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Tie Sculling Champion ship. [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT ] i London, August 4. A sculling match has been arranged between Wallace Ross and Beach for the championship of the world and ;£IOOO. Gaudaur has left New York for this country to enter into training. His match with Beach takes place on the 18th prox.

OUTRAGES BY AFGHANS.

Letters received from Peshawar state that British soldiers there are the victims of constant outrages committed by Afghans, vrho commit acts of robbery and violence, and stop at nothing in order to gain their ends. A private of the Wiltshire regiment was shot wbile trying to intercept a Pathan who bad staled some of his goods. On another I ooo.slon a band of robbers entered a barrack-room occupied by a Sergeant In the Wiltshire regiment, and setting upon him shot him through the body, and stabbed him with their knives ; and a I few days afterwards they entered the tent 1 of a non-commissioned officer of the R iysl B’fles, and committed similar out- ( rages. The villages around the canton- c ments swarm with thieves and cut throats, c who sre constantly committing murders and robberies, aud the greatest vigilance „ is needed to guard against them. ‘ m

I A meeting of the Alford Forest School Committee was held in the school on the 6th Inst. Present—Mr T. Chapman (Chairman), and Messrs Hugh Muirhead, L. C. Bimber, T. Simpson, Henry Bates, and J. Rowe. A letter was ie&d from the master, stating the attendance since the holidays to be 21, number on the roll to be 44. It was suggested to bring the compulsory clauses in force, but the matter was allowed to stand over for the present, A circular was read from the Board of Education re alteration In appointing teachers in future, which was highly approved of. Six applications was received for the position of master. It was unanimously decided to send them all to the Board of Education, asking them to select the most suitable man, the Board also to be requested to appoint the master’s wife as sewing mistress if suitable.

Saiisbury, Tenn., April 4, 1886. Gents :—I was afflicted with serious Kidney and Urinary trouble for twelve year , After trying all the doctors and patent medicines I could hear of, I used two bottles of Hop Bitters and am perfec cured. B. F. BOOTH. Washington, D. C., April 3, 1883. To the Hop Sitters Co. : Sirs I write this as a token of the great appreciation I have for your Bitters. I Was afflicted with inflammatory Rheumatism seven years, and no medicine seemed to do me any good until I tried three bottles of your Hop Bitters, and to my surprise I am as well as ever I was. I hope you may have success in this great and valuable me Anyone wishing to know more about m can learn by addressing me. E. M, WILLIAMS, 1103 16th St. Prosecute the Swindlers I ! when yon call for American Hop Bitter green twig oj Hops on the white label and Soules name blown in thebottle), the vendo hands out anythi-g but American Hop Bitters, refuse it and shun the vendor as you would a viper; and if he has taken your money for anything else indict him for the fraud and sue him for damages for the swindle, and we will pav you libera'ly for the conviction. Robb G. Gould, 27, High Stieet, Andover: —I have always taken a great interest in your medicines, and I have recommended them, as I have found numerous cases of cure from their use.

EOUND a cane BIDING WHIP. Owner can have same by paying expenses. Apply this office. 8428 A BALL WILL he held in the WAKANCI MAIN SCHOOL on FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. Dancing at 8 sharp. Tickets, 2s. Ladies free. 8411 DISTRICT OF ASHBURTON. Thikb Schedule. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF LICENSE, I PATRICK DEVANE, 6f Waterton, > be’ng the holder of a Publican’s License in respect of the house and premises situate at Waterton, and known as the Waterton Hotel, do hereby give notice that I desire to obtain, and will, at the next Licensing Meeting to be holden at Ashburton on the 3rd day of September, 1883, apply for a transfer of the said License from myself to Michael Moriarty, my appointee. Dated the 9lh day of August, 188®. (Signed) I 8429 PATRICK IJEVANE.

THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF NORTH CANTERBURY. ELECTION OF COMMITTEE, AS Five members of the School Commutes of the Hinds District have resigned their seats, the Board, in pursuance of the power conferred by the Education Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1885, hereby directs that a Public Meeting of the Householders of the said district fee held on TUESDAY, the tenth day of Angnst, ISBG, at seven o’clock Id the evening, for the election of FIVE Members to serve on the Committee foi the year ending with the fourth Mondaj in AprM, 1887. The place of meeting ffbmli be the Sohoolhonse. J. V. OOLBORNE-VEEL, Secretary. Christchurch, 22nd July, 1886. J735'

V. + E. N THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, CANTERBURY DISTBIOT. Between the Bank of Australasia, Plaintiffs, and Samuel Boyle, of Ashburton, Defendant » ) » ! I r r D [r iy id le sd oh ad to I HEREBY GiViS NO TICE that under Writ of Sale duly issued out of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Canterbury District, at the suit of the said Bank of Australasia, I have seized and takeu io execution the following SHEEP, viz.;— 10 Longwool Leicester BAMS 1 Southdown RAM 26 HOGGETS and EWES, And that I Intend to cause the same to be SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, By Messes Matson, Cox, and Co., (Unless the debt and costs and bail have been previously satisfied), AT THE TINWALD YARDS, ON TUESDAY, 17th DAY of AUGUST, 1886, At 11 o’clock The Solicitors for the said Bark of Australasia ate Messieurs Wu.r st fo and Lewis, of Hereford street, Christchurch, Dated this sth day of August, 1886. ALEX LEAN, 8410 Shrift