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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1272, 24 June 1886, Page 2

On Sunday next the Bev. Father Ohastagnon will celebrate mass at Bakaia and vespers at Ashburton, at the nsnal hours.

The Ashburton Hounds met at Wakauni yesterday, but owing to the strong nor’-west wind the attendance was small and the sport very poor.

A novel and highly interesting exhibition will open at the Town Hall this evening. Professor Woodroflfe, assisted by two talented lady workers, will display the marvellous and beautiful art of glass-blowing. There was a large attendance at the meeting of the Debating Society last night. The subject of the evening was the desirableness of Home Buie tor Ireland, Mr B. Hughes leading in the affirmative, and Mr W. B. Moss in the negative. After an interesting debate, a vote was taken, when it was found the sympathies of the majority were not with the granting of autonomy to Ireland. A football match was played in the Domain yesterday between teams from Tinwald and Ashburton Schools, captained by T. Todd and B. Lowe respectively. The game, which was well contested, resulted In a win for Ashburton by two goals and three tries to nil. R. Williams, Q. Clark, B. Armstrong and W. Hopwood played well for Tin wald, and A, Husband, W. Kidd, W. Jamieson, J. Hefford and A. Orr for the winners.

A special meeting of the Ashburton School Committee was held at the Borough Schools last evening. Present—Messrs J. 0. Duncan (Chairman), A. Craighead, E. Dimant, J. W.

Sawle, A. Orr, W. J. Silcock, and R. Elston. The business for which the meetinglwaa called was to recommend te the Board a headmistress for the school. Four applications for the position were received. It was decided to recommend Miss Stewart, the present headmistress of the Hampstead School, to the Board for appointment, and the Board adjourned.

Judge Williams gave a decision in Banco at Dunedin yesterday in the oase of the Property Tax Commissioner v the Presbyterian Church Board of property, as to the liability to pay property tax on oertain properties not directly used for public worship, eduoa. tional, or charitable purposes. His Honor said the contention of the plaintiff—that though defendants were not included in the definition of a “ Company," yet section 13 made “ every person” liable—would be contrary to well determined principles of interpretation, and would lead to absurdity. If the Legislature bad intended that all corporations should be liable to the property tax, it would not in, express words, have said that a particular class should be liable and defendants were entitled to judgment. Leave to appeal was granted. The Rev. Dr Dallingor, F.H.S., president Of the Miscroscopical Society, delivered a lecture at Firth College, Sheffield, describing the result of three years close study of the minutes forms of life. Dr Dallinger stated that he was now possessed of microscopic lenses so constructed as to realise results which only five years ago were declared by mathematicians to be impossible of accom. plishment. . Taking a single specimen of living organism from a drop of water, he showed it upon a screen, and said by the aid of very powerful lenses, which had come into his possession only within the last few months, he had discovered this, which was the minutest organism known. He bad measured the flagellum or mortor fibre of this organism, and found it to be the two hundred and four million seven hundred thousandth of an English inch.

At the quarterly meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce the following resolutions were carried: —“ That the delay to complete the construction of the Otago Central Railway has resulted directly in a heavy loss to the colony annually, through payment of interest on money already expended upon it, and, indirectly, has retarded settlement on a large area of agricultural land, and reduced the population of Otago through the non-development of means of profitable industrial investment. That having repeatedly urged upon the Government the necessity for completing this line from Dunedin to Lake VVanaka, and the Government having several years ago affirmed the desirability of so doing, this Chamber again would emphatically impress upon the Government the duty of prosecuting that work energetically, so that the benefits that will accrue from its completion may be realized.’’ Mr J. M. Ritchie was the only one who voted against the motions. A resolution ws passed expressing the opinion that the ruling rates of freight from London to port were

higher than necessary, compared with the

rates to Australian ports, and the Committee were asked to deal exhaustively with, and report on the matter at next meeting. At the Addington live stock market on Wednesday moderate entries of stock were yarded, and about the usual attendance o f buyers was present. Fat cattle—A very small supply of this class of stock came to band. The competition was pretty keen for every lot and prices advanced considerably. Steers sold at from £5 to £6 12s 6d, heifers from £4 2s 6d to £6, and fat cows from £4 10s to £7, being from 18s to 20s per lOOlbs. Stores —But a moderate entry of odd lots of cattle* Fat Sheep—A pretty full market; quality principally moderate; demand not very good; values barely up to late quotations. Heavy prime crossbred wethers sold at from 10s tid to 12s 6d, medium 8s 3d to 10s, crossbred ewes from 7s to *Ja 9d, merino wethers from 6s to 8s 3d; an average price of barely 1J per lb. Stores—A small entry, principally old sheep, very little business done. Pigs—A moderate entry, the demand for bacon pigs showed a marked improvement, and advance in values. Porkers also improved likewise. Store pigs very dull of sale, prices as follows: Bacouers, 30a to 455; porkers, 16s to 255. Strange Insubordination. —Who has not experienced a sort of malady when all the faculties seem in rebellion, and labor ab

eolotely impossible? It is a condition of carves and stomach and brain that can only be cured by the use of that irresistible remedy American Oo.’e Hop Sitters; Read.

