It was fourteen years ago last October that I returned to my homo in Nelson, after a few days’ absence, and found my wife in a most dangerous and apparently dying condition. She was burning with fever*, dashing, her arms about with pain, and had had no sleep after her confine ment 30 hours ago. She had been at tended most of the day by Dr. Oldham, well known to many Ashburton residents, but fortunately he had left to attend an other-tjatient. As I rolled her up in a wet blankg; the excellent nurse Mrs. J ordan said TJjh, sir, you will be hung ; she can not livy, and all the doctors will try to hang you.” In half an hour the patient was asleep. Early in the morning the doctor returned. I took care not !o see him, but poor Mis. Jordan explained with fear and trembling the daring deed that had been done, and the sound refreshing sleep that had followed. He was nonplussed and could only say “well it has turned out all right at any rate.” Long before her last illness Mrs. Buchanan had had some experience both with drugs and hydropathy. She took the measles when on a visit to some kind friends in Bath about 12 years ago, who of course sent for a legally-qualified medi cal practitioner, when she was drugged for the first time in her life, kept ill for several weeks and out of health for several months, and was never so robust and well afterwards as she had been up to that time. She afterwards saw seven of her brothers and sisters go through the measles at home, without any legally qualified attention or any drugs. She saw them all suffer —nothing compared to what she had done, saw them recover within a week ; and instead of being any the worse for it, were all evidently the better for the wet packs they had worn most of the time. When she came to New Zealand in the Lady Jocelyn she had an opportunity of seeing the effect of drugs on her own andotherchildren. Every one of the infants on board that ship, ex cept hers, died of what was called dysentery. A fond, kind, and in most things a very intelligent mother, who lost tu o infants, told me that she obeyed the doctor to the letter, never brought her darling infants on deck after they were taken ill, never even changed their flannels for fear they should take cold, and waked them up at all hours to give them their medicine regu larly. The said medicine seems to have consisted chiefly of opium. My less obedient daughter, who certainly did not wake her babies up at night to dose them, though in obedience to her orthodox hus band she placed one of them under the “ legally-qualified” treatment of the ship’s doctor, landed that one in just the last stage of opium poisoning. A few days’ hydropathic treatment and fresh air cured the dysentery, but it took many painful months to recover the child from the opium poisoning. I may here just observe that although every infant on board the Lady Jocelyn, excep* Mrs. Buchanan’s, died on that voyage or immediately after landing, no enquiry was held as to the cause of their death. Why should there be 1 Had they not been duly dosed by a “ legally quali fied” young gentleman who had come direct from the great seat of medical knowledge I No meddlesome hydropathist had interfered with his able and orthodox treatment, or dared to suggest that the lungs and skin might be made to relieve the oppressed bowels. No daring heretic of a father had ventured to carry one of the infants out of the salubrious air that is always to be found in a ship’s hold, es pecially when it is full of infants dying with dysentry. No mother had been so prr-nr-„;,-' <rr-, i" to disobey him by chang ing a nightdress—and of course clean sheets were never thought of. But above all, no hot baths had made them “ weak,” and no water, ybot or cold, salt or fresh, had touched their tender skins during their illness, whilst they had morphia pills enough to keep them quiet both day and night. That all the infants in a ship should die under such thoroughly orthodox legal treatment, is one of those inscru table mysteries which no one can fathom and into which it would be presumptuous to enquire either by coroners’ inquest or post mortem examinations. Still, such memories had no doubt something to do with that want of faith in the morphia pills, and unchanged sheets, and unmade bed, and unclogged skin which Dr. Ross complained of in Mrs. Buchanan. When I first saw my daughter in the fever, excited as she was, she wildly grasped my hand and held it as if she expected me to pull her at once out of all her misery. Her first words were “ Oh father, must I be kept constantly sick with trying to take such a lot of milk and beef tea. Dr. Ross says I must take three pints of milk a day, and I can’t do it. This constant sickness will strain me all to pieces, and I can feel that beef tea is poison to me. ” This was said with great difficulty and with most laborious panting. The choked lungs were trying to do duty for themselves and the blocked up skin too, and anyone but a legally qualified allopathic doctor could see that the thing to be done was to reverse that order and make the skin do double duty to relieve the incapable lungs. There were several ways of doing this. Priessnitz would have done it with cold wet sheets. Smedley would have done it with hot soap-suds and water, using mustard to the feet and legs. The first would have been dangerous, as there was not vitality enough left in the patient. The stomach could not prepare the fuel to make heat, and if it could have done so the lungs could not introduce oxygen enough to burn it off or to keep up the insensible fire which sustains the natural heat of a healthy body. Smedley’s strong soap suds might have done it, and done it quickly, but they would have destroyed the oil in the skin, and there was no power left to quickly replace it, as healthy organs would have done ; and the