RAILWAY TIME TABLE

Tbains Abbtv* at AsnmjßToir —^From Ohriut huroh and the North, at 10.15 a.m. (express), 4.85 p.m., and 7.10 p.m. From Timahi, 10.45 a.m. From Dunedin and South, 5.27 a.m. (express). From Mount Somors, 10.6 ••in Tkains Liatb Abhbtjbton— For Ohrißt hnroh and North, at 7.1Q a.m., 10.55 a.m., «B 5.87 p.m. (express). For Dunedin and bath, 10.25 a.m. (express). For Timara, 5 p.m. For Mount comers, 5.5 p.m

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN.

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MAIL NOTICES.

Malls olose at the Ashbnrton Post Office follows :— For Ohrlr^Tjroh and North at 6 a.m 0.30 a.m., and 5 p. m. , daily. For Ghertsey Rakaia, &&, at 10.30 a.m tnd 5 p.m. daily. For Dunedin, Tinwald, Wimlow, Hindß, Joldatream. Rangitata, Orari, Winchester, Mid Geraldine, at 10 a.m. daily. For Tamuka, at 10 vm. mid 430 p m *«ily. for Tlm»/u and South, at 10 a.m., and ' 30 p. m. , daily. For Greoustreot and A*hburton Forks, en Weareadays and Saturdays, at 10.30 For Wakanui, Elgin, Seavltftr, Seafiold, *A Kyle, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and turdarn, at 6,30 a.ra. For tfount Soraers, dnily at 4.30 p. m For May6eld and Ru*puna, on Mob d»v» and Thursdays, at 4.30 p.m. For Ashton, Waterton and Longbeach, 4.30 p.m. daily. For Flemington, on Mondaya, Wodnei Uy», and Fridays, at 4.30 p.m. For Newlands, on Tuesdays and Frl at 10.30 a.m.

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The Ashburaton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1887. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last year's immigration into the United States amounted to 386,755 persons, an increase of more than 60,000 over the year 1885.

Professor Shepard, of Newbaven, makes a B'atement which will surprise most persons. He says : " There have been several instances of death occasioned by meteorio stoner. Two monks m different places were thuß killed m Italy, and two sailorsjon shipboard m Sweden."

The Wellington correspondent of the "Auckland Herald" says that Parliament will be called together for the last week m April.

In the course of an interview between the reporter of the 4 * Auckland Bell " and Mr W. S. Graham, Mayor of Hamilton, the last named gentleman expressed himself strongly as to the benefits to be derived from the establishment of the beet-sugar industry, avowing the opinion that the cultivation of tho beet root and tho extraction of sugar from it was as much a national question, or hould |be made so, and of as much import anoe to the prosperity of the colony, as that of the nationalisation of the land. There was m it " the means of floating New Zealand off the rocks — or doing very mnch towards it." He further declared it to be hia belief that the beet root industry was capable of rendoring New Zealand as prosperous as France. A. Syndicate is being formed m New York to excavate the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf Canal, on the survey made by General Q. A. Gilmore. The cut is to commence at the mouth of St. Mary's Eiver, on the dividing lino between Georgia and Florida, run to St. Mark's on the Gulf of Mexico, and thence to New Orleans by the existing line of water ways, saving 1200 miles of dangerous navi gation. The Public Work 3 Department at Christ ohurch are authorised to put some of the unemployed at piece work on the extension of the Mount Somers Railway as Boon as the preliminary arrangements oan be made, whioh will be almoßt immediately.

The smallest newspaper m the world is published m the town of Guadalajara, and is entitled "El Telegramma." It is five inches (long and three inches wide ; it has four pages, and contains the most important news from all parts of the world. It only oosts 75 centimes (about 7£d) per quarter, and it has for its motto, "Plenty of roast and little smoke."

Some writers and waltz composers have fallen on halcyon days. A London corres pondent, who gives some interesting foots on this subjeot, states that Theo Marzials receives from one firm of publishers £2000 a year for three songs. Frank L. Moir, another snooessful ballad writer, has made nearly £2000 out of his popular song "Only once more." Waltz writers do equally well, and tho correspondent mentions two ladies who drew £1200 a year each for a couple of waltzes.

