DEATH

Maguinness.— At Lyndhursfc, on April 29, William Henty Mo guinness, farmer. Aged 52.

Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1898.

Mr Ben Tillett cannob be acccsed o! flittering the management of tbe Laun

ces t o n (Tasmania] PLAIN ENGLISH. Benevolent Asjlum

The following are some of his remarks after visiting that i istitution :—I thii k the institution a sh&meful one, and discreditable to Tas mania. The greatest meanness imaginable —much below the worst of oar home workhouses. Wrelched accomaaoclation —asphalt floors for old men ... is inhuman, callousness even to mvdnesa . . . barrsck and prison-! ke con ditions* the dress, absence of any comfort and separation from their wives m old age, is heartletji . . . God-forsaken hole you put your old pioneers m. . . • The men and thsir wives who had little or no risks of health or lite to run, are able to end their days m fatted idleness, as a reward for land-grabbing, while these poor old veterans are Imprisoned, and their caretaker turned into a gaoler. The ration, is a disgrace to civilisation * . . the cost runs to less than 3s per head, exclusive of official salaries. flld England allows more than that rate m the poor house for official attendance to each paaper. I hope the mean creatures of officialdom may nevor have to neck the oold comfort of your benevolent (?) house.

Local and General.

Window Swabbed. — During the sale oi horsea m the Arcade yesterday one animal backed into Mr Chapman's window, smash tug the glass.

Ok the first page today will be found an

obituary notice and a report of the meeting of the Aehburton Acclimatisation Society ;

the fourth page contains commercial, spon ing, aa<j general news.

INDEPENDENCE OF WOMAN.— A Bill has been drafted by the jejeegutive of the Women's National Council with the object of giving economic independence to women*

The Pipe v. Cigarette. —The Tue^cn is apparently abandoning the pipe and cigar m f uyoj: of beoon ing * ciga; ette fiend. In 1892 Germany manufactured 152,000,000 cigar ette*. Io 1895 the figures reached 600,003,000, which were dpubled m 1897.

A Woman on Wab.— Miss Bain, on " War and Arbitration " at the Women's National Council;— *' In New Zealand we must have our fortreaaes that could not possibly defend anything, and Easter en-, oampments that give our boys influenza, and ideas of murder."

Tee Lady Help.— Mioi Kirk, at the Women's National Council, said tb.*d she would rather be a cook at £30 a year than a lady help at 63 a week, who took her meal* with her employers. "The thorn m the flesh of the /servants,' added Mrs Scott, " was that the mistreßsas had not themselves been good servants,"

I Applause Put Him Out.— Most public performers are fond of applause, and are generally not inclined to cavil at the time they receive it, but there are occasions when speotatora may show their feelings a little too soon. At .the dog trial at Cashmere on Friday the wonderfully intelligent work done m the yarding competition by the Northern champion dog Bruce evidently aroused m the spectators a high degree 6/ luppressed excitement, aud when the sheep were induced to go into the yard there was a sudden shout and burst of applaiue. The { animals no doubt imagining something was wrong darted oat again before the hurdle could be closed. Bruce thus lost the points for which he had so cleverly worked, aud his owner, who so ably handled his dog, was disappointed of obtaining a prominent place to the priz? list.

Railway Fares.— lt has been decided by the Railway D partment that delegates

travelling to attend annual meetings of rtligiouß bodies may be granted first-class tickets at holiday excursion fares on produc tion of a certificate from the secretary cf the body. Applications for the concessions must be made two months beforehand.

1 he Post Office. — Mr William Leggett's tender has been accepted for additions to the building m this town called a Post Office.

Why the public submit to the miserable facilities afforded them m the matter of post and telegraphic matters is a question that can only be answered by the long suffering public themselves. The preaent building is really uninhabitable duringnor'west weather. Surely ib ia time that an important centre like Ashburton should have an up-to-date Post Office. *

He Rang The Bell Himself.— Told ty ! the Bulletin'. — "He was travelling for a grog firm, and notioed that always, as soon as he entered this particular country pub. , the landlord would go outside and pull a certain wire of an unoertain wire fence o'ose by. Two minutes afterwards, the village blacksmith, his four men, and all the friends they could get hold of en route U6ed to walk into the shop and then— the drummer had to ehout all round ! One day, however, when the landlord was sneaking out as usual, the drummer stopped him. ' Don't trouble, landlord — I've rung the bell myself, They'll all be here presently,' and so they were." .

