second hare was set going in the river bed, and after a short gallop, during which the hounds worked very prettily, puss crossed the river to the Winchmore road, and speedily fell a victim to her pursuers. A cast was then made on Mr Pearce's farm, and what proved to bo an excellent hare was soon afoot. Leaving Mr Pearce’s the hounds led the field at a rattling pace towards Gresnstreet, the country crossed being very good, except for the presence of wire, which threw a lot of horsemen out. Having reached Mr Sargent’s property, the hare turned to the right and reached the river bed, checking the hounds for a moment. However, the pack ware Jscon on the line again, and pushed their game at a capital pace to the starting point where puss escaped. An attempt to pick the hare up again was unsuccessful, and after a short gallop on a fresh scent the hounds were whipped off and moved homeward, a really excellent day’s sport having been enjoyed. The hounds worked in beautiful form, having entirely lost the unsteadiness they displayed at the commencement of the season. Falls, owing to the, number of wire Ponces, were very numerous, but fortunately none of these accidents were of a serious character. Among those present, who always held a place in the van, we noticed Mr and Mrs Upton and Messrs Stitt, McLean, Hart, VVroughton, J. Hunt. H, Hunt, Graham, Cargill, Corbitt, Patterson, Hewaon, Foster, Frisby,

Drs Leahy and Ross. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning Mr Thomas Bullock, J. P., dealt with the following oises of drunkenness. A first offender was fined os and costa, with the alternative of 12 hours’ imprisonment, Patrick Clarkia was lined Ba and coats, with the alternative of 12 hours' imprisonment. A first offender, who hud been released on bail and did not present himself when oriled upon, was lined 10s and costs, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment Later in the day, before His Worship the Mayor, Jas. MoGilivery was charged with having been drunk and disorderly at Math van on Saturday afternoon.—William Rouse, the proprietor of the Canterbury Hotel, Methven, and Constable Black gave particulars of the condition and behavior of the accused. The accused was fined 20) and costs, with

the alternative of 48 hours’ imprisonment. —Henry Haskett and John Patterson were charged with having been drunk and riotous in the Methven Hotel on Saturday night. Constable Black stated that he had aarested the accused in the .Mothron Hotel on Saturday evening. They were fighting. The accused ware each fined 20s and costs with the alternative of 48 hours’ imprisonment. Some time ago trvo merchant princes in the West of Scotland, both very determined and obstinate men, got rather hot over an argument, and after going at it for some time, the one called the other a “ blockhead who did not know what ho was talking about,” “ Man. Jamie, 1 said ho, “ yo’ra that ignorant, I don’t believe yo even ken the Lord's prayer." “ Nao fear o’ that, dandy,” said ho, “ 1 kon it fine.” “ I'll hot ye a live pound note ye don’t,” was the retort. “Done! said Jamie, who immediately launched forth as follows :—“ The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll n ” “ Slop, Jamie, stoo !” said Sandy; “ that’ll dan ; here’s yor ai’ler. I kent fine yo could say it, but ye're wrang about you.” The Registrar of Friendly Societies notifies that the Pose of Springburn Lodge No 879, situated at Springburn, is registered as a branch of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand of the Independent ;tdor of Good Templars, under “ The Friendly Societies Act, 1882.” The New Zealand Gazette, of May 14, contains special orders, already published by the local papers, made by the Ashburton County Council respecting Anama and Mount Somers Hoad Districts.

We are pleased to learn that Mr Tvoss'

representations to the Minister of Justice in respect to the Ashburton Gaol have already borne fruit. Sergeant Felton has been advised that three cells will at once be added to the building. Sometime ago we mentioned that MAllison D. Smith had been appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the Vic torian Railways. Subsequently it was re ported that the announcement required confirmation, but wo ace now in » position to state that it was correct and that Mr Smith will assume his now duties as speedily as possible. We notice that Mr B. Bavan, bookseller, of Sast street, has received a supply of Mr Vincent Pyke’s inspiriting song “The Old Flag.”

The Patent Office has issued the following notice .-—“Patent for a hedgetrimming machine. Edward Fordi Wright, of Mount Somers, in the County of Ashburton, New Zealand, orchardist, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention ; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 21st day of July next, at II o'clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto j and I require all persons having an iutoreat in opposing fbe grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 6th day of July next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

All your own fault if you remain sick or out of health, when you can get Hop Bitters made by Ame.ican Co. Rea tj. Another unfortunate.—Again we must draw the attention of our readers to the fact that 3 stock of Clothing and General Drapery, in the estate of Dennis O’Connell, trading in Lyttelton and Cristchurch, now bankrupt, was purchased by H. E, May & Co., of the Hall, High street, for /C9S4, or only a little over one-third of its value. H. E, M. and Qf). are now selling it at half the marked price, which surely ought to secure a speed clearance. jgj“ German Syrup. 4 ' —No other medicine n fhe world was ever given such $ tssp of its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup, In three y&irs two million four hundred thousand small hoft-tes of this medicine were distributed jree of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Csnsumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs. Pneumonia and other diseases of tire Jthrqat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup 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. Bottles 6d. Regular size 3s. 6d. Three oscs wil I relieve any case, —I Advt, J i

Train arrangements in connection with the Queen’s Birchday are advertised in this issue.

