The Evening Echo. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1878.

Winslow Sports. —A meeting of the Winslow Sports Committee was held at Bryant’s Hotel last evening. Present— Messrs. Scott (in the chair), Rogers, Kavanagh, Saunders, Draper, James, and Willock. The secretary reported £l5O collected for carrying out the programme, and the following prizes were alloted to each horse race, viz.—Hurdle Race, 10 sovs. ; Trotting Race, 5 sovs. ; Winslow Cup, 20 sovs. ; Ladies’ Purse, 10 sovs. ; Consolation, 5 sovs. The prizes for pedes trian events will be unusually liberal, and there is every prospect of the meeting being a success. The Weather.—The best news farmers in this county can hear, and which they will listen to with joyful hearts, is the pattering of tije rain drops, and to-day that news has reached them. At last, after many disappointments, the clouds have drooped, and a refreshing shower commenced at midday. How long it may continue is, of course, another matter, but at present it looks as if business was meant and we were likely to have a good share of what has been long wanted—wet. Seafield School Committee.— The usual monthly meeting of the School Com mittee was held on Wednesday evening at the house of Mr. Silcock. The members present were —Messrs. Bruce (Chairman), Silcock (Secretary), Parsons, Daly, Mai dens, Hardwick, and T. M. Jones. After the minutes of last meeting had been read and confirmed, a letter was read from the Board of Education in reply to inquiry by the Committee as to when the contractor would commence to build the school. The Board’s letter said the contractor had commenced. The Secretary we s instructed to write to the Board, pointing out that as yet there was only a portion of the timber on the land. It was resolved to call for tenders for the fencing and gates of the school ground. A special meeting was fixed for Monday three weeks. 'The Mount Somers Recreation Ground has been brought under the Pub lic Domains Act, Powers are delegated, to the Mount Somers Domain Board under the same Act.

Tea Meeting and Entertainment at Waterton.— The Presbyterians at Water ton are leaving no effort untried in their endeavour to raise the needful for their new church fund. The list of private sub scribers in aid of the undertaking is long and hearty. An entertainment given a month ago in the Longbeach Schoolroom, in aid of the scheme, had a satisfactory result financially; and last night a tea meeting and entertainment came offm the same place, which, we should say, ought to add very considerably in swelling the fund. The tea-tables were laid out very tastefully, and were presided over by several ladies of the district. The good things were found by friends of the cause, both inside and outside the Presbyterian fold, and the abundance which characterised the purveying, spoke well for the liberality, both of hand and heart, of those who found the supplies, The table decorations were handsome, and one cake —very large, and neatly got up —bore a line, hiding a piece of quiet humour, thus—“ Tqo Tea ‘ En gagement,’ December G, 1873.” It would not have been proper, perhaps, to say “ tea-fight,” so the pawky Scotchman got over the difficulty as above, We should say about 200 guests were entertained at t@a, and went s wed <pite a stir in the

usually quiet district, for the crowd of country people—bent on a holiday evening —gave the roads leading to the school a very lively appearance. Towards eight o’clock the remnants of the repast were cleared away, and the entertainment com menced. The Rev. H. B. Burnett occupied the chair, and gave an address on “ Sympathy.” In a very humorous reca pitulation of the words and phrases which have from time to time, and for no appa rent reason, been popular “ hailwords and responses ” in London, he drove home the lessons of the subj ect he selected. Amongst those phrases he included such as “ Walker” ; “ There he goes with his .eye out!” “ Flare up!” “How’s your poor feet?” etc. Mr. Joseph Clark addressed the meeting on the same subject in his characteristically amusing -style, saying that, as regarded the work of the Church, he was an “allround” man, and lent a hand whenever, and to whom, he could be useful —no matter what the “ ism. ” Be sides the addresses, a programme of vocal and instrumental music was given. Miss Gates —who presided at an excellent piano kindly lent for the eveningby Mr. Clark opened the programme with a carefully played overture; and the other, items, which were all supplied by Ashburton amateurs, were as follows :—“ Robinson Crusoe,” and several other humorous songs, by Mr. 11. A. Gates, whose frequent “encores” testified to his popularity; “ Come, birdie, come,” by Miss Gates, whose voice seemed suited to perfection to the acoustics of the schoolroom, and told accordingly ; “Silverchimes,’’anda Scotch song, by Mrs. Dunn, -were very well received ; “Die wacht am Rhein,” by Mr. Hayes, rendered in true patriotic style ; and “ My pretty Jane,” very well sung by Mr. Tomlinson ; and other vocal items of merit. Readings were given by Mr. G. M. Robinson, “ The Moustache”; and by Miss Stewart—“ The Electric Journey.” Miss Stewart was particularly successful in her reading. The diy, pawky humour of the story, and the broad Scotch in which it is written, receiving full justice at her hands, and being well appreciated. At the close, votes of thanks were given to Mr. Clark, for the aid he had given the pro moters of the meeting ; to Mr. G. F. Scott, for his kind assistance to the party from Ashburton ; to the singers, etc., specially to Mr. and Miss Gates for their assistance; and to the ladies who had worked so hard and so successfully in providing the good things, and dispensing them. We believe a handsome sum will be realised, to the Church Funds. At the tea meeting the tables were under the charge of Mrs. and the Misses Taylor ; Mrs R. Anderson and Miss Brown ; Mrs. Hudson ; Mrs. Gil more and Miss Gavin (Ashburton) ; and the Misses Grigg and party from Long beach station.

