SHIPPING.

PORT OP LYTTELTON. L K Arrived. , _ Yesterday. Prince Alfred, brigantine, from Wel lington. V Lucy James, ketch, from Foxton. Richard and Mary, schooner, from ;■ Anahau. I? • To-day. Wakatipu, s.s., from the South. a. a., from Kaikoura. Sailed. i, '/ Yesterday. Penguin) '"b.s., ’ for Wellington and Roi ifa lllll - ■■ Annie Hill, for Bluff. duv-achaoner, for Waitapu. To-day. for Sydney, via Wei- J 1 ngtoa. , t . , ■ - ,-T'. SHIPPING TELEGRAMS. :• w ‘ RbskELL, Yesterday. A Arrived Rotomaharia", s.s., from Sydnev, : Bntb tbirty-rane saloon and forty steerage passengers and a cargo of mera&hdlse. : v ‘ .. ~ Melbourne, Yesterday. Sallbd—-Rmgafopma, for the Bluff. Melbourne, To-day. Axnyed~Te Anau, a,s., from the Bluff. P. s.s. Hydaspea, with . the fhward Suez mails, dated London, Deolffi6ef*ll''

MAIL NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, for the following places (subject to necessary alterations) as under:— Thursday, January 13. For Otago, peri Hawea, at 11.15 a.m.; late fee letters, 11.30 a.m.; guard’s van, 12 noon train. ' For Northern Ports, per Albion, at 1.40 ft HR late fee letters, at 2 p.m. ; guarcUs van, 2'. 30 p.m. train. Mails close at the Ashburton Post Office, as follows; For Christchurch and North at 5.30 a. m. 10 a.m., and 5 p.m., daily. For Chertsey Rakaia, &c., at 10 a.m. and 5 p.-ttJi daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Winslow, Hinds, Coldstream/‘Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, and Geraldine, at 10 a.ra. daily. For Tetnuka, at 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., daily. For Tiritaru and South, at 6 a.m., 10 a.m., and 4.20 p.m., daily. For Greenstreet, Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 10.30 am. For Ashton, Waterton and Longbeach, at 4.30 p.m. daily. ’ For Wakanui, Elgin, Seafield, New land, and Kyle) on Tuesdays, Thursdays,’ and Saturdays, at 6 a. m. Mails arrive at the Ashburton Post Office — From Christchurch and Rakaia at 10.25 a.m., 4.35 p.m., and 7.50 p.m. From Chertsey, &c. at 10,25 a.m. daily. From Dunedin and intermediate places at 5.35jp.m, daily. Fn*tri Tetnuka and Thnaru at 10.15 a. m. 5.35 p.m., and 8.15 p.m. daily. From Greenstreet, : Ashburton Forks, Mount Somers, and Ashburton Gorge on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 p.m. From Ashton, Waterton, and Long beach at 10a.m. daily. From Elgin, Wakanui, Seafield, New land, and Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sa;tecd#ys r at A p.m.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

, | f | JPJQTIQN SALES. ' Saturday, January 15. Mr. T. Bullock, at his Rooms, East street --Standing Crops. Two o’clock. Mr. 'Alfred 'Harrisori, at his Yards— Hotees 1 , Buggy, flatness,'Piano, Sewing Machine, Furniture, &c. 12 o’clock, v Tuesday, January 18., Robert Wilkin .and C 0..,. Tinwald r Yards—. Merino Ewes. MEETINGS, AMUSEMENTS, &c. To-Night, Wednesday, January 12. Local Industries. Association—Meeting, Upper Room <>f Town Hall, 8 p. m. Saturday, January 15. Meeting of. Ticket-holders between the Nos. 1,226 and 1,250 in Cameron’s Consultation.bn the Champion Race, 'at the Aahbqrtop Hotel, at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, January 19. Ashburton Town HaR Company, Meeting of Shareholders, Town Hall, at 8 p.m. ' Monday, January 24. Borough" Council, at. Borough Council Chambers, 5 at ? o’clock. .. February 2. County'Council, at the County Council Chambers, at 11 o’clock.

TRAVELLERS’ GUIDE.

Trains Leave Ashburton for Christ church and intermediate stations at 6 a.m,,, 1£),30 a.m., and (Express) 5.48 p.m. Trains Leave . Ashburton for Timaru anl) South, at 7 a.m., 10.36 a, m. (Ex press), and 4150 p.m. latter pro ceeding no fartlierthan Timaru. Trains :Arbxvbat . Ashburton from Christchurch at 10 24 a. m. (Express), d-Sg-jAm,, wid,.7-50. p.m. * Trains Arrive ~at , Ashburton from Timaru and South at 10.15 a. m., 5.34 p.m. (Express); and 8.15 p.m.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

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The Ashburton Guardian. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1881. The Education Board.

TOWN EDITION. [lssued at 5 p.m.]

