The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1630, 8 August 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL

» — A summoned meeting of the Loyal W&terton Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., was held on Saturday evening last m the Library Hall, Watetton. There were about 20 members present. The half-yearly report and balance-sheet, showing a credit balance of £239, wao read and adopted. It was decided to celebrate the anniversary, with a publio tea, concert, and ball, on the 2nd Sept., m the Library Hall* Water ton, One member was initiated and one proposed. The usual monthly meeting of the Ashton School Committee was held on Monday, Aug. 1. Present — Meseirs J. Croy (m the chair), J. Ashton, J. Brown, D. Ryan, and T. Magee. The Chairman reported that Miss Ingram* who had been appointed mistress, commenced her duties on the 26th ult., and that the works authorised at last meeting had been completed with a satisfactory result. The Master re* ported that the school opened on the 25th ult., but on account of bad weather the attendance had been very low, and he urged the necessity for parents sending their children regularly during fine weather. It was deoided that Messri J. Ashton and T; Magee inspeot the sohool grounds and bring up a report at next meeting. The Committee then adjourned. To show the extremes resorted to by some m politios, we (" Evening Bell ") may say that one question put to Mr David Goldie last night at the Foresters' Hall was : "Is it true your father went to Tasmania as a prisoner?" It is a little hard to conceive anybody being dastardly enough to put such a question, even had the insinuation been true, whioh, of course, it is not. It was about as disgraoeful and cowardly an insult as we ever remember, and the audience marked their displeasure and disapproval of it by loud and continued cheering and applause when Mr Goldie answered it m the negative, giving particulars as to the ship and com* panions his father had when he came to tne colonies. A travelling sleight-of-hand man visited an Indian enoampment near Lewiston, Idaho, the other day. Seeing a small dog, he ashed how muoh they would take for him. The Indians said they did not want to sell. " Him very good dog," said the magioian, rubbing him down at the back, at eaoh stroke taking a handful of money from the end of his tail* also from hia mouth, nose, and ears. The Indians looked on m stolid silence, but after the magioian went away they took the dog down to the river bank and killed and disseoted him. To their great obagrin they found that the sleight-of-hand man had milked him of all the money. QThe British National Lifeboat Institution's annual report states that by the aid of its fleet 601 lives and 83 vessels were saved during 1866.} The cruising launoh of Her Majesty's oorvette Turquoise has been attacked by a slave dhow at Zanzibar, one British officer and five men being wounded m the action whioh ensued. The dhow, however, was a unk by the British, and forty-three slaves wore resoued. Statutory Declaration— l, Franz Baabe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, m thejoolony of Victoria, Australia, do solemly and sinoerely deolar* that on the 25th June, 1877, my son Alfred, six years of age, was accidentally hurt with an axe on the knee. I at once took all pains to secure medical assistance. However, m spite of all efforts, on the 27th Augutt, 1877, the opinion was given by Dr Maogillivray that an amputation of the injured limb had become imperative, m order to save life. At this juncture I called on Messrs Sander and Sons, procuring some of their Extract of the Eucalyptus Globulus, and by the application of the same I had the satisfaction ot seeing my son within a fortnight out or all danger, and to-day he is recovered. I may just add that it was when the crisis had been reached that the Extract referred to was first applied. Any I make this solemn declaration, etc, — Franz Baabe. Declared at Sandhurst, m the colony of Victoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of Ootober, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven before me, Motitz Conn, J.P,-» (Advt.)