The War and Provisions. — Ihe war news has caused some excitement m the

wheat and flour markets. Four has risen

£1 a ton within the past few days. Wheat ia pretty firmly held for 4a 7d to 4s 9d, oata from 2s 5d to 2s 6d. Onions have risen about 2s 6d a ton within the week, and potatoes are also rising, It will be found that m these dayß of inter change between nations of all the necessaries of life, the

effect of war between two civilised countries will be muoh more far-reaching than m former times.

The New Woman and the Fobtune Teller. — The new woman, Bayß the New Zealand Times, finds it hard to throw off the old Eve. This was picturesquely exempli fied when two propagandists of the rights of women, whose faces have become familiar within the laßt few days, were seen comiug away from the habitat of a female fortune teller, conversing with difficulty between paroxysms of laughter, while from behind a curtain the object of their mirth was gazing out upon their departing forma with curiosity writ on every lineament.

They Scored. — The Women's Council sent a deputation to Mr Hall -Jones on Thursday with a view to getting the proceedings of the Council printed by the Government free of cost. "We shall have the private offices going tor us," remarked the Minister. " Ob, bother trie private offices," retorted Mrs Williamson, the spokeswoman. " What can you show m the way of a precedent ?" " We paid for the last," came the quick re ply. " Oh, yes, I think I can manage it for you," said the Minister, after a pause, and the deputation, having gained their point at the expense of the taxpayers, departed smilingly. Lotteries. — A number of persons were fined £10 oollectively at Wellington on Friday for selling tickets for the Melbourne Eight Hours Anniversary lottery, and the proprietors of a Wellington newspaper were fined £3 33 for inserting £he advertisement relative to it. One of those fined was assured that the Colonial Secretary's sanc tion had been obtained, and the advertise ment was published inadvertently, and withdrawn immediately it was noticed. No costs were asked for. Proceeding!) are to be taken m the South Island against a person who was stated to be concerned m pushing the lottery. & coidbnt. — yesterday afternoon a serious accident happened at the Springburn Mills by which Mr James King when felling a tree, had his leg broken. It appears that m the act of falling, the tree glanced off another tree and struck the unfortunate man, pinning him to the ground. He suffered so muob that it was thought advisable not to move him until this more, ing, when he was brought to Ashburton by the morning train and conveyed to the hospital. King was formerly waggoner for Mr Herring, of Alford Estate, and had only lately commenoid work m connection with the sawmills. The Windsor Magazine — The March number of this popular periodical has been handed to us by Mr H. M. Jones. Jt ia more than usually interesting. The serial story, "Kronstadr," is carried forward a couole of chapters ; there is an article on the great cricket struggles between Australia and England, nicely illustrated ; " Who goes Home " a readable piece by Spencer Hughes ; and an account of a chat with Mr Reid the famous Punch artist is very entertaining, made more so by the amusing illustrations. A couple of nice stories and an account of " How animals pome to the together with an article well worth reading entitled '- An Imperial heritage" map up m all some five hundred pages of very pleasant reading. Who Makes Pujjlio OPINION ?—Regret ting the lack of public interest taken m civic affairs, and the consequent scarcity of per. Bins with an intelligent opinion upon these subjects, Mr H. D. Bell, m an address be fore 'he Citizens' Association, said of oourse there was a public opinion of a kind — that was the press. Here and all over the woild the people had got into the lazy habit of letting the press think for them, and being guided by the opinions of the editor. This was go§d as far as it went, but each person should take" lip the position of an editor, [ and form an opinion of his own after hearing whab others had to say, By that means fiey would arrive at a raally fair public opinion, which did not exist now. The Husband's Purse — Mrs Daldy, of i Auckland, m a paper read before the Women's National Council, asked how it was that a man would place his life's happi ness m the hands of a women with whom he dared not trust his purse 2 If all husbands , were as Mrs Cowden Clarke's, who divided his purse wifh his wife, there would be no need for educating husbands to a sense of their [marital obligations. As to the sug gestion that) women did not understand the value of money, and were not to be trusted with the handling of it, she referred to national debts, oity loans and ghurohesrr financially unsound — all managed by men. The W.C.T.U. was managed by women, and its just-issued balance- sheet showed a credit balance of £182, every branoh of the Union being m a good financial position, What would be said of a business firm if one partner absolutely refused to allow the other to share m the profits.

News m Brief.

The members of the Ash burton Acclima tisation Society will hold their annual dinner on Wednesday, May 11. An advertisement appears m another column.