An estimate of the harvest for the Canter bury province gives the following as the approximate yield for 1887 :— Wheat 4,200,000 bushels, oats 4,650,000 bushels, barley 330,000 bushels. The Government returns for. North Canterbury, just collected, are as follows : — Wheat 122,239 acres, yield 2,800,070 buehole; oats 91,340 acres, yield 2,333,673 bushelß ; barley 7,548 aores, yield 193,216 bushels, potatoes 6345 acres, yield 37^50 tons.

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Mr R. Meaclem, threshing machine pro prietor, writes to say that it was not he who was the defendant m tho civil cases, Lancaster v. Meaclem and Morris v. Meaclem, heard m the K.M. Court on Friday.

Tho services conducted yesterday 'by Mr Duncaa Wright m the Presbyterian Church were attended by large nnd very attontive congregations. An afrer mcc ing at the close of the evening service waa also largely attended, fully three-fourths of the people remaining to the close. Mr Wright spoke m the morning from 2nd Samuel, xii. chap., and 23rd verse, " I shall go to him but he shall not return to me," ths speaker's remarks on death being very solemn. During hia discourse he sang two rerses of the hymn " Shall we gather at the river," the refrain being taken up by the con gregation. In the af ernoon Mr Wright kept . the Sunday-school children attentively inter ested for some time, his remarks being also listened to by a number of parents and friends who were present. The evening eemee attracted a very large congregation, and Mr Wright, m a powerful and striking manner, retained the attention of all while he spoke from Jonah, I chap., 6ver., "What meanest thou Oh Sleeper?" his very dear and vivid description of the great city of Nineveh no doubt being m some portions at least new to many of those present. The servioes will bo continued during this week, commencing at half-past seven eaoh evening.

The northernmost railway m the world has just been oompleted. It runs from the town of Wara, m Finland, northeast to Uleaborg on the Baltio, and thus connects that place directly by rail with the capital of Russia and the rest of Europe. The northern terminus lies m latitude 65, which is only one and a half degree south of the Arctio cirole.

One of the greatest engineering projects now under consideration m the United States is- a tunnel under Gray's Peak, m the Rooky

Mountains. It will be over 4000 feet below

the summit of the mountain and about five miles long. It would shorten the distance

between the Atlantic'and Facifio slope valleys about three hundred miles. ■:$

The fallowing extraordinary dooument, which is given verbatim- et literatim, was produced m the Resident Magistrate's Court at Wellington during the hearing of a case last week :—" Wellington, June 21, 1886, New Zealand. This agreement Being droun By the under Sinds and to the Sadisfaoben of one Witness is named We the under Sinds, William Albert and Eliza Bird, Here By Give up all Commonquachen With Each other from this date for all the rest of Hour Lifes, Both Being responekel for their Home Contrackets this agreement Being Sind By the three parties ia now ligel to all transhact shorns, i William taking two Boys, and i Elizo taking on girl." The signatures are appended, written across six twopenny stamps. The street cars of Pensacola, Florida, are to be run by electricity. The royal palace at Honolulu, Sandwioh Islands, i 3 now lighted by eleotricity, and Honolulu is soon to have an eleotric light plant, the contract for which has been awarded to an American corporation.

Of 52,500,000 bushels of grain shipped from New York m 1886 not one bushel wsb carried by a vessel sailing under the Amerioan flag. The bulk of it was taken by British and German vessels, the former numbering 713 and having cargoes equal to #2,000,000 bushels. Speaking of the speed of the Ounard liners, the secretary of the company saya the figures show that the Etruria is the fasteßt ship m the Cunard fleet on a general average and by a very few points, but that the Umbria has made the fastest time on her homeward trips. Both vessels have an average time of nearly 21 miles an hour. " Illustrated Tit Bits " for this week has a really well-oonceived frontispiece intituled 14 The New Zealand Laocoon," the serpnnt m this oase representing thepublio debt, borough loans, barbor loans, etc Don't physio, for it weakens and destroys, but use Hop Bitters that builds up 1 (Take none but American Co. '6) Bead Holloway's Pills and Ointment. — The combined ill effects of over-crowding, seden tary occupations, and monotony of life are only too well-known to those who have to pass the best part of their lives labouring m factories and crowded workrooms. The compulsory confinement weakens the general health and induces ohronia constipation, indigestion, and various forms of skin diseases. Holloway's remedies are of priceless value to persons of this olase, for they can be used without entailing lots of woilij being purely vegetable m their composition, and conse quently act without harshness on the most delicate Bystem. The experience of more than forty years proves that no means Burpaes Holloway's remedies for curing bad legs, bad breasts, piles, and wounds of all kinds.