Mr. Macandrew on Bridges.—Reply ing to a deputation of residents of Bal clutha on Thursday, relative to the damage caused by the recent floods, the Hon. Mi*. Macandrew suggested that, in districts subject to periodical floods, the bridges should be suspension bridges.

Railway Accident. —The 8.45 a.m. express train from. Christchurch to Dune din ran off the line on Wednesday after noon at Hampden. Fortunately, the damage sustained was very trifling. A buffer and horse-box were smashed, and the passengers received no injury beyond a slight shake. It is supposed that the accident arose from the points not having been properly secured. Pending an in quiry, the stationmaster has been sus pended. Father Henneberry can scold. During one of his lectures in Auckland recently a disturbance was caused by people leaving the church. The rev. Father remonstrated thus : —“Why do you come here if you do not mean to stay ? (Somebody had fainted.) Of course, if anyone is sick, they will be cared for, but I will not tolerate persons standing up and going out in the midst of the sermon. When you come here, keep order, and do not disturb the others. This is the last time I will refer to it. If I have to refer to it again, I will make it hot for those who disturb the congregation. ”

Jews with the Early Navigators. —A communication to the ‘ Jewish Messenger ’ states ;—“ The only Jew among the ninety adventurers who accompanied Columbus was Luis de Torres, who, in the town of Murchia, had acquired a know ledge of Hebrew, • Chaldaic, and Arabic ; and he it, was whom the great navigator, on the Ist day of November 1492, before leaving Pio de Mares, sent into the interior in order to obtain further information. But he was not a baptised Jew, being erroneously taken for another, who, about the same time, when Vasco de Gama, the the discoverer of a passage to India, hoisted the Portuguese flag on the shores of Malabar, was the first white man sent by the Prince of Goa to offer to Vasca de Gama the hand, of peace and friendship. He was enticed on board, and when Gama found he was a Jew he put him under tortures, and finally had him baptised, re ceiving the name of Gasper de Gama, and returning with him to Europe, where dur ing many years he rendered valuable services to the Portuguese fleets. Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton, need not be at any loss to find the best estab lishment to visit and purchase their drapery, clothing, and general stores, Leaving the Railway Station and turning down Havelock Street, they will see. the establishment of A. 0. Aitken & Co., who are now offering special advantages, which exceed any before offered to the public. Keeping at all times a very large and exceedingly well assorted stock of all classes of goods, bought in the best mar kets and on the most fivorable terms, enables them—to use trade parlance—“to do the thing well ” ; in fact the goods offered by them are such as cannot be excelled . either in quality or price by any house in the trade and are marked gt sue}} prices that making any abatement is unnecessary, surd the most inexperienced are enabled to buy their gooejs as favorably g? best judges. r-Aov'ft ’

ON THE DAUNDER.

“I fouclit for my ain hand.”—Hal o’ THE Wynd.

I have read E. G.’s letter in your yesterday’s paper, and, I think it very Wright. However, let us- be charitable ; let us suppose Mr. Saunders to be an indifferent mathematician, not a banking tout. By the way the patriarchal mem ber for Cheviot is just now receiving some attention from the colonial press. . An ably-conducted journal in the Empire City, intimately associated with the powers that be, finds him a renegade ; a provincial publication of equal merit de plored his arrogant independence ; a local director of public thought consummates this severity by discovering dissimulation in his expression ; and last, but not least, your correspondent proves him a little rusty in his pence table. With such allies I fear him not. I sympathise with these fourth estators, and defiantly wave these crushing accusations in. the veteran’s face, fervently hoping .with his accusers that I shall not be about when the old gentleman has an opportunity of refuting them. I have from earliest infancy, doted on potatoes. The liberty of thought allowed in English speaking countries has.enabled me advantageously to harmonise: my views with those of affluent friends. The Fenian confederate who lent me a pound, to frustrate the scheme of a desperate Royalist, little suspected that the same desperado was my London tailor, -who acceptedthis composition of a formidable account, on my undertaking to use my influence towards overthrowing the Irish nation. The pound is even yet a liability, and Paddy’s in the ascendancy.

