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The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et revalebit. TUESDAY. JUNE 5, 1883.

The Governor returned to Wellington at four o’clock yesterday afternoon. The annual general meeting of the Ash burton Racing Club will be held at Quill’s Hotel this evening. The Auckland Education Board have commenced the experiment of a practising school with fifty children in Wellesley street East School. The master of the Ashburton Home desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of a parcel of illustrated papers from Miss Steene, also a parcel of “ Sun day at Home” and “The New Zealan der ” from Mr T. Zouch, for the use of the inmates..

There have been a series of rowdy meetings of the South Dunedin Borough Council about gas contracts. Last night, when the Mayor wished to strike out the minutes of the special meet ing which had been held, there was almost a Tree fight for the possession of the book. The table was upset. The ratepayers present inter fered, and things were lively. Two constables, however, were in waiting, and quelled the disturbance.

The Auckland Agricultural Company are cutting up Horahoi, Tekau, Okoroiro, and other blocks, and will divide 40,000 acres in' o suitably sized sections for in tending settlers. Mr Thomas Rnssell has undertaken to float them in the market at home on his return.

Yesterday was the dajt fixed for the an nual me-ting of ratepayers in the Long beach District, but as only two people put in an appearance it had to be postponed. It may be mentioned here that Mr Gil mour has been elected the representative of No 2 Ward on the Longbeach Road Board, the only other candidate nomi nated, Mr 0. T. Dudley, not being on the ratepayers’ roll. Jacob Monteith, a chemist of Welling ton, is about to be proceeded against by the police for a breach of the Dangerous Goods Act. It is alleged that a few days ago Mr Monteith forwarded a box of chemicals to the Queen’s Wharf for ship ment by the steamer Hauraki. As the case was being taken on board the con tents exploded, and great consternation was created by the occurrence. The box, it is stated, was not marked in the manner provided by law, and hence the proceed ings.

A well attended meeting of the Debat ing Society was held in the Arcade Chambers last night, and a very pleasant evening was spent. The subject for dis cussion, “ Should the Land be National ised,” being well opened by Mr Hughes in the affirmative, the President (Mr Hogg) following in the negative. A capi tal argument ensued, most of the mem bers taking part, and on being put to the vote Mr Hughes secured a majority. Several new members wore proposed, and the meeting then adjourned. The Kaiapoi correspondent of the Christ hurch Press telegraphs as follows : —“ Two men, giving the names of W. Griffiths and Frederick Smith, stuck up a house in Black street last evening, and announced that they were the rest of the Kelly Gang. The owner of the premises was equal to the occasion. The men were each fined 10a to-day for being drunk, and 20s respectively for using obscene lan guage. Serious complaints are being made of the amount of drinking which is allowed to go on in Kaiapoi every Sun day.” Eli Thomas and Joseph Stra abridge, farmers, at.Waitaheke, who were arrested on suspicion of being connected with re cent robberies of drapery and boots, were brought before the Magistrates at Carter ton yesterday. Detective Chrystall asked for a remand. There is property in their hands believed to have been stolen, the ownership of which has not been ascer tained . Other portions of it have been identified as having been stolen. The prisoners were remanded till to-morrow. Bail was allowed to the amount of L6OO.

A woman, who is not yet fully identi fied, was found dead on a boulder bank near Wakapuaka Bluff on Saturday after' noon. The woman in question has been staying at the North Hotel, Nelson, for ten days, and on Friday she went for a walk. The following day she was found below high water mark with a bruise on the top of her head, and her face was bruised, there being blood on the boul ders beneath her face. Her hat and jacket were found beneath a tree 300 yards distant, and a pocket of her dress was inside out. Her purse, however, was found at the hotel. It is thought to be a case of suicide. The Town Hall was crowded last even ing, when Rainer’s panorama of the American war was exhibited for the first time in Ashburton. The pictures, which are admirably executed, depict the prin cipal incidents in the war, and the various events were well described by Mr Stuart, who is a very capable lecturer. The me chanical scenes, showiug the fight be tween the Alabama and the Kearsage, and the funeral procession of President Lincoln, were heartily applauded by the audience; Not the least interesting portion, of the entertainment was the distribution of valuable gifts—a tea and coffee service, a gold clock, and a 100 table being among the most noticeable. Mr Stuart appeared to be quite impartial in awarding the gifts, the silver service falling to the lot of a gentleman whose white straw hat turned up in front “ caught the speaker’s eye.” The recipient of the prize beamed with pleasure as he stepped forward to receive it, and the audience were informed he hailed from Invercargill. Two Ashbur ton ladies received the clock and the table referred to, and the minor presenta tions went to gladden the hearts of others among the audience. There cm be no doubt that the gift distribution is the all powerful magnet that draws the people, but the panorama of itself is interesting and well worthy of a visit, while the orchestra deserve mention for their ren dering of a number of popular and appro priate airs. The same programme will be repeated this evening.

