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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1550, 11 July 1885, Page 2

The order paper for the next sitting of the Ashburton Parliamentary Union to be held on Friday evening; is as follows Bankruptcy L*w Amendment Bill (second reading) ; Education Act Amendment Bill (Mr W. H. Zouch); West Coast Railway Construction Bill (Mr W. B. Moss); Timaru Harbor >oard Bill (Mr H, Friedlander) ; Non-political Railway Boards Bill (Mr D. H Brown) ; Franchise Ex- ! tension mil (Mr W. H, Felton) ; Fire Brigades Bill (The Premier) ; Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Bill (Mr B. G. Crisp); Cremation Legalising Bill (Hon D. H. Brown)—first readings. Catarrh of ihb Bladder.— Stinging ■rotation, inflammation, all kidney and similar somplainU, cured by “ Buchu-patba.” The \.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., Generai Agents. 3

At the request of a number of householders, Hia Worship the Mayor has convened a public meeting to be held in the Town Ball on Wednesday evening next to re-discuss school matters. The rainfall at Alford Station during this week has been 5 inches.—The rainfall during the same period at Tiraaru has bean 3.72 inches. We »ro pleased to learn that the recent high flood in the Ashburton river has occasioned no damage to the bridge works now in progress. The F rks protective works have also sustained the exceptional tax placed upon them without suffering, but the Wakanui protective works have been slightly damaged, the additional strength recommended by the Engineer and approved of by the Council not having been completed in time to meet the emergency.

A special meeting of the South Rabaia School Committee will be held on Monday evening.

We remind owners at a distance that nominations for the Ashburton Hunt Club Steeplechases must be made to the Secretary, Mr S. Saunders, by 9 p m. on Tuesd y next. A return laid on the table of the Legislative Council yesterday on the motion of Dr Pollen, shows the amount of fees paid during the past three years upon the issue of the various classes of licenses authorised by the Licensing Act. The respective amounts were as follows :—Publicans' licenses, 1881 2, L 49,044; 1882 3. L 58.854; 1883 4, L 54 694. New Zealand wine licenses, 1881 2, L 3; 1882-3, L 25; 1883-4, L 22 Accommodation licenses, 18812, L 1,150 ; 1882 3, L 1,429 ; IHB3 4. LI 530 Bottle licenses, 1881-2, L 3.047 ; 1882 3, L 4.472; 1883 4, L 3.862 Packet licenses, 1881-2, L 18 0; 1882-3, L 490; 1883 4; L 466 Wholesale menses, 1881.2, L 3,368, 1882 3, L 6.374 ; 1883 4, L 4.409. Conditional licenses. 1881-2, L 48 4; 1882-3, 1898; 1883 4, L 775. The total sum received in tee three years respectively was 1881-2. L 57.276; 1882-3, L 69.539 ; 1833-4, L 66,668.

The Registrar-General estimates the population of Ne«r Zealand at the beginning of the current year as 608,401 persons, viz., 331,035ma1e5, 277,306fema1es Dp to the present time 21,000 persons have petitioned Parliament against the employment in public houses of women called barmaids. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury College Board yesterday, Mr Montgomery was re-elected chairman. The Canterbury College Governors have decided to recommend the School of Arts Committee to take steps to have specimens of the art students’ work sent to the Colonial Exhibition in London. A special meeting of the Ashburton County Council was held to-day to consider the Local Bills proposed by Government during the present session of Parliament, to strike a rate rate and to consider the question of river protection. A report of the proceedings appears in another part of this issue. The annual dinner of ths Loyal Orange Lodge, No 23, will he held in the Orange Hall on Monday evening next. JWe remind our readers that the Ex hibitiou of limelight dissolving views in the Town Hall, by Mr Clement L. Wiggins, of Sumner, will begin this evening at eight o’clock. Admission, Is ; children half-price. We publish two Utters in this issue that have been forwarded to us by Mr Joseph Ivess, M.H. R. hey purport to be replies to a letter recently published by Car Hugo FrUdlander referring to Mr Ivess’a connection with the Woollen Factory. We do not wish to involve ourselves in a discussion of < this character, bat in justice to Mr Fnedlander and to place the matter clearly before our readers, we must state that in reply to ai question by Mr Thomas at the Town Hall Mr Iveas said

he had speculated LSO in the Company, which aum he had lost. We must add here, at the risk of incurring the displeasure of the member for Wakanui, that Mr Iveas in a letter he recently addressed to the local press, wilfully misquoted Mr Wright, He said Mr Wright claimed to have given material assistance to his (Mr Ivess's) “ successes.” Mr Ivess indignantly denied that he ever received a favor or assistance from Mr Wright. Now, what Mr Wright did say was that he had given material assistance to Mr Ivess’s successors. In our report “successes” was printed in place of “successors,” but the oontex made the error apparent, and we are quite sure that a gentleman of Mr Ivess’s journalistic experience and dlsernment was not mislead. That the error enabled him to mislead other people we admit. In consequence of the annual dinner of the L.O. L., No. 23, taking place in the Orange Hall on Monday evening, the sitting of the Parli mentary Union is ad journed till Friday, 17th instant, when all members are requested to attend. In the House of Representatives last night, the Premier introduced an amendment to the Employment of Females Act, the effect of which would have been to prevent the employment of barmaids in licensed houses. After a prolonged discnssion the amendment was last on a division by 40 to 24. A telegram from oar Wellington correspondent appearing in another part of this issue gives some particulars of the debate. “Staying” Power.—lt will be interest mg to athletes, and to all who value the pvwer 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 pleasant beverage, and which yet imparts, in an unusually large degree, what is expressively known as “ staying power, ,r —in other words, nutriment and strength. We re'er to Oadburv’s “ Cocoa Essence ” Now money is so scarce it behoves every one to be on the alert arm endeavor to make their twenty shillings go as far as possible. One glance at H. IS. May and Co.’s advertisement, which appears in our columns this evening should convince one and all that the propr.etors of The Hall, High street, Christ church, are determined to do their part. The prises quoted for the various items are, we believe, lower than on any previous occasion, and should induce all buyers f Drapery and Clothing to give them a call. lAdvt 1