THE CHIMNEY CORNER.

THE DISRUPTION: A TALE OF TRYING TIMES. CHAPTER XXVI. Horrid confusion heap’d Upon confusion rose. MILTON. Acting under an impulse too power ful to permit him to see obstacles, or calculate consequences, Mr. Duncan son, as soon as his senses rallied, darted across the street, and sprang over the garden railing with the speed of thought. He was on the spot where the accident occurred almost as the cry of distress began to rise from the sufferers and surrounding crowd, and the next moment was exerting all his strength to extricate the individuals next to him from their perilous posi tion. The screams and groans which issued from the struggling mass were heartrending, and, on all sides was seen terrific evidence that many seri ous and even some fatal casualties had occurred. The raw, new-sawn timber, of which the gallery had been con structed, was stained with blood, and lay in broken planks over and among the unfortunate people with whose weight it had given way ; and many a gay dress and fair face bore hideous stains, which made the scene like a hideous battle-field. The confusion was too great for the student to dis tinguish one person from another among the sufferers; and his mind became so frenzied with anxiety for the safety of Miss Montgomery and his other friends, that he made efforts far beyond his natural strength ' for the relief of all within his reach. But he was not alone in his work. Several others were similarly engaged; and, just as he was exerting himself to lift a heavy plank, he found his efforts seconded by one more powerful than himself, whom he immediately recog nised as his good friend, Stimperton of Stiffriggs. The honest farmer, on seeing him, exclaimed —“ Gude pre serve us, Mr. Jimes ! helping here, and needing help yoursel’, I think. Dear me, man ! ye’ve been hurt, I see. Are ye sair hurt?” As he put this question, he looked concernedly in the young man’s face, which was deadly pale, and caught him in his arms just as he was about to fall. Stiffriggs supported him till Mrs. Renshaw, Miss Stimperton, and the Burncrook party gathered round ; for they had all escaped - uninjured. They naturally supposed that Mr, Duncanson, though unseen by them, had also been on it, and had sustained some serious injury by the fall; and it was not for a con siderable time that he was able to explain that this was a mistake. In deed, he was puzzled himself to account for his sudden illness, but when he had time to collect his thoughts, he remembered that he had hurt his side rather severely on the spikes of the iron railing in hurriedly getting into the garden. This injury, with his over-exertion among the ruins of the gallery, might account for that sudden faintness that overcame him and alarmed his friends. Miss Mont gomery, when she saw his pallid hue and sunk condition, imagining he had received some fatal injury, trembled violently, and became as pale as her lover. Even the stern old man, her father, was melted into momentary compassion and concern. Mrs. Ren shaw was loud in her grief; Mr. and Mrs Calmsough were tenderly sympa thising ; and “ Saft Shusie ” shook off her usual apathy, and manifested much feeling. A coach was called; but, before its arrival, there was some dis cussion among the friends where the sick student should be taken, for he had fainted, and was unable to decide for himself. As he continued alarm ingly long in this state, it was thought hazardous to remove him so far as his lodgings. The rooms occupied by his aunt were almost equally distant, and therefore Mr. and Mrs. Calmsough considerately proposed that he should be taken to their quarters in Pitt Street, that place being comparatively near at hand. This proposal was by no means agreeable to old Gideon Montgomery; but, in the circumstances, he could not decently oppose it. Thither, therefore, Mr. Duncanson was conveyed. The hurt which he had suffered, though severe, was not considered dan gerous. The fleshy part of his right side, beneath the arm-pit was consider ably lacerated, and bled profusely, but there was no deep wound. The sur geon expressed some apprehension that the strain which the young gentleman had received by over-exerting himself, would prove a more serious matter than the wound, and might possibly disable him for a considerable time.

Robin Afleck, who had heard of the accident almost as soon as it occurred, and lost no time in seeking out his suffering friend, and condoling with him in his misfortune in his own homely fashion, went next directly to Jean Brown to apprise her of what had happened. He also wished to take the opportunity of Mrs. Renshaw’s absence to arrange with Jean some other matters —more anon. Robin expressed far less regret for Mr. Duncanson’s accident than admiration of his good luck in being laid up in such comfort able quarters. “ I think, Robin,” said his sweetheart, “ Mr. Jimes gets but little pity frae you.” “ Pity ! no. What for should I pity him ?” said Robin ; “ I envie him rather; for though he’s sick, I’m sure he’s far from being sorry himsel’. Just consider, woman what a catch it is to ha’e Agnes Migummerie at his bedside, and like to break her heart aboot him.”

