The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 26, 1885. Mayoral Election.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1336, 26 November 1885, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 26, 1885. Mayoral Election.

The result of yesterday’s Mayoral election was very generally anticipated, and, we think we may add, has afforded very general satisfaction. Even the gentlemen who opposed Mr Friedlander’s candidature were not more than half-hearted in their opposition, and, as the Mayor put it in his address to the burgesses last night, “ they did not oppose him; they opposed one another.” Both Mr Harrison and Mr Thomas have brought more than an average share of intelligence and energy to bear on municipal matters, and in due course will probably preside at the Council table, but Mr Friedlander’s second election is only an appropriate acknowledgment on the part of the burgesses of the diligence and tact displayed by that gentleman during his first term of office. Mr Friedlander has shown no predeliction for fulsome flattery, and we have no intention to offer it to him, but we cannot refrain from complimenting him upon the aptitude and success with which he has, on the whole, discharged the important duties appertaining to the office of Mayor. He has rendered much valuable and highly appreciated service to the Borough; and has shown an unmistakable desire to view every measure dispassionately and not through a party medium. His firm and persistent advocacy of the opinions he holds has always been tempered by a courteous and deferential regard for the opinions and,feelings of others. But “ praise undeserved is scandal in disguise” and we are not going to say that our chief Magistrate is immaculate. He has disregarded the fact that half the errors and half the bad feeling in society and.in politics arise from ignorance and misconception; he has taken little trouble to repute ( the very mild bf his oppose, Re hie

held, too, to some of his opinions with a pertinacity amounting almost to obstinacy. But we think a little pertinacy is desirable. The opinion of a man who has no conviction is, of course, worth nothing at all; and if a man has an opinion worth giving utterance to it is worth defending. As a Chairman, Mr Friedlander has been fairly successful, although we venture to suggest that he might somewhat expedite the business at the fortnightly meetings of the Council by insisting upon closer atten-

tion to the matters under discussion, and by allowing the wanderers in debate a little less latitude. In» larger matters, as we have already indicated, Mr Friedlander is inspired by an intelligent conception of the important functions of the high and honorable office entrusted to him by his fellow burgesses, and we trust his second terra of office may be no less successful than his first.

Salaries. Several Borough economists have traversed the remarks we made some days ago with regard to the salary paid the Ashburton Town Clerk. We see no need, at present, to add anything to what we have already said on this subject, but the following figures, collected from various reliable sources, showing .the salaries paid to the Clerks of other Boroughs will probably be read with interest. The return is necessarily incomplete, but will sufficiently establish the current value of the clerical labor to which we referred:—

The usual monthly meeting of the Methven School Committee was held in the schoolroom o.t Tuesday evening. Present—Messrs G. Shann (chairman), J. Hibbs, J. Gilchrist, R. Patton, D. Quinn and J. 0. McWilham —The master’s report stated that the number ou the roll was :—Boys 40, girls 36, total 76 ; average attendance for last month, boys 29'9, girls 27 7, total 57 T; highest attendance 64 —As Mr Seay, the'head master, has to attend the annual examination of teachers on the I6th December, and will be absent for-about ten days, it was resolved to close the school for the Christmas holidays from December 16 to January 11.— The Committee having applied to the Board of Education for a grant of L 5 6s for repairs to the sohoolhouse and teachers' residence, a reply was read from the Board stating that they would grant the sum of L 3, and the Committee would have to provide the balance out of the incidental fund. After some discussion as to the practicability of drawing upon a fond that wasneverin credit, it was resolved to have the more urgent repairs attended to at a cost not exceeding the Board’s grant.—A sum of L 6 or L 6, proceeds of late entertainment, was voted for prizes, and Mr Seay undertook to select suitable bioks during his visit to Christchurch. The meeting then adjourned. The Tetnuka Leader, referring to the remarks made by the Rev Father Chastagnon at the conclusion of the recant Convent concert, says:—Never have we read a more truly Christian speech, or one better calculated to cement people together in the bonds of unity and goodwill. Ashburton is fortunate in possessing so liberalminded, so kind, and so ohristiau-like a priest. In the presence of so much Christian chanty, kindness, and good nature, bigotry, and intolerance cannot exist; peace and goodwill must hold sway where they are thus held up as leading features of Christian virtues.