want of it would have caused a sense of chillness which it would have been difficult to meet. For although I had oppressively hot weather and a hi"hly-fevered patient to deal with, I knew that the fever would disappear as soon as Nature’s refrigerator was got to work, and that my ultimate difficulty would be to keep up heat or strength with impaired stomach and impaired lungs. Besides this, there was the difficulty of effectually soap sudding a patient who could only get breath enough to keep alive in one parti cular position, and the great desirability of resting for a single hour the worn-out skin and muscles that had so long been sustain ing the body in its one possible position. a clear case for a hot bath, which would certainly dissolve the peculiar gummy obstruction on the skin which generally appears in fevers, especially where beef tea has been much forced on the patient—would draw many pounds of blood from the gorged lungs, the inflamed stomach and bowels, and relieve the irri tated sympathising brain, while it would cool the burning body, and warm the cold lifeless feet. I knew that allopathic, homoeopathic, and many hydropathic doc tors agreed that a hot bath was weakening, and that Dr. Ross had held up his hands in horror at the idea, and said that if she was Wdt in a warm bath she might pro- get out. But I knew from my »wn experience and observation that a hot bath was not weakening, and that when it opened an obstructed skin it was won derfully strengthening. As Dr. John Armstrong says : “It will bring pounds of HVood to the surface which were suffocating some internal organ ; it will balance the cii’culation sooner than any other means I know. The patient is raised as by the touch of a magic wand from weakness to strength.” And Dr. Carpenter says : “ Perspiration has no weakening effect in itself, except by the diminution of the water in the blood, which may be re-supplied from the

stomach : it may induce very much to invigorate the system. ” I knew that I had to deal with a patient to whom the exertion of getting into or out of bed might prove fatal, but who, nevertheless, had been constantly doing so, and had, moreover, been for days straining with nausea and sickness pro duced by the most mad attempts to force food on a diseased stomach, in quantities and of a character that she could never have digested in health. These constant spasmodic efforts to vomit were violent enough to burst every one of the weakened blood vessels in her body, and both the patient and her attendents, orthodox as the latter were in their ideas of legally qualified doctors, saw that it was ridicu lous for a doctor to continue to order treat ment that excited such destructive efforts, and at the same time to tell them that the patient must not be moved even to have her bed made, or for any purpose of cleanliness or comfort. However, she was safely got into and out of the bath, and with all the improvement I expected —the action of the skin restored, the lungs relieved, the feet warmed, the nerves soothed, and a comfortable sleep followed. But the viscid character of the perspiration con tinued and soon choked the pores again, so that a daily warm bath was for several days necessary to keep her comfortable and the lungs relieved, a large wet body bandage being worn the whole time. After two days of this treatment Dr. Trevor saw her and formed a very favor able opinion of her. Had he seen her on the evening that I first saw her his opinion would probably have been very different. Dr. Ross told him that there had been complication of the right lung, but that he had put that to rights. In telling me of it my daughter said to me “I wonder what they thought had put it to rights. John gave me one pill of his which Dr. Ross said was a great mistake, and he sent another directly after it, like a ferrit after a rat, which was to prevent all the mischief of the first pill, but he never pretended that either of his pills were to do anything for my lungs, which got worse every day, and nothing ever did do them any good until you put my skin to work, which they seem to have no notion of doing.” In four days the fever was quite sub dued. Hydropathy, as usual, had done that easily and quickly, to the great relief of the patient, but we now know that there was an injury to the lungs which nothing could cure. Long as this letter already is, I must not conclude without saying something about the inquest. It will, I know, be con sidered a proof of my naturally heterodox mind if I say anything that may seem to suggest the possibility that even the Resident Magistrate of Ashburton, who acted as coroner on the occasion, could have made any mistakes in his manner of conducting the case. But knowing, as I did, thatif I had kicked my daughter to death with a pair of hob-nailed boots, I should haveheen entitled to some reasonable notice that a charge was to be brought against me, and should have had some voice as to the witnesses to be heard by the jury, some opportunity to question them, and pos sibly have been allowed to say even a few words in my own defence—l thought it a little strange that, even for the greater crime of relieving her sufferings and pro longing her life, without any legal authority to do so, I should be entirely de barred from all the privileges of an ordinary criminal. I thought it stranger still that I should hear for the first time, not in the coroner’s opening speech, but in his final address, that I stood before the jury as an accused party, against whom it would be their duty to find a verdict of manslaughter if they could possibly suppose from the purely one-sided evidence before them, that anything I had done had shortened my daughter’s life. Every witness that was called was known to be unfavorable to hydropathy, and most of them strongly interested in opposing