Last August our agriculturists were jubilant at the prospect of an abundant harvest; my own little garden plot gave promise of a big vegetation—that was because I didn’t dig, and weeds flourish like unto their cultivated brethren in the deceptive moth of gold. How different now ! My punning friends tell me that things dry don’t “fetch” as they did; they have lost that fresh elastic drollness which in earlier days insured them a favorable reception. The hinges on whLh the flood gates of heaven are hung are evidently rusty, and their lubrication is an all important problem. One genius suggests a good noise. If this .is the remedy the drought will speedily work out its own end, a “ row” must come if this disastrous weather continues. I be lieve this sonorous theory was first sug gested to the mind of our gifted informant have not the pleasure of knowing sufficiently intimately to commend less publicly—by reading of the rain which fell at Waterloo during the great con tinental struggle of ’ls, and his suspicion received positive confirmation by the mist attracted to the ponderous peals which gladdenedand solemnized Tancred street on Friday morning last. I don’t think that cannon and explosives will bring _ the country relief, but I do think that it is time our churches should unanimously supplicate for a blessing we all so urgently need—rain. Some will say, and amongst them a few eminent theologians who can not recognise the possibility of an un orthodox believer residing hereafter in a temperature more salubrious than nine or ten hunhred Fahrenheit, that to ask a miracle is ignorant presumption. This question is not much in my way, but I throw out the idea for other treatment.

“ Competition is the soul of business.” So said our early copy-books, and,although since crawling round the asthmatic text which immortalized this axiom, I have heard this ethereal element of trade autho ritatively denounced by scholarly divines and others, I retain a lingering affection for opposition. Our bakers and butchers, pro minently amidst our local tradesmen, are alive to the survival of the fittest theory , and bread and meat are consequently features on my frugal board. In the sunny South, photography has been revolutionized by artistic plenitude. One wily professor, after repeated efforts, failing to falsify his camera, conceived the gold-giving idea of temporarily providing his patrons with features and color, blending them into a picture so sweetly beautiful that many a Benedict clandestinely purchased a “ carte de visite ” of his furnished wife, little dreaming the original so near. In justice to the fair sex, it should he mentioned that the wife who discovered the picture of her beautified self, pressed closely to her husband’s vest, dropped 1 all sentiment, and had the honesty to soundly broom her lord !

I did not go to the legal dispensary yes terday, but from a friend who attended by courteous invitation from Sergeant Felton r I learn that Messrs. Emerald and Braze were in good voice, and directed. the pro ceedings in their usually efficient manner. Mr. Whipps is rapidly overcoming the hesitancy which characterised his early career, and on Friday next will take a benefit, when I hope to see a bumper house. Mr. Alick Brambell, in the unim portant part of “ old man,” betrayed an ignorance of the text, very deplorable in a gentleman of his years and experience.

I am not musical, and this gives me an absorbing taste for bells. I anticipated this new entertainment would bring up an overpowering house, and having carefully lost all recollection of the advertised sub scription, I reached a friend’s pew in St, Stephen’s early on Sunday last. The next man to appear was taller than me—taller than a good many things, in fact, amongst others the chandelier, against which he bumped heavily, and hove-to in a neigh bouring pew, looking old and wintry ; and as his hands covered his " expressive coun tenance, I overheard his muttered intro ductory, % shall not write regard

the scruples of your compositors, but it is currently reported that henceforth, by order of a churchwarden, this place of worship will be lighted from a hole in the roof—or in the floor ; this official’s views on church ornaments are emphatic. But to return to the bells : I should like your readers to regard me as a connoisseur of metallic harmony.' Doing this, they will respect the silence 1 observe with reference to our ringing “ debfit.”

Lonehand.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.]

London, December 5.

Roberts achieved a grand victory at Pi war, capturing all the guns, and inflict ing enormous loss on the enemy. The British Parliament was opened to day by commission. The speech regrets the necessity of summoning Parliament so early. The Ameer’s hostility obliged England to send an ultimatum, which, being disregarded, the Government directed an expedition to cross the frontier, The estimates were being prepared, and general measures would be submitted. The Berlin Treaty was being executed. The Liberals will not move an amend ment on the speech, but Mr. Gladstone will move a vote of censure.