“ Muckle gude that’ll do him, I’m sure, or else no.” “ Muckle gude, ay just that muckle gude that I would risk some hard knocks mysel’, and a month’s doctor ing, to be in his place.” “ Wad ye though, Robin ? ” “Wad I no. Just think what a treat it maun be to ha’e yon nice mitherly body, Mrs. Calmsough for a nurse, seeing everything right about him; and his ain lass slipping in and oot the room, neither able to byde still nor stay awa, keeking owre folk’s shou ther every ither minute to see him again, and ready wi’ everything that’s gude for him the very moment it’s needed.”

“ Ay, man, I think ye’ve been using a’ the een in your aught glowerin’ at the young leddy.”

“IV ha could help it? A body canna be blind to a sicht like yon.” “ I think ye’ve been mair ta’en up looking at Miss Miggummerie than wi’ concern for Mr. Jimes.” “Ye’re perfectly straucht there, Jean, for after what the doctor said, I kend there was no fear o’ Mr. Jimes. He’ll soon mend, ’specially in yon billet; so I dinna see ony need to vex mysel’ aboot him. But I wad ha’e been as great a sumph as ye whiles ca’ me, if I could ha’e keepit my een aff his Agnes. Pegs, Jean, it’s worth Mr. Jimes’ while to gang within an inch o’ deeing for a lass like yon. They talk about queens and angels; but if she bena baith a queen and an angel, I’m mista’en.”

“ Robin ! I never heard ye say the like o’ that aboot me, for a’ the luve ye let on ye bear me.” “Ye wadna ha’e me to tell ye big lees, wad ye, Jean? But don’t be jealous. Ye’re neither a angel nor a queen, to be shure, but ye’re what’s far better—at least for me.”

“ Ay ; what am I ? ” “ Ye’re a sonsy, clean-shankit, mettlesome, saucy, little gipsy.” “ And ye’re an ill-bred, out-speaking, gomeral.” “ Now, Jean, that’s mair than I can stand, withoot being weel paid for’t; so tak’ ye that, and that.” It is needless to say that Robin in demnified himself pretty well for the disparaging terras he had to bear. Jean, however, was, or at least pre tended to be, not quite pleased with his comparative appreciation of herself and Miss Montgomery, and said in rather a pettish way —“ But, Robin, withoot a word o’ fun, since ye admire Miss Migummery sae much, ye maun look oot for some fine leddy like her, and gi’e up your thochts o’ me.” “ I tell you, Jean, I wadna niffer you for fifty Miss Migummeries. I’ll no say but I would like you to be as genty, and meek, and light-set on your foot as her, in the next work ; and then I wad like mysel’ to tak’ after Mr. Dun canson awee, and be as douce and gen teel as him. Or the case micht be the same if it was aye fair weather, and peace and plenty here, and we had naething ado but to Go, lassie, go, To the braes o’ 15alquhidder, Where the blackberries grow ’Mang the bormic blooming heather. But as laug as we’re here, and ha’e to battle for day and way, among folk fechting for a leevin’ like oorsel’s, in a woiT fu’ o’ hardships, often dirty wi’ foul weather, blashy wi’ snaw broo, cauld wi’ snell winds, and caulder whyles wi’ fause frien’s and misfortunes —I think, Jean, we’re far better as we are. Miss Migummerie is a genteel, sweet-faced creature; but in the com plowther o’ care, and trouble, and mony a thing forby that this work is made up o’, she is as far oot o’ place as a silver trout in a quarry hole, or a butterflee in a hail-shower. But genteel, or no gen eel, the lass for this life, and heart soraest companion for me, is ane that can set a stout heart to a stay brae —can put mettle in me to do the same—-gar the bleakest day and the mirkest nicht be cheery—mak’ the heaviest task a flaebite, baith to hersel’ and me —and wha can do a’ that but you, Jean Broun, but you?” “ But suppose ye wad be content to gang through the rough bits o’ life wi’ me, I jalouse if ever ye should get up in the work ye wad begin to rue that ye hadna a leddy for a wife.” “ And wad ye no be leddy enough then yoursel’ ? I trow, lass, if ye e’er ha’e the luck, like the Gentle Shep herd’s Peggy, to Change your plaiden coat for silk, ye’ll set the silk as we’ll es e’er ye’ve dune the plaiden. At ony rate, ye may be sure that I think ye can ack the leddy to perfection when ye like, or I wadna propose to you something I ha’e come just on purpose to propose.” “ Ay, what can that be ?” “ It’s just that ye should gang, in stead o’ Saft Shusie, wi’ Mr. Bacon to the levee.” “ Never speak o’ that, for it canna be.” “ But it maun be though, Jean ; for ye see Stiffriggs has forbidden Shusie, and if ye dinna tak’ her place Mr. Bacon will miss his mark, and he’ll be niether to baud nor bin’.” “ And wha cares for a daft man like Mr. Bacon ?” “ I care for him, Jean, and so wad ye if ye saw the matter richt. Nae doot it’s needless noo to humor him for the sake o’ Jimes Duncanson, for Jimes seems to ha’e gotten something (I sus pect frae Stiffriggs or the mistress) to help him through the College ” “ Ay, something, and a gude trifle frae them baith ; 1 ken that for mistress mak’s it nae secret.”

