The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY,JUNE 8, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1579, 8 June 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY,JUNE 8, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have been asked to state that the next Ingleside has been arranged definitely to take place en Friday, 17th instant. At the B.M. Court this morning the you tig man who had beon remanded on Monday on a charge of lunacy was farther remanded for three days. A Jubilee pigeon shooting match is announced to take place at Waterton on Friday, 17th June. The annual meeting of ratepayers m the Goldstream Road Distriot m [May lapsed for want of a quorum. At the ordinary meeting of the Board on Monday last the Chairman submitted the annual balance-sheet, duly audited by Mr Ollivier. On the motion of Mr Dobson, Mr E. G. Wright was re-elected Chaiiman. The Board deoided to make application to the County Council, under Clause 1 85 of the Public Works Act, 1882, to place the boundary road under the legal oontrol of either the Coldstream or the Longbeaoh Road Board, the bridges and culverts upon tbo said road being m a dangerous condition, and no Board empowered to deal with them. The Chairman was requested to apply to the County Council for the balance of the subsidy reeeired by the Council on behalf of.the Board, after deducting the amount due as its con* tribution to the Hospital [and Charitablo Aid Fund. The Boari hawng passed for pay* ment all outstanding acoounts, adjourned until called together by notice from the Chairman; Mr Isaac Sargent infotms us that he has reoeived from the New Zealand Insurance Company five guineas, and ftom the Colonial Insurance Company two guineas, contributed by these companies as a donation to (he employees of Mr J. W. Oliver for extinguish* ing the fire at Greenstreet, whioh was reported m our columns on sth Fobruary laßt. Their hard work on the occasion resulted m a large quantity of valuable property being saved from destruction. An influential meeting at Ohristchurch on Tuesday night dooided to present a testimonial to Capt Cotton, m recognition of the courage and endurance displayed by him m bis walk with Scott. £60 was subscribed m the room. Mr A. E, G. Rhodes promises a silver cup m addition. Statutory Declaration. — I, Franz Raabe Ironbark, Sandhurst, m the colony of Viotoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely doloare that on the 25th Jane, 1877, my son Alfred, six years o! age, waß accidentally hurt vath an axe on the knoe. I at onoo took all pains to secure medical aßsistanoo. However, m spite of all efforts, on the 27th August, 1877, the opinion was given by Maegillivray that an amputation of the injured limb had beoome imperative m order to nave life. At this junoturo I called on Messrs dander and Sons, procuring some of their Extract of the Eucalyptus Globulua, and by the application of the same I had the satisfaction of seeing my son within a fortnight out of all danger, and to-day he is recovered. I may just add that it was when the crisis bad been readied that the K'xtraot referred to was first app'ieJj And I make this solemn declaration, eta.— Franz Roabo. Declared at Sandhurst, m the colony of Viotoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, before me, Mortis Conn, J.P,~[AdvfcJ |

A oaae which is interesting to hotelkeepers was deoided m the Resident Magistrate's Oonrt, Chrietoharoh, on Tuesday. A oharge of supplying liquor on Sunday against the Hoensee of the Oxford Hotel, was dismissed, on the rating m a case m the Scotch Court of Sessions— Murray v. MoDongall— wherein the Judges held that when a lodger ordered l liquor from a barkeeper and gave it to a. friend, the person supplying the liquor did , not infringe the law. — Another interesting i oase was that of a boy six years old, an illegitimate ohild, who had been left by his j mother with one Naylor, paying £5 and pro* j mising tO assist m his maintenance. Instead of doing co she went to Australia. Mr Beeth&m, the Resident Magistrate, said there j was nothing to force Naylor to beep the ohild, though it was establishing a dangerous pre* oedent to send the boy to Burnham, aa all that people need do m such oiroumstanoes l was to arrange for the temporary oharge of ohildren, abscond, and leave them a oharge ' on the State: An informal meeting of the Jubilee Com* mittee was held yesterday afternoon m the County Oounoil Chambers, when several matters regarding the Trades and Sooieties procession were arranged, and it was deoided to obtain the use of the old Borough Oounoil i omoeß for meetings of subcommittees m con- j neotion with the trades demonstration. The Secretary reported that the fireworks had been ordered from Dunedin, and that promises of a large quantity of fuel for the bonfire had been made, and that several owneia of traction engines had promised to take part m the prooeßaion with their machinery; The next meeting of committee (at which a f u ll attendance is hoped for), was arranged for Thursday evening, m the Borough Council upstairs room, when several important arrangements are to be finally settled, and it is hoped that by that time a reply from the Government m regard to granting the sohool children free fares travel, on Monday, June 20, will have bqen received. Among other curiosities m a London Collection of' swords is a fierce Mahratta weapon called a wakdab, or tiger claw, which the user holds m his hand affixed by two rings to bis fingers. With a traitorouß embraae he clasps his victim and tears him Open. The population of the island of Cyprus, is almost entirely rural, there being no large town?; yet the number of offences m pro* portion to the population is three times as great as m England and the number of homicides ten times as large. Savings banks deposits. and depositors continue to inorease m Paris, notwithstanding the ihard times. In the course of last year the depositors increased from 516,918 to 531,270, and the deposits from 111,824,644 francs to 117,216,215 francs. M. Robert Mitchell, m the " Paris Pajß," has a very simple scheme for the pacification of the ■world. Franca and Germany have only to make friends, break np tho British Empire, divide the spoils, and live happy ever afterwards. While speaking on tho right of suffrage a* lady orator m England made a highly effective point the other day. " I have no vote," said she, " but my groom has. I have a great respeot for that man m the stables, but lam sure if I wero to go to him and say ' John, will you exercise the franohise to-day?' ho would reply, * Please mum, which horse be that?'" I r The oloturo proposals introduced m the New South Wales Parliament provide that the mover of a motion for adjournment BheU be required to obtain the support of only five instead of 10 members, that it shall be unnecessary to obtain the consent of the Speaker to a motion for adjournment, that a debate shall be allowed on a motion to go into committee of supply or ways ahd means with the leave of tho House, instead of requiring a majority of two-ihirda m favor of such a course, that members directed by the Speaker or Chairman of Committees to cease speaking Bhall be entitled to have the question whether thsy be further heard put to the vote, and that a motion, " That the question be now put," shall require to bs supported by 10 members instead of a two-thirds majority before it oan take effect. Skinny. Men. — " Wells' Health Renewer ,' restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia' Impotence, Sexual Debility, At chemists and druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., Agents, Chriatohurch.