The Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1892. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIII, Issue 2723, 19 July 1892, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1892. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The banquet to Mr Hupo Friedlauder takes place this evening ac eight o'clock,, at the Commercial Hotel. The Maoris about Taupo, it is said, regarded the Tarawera eruption as a warning From heaven and became total abstainers, and most of the young native men and women there do|not knowthe taste of spirits. HoldeM of scrip m the Somerset Masonic Hall are requested by advertisement to present their scrip certificates on or before August 4 to Mr H. A. Vesty,- Ashburton. The annual general meeting of the Ashburton Cricket Club has been summoned for Wednesday, (to-morrow) at 7.30 p.m. m the County Council Chambers, and all intending members are requested to attend. The business card contains the election of officers and general business. At South Rakaia on Saturday, before Messrs C. A. C. Hardy and L. Oxley, J's.P. John Fincher Trist was charged with] vagrancy and the wilful destruction of police property at Rakaia on July 13. Accused, who was arrested m ChristchurcH on Friday evening, pleaded guilty, and after hearing the evidence of the Revs J. Holland and J. P. Riddle, Constable Lewis and S. Rowell, he was committed for two month's hard labor. , A newspaper runner, named William White, aged fifteen, was killed on the railway at Addington last evening. He was travelling on the 5 p.m. north train, and shortly after it had passed, one of the foremen at the railway workshops found him lying on the line, with his legs cut off. He is supposed to have fallen while passing between the carriages. He was alive when found, but died half an hour afterwaids, We have received a copy of the "New Zealand Methodist" published weekly m Christchurch, the price of which is reduced to one penny. It contains a large quantity of conneetional news and articles on subjects of interest, and is very well got up. The publication has already a large circulation, wnich is certain to be increased now that the price is one penny. The statements filed by Rosa, Sims, and Co. as a Company, and as separate partners show that the firm was £1451 to the bad, Sims was £382, while Ross's private estate was £5846 to the good. The firm have unsecured creditors to the amount of £5931. The principal assets are book debts, £4668, estimated to produce £3640. Of the liabilities £216 are due to North Island creditors. £381 to Dunedin, £311 to Scotland. Ross's private estate shows unsecured creditors £2272, other liabilities £2803, secured £12,175. The values of the securities are £17,550, his principal asserts are book debts and rents, £375, properties £2888, £2200 are owing to six persons, £150 to Melbourne, £600 Ireland, and £400 to Scotland. Sims shows unscured creditors £144.

The second funeral for that day m Ashburton on Sunday, took place m the afternoon, the procession that bore to the grave all that wan mortal of Harry Olsen, a late member of the printing staff of this paper, leaving his father's house m Cox street at about half-past two. The young - man, who diet! suddenly on Wednesday morning last, was just bursting into manhood, »nd would have reached his majority next month, had the disease that sapped his young life spared him. The hearse was preceded to the grave by every member of the staff of the Guarmah -and Mail, and was followed by a large number of friends. At the grave service was conducted by Captain Bagshaw, now on a mission visit to Ashburton, who preached a sermon suitable to the occasion. A gentleman well-known and highly respected m Masterton has (says the " Standard") left suddenly for fresh fields and pastures new, leaving a mourning crowd of anxious enquirers behind,; He had been there some six months, during which time he has lived on the fat of the land, enjoying life immensely. The main attraction at every concert, shining light at every social, and beau of every ball, with an excellent voice, a bright unassuming mannner, he obtained unlimited credit whenever asked and under the role of a minister's son, out for the benefit of . his health, he was admitted into the "high succlea of sassjfy," which he always took advantage of. As a ohoir.-master at one of ths leading churches, h« was looked ?$ to as the next recruit for the pulpit, when suddenly one morning last week a gentle whisper round the town made shopkeepers stagger, moneylenders falter, and others wonder. He had gone, leaving no trace behind of his departure, excepting a song found on his drawing room table (which, it is stated, he sang very feelingly at a dance the evening* before), envied *f Spll are ever mpet again." A great number of creditors m Masterton hope they will, but rumour states that by ""*■ fciwo th» Mv Apollo has struck Sydney. m . * i *^ i ''.-*** John Boyle, The funeral of the late . ~»M««ifc at whose lamented death by a sad au..

Valetta on Thursday cast a gloom over the district, took place on Sunday. The remains had been brought into Ashburtou and deposited m the house of Mr P. Devane, a close friend to deceased, and thence the funeral cortege took its way at half-past ten to the Church of the Holy Name, a church it may be incidentally remarked m which the last tribute has been very frequently paid of late to departed ones. The Church bore all the sombre evidences of mourning, the altar being draped m black, and the officiating clergyman—the Very Rev. Father.Ch istagon —wore the mourning vestments proper to the occasion. So great was the esteem m which deceased was held that every seat m the the church pews was occupied by friends of every creed and from all parts of the county. The recess under the rood loft was also filled and many had to content themselves with standing room m the doorways. The priest delivered an eloquent sermon before mass,making special reference to the good qualities of deceased, his loyal services to the church, his upright conduct as a citizen, and the general rectitude of his life, his fidelity as a friend, and the warm charity to all that burned m his manly breast. The preacher m eloquent words of warning dwelt on the uncertainty of life, arid the awful certainty of death; and urged his hearers of all creeds to prepare to meet their God, for none knew when the great change that all mustitndergo would come upon them. Requiem mass was then sunp, the choir singing the solemn, simple, mournful music generally used, Miss Holloway, the organist of the church, presiding, and playing the " Dead March "m " Saul" as the coffin was borne along the aisle to the hearse. The funsral procession through the town was very long. Over a hundred friends on foot followed immediately after the hearse, eightytwo vehicles followed after, the rear having been brought up by about sixty horsemen. The procession went by East Street and the South Road to the Cemetery, where the last service of the Church was performed by the Very Rev. Father Chastagnon. Deceased was fifty-two years of age, and was one of the earlier settlers m the county, having come to Ashburton about 1875. He was a leading member of the Cathollo Church, one of its trustees, and a hard worker for its advancement, as well as a liberal contributor to its support. Mr Boyle was a quiet, unassuming man, who sought no place of public honor or position, but contented himself with doi»g his duty m private life. A good neighbor, a good farmer who steadily attended to his own business, a fast frien/1 who had no. enemy, Mr Boyle's sad death will be mourned, and himself missed by a wide circle of friends. He was never married, but has left a number of relations jn the country,