“ Aweel, its just as I was thinkin’; and glad I’m o’t, for he’ll need to ha’e his purse weel lined if he be laid up lang in yon grand ludging and ha’e doctor’s fees to pay—no to speak o’ the College ava. But, as I was saying, though there’s nae need noo to study to please Mr. Bacon on Jimes D uncan son’s account, I ha’e a gude guess that it’ll be worth while baith for your sake, Jean, and mine, to try to please him as far as possible.” “ I canna say I see your drift, Robin.”

“ Ou, my drift’s just this—to get mysel’ in to be a kind o’ factor to Mr. Bacon. That wad be a better job than the vet-veter-veterinary doctrine yet; for Mr. Bacon, I understaund, lias a heap o’ property in laun’, and I wad seek naething better than to get managin’t for him.” “ You manage landed property, Robin ! ”

“Ay, me, Jean. Mind ye I’ve been gettin’ schulin’ sin’ I cam' till Embro’ and was a gude judge o’ laun’ and a’ aboot laun’ before, though I say’t my sel’. And fegs, lass, I can tell you it’s baith easier and mair profit to step aboot and play the master amang farmers and cottar bodies, than to ram ane’s arm up to the elbow intill the stomachs o’ kye and horses.” “ But maybe Mr. Bacon has a factor already.” “ Deed has he ; but he’s no pleased wi’ him ; I’ve faund oot that, and if I can play my cards weel, I may get the place mysel’. And if I do, just con sider hoo cozey you and me could mak’ oorsel’s. Bless you, Jean, ye may be Mrs. Afleck; leevin’ in your bein-hoose, wi’ jucks and hens before the door, a kail-yard at the back, and a grumphy at the gavle, before anither twelve ; month gae by. Ye’ll shurely think it worth while to gang wi’ Mr.

Bacon to the levee for sic a prospect as that.”

“ No, Robin, I’ll no gang a step wi’ Mr. Bacon even for the sake o’ the grumphy. But I’ll do better. I’ll try to get leave for Shusie, and though Stiffrigs is stiff stiff, I think I ken hoo to work him.”

Just as Jean said this, Mr. Bacon’s message-boy came to the door with a letter from that gentleman to “ Saft Shusie.” The letter was in a large fold, bound round in the ancient fashion with a skein of floss silk, and sealed with the family arms of Auchterbardie. _ It was addressed, with many curious flourishes of penmanship, to “ Made moiselle Shusannah Stimperton of Stiff riggs.” Jean Brown inherited her full share of Eve’s curiosity, and was all impatience to know the contents of a billet deux which was probably the first of the kind ever written by Mr. Bacon or addressed to Miss Stimperton ; but the silk and the sealing wax kept the mystery inviolable in spite of all at tempts to pry between the folds. Mr. Bacon’s caution induced him to think oral, much safer than written, communi cation with the fair sex, particularly after his • ominously significant dreams had terrified him with the fears of having his glory shorn by matrimony ; and for this reason he had sent a viva voce instead of a written message to Miss Stimperton the day before ; but after hearing of the refusal of Stiffriggs to permit his sister to play the fool with him, the philosophic bachelor concluded that he had made a mistake and given offence by appearing to trea her with less than due respect Hence, he now tried to repair the error by sending _ an ample apology and renewing his request in what he deemed the most respectful form. He, however, took pretty good care to be guarded in his expressions and to confine himself to the business in hand, for he was determined that not a word should escape his pen that could be construed into any meaning hazardous to his freedom.