A correspondent writing to London Vanity Fair says :—“A cure for, neu ralgia and sciatica—and, as I am told, an unfailing one—is too valuable not to be recorded. An English officer, who served with distinction in the war with Napoleon, was once laid up in a small village in France with a severe attack of sciatica; It so happened that at the time a tinman was being employed in the house where he lodged, and that this tinman, having bean himself a soldier, took an interest in the officer’s case, and gave him the cure, which, in this instance, succeeded immediately and for ever, and which I am about to set down. It is at any rate so simple as to be worth a trial. Take a moderate sized potato, rather large than small, and boil it in one quart of water. Foment the part affected with the water in which the potato has been boiled, as hot as it can be borne, at night before going to bed; then crush the potato and put it on the affected part as a poultice. Wear this all night and in the morning heat the water, which should have been preserved, over again, and again foment the part 'with it as hot as can be borne This treatment must be perservered with for several days. It occasionally requires to be continued for as much as two or three weeks, but in a shorter or longer time it has never yet failed to be successful.

A proposal is now made to flood the interior of Australia. Writing on the subject, the Melbourne correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald says : —“ Captain Stuart, the renown.ed Australian explorer, always entertained the belief that the interior of the Australian Continent was an immense basin, and that a large inland sea would be discovered when the unknown land came to be traversed. Recent explorations have proved that this idea was partially correct, and that the territory extending northwards from Spencer Gulf in South Australia is from 15 to 40 feet below sea level, and this depression is believed to extend to the borders of Northern Queensland. It has, therefore, been asked whether, instead of constructing a trans-continental railway, it would not be more advantageous, by a succession of short canals, to fill this great basin with water from the sea, and thus render communication with various parts of the continent easy and expedi tious. It is suggested that nature has accomplished a considerable portion of the work, Spencer Gulf running well up into the land; and a channel from Port Augusta connecting Lake Torrens, and another carrying the water to Lake Eyre, and so Onward, would make the under taking far less expensive than the Suez Canal. So far it is only a tuggestion ; but, as it is anticipated that such an expanse of water would have a beneficial effect on the climate of Vustralia, it is probable that the proposition will be seriously considered. ”

The Ashburton County Council will hold their usual monthly meeting to morrow. _ It will be seen by advertisement in another column that the meetings of the Women’s Prayer Union are being held in the Primitive Methodist Church.

At a meeting of the Auckland Board of Education a resolution was passed that the Board approve of the suggestion con tained in Principal Heath’s letter re calis thenics for girls m the High School, and the Board resolved that attendance on drill, as prescribed by the school syllabus, be enforced on all pupils, unless a medical certificate be produced to the Head Master stating that such exercises are, without doubt, injurious to the scholars ; that a circular to parents and guardians be drawn up, calling attention to the dangers of the present style of dress and its unsoitableness to the purposes of physical development; that the Inspector arrange for periodical examinations in calisthenics, as in other subjects. In the course of the discussion it was suggested that girls should be dressed in serviceable uniform dress An explosion of gas took place at half past six o’clock yesterday morning at the residence of Mr Martin Lightband at Nelson. A servant had entered the room, with French windows leading te the verandah, and observing a of gas opened the French windows. She then went to another part of the house and afterwards re-entered the room where she smelt gas. She placed a lighted candle on the table and took some mats on to the verandah, and while engaged beating these an explosion took place. The French windows were torn off their hinges and thrown on to the verandah, and all the glass in the room, including that in the picture frames, was smashed and the ceil ing charred. The flames struck the ser vant, and her face and hands and arms are badly burned. Her screams and the noise of the explosion caused great com motion in the neighborhood, and some little distance away the explosion was felt and attributed to earthquake. A well-attended meeting of sub scribers to the telephone exchange was held in the Wellington Cham ber of Commerce yesterday, Mr J. Nathan in the chair. The following reso lution was unanimously agreed to : “ That the charges for the use of the tele phone are so excessive as to place it be yond the reach of numbers who would otherwise avail themselves of its benefits, and that the limited hours allowed to subscribers are such as to warrant a con sideration as to the advisability of their continuing to subscribe ; that a deputa tion be appointed,to interview the Govern ment on the subject.” A general opinion was expressed that a substantial reduction should be made in the subscription, and that the area within which connection will be made without extra charge should be extended to one mile, and that the exchange should be open all night. Messrs J. E. Nathan, J. B. flarcourt, E. T. Gillon, W. F. Who ler, C. Zohrab, and T. K. Macdonald were appointed a deputation to interview the Comm.ssioner of Telegraphs on the subject. An English paper remarks :—Surely Barnum is irrepressible. Anything from a gnat up to a pachyderm seems to come within the practical range of his specula tions. Now that he has acquired Jumbo, ho longs to become the possessor of a second enjoying that title. This animal, though is not an elephant, but a diminu tive specimen of the equine race belonging to Lady Brooke, and some time since the indefatigable showman wrote to her lady ship asking her to part with it. The height of this Lilliputian steed is exactly twenty-eii'ht inches. It follows its fair owner like a dog, even “upstairs and downstairs and in my lady’s chamber.” No one is able 1o catch it but Lady Brooke, who is generally appealed to in order to take it into the stable where it sleeps. The pony not unfrequently accompanies its mistress in her walks, resting con tentedly to graze outside any house she may happen to enter. It goes unshod, and objects to be touched by anyone ex cept Lady Brooke, whom it is always de lighted to see, rearing on its hind legs whenever she enters the stall in which it Is located.

