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The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The hounds meet at Longbeach on Tbure< day next, 30th instant, at 1 p.m;

The usual Government Inspection of the Itiilos and Guards will be held to-morrow evening. Volunteers are particularly requested to attend.

A presentation book (that is to say a book very suitable for presentations) is advertised m to-day's issue. It is intituled " Tho Crown book of the Beautiful, the Wonderful and the Wise," and contains selections of favorite poems, old and new, aoooants of notable things m history and biography and m the works cf nature and of man, besides stories, problems, paradoxes, puzzles, plays and songs' It is very handsomely bound ancE profusely illustrated. The agent, who will bo m this town and district for a week, informs us that it is being largely subscribed for.

The quarterly meeting of the Ashburton Weslejan Church officebearers wa6 .held at the Parsonage on Friday evening, Rev David MoNicoil m the chair, The Stewards preBentedfan approximate balance-sheet, which showed a deficiency of £15 on the quarter's working expenses ; and of the old circuit flebt about £50 has boon wiped off, leaving: a present total indebtedness of £39. A prolonged and interesting conveaation took place bearing on proposed united evangelistic SSJvioes, and from the, thorough manner m whioh suggestions wore offered and discussed, a most successful mission may bo augured* Subsequently tho Rev D. MoNicoll with Me John Alison were appointed to confer with representatives from other churches. It i expected that the mission will be commence m about a week's time.

Preaching at Oaniaru on a ifecent Sunday r the Rev A. B. Todd is reported! by the 'North Otago Times' to have drawn attention to the degrading and brutal Bcena lately witnessed m the Public Hall, when two men engaged m a boxing matoh until one lay like ft dead man on the stage, vrfth disfigured face aid covered with blood. Ha expressed his horror that such scenes should be permitted, and said they ought to be put down by the strong arm of the law. It was a disgrace to tho proprietors of the. juall that they should lot their building for such a purpose. All promoters of such g&taiests, and also those who attend them, wore guilty of a great wrong. He earnestly urgodl hi 3 h earers to disoountonance them, and ioJinee others to do the same.

A story is going; "among the delegates to the Imperial Conference as to a piece of crossfire between Mr Jcim Bright and Mr Deakin, who met at dinnea-ift London. Mr Bright it was said, suggested Imperial federation was a mistake,, and tbat the colonies should ' out the paintaai.* *Ohno V replied the Viotorian * we aifc Jar t<yo loyal and too closely attached to Exgland to do that.' 'So loyal and so attached that you tax everything we send you.' To which Mr Deakia retorted — ' And you are bo attached to us ttxct you admit the goods of your worffl enemy on the samo footing as thoßfi of your own children.'

The days of big cmggets have not altogether passed away, at least m Australia. One weighing 3740z. was last week unearthed at Maitland, near Rludgee ; and another of 137 found m the western ,workings of the Midas Company, near Ballarat, within two feet of tho spot where on tho previous day Lady Brassey had 12£ j wt. of gold given her from a dish of wash- dirt. In compliment to her ladyship the latte r nugget has been christened tho "Lady Brasaey."

When Sir John Macdonald was m England he was waited upl »n by a body of gentlemen who were anxious that Canada should revert toaFreetrade policy. After patiently hearing them to the end, b»e said, " I know Canada ; you do not. I ,kuo w the marvellous change which has occurred since she adoptod a protective tariff," and, when concluding, he told them that "the proposals of the Fair trade League to have Freetrttde with our Colonies and dependencies, and Protection against the reßt of the world, wore m the highest degree patriotic."

g[ In Tasmania 47 light^sentenced prisoners were released m honor of the Jubilee, viz., 25 from Launoeeton gaol and 22 from the Hobarfc gaol.

HOLLOWAY'B CttNTiIEKI AND PILL3.--ThOSO who have given these remedies a fair trial f ceely admit that they inherently possess every pro* perty suitable tor healing and removing eruptions, ulooraiione, piles, abscesses, sores, bad legs, gathered breasts, and all disorders of tho glandular system. When carefully rubbed m, tho Ointment relaxes the swollen masoles, diminishes inflammation, assuages pain, and even alleviates dangerous nialadioa which may havo laatetl for months, or oven years,. Holloway's excellent preparations are effective singly, rosiatles3 m combination, and, have been recommended by gratoful patients to be resorted to as alteratives when all other i jmeanß of regaining health havo failed. Their gotioa is temperate, not violent or reducing.

At Milton (Otago) Mr John Bates, who was one of the Queen's guards at her coronation, headed the Jubilee procession m his Hussar uniform

In a private' letter received from Sydney, a few days ago, the writer (formerly of Auck. land) says that however hard times may be here, they are rosy compared with the present state of Sydney, or even its immediate future, so far as appearances go. Great numbers of people are out of work, and among them may be seen many Auoklanders who went over to better themselves, and who are walking about with their hands m their pockets destitute.

The <c Otago Daily Times " furnishes the following inoident of the Jubilee demonstration m Dunedin ; — A gentleman passing up Gargill street in' the afternoon observed that one resident m the street— an Irishman by his patronymic — was anything but loyally disposed, and had vented his feelings by dis. playing the St. George's ensign upside down and half-mast high. The passer-by took mental counsel, and, resolving upon prompt action, retreated clown street for reinforcements, which he obtained m the shape of a contingent of Port Chalmers Navals and Waitahuna Rifles. Returning they oalled upon the disaffected one' to strike his flag, which he obstinately refused to do. The Volunteers thereupon threatened as an alternative to storm the premises and demolish the flag and pole together, and after an ineffectual appeal to the police for protection and some nourishing of a revolver, the beleaguered - oitizen was compelled to come to terms and haul down what was not unreasonably regarded as an insult to the loyal public

The " Mataura Ensig " says that an old

lady born m the year that the battle of Trafalgar waß fought, lives m Chatton, who, when a little girl, heard a Jubilee servioe of George 111. preached m her native village m Aberdeenshire. Of the sermon she remembers only that the preacher for the occasion, m the course of his remarks, said that none of the congregation present that day would live to see another Jubilee. His propheoy, however, has not come truo. This old lady» who is the mother of Mr Wm, Calder, Bottler m the Chatton district, is to-day m the full enjoyment of all her mental faculties. She employs her time kitting and spinning on an

ancient spinning-wheel, and the " Ensign " has just been shown by Mr Aiken, of Gordon* some of her handiwork, recently done, m the shape of some worsted yarn, which she wholly manufactured herself out of a fleeoe of wool.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1594, 27 June 1887, Page 2

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The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1594, 27 June 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1594, 27 June 1887, Page 2

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