Jean’s curiosity did not remain long ungratified, for Miss Stimperton, along with Stiffriggs and Mrs. Renshaw, soon came in, and the letter was im mediately opened and read without reserve. Ringan declared it to be a very sensible production, and not in the least like what he would ex pect a crack-brained man to write. This remark at once gave Jean Brown her cue, and she was not slow in turning it fully to account. She said, to be sure Mr. Bacon was “ a very sensible man, and no to ca’ daft ava ; but only a wee odd in his way.” Shusie protested he was a very fine gentleman and she saw nothing either daft or odd about him, and renewed her pleading to be allowed to comply with his request. Jean Brown adroitly suggested that in such a case, perhaps her mistress would allow her to go as Miss Shusie’s waiting maid, which she would be glad to do as thereby she would have an opportunity of seeing the cakes and jam safely conveyed to the Queen. Mrs. Renshaw swallowed this bait at once, and joined heartily with the young women in trying to overcome Ringan’s scruples. Stiffriggs was somewhat subborn to be sure, but he was not obdurate, and as he began to have a hazy perception of the awful fact that women, when resolved, must have their way, he thought it better to give up the point with a good grace, than make an obstinate resistance and after all to be driven out of it. Robin Afleck had therefore the satisfaction of hearing him give a kind off gruff assent, which, though reluctantly pro nounced, was sufficient, and then set off at once to make Mr. Bacon happy with the news. (To be continued—commenced on July sb.)

THE ASHBUETON GUAEDIAN, THUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace John Nl Weeks and Charles Dixon, .at their Printing Office, Easl Street, Ashburton, Thursday, September 30, 1880. ,