Mr R. A. Proctor, the well-known lecturer on astronomy, has tried the ex periment of wearing a corset, and thus describes the result:—“ When the sub ject of corset wearing was under discussion in the pages of the “ English Mechanic,” I was struck with the apparent weight of evidence in favor of tight lacing. I was, in particular, struck by the evidence of some as to its use in reducing corpulence. I was corpulant. I also was disposed, as I am still, to take an interest i i scientific experiments. I thought I would give this matter a fair trial. I read all the in structions, carefully followed them, and varied the time of applying pressure with that ‘perfectly stiff busk’ about which correspondents were so enthusiastic. I was foolish enough to try the thing for a matter of four weeks. Then I laughed at myself as a hopeless idiot and determined to give up the attempt to reduce by artificial means that superabun dance of fat on which only starvation and exercise, or the air of America, baa ever had any real inducing influence. But I was reckoning without my host. As the Chinese lady suffers, I am told, when her feet-bindings are taken off, and as the flat-headed baby howls when his head boards are removed, so for a while was it with me. I found myself manifestly bet ter in stays. I laughed at myself no longer. I was to angry with myself to laugh. I would as soon have condemned myself to using crutches all the time as to wearing always a busk. But for one month of folly I had to endure three months of discomfort. At the end of that time t was my own man again.”

According to a Christchurch contem porary, one of the most unique matches in pedestrian records came off at about 1 o’clock on Saturday morning, a Richmond athelete backing himself to run to Papa nui from the junction of Barbadoes street and North belt in forty minutes. Old Father Time found a ready backer in a well-known nautical Boniface, and the stakes put up were L 5 a side. Owing to the early hour the attendance was far from large. Preliminaries having been ar ranged the pedestrian, left the scratch at 12.45 a. m., going off at a free swinging pace, closely followed by the judge and timekeeper. When nearing the Carlton Hotel an amusing contretemps took place. The Richmond man, who was making the pace, suddenly shot through a number of ladies and gentlemen returning from an evening party. Thinking from ap pearances that he was an es caped lunatic, more especially when immediately after the timekeeper armed with a large kerosene lantern came scud ding through the group with hia coat tails flying in all directions, a general stampede of the party followed. The unusual con ditions of the race, combined with want of due preparation, began to tell on Time’s opponent, and after entering the straight on the Papanui road, the judge called “a walk,” which was denied by the pedestrian, who at once put on a spurt. Not to be out-ge ierf.lled, however, the backer of Time, who was in the rear, left the asphalt, and taking to the opposite side, where his footsteps were unheard, he succeeded in coming quickly up on Time’s antagonist, who was again walking. The judge on this occasion gave the verdict in Boniface's tavor, as the condi tions strictly mention d that the distance had to be run in the time stated.

The vigor of youth given to the aged and infirm by using Hop Bitters, Try it. Read. —[Advt.] We know Hop Bitters are above and beyond all as a nutritious tonic and curative. Read thoroughly the—[Advt.]

Wanted Known—That J. Meech is im porting all his own goods, which enables him to sell cheaper than any other furnishing house in Ashburton. He has every class of furniture to suit all parties, from the kitchen to the drawing-room. All kinds of cutlery, crockery ware, fenders and fire-irons, iron beadsteads, carpets, table cloths, matting, and druggetting. A variety of tinware and other cooking uten sils, etc. A splendid lot of Vienna chairs in walnut and maple. Feathers, flock, horsehair, and wool for furniture and mattrasses—in fact every article for house furnishing.. Owing to facilities afforded to him, enables him to sell • cheaper than if in East street. Furniture ex changed, and parties selling out will find that he gives the highest price for furniture. All kinds of furniture repaired; practical workmen kept. Agent for the celebrated Dunedin blind-maker. Spring window rollers kept in stock. Carvings and turnery sold to the trade. —J, Meech. Note the address, next Bullock’s Arcade. — [Advt.] Holloway’s Pills.—Health or Wealth.— No sane person would hesitate an instant in the choice between these two conditions. Now is the season to secure the former either by restoring or confirming it. These Pills ex pel all impurities from the system which fogs, foul vapours, and variable temperatures in gender during winter ; this medicine also acts most wholesomely upon the skin by disgorging the liver of its accumulated bile, and by ex citing the kidneys to more energetic action ; increases the appetite for food and strengthens the digestive process. The stomach and liver, which most disorders originate, are fully under the control of these regenerative Pills, which act very kindly yet most efficiently on the tenderest bowels.—[Advt.]

BITING HORSES.