The Primitive Methodist Church services are advertised elsewhere. The Rev. G. H. Mann will preach at Wills Street morning and evening, his subjects being — "What the 19th century demands " and " A great question wanting an answer." Mr Mann will preach at Aflenton m the afternoon,

To the Peaf and those troubled with Noises m the Hea* or other Aural Troubles Dr Nicholson, of uondon, the world famed aural specialist and Inventor of artificial eat drums, has just Issued the > 100 th edition of his illustrated and descriptive book on Deaf ness and Aural Troubles, Thiß book may be had from Mr F. Shit.', 160, Adelaide ttoad, Wellington, N.Z., on receipt of staisps. Mr Campbell, of the same address, was greatly relieyod of his deafness by Dr. Nicholson's system, and talfejj pleasure m spreading the news of the great 'specialist m New Zealand. A litfclebook on the cure of Rheumatism, Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the same author, may ;e had from M Shaw on reoeipt of stamps.

Don'? Copra?. — Relief can be obtained immediately. * Use "^eating's Cough Lozenges" — well known aa the utterly unrivalled Cough Remedy. Strongly jreieommended Joy many eminent physioiins. They at onoe oheok the cough and remove the cause without any after effect j the moat delicate can therefore taka them. One Lozenge alone giveß ease— one or two at bed time enaurea rest. Sold everywhere m tine, 13£d each,

CANDLELIGHT NOTES.

" I must have liberty withal, ns largo a charter us tno wind, to blow en whom I please.— As You like it. 1 '

" That lovely Thursday," of which I wrote last week has nob repeated itself, but instead we have baen having weather fit for midsummer, and still no rain. I hear further reports of pump wells beginning to whetzi and snort m the ominous way they did some years ago, juat before the springs went so low that all the pipe wells had to b j sunk several feet to reach the water bearing stratum. Let us hope, however, that we have no repetition of the time I refer to, with its many inconveniences Some people I know had to content themselves with bath water from the channel?, and had to carry their drinking and cooking water from a distance. A godly and prohibit ioniab neigh bor of mine felt greatly scandalised one morning, wheu the brewer's cart (topped at his door, and from the cart was dumped down an 18 gallon cask. My neighbor had boughb the cask, und arranged with a carrier to fetch it full of aqua pura, and to make a contract of the job of replenishing" Havingamore pressing jobonhand, thetarrier asked the brewer's man to deliver the e*sk of water, which he did ; but the cold water man got such a turn when he saw m what vehiole his Adam's wine had been earned, and the company it had kept on the way.

Talking of prohibition, I was at Vale'a lecture on Thursday evening. The Mayor was m the chair, and the Wesleyan parson was on the stage with the lecturer, but the meeting w»s not the succcbs its promoters looked for. It was advertised cleverly, and cleverly puff-paragraphed, but the hall was aoarcely more than half full, and those present were mostly well-known temper anne workers. Vale is fluent, but it is the fluency of the droning bee, and he ia not a rousing speaker by any meane, though doubtless a well meaning man and enthusi astic m the cause he seeks to further. Tom Taylor can " knock spots off him" for fire and energy, and for delivering a fighting and aggressive speech he is "not a patch" on L. M. Isitt. I remember attending, some I years ago, a teetotal demonstration m the Domain. (The best speaker on that day was a local man — Mr Watkins, a Primitive Methodist local preacher. He waß breezy, amusing, full of nice anecdote, and humor ova to a degree. He did not ban and denounoe, and use hard words about the traffic, but he had such a way of putting the question to the drinker that every man who heard him, and had been m the habit of wetting his whistle with anything stronger than pump water, oame away fully satisfied of the foolishness of drinking. A lot of pledges were signed oyer that speech, bub bow long they were kept I am not historian enough to be able to record. Why don't the tee totallers secure orators of the sensible and genial Watkins stamp — men with just the sorb of style about them that compels attention and offends none. By the way, I hear L. M. laibt will soon be on his way out to New Zealand again to make things hot m prohibition chcles.

Vale had a good deal to say about gamb ling. A correspondent has handed me a cutting from an Australian paper m which , certain figures are given regarding the tote at a one-day's race meeting that would make some ef our New Zealand reformers sib up. Oakaparinga is a town, less m size than AshburtoD, abovjb twenty miles from Ade laide. The race meeting there is held on Easter Monday, and the sporting reporter writing of it says " the spectacle of the crowd was a thing to marvel at. There must have been 20,000 people present, and the sight on the roads through the hills was like the sight one witnesses m England on Derby day on the way to Epsom Downs." This is very good, but when one goes on to read the description of the races, one finds that the tote is a great affair at that country race meeting. On the hurdle race there was £3,872 10s invested j £2,312 10a on the Trial Stakes} £2621 on the Cup; £4298 10s on the Steeplechase ; and £3098 10a on the Railway Handirap. In all £16,212 on five raceß, at a small Aus tralian country town ! Truly the god of the turf must have many worshippers m Adelaide.