it; whilst the two nurses who were supposed to believe in my treatment ■were not ex amined. Nevertheless those hostile wit nesses were perhaps better than friendly ones, as they proved, without any equivo cation, that my daughter always got better under my treatment, and always got worse under Dr. Ross’. Although some of them swore that the food I had given her was not sufficiently nourishing and stimulating,” they also swore that, at the post mortem examination, they found the body “fairly well nourished ” —a state of things I should never have expected to find after several weeks of typhoid fever. The verdict of the jury was what every one would expect from the evidence before them, and the common practice of juries in similar cases ; but if they could have had competent and impartial wit nesses, properly examined and cross examined in their presence, I believe they would have found that death was produced, not by natural, but by unnatural causes—by a most un natural disregard of the first cause of the disease as well as of the violent distruc tive efforts that nature was making to defend the weak diseased stomach .and bowels from a load of unnatural rubbish that was being forced upon them. With the rider to the verdict, of course every one must agree. It was a very canny one. It reminds one of the prudent conscientious determination of the old Scotch minister who would not pray “ God defend the Campbells,” but would say “ God defend the right.” The only thing I wonder at is how it was that the coroner, with all his profound venera tion for the powers that be, did not manage to get the jury to put legally qualified instead of “ properly qualified.” But perhaps he thought it dangerous to call their attention to the difference, as, if they had once adopted that important distinction, they might have carried the same idea so far as to apply it to other legally constituted authorities, and might have come to the absurd conclusion that even a Resident Magistrate might be legally and yet not properly quali fied. Wo shall all heartily agree to “ strongly disapprove of other than pro perly qualified men undertaking the con duct of serious cases. ” This is just the opinion I acted on, when I asked Dr. Ross to leave the case alone. Of course none but “ properly qualified men ” (or women) should take “ serious cases ” in hand, if such competent persons could only be got. But where do we find them 1 Certainly not in those who come to cases of typhoid fever armed with nothing but morphia, quinine, champagne, and brandy. Not in those who can attend a very serious case of typhoid fever for three weeks, and never even let their noses guide them to the well known and universally admitted cause of typhoid fever ; or take any stops to re move it from their patients nostrils, their patients’ lungs, or their patients’Jdrinking water. Not in those who stand helplessly by and wish the skin would return to a state of health, and reduce the dangerous temperature of their patients’ blood, but either do not know or dare not adopt the simple, straightforward means to make it do so, which have been practised and pub lished with so much benefit to mankind for the last fifty years. Not in those who do not yet know that Dr. Richardson has, by a series of the most able, exhaustive, and impartial experiments, proved the error of his own previous opinion, and that of most of his fraternity, that alcohol was useful as a medicine—that he has shown exactly how the mischevious delu sion originated and held its ground so long, and proved to a demonstration that alcohol always lowers and never raises vitality”; that it “ begins by destroying and ends by destruction and that “it is as impotent for good as it is potent for evil.” Not in those who have not yet even learned that food to sustain life, health, and vigor must not only contain

the required nutriment, but must contain it in a form, and with the additions that adapt it to the machine that must assimi late it, and who call the most nourishing food that can be procured for any human being—such as Neave’s food, oatmeal, milk, and beans, “low diet,” and designate brandy, eggs, and beaf tea—a restriction to which would soon starve the strongest man or child in Ashburton to death— “nourishing food.” And certainly not in those who publicly avow that they know nothing of the only discovery that has ever been made in the art of healing disease since the day of Hippocrates, and whose practice seems intended to teach that health can be preserved, and evenrostored, without observing any of the Creator’s laws for health, so long as a certain amount of drugs, well known to be poisons, are swallowed under the direction of a “legally qualified medical practitioner.” I say, sir, that such persons are not competent to guide us to health eitner in “serious” or trivial cases; and as wo have no Pries,",nitz, nor Smedly, or Grinrod, or Johnston, or Barter, or Trail, or Graham here, we had better do the best we can with the assistance of their writings, and the instructions of those who are best acquainted with the principles and details of their wonderfully success ful practice. Misfortune may yet compel me to seek the assistance of the Ashburton surgeons, in which capacity I honor them more than most persons do—and I know that, even after this letter, 1 should find at least one of them very skilful, very generous, ,and very forgiving—but I shall never come to them for any of their drugs, however “serious” myillncss maybe; andlhopemy sons will have the courage to let we die ille gally and peaceably in a warm bath, or a wet sheet, and leave the doctors to hold as many inquests as they please over me and to cut my body about as they like, to ascertain the cause of my death, which they will probably pronounce to be “ drugophobia. I am, &c,, Alfred Saunders.