Horses have been successfully cured of this vice by putting a piece of hard wood, an inch and a half square, in the animal’s mouth, about the same length as an ordinary snaffle-bit. It may be fastened by a thong of leather passed through two holes in the ends of the wood and secured to the bridle. It must be used in addition to the bit; but in no way to impede the working of the bit. Rarey adopted this plan with a zebra,‘ln the Zocf, which was a terrible brute at biting. Mr Rarey succeeded, however, in taming and training him to harness and drove him through the streets of London. Ani mals with this vice should be treated kindly in the stable, and not abused with pitchfork handles, whips, etc. An apple, crust of bread, a piece of beet, etc., and a kind pat, but firm, watchful hand and eye, with the use of the above wooden bit, will cure the most inveter ate biter. The fact that he cannot shut his mouth or grip anything soon dawns upon him, and then he is'conquered.- Tot onto Crlobe.

THE NEW COUNCILLORS.

In the course of an article treating of the recent appointment of Messrs Richmond and Barnicoat to the Legis lative Council, the Timaru Herald says :—“ It may fairly be said that Mr Richmond’s long experience of public affairs and past political service entitle him to a seat in the Council ; and if he had not been superannuated or Major Atkinson’s brother-in-law, or a defeated candidate for election to the House of Representatives, there would, indeed, have been no objection to his appointment. But Mr Barnicoat has no experience of public affairs, and has never rendered any political services, and he is, on the other hand, long past the age of public usefulness, and well known, besides, to have no capacity for public business. For the Colonial Treasurer to say, therefore, that Mr Richmond and Mr Barnicoat are the two best men that the Government could find for Legislative Councillors, was either to play off a joke on the in telligences of his audience, or else to pay a very poor compliment to the Legislative Council. It was as much as to say that the Upper House is an asylum for old fogies, who cannot get into politics by any other way, and that, taken as old fogies, Mr Richmond and Mr Barnicoat stand supreme. On no other supposition can we account for the Treasurer’s assertion that any Ministry wishing to appoint Councillors in future, will have to take worse men than those two. We have reason to know, however, that the Government have given quite a different explanation from that, in justifying these appoint ments to some of their supporters. They do not pretend that Mr Richmond and Mr Barnicoat are the fittest men they could have found ; but they say that they appointed them in order to give Nelson its fair proportion of repre sentation in the Legislative Council. A more extraordinary explanation could hardly be conceived. The theory that the Legislative Council ought to be constituted on the basis of the propor tionate representation of provincial dis tricts, is one which we never heard advanced before. It certainly is one which never was acted on before, even during the period when the provincial boundaries really indicated the political divisions of the colony. The Legisla tive Council has been from the begin ning essentially a colonial and a non political Chamber; and for a Ministry who, Major Atkinson boasts, are to be credited with the passing of the Aboli tion Act, to undertake now to place it on a provincial basis, is decidedly one of the funniest notions that could well be imagined. But it is, in point of fact, an absurdity on the face of it, for the obvious reason that nothing short of a total redistribution of seats in the Legislative Council would place it on a footing of proportionate provincial re presentation. The Council at present consists of fifty members, who are thus distributed as to provincial districts : Auckland 7, Taranaki 1, Hawke’s Bay 4, Wellington 12, Nelson 4, Marl borough 1, Westland 2, Canterbury 8, and Otago ix. It will be seen at a glance that this is nothing like a pro portionate representation, and that the recent addition of two Members to Nel son’s contingent, only makes the dis proportion greater than it was before. This pretence that Mr Richmond and Mr Barnicoat were appointed in order to equalise the representation of pro vincial districts in the Council, is, therefore, actually a shallower excuse than Major Atkinson’s bold assertion that no better men could be found. Now for our own explanation, which we give for what it is worth, but which we are pretty confident is the correct one. When the Representation Act was passed in 1882, two of the small Nel son constituencies were abolished, and the three Nelson members who had previously supported the Ministry, forthwith went into Opposition. Mr Hursthouse was the only one of those three who was returned at the general election that followed, and he only se cured his return by pledging himself to oppose the Ministry. He did nominally oppose the Ministry last session, but

only in a very hgrpiles&Hyay ; and it was well known that he’ would much rather have supported them. It was impos sible, or at least very difficult, for him to go over to them, however, so long as the sore feeling caused by the passing of the Representation Act prevailed among, his constituents. How was that sore feeling to be removed? The Government could not re store Nelson to her old posi tion in the House of Representatives, for to do that would have required a new Representation Act, and a com plete undoing of the work of 1881. But they had the power to nominate whomsoever they pleased to the Legis lative Council; and accordingly they gave Nelson two additional members in that Chamber to make up for the two taken away from the House of Repre sentatives. This, of course, was a gross violation of the spirit and prin ciple of the Representation Act; but 'it was necessary in oj-der to enable Mr Hursthouse to return to his allegiance to the Ministry without breaking with his constituents. The appointment of Mr Barnicoat and Mr Richmond, the latter of whom, if we mistake not, is Mr Hursthouse’s uncle, is, in short, the consideration for the vote of the mem ber for Motueka. We may be quite wrong in this supposition; but we do not think we are ; and we shall be very much surprised if Mr Hursthouse is not found once more working cordially with the Ministry in the ensuing ses sion. He is a man of considerable ability, and, is one . of the very, few Conservatives m the House who have; the courage of their opinions. He is entirely out of his elerafcnt in the pre sent Opposition, and his proper place undoubtedly is behind the Ministerial benches. But it is a pity some means could not have been found for restoring him to his proper place, which would not have saddled the country with two more ‘ pensioners for life’ and stultified the action of the Legislature in passing the Representation Act.”

THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.

The following is that portion of the new American tariff on wool which is of most interest to colonists:—

•All wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other animals, shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon, into the three follow ing classes : Class i, clothing wools—that is to say, merino, raestiza, raets, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or remote, down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been hitherto usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also in cluding all wools not hereinafter de scribed or designated in classes two and three.

Class 2, combing wools—That is to say Leicester, Cots wold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used, and also all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like ani mals.

Class 3, carpet wools and other simi lar wools—Such as Donskof, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. The duty on wools'of the first-class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of all classes which shall be im ported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. The duty upon wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, goat and other like animals, which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practised, or which shall be changed in its character or dondition, for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or .any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. Wools of the first class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, exclud ing charges in such port,. shall be 30 cents or less per lb, 10 cents per lb ; wools of the same class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, exclud ing charges in such ports, shall e xceed 30 cents per lb, 12 cents per lb. Wools of the second class, and all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be 30 cents or less per lb, 10 cents per lb ; wools of the same class the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall exceed 30 cents per lb, 12 cents per lb. Wool of the third class, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be 12 cents or less per lb, 2% cents per lb; wools of the same class, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port shall exceed 18 cents per lb, 5 cents per lb. Wools on the skin, the same rates as other wools, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre scribe.

Woollen rags, shoddy, mungo, waste, and flocks, 10 cents per lb.

EXPLORATION.

[by .telegraph.]

New Plymouth, To-day

Mr Carkeek, the surveyor employed to explore the country between Stratford and Mokan, for a route for a railway, reports that the country through which he went was good land, and there were many suitable routes for either roads or railways. He says there are no engineer ing difficulties in, the, way to take a rail way through the country. Mr Carkeek corroborates all that Mr Cheat, the sur veyor, now of Auckland, reported eight years ago respecting the country. The latter then said “ The first sixty miles were undoubtedly a good line for a rail way, and he saw no difficulties for a rail way feeing taken along the route as he went.towards Auckland.”

SPORTING.

MELBOURNE CUP. [reuter’s TELEGRAMS —COPT RIGHT.] Melbourne, Yesterday. The following are the local entries for the— Melbourne Cup, a handicap sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, or 5 sovs only if declared to the Secretary of the V.R.0., A.J.0., S.A.J.C., or O J.C., before 4 p.m. on Monday, August 6, with 1000 added. The second horse to receive 300 sovs. and the third 200 sovs out of stake. Two miles. Anglesey Cuba Bagot Mrs Jarley Renamede Petronel Malwa Yattendon colt Claptrap Spread Eagle Colstoun Iron Hand Commotion Sig or Doncaster Countess Ericthoneus Buttercup Essex Linda King Charles Waterloo King of the Yale Duenna Lesbia Saint Lawrence Magnet Wahgunyah Prometheus Joan Robert the Devil Nepean Santa Claus Plunger Stockwell Milpasiaka ; Suwarrow Wotonga ,* Railery Taurus Redbank Dukedom Bundoora Athena . ■’ Middlemarch Merman Kathleen (late Lady Off Color Jervoia) KitKnubbles * Pailleroo Mentmore Coup D’Etat Dunstan , :,« Hill Talk To® Too ; .« , Prodigal Black Diamond ; Welcome Jack Wizard Bordeaux (2) Boolka Verot Britisher Esmond * Elma Country Squire Chuokster / Adelaide Entries. CorioUnus Conjecture First Water Footstep Guesswork Vagabond Kathleen Dick H tteraick Koh-i noor Duchess of Albany Little Jack ' Sardius Mistaken Bis Bis ■ Pollio Trump Yobs li sting Gymkhana Achilles Sensation Sydney Entries. Ad Valorem Morpeth Belmont Navigator Boscawen Pell Mell Comet Recovery Cunnamulla Sardonyx Depot Segenhoe' Eva Silver Arrow Faro Sportsman (Fo r Gloucester Tester’s) Grosvenor Sweet William Hesperian The Beau Jack of Clubs The Drummer Jessie The Gem Lord Lisgar Panide Masquerade Martini-Henry Aberfoyle Zulu Waxlight Caractacus Ike / Goldfinder Copra Nicholas Warwick Aide-de-Camp Archie Delusion Palarinda All-silk Kingsdale Forest King JLe Grand Clifden Chrysophrase Morceau Prioress Albury Sir Modred Quid Lord Mandeville First Demon Mountebank Yatteley Glencoe Le Beau Rosemary i New Zealand Entries- The following entries were received at noon yesterday by the Secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club:— . Mr M. Smith’s b f Rubina, by Kinga borough—Etiquette, 2 yrs Mr J. Pilbrow’a b c Welcome Jack, by Traducer—Miss Flat, 3 yrs.