Our city fathers had a little discussion on Monday week about the municipal library. Mr Joseph Scaly has an opinion about it whiob is shared by not a few. The library, according to him and those who think with him, is a white elephant). Ie consumes far more than it returns m revenue, while the subscribers to it are few indeed. In the estimates for the year the library expendi ture is set down at £65. The probable revenue £20— that is, forty subscribers at 10a each. For the benefit of forty subscribers is it worth the Council's time to maintain a pubio library 1 And if it is, what right have any forty people to enjoy the benefit of the annual expenditure of £65 of the general ratepayers- money m return for a payment of ±}20 ? Why keep the usefulness of the library within so very circumscribed limits 1 If the expenditure is now £65 with £20 re turned, why ttofc surrender that £20, and let the whole town reap the benefit of the literature the library contains, and such as it is let it be free to the ratepayers generally. The Ashburton Club is railed at by many as a very wioked place because its members are able to obtain a glass of beer there for three pence. I know of a good many things m this world that are worse than a glass of beer for threepence, but will let that pasß till 1 have finished this letter, and then I may find time to disoußs a glass of beer for threepence. It is not all beer and skittles at the Club. The library of that institution, with the exception perhaps of the Mount Somers public library, which is said to be the beat m the county, will compare with any library available from the hills to the sea and from the Rakaia to the Rangitata. There are nearly 1300 volumes m it, aid I notice neatly gob up catalogues of these have just been issued. The books can be borrowed by members for an almost nominal fee^-ls par Quarter, to pay for the attendance and ofmer incidentals. And that Clubhaßa membership of over'3Qo, while fta library is enjoyed by the great "majority pf them. £f it' is necessary to keep a read ing room open for the public m our Coupcil buildings, and to supply it with the chief papers of the polony and the leading magazines of the 01d Country, why not keep a lending library also open to the ratepayers. Make the library self-supporting, and my cause of complaint is removed ; but I object to be rated Is In the £1 to maintain a library costing three times per annum what }ta handful of subscribers pay towards it. Either reduce the subscription to a nominal figure, 80 that the usefulness of the institu tion may be estendpft, or tftrow it open atyo gether, so that the ratepayers who provide its cost may have any benefit attaohlng to it, and thus extend its usefulness still further.

I was muoh amused yesterday by a converaatiop between a couple of farmers rj the war ejcoitement. Both of them it Seemed were subscribers to the Mail, but one also gats another }ocal paper, which pretends to be a newspaper. Says Abo B, " You can never believe these newspaper fellows. I was comparing two different papers a day or two ago. One of them, pub lished m the afternoon of Thursday, 28th msb, had a New York message dated April 0, and the ojjher, published a day later, had the very flame pable meggage, but it was dated 28th ; and m the last paper there was a statement that the first paper's cables were second hand cables .' How's that ? " 'f That," says B, ?' is the way of the world. The Jittle prin.6 you tako robs the other, and then' tries ,fco make people believe the stolen oomipocliby ia nob worth baviDg. It would be awkward for the fellows running ib if they were treaUd as o£her people are, who tako what does not belong to them. Why (should they escape when a poor fellow who is hungry gets sent to prison if he steals a loaf of bread ? " I commend Mr B'a remarks to you, merely remarking that they were heartily endorsed by all who stood by.

Referring to the war fever reminds me of the peculiar position m which we British stand with regard to Amerioa m this matter. We cannot help wishing to see her come out of the struggle'victorioua, as her sons are our kinsmen. Hut on the other hand no sensible man can for a moment justify the American people for ruahing into' war under the cir cumstances. The high-faluting about hum anity, and helping tha distressed is all tommy rot. If the pacification of Cuba were Ml that' ww dsiift4t America had.

merely to invite the co-operation of the I great powers m compelling Spain to come to termp, and Spain would perforce have yielded . She could not — so thmk her people who have t ot forgotten her brilliant pjwt — yield to the dictation of a eingie nation | But ehe could, and would, gracefully bow before an opposing world. The fact ia the war, so far as America is concerned, has been forced on — not by the humanitarians, bub by the speculators, a olasa of men who 1 ! are helping to ruin the finest country m the world. These men have rushed the nation into war merely to create opportunities for speculating m commodities likely to be affected by the disturbed condition of trade. A.< this state of things will chiefly affect the necessaries of life, I can see a time of trouble ahead quite outside of the chances of the war being carried into the country itself, and the Bufferers will not be those who have been the cause of the troublet — Jaques.

