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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7730, 25 February 1909, Page 3

The Stipendiary Magistrate at Timaru (Mr C. A. Wray) has on two occasions recently, from the Bench, expressed the opinion that power should lie given to the guards of trains to seize any liquor they might find m the possession of travellers by rail.

Mr R. Patrick, of Hilton, lost a valuable horse m Geraldine on Wednesday. It was being led behind a trap by the reins, when a motor car came up behind and startled it. The horse plunged about and got m front of the car, which passed over its hind legs. The animal was found to be so badly injured that it had to he shot. Mr H. Barker, of Lobnrn, from a field of thirty acres of cats, has threshed 75 bushels per acre. tn the final paragraph of the Baring Square Sunday School report of prizegiving, m last night's issue, the words '•"> per cent" should read "50 per cent." I This morning's river report reads as follows: Rnkaia, clear; Ashburton (both branches), clear; Rangitata, fishable. Mr George Schneider, headmaster of the Ashburton Borough School, has just received advice from England, through the Registrar of the ?>ew Zealand University, that he was successful at the last University examination for the B.A_. degree. The ceremony of laying tho foundation stone of tlie Auckland Town Hall was performed on Wednesday afternoon by the Mayor (Mr A. M. Myers), m the presence of a large gathering. Mr Henry Brett, an ex-Mayor of the city, has offered to equip the Town Hall with a suitable organ, which will cost not less than £5000.