For the Caulfield Cup there are 142 entries, and for the Champion Stakes 59.

CABLE NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS—COPYRIGHT.] t The War in Madagascar. , London, June 4. -

Telegrams are to hand from Mada- i; gascar reporting that the Hovas have' made overtures of peace to the French Commander, and that the French Go vernment will exact a war indemnity from the Malagasays. The statements have hot yet been officially confirmed.., ~

* Shipping. Arrived—Ship Titania, from Lyttel ton, March 10th.

AUSTRALIAN.

[REUTER'S telegrams—copyright.] The Epping Murderers. Hobart, Yesterday. The two youths, Olsen and Suther land, who were found guilty of commit ting the atrocious murders in April last in Epping district, were executed to day.

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] Drowned.

Auckland, To-day. , Mr Alfred Frith, a young English tourist, was drowned at Ohinemu)u yes* terday. The Maori King. Tawhaio, with 300 horsemen, has ar rived at Maketu. A Proposed Monument. The Volunteers propose emoting a monument to the late Major Withers. Major Withera’iSuccessor. Captain H. V. Shepherd succeeds Major Withers in the command of the Yoluh- , teers. An Excited Borough. Dunedin, To-day. After the row at South Dunedin last night, the majority of the councillors and ratepayers held an indignation meeting, when a resolution calling on the Mayor and the whole of the Council to reaignwas carried. A 'resolution proposed that, in the event of the Mayor taking the chair at any future Council meetings the rate-; payers should take steps to prevent him, on the temper of the meeting, would have carried, but the councillors urged them not to resort to force. There is great ex citement in the borough. ■ Licensing.

The Dunedin Central Committee have cancelled publicans’ licen>es in the .ma jority of cases of restricted houses. The Commissioners state that in any case where barmaids are employed after hours 7 they would unhesitatingly take away the license. ,

Arrived from Home. The barque Alaster, from Glasgow, is signalled from Cape Saunders,

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1888.



< jPORT OP LYTTELTON. Sailed. -J Yesterday. V Inch. Murren, ship, for London. ii« Haaroto, b.b., for Sydney, via Welling •toQn R(Jti “• ~BHIPPINQ TELEGRAMS Auckland, Yesterday. Arrived—-Island Lily, from Lyttelton ; John. Theodore, from Dunedin ; Darcy Platt J lAm Oamaru; Energy, from Grey mouth ; Kawatin, from Lyttelton ; Eller ton, from Lyttelton. ‘-Baildd—Daphne, for Suva. Wellington, Yesterday, j. Amyed-r-Mahinapua, from the South. ■ Sailed—Waihdra, for Melbourne, via the South ; Hawea, for Pioton, and Nel »on ; .Taiaroa, ’for Auckland, via the East ■ CrT- r . 1 ♦ ? ■ . ’ I Uoast. Dunedin, Yesterday. Sai’ed—Camllie, for Auckland ; Roto rua, for the North. Bluff, Yesterday. Arrived —Wairarapa, from Melbourne; DAILY MEMORANDA. AUCTION SALES Thursday, Junk 7. Matson, Cox and Co., at Waterton—-Town Sections, Farm, Live and Dead Stock, »,A»4 'iat lil o'clock sharp. i 1 j :>i-' i Friday, ;JuNß' 8J ■ ■ > - Robert Wilkin and Co., at the Tinwald Stock, J*arm I^»- '&o Tuesday, "Junk 5. Town.Hall—Panorama of .the American A Wednesday, June 6. Ashburton County Council —at Council Champa® tllPpil. | ReaidehrMagiatrate’s Court, Ashburton— -3 jiArinuaF Licensing meeting for Ashour- Ashburton Road Board District— e jQeneral* election of members; polling day 7th day of June Monday, Junk 11. Borough Council, at Borough Council Chambers, at 7 o’clock . , 2*o r MATT. NOTICES. ■‘lfilfela'clo4e at the Ashburton Post Office ssfollows: — " , , ’ " and North|at. 6.a,m. iCTini, Ana 5 pi. in., daily. For &c., ; at 10.30 a.rn. wFor Dunbdra,Tinwald, WinsloW, Hinds, QotdFtoUttof Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, M«d -ftnrnJdine , at.lo a. m. daily. Teinuka, at 6 a.m. and 10 am, ; . daily. 1 ;■■■■' v*For Titnafu and South, at 6 a.xn., 10 *sn.,]wldjA3o p.m,, daily. _ \ Eoy jftrpenstreet and Ashburton Forks, m and Saturdays, at 3.30 t %r UTOuiit ’ Somers, on Tuesdays and Biturdsys,' at 0 atm. and 4.30 p.in. Foi 1 ,'May field, on Tuesdays and Satur days, at 6 a.m. - , For Ash tea, Waterton and Longheach, on Mondays, Wednea lays, and Fridays, at 4.30 p.m. For Wakanui, Elgin, Seaview, Seafield, Mid Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6.30 a. in. For Rowlands, on Tuesdays and Fri days at 10.30 a.m. . '-f ■■ • Uulb arrive at the Ashburton Post Office^ — From Christchurch and Rakaia, at 10.15 a.m. p.m., and 7.20 p.m.- From Ohertsey, &o. at 10.15 a.m. and 4.85 pa& dail^, and intermediate places at 6.30 p.m. daily. . From Temnka and TimarU at 10..40 a. m. 5.30 p.m., and 8 p.m. daily. From Greens treat and Ashburton FotkA,fWedn esdays and Saturdays, at 10 From Mount Somers, on Tuesdays and Saitlrdaytf. al 10.5 a. in. and 8.15 p.m. From Mayfield, on Tuesdays and Satur days, at 10.5 a.m. • . 1 -From Ashton, , Waterton, and Long- daily. From Elgin, Wakanui, Seafield, and Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sat- Fiom and Fri days, at 9.3o'Mi. • ij J _ From Flemmgtob- on'iTaeadays, Thurs days, and Saturdays, at 10 a.m. TRAVELLERS’ GUIDE. . 1 ■ -'* Chains Legate for-Ohbist- CHUBCH and intermediate stations at 7.10 a.m£ 10J56 ‘aim., and (Express)-5.39 CsAms Leave Ashburton foe Timaru asp Spurs, at 6.50 <a.m., 10.25 a.m.; - Express), and 4,45. p.ojk latter pro ceeding no farther than Timaru. TRAINS jAT ASHBUBXON FBOM Chbxstchubch at 10 20 a.m. (Express), Timaru and. South at 10.45 am., 5.28 p.m. (Express), and 8 p.m. been IVi Appointed Agenlforthe Ashbur toiifluVßtDiAN at South Rakaia.' ‘ - : v•t -ftaff 1 ;i.T7‘ DEr Stationery op . every , SORIPTION. ■■■■ L -■) Account Books' : Ink—from small to largest jars Atnhppkßooks—School. Committees sup- lowest* rates Latest Novelties in all kinds of Fancy ,^!odfi,,T 0 3 ra » & c - >v- -.i! AlTthe Home Journals, Magazines, and Papers by every mail. Subscribers WeTl wanted for any Magazine or Paper published. ewes Bros., BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS, &0., t JEakc ftrebt South Ashburton. nls -rrrr. rp you WANT GOOD AND STRONG FURNITURE, ■*« - ' U i:vj» ;2po chi In - TO r^AVIS'B. ■. - Ky.filr:.'■■ ;OHEAP BED . MANUFACTORY, M'JKKT -STREET SOUTH, ASHBURTON. WJ V / • • ' [VERY article Sold at Christchurch ‘and ‘ gbaranteed oi -tmi-.iJt. <■ F UNBA ALB I & QOMFLETELT FURNISHED