An Afghan army attacked the British at the Pi war Pass. A fierce battle ensued ; ultimately the British captured Piwar, totally defeating the Afghans.

AUSTRALIAN

Sydney, December 6. The Chinese establishments are dilapi dated after the riot 3. General indignation is expressed. The A.S.N. Company’s wharf is in a state of siege. It is feared that further outrages will take place. Trade is gradu ally resuming its normal state. Governor Robinson’s family are leaving for England by the December mail. The Governor denies that he is going from Melbourne to New Zealand.

Unpleasantness has arison by the cricketers having created Bannerman in England as a professional.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per Press Agency and Exchanges.]

Auckland/ Friday.

Father Hennebery administered the pledge to 200 more total abstainers last night. . Pascoe Marks has been dismissed from the Government service for his assault on Mr. Edgecombe,,proprietor of the “Bay of Plenty Times. ” ■Wellington, Friday. The wreck of the Southminster was sold to-day for £7O. It is stated that a case of alleged mis management at Wellington Hospital is being inquired into. Labor is reported to be scarce in Wai rarapa. A movement, arising out of the Sydney Chinese difficulty, has been set on foot, and a petition is now in course of signature here praying the Government to have an Act passed imposing a poll-tax upon all Chinese arriving in New Zealand as sailors or laborers, and making captains of vessels responsible for the introduction of Chinese. The mail steamer Zealandia, with the London mails of 7th November, sailed from San Francisco for Auckland on the 25th ultimo.

Dunedin, Decembar 6,

In thanking the Vincent Council for his election to the chair, Mr. Pyke touched upon several subjects. Regarding the late disastrous floods, ho said Parliament at its last session voted £50,000, as a first instalment of which sum they claimed £15,000, and he had every confidence it would be obtained. Already the county had received £SOOO, and the balance was to be paid in due course. It is understood (says the “ Prices Current.”) that McMeekan, Blackwood and Co. take £30,000 of the purchase money for their steamers in shares in the Union Company, Sir John Richardson died at three o’clock this afternoot at the Imperial Hotel.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

Bombay, November 6. Intelligence has come to hand of the capture of Pivar Pass by the force under General Roberts, after a second severe engagement. All the guns and ammunition of the enemy fell into the hands of the British. .The Affghans suffered a heavy loss, and. the British victory was complete. The latter’s loss was 4 officers . -id 80 men killed and wounded.

London, December 5.

Among other matters mentioned in the Royal Speech at the opening of Parlia ment, was that suitable redress should be demanded from the Ameer on the conclusion of hostilities. In the House of Commons, the Under secretary for India gave notice of a resolu tion to charge the expense of the war upon the Indian Exchequer. Later. The address in reply was adopted by both Houses, Berlin, December 5. The Emperor was enthusiastically re ceived on his return to the capital to, resume Government.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Kaikoura, Saturday. Mr, Saunders met the electors at Kai koura last, evening. The schoolroom was well filled. The chair was taken Mr,

Smith, Chairman of the County Council. Mr. Saunders commenced by expressing his willingness to resign his seat if the electors thought his views did not fairly represent their own. He spoke two hours, reviewing the work of the session ; and afterwards answered some questions from Mr. Ingles and Mr. Harnatt. A strongly expressed vote of thanks. and confidence in Mr. Saunders was earned unanimously. Wellington, Saturday. The “ New Zealand Times” says it was stated here yesterday on good authority that an offer of the Governorship of the Colony of Victoria had been made to Lord Normanby, and accepted by His Excel lency. At a further enquiry regarding .the loss of the Southminster, the evidence was mainly corroborative except in one point, the chief officer stating that the ship struck a rock three or four miles from land, while the second officer said it was out about a mile. ..5 n:> i‘

Thorndon Reclamation, which began in 1875, was completed yesterday evening. A merchant here has received a telegram informing ,him that Cameron’s Tobacco Factory, Petersburgh, Virginia, U.5.A.,, was destroyed by fire. It is rumored Sir W. Fitzherbert will be made Speaker of the Legislative Coun cil, and. Mr. O’Rorke Speaker of the House of Representatives. Later. The report that the Marquis of Nor manby has been offered and accepted; the Governorship of Victoria is confirmed. His Excellency and suite will- leave for Melbourne at the latter end of next month. John Hill, who was recently adjudged guilty of contempt of Court, and ordered to be imprisoned, immediately left for the South, but he was brought back this morn ing by the Rotorua, and sent to gaol- to await the pleasure of the Court.