School Committees are just now re quired to nominate gentlemen for the vacancies that occur in ordinary course on the Education Board of South Can terbury, and also for a vacancy that the death of Mr. A. Duncan has caused. At the meeting of the Ashburton School Committee last night it was pointed out that this county had really no representative on the Board at all, and with a view to having a member who would lake a special interest in educational matters in this county, the Committee decided if possible to obtain the consent to nomination of Alfred Saunders, Esq., M. H.R., whose well-known lively interest in all matters appertaining to education, and his connection with Ashburton, made him a very desirable “ friend in Court” to have upon the Board. Mr. Ward, the Secretary, spoke very highly of the value Mr. Saunders’ services had been to this county while, in past years, he ivas a member of the Board of Education, and it was remarked that, when the number of School Committees within the county was considered, there would be no difficulty in securing Mr. Saunders’ election, il the Committees were un animous. We believe it only wants to be pomted out to the Ashburton Com mittees that this district is without a representative at the Board, and that most of the members of it are Christ church gentlemen, to bring about the election of one member at least who shall be acquainted with the wants and wishes of the county, the votes of whose Committees returned him. We believe that most of the School Com mittees are satisfied of Mr. Saunders’ peculiar fitness for the position the Ashburton Committee desire him to fill, and it is to be hoped he will see his way to give his consent to nomina tion. There are few men in the county who can afford the time demanded of a Board member, but there are none who have been so closely con nected with the educational his tory of the colony, as has been Mr. Alfred Saunders. En passant, we might remark that the Nelson Educa tion Act has been the model for most of the Provincial Education Acts in New Zealand, and the existing general Act incorporates all the good points of the Nelson measure, of which Mr. Saunders was the originator, so that we are not giving him too much credit when we call him the father of the education policy of the colony. It must be grati fying to the old advocate of a free and liberal education to look back upon the bitter opposition his Nelson measure met in certain quarters, and find its main provisions to-day the law of the land, while the Hon. William Fox spoke of the old Provincial Act as the most perfect Education measure he had ever seen. Time, of course, has altered the colony’s circumstances, and rendered obsolete many of the pro visions of the Nelson measure, but the main principles of it still survive in the system now in use throughout the colon v.

A Reprieve.— The sentence of death passed on Te Warepa, the Chatham Is land murderer, has been commuted to im prisonment for life. Slightly Overdrawn. —The Dunedin municipal account is now overdrawn at the Bank of New Zealand to the amount of L 10,039 ss. Bd. South Rakaia School Committee. — The ordinary monthly meeting of the South Rakaia School Committee was held last evening. Present—Messrs. C. Tucker (chairman), W. Hartnell, W. Cox, J. N. Sharp, G. Shellock, and N. Welsh. The minutes of the former meeting were read and confirmed. Amongst other correspon dence, a letter was read from the Board of Education, informing the Committee that the Board had decided to make a grant for the enlargement of this school, out of, the ' amount set apart for school buildings during the present financial year. It was icsolved that this Com mittee support the action taken by the Leeston School Committee, recommend ing the Board to import school books and sell them to the children at prime cost. The chairman 1 brought up a balance-sheet for the year, duly audited, as well as a report to 1 be read at the forthcoming annual election of school committees. It was resolved that the balance sheet be ap proved.

Burglaries in Ashburton. Several burglaries that have taken place in this district, within the last week or so, have been reported to us, and it would be as well, perhaps, were settlers, who have occasion to leave their homes for a short time,' to leave someone in charge, or at least to be careful to lock up securely and also to put away safely such valuables as they have about. On Thursday last, the house of Mr. T. Simpson, Beach road, was entered in the temporary absence of the occupants, and some seven or eight shillings in money and a watch were stolen, The same afternoon, the house of Mb Win. Jameson, about two miles further on, was also visited, and about 355. in money, and other articles carried off. On Saturday, during Mr. G. T. Smith’s absence from his house at the'- nursery garden, Smithfield road, a burglar entered the house, and lifted a watch and some money. On Saturday week a theft of nine or ten pairs of blankets and some other articles was made from a house on the Alford Forest road. ■ In this case also there was no one at homo, and in all the canes we have ! mentioned entrance was gained through the windows. We learn, too, that the Ashburton school was entered on the 2nd instant, a cupboard broken open, and three out of the twenty-four prize books that were in it, taken away. No great Importance is attached to the last named .case, as it is believed that with the return f rf the .'teachers froin their holidays' it can be explained, but the other cases show that there are altogether too many dangerous characters about,and it would be weli for people to be on their guard. As yet no one has been apprehended as being con nected with the depredations, but the police are on thb look but, * : ■ w • ■ ■ * ■' ■

Stung to DEATH;—,&|hQrse was Hung to death by bees at Watigatlni recently, a swarm having settled bp his tail.

Election for Nelson Suburbs.— The Suburbs Election resulted in.the return of Mr. A. S. Collins by a majority of 30 ; the numbers polled being—Collins, 180, Har ley, 150. The Bible jn Schools. —At the g't ting of the Presbyterian Synod of Otagi and Southland, which commenced yesterday, notice of motion was given that Parliament be petitioned to re-intioduce Bible reading in schools. Predestrianism. —Mr. Richardsnr, of the Empire Hotel, has received L£ each from Fagan, of Christchurch, and G’oves, of Ashburton, as a deposit towards x mile race to take place in Hagley Park c a the 18th instant.