NEW INDUSTRY.

Tho "Tiuurn Hera'd " says that Mr S. Cullett, of Waimate, h'S just com pleted the first fruit pulper cidt-r press m that part of the country The machinery is simple and well adap od to the work re quired. The rednction of the fruit to a state of pup beirg effective m a high degree, the pulp'.ug machine ia worked by hand, bat a eimp'e mechsniaal arrangemont wonld make the application or water or other power available. The press ii detached from iho pulper, and is q'lite rffeo.ive m pressing the last drop of ju'cu from the pulp, tho liquor -nnntng from the p-ca3 tube, «rhioh is j-oiV)d all round, into a vessel. Mr Oollett projects fu.ther improvements m she machinery, by which the rotk will be made more exped ttouq. He hopes to establish a basines« of making cider, not only from the produce of his own orchard, but ulio fruit brought to the preßß from other sources lit tho neighborhood. The pro luce of apples m this district this .flaiißon is not at all large, as the storm m the early part of last month oauied great loss by the premature fall of large quanti ties of fruit. Bat m an ordinary seneon there will be no flic lent supply of tpplea to keep the mill going, should a demaud for oider an'Be m the district.

WILD DOGS.

We find the following m the " Auck land Herald" : —A singular and dangerods pe»t has made its appearance m the neighborhood of Oxford, m the Bbopo of a f»mily of teini-wild doga, which have evident y been reared m (he burh. Iv eppearanoe they resemble the ordinary sheep or cattle dog, Lnt they are vey wild and savage and no ordinary dog, will approach them. Thei- depredations amongst the sheep m the vicinity of late have resulted nvst dioastroasly. Jn one night the Agrtoaltural pornpany loßt four teen Southdown ram?, valued from £3 to £& each, and number! of other sheep has fallen victima jb> the voracity of tbe3e brutes Air James Hume h»a been a pretty heayy looer &\bo. The men en gaged on t He stations have made every effort to shoot or otherwise dtsroy the inaraadere, but bo far without :ipccesß, and it is now intended that aomo exfca-aavage dogs sh&H be procnrei} to cope v'v.h them A few bulldogs ffou/d doubtless give a good account of themaelvcs,

THE EUROPEAN SITUATION

[HBUTBU'S yKLHUKAM.* -COPyUIOHT.] gl

Bsrl N, March 11

Baron de Lesseps, who arrived m this city on a special mission from the French Government, has been received at Court m a most flattering manner. This fact is regarded as indicating the probability of an amicable understand ing being arrived at between France and Germany.

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Auckl&hd, March 12.

Messra Peacock and Thompson, M.ti R.'e, have received the following reply from the Minister of Public Works re the protest about the use of B.iltlo imber iv (he doora and windr-w sashes of the now Caatom House :— " In reply, thu Oustoru Ebuie design was made by a prtvaco »rchiteo', and wu intorfoced with him hs little a< possible, a,r dual control nbve'- works well, and it was desirable that the archlteo- should feel bimselC en tirely responsible, which ha would not do if vrj chopped and changed. At his de sire we will not interfere now, at any rit« while the tenders are pending. I wtfl n. t aware that foreign timber was specified, but will consult the architect on the matter before finally settling the con tract. EI)WAKD RICHIRDSON "

Owias; to the dissatisfaction of parents with the Globe Ruaders m publio schools, Mr Theo, Cooper, a member of the Edu cation Board, brought tha matter up at the Board and tabled a motion for the discontinuance of Nob. 1, 2, and 3, as unsuitable,, and that Nelson's Readers, third series, be Bubßtltutsd, That m (he opinion of the Board there should be a uoif.jrra seriea of eohiol Readers throuzh out the colony, a'so the following resolu tbnß:—"That it will tend to the ad vancement of education throughout the colony if a aeries of school Readers are prepared by the Education Department adapted to the olrcu instances of the colony, for use bb aforesaid m the public ach oU." '* That* -copy of these resolu tions hi submit ted to the Minister of Education, and that his optulon thereon be sbkfd, and that h copy of 'hose re solutii ns bar forwarded to each of the Education Boards throughout the colony and their suggestions and opinions be aiked thereon," The discussion was ad journed for a week. At the annual meeting of the Young Mend Christian AaHOcia k . ! on laet night, J. L. Wilf.ou, Vice-President, presiding, the report showed the number of members to be 174, and of subscribers 335. The Treasurer'! statement showed that the total expenditure on dot buildings and fittings hid beoo £8958, towards which £2208 had been realise* fr>m donations and other sources, »nd £5000 by loan on mortgage, leaving a debit balance cf £1749. Another statement was also read which showed the tr,t>l liabilities of tha Aes^clatloa to be £6912 and assets £10,048.