A High Old Row. —Mr. F. H. O’Donnell, an Irish M.P., addressed, or tried to address a Home Rule meeting in Belfast in September. Two' rival faction's packed the meeting, and “ discussed ” the subject with bludgeons and chair-backs. The “ Northern Whig ” , supplies a picture of the scene. The Nationals attacked the Home Rulers, eight or nine of whom were taken skull-cracked to the hospital. It should in justice be added these effects were produced in a perfectly fair and free fight. Whole chairs were to be seen flying in numbers through the hall. The doors had been locked to prevent anyone shirk ing his duty, and the bolts proved too./ strong for patriots on the platform who wished to escape. The deportment of those in the area is described by the ‘ Whig’ as “ diabolic; ” the yells were “ demonia cal. ” It was a “ furious battle,’’ and Mr. O’Donnell was “ evidently a good deal surprised.” Blood-stained faces, ' con tinues the “ Whig,” were visible in the Home Rule,corner, and victorious Nationa lists at the opposite wall grinned horribly through a row, of chair-backs. Mr. John Duddy was wounded. On the narrow side stair there was an obstruction so success ful that blocked humanity could not dis engage itself again without tearing its cloth-, ing to ribbons. Even when the upper part of the room became well-nigh vacant d an occasional chair-back was flying about, - and on all sides injuries more or less severe were inflicted. During the engage-;. ment a brass band was playing national airs in the balcony. The “ Whig” says “The scene in St. Mary’s Hall suggests the very pertinent question, ‘How would a Dublin Parliament be likely to deal with , Nationalists like those who gave Mr. O’Donnell such a reception ? ’ ” “Yellow Fever no Mystery.”— The “ Philadelphia Public Ledger,” under the above heading, says :—“The outbreak of fever at Grenada, where it has raged with great virulence, has been traced to a sewer under a stable, in which dead animals were suffered to lie for several weeks under the broiling sun of July, and when the first case—a lady in the neighborhood of the infected spot, sickened and died, whatever there was of mystery about its origin was hidden under that stable and, in that sewer. With all the criticism that has been given to General Butler’s military career, there was one enemy he routed, and that was the fever-engendering filth of New Orleans, the season of occupation and control of that city by the Northern troops bringing a break in its previous ' fever record. ■ Frost kills it when it has taken hold, but whitewash and purifiers : do nob give it chance to take hold.” The foregoing paragraph contains a hint that may well be taken by places a good deal nearer to the centre of Canterbury than the cities of the United States. The New Britain Missionary,—- In a letter addressed to the “ Advocate ” the New South Wales organ of the Wesleyan Church the Rev, George Brown says re garding his New Britain exploit“ No one regretted the necessity more than my- : self, for on no one else could the responsi bility of the whole affair rest, but I have never regretted for one moment that we acted as we did, I believe that such another occasion will never occur again here ; but looking back on the affair, now. nearly five months since it happened, I feel that were I again placed in a similar position I should, with a clear conscience, act just as we did in April last, ” ,

Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which'is the'best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron mongery, and General Stores. Okr & Co. offer special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all limes the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at honip, which beinp bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofler goods of sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other, house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which n 6 abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges,—Advt

SATURDAY, December 7, 1878.]

THE EVENING ECHO.



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GEORGE LADBROOK, GENERAL STOREKEEPER AND PRODUCE DEALER, BEGS to announce that he has JUST OPENED a General Store at Wins low, near the Railway Station, and hopes to merit a share of public support. A cart will wait upon families for orders regularly. Goods supplied at Lowest Current rates. Note the address — GEORGE LADBROOK, GENERAL STOREKEEPER, WINSLOW. December 3, 1878. 98 Miscellanuous. FENCING WIRE. ;>A TONS Just Received, and on Sale 20 at LOWEST PRICES. A. O. AITKEN & CO., Havelock Street. £lO REWARD. WANTED, the Public to Know that a Rascally Attempt was made last night to mar the success of my Masonic Dinner, by Breaking Open the Meat Safes and Stealing therefrom the contents. Notice i 3 hereby given, that a Reward of TEN POUNDS (£10) will be paid to any one who will give such information as will lead to the Conviction of the offender or offenders. THOMAS QUILL. 92 Commercial Hotel. ■^7 ANTED, Brethren of the THISTLE LODGE to call on the Hon. Sec., Bro. E. A. GARNETT, East Street. 120