HALF HANGED.

Bacon records ho knew “ of an inquisi tive person who hanged himself for the purpose of ascertaining if strangulation was a painful operation. One of his friends very fortunately cut him down before it was too late, when the curious experimentalist was quite satisfied that hanging was by no moans painful or un jileasant, and that the moment strangula tion took place he had been struck with a flickering light, that was instantly fol lowed by utter darkness. ” Various cases are recorded of individuals thus cut down, when hanged by accident or executed. In most instances they have asserted that they experienced a pleasant sensation on stran gulation. A similar case is that of “ Half hanged Smith,” who was a Yorkshireman, although not executed at York. He was the son of a fanner at Mai ton, who had served both by sea and land. While a soldier in Lord Outt’s regiment of Guards ho became one of a gang of housebreakers, and was in December, 1705, arraigned upon seven indictments, for which he was duly sentenced to death. Great efforts were made to obtain him a reprieve, but all to no purpose, and on the 24th of the month he was hanged at Tyburn. Before he hanged 15 minutes the people called out “ A reprieve !” and he was inconti nently cut down, although no evidence is forthcoming of the actual arrival of the reprieve. When conveyed to a neighbor ing house, bled and otherwise treated, he recovered his senses. His description of his sensations is thus given in in the Re markable Trials,” edited by Capt. Benson, and published by Camden Hotten (p. 30) : —“ When he was turned off he was for some time sensible of very great pain, occasioned by the weight of his body, and felt his spirits in a wild commotion, violently pressing upwards ; that, having forced their way to his head, he, as it were, saw a great blaze or glaring light, which seemed to go out at his eyes with a flash, and then he lost all sense of pain. That after he was cut down and began to come to himself, the blood and spirits, forcing themselves into their former chan nels, put him, by a sort of pricking or shooting, to such intolerable pain that he could have wished those hanged that cut him down.” Such cases, says the same authority, were not uncommon at one time in Ireland, and persons were seen walking about whom it was well known had been only imperfectly hanged. It was then the rule that the body should hang for half an-hour ; but the sheriff, from “ mistaken lenity, would look away after the prisoner had been turned off, while the friends of the culprit would hold up their companion by the waistband of his breeches, so that the rope should not press upon his throat.” When the half-hour was expired, the de ceased was put into a cart, which was driven at a gallop along a stony road. The jolting was considered a never-failing re cipe for “ bringing the patient to.” One such recovery was so complete that the resuscitated man sat up in his coffin in the cart and gave three cheers. One of his friends was so much shocked by this in decent conduct, that he hit the ex-corpse on the head with his shillelagh and silenced him effectually. The blow killed the poor wretch, and the question arose whether the assailant ought not to be tried for murder ; but, on taking legal advice, it was ruled that ‘‘ no one could be success I fully charged with the murder of a man who was already dead in law.” —Records of York Castle. By A. W. Twyford and Major A. Griffiths.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2% 1880.