Wellington Diocese. —-At the usual monthly meeting of the Standing Com mittee of the Wellington Diocese, held last Thursday, the Bishop announced that the Rev. W. E. Paige had accepted the appointment to St. Matthew’s, Masi erton, and had been appointed accordingly. Tinwald. -—We notice that Mr.; Jephson, of the Tinwald store, has re organised his establishment, and has started a sort of harvest labor registry, and will be ready to supply such informa tion, as his wide connection south of the river puti him in possession of regarding harvest work, to men who apply b him for it. Mr. Jephson runs his stm-i cart all over the district every week ant; there is no one in a better position than ao for snowing where men are wanted.

The Union Steamship Company and their Employees. —At Dunedin yester day, the Wakatipu’s firemen wou’d not sio-n articles unless the Melbourne Union rules were introduced. The Union Com pany refused, and advertisi d foi men, when over a hundred able-bodied inen offered. Should any further res dance be attempted, the company statu that they will discharge all the Union men throughout the service, and take on un skilled men from the ranks of the unem ployed. A Hard Nut. Jeremiah Connor measures five feet in his stockings, but when tight, he fancies himself a giant, and equal to tackling a man of Constable Trevelyan’s stalwart proportions. _ Last night, Jerry had taken more of the “ crater ” than his five feet of humanity could absorb without affecting his brain, and bringing on his customary hallucina tion as to his fighting powers. In Moore street, he fancied he would like to get “ hoult” of a big Englishman—a Pro testant, if possible—and in yelling out his challenge, he was neither choice in his expressions, nor measured in his threats. He threatened to sail into Constable Trevelyan, when that officer appeared, and before the valiant Jerry could be per suaded to waltz down to the lock-up, Constable Neill had to come and lend the strongly persuasive aid of his powerful right arm; -.Quietness reigned in Moore street after Jerry left, but quietness did not settle on the lock up till Jerry slept. With the dawn came repentance, and when the valiant five-footer entered the judicial confessional this morning, he had to accept a penance of seventy-two hours’ hard toil at such weeding and shingling as can be provided for him round the hostelry of Host Felton.

Reapers and Binders. —ln tho past one great annoyance to tho fanner in this county has been the difficulty in finding men well enough acquainted with the American reapers and binders to be able satisfactorily to repair the breakages that will occur do what you may. ■ It has often happened that a machine after having been taken many miles for repairs and brought back again to the farm, no sooner commenced work than if gave way again, perhaps in some other place, and the farmer had just as often as hot to depend on the engineering skill that was available on his own farm for the coopering-up his machines wanted. This state of affairs, we are now happy to say, has been altered by the settlement amongst us of, Messrs. Dunn and Ray, who occupy the old foundry in the Wakanui road. These gentlemen are reaper and binder special ists, .and having become experts in their particular line of business, they selected a part of the country where their services were most likely to be wanted. The district has not been slow to recognise their usefulness, and for the last three months or so tho machines of many thoughtful and thrifty fanners ciowdod the yards of Messrs. Dunn and Ray, waiting to be overhauled. The block has now been almost got over, and the most of the machines have had their wounds healed and their ailments cured, and will be in a day or two, if they are not already, cutting into the marrow of grain crops. The firm of experts seem to tackle every kind of work in connection with reapers, supplying all needful parts, in iron and wood,and wesawtwomachinesthathad been sold for LSO each only a short; time ago, which machines, when they came under the hands of Messrs. Dunn and Ray, would have been thought highly overpaid at L 5 each. But skilful treat ment has so resurrectioned them that they are reaping and binding as gamely and as efficiently as new machines. We expect, in a short time, to see the old foundry become a factory of no small importance, as it is evident that the experts have already gained the fanners’ confidence, and have their hands quite full of work.

