The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1431, 14 December 1886, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1886. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A quantity of matter is crowded out of this issue. The Ashburton School Committee meets this evening. The San Francisco mail arrived in Auck. land yesterday. The Ashburton portion of the tmail will probably be delivered here tomorrow. At the Resident "Magistrate’s Court this morning, a “ swagger ” named John Barritt for drunkenness was, in consideration of its being a first offence, discharged with a caution, but, for having made use of obscene language, he was ordered to be imprisoned lor fortyeight hours. The adjourned cases under the Gaming and Lotteries Act against George Stevens and W. G. Seales were further adjourned. At the inquest to-day on the body of the little girl who was killed by a plank of timber falling on her, the Coroner and Jury expressed a hope that parents would take warning and keep their children away from places where buildings were in course of erection. Mr Brown, the contractor for the building at which the little girl was killed, stated that he found it|impossible to keep children away from the timber, although he had frequently warned them that some of them would sooner or later meet with an accident.

The a.a. Triumph which left New Zealand in September last for India with 216 horses on board arrived at Lyttelton yesterday. Of the 126 horses on board only 16 died, which is very good indeed, compared with the number some of the boats lost which arrived about the same time from the Australian ports. The horses which died belonged—ll to Mr Grigg, 4 to Mr Hawkins, and 1 to Mr Jarvis.

The church members in the district Of Longbeach have been working hard for some time past to get things ready for a bazaar to pay off their bank overdraft. This bazaar will be held on Easter Monday -, in aid of its funds. It is intended to bold a concert at Tinwald in the Temperance Hall about New Tear’s Eve. Many of the popular favorites are willing to give their assistance to make it a success and to present an attractive programme.

In Wellington a child three years old, seated in a preambulator in a garden, was suddenly attacked by a black tom cat. The oat made a spring at the baby, fixing its claws in the baby’s dress, and by its manner, seemed as if it would tear it to pieces. Fortunately, a visitor was close by and pulled the baby out of the perambulator; but as the oat let go it turned on the other child and bit it in the wrist. Then, with eyes glaring, it turned round to make another spring, when a dog ran towards it barking, and drove it away. It was eventually caught and destroyed.

Lovers of first-class mnsio—and there are many in Ashburton—will be pleased to hear that the Timaru Garrison Band, under the able leadership of Mr Sidney Wolf, purpose giving an open-air performance on Thursday next in Baring Square, commencing at 11 a.m. The following excellent programme will be submitted 1. Quadrille, “ Cynthia ” ! 2. Dramatic Glee, “ Hail, Apollo,” Bound * 3. Waltz, “ Fairy Voices,” Crowe ; 4. March Oriental, “ La Caravan,” Asch ; 5. Kyrie and Gloria, “ Twelfth Mass,” Mozart; 6. Selection, ■“ String of Diamonds ” ; 7. Slide Trombone Solo, “ The White Squall ”; 8. Selections Irom “ The Bohemian Girl,” Balfe; 9. Waltz, “ Twilight Shadows.” No. 4, “La Caravan,” is a march descriptive of an Egyptian caravan passing througli the desert; it is first heard approaching in the distance, gradually gets nearer, passes, and then dies away again. We hope the good nature of the Southern bandsmen will be duly appreciated by Ashburton residents. The St Louis Globe-Democrat says : < Alpha Centaurii, the leading star in the Centaur, is the nearest star to the earth, so far as is known. Its distance is usually placed at from 20,000,000,000 to 29,000,000, 000,000 miles from the earth. A star called Sixty-one Cygni is classed as second in distance, being put at about 54,780,999,000,000 miles distant from our globe. Most of the stars, however, are millions of miles further away from us than these. Light travels about 196,000 miles in every second of time ; and yet with this inconceivably rapid velocity, it would take light about twelve years to traverse the space separating us from that star. From the greater portion of the stars light woold be many centuries in reaching ua. That is to say, in these particular instances the stars whioh we see arc not the stars as they exist to-night, but as they existed before Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery, or even before the creation of Adam.”

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