LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1523, 2 April 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A very good evening's amusement will be provided for the people of Methven on Tuesday, April 12, when the "Boselle Bros," with a "aurprise party" of 16 -performers, consisting of "Gymnasts, Acrobats, Song and Dance Artists, Serio-Comic and Motto Singers, English, Irish, Sootoh and Negro Delineators, and Comedians, " will give an entertainment m the Schoolroom. An excellent programme has been prepared, and no doubt the Company will receive the patronage their enterprise deserves. A ball will be held after the performance.* 1 Sergt. Felton has received one of the medals recently instituted, for lonp service and good conduct, among members of the Police forceThe recipient must m every case have served at least fourteen years, during the last three of which no complaint must have been established. The medal is of silver and ia of a very handsome character. Special soivioes m connection with the inniversary of tho Sunday Sohool will be held m the Primitive Methodißt Churoh to-morrow. A. public pionio will be held m Mr Kraltray's paddock at Hampstead on Good Friday not Monday as previously advertised. At tho E.M. Court this morning, before Mr H. Friedlander, J.P., and Mr D. Williamson, J.P., Ryan alias Pearson was charged with the larceny of a snit of clothos and a cap valued at £3, the property of Julian Jackson, at Methven, on March 27th. The accused pleaded guilty, and was ordered to bo im. prisoned for six calendar months with hard labor. A first offender, for dru nkennesa, was fined 5s and costs with the usual alternative. George Adams, for a similar offonoo, was mulcted m a like penalty, and on a oharge of having been guilty of an indecent act was dismissed with a oaution. A grand baazar and gift auotion will be held on Easter Monday m the commodious grain stores opposite the railway station, Tinwald, m aid of the Church of England funds for the distriofc on the southern side of the river. It may be explained that tho debt whjph this bazaar is designed to extinguish is an old one that was incurred previous to the division of the district from Ashburton and before the Ilev Mr Garbett took oharge. It ia hopod tho affair will prove very successful. We observe among the names of thoso teaohora who have successfully passed at tho recent examination m Class D the name of Mr Charles Etheridge Craddook, at present temporary master of the Ashton Sohool. Mr J. Ollivier, the Provincial District Auditor, will attend at Ashburton on the 11th to 11th instant, to make his annual audit of accounts of the looal bodies. A correspondent forward* us a clipping from " The Queen " relating to assaults on women m Ireland. We will give it insertion m our next issue. Special attention on the part of billiardists ia, directed to Mr W. Zander's advertisement m another column. The table put up is one of O'Brien's best and is covered with a firstolass cloth. The balls, cues, &c, aro all new> and good players may reckon upon receiving every attention from the proprietor, either at " devils," " blaok," or "general." The room is neatly fitted up with sets, &3 , and good accommodation is provided for whist or crib" bage players. Mr Zander has had the new rooms open during the past few days, bul " business " m the new line will really bo commenocd this evening. A Ohurch parade of the Ashburton Rifles and Guards ia ordered for to-morrow morning, when the two companies will attend divine Bervioe at St Stephen's Churoh. We understand that both the looal corps will be strongly represented at the Easter Encampment at Pareora. Tho Railway Department announces m thiß issue cheap fares and excursion trains for the Easter holidays and Christohuroh Autumn Races. Excursion tiokets from Ashburton to Dunedin and baok at 28s firs olass and 18a Gd second class will be issued from the 6th to the llth inst, inclusive ; also Saturday return tickets lor Ohriatohurch between tho same dates, available m both oases to the 2oth inst. Electors resident m those distriota are rominded that Mr J. Ivess, M. U.K., win address meetings on Monday evening at 8 o'olook at Tinwald, at tho Templar fclau, and on Tuesday evening at Cherisey, at Q Qchoolbguje,