School Committee. -- The usual monthly meeting of the School Committee was held last evening. Present—Dr. Stewart (Chairman), and Messrs. Boyle, Orr, St. Hill, and Andrews. Correspon dence was read from Mr. E. G. Wright, M.H.R., enclosing L 3 3s. towards the children’s treat. Mr. Wright said he would have had greater pleasure in for warding LlO to defray the cost of an excursion to: Lagmohr or any other suit able place by railway, which he believed would have been more conducive to the children’s enjoyment. , The .Secretary said he had acknowledged the letter in the Chairman’s name, with thanks. A circular was read from the Board ef Edu cation, asking the Committee to appoint two persons to fill three vacancies in the Board, caused by the expiry of the terms of service of the Rev. C. Fraser, and Messrs. Stevens, and J. Inglis, and also one gentle man for the extraordinary vacancy caused by the death of Mr. A. Duncan. On a vote being taken, the Rev. Mr. Fraser and Mr. Inglis were nominated for the ordinary vacancies, and it was resolved to write to Mr. Alfred asking .hia consent to- benHßnated for the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. A. Duncan. Another circular required the forwarding of a statement of all furni ture, <&c., in the school, and another requested a return of the Maori and half cast scholars. Mr. Ward undertook to see the returns forwarded. A farther cir cular required the auditing, of ihftjpom mittee’s accounts, and the’ forwarding of the auditor’s report to the Boafd. * Mr. Boyle was appointed auditor. Several accounts against the Committee Here passed for payment, and a clearing up of. accounts against the treat took place, but. with the subscriptions promised. tMt still uncollected, it was 'understood' tlmre would be no deficit. For the appoint ment of third mistress to the school, there was only one applicant—Miss, Dynes, Sydenham school whose . testimonials were of the very highest character. Mias Dynes’ application was accepted (subject to the approval of the Board, of Educa tion) on the motion of Mr. Sh ’■ Hill, seconded by Mr.; Orr. The meeting was then adjourned till' the 24th instant, at 6 30 p.m., but it was left in the Chair- hands to call a special meeting in the interval, if necessary. . -j 1 i

The Old Men’s Home. —The master of the Old Men’s Home desires to acknow ledge, with thanks, the receipt of a parcel of clothing for the inmates from F. Foot Race.—The match between Hul ston, Chriatcurch, and Hutton, Auckland, of 100,120, and 150 yards, for L 25 a-side, came off this afternoon on the * cricket ground at Christchurch. Hulston was in excellent condition, but Hutton.was suf fering slightly from an injury to his right leg sustained at the Dunedin sports. Hutton got the best of the start each time, but Hulston won both of the first two events rather easily. yards, 10.1-ssecs.; 120 yards, 12|aecs. Fern Pens.—The Normauby Star says : —“ Wo have had forwarded to our office by Mr. W. H. MoGonagle a sample of pens made out of the common fern stalk, which are quite equal to quill pens and far more lasting, besides not having the propensity to splutter. Mr. McGonaglo informs us by letter that a pen of the de scription. he sends was .in use,and stood the test of the Sentry Hill Goods. Sheds work for a period of six months ; apd they are the only pens in .use there at the present time. Having written this para graph with,one of them, we must admit; that for quick, rough writing they are bet ter than either steel or quill pens, and for persons in,the bush should be invaluable, because they have any amount of wear in them. ~ , ' i , t ■ : New Zealand Oats.—l was conversing yesterday (writes the Home correspondent of the Otago Dally Times)': with a shipowner, who expressed his regret that/ instead of bringing oats Home from New Zealand on charter after the last harvest, they had not bought them up on specula tion and brought them Home on their own account. Referring to the cargo of a particular ship, the oats in which he said were pronounced mi all hands to be the finest which living man had ever seen here, he had taken the trouble to calculate their entire cost delivered in London, and to trace them to the Peterborough market, where, he said, they sold at a price which left a larger profit per quarter to the mer chant who shipped them than the whole price paid to the grower ! This may bo an exceptional case, but I have no doubt as to the fact. More Farming Visitors. —Another gentleman sails for New Zealand (writes a London correspondent) in a few days, to visit .and report to English farmers. His special destination, I believe, is a property of 200,000 acres, near to Nelson and Blenheim, which it is intended, if pos sible, to put into a company, and settle with English farmers. The gentleman in question is Mr. Herring, from near Wake field, in Yorkshire, where ho has a good deal of influence. He is a highly respect able man, and has written one- or two small books on English agriculture. This step has grown, I think, out of the Grant and Foster deputation, as I know that Messrs. Grant and Foster have been in frequent communication with Mr. Herring. Good must result from such a movement. Mr. Herring will bo accompanied by a son of Mr. Broomhall, Wool on Southland Railways.—There never was a year (growls the Southland News) in which wool was known to come down so slowly to the Bluff—not oven in the days when bullock-teams were the only means of transit. It would be -perfectly safe to say that for every hundred bales, of wool already shipped at the Bluff, in any preceding year there were four or five hundred. We hear that some of the country stations on the line of railway are blocked with wool—because there is'no railway labor available to load the trucks;.- Retrenchment has, in fact, been carried to the extent the Frenchman pushed his experiment of teaching the horse how to do without food. At the Otautau the only spare hand, in the shape of a porter, has been economised out of sight, and the stationmaster has been exercising his in ventive faculties for the last three weeks in devising a purchase whereby to load the top tier by himself. He hasn’t suc ceeded yet. Storm of Flies. —A' remarkable spectacle was witnessed on the Hudson Riyer, America, it being nothing .more ' ndr' less than a heavy storm of flics, similar to the one recorded in,the London Telegraph as having been' aHtiiessed at Havre a week or two ago. The steamer Martin, bound south, encountered the fly storm between New Hamburg and 'New burg. As described by the London Tele graph, it was like the Havre storm, seem ingly “ a great drift of black snow,” and it reached southward from shore to shore, as far as the eye could reach and as high up. There wera. millions upon millions of the flies, and they hurried northward as thick ,as snow-flakes driven by a strong wind. ' They lodged upon the clothing of the passengers on the -steamer, and were minutely examined. They were long and black, and had white wings, and the cloud must have been miles in length. The steamer Mary Powell ran into the fly-storm off Haverstraw, and first mate Bishop says that he never'witnessed such a sight.