For continuation of reading matter see fourth gage. Wanted. /"NOOK. —Wanted, Situation by a first \j class Cook, just arrived from Eng land. Apply, “ Herald ” office. 5330 WANTED, a good strong second-hand SPRING CART. Apply Duncan M‘Kenzie, Ashburton Hotel. 518 a WANTED, by a Young Widow, a SITUATION as Housekeeper to a gentleman, or Housekeeper and Gover ness to a widower with children. She teaches thorough English, French, Music, Singing, and Needlework, is a good Cook, and understands a dairy.—Apply to Mrs. C., West Oxford. 444 a SHEEP. WANTED— To PURCHASE 5000 Sound Mouthed Merinos or Cross breds, in lots. Apply to SAUNDERS BROS. 313 Ashburton. WANTED KNOWN—That Visiting Cards, plain or mourning, can be obtained printed in various styles, at the “Herald” and “ Guardian ” offices, near the Rai ’"ay Station Lecture. TEMPERANCE LECTURE Will be given by DR. ROSEBY, L.L.D. G.W.C. TEM PLAR of NEW ZEALAND, IN THE TOWN HALL, On MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 23rd. Alfred Saunders, Esq., M.H.R., has kindly consented to take the Chair. Admission Free ! ! ! Doors open at 7.30. Commence at 7. 532 a



Alfred Harrison. UNDER BILL OF SALE. SATURDAY, 21st FEBRUARY, 11 o’clock sharp. FOR ABSOLUTS SALE. ALFRED HARRISON has received instructions •to Sell by Public Auction, at bis Rooms, on the above date— The whole of the Furniture, Bedding, and Effects from a large Board ing-house, removed to the rooms for convenience of sale, Comprising— -20 Iron Bedsteads, new Matresses Large Heavy Blankets Counterpanes Feather Pillows Bolsters Sheets, &c., &c. 7 Washstands and Sets Dressing Tables Cheffonier Looking Glasses Chairs Sofas Tables 2 Large Dining Tables Glass Cutlery Lamps Kitchen Utensils &c., &c. Ac. Also, 1 Large American Cooking Stove, with Copper Boiler, &c., at tached Sale at 11 o’clock sharp. SATURDAY, 21st FEBRUARY. ALFRED HARRISON, 521g-70c Auctioneer. T. Bullock. THE undersigned has the following PROPERTIES to LET with a pur chasing clause, or FOR SALE on liberal terms of payment— ACRES good WHEAT LAND, all ploughed and ready for cross ploughing for wheat ; situated about three miles from the township. ACRES, near the above ; also good ™ * WHEAT LAND, ploughed once and ready for cross-ploughing, ACRES,partly improved, near Wins ? 'I-' low. This will be sold very cheap, and on very liberal terms. 7 ACRES, fenced and planted ; situated near the East Town Belt, good site for private residence. TOWN PROPERTIES. T7ALUABLE BUSINESS SITE in Bur •' nett Street, being T.S. 177, next the “ Mail” office. PART of T.S. 139, Peter Street. This will be sold cheap, and on liberal terms. mo Railway Employe's, Mechanics, and ■*- Others.—FOß SALE, cheap, Lot 78, situated on East Town Belt. Terms, £5 cash ; balance by monthly” or quarterly payments. T. BULLOCK. Lost and Found. £1 REWARD. LOST— A dark GELDING, G years old, 2 white spots on each side of saddle ; white star on forehead, mark like P.R. on rump. Any person returning same, or giving information leading to its recovery, will receive above reward. 51c 5010 A. THIELE. Meetings. UPPER ASHBURTON ROAD BOARD. MEETING OF RATEPAYERS.’ IN consequence of the sitting of the Assessment Court on the 27th hast., the Meeting of the Ratepayers for the election of a member in the place of the late Mr. Charles Reid has been POST PONED till the day following (28th instant). ROBT. D. PULLAR, 509 a Clerk. UPPER ASHBURTON ROAD BOARD. MEETING OF RATEPAYERS, A MEETING of the Ratepayers of this Road District will take place on FRIDAY, the 27th hast., at 10 o’clock a. m., in the Road Board Office, for the purpose of electing a member in the room of the late Mr. Charles Reed. A Poll, if demanded, will be held the same day, and close at 4 o’clock p.m. DONALD McLEAN, Chairman. Road Board Office, 487 g Westerfield, 10th February”, 1880. Tenders. TENDERS. Tenders wanted for thresh ing about 25,000 bushels grain (more or less) at Tinwald and Hinds. Chafl’ to be free from straw. Tenders to close February 20th. Threshing to com mence on or about 24th February, 1880. J. CARTER, 514 g Tinwald. CARTING. TENDERS are invited for Carting 100,000 bushels grain. Particulars can be obtained from MR. E. SAUNDERS, Dundas ; MR. H. W. PARSON, Seafield; Or 464 g SAUNDERS BROS. Y. R. COURT HOUSE, ASHBURTON. Public Works Office, Christchui'ch, February 10th, 1880. are invited for the Erection of a Court House at Ashburton. General conditions, specifications and drawings may be seen at the Public Works Office, Christchurch, and Post Office, Ashburton. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside “ Tender for Court House, Ash burton,” will be received at this office up to noon on TUESDAY, March 2nd, 1880. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, A. D. AUSTIN, 53c-5030 District Engineer, P.W.