Wanted WANTED Known— & Co. have the Largest and Cheapest Stock of Boots and Shoes in Ashburton. J. G. Green & Co., Liecester Boot Warehouse, N.B.—Don’t forget the Corner Shop in East and Burnett Streets. 1169 WANTED Known—lf you want » Dress go to H. C, Sxobrs —Fresh lot just opened; Ss goods for Is 4|d. Gome and see them. Compton’s Build ing, opposite Friedlander Bros. 1314 WANTED Known That Messrs. Green & Co. have Removed into the Cdrfter Shop, lately occupied by G. J. Martin, Butcher. 1170 TTTANTBD KN O WN— Hates and VV Clo. have a lot of EMPTY OASES for sale. Arcade Shops. aul2 "ITT"ANTED KNOWN—That Robert Elston, Burnett street, Ashbur ton, having procured the newest appara tus, is prepared to Sweep Chimneys at very low rales. Any orders left at the Town Hall will receive prompt attention. Terms cash. 760 c Special Advertisements. S O R N G. I have just received my season’s stock of Guns of every description, and respectfully invite an inspection. Double Breech-loaders from L 5 ss. Double and Single Muzzle-loaders at all prices. Decoy Ducks. Duck, Calls. Gams Bags. , Cartridge Belts apd Bags. ■ Field Glasses. Loading Machines, etc., etc. New Season’s POWDER, Curtis and Harvey’s, and Pigou, Wilkes and Lawrence’s—very best quality. Newcastle Chilled Shot, all sizes. Cartridges, Cartridge Cases, Wads. And every shooting requisite. - Being the largest importer of Guns and and Ammunition in New Zealand, and every Gun being made to my own order, intending purchasers cannot do better than communicate with me. HOS. G. ROWLEY, 63Q Gunsmith, Timaru.