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Public Notices. PROSPECTUS OF THE Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Com pany, Limited. CAPITAL, £IOO,OOO, IN 4000 SHARES OF £25 EACH. DIRECTORS : Isaac Wilson, Esq., Chairman, G. H. Blackwell, Esq.,E. Parniiam, Esq., And Two to be Elected after the Allotment of New Shares. BANKERS : Bank op New Zealand. SOLICITORS : Messrs. Gakkick and COWLISHAW. Registered Office ... ... ••• Charles Street, Kaiapoi. THIS Company was established in July, 1878, with a capital of £15,000 in 15 shares of £I.OOO each, to carry on the business of Woollen Manufacturers, and accepted the offer of the Hon. J. T. Peacock, for the purchase of the Premises and. Plant of the Canterbury Spinning, Weaving, and Fibre Company at about half its original cost, since which, considerable additions have from tirneto time been made tothe buildings and plant, the latter now comprising four sets of Carding Engines, and thirty-five Looms with necessary machinery, which, with tlie addition of machinery just arrived, makes the plant well-proportioned and very complete. The sum of £1,200 has been paid since stock-taking, for last additions to buildings and machinery just received per Loch The Manufactory, with the additionJof the machinery per Loch Awe, though com plete in itself, will not however enable the Company to meet the greatly increased demand which has arisen for their goods, although, as hitherto, continuing to run a large portion of the machinery night and day, and having conclusively proved that the present heads of departments are capable of working a Mill twice the size of the pre sent one at a saving of at least £2,000 a year on the general working of the Company’s business, they have with a view to providing extended premises and appliances, decided to increase the Capital from £15,000 to £IOO,OOO, the whole to be represented by 4000 shares of £25 each, of which the existing shareholders will be entitled to 825 fully paid up, in exchange for the shares now held by them (including the accumulated profit thereupon amounting to £3,744); of the residue, the L Directors propose to issue at present only 1,600. The increased capital will be applied to the following purposes, viz Paying off exist ing mortgage of £7,400 ; enlarging present premises and plant; establishing pre mises in Christchurch ; and for the general purposes of the Company. The following may be enumerated among the special advantages in favor of Share holders, viz. :—The original plant was purchased at about half-cost, the staff is now well-trained and efficient, which will obviate the difficulties and avoid a repetition of the losses experienced during the first eighteen months of the Company’s operations, while the whole of the dead stock was cleared out previous to stock-taking, July Ist, 1880. A good and safe business has been developed, which is steadily increasing, and is capable of being worked up to a much greater extent. All the risks and expenses con nected with the formation of a new company will be avoided, and, as can be seen by a perusal of the last balance-sheet, the new Shareholders will at once enter into possession of a good paying concern. The present Shareholders shew their faith in the concern in the most practical manner possible by taking the amount of £3,744 (accumulated profit, equal to 16 per cent, per annum on the paid up Capital) in fully paid up shares, instead of drawing the amount which they are entitled to do. The Company now offers to investors an opportunity to develop a Colonial Industry which has established for itself a good reputation and meets with popular support, and which will, it is expected, shortly employ about 400 hands, and at the same time securing to Shareholders a good return for the Capital invested. Intending Shareholders can obtain any information, with an order to view the Factory, from the Directors, or on application at the Office of the Company. The Share List will close on October Ist, 1880. In making the allotment the Directors will take into consideration the order in which the applications are made. The sum of £1 per share will be payable on application ; £2 10s. per share on allot ment ; and the balance in calls of not more than 50s. per share at intervals of not less three months. In this manner the time for fully paying up will be extended to not less than two years and three months. All Applications with £1 per share deposit, to be forwarded to the Chairman of Directors not later than October Ist, 1880. BALANCE SHEET, JUNE 30, 1880. LIABILITIES. ASSETS. £ s. d. By Freehold Land... ... 354 1 6 ~ Buildings Ac count >£3,993 17 8 Less depreciation, 59 18 1 ~ Plant Account 10,273 4 3 Less depreciation, 256 16 7 ~ Stocks on hand— Wool ... 4,840 1 o Manufactured and in pro cess Oil Coal Soap Materials Dye Goods ... ~ Sundry Debtors ... 3,680 2 o ~ Wool Shipments— Ex Waimate 5 10 5 7 Ex Waitangi 411 14 4 ~ Loom Cash and Petty Cash 32 9 2 £30,283 U 9 39 17 7 35 o o 76 o o 29 o 9 400 o o STATEMENT OF PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, For Half-year ending June 30, ISBO. £ s. d. By Balance, December 31, 1879 1,041 7 1 ~ Profit on Wool, Shipment No. 1 ... ... 301 12 11 ~ Profit on Wool, Shipment No. 2 ... ... 150 o o ~ Manufactures Account ... 11,982 2 1 Examined and found correct. W. P. WILSON, Auditor. Forms of Application may be obtained by applying, either personally or by letter, at the Offices of the Company. ISAAC WILSON, 123 g Chairman of Directors.



GRATEFUL COMFORTING EPPS’S COCOA. BREAKFAST. BY a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctor’s bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every ten pency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.— See article in the Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in packets or tins, labelled ; JAMES EPPS AND CO., HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMIST, LONDON. 91 °o POWELL’S BALSAM of ANISEED. Duo de Montabor writes “ Chateau de Montabor, Aveyron. Sir, —Having suffered for some time from an obstinate cough, accompanied with fever, continuous head-aches, and sleepless nights, I resolved after having vainly tried several other medicines, to have recourse to your BALSAM of ANISEED. I cannot resist, sir, the desire of making you acquainted with the really marvelous results which I derived from it. From the first dose I felt great relief, the bad symptoms grew feebler, the irritation of the throat was calming down, and I recovered the sleep which had nearly left me. The third dose delivered me completely, and I am now completely restored to health. Receive, sir, with the expression of my gratitude the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. DUO DE MONTABOR