Edmiston Bros, & Gundry.



THURSDAY, Ith MARCH. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. TO FARMERS, INVESTORS, AND OTHERS. Messrs, edmiston bros., & GUNDRY, have received instruc tions from the Mortgagee, to sell by Public Auction, at their rooms, East street, on THURSDAY, 4th MARCH, 210 A o a E s 210 R.S., 27452, 27453, 27454 Situated on Gould & Cameron’s Run. These sections have been well selected, and we can confidently recommend them to the attention of Farmers looking out for a really good piece of land at a low figure. The greater part of the purchase money can remain on Mortgage on the property. Terms at Sale. Sale at 1.30 p. m. EDMISTO * BROS., & GUNDRY, 534 g Auctioneers. PRELIMINARY NOTICE IMPORTANT Clearing Sale OF FARMING STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS, ALSO, 768 acres 768 OF GOOD WHEAT-GROWING LAND AT THE HINDS, In Farms of 58, GO, 150, and 500 Acres. \ MESSRS. EDMISTON BROS. & 1¥ 1 GUNDRY have been favored with instructions from A. Gibson, Esq., who is leaving for Scotland, to sell BY PUBLIC AUCTION, AT HIS FARM, “ AUCHENDRANE,” THE HINDS, The whole of his excellent FARMING STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS, WITHOUT RESERVE. ALSO, HIS MAGNIFICENT FARM, KNOWN AS “AUCHENDRANE,” Consisting of 500 ACRES 500 Of First-class Wheat Land, Being R.S. 28137. The property is well fenced, and sub-divided into five paddocks, with gorse fences. There is plenty of good water 20ft. from the surface. The buildings consist of a comfortable 3-roomed weatherboard cottage, cobbed and plastered throughout, with scullery, bath-room, &c., and a men’s hut. The greater part of the land is in crop, and lying fallow, and there is a plan tation of about five acres of forest trees round the house. At the same time will be offered 58 ACRES 58 Of Good Wheat Land, near the above, 60 ACRES 60 Do Do. Do. . 150 ACRES 150 R. S. 28137, about 1| miles from the Hinds Railway Station, ring fenced, with a good ■well of water (16ft. to water). ALSO, T.S. 39, 43, 44, Hindhope, with Black smith’s Shop and Dwelling-house thereon. The above properties must be sold, and the terms are therefore exceedingly liberal. Sale at 1 o’clock. Luncheon provided. EDMISTON BROS. & GUNDRY, 530 g Auctioneers. ASHBURTON "COUNTY COUNCIL. IVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that iM DOG COLLARS for 1880 can be OBTAINED from the following Registrars for the different Hidings and Districts in the County of Ashburton at the places set forth opposite their names. R. Pullar —Upper Ashburton Riding : Road Board office, Westerfield. A. Makeig South Rakaia Riding : Road Board office, South Rakaia. Wm. De B. Compton—Mount Hutt Riding ; Mount Hutt Board office." Henry Hudson—Longheach Road Dis trict : Mr. Hudson’s store, Water ton. James Wilkie—Wakanui Road District; Mr. Wilkie’s house, Great South road. The police have been requested to sum mon all owners of unregistered dogs in the County. • By order, F. MAIN WARING, Clerk. Ashburton, Feb. 18, 1880. 524 g NOTICE. MOUNT SOMERS ROAD BOARD. -jVTOTICE is hereby given that the JLY Mount Somers Road Board pro pose to stop a road from the south-east corner of section 23518 to south-east cor ner of section 19975, and to take in ex change thereof a road from the aforesaid south-east corner of section 23518 to the south-east corner of section 24989, join ing Government road at south-west corner of section 25G14. Plans of the above are now deposited at the Road Board Office, Mount Somers. Dated this 2nd day of January, 1880. By order, C. WENTWORTH COOKSON, Jun., Clerk to the Mount Somers 843 g Road Board. ~ NOTICE. W* have to request a prompt settle ment of a Large number of over due and long standing accounts, otherwise legal proceedings will be taken to recover same. WEEKS & DIXON. “ Herald and Guardian ” office,