The Irish Land League. —The follow ing is a full list of the Land Leaguers against Whom the British Government have ’ lodged informations :Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P., Avondale, Wick low ; John Dillon, M.P., Dublin ; Joseph Giles Biggar, M.P., Belfast ; Timothy Daniel Sullivan, M.P., Journalist, Diiblin; Thomas Sexton, M.P., Dublin; Patrick .Egan, hon. treasurer of the Land League, Clontarf ;'Thomas Brennan, secretary of the Land League, Dublin ; Malachy O’Sullivan, .assistant# jefcretagy of the Land League, Dublin ; Michael Boy ten, paid agent of the Land League, Kildare ; Patrick Joseph Gordon, of Clareraorris; Matthew Harris, Galway ; John W. Kally, Mayo ; John W. Walsh, Balia ; and P. J. Sheridan, of Tubberourry. The informa tions are exceedingly voluminous, and cover over one hundred closely-printed pages. There are nineteen counts in the indictments, and the charges are generally to defeat payment of reWhs, to prevent the letting of farms from which tenants have been evicted, and ill-will amongst her Majesty’s subjects in Ire land.

A Queer Case.— An extraordinary case was heard at Sydney recently. The em- of a .firth of undertakers was charged with the larceny. of a coffin. It appears that he received LI to bury a still-born child, and the father afterwards discovered that the corpse was interred in a common box, instead of the coffin which had been ordered and paid' for. The de fence was a curious one. The firm of Shying, Son, and Co. tried to show that in the tfanfaction in queston there had been on their part no roguery at all. The man Joseph , Calland, they said, had paid them a pound to bury a still-born child. They had done so according to established precedent, which, when ajstill-bo,rn : child is concerned, it seems, requires a coffin to be sent only for appearance’s sake, the corpse being afterwards transferred to and interred in a box ! The presiding magi strates, however/declined’ to recognise the legality. pf the, alleged “custom of the trade,” found the employd of Messrs. Shying, Son, and Co, jjuilty of larceny, and (sentenced him to .pay a fine of LI, with' the > alternative of, seven, days’ im prisonment.' , • ■ ;the change of seasons many persons feel" oppressed without knowing why -they are so—they are aware something within them is wrong, though they cannot detect the defected organ. -A few doses Of these powerfully purifying and eminently cooling Pills will restore reguldiiiy to every part of the .system —will cast out.all impurities lurking in the frame, and' Will throroughly expel the last traces of disorder, however obscure its cause. .With Holloway’s'.medicine, belief is insured without risk ; erroneous action is rectified without disturbing natural regularity, health is re-mstated, and with it return the cheerful feelings which unmistakably tell the invalid that all whhhi is right again.

CABLE NEWS.

LATEST PROM EUROPE-

• (Per Reuter's Ageiicy.) . The Indian Command. London, Jan. li lt is officially announced that Lieut. General Sir Donald Stewart, who com manded the British army in Cabul will shortly succeed General Sir Frederick Haines as Commander-in-chief in India. . An Intended Massacre- Bombay, Jan. 11. News has been received here that a plot has been discovered among the Natives of Kolapore, a town in the south of this presidency, to assassinate all European residents in the place. Owing to the detection of the con spiracy danger was averted, and a number of arrests have been made of the would-be assassins. The French Municipal Elections. ; Paris, Jan. 11. The French municipal elections, which have just concluded, show a considerable majority to the republi cans. • A Delayed Marriage. , Vienna, Jan. 10. The marriage which was arranged to take place next month between the .Grown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, and the Princess Stephanie, has been postponed.

AUSTRALIAN

.' {Per Renter's Agency.) Fire and Supposed Loss of Life. Sydney, To-day. The business premises of Beckett, an American importer in. Barrack street, were totally destroyed by fire last night. All efforts to subdue the flames were fruitless, and Mr. Beckett, who ordinarily slept on the premises, as he cannot now be heard of, is feared to have perished in the fire. Wool and Grain. Melbourne, Jan. 10. Sir Samuel Wilson takes the cham pion prize for wool at the Exhibition. The show of grain and agricultural produce at the Exhibition opens on the 23rd February. Delegates for the Conference. Jan. 11. Tire South Australian, West Aus tralian, Tasmanian, and Victorian dele gates to the Intercolonial Conference leave Melbourne to-morrow for Sydney. The Hereford a Total Wreck. Melbourne, To-day. All hope of saving the Hereford has been abandoned. There are now thirteen feet of water in her hold. The Australian Cricketers. The Australian cricketers were pas sengers for New Zealand by the Ringa rooma, which sailed yesterday. The Late Massacre. CookxowN, Jan. 6. Further news to hand confirms the information received yesterday of the massacre of the Chinese crew of the schooner Prosperity ‘ by the natives of Lowde Island, and states that the bodies were smoke dried, and the heads sent to- the various villiages.

