The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr E. P. Barnes, who made the highest aggregate score for Canterbury in the match with the Australians, has been made the recipient of three souvenirs from admirers of his play, a bat from Mr A. M. Oilivier, a guinea from Mr Samuel Stewart, and a trophy from Mr Bergh.
A Mr Woodward, writing from the Kimberley goldfields, says that the gold obtained up to the present has bein unearthed at a cost of £SO an ounce. Nearly all the gold seekers from Christchurch have sold off their belongings and gone back to Derby.
Thera have lately been complaints at Christchurch of children being seen a state of intoxication, and the police have decided to take proceedings against two publicans for supplying liquor to boys.
The Master of the Old Men’s Home desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of s parcel of clothes from Mr W. H. Collins and a cake from Mr B. Morris, for the use of the inmates.
From his studies of the Krakafoa catastrophe, Verbeek is led to [maintain that the central part of our globe is still in a molten state, and he disputes the theory which has been advanced that the heat of the volcanic furnace is entirely due to local chemical action.
As the lato Professor Hamilton was one day walking near Aberdeen he met a wellknown individual of weak intellect named Jemmy “ Pray,” said the Professor, “ how long can a person live without brains 7” “ I dinna ken,” replied Jemmy, scratching his head. “ How auld are ye yoursel ?’’
The writer of the “ Not's from Ashburton ” in the Lyttelton Times of Wednesday last must have been laboring under some strange delusion when he stated that “ A flood of correspondence had taken place in the local papers here on Holler v Stone flour," There has never been a single line of corresponddnoe on the question in our columns, but an advertisement on the subject of wheat cleaning did appear, which had no reference whatever to the after process of grinding, either by Hollers or Stones. The correspondent of the Lyttelton Times has drawn on his lively imagination for his facts.
The annual meeting of the New Zealand Congregational Union is now being held at Christchurch, under the presidenoey of the Eev W. J. Habons. The annual report presented on Wednesday stated that changes in the pastorates of the associated churches were exceedingly numerous during the year ; that the trust properties of the four churches at Devonport, Gisborne, Akaroa, and Nelson had been conveyed to the Union, and Beresford street and Mount Eden (Auckland), Onehunga, Thames, Mangaturoto, and Le Bona Bay were already moving in the same direction. As regards finance, the funds of the union [have been satisfactorily sustained. The work of the individual churches had been great, and on the whole successful. Only one church has been formed during the year, but the work of consolidation was apparent in the established ones.
No one can be siok if the stomach, blood, liver and kidneys are well. American Co.’s Hop Bitters keeps them well. Notice. £SOO will be paid for any ease that American Co.’s Hop Bitters will not cure or help. Doubt not, See.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1423, 3 December 1886, Page 2
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547The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1423, 3 December 1886, Page 2
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