LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2890, 4 February 1893, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev J. T. Hinlton of Bunedin is on a J short vifcit to Ashburton, and will conduct . service for the Baptist Cnuroh during his I stay. , The adjournei general meeting of the Ashburton Gouuty Hunt Club will be held .it the Commercial Hotel on Tuesday evening. Amongst other business fchc < question of hunting the hounds next season will have to be considered. The first oysters of the season arrived at the Deep Sen Fishing Company's shop on \ Thursday night. Considering that they j were taken at Stewart Island on Wednesday the day of opening the season—thw was ! .smart work. The Christchmch fishmongers I did not get any tili last night. AH instruments were represented at the annual maeting of the Orchestral Socif.ty : on Friday night in the School of Music. Mr H. A. Gites presided and went over the year's work. Some formal and musical 1 business having been transacted the election of officers foe the year wa3 held over till next /veek. Information has been received by the police that at three o'clock this morning tour Btacks of grain the property of Mr Leonard White, and five utacks belonging to MrJ. Storey, both near Rakaia, were found to be on fire —beyond doubt the work of incendiaries. Other Btacks further away from Rakai* township were also be'ieved to be on fire. AH the pupil teachers of the Ash burton school have succeeded in passing thenrepresentative examination?. Cne, John Purchase, obtained a first class pass, and and another, Frank Curd, succee led in passing the matriculation examination. F. Curd alao sat for 5 the D certificate examination, the result of which is not yet

known. The whole suite of offioes of the County Council have just been been subjected to a fresh distempering by Mr Robert Dorm, with a very happy result. The walls have 'assumed a light slate col«r, while the cornices and ceiling have been treated with tints in keeping, and altogether a vast improvement has been effected on the appearance of the room. Mr Charles Chapman, painter and sign writer, ia proving by the good work he has recently been doing, a "worthy son of a worthy sire." He has iiwt finished for Mr S. Salek'« window a sill board, bearing the name of the latter and his profession. The sill board is of thick plate glass, cut; to fit the windo #, and enclosed in a movable wooden frame. The lettering is embaaeed in green and gold, the letters being first etched on the glass in the usual way by the agency of strong chemicals, and the coloring filled into the outline so obtained. The work has been done very artistically, and while in itself a certificate of merit for Mr Chapman is also a decided ornament to Mr Salek's window. While on this subject of sigu writing, it would also be well to notice another fine specimen of glass work, done at the establishment of Mr James Craigie, Timaru, for Mr David Thomas. It is a glass panel for Air Thomas s office door, and is about .as fine a specimen of this kiud of work as one would wish to see. The lettering, tracing, etc., are for the most part uurur, into the glass with the aid of acids, and afterw irds finished off in gold and silver gilt. The whole design is very pretty, aud the lettering shows exceptional Uste.

Mr H. E. Bonnington, chemist, has now got his new shop into fall .working order, and ha» settled down to ordinary business. Readeis will remember that, in our extended notice of the new range of buildings erected by Mr Bullock to take the, p!ace of the old Prospect block destroyed by the recent fire, it was mentioned that for the unoccupied shop next the Clothing Factory Mr Bull-'ck hat a tenant view. The tenant was Mrß n(|nington, a son ot MrF. BonniDgton, of Ashburton, and nephew of Mr George Bonnington, the well-known Christchurch chemist a' d druggist,' in whose establishment.Mr H. E. Bmnington had a pratical experience extending over twelve yeirg. The new shop has been handsomely fitted up wit'i everything necessary to the carrying o.i of a first'class business -, but white the convenience of the fittings for the despatch of business promptly and at the the same time with thecertbinty ot accuracy —so great a point in dispeuSary work—has been carefuly seen to, attractiveness to. the customer has not been neglected, and the 3hop fixtures in polished cedar, handsomely carved, and tastefully arranged present really a pretty sight to the visitor. We wish Mr Bonnington every success in his new undertaking.

Mr J. A. X. Beidle, general manager for the Dresden Piano Company, having a kindly eye to Ashburton as a musical district, has established an agency in Ash^urton, the premises chosen being Mr H. A. Gates' School of Music, which has been stocked largely with pianos of the high class quality manufactured by the Dresden. Iv addition to their excellent tone and substantial construction —the latter quality in view of carriage to and use in the country— the instruments, in their highly ornate cases of polished wain at, make beautiful articles of furniture. A fresh buite of rooms have been included in the business premises of the School of Music, and have been stocked with music and musical accessories, so that violin and other string players, and players of brass and wood instruments, whether pipe cr reed, can be taken out of a difficulty very easily. Mr Gates is agent and manager for the Company in this district, and will carry on theY business as well a« his own, undertaking repairs of all kinds of musical instruments, and the general work of musical teaching. The arrangement of the premises is such that, while ample room for the display of new instruments and stock generally has -been secured, a room devoted to repairing work, and another for private tuition, the main room, so familiar to Ashburton vocalists, etc., as the School of Music, will be kept intact for its own proper purposes.

A special meeting of the Sydenham Prohibition League was held on Friday evening. The present position of affairs was fully discussed, and the future course of action, so far as the Prohibition Party i 3 concerned, was largely decided upon. The following resolution was carried unanimously :—"This full ir.eetiug of the Committee of the ByJenham Prohibition League desirea to express its profound sympathy with the Rev L. M. Isitt and Messrs Beattie, Hopper and Smith in view of the Appeal Court decision, and records its ccnviction, founded upon a much more intimate knowledge of those gentlemen and of the requirements of the Sydenham Licensing District than can be possessed by their Honors the Judges, that those gentlemen have acted throughout with the utmost integrity and good faith," CotEMANR AND SO.r EtICALYPTB Extjuct is the only genuine in the market, and was a warded medals and diplomas at Sydney, Melbourne,and Adelaide, beating all competitors. For all affections of the Chest and Lun^s,. Consumption, Asthma, Coughs, Cold?, Oavel, and Kidney Complaints, it has no equal. AgenU—ASHBHUTON P«ttTG COY* 1 r*