The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit. FRIDAY. JULY 2, 1886.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1278, 2 July 1886, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit. FRIDAY. JULY 2, 1886.

Owing to pressure on our spaes leading matter is held over.

As the outcome of the meeting he’d at Dunedin with regard to Homo Rule, the Mayor yesterday sent the following cable message to Mr Gladstone :—“ Crowded meeting of citizens all classes, the Mayor presiding, unanimously earned resolutions in admiration of your Irish policy, and favoring Home Rule. The utmost enthusiasm and loyalty to the Throne wore displayed.”

The Invercargill Borough Council hove received intimation from the Union Bank of Australia that their loan of £70,000 at 4J per cent, averaged £lOl 10s Gd in the London market. This is said to bo the highest averrage ever got for a colonial municipal or similar loan.

The Nelson Champion Copper Mining Company’s meeting to authorise the raising of £1.5,000 by preferential shares, stands adjourned till the 13th, the attendance of shareholders at the meeting convened not having been sufficient to enable business to be transacted legally. The local shareholders were well represented, and they raised £1125 in the room to pay the cost of smelting 200 tons of calcined ore, with the view of showing the profitable nature of the ore. The necessary order of the Court to enable the smelting to proceed, was granted yesterday, and operat >ons will commence at !once.

The Hakatere Town Board have decided to take steps to have the name of the town district altered to Hampstead. The Legislative Council have thrown out tho Small Birds Nuisance Bill. The usual monthly meeting of the Wskanui Road Board will be held at tho Board’s office, Moore street, to-morrow at the usual hour. The ordinary monthly meeting of tho Hampstead School Committee will be held this evening.

The Right Rs? R. Kestell-Oornish, DD,, Bishop of Madagascar, is at present in Christchurch and last evening delivered an interesting lecture regarding the present position and progress of missions in Madagascar.

According to a Christchurch paper Lyttel • ion has suffered from a “volcanic scare.” A rumor has gone about lately that a hot spring has been discovered in Cass’ Bay. This bay is about a mile and a half from Lyttelton, and a spring about the temperature of the body has been known to exist in that locality for years. Owingjto the recent eruption more attention is being paid to thermal springs, and somehow the report mentioned above has been circulated. Yesterday morning, however, several gentlemen proceeded to the spring at Oasa’ Bay and examined it carefully* and it should relieve the minds of timorous Lytteltonians to know that it was ascertained that the temperature was no higher than it has been for years. Messrs Carter and White have resigned their seats upon the Hakatero Town Board. Some late Ashburton residents, bound for Kimberley, left by the express for Christchurch last evening. The North Canterbury Board of Education, at its meeting yesterday, considered (ho report drawn up by the Committee of the Board, which was appointed some time ago to enquire into the causes that have produced an unsatisfactory educational condition in the children attending the schools in the district. The discussion occupied the whole of the afternoon, and at a late hour was adjourned until the nast meeting of the Board. At the meeting of the North Canterbury Board of Education 'yesterday Messrs Anson and Saunders reported on school matters at Ashburton. They stated that at Hampstead the school was overcrowded, but as Miss Stewart, the Mistress, wns going from Hampstead to Ashburton, it would be advisable to wait and see what effect the change would have on the attendance. The Committee recommended the division of the large room by a partition. The suggestions were agreed to. The Committee reported concerning Allenton that any increased accommodation in the Ashburton district should bo made there

A young man named James Igoo was thrown from horseback on the Karangahape road Auckland, and sustained concussion 0* the brain, from which he died.

The Auckland Female Prison Gate Brigade Home has taken premises in the country ns a homo for fallen women, to be made, if possible, self-supporting through washing and laundry work.

The Dunedin Educational Institute closed its session yesterday. A motion was carried in favour of Inspectors being under control of the Education Department, and urging that, as it was the opinion that many of the pupils left their schools before passing the fourth standard, employers should require applicants of school age to produce standard oertifioatos. The usual conversazione was held last evening.

Mr Beetham, R.M. gave an important decision under the Licensing Act in the Christchurch Court yesterday in deciding a point raised by Mr Stringer. The license of the Terminus Hotel, who has an extension of the closing hour to 11 o’clock, was accused of selling liquor during the time his house should have been closed, viz., about midnight. The magistrate held that the amending Licensing Act of 1882, while providing for the granting of extended licenses to 12 o’clock, had made no provision for the closing at 11 o'clock of hotels so licensed. Clause 154 o* the Act of 1881 provided that houses having extended licenses should be closed at midnight. As this was the only clause dealing with the subject he dismissed the informationremarking that there had clearly been an oversight in the amending Act of 1882.

The Hon. Secretary of the Christchurch branch of St John’s Ambulance Society, which has decided to present Mr Mcßae with the Society’s star for noble conduct during the late eruptions in the North Island, has received the following telegram;—“ At a los 3 how to thank the Association for the high honor they are doing me. Most happy to accept star from them as a great honor.— Joseph Moßab.”

At the meeting of the North Canterbury Board of Education yesterday, Messrs Anson and Saunders, the Committee appointed to visit the Bangitata district, recommended that two schools should be erected, and three in the event of the population largely increasing. The report was adopted. Before it came up for consideration the Chairman stated that some of the residents seemed dissatisfied, and had come down to interview the Board. As they had not sent notice, he suggested that the Secretary should tell them that the Board could not receive deputations without notice. The suggestion was adopted.