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association.) The Row About the Circus. Auckland, To-day. The Supreme Court to-day, refused to allow costs to Albert Park, who took an injunction against the Corporation' to re strain Cole’s circus from performing on the Albert Reserve. The New Zealand Insurance Company. At the fortieth half-yearly meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company to day, the Directors’ report for the half year ended, November 30, 1880, showed that after making provision for all ascer tained uses, and carrying LIO,OOO to the reserve .fund, now stands, at LI 50,000, there remains a sum of L 21,, 87 2s. 3d. for division, which the directors propose to be appro priated as follows : —Dividend at the late of 15 per cent, per annum, L 15,000 ; balance carried forward, L 6,797. The Mail Steamer. There is no sign as yet of the mail steamer. Mr. Ivess Again Sells Out. Mr. C. O. Montrose has concluded ne gotions for the purchase of the Waikato Mail, published at Cambridge.

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND.

A Fenian Rising Feared. Intended Raids on the Volunteer Armories. (By Cable ) London, Jan. 11. The rumors which were current last week of intended Fenian raids on the volunteers armories are renewed, and are again receiving the attention of the authorities. Reports now received, point to the possibility of attacks on the military establishments at Gosport and Chester Castle, and extensive pre cautions are being taken at both places to withstand any assault.

CORRESPONDENCE.

W e do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

WHAT IS THE USE OF THE HOSPITAL?

(To the Editor. ) Sir, —I was sent for this morning to see a young, man who is -suffering from con sumption. For many weeks he has been almost in a helpless condition, his mother is dead, .and his father has been unfor tunate (though a hard-working man), and is now very poor ; consequently the young man has been necessitated to seek refuge in the home of his married sister, who lives in a small two-roomed cottage. She has a number of children, and her hus band is unwell and out of work. I en quired why he was not in the hospital, and they informed me that he was very desirous to go there, but one of our medi cal gentleman had told him he could do him no good, and he could not be ad mitted in the hospital without paying LI per week. Now, sir, his friends cannot possibly afford to pay that sum, and I should like to know why this sick man should be pre vented from receiving the benefit of .an institution, which is solely ’ supported by public moneys, simply because of his poverty. His life is rapidly wasting away in a cerafartless cottage, and his relatives are compelled to suffer the pain of watch ing him .die-In extreme poverty, while they lack the means to administer relief. — I am> &0.. . A. J. Smith.

LATE CABLEGRAMS.

♦ ■ (From Australian papers per-the Roto mahana at Bussell.) The Irish Trouble. London, Jan. 2. It is probable that the trial of the Land Leaguers will not terminate before the opening of Parliament.on the 6th irstant. Parnell announced the intention of him self and other members now on trial to attend their places in the House of Com mons. Latest accounts from Ireland report all quiet at Dublin, but at Drogheda the River Boyne meeting of the Land Leaguers was dispersed. It is rumoured that the Government intend to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland at a Cabinet meet ing to be held on Tuesday. J an, 3.

Another murder committed at Cork is traceable to Fenian influence. The murderer has not been arrested. Tu multuous proceedings have taken place at Kenturk, County Limerick, and Tuam in Galway. The populace in those towns are greatly excited, and serious collisions" have occurred between the police and the Leaguers. A great roll up of Land Leaguers took place at Loughrea, County Galway, yes terday, fully 30,000 were present, and the daily increase of members is estimated at 600. The course they intend to take is watched with anxiety. The Fenian scare occasioned great excitement at Liver pool, and the volunteers are placed under arms. The trial of the Land Leaguers now | proceeding is absorbing public attention. The Attorney-General quoted from a speech delivered by OkShaiiassy, and shorthand reporters have sworn to the utterances of Sullivan and Biggar. Captain Burnaby, whose celebrated ride to Khiva has rendered his name famous,' entertained Captain Boycott at a splendid fg'e, in recognition of his manly anti fear less stand made against the demands of the Irish Land Leaguers. The fete was largely attended, and was a brilliant affair. The Basuto War. London, Jan. 2. Advices have been received of an en sragemont between the colonial troops and a large force of Tambookics and allies, Basutos. The colonials achieved a com plete victory, the enemy being repulsed, with a loss of eighty killed. The colonial troops captured 13,000 head of cattle be longing to the rebels. A, movement lias commenced in favor of obtaining the independence of the Trans vaal in South Africa, and a petition is being extensively signed by the Dutch re sidents of South Africa, praying the British Government to relinquish posses sion of that portion of the territory in South Africa, and declare it an indepen dent state Agitation in favor of ibis course is spreading, being taken up in earnest by the Dutch. Intelligence has been received from the Cape to the effect that the Boers have proclaimed independence, and elected a triumvirate to administer the Govern ment. The Dutch forces that occupied Utrecht quietly abandoned the town. There is considerable excitement at Natal owing to the revolutionary proceedings of the Boers.

