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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1288, 14 July 1886, Page 2

final selection. Mails (or the Australian Oolonies, via Sydney, will closo at New Plymouth at noon on Saturday.

Mr W. H. Langdown, of Christchurch, the wall-known bicyclist, will shortly visit Springfield, U.S.A., whore he hopes to take part in a number of cycling contests. The Government Printer, in bis annual report, states that the Printing and Stationery Department has made a profit of £6788 during the financial year. A young man, named James Henry Muirhead, met with a serious accident at Alford Forest on Sunday evening. He was riding* horse which fell, rolled over him and fractured his right thigh. The sufferer was promptly attended to by Dr Leahy, who ordered bis removal to the Ashburton Hospital, where he is now progressing favorably. It appears from the official returns that the only flocks of sheep now in the colony infected by scab are those of D. Kerr, Motupiko, iNolson, 4250; W. Gibson, Warden and Tytlor runs, Kaikoura, 26,700; and F. and G. F. Cullen, Greenhills, Kaikoura, 40,700. The nest English and European mail, via San Francisco, will close at the Ashburton Post Oflioe on Saturday nest, at 10 a.m. At a meeting of the Committee of the Ashburton Racing Club, held at the Club’s room last evening, the programme for the Spring meeting, advertised in another part of this issue, was adopted. It will be noticed that the Committee, in addition to materially increasing the amount of added money as compared with last year, has made several very desirable alterations in the programme. The owners of the s.s, Wallabi which went ashore near Grey mouth a few days ago, have agreed to accept £6OO from the Insurance Companies as payment in full of all claims for insurance (£1300). As all the owners are men of limited means, they decided to sell the Wallabi lor the benefit of whom it may concern as she lies, not being prepared to risk more money in launching her. At the ordinary meeting of the Christohurhc Presbytery yesterday the Rev Mr Beattie submitted a report (of his and the Rev Mr McNeil’s Presbyterial visit to Tinwald and Flemington. The report was of a satisfactory nature, both as to temporal and spiritual affairs. The report was adopted, together with the suggestion that the Presbytery recommend the charge to the Church Extension Fund for a grant. The Taiaroa Belief Fund Committee, find • ing very little prospect of increasing the fund, have decided to r." -.to me amount in hand £166 odd, among me mo ' - eeasitous oases. At the Snpreme Cuurc Vvtl!; vton yesterday Wm. Templeton, alias Wood', alias Piper, brought up on a charge of larceny from a

hotel, was acquitted. His Honor, on discharging the prisoner, said—“ Prisoner, the jury have acquitted you. I can only say to to you, as I have had to say to others, that they have done so in the face of the plainest evidence. That is my conviction.” The schooner Volunteer, 22 tons, owned by Mr Mclntosh became a total wreck at Sumner bar yesterday afternoon. She was going out, when she struck on the beacon rook, carrying away the beacon. The crew escaped. She is now lying in mid channel, opposite the beacon rook.

The barque Onyx, which was to have left Lyttelton for Cambridge Gulf yesterday, has been detained owing to a dispute in Dunedin as to the charter.

The third of a series of popular entertainments was given in St Stephen’s Schoolroom last evening. There was a good attendance, and the Bev £2. A. Otway presided. The programme, which was a very enjoyable one, was as follows:—Overture, Miss Kidd ; song, Mr Simpson ; glee, Choral Society ; reading, Mr Carson; song, Mies Gates; quartette, M:

isses Kidd and Barratt and Messrs Carson and Townshand; song, Mr Atkinson; overture, Mrs Glaridge; song, Mr Matherson; recitation Mr Minnie; song Miss Kidd; glee Choral Society; song Miss Barratt; reading, Mr Carson; Duet, Miss Kidd and Mrs A. Curtis.

During an interval in the entertainment refreshments were handed round.

A speoial irgating of the Htmpstead Sohoo Committee wbb neld last evening for the pur pose of considering applications for the position of headmistress to the school. Several applications were received, and it wp.B resolved to refer thoia of Miss F&woett and Miss Sbirtoliff to the Board of Education for