As the result of the rcoent interview with Mr Ballanoa on the angar beet question, it Is probable that another eftirt will be made to establish the iadustrv, m the Waiknto,

Wellington, Maroh 12.

The "Evening Poai" »nd the Press Association have been served with writs at tho instance of McMahon and Leitch, claiming £1000 damages for alleged libel.

An Information has been laid against a tnerohtnt of Wellington, charging him with alleged fraudulent dealings with regard to fome promissory notes. Tbe amount involved is £150.

Wellington, ftt*rch 13.

H.M.S. Nelson arrived from Lyttletan this morning, and left again for Sydney at fonr o'clock, where Rear-Admiral Fairfax relieves Admiral Tryon, who it going to England by steamer leaving Melbourne.

Dunedin, March 12 The next section of the Clotha railway is to be started next month.

Dunedis, March 13

At the invitation of Mr James Mao donald, the proprietor', a large p>rty visited Walton Park to witness the start ing ol machinery for the manufacture of Portland cement. Specimens of concrete made from the cement were tested m various ways and were found to be quite equal to any Imported.

RICH RIVER CLAIMS

How often do we hear it said thai oar gold fields are la their infancy, and how many and various are the method* sug gested for their future working and for the conservation of the gold extracted ! One subject has reoently more partfcularly engrossed the attention of cipltallsis, i.e., that of working the beds of oar rivers on a larger and more expanded scale than that hitherto adopted, Down country on the Olutha and Kftwaraa rivera dredging is the order of the d«y. and miles upon miles of these river beds are being taken np for tha purpose of developing their riches on that system, la Lake County there are chances of working portions of the Kawarau, Shot over, and Arrow rivers by other means and without the aid of c implicated machinery. We will take that portion of the Kavrarau river that winds rouod the peui-iBuU near Victoria Bridge. There, by tunnelling across the narrowest part of i be pen'neula and diverting the river thereunder, some two miles and s-half cf the old river bed — no less — would be drained a? d be opened for the operations of the miner, the greater portion of whloh could be ground eluioad. This would, without doubt, be the richest river claim m the col< ny, as it has never been worked, and the gold must have been deposited m its hidden orevioes for centnries untold, fud, as it has been, by the richest etreama m Otago — the Shotover and Arrow rivers. Here then would be a river claim of virgin ground 13,000 ft long by an average of some 200 ft m width, or 2,600,000 square feet. This, by means of probably some half O r three quarters of a mile of a tunnel, ocnld be reolaimod. It would, no doubt, be a gigantic echerae, bat the reward is almost a certainty. We can also point to many parts of tho Arrow River where, with an outlay of £1,000 or £2,000 the stream could be diverted through rooky points by tunnelling and the ground could either be ground Bloiced thioagh the tunnel or worked by hydraulic jet, aocordirg to tha natural advantages of the locality. Ground sluicing a river c-aim through a roca: tunnel can be accomplished where a large siip t lists and blocks the river, as Oarl Hein'a claim, Arrow River Falls. There the river bed has been blocked up for some two miles by an enormous glacial slip by the mountain Bide, thus causing the auriferous gravel to be deposited century aftac century m this portion of the river until it formed surface beaches of some 60ft above tha bed rock, at the rive r 's bottom Already a powerful syndicate of shareholders is forming m Melbourne to work this part of the rivor. There is tvory ress n to believe that this system of working will not bo confined to this district aloue. The Arrow River Tunnel Company (Messrs Sco'es and Company), pre the pioneers of tho system m Lake County. We have no doubt there are many point 3 m the Shotover — so famous for its richneas— -where tl^o river bed could be worked m the way above mooted.—' Lake County Press. 1

