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Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3448, 16 October 1885, Page 2

Me BeADLAugii. — A movement is on foot fo bring out Mr Bradlaugh for a lecturing tour through Australia and New Zoaland after tlioneit general eleolionin England. Market Tickbts.— The Railway Department announce m our advertising columns this morning that market tickets will be issued to Tinwald station on every alternate Tuesday, commencing from next Tuesday. Thk Flagstaff. — The Harbor Board employes took down the top part of the flagstaff yesterday for the purpoao of giving it and tho lower part a fresh coat of paint and a thorough overhaul. Tiik Diibdobr. — Tho dredeer wag enguged during tho greater part of yesterday deepening tho steamers' berth at tlio outer wharf, advantage being taken by tho Harbor Board of tho absence of shipping alongsido this part of tho wharf. Watbb-bacrb tob Sbadoww.— The Geroldino County Council announce m our advertising columns that they intend to undertako the construction of water-races m tho Seadown Water Supply District, and intend to borrow a sum of £2500 for that purpose. GOVBBFItBHT IiIFB INBCBANCB, — Competitive designs are invited by the Government Life Insurance Association for a building to erected m Wellington for the head office. Tho premiums offered aro for the first approved design £200 and for the second £7G. Distbiot Coubt. — A sitting of the District Court will be held this morning, beforo His ITonor Judge Ward. The sitting is not expected to be a long one, however, as only a few bankruptcy casos have been set down for henring. Bokotjoh Council. — A opeeinl meeting of this Council was hold last night, at which there was a good attendance of Councillors. Tbo business proved to bo very interesting, and was conducted m a way that showed Councillors wero m a very earnest mood. A report of the mooting will be found clsowhere. Hoatino.— Owing to the tide not suiting, tho opening of the boating season by tho Timaru Boating Club will not take place tomorrow. Weather boing f&rorablo tho season will be opened on Saturday next, the 24th iust., nnd aa the tido will be exceptionally suitable a very successful afternoon's pleasure is anticipated. The Committee is to be called together on Tuesday next to draw up a programme of races and mako all arrangemente for tho opening day. Wo aro sure ail wellwishers of the Club— and thoy are legion — ' ( will unito with u« m expressing the hope that 'our boating men will have a pnmperoui 1 year.

| ifiGlSTßßlAli.— There was a clean sheet at ' the . Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. HoeriTAL BQABD.— Yesterday was the day appointed by the Governor to elect members of the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Board for South Canterbury. The Geraldine Connty Conncil elected Messrs Jno. Talbot and R. A. Barker their representatives, and the Timaru" Borough Council elected His Worship the Mayor. Waimatb Countt Council.— A meeting of the Council was held yesterday to elect a member to represent Waimate County on the Hospitals and Charitablo Aid District Board of South Canterbury. Members present — Messrs Manchester (Chairman), Hardie, Hayes, Studholme and Douglas. On the motion of Mr Douglas, Mr Hayes was unanimously elected a member of the Board. The meeting then adjourned. Harbor Boaisd Loak.— A public nieeting of the ratepayers of the Goraldine Riding of the Goraldine County for tho purpose of considering and discussing the Timaru Harbor Board's proposal to borrow a further sum of £100,000 for harbor improvements will bo held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Geraldine, on the 23rd. The meeting at Temuka will not be held this evening, ns previously announced, it having been postponed till to-morrow oveDing. Pise ATOSI AL.— ICOO young American brook troiit from Mr Johnston's Troutdale Farm, at Opawa, were brought down by the Express train from Christchurch yesterday, and arrived m splendid order. They were taken charge of by Mr G. C. Miles, who will liberate them m the streams intersecting the Mountnessing and Opawa runs, and also m others as fay back as Burkes Pass. They could not have been placed m belter hands, and disciples of Izaak Walton will no doubt look forward to the time when thoy will be fit to be landed. Ccbiocs Find.— Yesterday, when Mr ¥. 