Public Notices. WAKANUI ROAD BOARD. RATE NOTICE. niHE Rate for 1879-80 will be COL LECTED FORTHWITH and not ir April as previously notified, and all over due rates for 1878-9 will be sued for at once. Rates to be paid at my residence, Great South Road, next the Gasworks. JAMES WILKIE, 477g-34c Collector. TO CONTRACTORS AND FARMERS. WAGGON AND, TEAM FOR SALE* By Private Treaty. FOR SALE, by private treaty, one first-class second-hand Waggon and six good Draught Horses, belonging to the Wosterfield Estate. The new branch line being nearly ready for traffic, the pro prietor will have no further use for the waggon and team. Further particulars on applying to the undersigned, at the Westerfield Station. C. F. REED. February 15,1880. 516a-fi9c NOTICE. TO MERCHANTS, STOREKEEPERS, AND OTHERS. ALL CLAIMS against the estate of the late CHARLES REED, Esq., of Westerfield, must be sent in by Feb. 29, 1880, to the undersigned, addressed to Westerfield, 68c-5150 0. F. REED. NOTICE. Twill not be responsible for any DEBTS contracted by my wife after date, she having left my home of her own will. T. P. GLEE 30N, Hinds River, Feb. 12, 1880. 504g-54c PUBLIC NOTICE OF- OBJECTION TO THE WHOLE OF VALUATION LIST. TAKE NOTICE—The South Rakaia Road Board intend to OBJECT to the whole of the VALUATION LIST for South Rakaia Road district now open for inspection at Road Board office, South Rakaia, at the next sitting of the Assess ment Court, for the said district, upon the ground that the rateable value of the pro perties therein named is greater than in the said list set forth. ! Dated this sth day of February, 1880. By order of the South Rakaia Road Boaid. A.-MAKEIG, 497 g Clerk. V. R. DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION, SUMNER, CANTERBURY. THE Government having secured suit able accommodation at Sumner, Canterbury, for the proposed Institution for the Education and Training of Deaf mutes, Mr. and Mrs. Van Asch will be prepared to receive pupil boarders at the Institution on the Ist March, 1880. Full information may be obtained on applica tion to the undersigned, or to the Secre taries of the several Education Boards. By order, JOHN HISLOP, Secretary, Education Department, Wellington, 2nd February, 1880. 485 g REAPERS AND BINDERS" Employment machines. Apply for any number of 463 g SAUNDERS BROS. w I L LI A M ADAMS, Accountant and Genekal Commission Agent. W. A. has started busines as above in the Cottage next Road Board Office, A sh burton. Tradesmens’ books kept, Accounts Rendered, Rents Collected, Letters Written, business or private, Contractors’ Partnership Accounts Adjusted. Charges Moderate. WILLIAM ADAMS, Next Road Board Office, 512 g Ashburton. GRAIN. ROYSE, STEAD, & CO. are prepared to PURCHASE GRAIN or to make ADVANCES ON GRAIN consigned to them for sale or ship ment. C, PERCY COX, Agents for ROYSE, STEAD, & CO., 4930 Ashburton. W. R. BOYLE, Moore street, Ashburton, Accountant, land, estate, and GENERAL AGENT, Loans negotiated. Absentees represented. Agent for the Victorian Insurance Com pany. Certificated Accountant in Bank ruptcy. 458 g jyj-R. FRANCIS PHILIP O’REILLY, Barrister, Solicitor, & Conveyancer, TANCRED STREET, ASHBURTON, Next Messrs. Orr and Co.’s. 362 g TO FARMERS, LIVERY STABLE KEEPERS, SPORTING MEN, AND OTHERS OWNING HORSES. GEORGE KIDD, Moore Street, BEGS to announce the fact that the PRICE for SHOEING hacks and light draught HORSES is now REDUCED to 7s. per set, and that all horses of this description will, he specially attended to by himself. Horses liable to cut are shod on a prin ciple of George Kidd’s own invention, which has proved an effectual cure for brushing. All kinds of blacksmith’s work, and repairs to agricultural machinery of any description done on the shortest notice. GEORGE KIDD, 75c-526g Moore street, Ashburton. Advertisements received for the GUARDIAN up to 9 p.m. at the scale charges, afterwards at double rates for insertion over the leader,