Again we have to complain of the die

jointed and Incomprehensible character of the sporting telegrams forwarded by the Press Association. We are aware that it is not always easy to obtain the services of • 1 sporting litterateur , but when novices are employed they should be instructed not to attempt the description of a race. The ocount we have received of the Napier Steeplechases to-day is truly - fearfully and wonderfully made. We have expunged the greater part of the report, and present our readers with the bare details as far as they can be ascertained from a mass of ridiculous and irrelevant telegrams. . Mr J. F. Strata, watchmaker and jeweller, of Christchurch, has succeeded in effecting a novel application of electricity. For soma time past Mr Strata has been utilising a flow from an artesian well to drive a dynamo, and the electricity generated is nsed by him to light up his house. As, however, the quantity produced is more than sufficient for the purpose, he has constructed a storage battery, which be has placed inside his dogcart, and so illumines the lamps of the vehicle by electricity. The curious spectacle attracts much attention in Christchurch whenever the dogcart is abroad at night. We understand that Mr Strata will provide apparatus for anyone who has power available, but his own trade keeping him and bis assistants fully occupied he would rather dispose of this business to a man who makes it his employment to attend to this kind of work.

Our Ohritsohuroh correspondent writes that business is very quiet in the Cathedral City. Saddlers, tentmakers, and dealers in revolvers have done a fair business with ntending emigrants to Kimberley, and await only the happy consummation of balances being paid. The Public Works Statement will probably be brought down in the House to-morrow Mr A. Harrison has been appointed local agent of the Mutual Life Association of Aus. tralasia.

Mr John Josling, an old North Canterbury ssttler, died at Rangiora on Wednesday. Messrs Anson and Saunders, who have been deputed by the North Canterbury Board of Education to enquire into a number of educational matters in this district, met the householders at Mayfield on Tuesday evening. The question of site for the proposed Ban - gitata school] was discussed at some length < and it was ultimately determined by a large majority to recommend the Board to ereo* two small schools in the district. By the proposed arrangement nearly all the children in the district would be placed within reasonable distance of a school. This morning Messrs Anson and Saunders visited Allenton and enquired into the merits of the petition from residents there for separation from the Ashburton school district. The representatives of the Board have not expressed an official opinion npon the matter, but we believe they will be adverse to the granting of the prayer of the petition on the ground that the Ashburton school, with amp e accommodation, may be fairly expected to meet the requirements of the district forborne time to come. Messrs Anson and Saunders have also inspected the Ashburton and Hampstead schools during the day, and will probably recommend that the accommodation at the latter institution should be increased. The Press Association Agent at Botoru has □ Mary Hamino, or Mary of Te Mu, as she is called, a Maori woman, aged 65, who acted so nobly at Wairoa.during the eruption. She was in Hazard’s bouse when the roof fell in. Just then Ina Hazard sprang into the old Maori woman’s arms, and Mary dragged her into the bedroom, and on to a washstand, which step on her part saved their lives and prevented them getting buried in the mud. The house, which bad been set on fire by lightning, was burning nearly all round them, and threatened to envelop the two women. The old woman is sadly shaken with the horrors of that eventful night and the hardships she has undergone. She has been a domestic in Mrs Way’s household since her marriage, and in the house of her father, the Rev. Mr Spencer, for thirty-five years. After the eruption she refused to leave Captain’s Way’s residence, of which she had been placed in charge, and Captain Way on his arrival bad to compel her to leave. Death is still busy ’among the Natives. One death took place on Tuesday night at the pak at Ohinemutu.

The Ashburton Committee invite tenders for supplies to the Hospital. A special meeting of the United Charitable Aid Board was held at Christchurch yesterday, to consider the recommendations of a committee with regard to proposed amendments in the Act. No Ashburton representatives

were present. This evening we publish an important 1 cablegram respecting the New Hebrides. 1 The captain of H.M.S. Undine, which was despatched to the islands to enquire into the French proceedings there, has returned to Brisbane, and he reports that no occupation or annexation of the group has taken place, and he also bears out M. Freyoinet’s statements with regard to the matter. The " Lyttelton Times ” says:—The procrastination of human nature has been exemplified to a considerable extent in the taking Numbers who have all along intended to go by her have neglected securing their passages, of passages for Kimberley per the Triumph, and are now shut out, the full complement of passengers and horses having been engaged. It is however, wo believe, the intention of the Union Company to put on one of their large vessels for Cambridge Gulf or Darby, immediately after the departure of the Triumph. With (the exception of the case of Mrs Hazard who lost her husband and several children by the recent Tarawera Eruption, the case of the Way’s is most to be commise rated. They bad a beautiful property of 15 ! acres overlooking Lake Tawera, the only piece of freehold and exempt from the Thermal Springs Act, in the district. A tempting offer of £SOOO was lately made by a speculator for the property* but refused. It is now simply a land mound Oft deep. Way and bis wife are left to begin the battle of life afresh with a young family, their usual sources of income completely swept away.