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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1361, 26 December 1885, Page 2

4 fire broke oat on the.ship Soukar, in Lyttelton on Thursday evening, bat was extinguished efore much damage was done to the vessel. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Acceptances for the handicaps to be run

I at the Tinwald-Winslow New Year’s Day race meeting, must be lodged with the Secretary at Scott’s Hotel, Tinwald by 10 o’clo k this evening. The 'tar of Ashburton Loyal Orange Lodge will give a ball in the Town Hall this evening. A special excursion train passed through Ashburton on Thursday evening en route for Dunedin, and early yesterday morning another special from Dunedin to Christchurch passed through. Both trains carried a number of passengers from Ashbur- i ton.

The grass and crops in tho Oamaru district are suffering severely from want of rain, the present being one of the driest seasons experienced there for years. The Hun W J. M. Larnaoh, Mr J. E. Fitzgerald, and Mr J, £. M‘Donald have neen appointed, by the Government, a Board to judge the prize essays on "The Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Industrial Resources of New Zealand, and the best means for fostering their development.”

A seaman named Arthur Bond of the Tainui, met his death at Lyttelton on Thursday while running through the electric machinery room. Ihe Master of the Ashburton Hospital wishes to acknowledge the receipt < f a handsome present of Christmas grocery from Mr H- Zander, for the ose of itiQ .ornates.

According to a contributor in the North Otago Times we bare had 4,735 statutes made in this colony ; 2,36 j of them have been disallowed and repealed ; 890 nave become obsolete ; while 1,486 still remain in force. Sorely the remaining 1,485 might bo reduced by som > 1,400. To restore nerve and brain 'waste, nothing equals Hop Bj tiers. Believe this and take none but American Co.’s. See Holloway’s Pills. —The chiefest wonder of modem times.—This incomparable medicine increases the appetite, strengthens the stomach, cleanses the liver, corrects biliousness, prevents flatulency, purifes tlje system, invigorates the nerves, and re-instates sound health. The enormous demand for these Pills throughout the glpbe astonishes everybody, and a single tria convinces the most sceptical that no medicine equals Holloway’s Pills in its ability to remove all Complaints incidental to the human race, They are a blessing to the afflicted, and a boon to all that labour under internal or external disease. The purification of thqblood, removal of all restraint from the secretive organs, and ‘ gentle aperitive action are the prolific sources or the extensive curative of Holloway’s Pills.

It ia reported that an mob?!*; e arrested on Thursday evening escaped from the Ashburtuu P.d'co !Sta*ion yesterday, i’o day has been v-ry generalh observed as a h liday i<> Ashburou, although several plsc< s of business have remained open. Th < Caledonian Society's annual sports ' athanug has been tee chief attrao ion to holiday makers. Races were held to day at Auckland He thoote, Rakaia, Mount Somers, and Kangirata, but the telegraph offices being closed we are unable to present our reports of the meetings in this issue. Mr George Thomas Rawkins. editor of the JSiening News, was committed for tiial at Napier, on Thursday, on a charge of criminal libel on Charles Ocean Thompson, who was charged at last sittings of the Supreme Court with indecent assault on a chi d, the kill being th. own out by the Grand Jury.

Government have declined to issue railway passes to ths unemployed to travel to and from country works. A meeting of the various branches of the building trades was held in Anck and on Thursday, Mr Moss, M fl. R , presiding, to consider the circumstances of the strike of carpen'ern and joiners. A resolution was carried in favor of appointing a Board of Conciliation in prospect of an early settlement of the dispute. In the steeplechase at the Otahnhu races on Saturday last the Australian horse Grauville fell and ricked his back and, after lingering for about twelve hours, died The horse was recently imported by Mr Gallagher at a cost of L4OO. Nobility is valued at its true worth in Norway, if the following story is true. A lady pointed out the Prince of Wales to some peasants of a Norwegian farm. They did not evince the slightest emotion, however, at seeing the heir of the B'itish Empire, but only asked quietly, " Where is Mr Gladstone V The Government Printer refused' the Taranaki County credit for L2 worth of stationery.—With our experience of the courtesy and liberality of the Government Printer, we are compelled to c nolude that the financial standing of the Taranaki County is in very bad repute. Now money is so scarce it behoves every one to be on the alert and endeavor, to make there twenty shillings go as far as possible. One glance at Id. G. May and Co.’s advertise ment, which appears in our columns this evening, should convince one and all that the proI prietors of The Hall, High ' street, ChristI church, are determined to dp their part The I prices quoted for the various items are, we beI iieve, lower than on any prew ms occasion, and I should induce all buyers .ftliati rvand Cloth

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