The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1681, 7 October 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Alfred Harrison has at his rooms a very nice assortment of furniture whioh is to be disposed of by auotion to-morrow. Mr Davis, of East street, ia retiring from business, and has determined to clear the whole of big stock. The goods are very nioe work indeed, and should meet & ready sale. The Ashborton Grioket Club opens the season with % game on the Domaine Reoreation Ground on Saturday, Bth instant. Sides will be chosen by the Captain and DeputyCaptain. Flay to commence at two. All members and intending members arc invited to attend. A meeting of the South Rakaia Oemttery Board was held on Thursday, the members of the Road Board being present. The Olerk reported that s blander had been made during the time he been m town— a burial had taken plaoe m another person's grave. Mr Allan stated that he had been blamed for this, but he had had nothing more to do with it than bringing the key from Mr Makeig to the gravedigger, He added that nothing could now be done m the matter. It was proposed that a small hat should be built m which to keep tools and a rough plan of the graves for the workmen's gaidanoo. This aould not be done as no funds wire available. Mr J. A. Smith wrote offering himself as caretaker under certain conditions. The offer waa declined. Accounts were passed and the meeting ad« 'ourntd. Major Slattr, oltho Canterbury Volunteers, is gazetted Major of the New Zealand Militias The Commissioner of Customs notifies the following artloles" exempt from duty on im. portation to the colony;— Sawn oak staves, rough (m lengths suitable only for butter kegi), sawn oak headi m rough, for butter kegs. Petlivanni, an Austrian, has been arrested m Russia as a spy. Be had obtained a plan of the positions of tho Russian troops on the Austrian frontier. Between Napier aud Gisborne there are a good many Maori converts to Mormonism, two missionaries having been working there for some years. Natives report that Euflsia is secretly nego. tiating with the Government of Yarkand, m Chinese Turkestan, for permission to pass troops across the country. Mr R. E. G. Thomas is appointed to be Patent Office agent at Ohrißtohurch. The Exchequer will gain £90 by the recent elections says the "Bruce Herald." Nine gentlemen having failed to poll a tenth of the number of votes xeoorded m favor of the successful candidates, and therefore forfeited their deposits of £10 each. It is said that Sir Robert Stout intends to settle m Melbourne, overtures having been made to him by a legal firm there to join them. We give the rumor for what it is worth. It must be remembered m Viotoria the legal professions are not amalgamated, and so far as we know there are no firms of barristers.-— " Hawkes Bay Telegraph, Sir Robert Stout waß present at the Opera House on Saturdaj night, and on entering was greeted with Borne applause from persons m the pit. This was a .kindly and generous compliment to a defeated Minister, whiob showed good feeling on the part of those who offered it.—" New Zealand Times." Statutory Declaration.— l, Fraz Raabe, Ironbark, Sandhurst, m the colony of Viotoria, Australia, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on the 25th June; 1877, my son Alfred, six years of Bge, was accidentally hurt with an axe on the knee. lat onoe took all pains to seoure medical assistance. However, m epite of all efforts, en the 87th August, 1877, the opinion was given by Dr Macgillivray 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 Euoalyptus Globulus, 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 ia recovered. I may just add that it was when the crisis had been reaohed that the Extract referred to was first applied. And I make this solemn declaration, etc, — Franz Raabe. Declared at Sandhurst, ia ify? Colony of Viotoria, Australia, this seventeenth day of October, one tlioueand eight hundred and seventy- seven, before me, Morits Conn, I,J>. [ApYX.*j

It is said that the Hon Mr Gisborne is preparing a popular " History of New Zealand," to take the plaoe of Dr Thompson's work, whioh has long been out of print. The " Southland Times " states that the Southland Acclimatisation Sooiety have received & consignment of perch from Canterbury. The fish are about a year old and stood the long journey well, only six having succumbed to the hardships of travel. The perch have been divided and will be looated m lakes and lagoons at Merriva'e, Te Anau I New Kiver, and another place nearer town, which, until they have had time to multiply, shall be nameless, It is notified m tbe " Gazette " that goods for exhibition at the Manawatu and West Coast Industrial Exhibition to be held at Palmereton North during Deoember will be carried free on the New Zealand railways. The Tasmanian Legislative Council, by the casting vote of tbe President, deoided that the Offloe of Agent-General is unnecessary. Wo (Evening Sar) hear that tbe looal Protectionists and supporters of the StoutVogol party are very anxious to have an organ of their own, and have it m contemplation to start a firflt-olasa daily. The Presbyterian Ohuroh claims that it has already spent £180,000 m mission work m ths New Hebrides. As long aB there is one hair left on a man's head, the barber will have sufficient courage to reoommend a restorer. . The entire assets of a reoent bankrupt were nins children. Tbe creditors acted magnanimously and let him keep them. It is calculated that:, with good management, the western prairies of Texas are capable of sustaining 3,000,000 horned cattle 1,000,000 horses, and 4,000,000 or 5,000,00 C heep. The Earl of Arundel (temp. Charles I. was the first person who brought over t( England, from Italy, the new way of buildlnf with bricks. The employment of women as printers i increasing m England. A Woman s Printini 1 Sooiety has been formed with leading name on the list of direotors. ' The children of the blaokeßt Africans ar 7 born whittish. In a month they become pal yellow, m a year brown, at four dirty blach 1 and at six or seven a glossy black. } Of all the men who left the United State Senate to cast their fortunes with the Con . federaoy only Jefferson Datis, of Mississipi and Thomas L. Olingman, of North Carolina L are living. Hollowat's Pills. — Teachings of Experi • ence. — The united testimony of thousand* extending over more than forty years, moe • strongly recommends these Pills as the bes purifers, the mildest aperients, and the Buree ; restoratives. They never prove delusive, 0 give merely temporary relief, but attack al ailments of the stomach, lungs, heart, head ' and bowels m the only safe and legitimat way, by depurating the blood, and a eradicating those impurities wbioh are tb r source and constituent of almost ever disease. Their medicinal efficacy is wondei - ful m removing enfeebled constitution* Their aotion embraces all that is desirable i a household medioine. They expel ever; noxious and effete matter ; and thus th strength is nurtured and the energie 7 stimulated