A facetious correspondent writes: —I am pleased to learn that the local champions of the willow have commenced in earnest to adopt the suggestion thrown out by the Guardian last evening. Enquiries have, 1 am informed, been made at the various etnporia for “ tors,” e'.c, and at dusk last evening groups might be seen assiduously practising in order to become as proficient as possible in the new pastime.

The disposition of all employers to dispense with men who drink to excess when they can get sober ones is on the increase. Twenty years ago the newspapers of all large cities were frequently the nests and roosting places of a lot of “hard citizens.” They are banished now. An interceder for a discharged drunkard from a morning paper recently bagged the editor to remember that “Jim has a wife and two children to support.” “It so happens,” replied the editor, “ that the sober man wnom I have pat in Jim’s place has a wife and four children. It should always be remembered that every expulsion of a bummer leaves a position for a decent man. We don’t ran an inebriate asylum or a moral reformatory.” That sound principle is pervading all trades, professions and occupations “ Jackasses and savants to the rear! ” was the order in Napoleon’s Egyptian campaigns on the eve of a battle. “ Bummers and boozers to the rear !” is the order all along the line of business. Business is getting to be more and more a conflict, and all useless baggage and camp followers mutt get oat of the way —Detroit Fret Frees.

Mr Alexander Haslett has written to our local contemporary in respect to our special account of the village settlement. Mr Haslett says that, on the whole, oar reporter has not treated the subject unfairly, bat should have explained with regard to. the appearance of the people and children, “ that being Sunday, they were all in their best clothes, and probably after the best dinner they had bad for the past week, and so were fully happy and enjoying the free sunshine ” Mr Haslett adds, “It is something wonderful that the special did not detect the brogue. For his information I will state I am a native of a city whose watchword vras “no surrender,” in regard to what the people considered their rights and privileges, and they were able to follow out their motto, because they stuck manfully together, an idea the people here are getting slowly educated up to.” Mr J. Nugent Wood, R.M., add at Naseby the other day that during the previous fortnight he had met with hun cl reds of men seeking employment. At one station 17 applied for work in one evening, but none were taken on.

No health with inactive liver andurinary orcans. Take only Hop Bitters made by Araeri can Co. See* Holloway s Ointment and Pills.— Diseases of the Bowels, —A remedy, which has been tested and proved in a thousand different ways, capable of eradicting poisonous taints from ulcers and healing them up, merits s trial of its capacity for extracting the internacorruptions from the bowes. On rubbingHolloway’s Ointment repeatelly on the abdod men a rash appears, and as it thickens the alvine 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 niles, for which blistering was the oldfashioned, though successful treatment, now from its painfulness fallen into disuse, the discovery of tips Ointment having proclaimed a eufetjy pos'sessiflg equally derivative x yet. herfetlypzinlese powers.

A large number of sportsmen and turf parasites passed through Ashburton by the this morning en route for the Dunedin races. Silver King h >» been ecratohed for the Ladies’ Pur o at the forthcoming race mee ting of 'ho Ashburton Racing Club. At noon to-day Mr Charles Reid, being 'be only candidate nominated, was declared duly elected a Councillor for the B rough of Ashburton ia place of Mr JTucker, resigned.

The current number of The Illustrated New Zealand News contain« a number of views connected with the V. R. 0. Races, and a colored supplement “ Hers they come.’*

Several inexcusable acts of larrikinism on the part of children—ln several instances girls attending the Borough School have been reported to us. We do not see how the teachers can effectually check the exuberant spirits of their pupils after school hours, but the matter might engage the attention of the police An agitation is on foot in Timaru to secure a weekly half-holiday. Will Ashburton follow t

The editor of the Napier Evening News directs attention to the progress made by bis paper during the “ ten months” between January 3, 1884, and November 21, 1885- The News is oer tainly a most creditable production, but the presiding genius is evidently a greater litterateur thau mathematician.