“Iso 1A L NOTICE. TO THE INHABITANTS OF ASH BURTON AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. GL Ri West and Co., MUSIC AND PIANOFORTE WAREHOUSEMEN, -PBinobs stkbex, Dunedin Have great pleasure in announcing that it is their intention to cater for the Music loving population of Ashburton in such a manaer as has never before been at ■ tempted. t Messrs G. R. West & Co. are the Largest Direct Importers of PIANOS, ORGANS, HARMONIUMS, BRASS, WIND, AND STRINGED INSTRUMENTS In the Colony, and a large and varied stock of the above can always be found. Mr G. R. West, being at present in England, is shipping direct to Dunedin all the latest novelties in- MUSIC ! MUSIC ! ! MUSIC !! ! And the firm respectfully solicit a call from their friends, teachers, and the public in general to inspect their magnifi cent stock of Music, personally selected. d!4



Corn Sacks, lowest,market rates. I AM A CASH PUR CHASER, AT HIGHEST MARKET RATES, of WHEAT OATS GRASS SEED BARLEY Farmers wishing to SHIP tfef : THKk.?y OWN AC COUNT can get information as co Cost, Freight, etc., by applying to JOSEPH CLARK, Ashburton & Tinwald. Corn Sacks, lowest market rates.



Money ! Money! ! The equitable investment COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, limited, are prepared, through their agent, J. 0. DtrNOAN, East street, to LEND MONEY oil Ashburton approved free hold or 1 leasehold property, repayable by either monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, dr yearly instalments, or for a fixed period. : The Company are also open to DIS COUNT BILLS. ‘ J. C. DUNCAN, 883 Agent, East street.



JV AND FO R SA L E The UNDERSIGNED have received instructions from the Owner to SELL BY PRIVATE TREATY, All that COMPACT BLOCK OF LAND on the Acton Station ! ESTATE, SOUTH RAKAIA, Being SECTIONS 31757, 31758, and 31759, Containing 1099 acres. ! The block has been SPECIALLY SELECTED by the Proprietor, and is thoroughly adapted for farming purposes, the adjoin ing sections having this season grown some of the HEAVIEST CROPS ON THE PLAINS. Only a small instalment on the pur chase is required to be paid, the balance to remain on mortgage at 6£ per cent, for a term of years as may be agreed on. ! We have also FOB SALE an Improved Farm Containing 1026 acres. Situated close to Ealing Rilway Station, and well watered. , For further particulars apply to I THE NEW ZEALAND GRAIN Agency and mercantile oom ; i pany, limited. Christchurch or Ashburton. . 12au rpHB GUARDIAN is published every | evening, giving every day’s news, up to the hour of going to press. This is better than baying » sixpenny weekly, i



Special Advertisements. THE NEW ZEALAND Clothing Factory HAY ffi spared no effort to place before / the public a MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OP NEW WINTER MANUFACTURES Comprising all the latest styles in MEN’S & BOY’S CLOTHING Manufactured from the best qualities and newest Designs in COLONIAL, SCOTCH, BRITISH, AND CONTINENTAL TWEEDS. The large and increased trade has en abled the Proprietary to offer their cus tomers still advantages than hitherto, and THIS SEASON’S GOODS, upon inspection, will be feund CHEAPER THAN EVER. A SINGLE GARMENT AT WHOLESALE PRICE. SHIRTS, HATS, HOSIERY, and every requisite at Wholesale Prices. Nineteen Branches now open in New Zealand. Agents for the Unrivalled WERTHEIM SEWING MACHINES Ashburton Branch : , BAST STREET. JEL M. Jones’ OOOUNT BOOKS. A NEW VOLUMES— Boys’ Own Annual Girls’ Own Annual Chatterbox Child's Companion Infants’ Magazine, »&0., &c. POETS— VARIOUS Authors ; Sir Walter Scott’s Works, new edition, complete. TOYS ! TOYS !! TOYS !!! GREAT VARIETY—in Wood, Tin, China, an I *. Indiarubber. GOOD BUSINESS Envelopes, SIX SHILLINGS PER THOUSAND CASH. A Bargain. Good Second-hand PIANETTE, £2O. FANCY GOODS ! FANCY GOODS ! A NICE SELECTION of the above now in stock. ALL the above Goods are offered at the LOWEST Possible Prices for CASH. A LIBERAL DISCOUNT allowed to schools on parcels of Toys, Books, etc. SECOND-HAND Pianos, In good order, £ls, £2O, *22 10s, 25. H. M. JONES, BURNETT ST. & BARINQ SQUARE. 13d New work —“The royal PATH OF LIFE ; or, Aims and Aids to Success and Happiness,” illus trated with Steel Engravings, in differ ent bindings. Also, a beautiful selection of EASTER CARDS. Andrewbs Bros. , Booksellers and Stationers, East street South, Ashburton. 77 763 AM CASH PURCHASER OP BRIGHT MILLING Oats, ANY QUANTITY. ALBERT ROBERTS, West street. IN ANTED KNOWN. W That BONEDUST, specially prepared for drilling with carrots, mangolds, etc., an be obtained from the undersigned. F. MAYO, Hampstead Bone Mills. jgOBINSON AND TOWNSHEND ARE CASH BUYERS OF WHEAT OATS BARLEY GRASS SEED Agents for A. Moore & Co. ROBINSON AND TOWNSHEND, Havelock street. 229