COMMERCIAL.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operativi Association of Canterbury, Limited, is m receipb of the following cable message from its London office :—

11 Present prioes at Smithfield markeb are Mutton, 2s 8d per stone, market steady j lamb, 2s lOd per stone, market weak. Wheat is to-day 45s per quarter."

LAND SALE.

Messrs Friediander Broa. offered the farm of Mr W. H. Ford, Wheafcstone, at their marb to-day. There was a good attendance, and competition was keen. The hammer fell ab £20 15a per acre, the purchaser being Mr John Small.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS

Ruapuna.

Ab the householders' meeting the follow ing committeemen were duly eleoted :— Messrs Howden, Allan, Shields, Jaine and McLanohlan. Mr McLaughlan was eleoted Chairman.

Huntingdon.

At the meeting of householders held on 25th insfc. the following were eleoted a school committee for the year : — Messrs Body, W Williams, J. Woods, M. Griffiths, R, P, Parish. Mr Parish was elected chairman.

Willowby.

After the usual preliminary, the following were elected :— Messrs John Williams, William Harding, Henry Erampton, J. W. Sfcoddarb, W. T. Lill, S. S. Chapman, and Rev. J. J. Mather. Mr S. S. Chapman was re-elected chairman.

CABLE NEWS.

Home and Foreign.

Press Association— By Electric Telegraph- Copyright. Shaw, Saville and Albion Company. London, April 29 The balance-sheet of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company shows a profit of £26.193. A dividend of 5 per c*nt is declared and £5000 added to the fund for equalising the dividend, £2,555 being carried forward. Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Company. The balanoe-eheefc of the Australian and New Zmland Morrgage Company shows a debit balance of £13,017. The Direc tors attribute this to the drought m Australia.

Westralian Mining- Shares.

The market m Westrallan mining shares is m a state of chaos. It iB esti mated thab the difference amounts to £175,000. Several failures are recorded, and more are expected. Mr Bottomley has issufd a circular stating that owing to the inability of Home firms to comply with the scheme ( f arrangement, it will be necessary to reconstruct, the Wes tralian Market Trnsb.

Australian.

Press Association— By Eleotriq Telegraph—

A Bank Lawsuit.

Copyright.

Sypney, April 29 Applications for leave to issue an execution against the defendant on a memorial of the judgment obtained m New Z. aland v Lloyd was dismissed with costs. The defendant is a resident of this colony, and jadgnidntwasobtainedagainst him for oalle.

Lord Ranfurly.

Melbourne, April 29 Lord Banfarly leaves Mildura on May 2 via Sw&n Hill for Melbourne, reaching Sydney on May %

COLONIAL BUTTER IN ENGLAND

The Use of Boracic Acid.

Press Association — By Eleotrip Telegraph- Co£>yrighjj

LoNDpjj, April 28

A deputation of leading importers and distributors of colonial butter waited on the Australian Agents- General regarding the pending prose cutions m regard to the use of boracic acid m preserving butter, and requested the Agents-General to ask the British Board of Trade to stay further pro ceedings m the prosecutions instituted by the Glamorgan Oounty Council against persons engaged m the sale of Australian butter until such time as experts had an opportunity of making an investigation m connection with the charges, and fixing a standard for the whole country. Sir Andrew Glarke, the. Victorjan Agent-General, Jpn behalf of the other agents, assured the deputa tion of their sympathy, and promisee! to represent as strongly as possible the views advanced by the deputation to the Government,

London, April 29

The prosecution of sellers of several brands of Victorian butter, alleged to be adulterated with boracic acid, at Glamorgan, ended m the dismissal of the case" referring to the Orbbst brand, on a technicality. The Council has appealed against/ the decision to the High Court.

The pases m which the Millewa and Corangainite brands are concerned haye been adjourned pending the result of the appeal m the Orbpst pase.

WAR NEWS.

