The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1541, 28 May 1885, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885.

A list of persons indebted to the Council for earth, culverts, rents, etc , was laid on the table at the last meeting of the Borough Council, and it was resolved to sue for all accounts outstanding more than three months. UgThe Ashburton Guards were drilled at Mr T. H. Zouoh’s grain store last evening by Color-bergeant Hayes and Mr W. B. Moss. No intimation has yet been received from the Government of the acceptance or rejection of the services of Corps.

The Lonvion Sportsmen of February 11 contained the foliowing advertisement: “Wanted.—A cultured man capable ol milking goats. A university man pre ferred. Applications, with testimonials, as to proficiency, to bo addressed,” etc.

The Ashbi'ton Rinking Club will meet in the Town Hall this evening at 7.30. Much annoyance has recently been occasioned to visitors to the Public Library by the loud conversation and antics of boys, who evidently regard the building as a debiting or play room. The Librarian has been in-tructed to eject any person creating a disturbance in the build-

mg. An Indian rhymer expresses his appreciation of Lord Dufferin and his contempt for Lord Lytton in the following lines ; If here we make a din. We know what we’re about : We greet a Dufferin And see a duffer out. A requisition is in course of signature asking Mr John Grigg to resign his seat in the House of Representatives in favor of either Mr JS. G. Wright or Mr Alfred Saunders. We are in a position to state that the present member of Wakanui will take no hurried action in reference to this matter, for although anxious to be relieved of hia Parliamentary duties he will allow no precipitate step on jhia part to imperil the interests in which he Icontested the seat. If some assurance were given that he would bo succeeded by Mr E. G. Wright, we have no doubt Mr Grigg would readily relinquish a position which ho assumed reluctantly and holds at considerable personal inconvenience, but although weary of the machinations of politics, he has lost none of hia earnest solicitude for the welfare of the colony. Referring to this subject the Waimrapa Star, a a small paper published in the North Island, says— ‘‘ Mr John Grigg, M. H.R., for Wakanui, in an address to his constituents has intimated hia desire to resign if a suitable agricultural representative would come forward. If Mr Grigg will wait till next general election Mr ivess, who has proved himself a capital agricultural representative will assuredly save him the trouble of resigning.” Although we are unable to concur with the confident roncluaion arrived at by our contemporary, we think it probable that he has mote information than wa have with regard to the political aspirations of Mr Grigg’s late opponent. Holi.oways Ointment and Pills.— Notable Facts.—lntense heat augments the [ annoyances of skin disease and encourages the development of febrile disorders; therefore they should, as they can, be remove by these detergent and purifying preparations. In Stomach complaints, liver affections, pains, and spasms of the bowels, Holloway’s ungent well rubbed over the affected part immediately gives the greatest ease, prevents congestion and inflammation, checks the threatening diarrhoea and averts incipient chohra. The poorer inhabitants in large cities will find these remedies to be their best friends when any pestilence rages, or when Irom unknown causes eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations point out the presence of taints or impurities within the system, and call for instant and effective curative medicines. — [Advt.J

The annual general meeting of the Methven Racing Club will ho held at Methven on Wednesday, June 3, at 8 p.m. The usual fortnightly practice of the

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade was held last evening. There was a fair attendance of members, and a satisfactory drill was executed under Lieutenant W. E. Dolman.

The election of five persons to serve as members of the Anama Raul Board will bo hold on Saturday, June 13. Nominations will bo received till 12 o’clock noon on Saturday, June 6, at the house of the Returning Officer, Mr J. Brake, at Mayfield.

Wo regret to announce that Mr James Patterson, of Waierton, whilo riding Mr H. McLean’s Jasper in the Cavalry Race at the Grand National Mooting yesterday, suffered a severe fall. Jasper came down heavily at the double opposite Ford’s, and Mr Patterson was stunned by the accident. The sufferer was promptly attended to by Dr Prina, and is now progressing favorably. By advertisement in another column, the Property Tax Commissioner invites

applications from valuers for the aaaesment of the Borough of Ashburton and the road districts in the Ashburton County. Late this afternoon a telegram was re-

ceived in town from Mr R. T. Booth

stating that he would, owing to ill-health, be unable to visit Ashburton to-morrow night as arranged. As the arrangements foe a temperance demonstration are complete, Mr Booth’s Reception Committee have determined to hold a meeting in the Town Hall tomorrow evening, when a a well-known temperance advocate from Christchurch will probably deliver an address. The united choir will meet for rehearsal at the Templar Hall at half-past seven this evening. We have been shown to-day hy Mr Farley, stationer, of East street, a moat extraordinary curio, represented as having been imported from the Pyramids of Egypt. The curiosity is a piece of writing or printing or whatever else it may be I called, on what we are given to underI stand is papyrus. The writing has a I wonderful resemblance to Old English I black letter, but the illustrations are I essentially Egyptian. Altogether the j “ thing ” has a most old world and musty I look about it, and the binding would pass j readily forsomethingthat had been fashionI able about the time Moses’s rod was being I utilised to chastise the parties who ulti- ] mately came to grief in the Red Sea. But I when the reader has closely examined the I disreputable looking scroll, and reads a I heading, “ He, she, it,” and then goes I further and finds the Grand Vizier of I Egypt bearing a wonderful facial reaembI lance to a certain “ Grand Old Man,” I who has a weakness for tree-felling and I post-card correspondence, he will be apt I to conclude that he has been sold, but I will enjoy the perusal of this amusing I sham.

On the c; tock Exchange on April 9 a panic raged with scarcely any intermission from the opening to the close, the serious news from Afghanistan having led to enormous sales of all the leading securities. The funds fell 2J per cent., Russian and Egyptian bonds from 7 to 9, Hungarian 3 to 4, and Italian, Spanish and other European stocks !■£ to 2J. English railways declined 2 to 3 each, but did not close quite at the worst. The only market which showed strength was the American. Gold to the amount of L 37.000 was taken to the Bank of England.

Even in China lynch law is resorted to. Just outside the west gate of Shanghai is a small hue where man and his son lived up to November 13 last year The son made it a practice of calling upon his father for cash whenever he was in want of it, until the thing got rather monotonous for the father, who remonstrated with his son, and being saucily replied to, the father attempted to apply “ paternal correction ” on the son ; the sou, in rage, then caught hold of the door-bar and brought it down with such force upon the Father’s skull that he cracked it and killed the old man. The neighbors, hearing the row, assembled at the door of the house where the murder was committed, and captured the son as he was endeavoring to escape. The members of the father’s clan were then called together, and >vt a solemn conclave it was decided to administer on the spot the law set aside for parricides, instead of appealing to the magistrates, which invariably causes much delay, and perhaps the murderer might effect his escape in the meantime, bo the parricide was bound hand and foot, and just without the hamlet a Imle was dug and the wretched murderer consigned to its depths.

The mud was thrown into the hole and thj m mbera of the clan stamped by turns on the grave until it was level with the ground, and so without leaving a mound or any mark to point out the parricide’s grave the assembled crowd dispersed silently to their daily vocations.