The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1627, 4 August 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i — , — » The following team play for the Ashburton i Football Club against the Woollen Faotory • Cinb on Saturday, at two p.m., on the Sports [ Ground : —Moore (2), Fooka (3), Kingswell, t Leohner, Simpson. Foley, Clark, Hargreavea, Stewart, Cuthberthaon, Moss, and Miiller. ■ Emergency — Chapman, Curtia, Low, and Buchanan. \ The Ashburton County Hunt Club Steeple- | ohaeea take place to-morrow on the race- ! course. Good acoeptanoea have been ; received, showing that the handicappera have been fairly Bucceesful. The oourae is m first-rate order, and fine weather is the only thing necessary to make the meeting very Buooessful. We regrot that uo holiday has ! been proclaimed for the occasion. His Worship the Mayor waa asked, we believe, to do so, but deolined, without receiving a requisition, to request the tradesmen to close their shopß. The totalisator will be under the oontrol of Messrs Hobbs and Goodwin, and' Mr J. Henry, of the Commercial Hotel, has secured the right to vend spirituous and malt liquors. In the evening the annual Hunt Club Ball will be held m the Oddfellows' Hall, the music being supplied by Fleming's Band. . Our sporting contributor, "El Mahdi," sends na the following tips:— j Hurdles r—Marmion, 1 ; Panic, 2; Nero, 8. Steeplechase Cvp :— Ravenawood, 1 ; Juggler, 2 ; Paaio, 3. Hunters' Flat Race :— Marraion, 1 ; Little Wonder, 2. Maiden Steopleohase : Bothwell, I ; Wrangler, 2 ; The Masher, 3. The name of Toaaer was omitted from tho list of aooeptancea for the Hardle Race. The usual meeting of the South Rakaia School Committee was held m the Library on Wednesday evening. Present— Mesara Pyke (chairman), Broadbent, Windsor, Johnston, Oxlvy, and Turner. The minutes of the last meeting being confirmed, the Master's application for two new rooms wai considered, and after disousiion, on the motion of Mr Ozley, seconded by Mr Windsor, it was earned unanimously that the application could not be entertained. The sub-committee reported on the greund improvements re* quired, and Messn Turner and Broadbent were appointed .to see the same oarried out. The Maßter reported the attendance as follows ; —Average during the month, 128*7 ; for tha last month, 149*6 ; number on roll, 203 ; highest attendance, 161. He complained that there were still a few families who negleoted sending their children to sohool. Other routine bueiness been completed, accounts amounting to £4 18s were passed for pay* ment, and the meeting adjourned. A telegram from Napier states that Mr J. Ivess addressed a crowded meeting at that place last night. He spoke generally m support of tbe Ministry, and a motion pledging those who voted for it to support him was oarried without opposition. It is said that Her Majeaty has proposed a dukedom for Lord Salisbury, and that the Prime Minister is indisposed, m present oircumttances, to accept this promotion m the peerage.— " Dunedin Evening Star." AJpeouliar accident, says the "Evening Star*" happened at the Wellington Telegraph Office on the 27th ult. A messenger named M'Nemanui was engaged dusting an office tabta, when the stool on which he stood slipped and he fell on a spike paper file on $c table, the point of the file entering his btomaoh to the Sept of three inches. Drowsiness, biliousness, pains and aches, and *gue, Hop Bitters always ourea if made by American Co. Bead Kbatimo's Couijh Lozenges cure Cougb.3 Asthma, Bronohitis. Medical testimony ;ats that other medicine is so effectual m the our of these dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone give ease, one or two at bedtime ensures rest. For relieving difficulty breathing they ara invaluable. They contain no opium nor any violent drug. Sold by Oheojiste ia Tins, Is Ud ind.9i 84 each]

Two oases of leprosy have been reported to the Victorian Central Board of Health, and the sufferers m each oase are European women, who are believed to have contracted the disease from Chinamen. The "Mataura Ensign" states that Mr William Walls, of Gore, died suddenly on Monday evening. He had been complaining of what he thought was indigestion during the day, and m the evening Mrs Walls noticed him fall forward into the fireplace. She picked him up, bat life was extinot. Great complaints are made about the oonduot of the Sydnej unemployed, who get drunk m large gangs on pay days. Disgraceful soenes ocour, and it is said the men do little for the money paid them, which ranges, m the oase of the National Park work, from £4000 to £5000 fortnightly. The Rev Goodenough Baplin, Anglican clergyman at Port Lincoln, South Australia, died recently from an overdose of morphia. He had been m bad health lately owing to pecuniary worries, and took a solution to induce sleep. Near Deloriea, Argentine Republic, [there waß recently a shower of stones. A few moments after the plains were covered with the bodies of geese, storks, and others birds animals killed by the Btoneß. One inhabitant of the plaoe oarried forty-eight head of geese home m the space of half an hour. Great loss was sustained. Many animals were killed, and crops and trees were destroyed. A gentleman telegraphing from Auokland to Chriatohurch thus refers to Sir Julius Vogel'a- speech of last Tuesday: — "It has created a startling, I ma; say electrical, and deep impression m the oountry."— " Oamaru Mail." | The kauri gum industry, m these times of depression, is proving ot value to many of the humbler clasees trying their luck on the gamfields. It is said £35,000 a month is paid out by Auokland merohants for kauri gum. On some of the gumfields men, it is stated, working only four days a week can live comil fortably.