ILLICIT DISTILLATION AT TIMARU

[By Telegram*.] TlMutu, March 14 The distillation case, Customs y Matthe.vrn and Bills, ja now proceeding. The possession of the etill h*ad m the loft of the house, of the atill itsolf m the stable, and the presence of tools, casks, whisky, eto , at a epot some half mile from the house and connected with it by a dray tr»ck, were all proved. Inspector Brohamwas cross-examine i unsuccessfully for Ihe porpose of showing that the still produced was not well enough made to be usd for the purposes of distilling. The* Magistrate overruled the oljeotion as trivial. The case is prooeodbg. the Court being well filled.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

(Re uxeb's Teljeguams— Copybigpt)

A MISTAKE.

London, March 11,

The dividend declared by the Bank of Australasia was 15 per cent, not 1254 per cent as previously telegraphed.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

In the House of Commons to-day Mr Smith announced that the Govern ment would during the present session introduce a Bill dealing with the Irish land question.

LONDON MARKETS

Consols and New Zealand securities are unchanged. Adelaide wheat re mains at 37s for the new crop. Ade laide flour, 265. New Zealand wheat ex store, remains at 33s to 37s 6d, ac cording to quality. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,850,000 quarters, being an increase of 90,000 quarters during the .week. Australian tallow is unchanged. New Zealand frozen mutton, prime quality, is selling at 4^ per lb.

EARTHQUAKE.

.Nice, March 11. A sharp earthquake shock was felt here this afternoon. No damage was caused but a temporary panic arose among the inhabitants.

GOVERNMENT OF BURMAH.

Calcutta, March 11

It is announced that the recently acquired territory of Burmah is to be formed into a province of British India, and placed, under the control of a Lieut-Governor and Council.

AUSTRALIAN.

[REUTBU TELEGRAMS — COPYRIGHT.]

TYPHOID FEVER.

Melbourne, March 14.

On the arrival of the steamer South Australia from Adelaide to-day eight patients suffering from typhoid fever were removed from the vessel to the Hospital. They were all seamen be longing to the steamer. Since January Ist over 800 cases of typhoid fever have been reported m Victoria, sixty of which proved fatal.

SYDNEY MARRETS.

Sydney, March 12.

New Zealand wheat is quoted at 33 8d to 3s lid per bushel : New Zealand oats, 2s to 2s 3d per bushel ; maize. 3s to 4s per bushel : sugar,' £25 10s per ton.

THE WEATHER.

(Received March 14 1 20 p^m }

Brisb \ne, March 14. Heavy rains are reported from many parts of the colony. A cyclone has been experienced at Burketown, near the Gulf of Carpentaria. No serious damage has occurred. .

A RASCALLY HYPOCRITE.

Melbourne, March 14.

T.he police have ascertained that Charles Augustus Smythe, locil preacher, who on Tuesday last was sentenced Je five years imprisonment for defrauding Retallick (sic) 0(^1200 had previously imposed upon several people m Dunedin and Christchurch, where he was suspected of incendiarism. He has recently married a girl while he had a wife and children alive. He will probably be indicted for bigamy.

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION AND COUNTRY JOURNALS.

The " Timaru Herald," m Ha leading article of Saturday, gives vrice to the grievances of the country press as respects the conduct of the Frees Association. It very jastly complains that " unfortunately for the smaller newspapers, wh!ch consti tute the great bo k of Press investments m the oolony, the business of the Asso ciation In the cities is invariably conducted solely m the interests of the large news papers. It cannot be said that, as a rule, conspicuous talent Is displayed iv compil ing even the class of extended messages, bat with regard to the other class of messages (ihe shorter ones supplied to the smaller newspapers) the Association's agents m the cities a-e habitually guilty of the grossest neglect and carelessness. Instead of supplying what fa asked for and paid for — that is a careful abstract of selected intelligence — the agents bundle Into the telegraph offioe a miss of crude and ill-digested items. Frequently things of the utmost importance are omitted altogether and prominence given to other matters of little or no interest outside the cities where they occur. In short the business is conducted In shameful, and we •re sure m many cases, wilful disregard of the smaller newspapers, whose money, however, the Association pockets and m fact could not exist without."

THE MOHIKONUI COALFIELD.

