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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1277, 1 July 1886, Page 2

An inspection parade of the Bifles and Guards will be held on Tuesday, July 27. The ordinary meeting of the Hampstead School Committee will be held on' Friday evening. The usual monthly meeting of the Ashburton County Council will be held tomorrow, at the usual hour. It has been definitely decided to hold a Volunteer ball on Tuesday, July 27, and a joint Committee of the Bifles and Guards has been appointed to make arrangements. It is believed Colonel Bailey and Major Kewall will be preseat.

The following is a list of letters received at

the Ashburton Post Office from places beyond the colony during the month of May, and remaining unclaimed on Ist July, 1886:—H* Carter, Mrs O'Loughlin, and Mrs M. L. Plumtree,

At a meeting of shareholders of the Champion Copper Company held in Nelson on Tuesday evening, the following resolutions were carried unanimously :—“That application be made to the Court for permission to smelt ore lying at the works, the coat of producing the same to be refunded from the proceeds of the sale of copper to those finding the money ( That in view of the proposal to raise £15,000 by preferential shares, the meeting distinctly instructs the Directors that no further calls are to be made of the original capital other than to pay the interest should it be wanted.” The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, has received the following cablegram from its London office, June 29th: — Wool—Competition is increasing, and the market is firmer. Competition by both Home and foreign buyers is active. The total catalogued to date is 145,000 bales, and withdrawals amount to 4000 bales. The sales will close on 19tb July.

The nautical inquiry into the loss o! the Lyttelton was resumed and concluded at Timaru yesterday. The Court reserved its decision, fixing no date lor its delivery, but before rising directed that Captain Doorman’s certificate should be returned.

The Dunedin City Council have received a claim from Mr E. T. Finch, of Hokitika, husband of Mrs Finch, who was killed by the Dowling street accident. The claim is for £IOOO, The deceased lady bad lived apart from her husband for sixteen years. The man Edward Flux, arrested for firing at his wife, was brought before the Wellington B.M. Court yesterday afternoon and discharged, the charge being of a trumpery nature.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Mr B. Alcorn, J.P., a first offender, for drunkenness. was fined 5s and costs, with the alternative of 21 hours imprisonment. The following are the Ashburton vital statistics for the month of June: —Births? 21; deaths, 8; marriages, 5.

The usual monthly meeting of the Ashton School Committee was held on Monday evening. Present—Messrs G, Gilmour (Chairman), T. Taylor, J. Bell, J. Croy, W. Croy, J. Crosson, and J. Shearer. Correspondence was [read from the Board of Education with regard to several minor matters. The Master’s report showed a slight falling off in the attendance during the past month. Applications for the position of assistant mistress were 'received and considered, and that of MiaSiß. L. Ball selected for recommendation to the Board. The Committee then adjourned. The following are the Ashburton Hospital returns for the month of Juno : —ln Hospital June 1,9; admitted during month, 1 ; discharged, 4; remaining 4 in Hospital June 30, 6.

The Kaiapoi Caledonian Society has reoog* nised an act of gallantary on] the part of a boy named James Forest, who endeavored to save another boy from drowning in the Waimakariri, a few mouths ago, by ordering him to be presented with a handsome silver medal.

A telegram from Westport says;—The

steamer Wareatoa was thrown on the North Beach on Monday by a heavy sea, and is still in the same position. She is a considerable distance further northward than is usually the case. Attempts are.being made to hedge he r oil. She has sustained no damage. The settling on the late Waterloo Meeting took place on Tuesday, when the following amounts were paid over :—M.’ Digby, £IOB 8s Gd, and cup valued at £2O; It. P. Hill' £79 8s 3d; B. Crawshaw, £6l 13s ; W. G. Judge, £33 Is Gd ; T. Howe, £2l 11s Gd; W. F. Buckland, £2l 10s 3d : D. M. Boss, £lB ; R. Blackham, £ls 12s 9d; W. H. Porter, £l3 2s 2d; G. and H. Howard, £ll Os Gd ; R J, Kerr, £ll Os Gd ; J. Beechey, £8 Os lid ; J, W. Mills, £8 Os lid; A. Dalgjeish, £(i 11s; T. Bassett, £5 10s 3d; E, S. Bell, £5 10s 3d ; R. Gray, £5 10s 3d : J. Forward, £5 10s 3d; A. Thomas, £5 Is; T. Alexander, £1 19s; J. Tweedy, £1 13s ; J. McCausland, £2 10a Gd ; W. MoAulay, £2 10s Gd. The following paragraph should interest farmers:—Fortunately lime is one of the most generally found of the organic con. Stituents of the soil, when we remember that in twenty-five bushels of oats there are nine pounds of lime; in thirty-eight bushels of barley, fifteen pounds; in two tons of clover bay, thirty-five pounds; in twenty-five tons of turnips, one hundred and forty pounds; in two hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes, two hundred and seventy pounds. The Southland Nov# Wellington oorrrea pondent says:—“ There is a theory to th effect that the present Minister of Public Works aspires to the position of AgentGeneral, and that the chances are in his favor, with the contingency of Sir Julius’ ao oeptance of control of the Government Insur ance Department ”