The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1893. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2918, 9 March 1893, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1893. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1 The Board ot Education decided to-day, by five votes to three, not to suspend the motice of termination of engagement of the headmaster of Hampstead school. The reward of £100 tor the discovery of the incendiary of Mr Corbitt's grain stacks, offered by Mr Edward Corbitt, is still open. The health of the Premier improves, but his colleagues deprecate his coming to the Treasury office until he regains strength. ! The Mararoa has established a record [between Lyttelton and Port Chalmera— wharf to wharf in twelve hours. Mr Edward Heneage, Unionist, has beea returned for Great Grimsby by a majority of 967 over Mr Broad hurat. The Wesleyan Conference have unanimously adopted a resolution favoring direct veto. The Christchurch Presbytery have ordered harvest thanksgiving services, and the people are to be warned against Sunday harvesting. A boy named William McHugh,^ four years old, was burned to death yesterday at Lake Takapana, from his clothes catching fire. It is reported that Mr Lake, the member for the Waikato, will not offer himself for reelection, and that Mr Fisher is likely to be a candidate for that seat. Ab Auckland a worthy chairman, seeing an item by Mozart on the programme, paralysed his audience with : "Selection: by Mr Mozart. Will Mr Mozart kindly step up on the platform ?' The Duuedin " Globe " says :— We have it on undoubted authority that Mr H. S. Fish will not be a candidate at the forthcoming genral election. Ihe Mayor of Dunedin cabled £1000 to Brisbane yesterday. Waimate" h&s raised £146 for the relief fund, and some lists yet to come in. Temuka, cash and produce, £260. In connection with the wreckage found at New Plyirouth, abaique named the Gowanburn, 1999 tons, left Newcastle for San Francisco on February 15, with 2971 tons coal. !She was built in Greenock and owned by a Scotch tint!. There has been a lair harvest in Tasmania this year, and in some cases prodigious yields are reported. On the north-west coast two acres yielded 208 bushels of wheat, which is a record. "The organist of Napier Cathedral only gets a salary of £100 a year, but there vere sixty applicants for the post—all from the other side. The depression evidently extends to the musical profession in Aus-, tralia. At the meeting of presbytery yesterday the Rev A. M Beattie, x\f.A., resigned hia charge of the Ashburton church. The resignation was ordered to lie ou the table peudiug a consultation by the presbytery with the congregation. The following jockeys were disqualified for delaying the Bourke Handicap at the Victorian Autumn Meeting -.—Power, for three months; Cusdin, Darby, and Griffiths. | two months; Tuckey, Gallagher, and Vanderwarden, one month. Ir. Portugal the spirit of Anglophobia is still rampant. On the occasion of the departure of the King and Queen from Lisbon to visit the Spanish Court in Madrid, a number of Republicans and Anarchists congregated at the station and shouted "Long live the Republic!" "Down with the English Alliance!" and other kindred cries. The Board of Commissioners (including the Commissioner of Taxes and the Surveyorgeneral, members ex ofiicio) appointed under the Lands for Settlement Act of last session (says the "Otago Daily Times") have under consideration their report to the Govgrument. They examined the offers of several estates and inspected the lands offered while sitting in Otago aud Christ.church. It 13 said that their report is favourable to the purchase of several of these estates, and tlr»t the Government will act up their recommendation. References arc made in some of our contemporaries to a mysterious case. It is stated that a Miss Hay was crossing the Temuka river in a dogcart, when the vehicle capized. There was considerable personal property in the cart. A strong party recovered all this property except a feather handbag containing about Lti 10s in money, and a diamond necklace worth LBOO. The police have an idea that this was also found by somebody, who kept it, and that either the necklace or the stoneß will be offered for sale in the colonies. This should interest jewellers and diamond getters. Colonel B,aileyj, cotvmanding the South Gonterbury Yoliinteer tfistrj^t, draws the attention of the public to the several clauses of the Defence Act relating to arms, accoutrements, and uniforms, the property of the Government or any corps. Any person having such arms, etc., in his possession, without authority, is liable to g, heavy fine. Any person, therefore, in whqse possession or on whose premises any such arms, etc, will be found, will do well to return them at onoe, or he may find the gonsequences very unpleasant. An ex-volunteer who has failed to return the arms, etc., issued to him will also do well to take the hint, as steps will be taken to enforce the Act, if any arms are still missing after seven days from date.