In the cmrßß of an address delivered to the Industrial Association at Ohriat charch a few evenings ago by Mr O'Oonor, M.H R , tha'. gentleman mentioned an important recent discovery of coal at Mohikonni. Going up Goal Greek they founi a seam, 10ft chick, of good gas coal and going stilt further op they fonnd a break' which laid bare a bank of coal some 18ft thiok. They opened this seam and found a ..mass of poal 32ft. high, or, as Mr McKay s*ld, a mountain,, of coal. , The coal was like nothing that had been f^und In the island, exoopt the coal exhibited at the Danedin Exhibition long ago and called Ooalbrobkdale ooal. The coal m the 32ft seam was a dull coal, not con taining much gi»,, but burning without any clinker, being m fact pu>e, carbon. This showed him it wai cot the 1 aame as (he gas coal he had referred to. But on boating they found two teams, the lower of which, 7ft 6iu, was the s *me as gas cool. ' Thus they nad found close to Mokihinui the largest deposit of coal yet fqund ip Ntw Zealand and eaiily acces- BJblo by locomotives, the grade beiDg only tin 40. The Moh konui Oompaty pr> ).insep] to h»ve tiuir owu f*(lw*y arid the management i<f iho port, and wou'd be enabled to Uy do^u the coal on board the sh.ip> at 3a Qd per ton at oppbigd |v IJo and H? 6d &' Qthar places, „ eg^Jft

HORSE MARKET.

Mr T. Buiiock report) for the we.k ending Saturday March 13'.h :— There was rather a larger attendance of farmers a .id ether coantrj settle™ and more horses were brought forward than at previous sales, amongst .which were a number of unbroken four-year-olds, of a medium stamp, from the Aiford Station, for whioh biddings were animated. Out of an entr> of twenty-eight, twenty-one were cold at the following prices, via., the four-year old colts and fillies from Alford > Station fetched £19, £16, £15 £16 10s, £16 10i, £12; the b»x averaging £15 16s. These . were brought forward In good condition and commanded the attention of pur chasers. Others—aged draughts, £10 ss, £12 15i ; three-y sr-old light draughts, £15. Light harnees horses, £5 10s, £7, £10 ; two and three year- olds unbroken, of a light stamp, £12 ; hack* £4, £4 10s up to £8 10a, according to description; •unbroken three-year-old, £6 ; sorubbsra at low prices.' •

SHOOTING AT TEAM CARS

The following is wired to the Gbrltt church "Telegraph" by Ita Auckland correspondent:— A. day or so ago it wm reported that several «Dnduotors and drivers of late tram* going from town to Ponsonby had bee a startled by piatoli being fired at them while puslrg along tbo dark portion of Jervols road. It was then thonght that the firing wai simply the work of a number of larrikins, with a view to frightening the aondnoton of the trams. It has since transpired, however, from inquiries made that the affair is of a much more serious nature. The first shot was fired one night last week, bal it was not thought anything of at. the time. The firing being continued for two or three successive evenings, the men m charge of the trams began to look at the affair m a different light. As the eleven o'olock tram from town was pro* oeeding to the t table along Jervofs road on Saturday night, the driver. Brophy, wan suddenly startled by the firing of a shot, evidently fcum a pistol, m olose proximity to him. In faot the disoharge was at such close quarters that he was struck on the leg by a wad from a fire arm 1% was tro dark to distinguish who fired the shot, bat the driver saw aoma one moving off among the scrub. On Monday n'gtit the elevoa o'olook tram from town to the stables was again' fired at. The oonduotor hoard the shot fired at olose quirtt rs, and the driver, Keith, also heard th* report, and distinctly heard something whizzing past his head. What it really was he cannot swear to, bat it wan so close to him that he felt a gust of air. Kean • •, the driver off duty, on returniug to the stables on the same evening vu also fired upon, and struck with something which he think* was lead. These shots were heard at the stables by the man m charge, and itisstatsd by three men who were passing by the belt of scrub m Jervois road on Monday night, that tbey saw a man rush out of tie scrub, point and fire a weapon deliberately at the car. They affirm that the weapon was a revol ver, and they are also certain from the report that the pistol was loaded with a bullet. They are men familiar with arms, and are certain that their opinion is correct. This will account for the whizz ing noise heard by the driver, Kearney. The polioe have now the matter m hand.

THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCE ROLAND BONAPARTE

(PBOM OUB PAEIS COBREBPONDBNT.)

None of the groat marrugai whfoh have yet taken plaoe, or are thas far annoanoed for the future, equal m po'itt oal and aooial Importance the one ia which Prlnco Roland Bonaparte and hit second cousin, Laetltta, are to. be the happy couple. The precise date of the oareraony m not yet known, but it ?« oeK" tain the wedding will ba solemalstd In the Chateau Monoalieri, near Turin.

Prince Roland is a grandnepiiew, and Princess LaetitU v grandnieoe, of the great Napoleon. He comes of the Luoien branch, and Luoien was third-born of thirteen children, five of whom wore des tined to wear croons. Luolen's second wife bore him nine ohlldren, th« e'dest of whom weddsd his cousin, Zanaide, daughter of Joseph, sometime King of Spaui and Rome— he who married Mile. Clary, of Maraeilles. The seoohd-born of Lucion, Mile. Laatitia, married au Jrleh man, Sir Thomaa Wyae, of Waterford. The onion turned out unhappy/ and they separated. Of all the others, I need only. mention Pierre, who waa born at Rome m 1815. - He was a mtn of ex tremely violent passions, and the hero of more than one sanguinary adventure. Dur ing the second Empire, and to the great annoyance of Napoleon 111 , he took .for wife a seamps tress namod Biffin. The Emperor did all he could to prevent this unioD , but the couple finally got awaj from France, and were wedded m the neutral country of Luxemburg. The marriage, how* ever, was not a legal one, and it wasnot until after the downfall of the Second Empire that they coald find someone to marry them properly. In the meantime they were so hard pushed for the necessaries of life that Mnae. Pierre opened a milli ner's shop m London. Ihe eldest son of Prinoe Pierre w«i chriitened Roland, and it is he who will coon marry the Princess Laetltia. Novem« ber 17, 1880, he was joined m holy m»tri moDy to th« daughter of the late M, Blana of Monte Oarlo. Another Mile. Blano wedded Prince Radalvil, and their brother M. Edmond Blano, member of the famous olub "Mirl'tons," it one of the most popular owners and breeders on the ! French turf; ' The Princess Roland B maparte nh Blano, died about three years ago, leaving an only ohil<?, who ii now one of the wealthiest heiresses m Eu ope. Prinoe Rolaud Is a tall efts tingub. looking man, who loves to travel and to study, and who never got* out into society when be can help it The Prince is ten years the senior of bis bride. She was born m Paris twenty years ago ; but ever since she was five years of age she has been living ¥ith her mother, Princess Olotllde, at the chateau near Turio. Princess Olotllde Napoleon is a daughter of the late Viotor Emmanuel, aud is therefore titter to the present King of Italy. Indeed, her husband is the only one of alt the grand* children of Charles and Laetitla Bonaparte that tver made a royal marriage. It was his father who married Miss. Betsy Patterson, of Baltimore ; but Napoleon annulled the union on a most arbitrary manner, and during her life compelled hi) brother Jerome to wed Princess Frederick*, of Wurtomburg, of whom we& horning sons aud a daughter— Prinoe Jerome, who died at Florence m 1847 without issue ; Prinoe Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul, who assumed the D*me of Jerome on his brother's death, and who, as Prince Napoleon was - exiled last summer, and Princess Mathilde, who married Prince Demidoff In 1840, separated from. him five years later, and, subsequently took a well known painter to herself as husband . , '

Mi as Laetitia is a charming young Udy, and 1b at accomplished a prinpeis as yon will find Id a day's walk ' Like tier {nothef,ghe is of a serlonij iarn oi mind, and is very pious. Her brother YiotorU the hope of the Oarragnao Bonapartlsti, aud her ctbur brother,' Lows, has JQst finished a voyage rouud, the world. ''""■ " The Chateau Monoajlerl, where the wedding is to fake place, is on bank of the river Fo, at the foot of loma piptqreiqae moanfalos, 'Oloae to "the Ohateau t la a Carmelite convent, which Princess Ololtilde visits every day. The pea pan to down there are veiy fond of princess Laetitia, and wb«a she it out; horseback- riding they often ory tf^f hfi

TBB ASHBUBTON GUAKDIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1867



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