AMERICA AND SPAIN. » ■ Additional Spanish. Troops Landed m Cuba. Shipping Charters Altered. Naval Battle Ezpeoted To-day Off Manila' / Esoitement at Puerto Sico. American and Foreign Shipping Increase m Dues- Spanish Ships m Want of Coal. The Attack on Havana. War Balloons for the Americani, A Naval Duel. > The San Francisco Mail Threatened Press Aasooifction— By Eleotrlo Telegapb— Copyright. New Yobk, April 29 In landing the expedition on Satur day nineteen thousand insurgents will cooperate with the Americana. The warships will support the land forces with two thousand marines, thus dividing attention. Preparations are completed for the bombardment of Havana. When the marines and in surgents succeed m ejecting the enemy from a fort desired as a military base troops will be hurried into Cuba. ' A , large force is now at Tampa, ready for I embarkation. America has ordered a supply of war ' balloons from Paris. WASHINGTON) April 29 The Spaniards have succeeded m throwing one thousand additional 5 troops into Cuba. The transport * Mountserrat, escaping the pursuit of two American cruisers, ran into 1 Oienf uegos and landed the forces. America is issuing Treasury bonds to be made re-payable m. coin under similar conditions to those issued by President Cleveland's administration. ' The issue has dissatisfied Silverites. The American Pacific fleet is ex pected at Manila and a naval engage* ment is likely to take place on Satur day. The Detroit captured the steamer Abrasion Bolivai, with 60,000d0l aboard. There is great excitement at Puerto II Rico and throughout the islands. ,f Four Spanish gunboats are at San Is Juan, the capital. The Consul has d telegraphed for British warships owing g to the danger of an outbreak] Martial law is being enforced with great tyranny. Three stores for explosives at , Easton, Pennsylvania, were blown up: * The act is attributed to Spanish spies. j. Congres3 proposes to increase the n tonnage dues on foreign shipping to 2dol 40c. Madrid, April 29 The Spanish warships at St. Vincent 2 are unable to obtain more than half the coal they require. £ Bong Kong, April 29 y A portion of the German East Asian 0 squadron has been ordered to Manila, y London, April 29 11 Three Spanish torpedo boats are *~ cruising off Gibraltar, changing posi tions nightly with the object of pur. phasing coal. The British warship Charybdis is watching them, ready for action, Great Britain being determined "" to maintain 'neutrality. Mr Balfour, speaking m the House of Commons, said he believed the Bill favoured countries not exacting right dues on American vessels. ° Mr Ritchie, replying to a deputation n of shipowners on the matter, said he h had communicated with Sir Julian Is Pauncefote, . the British Ambassador it at Washington, and with several Powers interested. The Government were keeping watch on the interests of British shipping, Sydney, April 29 g The Charters of the American ships Martha Fisher, at Newcastle, ha,ye b,een altered from Chili feo a Oaliforniau ~ port ; and the John Potter from San Francisco to Honolulu. Adelaide, April 29 A Spanish officer at present on a visit here was interviewed. He was, asked whether there was any truth, m the rumour that a Spanish vessel had been seen 0$ Auckland. He replied 9 that he did not think it unlikely, f There were American, mail steamers - plying between Sydney and San Fran> - .cisco and between San Francisco and 5 Japan, usually carrying large; quanti -1 ties of specie. He thought it very i likely that Spain would take advantage ■ and make Manilla a base from which 1 to prey on American commerce m the Pacific. The points of these: attack! naturally would be somewhat m the neighborhood of the ports of cjepartura of these vessels. '

The Spanish Newspapers Romancing.

Another Spanish Ship Captured. A Heavy Loss to Spain, British Warships and To-day's Battle. Received Wakapuaka April 30, § a.m., Gvabdian Office 9 55 a.m. M^p^ip, April 2s} The Spanish newspapers report that; the American ironclads have been obliged to withdraw from Cuba, Washington, April 29 The American monitor Terror sighted Spanish steamer Guido, which had janked her fires. The Guido attempted. to escape and. the Terror gave chase, Before the ohaae was over an American gunboat came m sight and went to the assistance of the Terror. The Guido was forced to surrender, la addition to her ordinary cargo she had on board fpur hundred thousand dpllanrjntended for the payment of the Spanish troops' The fifth company of the Maryland Guards being disaffected have returned home from camp, xr Mr at • Hp ?1 £ Q1?< *> A P rU 29 Ji.M.a. jLianet has been ordered to watch SfttWfUy'g n^va] battle. ; ™

THE ASHBOIiaOfI GOAUDIAft : SATUKDAI, APEIL 30, 1898,



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