1 Osborn, of West Town Belt, Timaru, was cleaning out some sparrows' nests from a i shoot attached to his house, he came across a portion of a cheque which had apparently been utilised by the little feathered ireature m constructing'its nest. The number of the cheque was 105,383, and it appeared to have been drawn on the Bank of New South Wa'es, Timaru. It is not every sparrow that , can boast of having its nest lined with " bankpnper," and nobody will be able to complain of dull times m Timaru after such a discovery as this having been made. 1 Hebident Magisteatk'b Cotot, Wai- • mate— At this Court yesterday, before Dr i Stacpoole, J.P., a man charged with using threatening language m a public place at St. Andrews on the 14th inst., said he WU3 tbo worse for drink at the time, and had no bad intention when using the language with which he was charged. Bergeant Morice's evidence : showed that accused wns disorderly at the , Masonic Hotel on the 14th inst. On being > turned out of the hotel he used threatening , language to the offect that he would eive • "the lead" to a man named Macpherson. ' Witness was present and arrested accused. A • fine of 10s was inflicted. L The Baptist' Union. — The Rev. C. C. : Brown, of Timaru, is one of the delegates to r the Bapti-t Union now m session nt Dunedin. Mr Brown, we learn from tho Otago Daily Times, was one of the speakers at tho public meeting held at the Hanover street Church ■ m connection with tlie Union on Wednesday evening. He expressed thankfulness that 1 since their last conference the ministerial ranks were unbroken by death, and there had not been great ravages among the membership ' of their Church, so that they had a longer ! opportunity for Christian service. They were ! met this evening as the representatives of the Baptist Churches m New Zealand, and they claimed that they adhered more closely than ! other sections of the Christian Church to apostolic custom and injunction. They were ' the true successors of the apostles. ; Not m theib Line. — Tlie Secretary to 1 the Convalescent Home, Christchurcb, lately > addressed a circular letter to the local bodiei [ m this district, tho reading of which has invariably caused a smile, even among old and ' grave councillors. At a meeting of a local ' body yesterday the letter caused more than , usual hilarity ; so much, m fact, that the . Chairman laid it aside as if under tho idea that somo one had played a 1 joko on them. The pith of the letter was an invitation to attend a fancy dress ball, m aid of tho funds of the Home, wliicb ball is to be held on the 20th instant, and a member of the local body suggested that they should dress the Secretary up and send him as their representative. The Secretary, whose passion for Terpsichore has long since passed nway, begged to bo excused from attending, and the matter then dropped. Temcka Bridge. — It was reported to the Geraldino County Council yesterday that a few planks m this bridge had been broken by the passing over them of a traction engine. The engino crossed during the night, and ; sufficient caro was not taken by the man m i charge of it to leep the " weight" over the stringers of the bridge. The Council intend to linvo a by-law drafted dealing with the crossing of engines, combine?, etc. The by--1 law, it is said, will contain a provision setting ' forth that a man employed by the Road Board m whose district the bridge happens to i be, will superintend the crossing of the engines. This will no doubt reduce to a minimum the chance of an accident happening. It seems those m charge of engines are not to be trusted too implicitly, for, as a member of the Council remarked, " there i» generally a hotel close to the bridge, and the men, as a rule, get half-screwed before crossing the bridge." Stud Notice. — Breeders of racing stock will no doubt read with pleasure the announcement m our advertising columns this morning that the thoroughbred horse Hotspur will travel the Timaru, Temuka, Winchester, Pleasant Point, and Pareora District* this season. Hotspur was bred by Mr Ryan, of South Australia, and imported to Now Zealand by Mr Reid, of Elderslie, Oamaru. Hotspur curried off the goid medal for the best thoroughbred entire at Oamaru m 1882, and first prizo at tho Timaru A. and P. Association's Show m 1881. His pedigree, as will be seen from tho advertisement, is all that could bo wished for, and his progeny ara among the most promising of any sire yet introduced into the colony. The aclion of Mr Elliot will no doubt be appreciated by those who desire to 6ee new blood introduced into the district, and we may safely predict that the services of Hotspur will bo m demand this season. Small Birds. — The question of abating, if possible, the small bird nuisance m this district was raised at the Geraldine County Council meeting yesterday by Mr Balfour, who assured members that the nuisanco was becoming very serious indeed. At his suggestion it was decided to communicate with other local bodies on the subject, particularly with the Waitaki County Council, whose measures, it was said, were proving very successful. It wna stated tliat tho nuisance was not likely to be much abated unless vigorous and united action wore taken. As a slight instance tlie Clerk stated that somo weeks ago come farmers from ono portion of tho district came to him for the recipe for poisoned grain. He gave it to them and meeting thorn »omo days nfter asked how it had acted. It then turned out that only