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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1553, 15 July 1885, Page 2

Owing to the small number of entries received last night, the Ashburton Coursing Club determined to abandon the Couieing meeting fixed for to day. While regretting the failure of the local Club to attract a more encouraging entry, we are compelled to observe that, in our opinion, the unfortunate result is largely owing to the insufficient publicity given to the meeting. Whatever difference of opinion may prevail as to the efficacy of general advertising, any person acquainted with sport will readily admit that publicity is the keystone of success. 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 * Indigestion and Liver Complaints.—For these complaints Baxter’s Compound Quinine Pills have proved a specific, acting powerfully on the liver and mildly on the stomach, bold everywhere, or post free from J. Baxter, Chemist, Christchurch, for 19 or 44 stamps. ,

Mr Matthew Stitt, of Wincbmore Station, has become an honorary member of the Ashburton Rides. We understand that the entertainment which was proposed to be held in aid of the Ohertsey school prize fund on the 31st instant, has, through uuforseen circumstances, been postponed till the 14th August. Wo are plea ed to learn that a few friends of Constable Neil, whose promotion to the Detective Force we recently recorded, have determined not to allow that efficient officer to leave Ashburton without some tangible mark of the esteem in which be is held in this district. Several volunteers have asked as the question as to whether or not the Ashburton Guards have been gazetted. The

official announcement of their acceptance as an honorary corps was made in the Gazette of June 25, with dace of acceptance as from June 10, 1885. A meeting of the Committee of the Ashburton Racing Club, fixed for this evening, has been adjourned till Saturday evening next. A public meeting, called by His Worship the Mayor in resp onse to a requisition, will be hold in the Town Hall this evening, to discuss matters in connection with the Ashburton School. The “majority” of the School Committee have notified their intention not to be present at the meeting. The recent interprovincial chess match between Christchurch and unedin has resulted in a win for Christchurch by five ' games to four. Mr Beubow, of Dunedin, , the referee, has adjudged oue of the un--1 finished games to be a win to Christ- . church, and the other in favor of Dun- . edin

It is reported that it is the intention of Sir John Hall to return to New Zealand

in the course of about three months, but that his health will not permit him to reenter political life.

Nominations for the Ashburton Hunt Club Steeplechase were received last night and are published in another part of this issue. They sho v a considerable improvement, both in number and quality, upon the nominations received last year, and we may safely predict a successful meeting for our local Club.

Yesterday in the Christchurch Supreme Court, the trial of Hough aid Dudley ou a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Railway Department was concluded, and resulted in the conviction of the accused. The Judge deferred passing sentence. At the Resident Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr Robert Alcorn, J.P., P. Willin was fined 40s and costs for having been drunk while in charge of a horse and dray.

Philip Dolan, a resident near the beach, is supposed to have been drowned at the mouth of the Rakaia river last night. The particulars at present to hand are of a very meagre description, but Constable Bourke proceeded to the scene of the accident this afternoon. Holloway’s Pills. Liver Complaints.—The digestion cannot be long so seriously disordered without the derangement being perceptible on the countenance. These pills prevent both unpleasant consequences ; they improve the appetite and with the increase of desire for food, they augment the powers of digestion and assimilation in the stomach. Holloways Pills deal most satisfactorily with deranged or diseased conditions of the many organs engaged in extracting nourishment for our bodies from our various diets—as the liver, stomaoh, and bowels, over all of which they exercise the most salutary control. By resorting at an early stage of this malady to these purifiying and laxative Pills, the dyspeptic is speedily restored to health and strength, and his sallownes gradually vanishes.—f Advt.