Public Notices. ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL. EXTRAORDINARY VACANCY. I HEREBY declare THOMAS BUL LOCK, Esq., of Asliburton, Auc tioneer, (hong the only candidate nomi nated, duly ELECTED a member of the Ashburton County Council for the Riding of Upper Ashburton. CHARLES BRADDELL, Returning Officer. Westerfield School House, 20th February, 1880. 531 a ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL. THE Ashburton County Council in tending at the next Session of the General Assembly TO APPLY for BOR ROWING POWERS, to enable it to pro vide a WATER SUPPLY for the plains between the Rakaia and Ashburton rivers, notice is hereby given, that the following list contains the numbers of all the sections which are within the boun daries of the district now proposed to be brought within the operation of the Act. The Council will be willing as far as practicable to include any other land, on application by the owner or occupier being made to it for that purpose. The Council calls the attention of the settlers on the Acton Run and in the Sea field district to the fact that their land is not included within the district above alluded to, but the Council will attend the plan should application to that fbffect be made by a sufficient majority of the settlers in those districts. Plan of the district is on view at the Council Chambers. & By order, F. MAIN WARING, $ Clerk. w J. P. PARKER, AT CHMAKE First house past Doctor Ross’s and n door to Catholic Church. Buknbtt steeet N.B.—Wedding rings made to order WANTED KNOWN—-That the cheap est and neatest CARDS may bo had at the * ‘ GUARDIAN OFFICE, ”



Business Notices. T. B. HODDER & COWRY’S GREAT CLEARING SALE, Previous to their STOCK TAKING, COMMENCES FRIDAY NEXT, FEBRUARY 27th,- And will continue for ONE MONTH. ESPECIAL BARGAINS Throughout all the Soft Goods Departments. A large lot of REMNANTS—Shirting, Flannel, Sheeting, Carpetings, Tweeds, Doeskins, Dress Stuffs, &c., &c. Ladies’ Millinery, Costumes, Jackets, Capes, Underclothing &c., at GREAT REDUCTIONS. Boys’, Youths’, and Men’s Clothing, English and Colonial Colored Shirts. Flannel unders, &c., &c. SPLENDID VALUE FOR THE MONEY. Several lines in this Department LESS THAN ENGLISH COST PRICE, being bought during the depression from over stocked Markets. TAILORING DEPARTMENT In connection with the above, under the Superintendence of an experienced Lon don Military cutter. For price, style, workmanship, and perfect fit not to be surpassed in the colony. Ladies’ Habits and Mantles. Mourning and Wedding orders attended to with Dispatch. Military Uniforms. Contracts taken for any Volunteer Corps in New Zealand T. R. H. & Co. Knowing that the Public may get wrong impressions by quantities and prices being quoted, HAVE ARRANGED TO GIVE UPON ACTUAL CASH PAYMENTS IN THE DRAPERY, MlL linery, Clothing, and Boot Depart ments, the liberal Discount of TWO SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE IN THE POUND upon all Parcels over ten SHILLINGS, IN ADDITION TO THE REDUCED Prices. CASH FOR ONE MONTH ONLY. T, R. HODDER & COMPANY’S ENGLISH and AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE DEPOT. A complete assortment of Hand and Treadle Lock-Stitch Sewing Machines. T. R. Hodder & Company are appointed agents for Wanzer Machines, that have gained such preference in Dunedin and South Canterbury, also for the Improved Wertheim, allowed to be one of the best Machines used in the Largest Factories. SINGER’S and WILSON’S TREADLES, With their peculiar advantages. TAYLOR’S and HOME TREASURE !■ HAND-SEWING MACHINES, - *V Simple in working and of great durability. Extras of every description with the above. CASH, OR ON DEFERRED PAY MENTS. T. R. HODDER AND COMPANY.