The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prævalbit. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1886.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1322, 23 August 1886, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prævalbit. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1886.

Leading matter is crowded out of this issue A contractor named Peter Grant was killedby falling underneath a train just as it was starting at Felichet Bay on Saturday evening He was a married man. Mr Dargaville, addressed a meeting of unemployed at Auckland on Saturday night, at the City Hall. A lively scene occurred, lasting till nearly eleven o'clock. Ultimately a resolution was passed confirming as yet the vote of censure passed by the unemployed upon him, Mr Albert Williams Andrews, of Christchurch, who was the sole Now Zealand candidate for the Commission granted to New Zealand by the Imperial Government, has successfully passed the prescribed [examination, The Secretary for the Colonies intimated to His Excellency yesterday that the Imperial Government delayed granting the Commission only till it should be informed that Mr Andrews had become a Lieutenant. As, bow. ever, the Defence Department was able to reply that Mr Andrews became Lieutenant in the Sydenham Rifles on Ist May last, it is certain that he will very shortly reeeive bis commission [in a regiment of the line. It is said that all the other Australasian candidates failed. The examination passed, by Mr Andrews is that tor Militia officers at Home, and not so difficult as the ordinary one to obtain admission as a cadet at Sandhurst, which is the usual mode of obtaining direct commissions.

We are informed by Mrs Nolan, widow of the late John Nolan, that the sum of £2O has been paid to her by the Star of Ashburton Lodge, No, 1(51, U.0.A.D., being the amount of funeral allowance due to her. There has been mnob delay and difficulty in connection with the matter caused by the faet that Nolan was not financial at the time of his death. This circumstance entailed much correspondence to the Executive Lodge. Mrs Nolan in her letter expresses thanks to the lodge.

A sad boating fatality occurred on Saturday [at the mouth of the Kirikiri River, Bay of Islands, resulting in the drowning of two boys named Hansen and one girl, a daughter of Mr Mountain. A search party succeeded in recovering the bodies of two children.

At the R.M. Court this morning, before Mr T. Bullock, J.P., Robert Martin—an individual who has undergone amputation of both legs—was lined ."is withthe usual alternative, for drunkenness and on a charge of malicious injury to property at the lock-up was sentenced to 11 days’ imprisonment.

Tho annual election of three councillors to serve on the Ashburton Borough Council will fee held on Thursday, September 9. Nomina, tion will 'be received at tho Town Clerk’s office until 12 noon on Tuesday, August 31. Messrs Caygill, Sealy, and Thomas are the «ouuci"ors who retire by rotation.

The Rev Father Le Menant des Chesna’s commenced the exercises of the Catholic Jubilee at the Catholic Church yesterday. At the 11 o’clook Mass the reverend gentleman explained the conditions upon which the indulgence of Pope Leo XIII. would be granted. In the evening the preacher took as his text “ Let us fall down before .God who made us,because he is the Lord our God,” and in an eloquent and scholarly address refuted the “ false doctrines of the so-called philosophers of oor day.” A* both services there were large and interested congregations. The Jubilee celebration wHI fas continued this week, and there will be services 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Druid anniversary August 25th. Dramatic lot a Widow.—(Advt

Nominations for the final meeting of the Ashburton Coursing Club must be made to the Secretary (Mr W. Zander) at the Commercial Hotel by 8 o’clock this evening. The draw will take place immediately after the nominations close, and the first pair of dogs will be in the slips*at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Mr John Oreswell, of Hororata, will act as judge.

The following have been chosen to represent Canterbury in the football match with Otago : —Pull-back, A. C. Bennett; three-quarter-backs, E. L. Francis and H. Wilson; halfbacks, G. H. Helmore and O. Harden; forwards, W. Bean, H. J. Beswiok, W. Dow* B. |J. Fooks, J. Turnbull, J. Horner, W. Sutherland, C. Torlesse, E. B. Milton, J; Fuller (emergency). The third three-quarter-back will bo chosen on Monday. On Saturday afternoon a team of probables beat a team of improbables by three goals and two tries to

two tries. C. H. Hamilton, the well-known amateur runner, broke the small bone of bis right leg in the game. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Ashburton Borough Council will be held this evening.

The football match played at the Sports Ground on Saturday between teams representing the Merivale and Temuka Clubs resulted in a victory for the former by 14 points to nil. After the match the two teams lunched together at the Somerset Hotel. The s.s. Alameda with the San Francisco mails arrived at Auckland on Sunday. Our usual budget of mail news appears elsewhere. The (Ashburton portion of the mail should

reach here on Wednesday afternoon. Sohaeht’s Royal Polytechnic Diorama was exhibited at the Town Hall on Saturday evening. Tbe attendance was rather small, but the entertainment was one of the best of the kind ever shown in Ashburton, The principal views were those of the recent Tarawera eruptions, the Kimberley goldfields, and of many places of interest throughout the world. The meohanloal effects in some of the views were very fine. The diorama will again be shown this evening.