Mr A. E. Peache, of Mount Somers, had a wharo burnt down on Tuesday. It was a very old building, and not of any value except for firewopd, but it contained a considerable number of dharf bags' an(|.' wool-pucks, oil, etc., whi,ch haye b,een destroyed. The was eyjdently caused by the carelessness of a swagger whom Mr Peaphe ajlow,ed to sleep in the wHarj* the prgvioj?* njght. He had no doubt been smofeingy »ftd hq,s. left something smouldering. Mr Peaches men fortunately saw the fire aud saved the new whari which is close by, otherwise the swagger would have paid for his night's lodging and tucker by destroying £150 worth of propercyi five# %5 it is Mr Peache loses about £20 by hia careleisnews. Vf f & fwagger was a middle-aged man with sma^ll 1 sandy-voiced beard.

TJie corrcsppndenfc of the ." Ot^go pa^ly Tinifs " says j—The SurveycrgeneVal has ji-e^i^eij sio Wellington from the inspection of the C&eyiot jest^,t,g wj% a view to the necessary roading. Jle reports that the estate is in capital order, and that the purchase is likely to bs a profitable one, and most advantageous for settlement. H« es no jea&Qn why between 300 oc 400 families (corrpfismg aggregate of 1000 souls) should not be settled on jtjie lajjd jffthji} the next two year?. The'Surveyor-geheral has made the necessary notijSci'tiori to the Public de»artmeot, so that the direction ci the rsjilway, whi,Qh is tq give acqess to ai d run through the estate, should fee laid off as soon as possible. I learn that the Mjaiater for Public Works has already given orders that this shall be done immediately so as to enable the settlers to go upon the ground, aad that the. reserves may be defined before any of the laud » leased.

Mr P. J. O'Regan, ex-editor of the "Inangahua Times," will oppose Mr R. Reevs at the General Election. George Harper, of Harper and Harper, barristers and solicitors, and L. W. Maude, formerly member of the firm, were this day adjudicated bankrupts VVe would remind our readers of the visit of the Steea Smith company of mystifiers, whose season opens in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday evening. At the Dunedin Ci'y Court to-day, David De Maus, photographer, Port Chalmers, was charged with offering indecent photographs for sale, and was fined £3 and costs. This is the first prosecution under the Act of last session. The election of members of the Board of Education resulted as follows: —H. W. Peryman, 108; L. W. Adams, 107; R Meredith, M.H.R., 82; J. Munnings, 49; Mra Drusilla Wilson, 24; J. M. Douglas, 11. The first three were elected; they were the retiring members. The Melbourne '"Age," a stoutly protectionist journal, lately hid a two column article showing from contemporary statistics and official reports that every spell of freetrade policy in the United States led to commercial and financial disaster, which had to be retrieved by a return to protection. The North Canterbury Board of Education to-day passed the following resolution:— " That as the number of trained teachers who have passed through the Normal school is now in excess of the number required by the North Canterbury Board of Education, it is desirable to appoint a committee to consider what changes should be adopted to prevent this excessive number of teachers being trained." A committee meeting of* the Amateur Cycling and Athletic Club was held on Wednesday evening. Captain Stephens presided. A one mile Bteeplechase was added to the programme for the forthcoming meeting, the prizes having been subscribed by the ladies. The total amount now offered for Easter Monday amounts to close on £80. Mr Matson was elected to fill a vacancy on the committee. Misa Saunders was elected an hon. member, and five new members were elected. A long discussion took place re the track, and it was finally decided to endeavour to obtain the water cart from the council for a night or two. Several other matters were settled, after which the meeting adjourned. The " North Otago Times " states that as Miss Gardiner was proceeding home a little after ten o'clock on Friday night she was violently assaulted by a man who had followed her along Thames street. She was seived by the throat, thrown violently to the ground, and dragged ior some distance. As her screams were apparently attracting attention, her assailant ran away. Ihe police on Saturday morning arrested a man w ho was indentified by Misa Gardiner from a number of othet men. The accused is a sailor named John Henry Connor, and is said to have been recently acquitted of a charge of burglary at Napier. The assault was a daring one, as it was a bright moonlight night. Connor has been committed for trial.