At regular intervals tales are started of the discovery of recent traces of the moa The latest of these is from Waikaia, where (according to the Mataura Ensign) a party out mustering on the high country above Waikaia state that they saw mysterious footprints of enormous size in the snow. The impressions were rather blurred, bat there are grounds for hoping that the trail of a live moa has at last been discovered.

The meeting of the Debating Society announced for Wednesday has been adjourned until Monday next. A 50-mile walking match for LSO and the championship of the colony took place at the Tuam street hali, Christchurch, on Saturday, and was won by A. Hancock by about 230 yards. John Ranner, the Australian pedestrian, was second, and F. Morshead, Christchurch, third. The latter only accomplished 42£ miles. G. Muhleisn, Christchurch, also competed, but retired after doing 14 miles. The time was Bhrs lOmiu 4seo, and the race finished at 10.20 p.m. There is a story told of an eminent judge, still living, though retired from the Bench, which illustrates the importance of a voluntary confession better than the most elaborate argument. A prisoner tried before him for larceny had admitted his guilt when apprehended, but at the trial was defended with great pertinacity by able counsel. “ Gentlemen,” said the judge to the jury, “ the prisoner says he is guilty. His counsel says he is not. You must decide between them.” Then, after a pause, he added : “ There is just one thing to remember : the prisoner was there and his counsel wasn’t. ”

The Pall Mall Budget referring to the British navy says :—The navy is organised and administered not for war but for peace, and the congested centralisation at Whitehall so overwhelms the authorities with details of routine duty that they have no t<me to think of or to prepare for war. Take only one instance. The statement that there Is no Intelligence Department at the Admiralty would be technically false, but practically it is true. There is Captain Hail, a worthy and intelligent officer, who would be an invaluable assistant to the head of any Intelligence Department ; but Captain Hali is a mere compiler of information, a contemporary naval gazetter in breeches He is a maker of catalogues, not a designer of campaigns. It is his task to accumulate the information of which a real Intelligence Depactment, the directing brain of the navy, would avail itself in preparing its arrrangements. But Captain Hall without an Intelligence Department behind him is like an eye wituout a brain. In the German |War Office the Intelligence Department consists of 200 of the ablest officers in the service, whoso duty it is to foresee everything and to prepare for everything that may happen in operations directed to the defence of 1,500 miles of fr-Hitiur. The British Navy, that has to operate all over the ('lobe, has, as a substitute for an intelligence Department one officer and two clerks. Five years ago there was an attempt made to create an iniollig-tnce Department. The scheme was complete on paper, but it was burked at the last moment -rumor says from the jealousy of the (Mandarins of Whitehall. Be that as it may, the Department has still to be created, for at present the right arm of England’s strength has no directing brain. The Daily News says, in referring to the American diplomatic changes in England, Mr Lowell has bean in more than a diplomatic sense the representative of his country in ours. He has been, to speak in terms of Greek usage, a sort of gueatfriend of England. He has been the representative of what is best in American culture and in American literature. While a man of letters, Mr Lowell was always something more than a man of letters. The Biglow Papers are as sure of permanent life as the Liiierm Obacurorum Yirorum, and for the same reason. They give the most perfect literary expression to a great secular movement, and will always remain as the Interpretation of it, throwing more light on its causes and,character than the record of historians or the dissertations of moralists. The Biglow Papers describe the incidents and humors of a struggle, the close of which was oommemokrated in a Thanksgiving Ode, in linos worthy in their moral sublimity of the tongue of Milton and Wordsworth, Mr Lowell has many other titles to literary distinction But the poems to which we have referred blond, in an almost unique manner, letters wich politics and poli'ics with morals. Wo do not know whether it would in any case have suited Mr Lowell’s plana to have remained as Minister of the United States in England, or whether there is any hope of his staying for some time in a private character in a country associated we hope with some pleasant recollection!, if also with one sacred and lifelong sorrow. Englishmen of ail ranks and stations recognise in Mr Lowell not only a faithful and jealous guardian of the interests and honor of his country, but a type of all that is best in its intellectual and moral character. I he following reference to Herr Remonyi is taken from “All the Year Round” of October 22, 1864 But one yet more depressing feature of this German Festival remains to be mentioned—the vain glory of the audience. The audience assembled in the beautiful theatre at Carisruhe (a place of amusement, the scale, proportions, and convenience of which claim admiration) was as vehement in its raptures throughout the terrible events of every evening, as if a new Each, or Handel, or Beethoven had been revealed in every corapositi m. The climax was reached in the applause with which the enthusiasts overwhelmed Herr Remenyi who committed ipMrder on Herr Joachim’s Hungarian violin concerto. This gentleman’s display was from first to last terribly out ef tune, and in it not one passage was really rendered, though all were dashed off with the jerks and gestures, and the bowings of the body, and flinging back of the hair, which made good people laugh thirty years ago in the caricatures of Paganini in our Christmas pantomimes.

Catarrh of the. Bladder,—Stinging

•irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buchu-paiba.” The H Z. Drug Co,, General Agents. 3 Flies and Bugs,—Beetles, insects, roaches ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-rab bits, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” The N.Z, Drug Co., General Agents. 3 The 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 tested and prove by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best, and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up 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 suflering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit ana name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word “ Hop ” or “Hops ” were used in a way to induce people to believe hey were the same 33 Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what iheir style or name is, and especially those with the word “ Hop ” or “ Hops ” in their name or in any way connected with them or tjjejr name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them- Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule’s name blown in the .;l,ass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and chemist? me warned against dealing in imita tions «• counterfeit#