ono of the farmers had prepared and used the grain, and had found it very .destructive ; tho other farmers, however, had not given the matter a eecond thought. A Good Wobd fob the Bihds. — At the Conncil meeting yesterday a member stated that the small birds did far more good than thoy did harm, and gnvo an instance of how they had dejtroyed sotuo of tho insect pests. Ho added that lost reason he noticed tho small birds rising m clouds from his oat crop, nnd from what he henrd about tho bird* ho made up his mind to suffor a loss on his crop ; but to his surprifo ho found on threshing the oats , that thoy returned a much higher average i than those of many previous seasons. To this • another member replied it was all Tery well i for men with thousands of acres to "stick i up" for the small birds, but let them ask the ■ small land-ownor — the legitimate farmer — I what harm they did, and they would get a I reply which showed that tho miisaoco was a ■ very serious one, and that steps must bo i taken without delay to effectually combat it. • Members of tho Council generally oxpressed ! ■ | tho opinion that it was not necessary to ' j | exterminate tho feathered pests j whft^ who i , wanted was something to keep them from i increasing m numbers. ]

The Voluntebbs. —We have received ome fnrt- er correspondence on this subject, mt we do not consider that any practical ;ood is likely to be attained by prolonging the iiscussion. One correspondent, wo may renark, neglected to comply with our rule to orwnrd Ms real mine and' address. feCOTTS Emuuios OF Prilß COD LIVER Jil and HYi.oruo3PHi Es is recommended -Ll 10 m i' C M l" of ' 18sion »" tuc various i r W °? d for its remarkable cert lll' t S n " d , """eM'Ming properties It possesses the combined virtues of e^nt UV 7o?tlu,rn C tLt th f fUUC3t wasting disease, and for fe Zg troubles it is unequalled bn n .i Tub Bbazbn Sbex-p-nt. — Like the braz eerpent that the great Jewish leader lifted high m the eight of the perishing follower whereby they were saved. from death, the discoverers of American Hop Bitters have placed before suffering, ailing mankind, a remedy which enables them to fight dUe'aao with conquering advantage.— [Advt.] Half Asleep ! — " I never," wrote a young lady to a friend, " go to church or lecture but I nm half asleep, arid I never know afterwards what the sermom or lecture was about.' r It was a plain case of neiTous lethargy, produeod by want of action of tho liver and digestive organs. She was persuaded to try American Company's Hop Bitters, and now she writes : — " How intelligent and bright are sermons and lectures now, and how glorious Iho world we live m is! Dr Soule's Hop Bitters are indeed a blessing to me." Notice [Advt.] The Bad and Wobthlbss are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive, proof that tho remedy imitated is of tho highest value. As soon ns it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best und most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal Iho notices m which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and m every way trying to induce suffering invalids to ÜBe their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up m similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names m which the word " Hop " or " Hops " were used m a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, on matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word " Hop " or " Hops " m their name or m any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuino American Hop Bitters, with a cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown m the glass. Trust nothing else. £5T Druggists and Chemist* are warned against dealing m imitations or counterfeits. — [Advt.] " Buchtj-Paiba." — Qniek, complete oiire, all annoying Kidney, . Bladder and Urinary Diseases. Druggists. Mobcs, Mosb and Cr ", Sydn<* w Oftnoral Aironts. — TAnvr. Don't Die m thb House.—" Rongh on Rats " clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jookrabbits, gophers. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, eenenil agenta. — [ Anvr. I SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jonas and Bourn-Sell horse*, etc, to-morrow; also, a larce quantity o( unredeemed pledges ; timbtr, etc., on Thursday. R. Turubull and Son— Sell to^n sections aud.ahares K. F. Gray— Sells a butcher's plant on Wednesday. Timaru Harbor Board-Meeting of rafcmavers of Geraldine ridin X on the 23rd Jnst , ro loan ; ilteratioa of dutc of Temuka meeting till to-morrow N,;z. Railways— Noticerc market tickets. ; Government Life Insurance — Offer premiums for competitive designs. Geraldine County Council— Notico of intention to Davics and Murphy— Special notico r» their new goods. for sale— Agency business : particulars »t offloe of tins paper. Mrs w. J. Anicrson— Wants agenerai servant Thoroughbred entire Hotspur— \Vfll travel Timaru, Temuka, and surrounding districts this season.