Jan. 3. It has transpired that emissaries of the rebellious Boers have been despatched to the Orange Free States with the object of influencing the Native tribes and Dutch residents there against the British autho rity in the Transvaal. In consequence of the serious character of the news to hand daily from the Trans vaal, orders have been sent by the Home Government to India for the despatch of a further contingent of troops, which leave for Natal with the least possible delay. Durban, Jan, 4 The rebellion of the Boers is daily acquiring increased importance. . In view of the fact that the colonial troops in the .Transvaal are unable to undertake active operations against them pending the arrival of reinforcements now en route to this place, the rebels have assumed offen sive operations, and have despatched all their available forces to.the South. The recent interruption of communication is attributed to their having advanced, and they have to-day entered the province of Natal and taken up a position in the direct route to the Transvaal. The object of this move is to intercept and oppose the advance of the troops that left here and prevent their effecting a junction with the garrisons at Anderson and Wachter stroom. The Turko-Grecian Question. Constantinople, Jan. 2.

The announcement already made that the Porte refused to submit the Greek frontier question to the arbitration of the Powers is fully confirmed Fresh proposals have been made by the Turkish Government tor the settlement of the Greek frontier difficulty, to the effect that a conference of representatives of all the Great Powers should be held here at an early date, that the Greek Government should be invited to send delegates, and that the conference should be empowered to finally settle the question at issue. London, Jan. 2.

A hundred thousand Turkish troops are massed on the Turko-Greek frontier ready for action in case Greece declares war. The Turko-Grook frontier difficulty is causing uneasiness throughout Europe. Arbitration on the part of the Great Powers is now considered impossible. January 3.

A general belief is prevalent that any attempt made by the European Powers to bring about an understanding between the Turkish and Greek Governments will fail. Even in well-informed circles a favorable result is not expected. The strained feeling between Turkey and Greece continues to eauso uneasiness in Europe, and is occupying the serious attention of the various Great European Pow'ors, with the exception of Germany, which remains steadfast. They desire to bring about the settlement of the dispute by means of arbitration. The unfriendly feeling between the Vatican and France over the expulsion of the religious orders is modified, and official relations between the Pope and the French Government have been renewed. A considerable .amount of diplomacy has taken place, and the result of a better understanding has been arrived at. The Pope’s legate re mains in Paris. J an. 4. An active interchange of communica tion is going on between the European Powers bn the subject of the unsettled claims of Greece, and the difficulties raised by Tux-key regarding the frontier. It is understood that the Powers are urging upon Greece and Turkey the desirableness of jointly agreeing to refer the unsettled question to the arbitration of the European Powers, as proposed a short time since by the British Govern ment. No support is at present given to the Turkish proposal for another con ference.

The Sculling Championship. London, Jan. 3. - The forthcoming match for the World’s Sculling Championship takes place on 17th inst., between Laycock and Hanlan, and is exciting great interest in sporting circles. Hanlan is a strong favorite. Lay cock rows with shortened sculls, an altera tion which suits • his style of sculling. Hanlan is in an improved condition, and in his exercises practises some of Lay cock’s manoeuvres. Ho regards Laycock as superior to Ross. Wallace Ross, the American oarsman, has gone to Dublin. Prosperity The.lmperial revenue returns shows a satisfactory increase in the receipts, esti mated for the past nine months, over ex penditure of two millions.

Another Theory Busted.

A widow who was going to leave th e city held an auction of her household effects recently, and everything went at prompt sale until little but the bed stead was left. Just before this was put up some of the women went to spying around, and discovered that it was infested by bed-bugs. This fact was noised around until it came to the ears of the auctioneer, who mounted his box and said :

“ Words cannot express the poig nancy of ray sorrow over the base canard which has been put in circula tion in this crowd. I have sold goods jn this town for twenty-nine long years, and this is the first instance in which bugs have been permitted to step be tween me and the purchasing public. Ladies and gentlemen, if there is a bug in or about that bedstead I want ■to sec him. I cannot and will not be lieve there is. It would be a slander — a most foul slander —on the character of this worthy widow, who is about to re move to the State of Ohio.”

Being invited to step down and view the bugs for himself, he made an in spection. They were there. They were galloping in and out and up and down, and it was no use to dispute the fact.

“ Ladies and gentlemen,” said the auctioneer, as he resumed his post, “ I found, bugs.. . I, clo.n’t exactly; remember the Latin name for them, but they are there. And now let me talk to you as a friend. Bedbugs were not made for gaudy show, nor were they made for a life of ease. It is a law of nature that they should inhabit bedsteads. They can no more go under the bam and make a living than a dog can become an eagle and float through space. The aversion among you to this insect is founded on false principles. His bite scarcely irritates the sleeper, but it cleanses and purifies the blood. But for the bedbugs of this country we should all have boils and carbuncles. They keep down warts. They cause moles to disappear. Give them a chance and they would remove corns without pain. The great ,” “ Fifty cents !” called an old woman, who remembered that she had a remedy at home.

