Untitled

Ashburton Guardian, Volume X, Issue 2343, 31 March 1891, Page 2

A lady's handbag, containing two return railway tickets to Ashburton was found on the Riccarton Racecourse yesterday. The cricket match between Wellington and Canterbury, was finished this morning, the former winning by eight wickets. The ships Strathgryfe, from Lyttelton, December il; Auckland, from Lyttelton, December 20; and Waipa, from Timaru, December 15, have arrived Home. At Christchurch to-day Frederick Hall, one of the spieling fraternity, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for stealing a totalisatir ticket value £'2 3s 6d fron a man at Riccarton Racecourse yesterday. Before Mr A. Harrison, J.P., this morning, a man named Anthony Ferrick was sentenced two one month's imprisonment for vagrancy and drunkenness. Two first offenders were dealt with in the usual way. The Salvation Army Anniversary and I Harvest Festival will be celebrated next 5 Sacurday, Sunday, and Monday. Special officers and the Christchurch Lasses' Band will be present. At Christchurch the holiday attractions were the Autumn Meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, the Veterans' cricket match at Hagley Park, the Band of Hope Demonstration in the North Park, and a Catholic picnic at Lyttelton. The weather was beautiful. A new process for freezing is to be used at the Ngahauranga works of the Wellington Meat Export Company—viz., an ammonia machine, supplied by the Linde British Refrigerating Company. It is claimed for this process that by its use meat can be refrigerated at one third the present cost. At Timaru there was beautiful weather for the holiday and the town was almost deserted. About 900 went by the special train to the Oamaru camp ; 300 to Fairlis Creek Races by another special; and 400 attended the Friendly Societies' sports, and there were picnics in all directions. Tho regular monthly meeting of No. 5, Female Orange Lodge was held in the Orange ' Hall, on Thursday evening, when there was a good attendance of members. President Sister Page opened the Lodge in due form. One candidate was initiated into the order, and one proposed; and a large amount of j other business was transacted. In Austria they think it worth while that farming should be done intelligently. That couutry has not only a high school of agriculture, but 15 intermediate and 83 primary agricultural schools, besides nine chairs of agriculture in polytechnic establishments and agricultural experiment stations. There are also 162 courses of agricultural lectures attended by about 10,000 persons each year. The services *t St Stephen's Church on Easter Sunday, were of the special nature suited to the occassion, and were well attended. Rev E. A. Scott, incumbent, officiated, and the appropriate anthems were snug. The Church was beautifully decorated with flowers and foliage by the ladies of the congregation, among those who took part in this labor of love being!Mesdames A. Curtis, Kempthorne, Makeig, Scott, and Trevor, and Misses Earwaker, Fergusson, Fowler, Gates, Littlecote, Purnell, W. Purnell, Reed, and Traumann. At the annual meeting of the Prince Alfred Hospital, in Sydney, reference was made to the circumstances which, 23 years ago, led to the foundation of the institution—viz., the attempted assassination of H.R.H. theDnke of Edinburgh. Sir William Manning said there was an incident connected with the affair which had never before been made public—he supposed for political reasons. This was that the would-be assassin, O'Farrell, after his trial, informed the police authorities that what led him to attempt the murder was the fact that ten Irishmen in Sydney had received a warrant from Dublin ordering the murder of the Prince, and it fell to his lot to fire the shot. The Woodville correspondent of the " Evening Post" writes :—The bush fires sc far have been a miserable failure, and all ho!:e is about past tor this season. Only on very elcvt.ted positions lias the fire gone through at all sufficiently to get the seed on. Quite 15,000 acres of bush are still unburnt, which means no sale for grass seed, small demand for labor, and the loss of a year's grass to the owner. The bad season is a disaster which will take years to set right, because not only will tho district suffer from the bad burning season, but also from the disaster to the hay, corn, and potato crops The latter in many instances arc rotting in the ground. It is estimated that the bad season has caused a direct loss to the district of £20,000. English papers say that the rat plague is still very prevalent in the Lincolnshire fen district, and farmers are suffering serious loss inconsequence. Although the numbers have been considerably reduced in Eome places by persistent ferreting, yet in others, whero the killing was neglected last whiter, they have alarmingly increased within the past few months. Many of the tho new corn stacks already swarm with the rodents, and the mangel and potato graves have also suffered considerably. Nearly every experiment has been tried with the object of extermination, some of which have proved beneficial, but the majority useless. The ratcatcher's system of ferreting has been attended with the best results, an enormous number of rats having been slaughtered in this way. On one farm it is said that one man alone has killed over 5000 this year. Farmers are offering 2d and 3d per rat, and ratcatchers are at work nearly every day. The anniversary services of the Baptist Church on Easter Sunday were conducted in the Oddfellows' Hall by the Rev Arthur Dewdney, of Lincoln Road, who preached in the morning from Acts xxvn., 23, and in the evening from Jude 20 and 21. The preacher dealt with his subject in a masterly manner, showing the blessedness of a Christian life, and that by living such a life only could the greatest good result to the greatest number. The experiences of the unconverted and those ako of the converted were dilated upon, and much profit was derived by the hearers. The choir sang I suitable anthems, and Mr Wildsmith presided at the organ with his usual ability. I The London correspondent of the "Argus" writes:—lt is curious to note that one of tli3 dsvelopment-s of democracy is to" bring into favour as politicians sporting baronets and half-pay colonels. At Hartlepool the unionists pat up a man who had crealel t! e town and sail employed 4000 hands in his works, ami thought him a trump card. But he was beaten by another employer of babour, who, like himself, was also u member of the Anti-trades-unionists Shipping Federation. A man high in the | councils of the Tories has told mc that the managers of the party now perceive that they might have won the election if their man had bean one who was totally disconnected with industrialism, and had never done anything to earn a fortune, for then j they could have afforded to abuse the Gladstonian as a capitalist. The day had passed, they feel, when an elector can be i affected by gratitude towards the man who pays him his wages, which after all, are the only current rate of wages in his trade. If one side discards employers and capitalists, then the other side will do so likewise, and and thus the sporting baronet and the halfpay colonel will have the field all to themselves—which will in turn produce the result of a definite cry for the payment of members. K eating's Cough Lozknges euro Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis. Medical testimony states that no other medicine is so effectual in the cure of these - dangerous maladies. One Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bedtime ensuaes rest. For relieving difficulty I of breathing they are invaluable. They coutain no opium nor any violent drug. Sold by all Chemists, in tins, Is l|d and 2s 9d each. Holloway's Pills and Ointment are remedies which should invariably be taken by travellers travelling in search of health, pleasure, or business. Many deleterious influences are constantly at work in foreign climes, tending to deteriorate the health. These and the altered conditions of life will entail on those who travel the necessity of carefully attending to early symptoms of disease, and they will find the use of these remedies to be highly necessary, the action of the pills being purfying_ and straightening and of great service in cases o ffever, ague, and all inflammatory diseases, whilst the ointment is a sovereign cure hi case of piles, bad legs, bad breasts, -wounds, and ulcers. Hollo way's remedies do not deteriorate by ehmpge of climate.