KEATING’S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEAT, both in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeable method of administering the only certain remedy for INTESTINAL or TPIREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild preparation, sfld is especially adapted for children. Sold in tins by all Chemists. TESTIMONIAL. Medical Plall Gildersome, Nov. 28th, 1876. Mr. Keating, Dear Sir, —I think it nothing but n.y duty to inform you of the immense sale I have for your Worm tablets, which I may justly say is enormous, and in every case gives the greatest satisfaction. I have now in stock two bottles containing the Round Worms brought me during the last few days by customers, one Worm 40 yards long. I dare not be without the rented}'. —yours respectfully, M. A. Walker. REWARD AND CAUTlON.—Whereas fraudulent imitations of this umsurpassed remedy have been sold, I hereby request any one knowing the vendor of the same to com municate with me, on conviction of the offender a liberal reward will be paid. Proprietor, THOS. KEATING, London. Export Chemist wd Druggist. 637 c ENO’S FRUIT SALT. THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE. GOOD FOOD. ENO’S FRUIT SALT.—"After suffering for nearly two and a half years from severe headache and disordered stomach, and after trying almost everything and spending much money without finding any benefit, I was recommended by a friend to try ENO’S FRUIT SALT, and before I had finish d one bottle I found it doing me a great deal of good, and now I am restored to my usual health; and others I know that have tried it have not enjoyed such good health for years.—Yours most truly, Robert Humphreys, Post Office, Barrasford. ” Agents for New Zealand, MESSRS. KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER, AND CO.



Business Notices. 83* THIS ADVERTISEMENT; SHOULD BE CAREFULLY READ AND RE MEMBERED BY EVERYONE IN TERESTED IN FENCING. THE PATENT OVAL SAMSON FENCE WIRE Has now been before the public for four years, and during that time 3,000 TONS HAVE BEEN SOLD Giving very great satisfaction, in proof of which we hold numerous testimonials from well-known colonists ; and the demand is daily increasing to such an extent, that numerous spurious imitations have lately been introduced in the various markets of Australia and New Zealand, for the sola purpose of damaging the reputation of tKo-^ Patent Oval Samson Wire. The Samson Wire By using the Patent Oval Fence Wire you get a better and cheaper fence than any other, and the best proofs are the imitations already referred to. comprehensive circular as to its advantages, with numerous testimonials from well-known colonists, will be posted to any address on application. The state Forests of Victoria are fenced with the Patent Oval Samson Fence Wire; the one at Dookie is, without doubt, the best Wire Fence in Australia, and people come from great distances to see it. * PRICES GREATLY REDUCED The public, when purchasing, are there fore cautioned to see that each coil bears a tin tally thus : PATENT OVAL SAMSON WIRE, IN OVAL ; And the Patentee’s Tally or Trade Mark M B R IN PADLOCK. Manufactured by the WMtecross Wire Company, Warrington, England. Was patented and introduced, four years ago in Victoria, New South, Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand ; . and theNpj principal claim set fourth was itsfceingmade f Oval to prevent fraud. Tet, in the race of these patents, firms—many of respecaltry standing—have, for the sake -of a paltry commission, lent themselves to the intro duction of various spurious imitations, which render them liable to actions at law, and annoyance and disappointment to the We would point out to intending pur chasers that any peraen erecting Oval Wire Fences, other than the Patent Oral Sam son, renders himself liable for damages. The Patent Acts on this point are very explicit; therefore, after this .notice no excuse can be made. Wehave bad instances brought,under our notice where scmepersonshave' been so un principled as to mix the Spurious Oval Wire amongst the Patent Oval Samson in order to make a sale, and damage the the reputation of the genuine.article. We have a great aversion, to, take legal proceedings in this matter, but shall be compelled to, in self-defence, unless these practices are at once stopped. ADDRESS M £ Lean Bros. & Rigg, IMPORTER , > 69 ELIZABETH STREET, MELBOURNE TRADE MARK I M B R IN PADLOCK. We undertake through our'’agents, to diver the Patent Oval Samson Wire ly port in Australia or New Zealand, ther direct from England or Melbourne. Inquiries by telegram answered. promptly REWARD. —Fencers throughout the Colonies who can give information as to the erection of Oval Wire Fence*, other than the Patent Oval Samson Wire, will find it to their advantage to communicate with Messrs. M’Lean Brothers and Rigg, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne;' ■ TO PRINTERS. MACHINE FOR SALE. 0 R SAL E. One Second-hand Double, Demy i Printing MACHINE, in thorough ing order, with rollers, moulds, &0., dete. This machine has been replaced* , Double Royal Wharfedalej which isitates removal of the Double Demy line formerly used for printing the irald ” and “ Guardian,” forehand or apower. Can be seen and all par firs obtained at our office, r a Country Office this Machine admirably, as it can easily be. turned ind, for which we have fitted’ y* 1 and handle.. A ; Price £7tfj WEEKS DIXON/