“ Fifty cents! lam offered 50 cents for a rodol. bedstead, and as I was going to say, the great Napoleon always asked for a bed with bugs in it. lam offered 50 cents, and yet Caesar had his bugs. lam ” “ One dollar.”

“ I am offered one dollar, and yet the poets of Greece immortalised the insects before you. This widow tells me that she has not had an ache or a pain since the first bug made his ap pearance. How many of you have read what Homer wrote of them ? What was the fountain of Mozart’s Twelfth Mass? And yet I—-” “ Two dollars.”

“And yell hear only two dollars! Do you have headache ? Are you afflicted with giddiness ? Do you have roaring in the ears ?” “ Three dollars !”

“ My friends, let me go home and get my copy of Paradise Lost, and read to you one short chapter. IVhat did Milton ?” “ Four dollars 1”

, “ Ah !” I begin to see that art and culture are not unknown to the audience. Did Alexander the Great have boils ? Never, not a one ! And why ?”

“ Five dollars !” “ I am bid five dollars. I would like to quote one verse from a well-known Latin poet, but time presses, and this bedstead, is sold for five dollars, cash on the nail. I will now direct your cultured attention to that cookstove with a cracked oven.”

A Valuable Invention.

“ There is something like excitement in medical circles just now,” writes the London correspondent of a Scotch paper received by the last mail, “in regard to the announcement of what appear to be startling disclosures by French physicians. A short time since M. Pasteni, an eminent physiologist in Paris, gave out as his belief that the day would come when almost all epi demic disease might be prevented by inoculation in the same manner that smallpox is prevented by vaccination. He had already succeeded in proving that the principle might be advantage ously applied to fowls, to protect them from the species of cholera to which they are subject. Now Professor Tous sant announces that he has discovered the means of saving sheep and cattle from the terrible effects of the foot-and mouth disease, which yearly destroys so large a number of animals. His mode of procedure is to take some blood from an animal which has died of the same disease, and simply to defibrine it by means of heat, end this done, to inoculate sheep several times with it, and the animals are unable to contract the malady. The only question which remains is as to whether the good effects continue for any length of time, and we may safely suppose that the in oculation operates as a safeguard as long in the animal as in the man. Several French physicians are now pur suing similar investigations on a large scale. They believe that a new era is about to dawn, in which all contagious diseases may have preventives.” tzaftf^awaapaa—na—an——an— mmm

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1881.



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The Auckland Stabbing Case—o. B. King, foreman of Austin’s boot factory, who ; was stabbed by the apprentice, Hugh Storey, while chastising him for miscon duct, was charged with, unlawful assault. The evidence.. showed that Austin dele gated such authority to the foreman, but the Magistrate held that he could not do sd.'and fitted King Wai, hnd L3 7s. Storey awaits* liis trial at’thA-crimihal sit tings for stabbing King.



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Meetings- I i H’f \j Local industries assooia- •\\ TION. ! This Evening. A MEETING of the above will bo ri held in Upper Room of Town Hall, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th, at 8 p.m. . It is requested that members will be prepared with all available information in respect of industries they are appointed to report upon. S. E. POYNTZ, 1 ' 890 Hon. Sec. O T I O E. A Meeting of those holding tickets, be*,. tween Nos. 1,226 and 1,250, on the Mel* r bourne Champion Race (Cameron’s Con sultation), will be held at the Ashburton Hotel, on SATURDAY evening, the 15th inst., at 7.30 p. m., when profits -.will'; b*.' : divided. DUNCAN M'KENZIE, 907 .. Agent. ASHBURTON TOWN HALL COM PANY. An EXTRAORDINARY' GENERAL / MEETING of the Shareholders of the above Company is hereby convened to be held at the Town Hall, Ashburton,. on - WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of January, 1881, at 8 o’clock in the evening, for the purpose of passing a J special resolution \ authorising the Directors of the above Company to borrow, ou security of the property of the Company, the sum of £1,600. Dated this 11th day of January, 1881. By order of the Directors, THOS. BOLLOCK, ; 906 Chairman of Directors.^ Public' Notices. ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Second Annual Show. SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1881. JNTENDING EXHIBITORS:areW quested to take notice that full Catalogues - and Prize Lists, and all particulars, can bo obtained at my office, or of any member of the Committee. Members and persons desirous of join ing are requested to pay their annual sub scription at ray office at as early a date as possible. 891 S, E, POYNTZ, Hon. Sec. FARMERS ! FARMERS! FARMERS J R. McKERROW AND 00., RE Cash Purchasers of Wool, Grain, and all kinds of Farm Produce, and ait*, also prepared to make Liberal CASH |- ADVANCES on the above placed in their hands either for sale or shipment’ totha 1 ’ English or Colonial Markets. ■' Li.s'i A Large Stock of Oomsacks, Wool.'* 1 packs, &c., for sale at lowest current * pneos. .1' R. .& ! ! [ ) GRAIN ME R C HANTS* A A 0 I A RAKAIA, .-tvidair. o.toviaaH