At a meeting of members of the Canterbury Jockey <iub, held yesterday, the Treasurer, Mr Stead, stated that the receipts amounted to L 7,785 9s 3d for the past six months, and L 8 819 16s had been paid away. The result of the Metropolitan meeting showed a profit of L 1,440, as against L 899 last year. The incoming subscriptions, as a set-off against outstanding liabilities, should leave a credit balance of L 350. i t was decided to have the course railed round.

The following items were telegraphed from Auckland last night:—Coal has been discovered near Kawakawa river, totally dissimilar to Bay coal It is said to indicate a seam of oil or gas shale.—Forty feet of railway reclamation sea wall fell suddenly into the aaa at midnight. It cost L 2.000 The design is alleged to be faulty.—The Australian horse Granville, engaged in the Auckland Steeplechase, has been purchased by the well-known local metalllcian, J. Gallagher. A gentleman who has visited the Tararna Acre, s'ates that the graves of those drowned in that disaster present a shockingly neglected sight. A few names have been painted on pieces of board, but the»e are rotting away. At the Southland County Council yesterday a motion that L2OO be voted as subsidy to the amount raised by Guthrie and Co. and others for works on the Bluff road, amount to be charged pro rata to the various Ridings, was rejected by five to four. This is the road used by waggons now competing with the railway for carriage of ships’ goods to Invercargill. The Council’s engineer reported it would cost L 1,200 to put the road in order, and L3OO a year to maintain it. The opponents of the motion urged that the Ridings had not sufficient funds for legitimate works, and that Invercargill and the suburb which would be most benefited, were not to contribute to the cost The recent visit of Ganerrl Sir Evelyn Wood to the Queen had an especial interest apart altogether from immediate matters of statecraft. When his grand-

father, Sir Matthew Wood, then Lord Mayor, and who became famous as the champion in the city of the persecuted Queen Caroline, heard that the Duchess of Kent was about to give birth to a child, and could notoometo England at the time pwing to her husband’s narrowness of means, the Lord Mayor spontaneously provided a sum of L 3,000 to defray the expense of the journey, so that the heir or heiress to the British crown might be born on British soil. The money was, of

coarse, repaid, after a long interval. The unique aot of patriotism was, however, not forgotten, and Her Majesty, who has a keen sensibility of acts of demotion towards her dynasty,' has ever been mindful of the noteworthy incident. The Christchurch Industrial Association at its meeting last night passed the following resolutions: —“That the attention of the Qoverntnent be called to the fact that timber for the show oases at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition has been shipped unsuited for the purpose, owing to the short time given for obtai ring it, and this Committee recommends that well-seasoned and carefully selected timber be obtained, and the necessary time be given for procuring it, and the work of making oases be done here.” “ That the Royal Commissioners having decided that all raw material shall be made up in the colony, the Committee recommend that Mr F. Jenkins be appointed Secretary to the New Zealand Commissioners.” August Flower.—The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than 75 per cent of the people are afflicted with these two diseases .and their effects; such as sour stomach, sick headache, habitual costiveness palpitation of the heart, heart burn, waterbrash gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and disagreeable taste in the month, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, etc. Go to your druggist and get a bottle of august flower. This valuable medicine has cured thousands and thousands of sufferers, and is known in all civilised countries. Two doses will relieve you. It costs only 3s fid a bottle. Sample bottles, fid.— fAnvr.

Borough. Rateable Value. Annual Revenue. Town Clerk’s Salary, Lyttelton 30.683 £ 250 Timaru 41,000 4. >91 350 Invercargill ... 65,000 — 350 Nelson... , ... 62.408 5.534 350 Napier 62,286 400 Hokitika 17,000 5.766 250 St. Albans 34.747 250 Sydenham 17,000 4.790 200 Oamaru 52.700 8,601 350 Ashburton ... 26,339 4,506 >25