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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7069, 7 January 1907, Page 3

Weather FoaECAST.—Captain Edwin wires: —Northerly moderate to strong winds; glass fall.

The Weather — Yesterday was the hottest day that has been experienced in Ashburton for some considerable time, the therrqemetor at the Domain Meteorological station recording 83 degrees in the shade. Tc-day the maximum temperature in the shade was 79 deg. Yesterday the radiometer registered ]51 deg, to-day's reord being 141 degree?.

Fjiesentation at Chertset.—A number of tbo Cherteoy regiden'smfit in the library on Friday evaniag, to bid farewell to Mr Doverionx who is leaving the Chettsey railway station, havicg been transferred to Christchurcb. There wns a good attendance, and Mr A. Ironßide, in presenting Mr Devorioux with ft handsome case of pipe?, and ft travelling bnp-, ppokn very highly of the way he was liked among the residents, who felt; very sorry at losing him, Mr March endorsed these remarkd. Mr "White spoke of Mr Deverioux aa a fellow worker, pointing oat that he would not wieh a better aiate in the office^ Mr Deverioux, in replying, said he was sorry at leaving Chertsey, but the kind presents he had received would always remind him of the place where be bad spent two happy years. Songs were sung by some of the company, ' and after a very pleasant evening the meet - , ing was brought to a clo3e.—Own correfI pondenfc. Best Sports Fob Women—Lady Colin Campbell is of! opinion that fencing and | swimming are the two be6fc sports that women can indnlge in, the reason being that they can eearcwly be overdone. "To begin with," she informed a representative Cassell's Saturday Journal, "fencing ' brings out all the muscles ; it distributes them, as it were, mere than any other recreation one can name. Then it trains the eye aa well as the body. It also teachers a woman manners, how to preserve hor temper, Bnd to be loyal— at least, it should do."

Gallant Policemen — Mrs Snowden, wife of Mr Philip Suowden, M.P, addressing a Fabian Society meeting at Trinity College, Cambridge, on women's suffrage, declared that the police were not sach enemies of that movement as their actions would appear to Buggest. Some polio«n3en io the House of Commons had infinitely more brains than were possessed by some of the member?. A policeman at the House told her that he carried out the suffragists as gently aR he could, and one of them s&'d to him " Thank you very much." The officer said he wns not sure that he did not whispsr in the aar of his fair burden ' Com© ; sgaiß as soon as yon can/*- Oi course he was hnder'thirty-and unmarried, Alcornti nta now sejlini,- stylish millinery at just half the usual prices. A Nelson telegram Btates that no rain of any consequence has fallen for nearly ten weeks in the Waimea plains; but there haa been an abundance in the Buller district, where the grass is breast high,