The Borough Council meets this evening. At the R.M. Court this morning before Mr T. Scaly, J.P., and Mr D. Williamson, J.P., Peter Kennedy and Samuel Bosewarne were oharged with having broken into a dwelling at Maronan and Btolen goods to the value of 20s, the property of P. Grace, therefrom. ! The aocuaed were remanded till Thursday. Mary Cunningham alias Petty, for having been drunk m Burnett street, was fined 5s and costs. A charge of wilfully breaking four panes of glass preferred against her was withdrawn as her husband had paid the amount of the damage. A girl named Violet Kelso, a servant at the Lyttelton Hotel, was found lying m her room on Saturday night with a newly-born dead ohild by her side. She died {shortly afterwards. A Christchuroh telegram says that the following football team has been picked by the Rev J. Hoatson to go North on Monday :— Forwards — Bean, Beßwiok, Dow, Fuller, Haaßt, Harris, Homer* Moir, Sutherland; backs— Helmore, Roberts, Donnelly, Allardyoe, Franois, Wilßon, Richards; emergencies: forwards — Torlesse, Weekea ; back—Mountfort. Donnelly takes the place of Helmore after the Wellington matoh. The return matoh between <he Ashburton Football Club and the Woollen Faotory Olub was played last Saturday afternoon on the Sports Ground and resulted m a draw game neither side being able to score. For the Olub E. J. Fooks, D. Moore, H. Moore, Kingswell, Stewart, and Hepburn played an exoellent game, while Oliver, Burnett, Patterson, Graham, and Thompson played well for the Faotory. Members are particularly, requested 10 praotioe for forthcoming matoh against Geraldine. The British Government is adopting self* winding olooka for new public buildings. The American Missionary Society sent 5000 pairs of trousers to Burmah last year. The bridge over the Tay has been completed. The total cost has been £700,000, The Chinese Government has out down the salaries of all its Ambassadors 20 per cent. There were no trains on the Canadian Paoifio Railroad lor several days, owing to forest fires. A woman at Sparta, Gal., recently had seventeen teeth eztraoted m one day, and died the following night. Recent investigations show that the whole country below Lake Superior is a mass of mineral, mostly magnetic iron ore. English is the mother-tongne of a hundred millions of individuals, German of fifty-Biz, and Frenoh and Spanish eaoh of forty-three millions. Bordeaux, France, is said to supply more oases of apopley than any other plaoe of equal population m the world. Excessive wine drinking is the cause. Europe is making heavy calls on America for lumber, more especially black walnut, whioh is becoming scarce everywhere. The Indian military budget amounts to £14,000,000. Tho Indian army consists of 73,000 Europeans and 145,000 natives. English firms offers " Fresh Jubilee Herrings," ••Prime Jubilee Ginger-pop," «' Jubilee Dripping," and even Jubilee Flea Powder." A final estimate of the victims of the borning of the Opera Comique Theatre, m Paris, places the number at 130, including the remains of 40 persons which were found m the ruins, but whioh were so badly burned as to be unrecognisable. In obtaining the vast and rich domain oj Burmah the English Government has come into possession, among other natural treasurers, of immense forests of teak, whioh, never very plentiful m India, was becoming comm9roially quite rare, and consequently ol inoreased oost for industrial purposes. OJ all the woods grown m tho East this ha£ been pronounced as, m Borne respects, the most valuable. This superiority consists m its being neither too heavy nor too hard. I< does not warp nor split under exposure, nc matter how prolonged, to heat or dampness j it contains an essential oil which possesses the rare property of preventing the wood from rotting under wet conditions, and, at the same thne, acts as a preservative to iron, and repels insects ; it ib, m addition, a handsome wood of several varieties of color and grain, and takes a good polish. Use American Go's Hop Bittera once and you will use no other medioine. Test it Take no other. Be sure and read Hollowa-s's Pilm.— With darkening days and changing temperatures the digestion becomes impaired, the liver disordered, and the mind despondent, unless the cause of the irregularity be expelled from the blood and body by suoh an alterative as these Pills. They direotly attack the source of the evil, thrust out all impurities from the circulation, restore the distempered organs to their natural State, and correot all defective or contaminated secretions. Suoh an easy means of instituting health, strength, and oheerfulness should be applied by all whose stomachs are weak, whose minds are mnch harassed, or whoße brains are overworked. Holloway's iB essentially a blood tempering medioine, whereby its influence reaches the remotest fibre of the frame and effects a universal good.